Search Results: Titles starting with H from Goldring Books

London: Jupiter, 1977. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. A large format volume of 176 pages. 118 illustrations. The films of H.G. Wells have kept audiences spellbound, from Charles Pathe's first production of The Invisible Man, retitled The Invisible Thief, in 1909, to the latest all star cast spectacles. Here is an unparalleled opportunity to sample the films and to relive through many vivid scenes and dramatic moments portrayed here, the imaginative fantasies of the master of science fiction. A1F. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Japan: Fuso Publishing, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 272 pages Fully colour illustrated. Page marker bound in. The Hakone museum was opened in 1981 and the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara opened in 1991. The book shows the important sculptures and paintings exhibited by Japanese and Western artists. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a very minor indentation to top edge and age darkening to closed edges with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. This is the first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties to the sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy. 332 pages. Conception and selection with preface by Thomas M. Messer. Comprises: I - French Cubism; Italian Futurism; Related Directions in Painting and Sculpture; II - The Emergence of Abstraction; Suprematism; Constructivism; Neo-Plasticism; Other Reductivist Tendencies; III - Modes of Fantasy; Metaphysical Painting; Dada; Surrealism; IV - American Art Since the 1930's; V - Interntional Postwar Art; Checklist of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.05 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1F. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a minor bump to front corner tip and a small shelf mark to lower closed edge). Dustjacket has a little creasing and VG+. xiv + 803 pages. Expansive in its coverage, the book presents material on crime and punishment trends as well as timely policy issues. The latest research on the demography of crime (race, gender, drug use) is included, and weighty current problems (organized crime, white collar crime, family violence, sex offenders, youth gangs, drug abuse policy) are examined. Processes and institutions that deal with accused and convicted criminals and techniques are also investigated. While some articles emphasize American research findings and developments, others incorporate international research and offer a comparative perspective from other English speaking countries and Western Europe. All of the 28 articles are by experts in their field. A definitive refernce work on criminal justice and criminology.… Read More

London: Viking, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Printed on yellow paper. With the 'positive revolution' there are no enemies, but there can be just as much energy and direction. The weapons are perception and values - human behaviour has too often been shaped by guilt and negativity - it is time to lift this dark cloud and that is why the yellow of sunshine is the symbolic colour of the positive revolution. The hand is the symbol of the positive revolution - the thumb stands for effectiveness; the index finger points the constructive direction; the middle, and longest finger, represents respect and human values; the third finger stands for self-improvement; the little finger indicates a contribution that may be small but will gradually build. **** NOT EX LIB **** 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Max Reinhardt, 1955. Dilver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally thre is an inscription to front endpaper, some light foxing to closed edges and a little to endpapers else clean and unmarked. Coloured pictorial dustjacket has some chipping at head of spine and is price clipped. A detective fiction and suspense novel by the American writer, featuring a continental rogue, bodies in the shrubbery, blondes, a brunette bound for Barbados, and a collection of thugs in a nightclub. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Century, 1993. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price-clipped. A large format volume of 192 pages. Illustrated throughout with photogrphs principally by Mostafa Hammuri. The story of Hannah Hauxwell, the legendary spinster lady from the Yorkshire Dales, has enthralled the nation for more than two decades. Until 1991, she had barely set foot outside her native county. But now, following her celebrated debut in Innocent Abroad, when she did the Grand tour of Europe, Hannah has sailed on the QE2 from Southampton to the USA. She meets many characters there and this literary endeavour contains once again all the magic of Hannah as she delivers her descriptions and opinions. 12. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. A near Fine copy with small inscription to half title page with complete dustjacket. It was with great reluctance that the author abandoned the idea of taking elephants in order to follow the path of his hero, the great Carthaginian enemy of Rome, from the Camargue via the Rhone Valley, across the Alps and into Italy, Bernard Levin settled on his own two feet. Map of Hannibals journey to endpapers and illustrated by colour photographs. **** NOT EX LIB *** B2F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: John Calder, 1983. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a gentle indentation to front board edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 280 pages. 44 illustrations. Foreword by Sir Georg Solti. This sympathetic biography of a man who has dominated the post-war operatic scene like few others reveals a remarkable personality and supreme artist - the outstanding Wotan of his time in Wagner's Ring Cycle, the ideal portrayer of so many roles on the stage and distinguished interpreter of lieder and concert music on the platform. **** NOT EX LIB **** L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1975. Black title on grey boards which are clean and unmarked with a touch of wear to top of spine and a small dent to bottom. Internally clean and unmarked. Dustjacket with coloured photgraph of author is price clipped with a small closed tear to top. Foreword by Corrie ten Boom. The author 'Hansi' embraced Nazism when she was a teenager but at the end of the war her world lay in ruins, destroyed by the man she worshipped as a god. The true God led her to the New World and directed her to make a new life and to find the meaning of Jesus. C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946. Gold title on green cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to closed edges, endpapers and the odd mark to some page margins else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket and by C.F. Tunnicliffe is also Very Good wih some light spots of foxing to reverse and is price clipped. Second edition (first was 1939 and not illustrated). Illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. The book is the story of Mark Thurston, an Essex farm-hand now 80 years old, and his efforts to wrest a living for himself and his family in the days when farm wages were only a few shillings a week. The story starts in his boyhood and is told mainly in his own words, the natural and forcible vocabulary of a man who, however unlettered, has nevertheless an ability to put a scene and a state of mind before you. The background is amplified by C. Henry Warren, whose knowledge of that particular countryside is unrivalled, but the story is Mark's… Read More

