Search Results: Titles starting with H from Old Bookshelf

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 432pp. Beige cloth. Cover and contents are in clean and sound condition, small bookseller's label on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is chipped, edgeworn and tape-repaired. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Marquand on front free endpaper.

Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann, 1891. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii, 131, 4p music. Text in Hebrew and German. Quarter bound paper over boards, black lettering, leather binding. Wear to spine, cover soiling, contents yellowed, a few pages lightly stained, slight internal separation, bookseller's label on front pastedown.

Boston: Boston Theatrical Publishing Company Musical, 1897. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12pp. Printed wraps. Light wear and light scuffing to covers, interior is clean, slight center crease. Programme for the week of December 27, 1897 for Francis Wilson and Company under the management of Ariel Barney, producing the comic opera in 3 acts entitled "Half a King". Many fascinating ads including a full page ad featuring Charles River Lots for 10 cents per foot.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1891. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 203pp. blue cloth, silver scroll-like decoration, gilt lettering. Extremities lightly rubbed, lettering and decoration very bright, contents are clean. Vignette illustrations throughout by C.J. Taylor. An attractive little book.

London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1921. Seventeenth Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 119pp. Brown suede leather over card backing, gilt lettering and gilt thistle design to lower right front cover. Chipping to head and tail of spine, but cover is otherwise scarcely worn. 2 small neat inscriptions on front free endpaper, text is clean and sound. Introduction by Andrew Lang. An attractive book.

New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1946. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 44pp. No date but circa 1950. Stapled wraps. Age toned but otherwise sound. Catalog of kitchen implements with 1950s pricing. Original Hammacher Schlemmer mail-in order form is included.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 478pp. Original brown stamped cloth, gilt lettering and gilt ornament to spine. Covers are virtually unworn, contents age-toned, a very occasional spot in contents, a tiny hole in front free endpaper. This book appears to be unread. Blot established one of the earliest cooking schools in the United States, the New York Cooking Academy. Read More

New York: Times Print Shop, 1886. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jos. Laing & Co.. 205pp. Brick colored cloth decorated in gold and black, bevelled-edge boards, all edges gilt. Light wear to edges and spine ends, front free endpaper is soiled, has a tear and is missing a 1 1/2 inch strip along edge, text is mildly age-toned and clean. Front pastedown endpaper has an intricately detailed engraving of the "New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge" (now known as the Brooklyn Bridge.

Lynbrook, NY: Farnsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 595pp. SIGNED. Black leatherette covers in very good condition. Warmly dedicated and signed by the author, with a very admiring inscription to a fellow professor on the front free endpaper. Text is clean and sound. A compendium of non-technical terms related to the personal insurance industry.

Los Angeles: Self Published, 1924. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 31pp. Printed wraps. Light wear and a small spot to lower front cover, stapled binding detached from cover but present. Discussion on the usefulness of handwriting analysis for businesses. Laid-in is a promotional piece offering the author's consulting servece and a schedule of fees.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 220pp. Black cloth. SIGNED. Corners and spine ends rubbed, white spotting to rear cover, contents age-toned but clean. Inscription on the front free endpaper reads : "For Albert. All the Best from Hedley." and it is dated August 1943.

Philadelphia: Uplift Publishing Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 373pp. Green pictorial boards, gilt lettering, red, white and black illustration. Corners lightly rubbed, spine faded and slight partial fade to front cover, mild toning to text,owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Book, overall is in very clean and sound condition. 3 chromolithographic plates and numerous blackand white illustrations. A nice copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 161-208pp. Pictorial wraps. Dampstaining and a bit of chewing to lower margins only. Articles by Henry W. Fischer, Webb Donnell, Kirk Monroe, F. H, Spearman, H. L. Jerome and others.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 433-480pp. Pictorial stapled wraps. Small stain to foredges, otherwise in very nice condition. Articles by James Barnes, Owen Hall, Rowan Stevens, Mary G. Bonesteel and others. Spanish-American War photos.

New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256pp+ads. Illustrated chromolithograph covers and spine, black and white illustrations accompany text. Date on copyright page is 1883, but date on front illustration is 1886. Some chipping to spine ends and edges and light soil, but overall bright. Endpapers are foxed, neat inscription on front endpaper dated 1887. Contents are age-toned but are clean and appear to be unread, binding is sound. Wonderful colorful collage of various scenes of children and animals on cover and spine.

New York: Mercantile Illustrating Company, 1895. Soft cover. Good. Oblong 4to. 122pp + index. Ecru stiff wraps, gilt an dbrown lettering and decoration, red string tied. Covers soiled, corners and spine chipped and loose, binding is holding firmly. Contents are age toned and title page has a clean corner tear, text is otherwise unmarked. Wonderful period photos of prominent sites and indexed business listings with descriptions of each business.

Cambridge: Harvard College, 1886. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 127-168p, plus ads. Printed wraps. Large stain to right margin of front cover, other light soiling, surprisingly, the contents are clean and pages are unopened. Contributions by C.P. Parker, A.B. Houghton, George Santayana, and H.G. Bruce.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rosa Jameson and Alfred W. Strutt. 24pp. Green pictorial heavy card stock. Very light soil to covers, an occasional small spot in margins. Poems of praise with monotint illustrations throughout. Edited by Geo. C. Haité.

New York: Glen Bros. Inc., 2014. First Edition Cams MacHines . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 277pp. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering. Book and dust jacket are in very sound condition. Inscribed anfd SIGNED by author on title page.

Boston: Laban Heath, 1864. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 26pp. Brown stamped cloth, gilt lettering, 8 plates with tissue-guards, (6 engraved), First Edition (no additional printings shown). Chipping to edges and spine, contents age-toned and scattered light foxing, a faint crease to one plate and tear to one page archival tape mended. Includes bank-note designs by The American Bank Note Company.