Search Results: Authors starting with H from Uncommon Works

College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. About fine first edition, as stated, in a very good plus, original, unclipped dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with buffalo heart emblem and brown title stamping on spine. Russet end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket mildly sunned and showing a small closed tear at edge of spine cover, and two small rubbed spots. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps, drawings and black and white plates. 805 pp. including index. Octavo.

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus, first edition, first printing. Brown, mustard and white cloth boards. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on top edge, mildly cocked. Text clean and bright. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with formulas, b/w photos, graphs, and drawings. [xi], 438 [2] pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall. This volume summarizes recent developments in our understanding of active galactic nuclei, including quasars, seyfert galaxies and radio galaxies. The predominant emphasis is put on observational results with information from essentially all wave bands, but important theoretical results are also presented. Among the contributions are discussions of the different types of active galaxies, the nature of the central engine, the wiggly structure of radio jets, the dynamics of the gas in jets, the study of millimeter and extreme ultraviolet regions, and a discussion of the observed continuum… Read More

New York: Greenberg : Publisher, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. A near fine signed first edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to his friend, noted San Francisco attorney Edwin Sprague Pillsbury. Terra cotta cloth covered boards with Kachina doll in golden stamping, matching title stamping on spine. Navajo country map endpapers. In a good plus, price clipped dustjacket showing sunning to spine of jacket, small tears and minor loss. 246 pp. Octavo Babington was a noted California surgeon, author, and member of the California Writer's Club. The book was well received and later reprinted.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first printing. Brown cloth boards with native portrait in gilt. Binding slightly cocked, yet sturdy.Spotting to cover and foxing to last free endpaper. Full of hundreds of black and white plates depicting lifeways and artifacts. xxvi, 285 pp. 8 x 11 1/2 inches tall, octavo. Contents: The aborigines of Porto Rico and neghboring islandsCertain antiquities of Eastern Mexico

Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, first printing (as stated). In a fine dust jacket. xxi, 424 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; Octavo. Little has been written about the contributions of enlisted combat aircrew members during World War II. Also, the importance of crew unity has not been sufficiently emphasized. BLOODY SKIES is the story of a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 crew that often flew the notorious Old Flak Holes & how they learned to respect & trust each other. Training made them cohesive; crisis & tragedy bonded them. They arrived at Amendola, Italy on the day their entire squadron, the Twentieth, had been wiped out by the Luftwaffe. That was their introduction to war. Ten enthusiastic, bright-eyed, cocky boys experience a fatigue & weariness so overpowering it seems to go deep into the bones. It is only their pride in themselves, their crew & their country that keeps them returning… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. A fine Book of the Month Club hardcover edition of a classic work. Missing dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold spine lettering. Bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket's rear flap laid in on rear pastedown. 224 pp. Octavo. Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention apart from the great men it produced," writes Hamilton, "for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things, but a blueprint of what may happen again." With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great...

New York: Kraus Reprint Co. , 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. A very good copy. Blue cloth boards with silver title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Other marginalia pencilled on introduction and Chapter One. 277 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall.

Los Angeles: Arthur Vernon Agency, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition (SIGNED) in a very good dustjacket. Beige cloth boards. Dust stains in both gutters. Boldly inscribed by author on first free endpaper, remaining pages are clean and bright. Long tear on spine of dustjacket. 95 pp. 6 x 9 inches tall, octavo. The author, Nick Harris, was a crimes reporter for the Los Angeles newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, then a Los Angeles Police Department detective, and then established the famous Nick Harris Detective Agency in Los Angeles. Many of his stories and experiences in his career he wrote about as a professional writer. There was also a radio series about his adventures. This recounts both the history and drama of 1920's and 1930's Los Angeles.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1911. Early Printing. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus "fine paper edition." Red cloth boards with gillt title stamping on spine. Gilt top edge. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Toning to endpapers. No other flaws. 388 pp. 4&1/4 x 6&1/2 inches tall, 18mo. Bret Harte (born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches." --- Wikipedia

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/missing. A very good plus first edition, as stated. Buckram boards with green image of South America and green title stamping on spine. Previous owner's bookstamp on first free endpaper. Map endpapers. Deckled page edges with mild toning. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Missing dust jacket. map and black and white plates all present. vxiii, 415 pp., Octavo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine, complete, two volume set with both dust jackets and original slipcase. Buckram over blue cloth with sketch done in silver. Gold title stamping to spine. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's stamp to first blank leaf. Volume one dust jacket showing shelfwear at crown. Volume 2 dustjacket shows sunning and wear at crown. Pictorial slipcase is very good plus showing only moderate shelfwear. All plates present. Vol. 1. 601 pp., 24 plates; Vol. 2, 709 pp., 24 plates. Octavo. The editor has tackled, in these two volumes, a most difficult task: a compilation of selected readings dealing with major archeological excavations on every continent save Australia. The editor is to be congratulated for the general balance attained by the selection of articles....In both volumes nearly all footnotes have been eliminated. Where footnotes are of unusual importance or interest, however, they have been incorporated into the text in… Read More

