Search Results: Authors starting with H from Monkey House Books

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983. Softcover. Very Good. 200 math teasers and alphametrics, math cryptograms for enthusiastic students or adults. 109 pages.

New York: International Telephone & Telegraph, 1955. Glued magazine binding.. Very Good. Technical Journal of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and Associate Companies. Covers the manufacture of germanium power diodes, polythene-insulated video-pair cables, loud speaking communication system for Catering Service at London Airport, new type of diffusion cathode, gas-gap speech switching valve, precision radar range calibrator, cathode-follower phase-shift oscillator, world telephone statistics, patents and reviews. Light wear and soil to spine. Pp 147-212.

New York: International Telephone & Telegraph, 1955. Glued magazine binding.. Very Good. Technical Journal of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and Associate Companies. Article topics include capacitor microphones, thermistors, positive-gap diodes, broad-band reflectometers, pulse generators. Pp 75-143. Some soil and wear to covers, especially spine. Else nice and tight. Quarterly publication.

Stuttgart: Verlag von Carl Krabbe, [no date] c.1890s. Red cloth boards, decorative illustrated cover.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrirt von F. Bergen und R. Haug.. Illustrierte Ausgabe. Zweiter Band. Text in German Frakturschrift. Charming (but somewhat worn) cover illustration of a military man and two ladies. 547 pages. Spine darkened. Bookstore sticker on fep. Page edges brittle, tanned. Covers worn & frayed at extremities.

New York, 1980. Stapled softcover booklet. Very Good. Belasco Theatre, February 1980. Starring Charles Nelson Reilly and Uta Hagen. New play by Peter Hacks, directed by Herbert Berghof. 58 pages, nice, some tanning. Jerry Robinson, Richard Rodgers tribute, Joan Plowright.

New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Company, 57 Rose Street, [no date] c.1880s. Maroon cloth boards, black decorated cover and spine, gilt titling on spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Classic Haggard, ""The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal..."" Scarce ""Favorite Edition."" Whole and complete, but has not aged well. Foredge nibbled, other general wear to covers. Owner's information inked on ffep, dated 1888. Floral endpapers. Pages toned, somewhat stiff, binding fragile. Museum library on title page. Advertisements. Rear hinge cracking.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, Printers to the Holy Apostolic See, 1900. Red cloth boards. Good. Extremities well-worn, top of back cover nibbled, but binding solid. Cover gilt worn/chipped. Brief spotting. Pages unmarked. Reading copy. 223 pages plus advertisements. German author from a wealthy family. Adapted from the German by Mary H. Allies.

New York and London: Cornwall Books, 1983. Black boards. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Shipwrecks, collisions, storms, fires, etc., with contemporary illustrations. Oversize volume. 210 pages, index. Edgewear, jacket has some wear & tear, back cover slightly rubbed, discolored.

New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1929. Red cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine (darkening).. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Scare vintage romance novel, a ""story of Love, Mystery, Romance."" 342 pages plus advertisements, clean and unmarked, hinges good. Ends and corners lightly bumped, page edges dingy. Light bleached water spots on bottom of both covers. ""'I must have had a dream,' Carolita tried to persuade herself as she drew behind the curtains of her lower berth, shaking from head to foot."" Haines, 1879-1969.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Red cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Compilation intended for older children, includes accounts of Marco Polo, Cortes, the Crusades, Hunboldt, and Siberia, among others. Reinforced library binding, 312 pages, index. 4-1/4 x 6-1/4. Ex-library with stamps, fep label pasted in, rep residue from removed card pocket. Some wear to corners and backstrip, marbled page edges (dirty), binding no longer tight but holding well.

London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row., [no date]. Orange cloth boards, black and gilt-decorated cover and spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Temperance tract, cautionary tales of the evils which accompany drink. Rare work, hard-to-find. Fair at best. 92 pages plus advertisements. Frontispiece. Corners frayed, spine faded, ends bumped and worn, some soil to covers, unhinged, rfep missing. Binding very loose, all text present. Ex-library.

[n.p.]: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. and Odhams Books Ltd., 1966. Stapled paper wraps.. Good.. A child's book of Japanese history and culture, with color stickers to place on appropriate pages. 64 pages. Some stickers are placed, others still in sheet format.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1904. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt-decorated cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. With critical and biographical introduction by George Lincoln Burr. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with sepia plates. Red & black title page. Edge, backstrip and corner wear/rubbing/fraying. Pages clean and binding tight. 503 pages, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Brief pencil marginalia. Good reference copy of a classic historical work first published in 1818.

Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, [no date]. Blue cloth boards, gilt & black decorative cover and spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Ein Kunstler und Liebesroman aus Alt-Hellas, Einleitung von M. M. Rabenlechner. Text in German Frakturschrift. Ink inscription on first leaf, dated 1935. 364 pages, clean and tight.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Series of 9 Lectures Delivered in Earl Hall, at Columbia University from February 11 to April 7, 1924. By the author of ""Seen on the Stage"" and other works on the dramatic arts. Published October 1924. Playwright subjects include George Bernard Shaw, Edmund Rostand, J.M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Eugene O'Neill and others. 218 pages, clean and bright. Ex-library with stamps, spine number, card pocket residue on rfep. Moderate wear/bumping/fraying to edges, ends, and corners. Hinges strong.

New York: Loizeaux Brothers, Publishers, 19 West 21st Street, 1943. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover, orange cloth boards

Elgin, Illinois & Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Company, [no date]. Half brown cloth, marbled boards.. Fair./No Dust Jacket. First leaves missing, starts with text. Illustrated with b/w engravings. Tale for older children. 96 pages, clean & unmarked. Short story ""Sissy"" by J. L. Harbour at the end. Binding loosening, covers worn & frayed.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. Peach-colored cloth boards, black stamped cover and spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition fair. . Line drawings by Elizabeth Ferguson & Margaret Trafford.. Includes chapters on stenciling, paper mosaic, costumes & masks, pottery, batik, art metal jewelry, leathercraft, and others. 270 pages, index. Light wear, endpapers browning. Owner's information inked on ffep. Jacket has some tears, losses and soiling.

Hicksville: Exposition Press, 1978 [1970]. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. 293 pages, scarce work about a young priest working amongst Dublin's dockside poor. Second novel by the author of Wings on the Cross, the story of a chaplain with the RAF during World War II. Originally published by the Society of St. Paul in Athlone, Ireland. Jacket spine faded. Pollock, born in Belfast in 1915, was a member of the Irish branch of the Dominican order and served with the RAF from 1939 to 1947 in North Africa, Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy, as well as England. During the war, he met Padre Pio, the inspiration for his first book.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, Publishers, 1918. Blue-green boards, applied white paper labels on spine and cover.. Good/Light blue-gray paper jacket in fair-good condition.. As related to Alleyne Ireland. Clear wraps added to preserve jacket. First American account ""of an event which plunged the whole civilized world into a state of intense excitement"" and discloses ""the connection of the Jameson Raid and the Boer War with Germany's plan to found a world-domination on the ruins of Democracy."" 50 pages, articles reprinted from the North American Review. Scarce work, especially in the jacket. Advertisements on jacket flaps and back cover. Preface dated October 1918. Front hinge cracking, crease on back cover, endpapers tanned from jacket contact; jacket has spine tears, losses at top and bottom, edges browned, well spotted and dampstained. 1"" circular area of staining in the margin, text unaffected.