Search Results: Authors starting with H from Johnson's Used Books

NY, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1924, 4 vols. Complete, 1st editions, dark blue hardcovers, leatherette cloth, 7-1/2""x10-5/8"", set appears unread, mild occasional rubs/bumps to cover extremities, binding and text are bright, slight age-browning to text block edges, bindings sound and square, inner hinges sound and tight and uncracked, lots of ills., vols. 1 and 2 are the general history, and paginated consecutively thru pg1172; vols. 3 and 4 are the biographical section and are also paginated consecutively, from pg 1 thru pg 484. Note that the page count for the biographical section is seemingly rather low, but there are a large number of full-page portrait ills. that are blank on 1 side and these leaves are not paginated. The pages facing the portraits have offset age-toning from the paper stock of the portraits. Shipping weight 18 lbs, no DJs I believe as issued

NY, Eugenics Pub. Co., copy. 1937, authorized ed, hardcover, red cloth, very good except very mild even age toning to the text, endpapers more age-toned than the text, mild rubs/bumps to cover extremities, 5""x7-1/2"", 181pp, no dj

NY, John F. Trow, 1862, reprint, blue embossed cloth hardcover, double frontispiece of the author and the New York Institution for the Blind. Good sound square tight copy, mild wear to cover extremities, very old unobtrusive dampmarks on top edges of the pages of the first half of the book, previous owner name/address stamped on the free front endpaper and the title page, 4-1/2""x7-3/4"", 191 pages. Author states in the preface that she went blind and lost her husband in the same month, and that she is publishing her letters and thoughts as a means of supporting herself. bixx

Worcester MA, Blanchard, 1887, 1st edition, stiff gray wrappers, original softcover, slight sunning/toning, otherwise fine, 5-5/8""x8-1/2"", 15pp. raxx rxx

Phila PA, Jewish Publ. Soc. Of America, 1914 copy. 1914, 1st ed HC, olive green cloth hardcover, orig. owner's small ink signature inside front cover, otherwise unmarked, minor rubs/bumps to cover extremities, minor very unobtrusive silverfish marks on front cover and spine edges (no cloth fraying or tearing), 258pp, No DJ text is moderately and evenly age-toned, 347pp, 5""x8-1/4"", gilt titling, nice clean copy, no dust jacket, shipping weight 3 lbs

published by Prentice-Hall's International Series in Applied Mathematics, 1966, first edition. This 251 page hardback book is bound in light and dark gray cloth and is in near fine condition with a very good slightly shelfworn dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped inside front cover.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1955, 1st UK edition hardcover, dark blue cloth, hardcover, good to very good, moderate rubs/bumps to cover extremities, gift inscription on free front endpaper top outer corner mentioning where he found the book, faint red name/address sticker near the inscription, photo ills in black and white, no dj, 5-3/4""x9-1/2"", 100pp, scarce

NY, Redfield, 1856 (2nd printing…the first was 1855, brown embossed cloth, both volumes good sound square and tight, complete except there are no tissue guards for the frontis of either volume (there is a very slight stub suggesting that there was a tissue guard on vol. 1 frontis), there are 2 foldout maps, 1 in each vol. at the rear, and 5 ills. between the 2 volumes, one foldout facsimile letter. The map in volume one is slightly nicked on borders that extended out from the text block, all plates/maps are present and in decent condition. Howes Y10, 482 + 576pp, the signature in front for volume one is pulling and somewhat loose, and the text of volume one is evenly age toned and much less bright than the text for volume two. Vol. 2 has occasional foxing with age-toned endpapers, inner hinges sound and uncracked, moderate wear and bumps to cover extremities with volume one have a half-inch cloth hole over the front outer hinge 1-1/2"" from the top and vol. 2 has two 3/8"" holes in cloth over each of… Read More

Text in German, Hittite mountain gods and Hurrian stone demons, Rites, Kults and Myths, Pub Mainze a.R., Germany, 1982, pub. Philipp von Zabern, melon hardcover, nice quality, fine, fine dj, ill., some in color, 6""x9-1/8"", 258pp, shipping weight 3 lbs, no previous owner name or marks, gift quality/condition,

profusely embellished with copperplate etchings and line drawings, new edition, 1916, publisher and place not given, green cloth with gilt and red emblem, lettering and decor, fair sound tight copy, mild wear to extremities, mild age toning and light ink gift inscription on endpapers, 6-3/4""x9-1/4"", no dust jacket. Quite scarce.

Clarendon Pr, Oxford UK, 1974, 1st UK ed, navy blue cloth hardcover, good, endpapers slightly age-toned, otherwise a bright copy, pages are slightly rippled/wavy, near fine dj, 5-1/4""x8-5/8"", 326pp

Evanston IL, Northwestern Univ. Press, copy. 1989, 1st edition hardcover, solid gray cloth, near fine unmarked perhaps unread copy, good mild edge-rubbed dust jacket, 6""x9-1/4"", 290pp

published by Abrams, NY, copyright, 1965 in Germany by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 77 page. This hardback book is bound in grey gweed cloth boards and is in very good condition with a good but somewhat soiled dust jacket. No previous owner's name or marginalia. 42 illustrations including 12 in full color.

LA CA, univ of S. CA Press, 1960, 1st edition, Allan Hancock Foundation Pacific Expeditions Vol. 24, stiff tan wrappers, very good except covers are moderate sunned and edge-rubbed, with title/author in small ink lettering by hand on the spine, and small ink previous owner name on front cover at top, 440pp, 6""x9-1/4"", 41 full page black and white plates in rear, color frontis plate of a crab, a very nice copy, very technical, and scarce, shipping weight over 3 lbs

Westchester PA, Edward P. James, 1860, 1st edition hardcover, full calf leather, fair but sound attractive copy, mild rubs/scuffs to cover extremities, title sticker is gone from spine, about 1/2"" of leather chipped away at the base of the spine, binding is solid but inner hinges are starting to crack (but covers are not pulling or threatening to come loose), 4-5/8""x7-3/8"", 418pp, 4-5/8""x7-1/4"". An easy repair job for a bookbinder

Dayton OH, Otterbein Press, 1921, 1st edition hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering, a number of full-page photo ills., 142pp, good to very good, mild rubs/bumps to cover extremities, no previous owner name or marks, 5""x7-1/2"", inner hinges sound and uncracked, no dj, decent copy, scarce

2nd edition 2nd printing stated, NY, 1988, Pioneer Books quality paperback, glossy stiff covers, very good with just a very slight crease on front cover and very minor nick on top corner rear spine, clean and unmarked, no dust jacket, 8-3/8""x10-7/8"", 365 pages plus ads. paxx

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1955, edition not stated, not a bookclub edition, hardcover, slight age-toning to the text, old minor superficial dampmark on bottom inner edges of both covers, fair serviceable dust jacket that has offset dampmarks coinciding with the covers, otherwise the book is very good, small discreet original owner's bookplate inside front cover, 274pp, 5-3/8""x8-1/4"", still a decent copy

NY, Hyperion, 2007, coded and stated 1st edition/printing, hardcover, photo pictorial covers, near fine square tight unmarked copy, 6-1/2""x9-1/2"", 719pp, slight rubs to cover extremities, shipping weight over 4 lbs

Princeton NJ, Princeton Univ Press, 2007, coded 1st edition/printing, hardcover, appears unread, solid tan cloth, fine square tight unmarked copy, gift quality and condition, 6-1/4""x9-1/2"", 200pp, fine dust jacket