Search Results: Authors starting with H from Chartwell Booksellers

London: Steely Service & Co. Limited, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (259p., color frontispiece, 24 plates of many weapons, 48 text drawings, index.). Imperial Services Library, Volume V.” A good reference, from medieval times to the last of the breech-loaders. A very goood copy, corners slightly frayed, spine head & tail slightly worn, without dust jacket.

United Kingdom: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1951. First English Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (280 pages; 21 black and white illustrations; one fold-out map). This is a very good copy of the First English edition in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. The jacket is chipped and worn along the edges and folds, head and tail of the spine; else fine. There is very light foxing to the fore ediges; contents fine.

Edinburgh, Scotland: W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1908. First Scottish Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (50p., frontispiece, 2 facsimiles, notes, appendices, index.). The court martial of Pvt. McNeill for the murder of Ensigne James Grant at the Ruthven Barracks. A very good copy, corners lightly worn, endpapers browned, owner’s name stamped on front free endpaper, published without dust jacket.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. First American Edition Esp. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (315 pages, chronology, glossary, index.). An “expose of widespread communist infiltration,” not atypical for 1955 but rather reactionary nonetheless, that claims to situate major communist personalities in their proper context of a world wide secret network. A very good copy, light wear to spine, owner’s name on front free end paper, in chipped & worn dust jacket.

London: Cassell and Co., 2001. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. A good overview of the aims, planning and execution of the attack, by a prominent historian of the Pacific war. A very good copy, spine head & tail slightly bumped, in dust jacket with slightly worn edges & worn corners. (208p., profuse illus. [much color], many double-page maps & diagrams, sources, index.)

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1929. First English Edition/2nd Impression . Hardcover in Dust Jackets. Very Good. 8vo. A very good set, without dust jackets. Very slight bubbling to cloth of Volume I front board.

New York: American Flange & Manufacturing, 1945. Third Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (Unpaginated, with illustrations by the author). The wartime importance of gasoline drum closures. A good copy.

New York: The Modern Library , 1958. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (180 pages). A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with very minor soiling to the rear panel. A former owner’s name and date are on the front free endpaper in ink. The contents are fine, virtually mint.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (238p., glossary, map end papers). One of the best first hand accounts; much on the the gradual “discovery” of radiation sickness. A very good copy, in a dust jacket whose spine corners exhibit slight wear. Contents fine.

New York: Rizzoli, 1999. First Edition . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo (152 pages). As-new, in wraps.

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. First English Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (479 pages, 11 photogravure illustrations, appendices, index). Biography of James III (1688-1766) sometimes called “The Old Pretender,” son of the English King James II and father of “Bonnie Prince Charlie” (Charles II). A good copy, covers scuffed & slightly soiled, spine faded & soiled, corners a bit frayed, index & rear endpapers dampstained in margin, inscription & bookplate on front paste-down, issued without dust jacket, gilt top edge and decoration on boards and spine.

New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich, Publishers, 1982. FIrst American Edition aa. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (304 pages). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Israeli Druse; served in Israeli Army; reporter for TV Israel. Condemns both Israeli oppression and PLO terrorism.

Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1919. First Scottish Edition thus . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo. A chapter reprinted from Herbert Maxwell’s 1918 “Lowland Scots Regiments ... “ Reading copy, front cover detached. (42p., notes.)

London: Hugh Rees, Limited, 1904. First English Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (284 pages, 2 folding maps, 1 in rear pocket). The Franco-Prussian War. One in the superb “Pall Mall Military Series.” Ex-library reading copy, issued without dust jacket.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (240 pages). As-new, in publisher’s shrink wrap.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (298 pages, illustrated with photographs). A truly memorable anthology, chock full of rich recollections elegantly expressed by an astonishment of brilliant public figures, ranging from Isaiah Berlin and Harold Macmillan to Oscar Levant and Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis. This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in a price-clipped dust jacket, with fractional edge losses along the rear face. The contents are fine.

Wash. DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. First American Edition Intrepid. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (323 pages; illustrated with photographs). This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket.

(Chicago): Our Possessions Publishing Co., 1899. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. A paean to Victor of Manila, Spanish-American War, by the Historian of the Philippine Expedition. Reading copy, issued without dust jacket. (468 pages, 87 plates [1 color flag.])

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (376 pages, 355 color and black & white plates). As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap.

London: Published by the Author, 1934. First Thus . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo (64 pages, with three appendices, illustrated with 70 photographs, 3 maps and 8 thumbnail sketches. 720 members of the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association sailed aboard the Canadian Pacific liner, The Duchess of Richmond, on a Gallipoli Revisited cruise in 1934. This book is a firsthand account of that event. It is in virtually mint condition and is SIGNED, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper.