Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bookbarrow

Imperial College Press, London, 2000. First Edition. Laminated Boards. Near Fine/N/A. white titles spine; "the aim of this book is to cover all aspects of involvement of the eye in HIV infection although HIV patients can also develop eye problems which are not associated with HIV infection. These people are looked after by various types of attendants, and it is therefore very likely that eye problems may first present to the non-ophthalmologist before referral to the ophthalmologist. To address this, the first three chapters in this book are overview chapters: the first updates the reader on current management issues in HIV in these changing times while the second and third provide an overview of the different types of eye problems that can occur in both the pre-AIDS and AIDS phase of HIV infection. Chapters four, five, six and seven cover different types of ocular involvement in detail, and are particularly written for the ophthalmologist. Chapter eight details surgical procedures which… Read More

Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Author's preface & contents list to front; An erudite treatise on 'the problem of Hamlet'. The Scotsman John MacKinnon Robertson (1856-1933), rationalist and enemy of religion to the core, published over one hundred books and thousands of articles in fields as diverse as sociology, economics, history, anthropology, biblical criticism and literary criticism. This once widely known (and feared!) author was all too quickly forgotten after his death and his work is now seldom read. His acute and powerful literary criticism – much respected by T. S. Eliot – has not lost its relevance for late twentieth century readers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 196 pages. marks to front cover (small white spots). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's art-deco book-plate laid in. Deckled… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. HAMMOND INNES' EAST ANGL.lA is a wide-ranging celebration of the essentially secret and contrasting worlds of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Best known for his novels of high adventure, Hammond Innes offers a personal view of the part of England he holds most dear, where he has lived for over forty years. With waterways fanning like veins deep into its heart ­ fens, broads, a myriad of tracks leading across rich acres of wheat to timbered farms of Tudor oak, the marshlands and the forests - Innes reveals some of the most beautiful places in the world, ever surprising and fascinating, ever complex and changeable. Hammond Innes' text is enhanced by outstanding photographs by Neville Fox-Davies. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 287 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. illustrated by colour photo's.. Quantity Available: 1.… Read More

High Hill Press with Lionel Leventhal, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. In parts of Hampstead and Highgate there is little impression of change. Old houses abound, original street patterns remain, and the past seems always to be present. But in fact things are not at all what they used to be. Between 1870 and 1918 great changes were made, particularly as a result of Hampstead's slum clearance scheme of 1883 and the building of new roads: and the cameras of the day were there to capture for posterity the incidents of moment as well as the seemingly innocuous, from the coming of the cable tramway to Highgate (the first in Europe) to a family out cycling along Finchley Road and gypsies encamped on Fortune Green. Hampstead and Highgate in Old Photographs takes a comprehensive look at two of London's most delightful northern heights at the peak of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, providing more vividly than the written word an evocative,… Read More

James Epps, London, 1862. Seventh Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. yellow end-papers; pebbled cloth covers with blind-stamped borders & decoration front & rear; Introductory pages describe how to use the book; administration of the medicines; repetition of the dose; diet & regimen & evidences of disease, followed by a list of the medicines prescribed in the book. There are then two alphabetically arranged section the first giving the properties of the medicines & their uses, the second listing diseases, symptoms & morbid conditions with recommendations for their treatment. Contemporary (Victorian) pictorial label advertising a Homoeopathic Chemist glued inside front cover; 2-page publisher's list of homoepathic books at rear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 184 pages. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's signature in ink (small) to… Read More

Routledge, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New. reissued by Routledge as Volume XII in their "International Library of Psychology series" this study of character and personality as indicated by the shape & lines of the hand puts 'palmistry' on a firm and scientific basis. Laffan has accomplished this task in this original contribution to the subject which has been too long the victim of charlatans. careful examination of the shape and lines of the palm discloses the mental characteristics of a person and his life plan. Changes in these lines closely correspond with changes in the person's life. A skilled analysis can often reveal to an individual the true nature of his personality and help him to make the essential effort to the fulfillment of his life plan. Size: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 Inches. vii + 120. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. book is in archive acetate film protection. Black titles spine & front. illustrated by b/w. drawings &… Read More

Michael Joseph, London, 1967. Second Impression. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. With the death of Rupert Brooke, his name became a legend. Like all legends, it has bred many falsehoods, yet neither the legend nor the falsehood can be explained by the short and simple record of his life. At Rugby and then at King's College, Cambridge, he was a brilliant scholar who was later elected a Fellow. He became a Socialist and a student impresario; he swam in the Cam at midnight with Virginia Woolf, naked and with complete innocence; he took part in the London society life of Edward Marsh, the Asquiths, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Lady Diana Duff-Cooper; he travelled to America and Tahiti. As a writer he left only a hundred poems, some essays, a piece on Webster, a short play and the letters to his many friends, who were drawn to him by his exuberant personality and that extraordinary physical presence which led W. B. Yeats to describe him as 'the handsomest young man in… Read More

E. Laurent, Brussels, Belgium, 1833. First Thus. Leather. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles spine with four raised bands; blind-stamped outer border line front & rear covers; brown ribbon bookmark; b/w. vignette engraving title page; French text; previous owner's names to f.e.p.; light rubbing to extremities; 351 pages. We also have for sale "Meditations" in a matching volume. Size: 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; French Poetry; French Language; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00031. .

Strategy for Retirement, Norwich, 1984. First Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Signed by Author. an attractively produced booklet of poems by this Norwich poet signed by him on the title page with the inscription - "Best wishes. Cecil Kellehar Nov. 1986"; 46 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; East Anglia; Poetry. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0950750018. ISBN/EAN: 9780950750019. Inventory No: PTY00024. . 9780950750019

Alan Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; "with the advent of cheap photography in the 1850s 'artistic. photographers' arrived and setup businesses in Hastings. Ordinary people were at long last able to have their likenesses taken. This book tells the story of Hastings and its inhabitants in photographs from the middle of the Victorian period until the onset of the Second World War. The author. Pamela Haines, is a native of the town. She has a wide local knowledge and is well-known for her slide talks on Victorian topics. Victorian Hastings was vital, noisy and successful. However, by Edwardian times there was widespread local poverty and this inspired Robert Tressell to depict Hastings as Mugsborough in the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Between the two World Wars there were many new developments; an enlarged and extended sea front, the White Rock Pavilion, a Bathing Pool built to Olympic standards and a new hospital. This… Read More

Rider, London, 1987. Reprint. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. cover illust. is The Anahata (Heart Chakra) after Avelon c.1890; "The Heart of Buddhist Meditation is a classic presentation of the Theravada (or Southern) Buddhist teaching. In his introduction the author says: 'This book is issued in the deep conviction that the systematic cultivation of Right Mindfulness, as taught by the Buddha in his discourse on Satipatthana, still provides the most simple and direct, the most thorough and effective method for training and developing the mind for its daily tasks and problems as well as for its highest aim.' The book is divided into three sections. The first of these explains in simple terms the basic Buddhist practices of meditation, through the application of which anyone should be able to develop a state of full mental and spiritual awareness, irrespective of whether or not he or she subscribes to Buddhist philosophy. This is followed by a full translation with explanatory notes of the… Read More

New English Library, London, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. black & brown titles spine; the eleventh book in the 'Magic of Xanth' series; "Xanth is Piers Anthony's fantastic world, full of creatures beyond imagining and guided by Magicians who can change into anything they like at the slightest whim. When his castle was found empty everybody agreed that the Good Magician Humfrey must be found but nobody knew how. Wouldn't it be great if a mere nine-year-old solved the riddle of the age? Prince Dolph is as well equipped to search as anyone: he is a full Magician. From watching the Tapestry Dolph knows that the Good Magician went up in a cloud of holy smoke. Once he and his Adult Companion, Marrow Bones the adaptable skeleton, find the clue - SKELETON.KEY TO HEAVEN CENT - all they have to do is figure it out. Dolph is obsessed by the adult conspiracy which prevents him from finding out precisely how the stork is called by adults engaged in the 'mushy… Read More

Abbeville Press, New York, 1989. First Edition. White Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrator: Photo's. gilt titles spine; gilt shoe designs (14 of them) on front cover; pink endpapers with front cover design repeated in white; illustrated throughout by colour & b/w. photo's.; " they might not seem like much, down there shuffling around in the dust. But as virtually every woman and a great many men know, shoes have long been capable of inspiring imaginative caprice and private longing on an extravagant and exultant scale. Some of the world's greatest designers, too, have found in the form of the shoe a source of extraordinary inspiration. Yantourney, Ferragamo, Vivier, and Perugia; Charles Jourdan, Manolo Blahnik, and Maud Frizon: all have devoted their richly creative imaginations to shoe design, an enterprise Vivier describes as 'a sculptural problem in which the center is always a void.' Elegant, fanciful, and quirky, 'Heavenly Soles' puts twentieth-century… Read More

