Search Results: Authors starting with H from Thorn Books

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Fine. Volumes 1 to 3 of the Far West and Rockies Series. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Fine, bright copies. Volumes 1 and 2 have been inscribed by LeRoy Hafen on the front free endpapers. Laid in is a prospectus for the Far West and Rockies Series, which was proposed to reach fifteen volumes. The prospectus is also inscribed by LeRoy Hafen. .

Tacámbaro: Taller Martín Pescador, 2022. Limited edition. Wraps. Fine. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated (8 pp.) Thick paper wraps, printed paper label on the upper wrap, string binding. Finely printed by Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbina, One of about 75 copies. Fine condition. Hölderlin's poem with an interlinear translation into English by Hammer, as well as Harry Duncan's translation found through the printer's efforts in the Library of Congress by Paul Holbrook of the King Library Press. Duncan';s translation of the poem is here united with it and Hammers translation for the first time. With an addendum containing the beginning of Hammer's proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation to print an Illustrated Manual of Hand Press Printing. Finally, Francisco Segovia has contirbuted a Translatuon of the poem into Spanish. Finely printed in Neue Unziale, Andromaque and Poliphilus fonts. A fine copy. .

London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1664. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. (4),108;113-320pp. Title page printed in red and black. Bound to style in quarter leather; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Imprimatur on leaf [A]2v: Imprimatur, Geo: Stradling, S.T.P. Rev. in Christo Patr. Dom. Gilb. Episc. Lond. à Sac. domest. Ex Æd. Sabaud. Apr. 24. 1663. This copy without the frontispiece sometimes seen. Small piece from the corner of leaf B1 lacking (no loss) else a very good copy. ESTC R3418. Wind H600. Hammond, a famous Westminster divine, was a supporter of King Charles I and was his chaplain during his captivity. Rare.

New York, et al.: Th A. N. Palmer Co, n.d.. Stiff card. Near fine. A complete set of fifteen cards, 8 by 17 inches, printed in black with letters and numbers in white showing the capital and lower case alphabet, numbers and symbols in the Palmer handwriting method. These cards were generally posted around the classroom above the blackboards and were used to demonstrate the correct shaping of the letters in the style if writing now known as 'cursive'. The Paler method was generally taught in the second half of the twentieth century. These cards show minimal wear and sunning, but they do have thumbtack holes on the upper corners where they were mounted. Complete sets of the classroom cards are scarce. A nice example of an earlier teaching method. .

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. xx,341,(1)pp. Bound in purple T-grain cloth ands locked intricately with gilt on the spine and upper board in a design by Will Bradley. Top edge gilt. A few marginal pencil notes else a fine copy. Bambace, Will H. Bradley, A20. .

London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 260pp. + ads. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, gilt titles and device on the upper board. Top edge gilt. There is a very tiny closed tear at the top of the spine and the beginnings of a split between pages 159 and 160. Very minor bumping to corners, but an unusually fine, bright copy. Ex-Doheny, with the oval leather 'Ex libris Estelle Doheny' bookplate on the front paste down (and has offset, as usual, to the opposite page (the front free endpaper.) Webb, Bibliography of Thomas Hardy, pp. 35-36. This title was issued in two bindings, as Webb notes: dark green ribbed cloth, T.E.G; and white buckram with gilt edges. "The difference is one of size," he writes, "the cloth being about quarter-of-an-inch taller than the buckram."

Chicago: The Chap-Book, 1896. First US edition. Wraps. Very good. 12mo. Original printed wraps. xx,(97)-144,xxi-xxx pp. Vol. VI., No. 3 of The Chap-Book which contains the first printed appearance in the United States of 'The Duke's Reappearance' and only its second appearance overall, having appeared the previous day in England in The Saturday Review, Christmas Supplement. The Saturday Review was published 14 December, 1896, whereas The Chap-Book was issued December 15, 1896. (See Ray, The Collected Short Stories of Thomas Hardy). The wraps are worn at the spine, with some separation, and lack a small portion of the upper corner on the upper wrap (no loss)., else this is a very good copy. Housed in a contemporary half morocco slipcase, spine in six compartments, gilt.

New York: The Schilling Press, Inc, 1922. First edition. 12mo. 78pp. Red embossed cloth blocked with a dragon and title on the upper board in gilt. Illustrated with diagrams of game moves. Gilt lightly darkened, pencil ownership name, else a very good copy. The scarce first edition, much reprinted. Accompanied by Babcock, J. P., Babcock's Rules for Mah-Jongg: The Red Book of Rules, Shanghai, Mah-Jongg Company of Chins, 1923. Second edition, 7th printing. Red cloth with a color paste-on to the upper board. 118pp. .