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION. 275 pages. 21 plates, endpapers and 8 sketches by E.H. New circa 1900 and 19 maps and plans including one large fold out map (which is in Fine condition). This is the first comprehensive survey of the Thomas Hardy country to be published for over 50 years. It is a completely new ppreciation based on a fresh study of the evidence to be found in Hardy's works and onextensive research among diaries, letters, estate records and topographical writings, backed up by the author's own examination of every site and his questioning of local inhabitants, especially the old. 1. First. Hr. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Doubleday, 1994. A Very Good unmarked copy with some minor very small bump to lower edge with VG non price clipped dustjacket which has light crease to back. The discovery of a large flattened circle in her father's Ten Acre wheatfield begins an incredible summer for Harriet, for the circle has been made by a space ship from the far off planet Pars and marks the arrival of someone special, Wiz, an alien who has come to spend his holidays on Earth in the form of a talking hare. Not only can Harriet's new friend speak any language and transform himself into any shape, from hedgehog to a cow, he also has wonderful plans for Harriet. Delightfully illustrated by Valerie Littlewood. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Littlewood, Valeri. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Midhurst, West Sussex: Middleton Press, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy in thick laminated pictorial boards. 120 photographs and other illustrations. A fleet of 65 four wheeled tramcars once climbed the steep hills inland and ran along eight miles of seafront, serving residents and holidaymakers. These are illustrated in many busy streets, on the elegant promenades and on peaceful Wealden country roads, and provide a fascinating insight into bygone Hastings. 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska Press, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions. xi + 241 pages. The American First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross burning. No other country in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the history of the hate speech controversy in the United States. Professor Walker examines the issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in he 1920's and American Nazi groups in the 1930's, to the famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990's. He argues that the civil rights movement played a central role in developing America's strong free speech tradition. The courts were very concerned about protecting the provocative and even offensive forms of expression by civil rights forces. Civil rights groups, therefore, preferred to protect rather than… Read More

London: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First published in 1976 under the title 'Hammersleigh' and under the name Rosemary Ellerbeck. The author's novel is one of frightening suspense and psychic force, as Karen Blackwood returns to her family home, Hammersleigh, after the death of her husband and with powerful but misleading memories to guide her, she begins a new life discovering that she has very unusual artistic talents. She meets the master of the Fullerton estate, where at the ruins of Oldham Abbey nearby, she sees the figure of a woman who disappears into the mist, later to reappear in her paintings. A bereaved widow's imagination or a bizarre case of reincarnation? **** NOT EX LIB **** D4B. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seoul: Hephzibah , 2002. A Fine unmarked copy. 373 pages. Revised edition. The author has been preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit for two decades and is the founder of the New Life Mission, having established mission oriented churches, he is spreading the gospel through his written works. R6. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1925. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with some fading to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally some foxing to endpapers and closed edges else clean and unmarked. A Good + copy. Not dated but The British Library cites this as 1925 (first published by John Murray, 1917). A novel set in Egypt and the Sudan and a search for a kidnapped band of English by the author Geraldine Edith Mitton, afterwards Lady Scott, wife of Sir George Scott the colonial administrator. **** VERY SCARCE **** 11. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. Based on the author's own mountaineering experiences and love of birds, it is a novel of a young boy, Siri, who is ostracised by the superstitious people of an isolated coastal village because of his love of the wild ospreys which they believe are evil. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.