Search Results: Authors starting with H from Bookfare

London: Methuen, 1923 Title-page drawing and 50 plates by the author; Hardback: glazed boards, Bateman cartoon to top board, large quarto; Some cover wear, sections of the spine secured with tape, binding starting to crack a little, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, plates clean vg-

1st Edition, Cape, London, 1935 Hardback: cream cloth patterned in blue and orange and lettered in blue; Binding very slightly slanted, else near fine in defective dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Michael Joseph, London, 1964 12 short stories; Hardback: blue-grey cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Small bruise to top board, near fine in less fine dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Bumpus, London, no date : 1928 Hardback: blue patterned cloth, paper label decorated in black; Lower board slightly spotted, label a bit darkened, near fine.

London: Chambers, 1935 Hardback: navy blue cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, top edge blue; Signs of use, some cover wear, corners rubbed, small piece torn from front free end-paper, light foxing, g+

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928 Hardback: dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate (to rear pastedown); A little dusty, near fine.

London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1816 Tissue-guarded frontispiece; Folding map; "With a comparative view of the past and present state of society and manners; containing also biographical anecdotes of eminent persons connected with that island"; Leather-Bound Hardback: full brown patterned calf decorated in gilt, spine panelled, gilt returns, all edges and end-papers marbled; Text and illustrations clean, but binding defective, top board detached, spine worn and lacking half of bottom panel, g+

London: John Murray, 1954 Hardback: red cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Near fine in vg chipped plastic-wrapped dustwrapper.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1947 Colour frontispiece; 181 black & white illustrations; Hardback: grey cloth decorated in red on spine, illustrated title-page; Reading/working copy only, covers stained and spotted, lacks front free end-paper, text and illustrations clean.

Lancaster: Lancaster Guardian, 1930 3 addresses given in 1911 and originally published in the 'Lancaster Guardian': 'Origin of Books', 'Lovers and Destroyers of Books' and 'On the Reading of Books'; Paperback: 10 page pamphlet, grey paper wrappers, stapled; Staple now lacking but having left behind a small rust mark, wrappers a little used, vg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Oxford University Press, 1949 5 facsimiles of title-pages; Second edition, enlarged; Hardback: navy blue cloth, paper label (and spare label bound in at rear); Slight signs of use, label a little chipped, near fine.

London: St. Catherines Press, 1948 8 plates; No. 46 in the "Footpath Guides" series; Paperback, errata slip pasted onto half-title, duodecimo; Slight signs of use, previous owner's name to half-title, vg in slightly chipped map dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Bison, London, 1978 135 colour and 250 black & white illustrations; Hardback: black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, brown end-papers, decorated title-page, 4to; Near fine in unevenly browned dustwrapper.

London: Longman, 1984 5 maps; Paperback; Crease to spine, vg+

1st Edition, Macdonald, London, 1966 93 illustrations; A volume in the series "Navies of the Second World War"; Black cloth lettered in silver, landscape format; 2 small areas of damage to spine, else vg in remains of a dustwrapper.

London: Routledge, 1867 Portrait frontispiece; 163 illustrations by John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel; 562 pages; Leather-Bound Hardback: full blue morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, bevelled edges, spine panelled with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; Leather rubbed, front hinge tender, light foxing, still a handsome book. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Longman, 1975 6 maps; A volume in the 'Social and Economic History of England' edited by Asa Briggs; Paper wrappers; Some signs of use, wrappers creased: very good.

Aberdeen: Milne & Hutchison, 1927 Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and 8 other plates; Hardback: brown buckram decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, brown laid end-papers; Spine lettering faded, previous owner's name, near fine.

London: Batsford, 1941 4 Colour Plates: one each by Sydney R. Jones, Gilbert Spencer, J. Bateman and Adrian Allinson; 126 illustrations from photographs; 11 text illustrations from drawings; "A Survey of Limestone England from the Dorset Coast to Lincolnshire"; Second Edition, Revised; A volume in the series "The Face of Britain"; Hardback: light brown cloth decorated in black, top edge orange, map end-papers (different front and rear); Small area of damage to foot of spine, bruise to top edge of top board, light cover wear, binding a touch shaken, g+

London: Methuen, 1934 2 Volumes bound in one; 38 sepia plates, 10 double-page; 'In Scotland Again' dated 1939; Art Nouveau style school prize label to front free end-paper; Leather-Bound Hardback: half blue calf decorated in gilt on blue cloth, red leather lettering-piece, marbled end-papers (covering original end-paper maps); top edge gilt; Spine cracking at foot where it joins the boards, some rubbing, an attractive binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall