Search Results: Authors starting with H from Zetetic Books

London: No Publisher, 1796. [3], 4-8, [1], 2-61pp, [1]. Modern marbled boards, paper title label to spine. Externally very good, internally some loss to fore-edge of title (not affecting text), lightly browned and lightly foxed throughout, but nothing too obtrusive. Hailstone had published earlier in the same year a pamphlet called 'A Dose for the Doctor; or, A Bitter Pill for George Mossman: Containing an Account of His Life and Adventures on this Side of the Tweed' (see Wellcome III:193), apparently exposing the lack of any medical qualifications for George Mossman. Mossman seemingly made an attempt at replying "but, instead of producing any evidence in support of these charges, he has the effrontery to bid me look back into his letters" (pages 1-2), and here is Hailstone's reply to Mossman's defence, noting that "whatever opinion the public may have of his medical knowledge, they will unanimously agree, that in one art, - the art of lying, he has made a very decent progress, and may rank with the… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. [7]-viii, [1], 2-302pp. Original buckram in DJ. Lettering to DJ spine slightly faded, very slightly rubbed to extremities. A few instances of pen lines and marginalia, but generally clean. Vinit Haksar currently works at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Routledge, 1992. [6], vii-x, 187pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. Bookplate of Professor J. P. Griffin to front pastedown, otherwise bright and clean. David W. Hamlyn (1924-2012) was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London (1964-88). First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: A. K. Newman [3]-iv, [1], 6-2987pp, [1], 4p adverts. Original blind stamped cloth, rebacked with original back strip preserved. Smooth spine, title in gilt to spine, blind stamped volute patterns to covers. Original back strip chipped to spine ends, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally very lightly browned, but generally clean and fairly bright. Book label of Peter Stewart Young to front pastedown. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title with vignette and four engraved plates by J. Munday. The adverts to the rear are printed on yellow paper. First published in 1815 (see Cagle 720), and with a sixth edition published in 1828, this undated eighth edition is probably c.1835. Oxford, pages 143-144 (1817 edition); Bitting (1818 edition), pages 211-212, noting the frontispiece and vignette are by Davenport after Corbould (which the ones here are presumably after); Simon 'Bibliotheca Gastronomica' 812. Eighth Edition. Hardback. Good. 12mo.

Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1973. 24pp, original thin card covers. Spine slightly faded, pages browned, stamp of a printing co-op to lower cover, otherwise clean. Translation of chapter nine in Dubois' 'Le Peril Anarchiste', which was written by Hamon. First Thus. Card Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London & Dunedin: Chatto and Windus in association with University of Otago Press, 1965. [10], 11-112pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly dulled, otherwise quite bright and clean. Stuart Hampshire (1914-2004) was an English philosopher and literary critic. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1960. [8], 9-276pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, minor chipping to spine ends, small tear catching publisher to foot, lower panel lightly browned with small chip to head. Internally fairly bright and clean. From the library of Professor James P. Griffin, with four pages of handwritten notes by him laid in loosely. The second impression. Reprint. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

London: Peace News, 1947. 12pp, original paper covers, staples rusted, slightly creased, otherwise fairly bright and clean. BL and Bristol in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News [8]p, original paper covers, n.d. c.1945. Staple rusted, light foxing to fore-edge, slightly creased. Consists of 'extracts from speeches and writings of authoritative men during the last twenty-five years'. BL and Imperial War Museum in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News, 1949. [8]p, original paper covers. Creased and slightly worn, otherwise fairly bright. BL only in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Balne [Printer], 1836. Single sided printed hand bill, approximately 95mm x 265mm in size. Browned, trimmed quite closely, some creasing and a couple of tiny nicks. The printer was probably [Giles] Balne (fl.1799-1838) of Gracechurch Street, London (BBTI). The 'Mr. Green' was almost certainly Charles Green (1785-1864), a professional balloonist between 1821 and 1840, this being his two hundred twenty-fourth aerial voyage. Later that year (November 1836), Green, with Mason and Holland, flew from Vauxhall Gardens London in the 'Royal Vauxhall'. The flight covered a record distance (until 1907) of 480 miles, landing in Germany after eighteen hours. Green was the first to use "coal-gas" for lift (1821), the first to use a drag rope for ballast and he made five cross-channel attempts, with three being successful, and two ending in the sea (information from ballooninghistory). Admission was two shillings and sixpence, with the Coldstream and Quadrille bands also attending. See Altick, 'The Shows of… Read More

Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846. [5], vi-xix, [2], xvii-xx, [2], 3-130pp and sixty-two leaves of grass specimens. Original publishers morocco, bevelled boards, smooth back, spine with title and publisher in gilt within a decorative cartouche, covers with a thick and thin line border, an inner frame made up of a double fillet, a thick blind line and an inner triple fillet with volute and flower head corner pieces and an elaborate foliate and volute centre piece with the title to its centre (lower cover without the title). Quite heavily rubbed to extremities and lower cover, chipped to spine ends with small amounts of loss, bumped bumped and worn. First section of text slightly loose with sewing broken but holding well, some light browning and dust staining to edges, and occasionally to sample pages. One sample has worn through the opposite page of text leaving a series of small holes but with no loss of text, a few small closed tears to page edges. Samples are generally in good order, some off setting as… Read More

No Place: No Publisher Small archive, made up mainly of letters and printed ephemera relating to the British philanthropist Frank Harcourt-Munning, the lead administrator of the charity 'War on Want'. 'War on Want' grew out of the 'Association for World Peace', which had been created in 1950 by the publisher Victor Gollancz in support of overseas development. The AWP created a committee, chaired by the Labour MP and future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, which published a report entitled 'War on Want - A Plan for World Development', which advocated global development as a bulwark against communism and war. When Frank Harcourt-Munning (a wealthy Christian socialist) took over as administrator and began to invest significant amounts of resources 'War on Want' emerged as an NGO, and then became a charity in 1959. The archive includes ten typed signed letters / notes from Harold Wilson (as Prime Minister) on 10 Downing Street letterheaded paper to Harcourt-Munning… Read More

London: Labour News Publishing Offices, 1892. 94pp, original cloth, gilt to spine and front cover. Half-title browned, what looks like the remnants of a sticker to reverse of contents page, slightly cracked between contents page and first page of poetry. COPAC shows at BL, NLS, Cam, Ox and TCD. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 12mo.

Edinburgh: J. Dickson and G. Nicol, 1793. [5], 2-76pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Small nick to head of title and a couple of numbers in pen, lightly browned throughout. Not the shoemaker Thomas Hardy, of L.C.S. fame, but a Scottish Minister who was friendly with Henry Dundas. An attack on Paine's 'Rights of Man', which finishes with "the happy state of man in political society, is under limited monarchy - mixed government - the British constitution". All of the copies in the ESTC seem to be the second edition printed in the same year (which seems unlikely). Goldsmiths 15827 (second edition). First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. [5], vi-viii, [3], 2-242pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, several instances of marginalia and marginal lines by Professor James P. Griffin, otherwise quite bright. Richard Mervyn Hare (1919-2002), was a British moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Good/Good+. 8vo.

Birmingham: Bull & Turner for John Brindley [3], 4-99pp, [1], n.d. but 1841. Original covers, recently rebacked in matching cloth. Covers lightly faded, corners worn. Internally occasional very light spotting and browning, a few corners creased, a previous owners name to front pastedown, otherwise fairly clean. Brindley (1811-1873), was a self-described 'lecturer against infidelity and socialism'. NLW Bibliography of Robert Owen, 69. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

London: J. Morphew, 1711. 8pp, original paper covers. Browned, heavily chipped with some loss to margins, but none to text, several splits and tears to folds, largely unopened. Text in Latin and English. "Supposed to have been drawn up by Harley himself, or Dr. Robert Freind, and revised by Swift". Teerink-Scouten 849. First Edition. Paper Covers. Fair. 4to. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News, 1943. 8pp, original paper covers, slightly creased, lightly browned. COPAC shows at BL, Society of Friends and NLW. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: J. Creswick, and Co., 1794. 4, [1], vi-xxxii, [1], 2-392pp. Contemporary full calf, smooth back, spine divided into six panels by triple rules in gilt, leather title label to second panel. Rubbed to extremities, corners bumped, especially bottom corner of upper cover with small amount of loss to leather, upper outer joint with coloured Japanese tissue repair. Internally lightly foxed, occasionally heavier (signatures M, R, U, X and Bb), some staining, ink stains to Bb4-CC1 catching a few letters, but with no loss of sense, D6 with short closed tear to head catching text but with no loss. The full title is 'Domestic Economy; or, A Complete System of English Housekeeping: Containing the Most Approved Receipts, Confirmed by Observation and Practice, in Every Reputable English book of Cookery now Extant; Besides a Great Variety of Others Which Have Never Before Been Offered to the Public. Also a Valuable Collection, Translated from the Productions of Cooks of Eminence who have published in France,… Read More