London: Pelham Richardson, 1844. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Signed binding of contemporary half maroon morocco by R. H. Porter. Spine in six compartments, gilt titles and vignettes, raised bands tooled in gilt. Pebble-grain maroon cloth sides, all edges gilt. Bound with Plate IV, 'The Gnoo', as frontispiece. The non-hunting Plate I, 'Chief Moselekatse', appears supplied from another copy and is bound facing page 1. 24 hand colored plates, plus both the engraved, hand colored title as well as a typeset title, and with the folding map present in the rear. Plate X noted with some foxing else the plates are fine, bright and fresh. The map is also fine. The binding is fine as well, with only traces of rubbing at the edges, hinges and corners. And this edition contains the two extra chapters. Experts consider this the first big game hunting book and an essential title for any African sporting collection. Originally issued 5 years earlier with fewer monochrome plates, the third (1841) and fourth (1844)… Read More

London: Whittaker & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 296pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1839, comprising Volume VII , No. 71, through No. 82. Each issue but December is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for July and August, which each have two, plus there is a frontispiece, for a total of 14 plates. With an engraved title page, a typeset title and preface added. Contemporary full leather; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Neat ownership name stamp. Binding lightly rubbed at hinges and edges, the hand colored plates have generally lightly offset to the facing pages, else this is a fine copy.

London: Whittaker & Co, 1840. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 288pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1840, comprising Volume VIII , No. 82, through No. 94. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for April, which has three, for a total of 14 plates. With an engraved title page added. Contemporary full leather; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Neat ownership name stamp. Binding lightly rubbed at hinges and edges, gilt border rubbed; the hand colored plates have generally lightly offset to the facing page; else this is a fine copy.

London: Printed for W. Frederick in Bath, 1764. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xviii,(4),213,(1),232. The five full page plates are present. Essay II has its own pagination. Bound to style in quarter leather, spine tooled in blind with red leather lettering label, gilt. A very good copy. Essay I. A general introduction; Shewing That Agricultre is the Basis and Support of all flourishing Communities;-The antient and present State of that useful Art;-Agriculture, Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce justly harmonized;-of the right Cultivation of our Colonies;-Together with the Defects, Omissions, and possible Improvements in English Husbandry. Essay II. An account of some experiments tending to improve the culture of lucerne by transplantation: Being the first Experiments of the Kind hitherto made and published in England: From whence it appears, that Lucerne is an Article of great Importance in English Husbandry. The Whole illustrated with Copper-Plates and Representations cut on Wood. ESTC T96316.

Boston and New York: H. M. Caldwell Co, 1906. Hardcover. Fine. Shape book, cut in the shape of a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket. (136)pp. Printed in green and black. A fine copy in original glassine, and in the publisher's box. The box has light soil, but the book is in fine as new condition. Lovely toasts and pithy verses about drink. .

London: J. Hassell, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two leather bound volumes with spines in 6 compartments, red labels, gilt titles. As so often happens with early 19th century books the collation of these two volumes matches neither the 'directions for placing the cuts' as found at the end of each volume nor the collation as given in the reference. Numerous plates are bound in locations other than indicated, four listed in Tooley (Epsom, Holland House, Melrose Hall and Guildford) are missing and one (Holland House Crouch) which is not listed in Tooley, but is in the directions to the binder is present. It appears that the intent was that the two volumes were each to have 60 plates. Volume One of this set contains 62 plates and volume Two has 55. Having looked carefully at the two volumes it seems possible that the 'missing' plates were not ever present. A lovely set with charming little plates.

n.p.: Art Hazelwood, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Concertina style, 8½ by 10½ inches expanding to 8½ by 170 inches. Printed on the obverse of the pages only. Four seasons in Zuni Pueblo: Rain Dance, Monsoon, Shalako, and Winter. Each season is presented in three panels plus a panel with the title. The cover illustration, titled "Zuni", is executed in reduction color woodcut on Arches Cover wove. The main illustrations are reduction color linocuts with screenprinted titles. One of 10 copies signed by the illustrator; this is copy No. 4. Boards yawning a little else this is a fine exemplar. .

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Green T-grain cloth blocked in black, light green and gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with drawings printed in red, and the title page in red and black. Neat ink name of former owner on front free endpaper. Trace of edge wear else a fine copy. First state, with the inverted border. BAL 1938. .

London: R, Baldwin, 1789. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. x, (vii), 206, 209-508, pp. 6 engraved plates, 4pp. of descriptions and 12pp. of adverts. Sometime nicely bound in quarter leather, spine in six compartments tooled in blind with raised bands, red leather lettering labels, gilt, marbled paper boards. The soiled title page has been remargined, and there is occasional light staining, especially near the rear. Surplus stamp of the Library of Congress on the dedication page. Overall a very good copy of a rare book. Three separate works. Edelstein called them three of the thirteen key works on the history of dyeing published before 1856. Only the work by Hellot on Wool had been translated into English before,; this is the first English translation of the other two works. .

Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Walter Owen, 1978. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 264pp. followed by an index. Illustrated. Bound in brown and cream cowhide with an illustration and the title impressed on the front board. Ribbon marker. In Spanish and English. Short gift inscription, and ownership initials and date else a fine copy. .

Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary marbled paper boards nicely rebacked in quarter leather, red leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064.

Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt; black leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064. With the armorial bookplate of Sir William Grace.