Search Results: Authors starting with H from Abacus Books

New York: International Cocktail, Wine and Spirits Digest, Inc., 1945. Wraps. Near fine. Small soft cover in pictorial red wraps with silver title and illustration to front, spine and back. 144 pages with photographs and other illustrations. An extensive list of cocktail recipes along with advice for the professional barman on related topics including glassware, measures, bar implements, mixers, courtesy and cleanliness etc. from the author, who was the founder and President of the International Bar Manager's Association.Near fine with a tight binding.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. Hardcover. Very good. Fifth edition. 8vo. [xxxii] 459pp. 4 pages advertisements. Complete with twelve plates. Gilt design and lettering on cloth. Decorative endpapers. Top edge gilt.Very good condition. Clean and unmarked. A few pages unopened. Light wear to spine ends.

Adak: Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, 1944. First Edition. Very good. Sgt. Harry Fletcher. Oblong 8vo in stapled wraps. 24pp. Illustrated with maps and drawings. Slight wear to edges otherwise very good throughout.

Pre-Publication Edition For the Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Presented to Delegates and Guests at the Fourteenth Biennial Convention May 15, 9144. Hardcover. Black publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo [xxx] 367pp. with b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked. Cover shows light shelf wear with a little rubbing to back and spine faded.Published in support of Roosevelt's 1944 election campaign, which saw him win an unprecedented fourth term and to die three months later.

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Yellow cloth spine over black boards. B/W images from the inimitable Weegee.Book in very good condition. Unmarked with light shelf wear to covers. No dust jacket.

Tall quarto. Grey cloth over boards with pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated but 92pp. With the photographer's signed inscription to the title page. Dear Marilyn- / to share with you this small / measure of my life's / meaning / /with affection / Dave / May Day 1968.Very good condition throughout. Dust jacket shows some distress with closed tears to edges and small loss to bottom of spine along with some discoloration."A Dialogue With Solitude, an incomparable book that James Borcoman, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Canada, has described as the most important book by a photographer to appear in the 1960's. A Dialogue With Solitude was the product of more than a decade of personal exploration in photographic self-expression and the resolution of Heath's creative search to enunciate his statement in the visually poetic form of sequence." - Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Hard cover. Green cloth with black title to spine. Octavo. 174 pages and 10 full page b/w plates of extraordinary illustrations by Wallace Smith. "Limited edition for private circulation only, consisting of two thousand and twenty five numbered copies. Only two thousand copies for sale. Published September 1922." This copy marked number 1, and appears to be from a second print run. No dust jacket (if issued). name to top of front free end paper. Very good.
A novel of decadence and mystic existentialism, Fantazius Mallare is a story of a mad recluse—a genius sculptor and painter who is at war with reason. Rather than commit suicide, his doting madness dictates that he must revolt against all evidence of life that exists outside himself. He destroys all of his work and then seeks out a woman who will devote herself to his Omnipotence. What follows is a glorious trek into a horrifying enlightening insanity.
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Slim 12 mo. Unpaginated. Green cloth over boards with red initial and black lettering to front cover. A volume of poetry with b/w illustrations throughout. Bookplate of Frank Earle Hayward to the front fixed end paper and another smaller "property of " label of his to the front free end paper. Mr. Hayward had considerable connections to the revolutionary era-- he was a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and apparently of the Order of Washington, where he was the Deputy Vice-Commander-General for the state of New York. He was also a member of the Bibliophile Society of Boston. A copy of this bookplate resides in the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.

First edition. Soft cover in duo-tone wraps. Octavo. 65pp. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Very good.

Hard cover. Publishers cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small Octavo. [viii] 304 pages with 165 musical illustrations and four b/w photographic plates. Some light shelf wear to covers and spine ends. Very good.
Scriabin was an innovator as well as one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, "no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed."