Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Hanover, NH: Westholm Publications, 1969. Fictionalized flu-ridden Atlantic convoy crossing during WWI. #65 of 250 SIGNED copies of the first edition, additionally INSCRIBED to printer and book designer Carroll Coleman of the Prairie Press. Hardcover, full navy buckram, gilt spine title. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some rippling to its lamination along the spine. Text clean; [8], 112, [2] pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small Octavo.

Boston/New York/Chicago: D. C. Heath & Co., 1906. Handwriting practice book, featuring a splendid Art Nouveau cover by 'F', possibly Charles Buckles Falls. Well-used, with every page filled in, apparently by several young scholars, more-or-less neatly; a few extraneous scribbles. Shows some wear, light creasing, ink stains & smudges. 32 pages.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Good. 6½" by 6½".

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Tactics for the left written early during the Bush régime by the pugnacious former Clinton operative. SIGNED with Carville's scrawl on a pasted-in plate. First printing. Hardcover, blue spine, red boards, copper titling. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6" by 7¾".

New York: Hogarth, 2016. Atwood's take on Shakespeare's play, involving a disgraced director and his cast of prison inmates putting on a show he hopes will avenge him. Paperback. Light wear, faint crease to rear cover. Text clean. Advance Reader's Copy/Uncorrected Proof.. ARC / Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very Good. 5" by 8".

New York: Haight & Freese Co., 1904. 1904 edition of this annual compendium of market & business data, issued annually from the mid 1890s; perhaps the last, as the company, with over 70 branches and 20,000 clients, was in receivership as of May, 1905, accused of fraud. Includes pictures of stock trading rooms & office exteriors of their outposts in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia; info on stock trading & its requirements, safe bonds, maps, notes on businesses - brief histories, holdings & organization - including utility, mining, & railroad companies; stock & bond price fluctuations yearly from 1893 to 1903, commodity prices, the firm's private telegraph cipher. Oblong hardcover, as pictured. General wear, gilt titling dull, spine faded, minor spotting & insect nibbling; binding delicate but sound. Text clean; [300] pages; b/w photos, many stats & tables. . Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4¾" by 8½".

Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1992. Women's education and 'integration' of this southern Wisconsin liberal arts school. Stapled pamphlet, off-white covers. Light wear, minor creasing. Text clean; [4], 66 pages; references, figures.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 5½" by 8½".

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956 Good/Good. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pages with appendix and index. With numerous photos and charts. Silver cloth with blue lettering. Light wear to head and tail of spine; previous owner's name on front end sheet; penciled notes on a few pages. Small chip at head of jacket spine; rear jacket rubbed..

[Savannah, GA]: Author, 1930. Notes on circus history & anecdotes from 1850 to 1919. Appears to be SIGNED by Bernard on the title page, within part of the decoration, dated October 13, 1936. Stapled pamphlet, green covers. Worn, cover detached from the text, spine nearly split, some chips, tears, fading; tanning to first & last text pages, lower corners abraded, with minor loss. Text clean; 111 pages, a few small photos & illustrations.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Fair. 6" by 9¼".

Jersey City: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1993. History of the design & construction of various ships, including sections on regulation, hull forms, power & control, design, construction, ships of commerce, ships of war, work & please craft, fishing vessels, offshore industry. Large hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, minor bumps; no jacket, likely as issued. Text clean; xxii, [2], 616 pages; bibliographies, notes on contributors, figures & illustrations, b/w photos. A surcharge for international shipping of this oversize book will be required; please inquire for an accurate quote. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto.

New York: Crown, 1991 Paperback. Very Good. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Octavo. 262 pages. Slight shelfwear, otherwise fine. Tan wraps with brown and black lettering and illustration on front..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979 Quarter Cloth. Very Good/Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. Octavo. 322 pages. Inscribed by author on front end sheet. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering. Southern novel set "during the height of the black exodus to the North.".

