Search Results: Titles starting with H from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine. Book has a tiny bit of bumping to front fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. No creases to spine. Large Print edition.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition. Black cloth with white lettering on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Dust jacket shows light general soiling/smudging; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Published in the year following his death, this volume presents the last of poems written by the Welsh poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944).

Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. Saddle stitched booklet has wear to spine edge. Head and tail of spine are worn. Light edge wear and rubbing to wraps. Upper front fore edge corner has a tiny bump. A single horizontal crease across spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. First edition, 1966. 68 pages.

London: Hali Publications. Soft cover. Very Good-. Two issues of the Oriental carpet journal Hali. Covers rubbed; bit of corner wear. Clean. Vol. 5, No. 2 (1982). 216, [31] pp. Vol. 7, No. 1 (Issue 25, January 1985). 88, [7] pp.

Larkspur, California: Hall Middle School, 1998. Hardcover. Good. Book has bumping to head and tail of spine. Light wear to surfaces of boards. Small area of scuffing to back board near bottom. Has multiple inscriptions / autographs, primarily to front and back blank pages.

Perry, Arkansas: Printed by Rice Print Shop, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. Louise Wilson, Gladys Lynn. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on ffep. Hand-Set Special Edition. Blue cloth boards with papered front cover. Previous owner's bookplate and notations on front endpapers; a bit of underlining on the page describing the process of creating the pictures found in the book, else interior is clean. Nine black-and-white illustrations on plates. 48, [1] pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. Placed in a clear archival wrapper. At the Alexander plantation Christmas is approaching and the young Black boy, Hallerloogy, is dreaming of Santa Claus. As Hallerloogy has the Christmas spirit, he is invited to ride with Santa up the Mississippi Valley and on up to Washington and New York City and to the North Pole before returning back to the plantation. The illustrations were made by two Arkansas artists, the dolls and scenes made by Gladys Lynn of Little Rock, photographed by Louise Wilson. The author, Julia… Read More

[Findlay, Ohio]: Printed by Hancock Regional Planning Commission, 1977. Soft cover. Good+. Comb-bound with card covers. Light wear. Dust soiling on front cover. Interior is unmarked; pages show some minor soiling. [34] pp. 14 x 11 inches. One copy noted on OCLC. 32 maps. Includes an index page, county map, and plat maps for 31 Hancock County townships and villages. [Township plat maps]: Allen, Amanda, Biglick, Blanchard, Cass, Delaware, Eagle, Jackson, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Orange, Pleasant, Portage, Union, Van Buren, Washingston. [Village plat maps]: Arcadia, Arlington Benton Ridge, Findlay, Fostoria, Houcktown, Jenera, McComb, Mount Blanchard, Mount Cory, Mortimer, Rawson, Van Buren, Vanlue.

[Findlay, Ohio], 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. Comb-bound with card covers. Minor soiling to covers. Interior is clean and unmarked. [34] pp. 14 x 11 inches. Two copies noted on OCLC. 32 maps. Includes an index page, county map, and plat maps for 31 Hancock County townships and villages. [Township plat maps]: Allen, Amanda, Biglick, Blanchard, Cass, Delaware, Eagle, Jackson, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Orange, Pleasant, Portage, Union, Van Buren, Washingston. [Village plat maps]: Arcadia, Arlington Benton Ridge, Findlay, Fostoria, Houcktown, Jenera, McComb, Mount Blanchard, Mount Cory, Mortimer, Rawson, Van Buren, Vanlue.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. Hardcover. Fair. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1883. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front and rear covers stamped in black. Covers show severe damp staining. Some spots of soiling on a few pages, else interior is generally clean and also largely free of the moisture damage seen on the covers (dampstains appear in top margin of last couple chapters). One pages has a chipped corner. Book placed in archival mylar. pp. 263. Scarce. A detailed look at hospital management, sanitation protocols, and the roles of nurses and management as practiced in the later nineteenth century. The materials in this handbook were prepared in 1877, and revised/expanded in 1883, for the use of members of the State Charities Aid Association whose duty it was to visit public hospitals in New York County (i.e. Manhattan) and other counties in the state of New York. The contents address many different aspects of hospital management, design, and organization,… Read More

[Melbourne]: [Government Printing Office], 1935. Hardcover. Very Good+. Bound in green leatherette boards with gilt title on spine. Prepared by the association (the ANZAAS) for it's January 1935 meeting held in Melbourne. Includes a large fold-out map of geological South Central Victoria (in rear pocket). 151 pp. 9.75" x 6.25". Contents: A Short History of the Association (A. B. Walkom); History of Victoria (Chas. Daley); A Century of Agricultural Progress in Victoria (S. M. Wadham); Rural Victoria Today (A. J. Vasey); Forests and Forestry in Victoria (A. A. Hone); Flora of Victoria (R. T. Patton); The Zoology of Victoria (Staff of National Museum, Melbourne); Outline of the Physiography and Geology of Victoria (ed. by E. W. Skeats); The Aborigines of Victoria (F. Wood-Jones); Achievements and Prospects in Victorian Education (G. S. Browne).

The China Stamp Society, Inc., 1969. Soft cover. Good+. Staple bound booklet has a couple of light stress creases at the spine edge. Fore edge corners are slightly bumped, curled, and creased. Light age toning, mainly to the bottom edge. Pages are free of marks. Binding is sound. 66 Illustrations. Map in front of chief soviet districts and border government areas. 8.5 x 11 inches. 54 Pages.

Boston - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s.… Read More

Lake Oswego, Oregon: Lost Wingman Press, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Gen. McPeak on title page. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering; brown papered boards. Bright and clean. Dust jacket shows very slight wear along edges; in an archival mylar sleeve. 32 pages of photographs on glossy paper. 364 pages. Autobiographical account of military flying during the1960s by US Air Force General Merrill McPeak (b. 1936), former Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, 1990-1994, and Acting Secretary of the US Air Force in 1993. Covers his flying career from the point of early training through his time as lead solo pilot with the Thunderbirds in the late 1960s and aerial operations in Vietnam 1969-1970 where he completed 269 combat missions.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt on spine slightly rubbed. Interior is clean and crisp. Dust jacket has a little crease mark at the head of the spine and the rear panel shows some rubbing; very slight edgewear to the tail of the spine; not price clipped. DJ is in an archival mylar sleeve. 272 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. Nine short stories and a novelette, The Hanging Tree, that is based on a true episode in Montana's gold mining past. "In all her stories, Dorothy Johnson writes with authenticity of Indians and of white men and of those whose lives were passed on the frontier of two civilizations." Contents: Lost Sister; The Last Boast; I Woke Up Wicked; The Man Who Knew the Buckskin Kid; The Gift by the Wagon; A Time of Greatness; Journal of Adventure; The Story of Charley; Blanket Squaw; The Hanging Tree.

Boston: Atlantic - Little, Brown and Company, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First edition stated. Book is very lightly bumped at head of spine and lower front fore-edge corner. Internally clean. Binding tight. Dust jacket has tiny chips at the upper fore edge corners as well as head of spine; faint age toning; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 5 x 7.5 inches. 117 Pages.

1900. Soft cover. Good. No date stated (likely circa 1900). No publisher indicated. Spine worn. Shows general wear and handling. The two center leaves are loose. First few pages show some soiling, but overall is fairly clean. Pencil marking on ffep. [30] pages. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Placed in a removable clear archival sleeve. Two copies noted on OCLC (Yale and Columbia Universities). Vintage children's book with nursery rhymes and an a-b-c-darian. The spreads alternate between color illustrations and single-tone print. The front cover shows an image of a geese-drawn cart driven by a fairy godmother (or witch) with a couple girls riding inside, and states in the bottom right corner ''Printed on Eagle Linen will not tear.

New York : San Francisco : Calcutta: American-Indian Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First Edition. Red cloth with black lettering. Some light browning to endpapers, else internally clean. Dust jacket spine faded; shallow chipping at head of spine; a couple small holes in panels; in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket illustration by Edson D. Bills, a commercial illustrator in San Francisco. 215 pages. A novel set in California, in a milieu of gold mining and San Francisco newspapermen, which pivots around encounters with a mysterious, elderly seer living in a cabin in the woods near Mt Shasta. A metaphysical story. Inscribed by Kelton to Murray Wade (1876-1961), a prominent cartoonist and journalist who had worked for the San Francisco Post, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Portland Telegram. Aryan Lewis Kelton (1892-1957) was a traveling lecturer in the 1920s and 1930s and claimed to be a high initiate of the Mt Shasta… Read More

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Poppy-red cloth with white lettering on spine and front. Light wear to boards. A bit musty. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed; edgeworn with some chipping at head of spine. pp. 300, plus [4] ads. Scarce in dust jacket. A dramatic novel set in a Cape Cod village, rolled into motion when an orphan girl's family takes in summer boarders from Boston in order to make ends meet. The unforeseen complications make up the tale in which there is a glimpse of old Boston, its traditions, and a picture of a summer colony at Cape Cod. A delicate, humorous and appealing story. In 1921 The Harbor Road was adapted for the silent film Danger Ahead, directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and which starred a very young Mary Philbin, this being her second feature. Now a lost film.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Klemmer on ffep. Blue cloth boards stamped in black. Edges of boards rubbed; corners pushed; spotting to cloth of both front and rear boards. Illustrated endpapers. Pages clean. Dust jacket shows chipping at head and foot of spine; has a few closed tears; front flap clipped. DJ in archival sleeve. 338 pp. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Jacket illustration by Paul Galdone. Harbor Nights is the author's book about his life ashore as a merchant seaman. For six years, from the age of seventeen, Klemmer worked as a sailor (roughly 1917 to 1923). The book reads like a novel, but it is his true story. It is packed with long hours of work afloat, and hard-drinking, hard-living hours ashore. Seamen only have two pleasures, he says, liquor and women, and he provides vivid character sketches of many sailors and of their women in far-flung ports all over the world--harbors in the Far East, on the Great Lakes, in… Read More

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Harcum Junior College, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Book has a little rubbing/wear to the boards. Internally clean. [108] pages. School is now known as Harcum College.