Search Results: Authors starting with H from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Deparment of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba | Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 24. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Beige, twice-stapled, card covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Appears unread; as new. Text chiefly in Ukrainian.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 215. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Charming black-and-white illustrations throughout. Lightst bumping to the head and tail of spine, else, extremities in very good+ condition. Contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm sound binding, and housed in very good+ very lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, very good+. SIGNED, and inscribed by the author to the title page.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. 574. Thick Royal 8vo. 1/4 terracotta cloth spine over yellow paper boards. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding and housed in very good+ dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg School Division , 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 224. Oblong 4to., measuring 23 cm. Pictorial boards. Richly illustratead with hundreds of black-and-white and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles. Documents in rich detail the founding, and history of the WSD from its founding in 1871 until the present day. Appears unread; as new. See OCLC #1346673891. Not found in Peel, UoM Archives & Special Collections.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Hadassah Council, 1964. First printing. Card Covers. pp. 97. 8vo. Card covers. Profusely illustrated with advertisements from local businesses. Light rubbing to covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Hadassah Council, 1961. First printing. Card Covers. pp. 184. 8vo. Card covers. Profusely illustrated with advertisements from local businesses. Chips, loss and creasing to the spine. Contents clean and unmarked with sound binding; good+. Uncommon in commerce.

Toronto: Massey Hall | Canadian Hadassah-Wizo | Printed by Morris Printing Co., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 20. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Programme of a musical performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Serge Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein as guest conductors. Includes brief biographies of the guest conductors accompanied with their black-and-white photographic portraits, and short biographies of the remaining members of the orchestra. Further comprises of an exhaustive list of honorary patrons, sponsors, messages of support and greetings, a list of the "Chapters of the Hadassah Organizations of Toronto", and much else. Faint tide-marks to the right margins of most pages (unaffecting text), else, very good. Unrecorded in OCLC.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Hadassah Council, 1968. First printing. Card Covers. pp. 86. 8vo. Card covers. Profusely illustrated with advertisements from local businesses. Light crease, and small chip at head of spine, else, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+.

Barking, Essex: Borough Council (Barking, Essex) Education Committee | Printed at their Works at Iford by "The Drayton Press.", [1932]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 40. Small 4to., measuring 7.5" x 9.75". Stapled card covers bearing crest in raised gilt to the front cover, and blind-stamped rules to the margins. Fascinating architectural history of British schools. Replete with sharp black and white photographs of the various school buildings, their respective interiors, and corresponding architectural plans and drawings. Also comprises of a complete listing of members of the local 'Education Committee', and a complete listing of the various schools which comprised the Borough of Barking, as well as their approximate capital and operating costs. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked. Correponds to OCLC #752483686 (see also British Library Citation No. 000202129) with only two known institutional holdings; no copies available in commerce at time of cataloguing.… Read More

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2012. Hardcover. pp. 289. Small 8vo. Appears unread; as new in fine dustjacket.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 227. 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8.25". Publisher's speckled ivory boards, black rules and lettering to the spine. Exceptionally well-perserved with no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, original, unclipped, dustjacket. Appears unread; as new. Boldly SIGNED, and inscribed by Hage to the title page.

Columbus, Georgia: Brentwood Christian Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 119. 8vo. Illustrated laminated card covers. Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, etc. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. "Dorothy Hagermann was born and rasied in Michigan. After graduating from the Three Rivers High School, she recived further preparation for her life's work in the Denver and Omaha Bible Institutes (now colleges) and at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the University of Oklahoma. Her missionary career of forty years in Colombia, South America began in April 1949. Her stay there was terminated abruptly when two of her Gospel Missionary Union colleagues were kidnapped in January 1989. Dorothy prays that her story will deepen her readers' faith in God, and that, as a result, they will pray more dillgently for missionaries scattered all over the world".

Kildonan, Manitoba, Canada: Kildonan Presbyterian Church, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 33. 4to. Light blue stapled card covers reinforced with original utilitarian navy-blue backstrip. Black lettering and Church device printed to the centre of the front cover. Tide-marks, spotting to the right margins of covers, contents remain clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. Rare in commerce. Not in Peel.

Souris, Manitoba: Souris Plaindealer Ltd., ND. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 106. Slim 12mo. Textured red stiff card covers. Black and white photographs. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Signed by Haigh to the title page.

Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center | Distributed Art Pubblishers, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 215. 4to. Profusely illsutrated with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions, facsimiles, et al. Light rubbing to the covers, neat ink name to the ffep, else, bright, clean, and unmarked; very good.

Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 158, [2 pages of advertisements]. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Publisher's illustrated red cloth over boards, gilt and black lettering to the spine, and front board. Remarkably well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, neat period ink name and date to the front pastedown, else, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; a charming and handsome volume. Near fine. Uncommon in commerce in this state.

[New York, New York]: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1968. Hardcover. pp. 383; 768. 8vo. Uniformly bound in stamped dark-green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, charts, tables, et al. No detectable flaws to the extremities of either of the volumes, contents remain equally bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound bindings; near fine and housed in near fine like slipcase. A lovely copy of a formidable cook book. Scarce in commerce in such lovely condition.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company | Printed by The Quinn & Boden Co. Press, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. Leather Bound. Very Good +. pp. xiv, 305. Royal 8vo. 3/4 leather over gray cloth boards with gilt lettering, and rules to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the author. Light scuffing, fraying to spine ends and leather extremities. Internally, the contents remain remarkably bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, a very well-preserved presentation of this most unusual title concerned with an examination of sleep from both a philosophical, and physiological lens. Exceedingly rare in commerce in the present leather binding, and in this condition. Bolton Hall (August 5, 1854 – December 10, 1938) was an American lawyer, author, and Georgist activist who worked extensively on behalf of the poor, and is widely credited with starting the "back-to-the-land" movement in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.

Elms Court - Ilfracombe - Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 56. 16mo., measuring 4" x 6". Publisher's maroon leatherette with gilt rules and lettering to the front cover. Beautifully preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities, neat ink name to the ffep, else, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Rare in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #22707296. Signed neatly in ink by the author to the title page. "Jessie Tweeddale Hall was born in Fredericton, N.B., Canada and is a Reigestered Nurse, graduate of the Children's Hospital, Portland, Maine, U.S.A., and affiliated school, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A. She studied poetry and creative writing in Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., under the direction of Mrs. E. Dorcas Palmer, and Prof. Leon Dean, University of Vermont; and Creative Writing under Prof. Desmond Pacey, University of New Brunswick. She is a former member of Burlington… Read More

Ladner, British Columbia: Ladner Fisherman's Co-op Hall, N.D. [Circa 1991]. First printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 58. 8vo. Illustrated stapled card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Black and white illustrations and advertisement by local business/merchants offering a variety of good and services. Short ink inscription to the title page else clean and unmarked; very good+ to near fine.