New York: Pandick Press, 1948. Apologia on J. P. Morgan's alleged profiteering on a large lot of Civil War-era carbines, which became a controversy after the publication of Myers' History of the great American Fortunes in 1910; Wasson, who worked in public relations for J. P. Morgan & Co. in the 1930s & '40s, argues that Morgan was unaware of the details of the sale and the rifles weren't all that bad, anyway. First published in an edition of only 100 in 1941, this 1948 revised edition (one of 750) incorporates further information, some in the form of reproductions of underlined pages of other publications on the controversy, showing how 'misinformation' spreads. Hardcover, as pictured; light wear, minor scuffing, corners lightly bumped, spine faded; no jacket; bookplate of notable firearms collector and author Waldo E. Rosebush inside front cover. Text clean; x, 190 pages; index, appendixes, notes, a few b/w plates, folding reprints of other books. . Second Edition,… Read More

Chicago: Marshall Field & Company Undated unattributed guide to silver of the period, sold by Chicago's Marshall Field when they were in the antique business - 1930? 1950? Includes common marks, short history of the industry, advice to collectors. String-bound pamphlet, blue covers, black titling. Light wear, minor creases. Text clean, 16 pages, figures.. Pamphlet. Very Good. 3½" by 5¾".

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Brief account of Korean astronomy and China's influence on it; longer accounts of instruments built for King Sejong's royal observatory in the 1430s, survey of later developments in science there, and chapters on an armillary clock from 1669 and an eighteenth-century astronomical screen. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. light wear to book, lower corner bumped, affecting pages as well as covers; jacket shows minor edgewear, couple of small dents. Text clean; xxii, 201 pages; index, bibliography, figures, b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Quarto.

Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1988. Reprint of the second novel featuring Chicago tough guy Paul Pine, first published in 1946; INSCRIBED by the author "For Eric" on the free endsheet, dated 6/21/91. Compares favorbly to Chandler, according to its jacket blurbs. Black hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows tiny tear & light waterstain, only visible internally, to the base of the spine and adjacent areas, book unaffected; paper tanned.. Inscribed by the Author. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small Octavo.

Tomah, WI: Tomah High School, 1927. Annual from this west-central Wisconsin high school. Hardcover, textured navy blue cloth over flexible boards; silver titling. Shows some wear, corners bumped & rubbed, a few internal inscriptions, minor tears. 136 pages, illustrations, b/w photos, ads for local businesses.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Howard Oakes, art editor. 8¼" by 11".

Detroit: Nelson, Baker & Co. 1899 Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Some wear along hinges. Front and back covers somewhat mottled. Front fly leaf torn from fore edge to spine. Previous owner's name inside front cover. End papers darkened along edges. Binding is tight, text is clean. 238 pages. Index..

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 342 pages with index. Undated, though this contains a prefatory note to "the 1920 reprint." Tan cloth with black lettering; green end sheets. No real flaws in condition of book. The jacket, however, is scuffed and has considerable edgewear, including several small chips and two longish tears at tail of spine..

Richmond, VA: Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration, 1910. Prospects & opportunities in Virginia, by county & city, with general information on the state. Paperback, yellow covers, black titling. Edges heavily chipped; back cover almost detached from rest of book. Text clean; 288 pages, b/w photos.. Revised. Paperback. Fair.

Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., 1998. Massive two-volume set exploring coding theory, its connections, and applications. Includes a lengthy history/introduction to algebraic codes by the editors and 24 chapters/papers on various aspects, broadly grouped into three sections: Algebraic Coding, Connections, and Applications. Original edition, two HEAVY hardcovers as pictured; no jackets, as issued. Light wear, minor bumps to edges, corners more badly bumped, spines faded. text clean, no names or marks; xvi, 1138, 58; xvi, [1139] to 2169, 58 pages; indexes, many equations, a few figures. NOTE: HEAVY set; expedited or particularly international shipping will be greatly in excess of the quoted amount - please inquire for an accurate quote!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo. Set.