Search Results: Authors starting with H from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Lexington, MA, London & Toronto: Lexington Books (D. C. Heath & Co.), 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth-textured boards, black titles & dec. wrapping around both boards & spine, xix, 329, [1] pp, bibliography, index. Corners lightly bumped. Text in differential & integral equations emphasizing "the development of mathematical models for various physical problems," including applications to "applied mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, electrical engineering, elasticity, chemical engineering, and related areas of physics." Contents: linear ordinary differential equations; series solutions of differential equations; Fourier series; partial differential equations in engineering sciences; equations of the hyperbolic type; partial differential equations of the parabolic & elliptic types; integral equations & classifications; methods of solution of integral equations. Shipping weight 3 lbs.… Read More

Denver: Mountain Bell, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, blind-stamped titles on front board and spine, [xiv], 384 pp, numerous photos, bibliography, index. Slight edge wear to boards and DJ, else fine; DJ in Brodart archival cover. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Presumed First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 28 X 21 cm.

Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in mostly dark green card covers with white & tan titles, xlvi, 721, 28, [2] pp. Slight shelf wear, covers somewhat curled. Compact yet comprehensive guide to editing for proper grammar, syntax, punctuation and logic. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ed, 1st ptg. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 17½ X 12½ cm.

Stockholm: The Swedish Institute, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in predominantly white pictorial covers, 111 pp, color photos, charts, & maps. Covers faintly spotted, else fine. Attempts to describe Sweden to outsiders with chapters on the Swedes, history, politics, foreign relations, the economy, the labor market, environment & energy, social welfare, crime & punishment, education & research, cultural affairs, the media, religion, and sports. Contains a list of publications available from the Swedish Institute. English language. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Very Good/No dj. 20 X 15 cm.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth, foil titles on spine, xix, 273 pp, b & w photos, notes, index. DJ spine sunned; in Brodart archival cover. Flandrau was the first of three popular writers to come out of Minnesota, inviting comparison with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. According to the DJ, "From 1899 to 1902 Flandrau was among the most popular contributors to the Saturday Evening Post. Alexander Woollcott rated him the best essayist in America. And Viva Mexico!, Flandrau's account of life on a Mexican coffee plantation, is a classic, perhaps the best travel book ever written by an American. Yet Flandrau turned his back on it all. Financially independent, he chose a solitary, epicurean life in St. Paul." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 15½ cm.

Minneapolis: WCCO Radio, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, red titles on spine, foil & red titles on front board, red endpapers, 132 pp, numerous b & w photos, bibliography. A few spots on front board, rear board marred by offsetting from an adjacent book, o/w fine. A chapter for each decade, loaded with photos of all the announcers in action. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 30 X 24½ cm.

Bethesda, MD: U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Association Copy. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xi, 465 pp, 1 b & w photo, many tables, charts, and notes. Spine slightly sunned, else fine. Personal copy of epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, a co-author, whose signature appears on fpd. Contains 14 papers by 36 authors with introductory matter, discussions, and survival tables. Papers are grouped under the headings prospective studies; British-Norwegian migrant studies; case-control study; cancer registers & allied studies; uses of death certificates. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. . Near Fine/No dj. 26 X 18 cm.

New York: Fromm International, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full navy blue cloth, foil titles on spine, vii, 264 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The German edition, titled Von Bismarck zu Hitler, was edited by Volker Zastrow from a series of lectures delivered by Haffner, a journalist who had worked for the Observer, Stern, & Die Welt. The American edition is tranlated by Jean Steinberg. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter light brown cloth with cream paper-covered boards, blind stamped initals on front board and foil titles on spine, red endpapers, 398 pp including 8 ff b&w photo plates, index. Small tear (5 mm) and creasing to bottom of one leaf, else VG+: bumped spine ends and a single letter in ink on front paste-down. DJ price corner creased, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Journalistic account of the 1985 strike of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers against Hormel's Austin, MN, packing plant, by two StarTribune reporters who covered the story. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . 24 X 16 cm.

