Search Results: Authors starting with H from Pages Past Books

no dj Illus by author Travel Gera-Untermhaus Koehler 1905 1st Hardbound Folio Collection of tropical views of Ceylon and Indonesia from the art of naturalist and painter Ernst Haeckel. Cloth pictorial portfolio holds 40 color plates measuring approximately 14 3/4" x 11" plus sheets of descriptive text with b+w illustrations. There are also 2 four page folded title and descriptive sheets at the beginning. Missing is plate # 39. The binding has edgewear with splitting to cloth spine and borders and light edgewear to the color pictorial front cover and rear cover. The sheets and plates are in EX condition; the portfolio is Good. Text is in German.

VG/VG condition Simon&Schuster NY 1955 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 274 pages, index, note on sources, epilogue. Dustjacket price clipped. Light general agewear; solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

Good Madeleine Lemaire illus Dodd Mead NY 1895 hardcover 12mo, 202 pages, b+w illsutrations by Lemaire. Names inked inside front cover. Name and 1895 date inked front endpaper. 2 small spots on front cover. Light rubbing/soiling. Solid copy.

VG+/VG Jennifer Kent illus Holt Rinehart Winston NY 1961 1st hardcover 8vo, 141 pages, b+w illustrations. The adventures of 2 Ojibway Indian boys at the Calgary stampede. Dustjacket price clipped. Solid clean copy with dj in protective cover.

VG/no dustjacket Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis (1927) reprint hardcover 8vo, 354 pages, b+w photos and illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Author follows the route of Ulysses. 2 small spots botoom of frontis and title page. Nice solid clean copy with bright titling.

Good/no dustjacket Garden City Publ Garden city (1925) reprint hardcover 8vo, 399 pages, b+w photos, map endpapers. Probably 1930s reprint. Small stain at upper right edge of some pages. Light general agewear. Solid and clean.

VG/VG condition Books, Inc. NY 1946 2nd printing hardcover 8vo, 222 pages. A Michael Shane Mystery set in an old Colorado mining town. Light agewear. Solid clean copy in Brodart protective copy.

VG James Pott NY 1901 2nd impr hardcover 8vo, 302 pages, 18 illustrations, decorated binding, top edge gilt, index. Chapters on 22 authors including John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, George W Cable, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Nelson Page, TW Higginson, Ernest Seton-Thompson, etc. Nice decorated binding with bright gilt.

VG/G, Good dj Personnel Management Harper & Brothers New York 1951 1st Hardbound 8vo, 361 pp, 120 charts, graphs and sample forms, index Name inked at top inside front cover. Dustjacket with light edgewear and soiling. Solid with dj in protective cover.

Good+ condition Katharine M Roberts illus John Lane, the Bodley Head London 1903 hardcover 8vo, 333 pages + ads, b+w illustrations by Roberts, pictorial cover and gilt titling. Pencilling and blue markings inside front cover. Light agewear, a little color loss at spine. Solid, otherwise clean copy.

VG-/VG- Emerson NY 1968 5th ptg hardcoverf 8vo, 175 pages, b+w illustrations, index, appendix. Front endpaper clipped at upper right corner. Light dustjacket rubbing. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

Near Fine/Near Fine various artist/illustrators Portland House NY 1988 1st hardcover 4to, 448 pages, 900 illus, 450 in color, index. Complete lessons in creating figures, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Clean solid and bright.

Good+ Whittaker & Co. London 1848 hardcover 8vo, 332 pages, 12 handcolored floral plates, index. Full year bound in green cloth with embossed floral design front and rear and gilt spine titling and decoration. Shallow chipping to spine cloth at head. Inside front hinge paper cracked but solid. Light random foxing. Solid and clean with color still vibrant in the hand colored plates.

Good+/Good+ condition William Morrow NY 1954 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 342 pages, index, bibliography. An appraisal of the conservative role in American politics from Hamilton to Eisenhower. Some color loss to blue binding. Light edgewear to dustjacket. Solid clean copy.

VG+/VG, VG dj Education Teachers College Press New York 1969 1st Hardbound 8vo, 354 pp, index, bibliography, appendix "How the outworn classroom system cripples our schools and cheats our children, and how to replace it." Light dustjacket rubbing, solid and clean.

Near Fine book; Near Fine dustjacket (priceclipped) G.P. Putnam's Sons NY 1971 1st American hardcover 4to, 128 pages, index, color and b+w illustrations, reading list. The revolution of English society during the 1800's from a primarily agricultural to an industrial, financial and territorial empire with a growing and vocal middle class. Gift inscription front endpaper.

VG+/VG+ North Country Books Sylvan Beach 1980 2nd ptg hardcover Large 8vo, 310 pages, bibliography, appendices, b+w photos, maps. Christmas gift inscription on front endpaper. Solid clean copy with dustjacket bright in protective cover.

Fair+, no dj Various illustrators Clowns Joseph Lawren New York 1924 1st Review Hardbound 4to, unpaginated, color frontis and b+w illustrations, bibliography Monograph on clowns with many illustrations including tipped in. Review copy. Front cover soiled; cover paste on dampstained, spine paper chipped; front endpaper loose. Interior clean and solid.

Good condition E.H. Austin illus James W Hatch Kinderhook 1956 1st edition hardcover 4to, 55+ pages, color illustrations by Austin, color pictorial boards. One page with some ink scribbling and a 3" closed tear at top of page. Front cover with some scribbling near top. Still, a solid otherwise clean copy.

Good+ Hurd & Houghton NY 1869 2nd hardcover 8vo, 492 pp. Light cover rubbing; shallow chipping to spine cloth at head. Solid and clean.