Search Results: Titles starting with H from Glenn Books

Kansas City: Privately Printed, 1931. Paper label front cover. Area of staining lower front cover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.Limited to 125 copies. 81 bibliographical listings followed by a chronology from 1801-1931. Hahatonka is a state park on the Niagua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. 30pp.. First Edition. Blue Wrappers. Edges Sunned./No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. Illustrations by Reinord Von Whitt-Pritchette. Printed for the Signed First Edition Society. Some light scratching to gilt edge at bottom and fore-edge. 566pp. + maps at the end. . Signed by Author. Signed First Edition. Full Light Brown Leather. Nearly Fine/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

Washington Government Ptg Office 1941. In wrappers. Minor soiling. Charts and diagrams throughout..

Kansas City: University Trustees, 1973. Two volumes housed in a slipcase showing only minor rubbing. Volume 1 is entitled, "Art of the Occident" and Volume 2, "Art of the Orient". This is a presentation copy marking the fortieth anniversary of the gallery. Both volumes are replete with photographs and descriptions. 264-168pp.. Fifth Edition. Printed Wrappers. Nearly Fine.. Quarto.

Cavnovia, WI: W. Cattanach Rod Company, 1992. A 242pp. manual on building bamboo fly rods. Photos and drawings through the text. A very crisp and clean copy. Fifteen chapters in all. A fine addition to the fisherman's library!. First Edition. White Cover, Three-ring Binder. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927. Author makes a number of unsubstantiated claims; personal acquaintance with most outlaws, saving Billy the Kid's life. Fifteen full-page black and white illustrations. "As told by Fred E. Sutton". See Six-Guns 2171. 303pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

New London, CT (?): By Author, 1811. Covers worn, old label front cover. This arithmetic ledger book is hand-written in a neat cursive form. Eighty-four pages in length. There is no title-page as such. Begins with sections on simple addition, subtraction with exaqmples and rules. Later sections on weights and measures, decimals, and more. We found a date of May 1811 in one of the exercises and the town of New London. This cypher book was probably a teaching tool for a mathematics instructor or a copy book by an advanced student. We have found several similar cypher books from the period. A well-preserved example. See photos.. First Edition. Marble-paper Boards. General Cover Wear/No Jacket. 13 1/4" x 8".

Fife House, London, 1816. This hand-written note has been backed for preservation and display at some point in the past. It reads, "Lord Liverpool presents his compliuments to Lord Strathmore and begs to return his thanks for the Proxy which his Lordship has been so good as to send him. Fife House, May 20th, 1816" Robert Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool lived from 1770-1828. He was a Tory statesman who served as British Prime Minister from 1812-1827. Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Strathmore, the 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was a Scottish nobleman and peer who lived from 1773-1846. Lord Liverpool bought Fife House in 1809. It became the home of his brother at time of his death in 1828, was demolished in 1869. . Papedre Note. Light Peripheral Toning. 4 1/2" x 7".

Kansas City The Lowell Press (1980). Near fine in like dust jacket. A fine collection of short stories of hunting, fishing, field trips, camping. Warm inscription SIGNED and DATED by the author on the front flyleaf. Illustrated throughout by BERNARD MARTIN. Mr. Heady was the Outdoor Editor of the Kansas City Star from 1958-1973. First edition..

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1960. Owner signature in ink on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt. Very clean copy throughout. This is Volume 58 in the Lakeside Classics library published for Christmas, 1960. The original edition was published in 1888 by George M. Smith and Company. Chapters in enlisting, life in tents and log huts, army rations, punishments, foraging, the Army mule, and much more. Illustrated through the text. 483pp.. Lakeside Classics Edition. Dark Blue Cloth. Almost No Wear./No Jacket.. Duodecimo.