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, foil titles on spine, xiii, 176, [1] pp, 12 ff b & w plates, notes, index. Previous owner's book plate on verso of fpd. Price-clipped DJ has a small chip at foot of front joint and a 1-cm tear to bottom of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pictorial card covers with white titles on black spine, [ii], 189 pp, 46 b & w illustrations. Extremities rubbed. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. Illus. by Maurice Grieffenhagen. 23½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1920 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, blind titles on front board, gold ink titles on spine, vii, 302,2 pp, color frontis. by Enos B. Comstock. Spine sunned & water-spotted, titles corroded to near black, shaken hinges reglued with acid-free PVA. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . G/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

Cambridge, England et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, gilt titles on spine, 392 pp, profusely illustrated, maps, bibliography, index. Smells of tobacco smoke, else fine. Price-clipped DJ browning about edges and smells of tobacco smoke, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Contains interpretive articles by dozens of scholars, plus brief biographies 800 historical figures. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 26 X 21 cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles & green decoration on spine, [viii], 440 pp. Spine ends & corners beginning to fray, else VG. DJ chipped at corners & spine ends, small tears to edges of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Hailey's best-selling thriller set in a snowed-in airport was later made into a movie. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/G+. 24 X 16 cm.

Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Published jointly with Associated University Presses, London. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, 304 pp, bibliography, index. Corners & spine ends rubbed, one leaf is dog-eared and has a ball-point notation. DJ spine ends rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ: "This study presents a logic in which probability values play a semantic role comparable to that of truth values in conventional logic ... It will be of interest to logicians, both philosophical and mathematical, and to investigators making use of logical inference under uncertainty...." Contents: groundwork; early history (Leibniz, Bernoulli, Lambert, Bayes, Michell); the nineteenth century (Bolzano, De Morgan, Boole, Peirce & MacColl); the twentieth century (confirmation from Keynes to Carnap; Reichenbach: probability as multi-valued logic; probabilistic inference revived;… Read More

St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xiv, 269, [2] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collection of 30 essays, 12 previously published, on "the craft and value of poetry, the arts and their influence in public life, the creative spirit in art and literature, and wilderness and nature." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23 X 16 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, foil titles on spine, vii, 389 pp, 356 figures, index. DJ browned & slightly soiled at extremities, with a 1½ cm tear to top of front panel near fore-edge; in Brodart archival cover. At the time of publication, the writer was a Vice President of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company and Past President of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Contents: fundamentals of control & measurement; electric-control circuits & units; electronic-control circuits & units; pneumatic-control circuits & units; control of residential heating, mechanical refrigeration, & residential air conditioning; zone control--commercial heating; control of unit heaters & ventilators, commercial central-fan heating & cooling systems; peripheral air-conditioning units, &… Read More

New York: Villard Books, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Review Copy. Black boards, black cloth spine with foil titles, dec. endpapers, xi, 800, [1] pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, bibliography, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Press release announcing book, review slip, and glossy b & w photo of author laid in. Halberstam's "sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history" of the 1950s is a work of synthesis, based primarily upon secondary sources, but also upon some interviews conducted by the author. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Times Books, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with gilt facsimile signature on front board, red endpapers, xxi, 326 pp, 8 ff b&w photo plates. When we bought this book, it was new in shrink wrap, but the shrink wrap was abraded near top of fore-edge of front board and at bottom of front hinge. The jacket has chips in these two places, and cloth has two small but heavily abraded spots as well. Otherwise, the book and jacket are as new, with the DJ in a Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "As Chief of Staff to the President, H. R. Haldeman was present at almost every meeting of any importance. He knew more about Nixon's real opinions and feelings than any other member of the Administration.... Because of his willingness to admit his own mistakes, it is easier to accept his candid assessment of errors made by President Nixon, Charles Colson, John Dean, and others. Haldeman also reveals some of the… Read More

New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards with blind device, black cloth spine with foil titles, xii, 257 pp, bibliography. Top corners bumped. Contents: small-town living--we're not quaint and there's plenty to do all winter; the food--making a decent clam chowder and other culinary observations; the humor--is this the road to Freeport?; the weather & the seasons--most people die on the ebb tide; the legends (sometimes confused with the history)--please--does anyone know the real name of Paul Revere's horse?; genealogy (and other forms of one-upmanship)--where Lowells speak only to Cabots; the language--all those in favor say "ayuh"; love, sex, and such--a bull in the presence of ladies is a "gentleman cow"; the dark side--I have seen, in the moonlight, a latch rise...; the six states--Yankee come home. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.