Search Results: Authors starting with H from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Black cloth over boards, stamped titles in red. Containing all maps, charts, illustrations, diagrams, etc. Tucked in: Photo in sepia news magazine style, presumably author-historian H.G. Wells. Classic World History reference book. At back, Chronological Table of Leading Events from 800 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clean with minor cover blemishing.

Non-fiction account by the 2nd most powerful government employee in the Richard Nixon White House Administration, Bob Halderman. Published after 5 years of scandal and conflicting reports following the break-in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building. The burglars were were hired by top echelon Republican National Party operatives during Nixon's re-election campaign, including the author. The evolving news reporting, and Legislative investigations captured the attention of the Public throughout the days, weeks, and months that followed. Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment. This volume appears unread, clean, save for a back cover vertical angled crease.

Beverly Hills CA.: Autumngold Publishing., 1984. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription on free end paper: "To Ray--A man who knows the heavenly qualities of pipesmoking! Happy Smoking, RcH" with a flourish and a line art pipe. Jacket has light spine sun fade.. 1 Maroon textured leather-like material over boards. Stamped gold titles and pipe image. 305 p. B&W photos, facsimiles. Pipe smoking Reference dedicated to "S. Holmes". Origins, pipemaking, selecting, secrets to smoking a pipe, the perfect tobacco, pipe smoking for women, accessories; famous pipe smokers; collectible pipe; sourcebook;

Kansas City, Mo.: Hallmark Editions., 1972. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. Cassler, Carl (Illustrated by).. 1 Green cloth over boards; white titles. Color photo illustrated jacket: people meeting. 61 p. 20 cm. Color artwork. Excerpts about developing friendships with others of diverse backgrounds, geography, and interests. Selections are from Norman Cousins, A.J. Cronin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and more, several reprinted from Reader's Digest and The Rotarian.

New York.: The John Day Company., 1946. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Slight spine fade. Otherwise near fine.. 1 293 p. Soft brushed light green cloth over boards. Black spine titles, front author initials. Selected Contents: James Joyce, Idiom. American Esthetic, English Esthetic, War-torn World, Biography and History, Russian Affairs, Poetry, Fiction.

Country Life Press, Garden City NY.: Doubleday, Doran & Company., 1939. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Minor sun fade to spine. Light corner bumps. Board separating at title page.. 1 485 p. Red cloth over boards. Blue spine titles, front embossed blind-stamped title, ornate border. Red top page block. Deckled outside page block. 22 cm. Anne Boleyn, 2nd of 6 successive wives to King Henry the 8th. His frustration was each wife was not successfully becoming pregnant with an heir. Setting: Medieval England.

New York.: Horace Liveright., 1929. First edition. "First Printing in America", April, 1929. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Spine ends damaged.. 1 Blue textured. cloth over boards. Front crest in red, gold. Minor fade to spine. 452 p. 23 cm. Includes B&W Illustrations. Red dye, top page block. Deckled outside page block. Enclosures: Book of the Month Club pamphlet. Another booklet: "Henry the Eighth and his wives", portraits ib B&W. Newspaper clippings. Includes index.

New York.: Pocket Books Giant Cardinal, 1963. First edition. 1st printing. "The Complete Book".. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine. Unmarked interior. Light cover surface blemishing.. 1 137 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Bust sculpture of author illustrates cover. Philosophy. Subtitle, "A famous scholar in the humanities explains the need for and worth of a classical education in the modern world". The Credo Series explored the search for meaning and inspiration in a world increasingly materialistic, conformist, abstract (from back cover).

Syracuse University Press, 1986. First edition. 2nd PB printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front top corner slight curl. Light erasure inside free end paper.. 1 Trade paperback (US). 249 p. B&W photos. Cover design in blues; Middle East design pattern. Notes w/ each section. Index. 1986: Intro by Haddad; 'Islam and Politics' / Eqbal Ahmad; 'Adaptation of Islam to Contemporary Economic Realities' / Charles Issawa; 'Islamic Education and Science: A Summary Appraisal' / Seyyed Hossein Nasr; 'Law in Islam' / John L Esposito; 'The Experience of Muslim Women: Considerations of Power and Authority' / Jane I Smith; 'Aspects of Mystic Thought in Islam' / Annemarie Schimmel; 'Contradiction and Consistency in Islamic Art' / Walter Denny; 'Unity and Variety in the Music of Islamic Culture' / Lois Ibsen al Faruqi; 'Muslims in the United States: An Overview of Organization, Doctrines, and Problems' / Akbar… Read More

Pownal VT.: Storey Communications / Garden Way Publishing., 1993. 5th printing.. Trade paperback. Fine.. Rich, Anna (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Horizontal format. 8.25x7.25in. 134 p. Index. Audience: General/trade. Cooking from a lands of generous, replenishing, sustainable Sugar Maple trees: Vermont and New Hampshire. Author Ken Haedrich had run a cooking column in Country Journal magazine, espousing simple, wholesome ingredients. "Maple Syrup Savvy", p.3-12, opens the several cook book recipe sections. For those wary of sugar content, he offers "Maple Savories--Some not-too-sweet temptations from the pan, oven, grill".

Random House., 1978. First edition. Stated first.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Several small black ink-stamped prior owner name markings. 1 Brown cloth over spine w/ gold titles. Tan blind-stamped paper over boards. 315 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. Handbook: ballistics and performance of popular commercial hunting loads (as of 1978), for varmints, small and big game. Advice: improving trajectory, range, effectiveness by handloading. Author had written for firearms and outdoors publications, serving as technical editor for some, and contributing editor to Gun Digest. His style is to make good common sense out of complicated ballistics theories.