London: Tim Childe, 1698. First Edition, First Printing. Full leather. Good +/none as issued. A good plus, rebound first edition in three parts (one volume, as issued.), [Wing H1309] [ESTC No. R15760]..Newly rebound in goat with four raised bands and paper label. Frontis and last index page heavily chipped and fragile, taped in with conservation grade paper. . First 14 pp. a bit proud. Foxing and page staining throughout. Stamp and Minor marginalia. [20], 411, [9] p. : ill., indexed. 12mo. Thomas Hearne or Hearn (Latin: Thomas Hearnius, July 1678 – 10 June 1735) was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts." ---Wikipedia

Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places.Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall

New York: Penguin Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/near fine. An as new first edition, first printing with full number line.in an a near fine dust jacket. Jacket shows a scrape over last two letters in the word "novel." 553 pp., Octavo. Freddy and Fredericka are a British royal couple similar to Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. The two are sent to America on a comic adventure to fulfill a quest to achieve Freddy's destiny. The novel was named by National Review to be one of the ten great conservative novels written by Americans since the 1950s. The New Yorker said "at its best, the novel achieves genuine lightness," and the New York Times found it "great silly fun—a rowdy, rambunctious read that's part acid farce, part bittersweet fairy tale," --- Revolvy

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Pictorial cover. Near fine/none as issued. A near fine first edition, soft cover. Wear to front lower corner, shelf wear to bottom edge of back cover. 220 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. 81/2 x 11 inches tall, folio. Contains all the audience participation scripting!The Rocky Horror Picture Show : it was great when it all beganThe cast : superherosThe cult : my favorite obsessionRocky Horror and the critics : I didn't make him for youMusic and lyrics : The Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Wiesbaden]: Insel-Verlag, 1954. First Thus. Pictorial boards. Fine/near fine. A fine two-volume set of the German translation in near fine dust wrappers. First thus in this translation. Text in german. Green pictorial boards with a ribbon marker in both volumes.Volume I dust wrapper shows a small hole on front, both dust wrappers have label residue on lower spine. .A lovely set. 591 pp. total, duodecimo. The Tale of Genji ( Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian period. The work is a unique depiction of the lifestyles of high courtiers during the Heian period, written in archaic language and a poetic and confusing style that make it unreadable… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. A very good plus first edition in a good plus dust jacket. Black cloth, embossed boards, red endpapers. Previous owners name boldly inscribed in pencil on front pastedown and on first free endpaper. (Two) page numbers written on title page. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no stains. Dust jacket missing some sections and has some tears. Jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival cover. 804 pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with drawings and color photos. Octavo, 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

New York: Random House, 2003. First Thus. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first printing of this first thus ---special illustrated collector's edition in an equally fine dust jacket. No flaws. Black paper boards under black quarter cloth. xviii, 377 p. : ill. Quarto. A deluxe illustrated edition of one of the most beloved books of our time, with nearly 150 historic photographs personally selected by the author. The spellbinding true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated a nation, Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit:" An American Legend became an immediate number one bestseller and cultural phenomenon upon its publication in 2001. Named one of the best books of the year by more than twenty publications--including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, People, USA Today, and The Economist--"Seabiscuit" was also honored as the BookSense Nonfiction Book of the Year and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and was a finalist for several other major… Read More

Bath: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/as new. A near fine first edition in an as new (fine) dust jacket. Book review laid in. From the library of noted (late) senior researcher for Historical Services, Wells Fargo Bank. Dr. Chandler's signature on front pastedown, otherwise as new (fine).148 pp. Glossy color photographs of artwork. Quarto, 9 x 10 1/4 inches tall. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Calif., Jan. 24-May 31, 1998; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., June 20-Sept. 13, 1998; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 1998- Mar. 7, 1999.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Good +/missing. A good plus first edition, scarce on the market. Burgundy cloth boards. Bumped corners. Front hinge exposed. Two previous owners' names on first free endpaper. No other markings. No dust jacket. xvi, 438 p. Created in 1924 by the Rogers Act, the Foreign Service combined all consular and diplomatic services of the U.S. government into one administrative unit. In addition to the unit's function, the Rogers Act defined a personnel system under which the United States Secretary of State is authorized to assign diplomats abroad.