Search Results: Authors starting with H from Books Northwest

106pp, olive boards with gilt lettering on spine, gold leaf top edge. Previous owner signature on ffep, tipped-in 10" x 16" map of area described. Book is otherwise unmarked and rated Near Fine due to signature. Dustjacket in clear mylar protective cover shows foxing on upper front/back cover and spine, cover is completely intact including 7/6 shilling price. A beautiful copy with rare dj, "concerned mainly with the roads that were in use in Lauderdale (or the country between the Leader and the Gala) in the Middle Ages."

431pp, green cloth w/gilt lettering on spine, blue topstain, seventh printing, near fine DJ protected with clear mylar. Owner bookplate on inside cover; rubberstamped name on title page (see all photos), otherwise clean and unmarked. Prescient views of 21st century life, with predictions regarding computers that are accurate. Includes 100 Technical Innovations Very Likely in the Last Third of the Twentieth Century.

196pp. Library binding. Beautiful illustrations by Nadejen. Foxing on some pages. This 1925 first edition of "Porgy" from the Madison High School library of Madison, Florida, was purchased in the adjacent city of Greenville, the childhood home of Ray Charles. Book was the basis of Gershwin's 1935 opera "Porgy & Bess." Dog-eared by many student readers and well-read and completely legible and intact. Typical school library stamps, includes checkout card that ends circa 1967; removed from circulation most likely because of extensive use of the N-word by book characters, including black characters. An interesting copy with a deep South connection.

Espasa Calpe S.A.. Very Good/fair. 304pp, rust cloth cover with gilt lettering and illustration on cover, gilt lettering on spine. 9" x 12". ffep detached at top four inches and professionally repaired. lower left corner on back cover bumped and crimped. DJ has missing sections on lower front and back but lettering and photo illustration complete (see photo). Introductory text in Spanish followed by 304 black and white photos 6.25" x 8". Last photo page (303-4) is detached from binding but complete and still connected with cloth of spine. Unmarked pages with all photos intact and in pristine condition. Kurt Hielscher (born 1881 in Striegau , Silesia; died 1948 in Lichtenstein in Saxony) was a German photographer. He traveled in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s throughout parts of Europe and was the author of several successful books with landscape and architectural photos. These exquisite photos are beautifully composed and show the Spain of the past and include churches, buildings, bridges, castles,… Read More

New York City: The John Day Company. 1st printing. As New/fine. 218pp, black cloth w/gilt lettering on spine, photograph on dj Signed by George Hurrell as "Hurrell '77" and inscribed by author Whitney Stine "For Dietrich and Edward With our best regards --always, Whitney Stine" Text w/black and white photographs. Beautiful book of Hurrell's career as the top Hollywood photographer of his time, explaining his technique and including stories of many portrait sittings Signed on ffep by Hurrell and author of the text, Rare enough without signatures, very rare as first printing with both signatures