Search Results: Authors starting with H from Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)

Phiadephia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1844. First (only). Fair. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, Paul T Jones, Publishing Agent, 1844 6" x 35" 96 pp Bound in early 1/4 morocco over cloth A very scarce first and only edition of this anti-Catholic work by Henry Augustus Boardman â€" a prominent 19th c American minister No other copies available in the market Front hinge cracked and cloth torn/worn/stained Front endpapers absent, contents water-stained Pencil annotations from a previous owner on both pastedowns But no other marks to text 96 pp.

London: ADPRINT Ltd, 1950. First UK authorized edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Andrew Bensen. From Wikipedia: "Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry(1907 - 1998) nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was the owner of a television station and several radio stations in Southern California. From 1961 to 1997, he was the founding owner of the California Angels[Note 1] franchise of Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films. Between 1950 and 1956, he hosted The Gene Autry Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero-honest, brave, and true. Autry was also one of the most important pioneering figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's… Read More

London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2004. 1st edition, 4th printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. William Pitt the Younger (1759 -1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain (before the Acts of Union 1800) and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) as of January 1801 He left office in March 1801, but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806 He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who had previously served as prime minister and is referred to as "William Pitt the Elder" (or "Chatham" by historians) William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, PC, FRSL (1961- ) is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001 He served in the Cameron government as First Secretary of… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1870. First. Fine. Very attractive modern fine binding in full brown leather, with gilt titles and raised bands on the spine, and gilt borders on the covers and spine. Marbled endpapers. Binding and contents both in fine condition, with no marks or damage. James Hain Friswell (1825 -1878) was an English essayist and novelist. He was a frequent contributor to Chambers's Journal, The Leader, The Spectator, the London Review, the Saturday Review, and the Pictorial World. In 1870, he produced Modern Men of Letters honestly criticized, which contained profiles and engraved plate portraits of 22 of the most prominent authors of the time, primarily British (Dickens, Browning, Trollope, etc.) but also some non-British, (Hugo, Longfellow, Emerson). George Augustus Sala (G.A.S.), whose life was very severely commented on in this work, brought an action for defamation of character against Hodder & Stoughton, the publishers of the book, and obtained 500 pounds damages. In the… Read More

Issued by the Division, 1920. First. Good+. A good copy in green cloth with gilt titles on spine and gilt four leaf design on front cover Hinges cracked, and slight edge wear, but else in very good condition Previous owner inscription on front pastedown but otherwise no marks or damage at all 368 pp.

New York: The Mentor Association, 1915. First. Very Good. An interesting journal published by an organization "Established for the Development of a Popular Interest in Art, Literature, Science, History, Nature and Travel" Very good condition Wraps detached but otherwise undamaged Text and all 6 accompanying full page prints (see photos) are unmarked and undamaged 12 + 6 full page prints pp.

Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2011. First. Fine. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers Signed by author on title page, but no other marks or damage at all 305 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. First edition, first printing. Fine/Fine. R. Sikoryak. From the publisher: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action filmand the humble comic books that inspired it Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II "Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable" â€"Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive Part One of this story takes place in 1947 A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a… Read More

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1904. First. Very Good. A very good copy of a scarce work in tan cloth with red and black titles and illustration on front cover Minor soiling and spotting on covers Hinges beginning, but still sound Small corner torn off at top of rear endpaper, but not affecting text No other marks or damage There are numerous current reprintings of the work, but I cannot find another copy of the original edition available anywhere on the Internet 171 pp.

New Haven, CT: Yale Univerisity Press, 2007. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the Publisher: "Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, she contends, formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research. The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century… Read More

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1972. Limited. Very Good. Black cloth with white title on spine and white ruling and icon on front cover Small area of white staining on lower front cover No other marks or damage at all No 126 of an edition of 500, with author signature on limitation Also inscribed by author on the ffep Laid inside front cover is a publisher's promotional brochure for the book.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1870. First thus. Good+. George Cruikshank. A good copy in printed and illustrated wrappers of what is labeled as "The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition Ever Published, Complete in One Volume" (perhaps true at that time) Most paperback editions of this vintage have long since disintegrated This copy appears unread, thought time has taken its toll on the cheap paper used in that era Nonetheless, it appears complete with both wrappers and even the spine paper showing soiling but only modest chipping The wrappers and first few pages do show age darkening and the wrappers have several simple tape repairs, but only slight amounts of the text has been affected The volume is unmarked by any names or inscriptions 198 + 14 p ads pp.

Various: Various. Fine/Fine. A fascinating group of classic magic books by some of the greatest names in magic Hardcover 1 The Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion, by Harry Blackstone Jr, Newmarket Press, New York, 1985, First edition, first prining, 230 pp Fine in Fine unclipped DJ 2 Blackstone's Secrets of Magic, by Harry Blackstone (Sr), Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1958, New and revised edition 164 pp Fine in near fine unclipped DJ with just minor sunning on jacket spine 3 David Copperfield's History of Magic, by David Copperfield, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2021, First edition, first printing, 256 pp Fine in fine unclipped DJ Softcover 4 Blackstone's Tricks Anyone Can Do, by Harry Blackstone (Sr), Citadel Press, Seacaucus, NJ, 1983, first paperback edition, 232 pp Near fine, with just slight edge wear 5 There's One Born Every Minute, by Harry Blackstone Jr, Jove/HBJ, NY, 1978, First PB edition, third printing 159 pp Fine 6 Harry Anderson's Games You Can't Lose, by Harry Anderson and Turk… Read More

London: James Young, 1653. First. Good-. 16 x 10cm [44], 566, [2] pp (*Lacks frontis, title-page, and final blank, else complete; note the frontis is often lacking and in many cases was never bound in) Bound in library buckram, faded, front blank with inscription dated 1680 ("Presented to the New York Society Library"), contents with several old library ink-stamps of the same, some areas of soiling/toning/foxing throughout, water-staining near front, a few early ink notes, one dedication leaf with several holes removing several words, some marginal chips As-is, an imperfect copy of a very important work FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF HARVEY'S LIFE WORK "Harvey considered this to be the culminating work of his life, and more significant than de Motu Cordis Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the 'preformation' of the foetus; he maintained that the organism derives from the ovum by the gradual building up and aggregation of its parts The chapter on midwifery in this book is… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2002. First Edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher: "In December 1985, Max Hastings was an author and Sunday Times columnist living deep in the Northamptonshire countryside, when he was suddenly, and dramatically, offered the chance to become editor of the Daily Telegraph. Editor tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over the next decade." This copy is fine in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine.  No marks or damage.  Unclipped DJ is also fine.  Signed by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. CH.

New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908. First. Very Good. A very good copy with no marks at all Minor foxing on endpapers, otherwise excellent.

London: John Murray, 2018. First thus, Special UK edition. Fine/Near Fine. Brief Answers to the Big Questions examines some of the universe's greatest mysteries, and promotes the view that science is very important in helping to solve problems on planet Earth The publisher describes the book as "a selection of [Hawking's] most profound, accessible, and timely reflections from his personal archive", and is based on, according to a book reviewer, "half a million or so words" from his essays, lectures and keynote speeches The book was incomplete at the time of Hawking's passing in March 2018, but was completed with "his academic colleagues, his family and the Stephen Hawking Estate" It includes a foreword written by Eddie Redmayne, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Hawking in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything; an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne; and an afterword by Lucy Hawking, the author's daughter Stephen Hawking (1942 â€" 2018) was an English theoretical… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First. Hardcover. Very Good. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and although he is now nearly forgotten, he published more that 50 works over a sixty year writing career. All volumes in publisher's original gray cloth with black, green and brown floral designs on the front covers. Gilt titles on the spines and green crests and brown ruling on rear covers. Residual hand-written ink numbers on the spines, though whether from a private or an institutional library is uncertain. A few discreet ink stamps are the only other indication of library ownership. Apparent original green floral design endpapers, complementing the cover floral designs. All spines are sun darkened and the spine ends and corners are bumped and slightly scuffed. Volume 1- 312 pp.  Some water staining on lower front cover, but no damage internally.  Light soiling on both covers. Volume 2 - 311 pp.  A small chip at the lower spine.  Light soiling spotting on both… Read More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Reprint of 1820 and 1817 originals. Very Good. A very good copy in dark green cloth with gilt titles on spine and blindstamped designs on both covers A volume in Bohn's Standard Library Slight edge wear and bumped corners Hinges cracked but intact A few minor ink annotations scattered in the text, but overall text is still good to very good William Hazlitt (1778 â€" 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age 268 + 12 p ads, 247 + 32 p ads pp.

New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1994. First. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy in brown illustrated boards Signed by author on title page No other marks or damage of any kind 80 pp.