Search Results: Titles starting with H from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Excelsior Publishing, 1890. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Folding map, many woodcuts. Thick octavo, 802 pages, pictorial brown cloth Folding map, many woodcuts. "We have in this work endeavored to meet that want, so that one, at a moderate expense, can acquaint himself with all that has been lately achieved in Arica, as well as obtain a thorough knowledge of the habits and customs of the various people and tribes that inhabit that continent - Introduction."

New York: L.B. Fischer, ( 1945 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 251 pages, cloth Hahnemann was the major theorist of homeopathic medicine

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 4to, 164 pages, cloth; inch tear in dj at rear flap

Chicago: R. Fergus, [ 1854 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good: Yale copy collation: iv, 315, 25, 28 p. ; 20 cm.. 12mo; [6], iv, 315, 25, 28, ]10] pages, publisher's embossed brown cloth, both hinges repaired, lacking advert leaf between pp. 108-109, and leaf 183/184, leaves 9/10, 11/12 of the Appendix; lower section of leaf [v/vi]. ( ix/x appears to be used for the rear endpaper ); in a green cloth clamshell box. Ex libris pioneer John Stewart, who arrived at Chicago in 1854 thru George Steward in 1930. Inked name of Emil Dietzsch on rear pastedown. In 1853, Mr. Dietzsch emigrated to America and Chicago, having studied the apothecary arts. In 1871 he was a wine merchant. In 1874 he was elected Coroner. "For several years he was Deputy Sheriff, managed a drug store for a brief interval at the corner of Clark and Ohio Streets, became manager of the great Kern restaurant, and finally held a position in the County Clerk's office. However, Emil Dietzsch's importance to Chicago is not found… Read More

London: Vision, ( 1947 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, maroon cloth, inked presentation on endpaper The text used is a carefully edited combination of the Quarto and Folio texts aiming at presenting the closest approximation to what Shakespeare wrote. Dr. Jones, President of The International Psycho-Analytical Association, explains the central mystery of the play - the cause of Hamlet's hesitancy to revenge his father's murder.

San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 281 pages, pink cloth

Chicago: P.F. Volland & Company, ( 1911). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thin 12mo, unpaginated, cream boards, minor soiling Decorated colored poems with gilt initials. Among the very earliest of the Volland publications

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Duodecimo, 308 pages, cloth, gilt, front hinge broken This is the third book is this series. Its original UK title is THE SI-FAN MYSTERIES, and the hyphen was later dropped.

Boston: South End Press, ( 1980 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, 322 pages, cloth, Inscribed "To my old time friends" by Noyes in 1987. This is a novel of Chicago neighborhoods, working stiffs, unions, and its people. Noyes, who was born in China, was a teacher at the Abraham Lincoln School in the South Side of Chicago in the Thirties and Forties: it was operated by the Communist Party. Other teachers were Frank Marshall Davis and Alfonso Iannelli,.Later Noyes founded China Books & Periodicals as an importer from China.

Washington DC : GPO, 1959. First Edition. 8vos. orig. green cloth, good, rubber-stamped. Octavo, 286 pages, green cloth BAE Bulletin 143.

London & New York: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, xii, 106 pages, printed boards, spine darkened Published by Authority of the Royal School of Art Needlework. "We have sought ... to respond to the inquiries we are constantly receiving, and to supply useful hints to those who are unable to avail themselves of lessons, and are forced to puzzle over their difficulties without help from a trained and experienced embroiderer; at the same time, the rules ... may serve to remiond ... many little details which might easily be forgotten when the lessons are over, though so much of the success of embroidery depends upon them." - Preface. Here are 24 designs on 16 plates created by Walter Crane, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Fairfax Wade, Selwyn Image, Mary Herbert, etc.

New York: National Electric Light Association, 1923. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Flexible covers. Good. Thick duodecimo; vii, 1242 pages, black flexible leather, formula on endpaper. Very Scarce. No copy of any edition found on WorldCat. " It has been prepared primarily as an aid to the pracicing meterman, and the meter engineer. In it have been included instructions, descriptions, data and information, which every meterman should have at hand for ready reference. Much of the material appearing in previous issues has been condensed, obsolete data and descriptions have been omitted and new material has been added. The subject matter has been limited to american meters and to American meter practice, and an endeavor has been made to standardize meter terminology." Preface.

Washington DC : War Department, 1945. Paperback. Good. Quarto, 600 (?) pages, tan wrappers with red titles War Department technical manual TM-E 30-451. Dated 15 March 1945 - one month before the end of the war in Europe. This appears to be a facsimile edition, but unidentified as such in the text.

Cambridge, MA: Caustic-Claflin Company, 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 24mo; 372 pages + Index + ads, brown printed wrappers, various corners bent. UNCLE = Unknown, No Copy Located Elsewhere - surely there are, but I have not located one. Previous owner's rubber stamp on title-page. Bechtel was a major in the National army. "This handbook aims to bring together in convenient form military and other data which experience as a Company Commander indicates should be the common knowledge of all enlisted men of the National Guard." - Preface,

New York: Viking Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo; 667 pages, orange cloth, leather label, bevelled edges, t.e.g., inked name on endpaper, spine slightly faded. This was originally published in twelve parts from 1858 - 1860. Illustrated with 13 hand-colored plates by John Leech, whose drawings of horses were considered superb, with plentiful textual drawings by him in black-and-white. With a new Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. "The reader will have the kindness to bear in mind that the work merely professes to be a tale, and does not aspire to be a novel." - Preface.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1936. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 341 pages, quarter linen Issued in The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. This was an instant classic.

Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1967. New edition. Hardcover. Good/good. facsimiles, photos. 8vo, 256pp., cherry red cloth, bookplate; dj nicked and reinforiced on the outside with cellophane tape. By the founder of the International Grapho Analysis Society. Each purchaser was entitled to a free handwriting analysis. Includes samples and analysis of handwriting by Bill Tilden, FDR, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, Joe E. Brown, W. C. Handy, S. S. Van Dine, Thomas A. Edison, Frederick Cook M. D., Lord Lytton, Jack Dempsey, U. S. Presidents and their wives, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, Carrie Nation, Dorothy Dix etc.

New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Duodecimo. 12mo, 205 pages, nicked paper spine of variant art deco designed blue boards. Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in FL, GA, NC, TN, KY, NJ, & Penna. An excellent work of its kind, that deserves to be read and re-read.

New York: Random House, ( 1968 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 402 pages, black cloth, top edge stained red; dj soft crease at front flap Author's first book. A Catholic Portnoy's Complaint. "Father Fisk began to change when he met Matthew. He found himself curiously drawn to the intense youth who seemed to be able to bend everyone and everything to his will. It was Matthew who introduced him to Meg, the prostitute who showed him a new, bizarre world that ripped him away from the priesthood into a seething drug-induced orgy of the senses." - from the paperback edition. Apparently this is his only published book. He is not to be confused with the crime writer James McClure.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, ( 1954 ). Cheap Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 16mo, 140 pages, red cloth, toned pages; yellow dj A collection of 12 stories, including 4 Peter Wimsey, 6 Montague Eggs, 2 others. Cover price is GBP 4.