Scranton, PA: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, 1933. Gilt spine lettering. Embossed front cover. All edges dyed blue. Title continues; "The charm or beautiful clothes, good taste in dress, dress foundations, line in figure and dress, fabrics..., color.., good taste in millinert, planning a wardrobe". Illustrated thrtoughout in black and white, several color charts. A well-preserved manual for the seamstress, clothier. Each chapter with its own pagination.. Later Edition. Black Textured Cloth. Very Light Edge Wear Only/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1871 1/2 Leather, Marbled Boards. Moderate Edge Wear. First. Quarto. This is Volume 42, the December 1870 to May 1871 issue. Illustrated in black and white. Internally quite clean. Minor damp staining at bottom of free edge on several pages..

London: Hutchinson and Company ., 1927. Spine lettered in gilt. Covers lightly soiled. Some foxing of title-page. Front endpapers replaced. Otherwise rather clean throughout the text. Four full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece. Errata slip present. 287pp.. First Edition. Deep Red Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Medium Crown Octavo.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Marbled boards. Top edges gilt. Red ribbon bookmarks. Owner's book-plate on front pastedowns. Some staining at paper-leather interface endpapers from leather dye. Spines sunned to light brown. A clean and crisp copy. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was a Victorial English novelist and civil servant. This book was first publisged serially in 1868-69 and came out in book form in 1869. A pleasing set, a companion binding to our #015439. Volumes 1028-30 in the Tauchnitz "Collection of British Authors". . Copyright Edition. Half Brown-green Leather. Minor Edge and Corner Wear Onl/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. All edges are gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. A copy of Collector's Notes is laid-in. Frontispiece color illustration by Frank Kelly Freas. First published in 1988, tyhe book won the Nebula Award. 303pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Deep Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Harper and Brothers ., 1874. TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Front cover vignette in gilt.Spines lettered in gilt. Previous owner's name stamp both volumes. Covers are mottled. Spine extremities are frayed. Frontispiece illustrations both volumes with tissue-guards. Underlining and marginal notes in pencil through both volumes (they have been read!). Full-page and text illustrations throughout both volumes. MISSING THE FOLDING MAP IN VOLUME 1. Map in Volume 2 is present. 559-521pp. A very good reading copy priced accordingly.. First Edition. Wine Cloth. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Dust Jackets. Demi Octavo.

New York: Harper and Row, 1965. "Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures by Maurice Sendak." Top rear corner slightly bumped. Bottom edge of front and rear cover with minor nick. Dust jacket front blurb shows price of $4.95 with three-paragraphs about the book, 40-80 and 1165 at bottom. Rear blurb has 15 lines about the author. Hanraham A65 criteria for first edition are met except for the price (first state priced at $4.25). A very clean copy throughout. Unpaginated.. First Edition, Early Issue. Color Pictorial Boards. Monor Corner and edge Wear Onl/Light Wear at Corners. Oblong Octavo.

Munchen: Josef Weisz, 1952. Limited to 125 copies, this is number 33. SIGNED by the artist. This is an unbound copy with twenty-five woodcuts of animals. The title translates to "Cheerful Animal Book with 25 Woodcuts". Josef Weisz (1894-1969) was a Munich-born artist. He was known as a book illustrator, having created the plates for Goethe's "Faust" in the 1930's. He served combat duty during World War Two and produced a "War Sketchbook", an art portfolio with 195 drawings from Russia, France, and Belgium. He dealt primarily with portrayal of plants through his career, but in the 1950's began drawing scenes from the animal world. . Limited Edition. Unbound. Fine.. Quarto.

Canyon, Texas: Panhandle Plains Historical Society., 1949. Printed by Carl Herzog, El Paso, Texas. Illustrated by H.D. Bugbee. One of Dykes' "High Points of Western Illustrating (Dykes 76). The book and dust jacket are as crisp and clean as you will ever find, essentially as new. 35pp. See also Herd 962.. First Edition.. Brick Cloth. Fine./Fine. Quarto.

Lawrence University of Kansas 1960. A fine copy in a tape repaired dust wrapper. A wealth of history about Kansas from a variety of authors from Samuel Clemens to Elizabeth Custer and William Allen White. First edition..