Lenexa Kansas: Cookbook Publishers, 1981. Printer's code: 164-81.. Spiralbound. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 113 p. Color full page photos introducing sections. Yellow plastic spiral binding; author portrait (B&W) on front cover. Intermittent blank "Notes" pages. 2nd printing: Sept. 1981 (1st April 1981), 310 books each. Author, of Keene NH: "These recipes have been obtained from over 50 years of cooking for home, schools, stores, craft shows and individuals. They have been given to me by relatives, friends, Cooperative Extension and '4-H' clubs and other contributions and sources. "

Garden City NY.: Doubleday, Page & Company / The Country Life Press, 1912. Copyright 1911.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Dullness and some irregular staining to spine. Lower front spine corner shows short water staining inside, diminishing to page 52; no text compromise.. Michael, Arthur C (Frontispiece and 3 other color plates by).. 1 351 p. Includes illustrations. Red cloth over boards; RARE blind-stamped cover swan w/ bold gold stamped titles front; gold spine titles. Edge soiling, minor foxing. Tight binding. Novel of romance and adventure, 14th century French and English Wars. Author of the Allan Quartermain series with this volume sets the story against the background of the Black Plague. Frontispiece shows "The Vision of Murgh."

New York.: A. L. Burt Publishers., 1904. Copyright, 1903, --1904, by author; published October, 1904.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Reading copy in need of repairs to cover hinges. Small center chip to fabric spine.. Millar, H. R. (Pen&Ink Frontispiece by).. 1 Blue cloth blind-stamped cover design w/ large red titles. 411 p. 20 cm. Fiction by early 20th century author H Rider Haggard whose several serial tales were set in Africa. Other titles include "Ayesha", "King Solomon's Mines", "Allan Quartermain". 16 pages at back, publisher's catalogue contemporary to this volume, an excellent resource for collector's.

Oxford, England.: Oxford University Press., 1998. 1st Oxford World Classics paperback. Haggard copyright 1885.. Trade paperback. Very good. Slight surface blemishing. Light age-toning.. 1 First edition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Adventure fiction set in Africa: Explorer Allan Quartermain (fictional), Sir Henry Thomas, and Capt. John Good depart from South Africa to search for Henry's brother, last known looking for treasure at King Solomon's mines. Thrilling adventures follow.

New York.: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Co.. Early 20th century economy edition. No date.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Aged text paper: fragile. Damage to facing pages 30-31 near gutter: text unreadable up to 1 inch to border near spine. Front lower cover, sheen fading from old damp stain. Front board beginning to show.... 1 286 p. Blue-green decorated cloth over boards. Gold title box on spine. Cover art is black design framing floral graphic. 19cm. British youth tale by adventurer author H. Rider Haggard. This novel opens with a 13-year-old recently orphaned youth, proud and poor, learning some family recent history from his uncle. Reading copy.

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap., 1905. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name and date, first free end paper: "Leon Young, January 7, 1909" in pencil. Light corner wear. Minor blemishing.. Greiffenhagen, Maurice (sepia plates from art by). 1 Light blue-green thick-weave cloth over boards; Marron titles and line art frame. 359 p. 20 cm. Grayscale Frontispiece, and 3 Sepia Plates w/ artist's name incorporated. Fiction series set in northern Africa. "She-who-must-be-obeyed", as promised in a previous series edition, The Caves of Kor, She has returned. Ayesha, pronounced "Assha" as noted in the Author's Notes. The name is common in the east, and the prophet Mahomet had a wife of that name. He considers this the second part of a 2-part romance, the conclusion of "an imaginative tragedy". Lengthy introduction by an unnamed editor, explaining his/her surprise on learning that Ayesha and her beloved Leo Vincey were… Read More

London / New York.: Longmans, Green, and Co. / Printed in England., 1920. Reprint. 1st 1892; 1st Silver 1985; 7th Silver reprint.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner date 1925. End paper age-toning. Moderately darkened spine. Tight binding. Solid book. Slight spine end and corner wear.. Kerr, Charles (Grayscale art plates from work by).. 1 Gray cloth over boards. Gold and dark blue stamped titles, front border lines. 295 p. 19 cm. Copyright page small paste-on: "Made in Great Britain". Dedication dated 13 September, 1891, by author to Sir Theophilus Shepstone, K.C.M.G., Natal, addressed in the name African tribes from the Zambesi to Cape Agulhas knew Shepstone, "Sompseu" over 50 years. In his Preface, Haggard writes this novel is "beyond that of the setting out of a wild tale of savage life". He writes of a time when Chaka rose to miltary power among the Zulu nation, a time when he slaughtered more than 1 million humans until… Read More

New York.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1914. First edition, February, 1914; Reprinted March, 1914, this one.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Sturdy; clean interior w/ a few light penciled numeric notes inside cover. MInor page block soiling. Slight edge wear. Slight spine darkening. Small blotchy patch, front.. Michael, A C (Illustrated plates by).. 1 341 p. Includes illustrations. Red cloth over boards. Stamped gold titles within shield, front and spine. Blind-stamped edge border. Color frontispiece, 3 grayscale plates. Fantasy novel set in prehistoric to 9th century: Aar (Scandinavia) where Olaf is betrothed and later fights with Odin; Byzantium where Irene is Empress of the Earth, and Olaf uses his sword again, and is tried; Egypt ruled by Haroun-al-Rashid. The narrative is not intended to be consecutive in events, leaving much out to advance the tale.

Comet Books by arrangement w/ Morrow., 1949. First edition. 1st Comet.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Shilstone, Arthur (Illustrations by).. 1 244p. 20 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Pictorial color cover: 2 youths shooting rapids in canoe; Originally published 1943. Cover promo: "Two boys battle cougars and crooks in the Northwest wilderness". Boy is trapper and hero when rescuing friend who cut his foot using an ax.