The Shelley Society, London, 1887. First Thus. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Poor Condition. Illustrator: W. B. Scott. The Shelley Society's Publications - Second Series No. 5. this being the large paper edition printed by Richard Clay & Sons of London & Bungay (Suffolk) for "Private Circulation Only" & limited to Fifteen Copies & also the only edition with the full-page etched frontispiece engraving by W. B. Scott. The Contents page lists: Editor's Preface; Mrs. Shelley's Note on Hellas; Dr. Garnett's Note on the Prologue to Hellas; Prologue to Hellas; Editor's Notes on the Prologue to Hellas; Shelley's List of Errata for Hellas; & Editor's Additional List of Errata for Hellas. (There is no table of Contents in the original edition of Hellas.) After these 58 (LVIII) pages the 60-page facsimile copy has grey paper wrappers with a pasted white paper label. The contents included are: Dedication to Prince Mavrocordato; Shelley's Preface;… Read More

Alexander Moring, Ltd, London, 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. Cover Art after (or possibly by, but unsigned) Reginald Heade. Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989. He was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. Although he had never been in Chicago, or even America, his books were violent "pseudo-American" thrillers sold in paperback editions featuring erotic cover art, and it is estimated that some five million copies were sold by 1954. In the 1950s, the authorities attempted a crack-down on allegedly obscene pulp literature, targeting the Janson books among others. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 159 pages. Rear cover slightly grubby. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. some bumping & damage to outer edge of front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams.… Read More

Minerva Press, New York, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; translated by John Cumming; preface by Andre Maurois; "Henry James was a great writer who spent his whole life wandering in a literary limbo between the paradise of European culture and the hell that was the Golden Age of America. He was too sensitive to suffer the vulgarity of an environment inimjcal (as he thought) to the artist; he was also too much of a Bostonian puritan to feel completely at ease in the atmosphere of European realism. For the major part of his life he was uprooted. He admired French novelists, but found them too concerned with the sordid. He found some measure of spiritual comfort with the English aristocracy. The big houses set in extensive grounds, the beautiful young Englishwomen and the writers whom they entertained every weekend played the same part in his life as the Court in the lives of the moralists and poets of seventeenth century France. Like those writers of an… Read More

Elkin Matthews and Marrot, London, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition. number 574 of an edition limited to 1050 copies; limitation page; title page & introduction by E. F. Benson to front. Arthur Christopher Benson, (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1884, Benson met Henry James, who would later become a close friend. These letters of Henry James to Arthur Christopher Benson, are extracted from a correspondence that extended over twenty years. Some of them (and those among the most interesting) have been omitted because they have already appeared in Mr. Percy Lubbock's admirable edition of his letters; others because they deal with mere trivialities. The residue, here for the first time published by permission of the writer's nephew and namesake, exhibit in his own inimitable manner the two ruling devotions of one of the most lovable of men. We find… Read More

Waveland Press Inc, Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1992. Re-issue. Softcover. Good Condition. Herbert Hoover's place of birth was the American heartland; but for much of his life, he was a stranger to his native country, and never more so than while he was its president. His career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States - not quite the log cabin to the White House, but almost. Humble birth, hard work, the desire for achievement and finally, wealth, public service and the presidency formed a progression recognizable in much of the national experience. There was continuity with the past also in the values Hoover acquired in his youth and which stayed with him through life. The great crisis of Hoover's life was the depression, which ironically began soon after he took office in 1929. He then had to ask whether those values were still appropriate; and the answer he gave differed so markedly from that given by his countrymen that a gulf. opened between him and them that… Read More

Arrow Books, London, 1976. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Jonathan Herovit is a science fiction writer in a state of deep personal and professional crisis. Whilst struggling to deal with his wife’s post-partum depression, his own alcoholism, and a long-overdue novel that he has no motivation to write, the pseudonym under which he writes begins talking to him.... This is the first Arrow edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 209 pages. No Dust Jacket as published. White titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction; Science Fiction & Fantasy. ISBN: 0099129205. ISBN/EAN: 9780099129202. Inventory No: 5041. . 9780099129202

Hutchinson, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover (Pictorial Laminated Boards). Near Fine Condition. Illustrator: Joe Servello. William Kotzwinkles classic 'grown up picture book' 'Herr Nightingale And The Satin Woman' combines an eerily beautiful love story against the backdrop of Germany, France, Egypt and China, as it follows a detective through Europe & beyond, in the aftermath of World War I, as he pursues a German officer and his companion; as the book progresses, the cast increasingly enters a surreal world; a haunting and memorable modern mythical journey with an outrageous eroticism that has you baffled and entertained simultaneously this book tells just as much via Servello's noir-inspired illustrations as it does through the text itself. Size: Oblong 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 120 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings.… Read More