Search Results: Titles starting with H from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Frontispiece, with thirteen photographic plates and a folding map. Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd., 1937. First edition. The HMS Dorsetshire was a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. In 1937, during her time on the China Station she joined the aircraft carrier Hermes and the cruiser Cumberland in a major simulation test of the Defences of Singapore against a hypothetical Japanese attack. At the beginning of World War II, the ship has numerous assignments in the waters off South America, in the area of the Falkland Islands, and off the coast of Africa. In late May 1941, the Dorsetshire took part in the sinking of the Bismark. In 1942, she and her sister ship, the HMS Cornwall, were attacked and sunk by 53 Japanese dive bombers in the Indian Ocean. Laid in are two original photographs of Dorsetshire seamen (the name of the ship can be seen on their caps) on shore leave in China. Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards, with… Read More

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Navajo Religion Series, Volume II. 24 seriagraph plates after sand paintings. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1946. First edition. Tall octavo. Original green cloth binding, with silver titles. The spine is lightly sun faded; else near fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Octavo. Original black paper-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. In a review for his Eric Idle Online! blog concerning his Fall and Winter reading in 2001, Idle wrote: "And half a book. Sadly not involving. Fulfilling the odd fact for the Nobelist that you get awards as your powers fail... I liked the early English bit then it skipped unaccountably twenty years to Africa and for me began to fall apart.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title page. The first book by the Edgar Award-winning writer best known for his Dave Robicheaux series of mystery novels. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown and white stamping. The ink stamp of Burke's first literary agent, Kurt Hellmer, appears on the first three pages. Faint spotting to the top edge, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket. Better than very good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title page. The first book by the Edgar Award-winning writer best known for his Dave Robicheaux series of mystery novels. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown and white stamping. A few tiny nicks along the bottom edge of the boards; else an especially crisp, very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket with some minor shelfwear.

Los Angeles: The Western Empire, 2020. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Compiled from the photographic archives of Marilyn Ruthe Foster, Halfway to Berdoo contains seventy 5" x 7" portraits of Southern California bikers taken by "Mother Ruthe" between 1961 and 1965 at her Baldwin Park, California home - a halfway stop for motorcycle club rides that went between Venice Beach and San Bernardino. This full-color presentation was designed by former Hells Angel and Merry Prankster, "Gut", with a foreword by former Hells Angel, "Dougie Poo". Each photograph is accompanied by a text about the subject by either Dougie Poo, "Beautiful Buzzard", "Bill the Fish" (former Goose), "Cannibal Willie" aka "Smitty" (former Goose), Harold (former Berdoo Angel / Mother Ruthe's ex-husband), Raymond (former Straight Satan and SoCal Angel), Howard (former Venice Angel), "Raunchy Pat" (Mother Ruthe's ex boyfriend), "Red Head Bev" (Mother Ruthe's former best friend), and others who were part of the scene. Quarto:… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and dated by Harold Browne on the title page. The third of four hardboiled novels featuring Chicago private eye Paul Pine. Browne (1908-1999) served as editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures before trading magazines for Hollywood and embarking on a successful career in television and film writing. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A file copy, with a MCA (Music Corporation of America) label on the front flyleaf. The spine is leaning just a touch. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket, with a bit of chipping to the corners and tips; else about very good.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This work is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Han Yu (768-824), a principal figure in the history of the Chinese Confucian tradition." 459 p. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with blue and gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: The Free Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A selective listing of major multivolume collections of music and music literature available to today's musicologist-researcher. Inscribed by Charles on the front flyleaf. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some general minor shelfwear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. First edition. Review copy, with slip laid in. Comprehensive manual on the fundamentals of casting, acting, and directing. Includes "George," a one-act play, with complete stage direction and a running commentary for the director, together with a descriptive glossary of stage terms. From the library of Milton Merlin, award-winning theatrical writer, director, producer and book review for the L.A. Times under editor Paul Jordan Smith. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some mild chipping and browning to the spine; otherwise very good.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 971 p. Numerous textual figures and tables. This seminal work brings together, for the first time, an immense body of information on Indian uses of plant foods and fibers in all the arid regions of North America, including Mexico. The period covered predates the appearance of humankind in the New World and extends through the period of the Paleo-Indian up to and inclusive of historical times. Also contains sections devoted to wild animals, which include discussions of many insect species and the ways in which they were used for food. This copy is inscribed and dated by Ebeling to the renowned entomologist Roy Snelling on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black lettering. A bit of mild soiling along the edges. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed, with a small tear to the front panel and a very faint stain to the bottom corner of the rear panel; otherwise very good. Signed by Author.

1940 1st, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. New York: Chemical Publishing Co., 1940. First edition. Using the 1937 Law of Chemical Patents as a starting point, Thomas summarizes the key principles of patent law, patentable processes, and the rights of chemical inventors. Includes chapters on the nature of a patent, suggestions for writing the specifications of a patent, various aspects of infringement, etc. Bound in red cloth-covered boards. Bump to the top edge of the rear board; otherwise a very good copy.

London: Lund Humphries, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. This volume is concerned with every aspect of the manufacture and use of handmade paper. It traces the history and development of such papers throughout the world, documenting the influence on and changes in the patterns of manufacture in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, the Far East and Australasia up to the present day." Quarto: 280 p. with 250 illustrations (8 in color). Original green cloth binding, with silver and blind-stamped titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light fading along the spine.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Laid is a typed letter signed (TLS) by Dorothy M. Johnson on her personal letterhead. Western novel set in the gold fields of Montana, which served as the basis for the 1959 Delmer Daves film starring Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, and George C. Scott. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with a blind-stamped design to the front panel and gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very mild wear; else very good or better.

Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Definitive study of the graphic art of Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Includes reproductions of two unpublished suites of illustrations, for The Rape of Lock by Alexander Pope, and for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as a special appendix by H. Keith Burns on Clarke's work published in the United States. Quarto: 160 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Scholastic Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This deluxe edition includes a 32-page insert featuring near scale reproductions of Mary GrandPré's interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The sixth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, housed in the publisher's foil-stamped slipcase.

New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First American Edition, first printing with the correct number line, $17.95 price on the dust jacket, no year number on the spine, and 51795 above the bar code. The second volume in the beloved Harry Potter series. Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. Octavo. Light soiling along the edges, with a bit of mild edgewear to the boards and dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Jeff Davis, 1944. Second Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Signed by Jeff Davis on the title page. "Jefferson 'Jeff' Davis, a vaudeville performer and advocate for homeless workers, established another union in Cincinnati in 1908, called the International Itinerant Migratory Workers Union: Hoboes of America, which hosted its own annual conventions. He also came up with the idea of a self-sufficient boarding house run by hoboes, called 'Hotel de Gink' - 'gink' being another term for hoboes. His first boarding house, where hoboes would work for a few days to pay for their week's room and board, opened in Seattle in 1913. Resident hoboes would provide each other services such as tailoring, barbering, and cooking. The idea spread across the country, and Davis opened several more himself, in Tacoma, Portland, and New York City. At the 1935 convention in Pittsburgh, Davis was elected King of the Hoboes for life" (Lisa Hix, "Don't Call Them Bums: The Unsung History of America's Hard-Working… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Bittel (1907-91) was the world's leading authority on Hittite archaeology. 174 p. with 30 plates. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with burgundy stamping. Some very light edgewear to the dust jacket; else near fine.

Seattle, Washington: Midnight House, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 460 numbered copies. A collection of thirteen short stories, with a preface by Mike Ashley and an introduction by the author. As publisher John Pelan observed, "In the 1960s one author was almost solely responsible for keeping the horror genre alive in Britain, Sir Charles Birkin." Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.