Search Results: Titles starting with H from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1896. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. 338 pp + 16 pp advertisements. Includes photo-illustrations of various state hotels, owners and members; advertisements at the rear. Maroon gilt decorated cloth with beveled edges; AEG; gilt lettering to spine; floral endpapers. A fine and bright copy. A souvenir volume produced by James for the participants in the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association's 1896 annual meeting held in Los Angeles and tour of California. Chapters on the various state delegations; background for the trip and the trip west; Los Angele; Santa Monica; Santa Barbara; Pasadena; Riverside; San Diego; Hotel del Coronado; San Francisco; San Jose and Santa Clara Valley; Stanford University; Hotel Del Monte and much more. An invaluable period piece of Californiana. (Controversial James #18; Rocq 16952).

London: John Van Voorst, 1842. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine copy.. Octavo; xv, 250 pages plus (2) pp. ads. From the library of author and collector Clare Ryan Talbot with her initials in blind to title page and her bookplate 'Books Relating to Bookplates' to front pastedown.

Cleveland, Ohio: Central Publishing House, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 50pp. Photo-reproductions. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Period printed calling card for Miss Katherine J. Hubbell laid in (Miss Hubbell is the dedicatee). A near fine copy (minor wear). Original list compiled by Hiram Harwood in 1837; Revised and enlarged by Deacon Samuel Chandler in 1870; Added to by his son, E. S. Chandler and C. F. Sears in 1919; Elaborated, enlarged and completed by Richard. S. Bayhan. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

2000. Magazines include Ironman; Flex; Muscular Development, Fitness, Health; Muscle and Fitness; Mr. American; Muscle Media; Muscle Training Illustrated; Muscle Builder; Muscle Training; Muscle Power; Muscle Magazine International (including annuals); Muscular Development; Health and Strength (1920s-1930s); Bodybuilding Monthly and Body Power. Assembled over decades, and showing the evolution of the ‘health industry,' the magazines are generally in Very Good to Fine condition. Offered as a collection only; approximately 1000 issues. These magazines are located in Monterey, CA. and are available for pick-up only.

Cisco, TX: Longhorn Press, 1956. Fourth printing. Paperback. 8vo. 68 pp. Illustrations. Tan staple-bound wrappers with brown lettering & illustration of a cowboy on his horse to front cover. Owner stamps to front cover and inside front & rear covers else a near fine copy. An authentic manual of instruction that will enable the serious horseman to train his colts with the methods of the hackamore reinsman according to the standards of the old vaqueros. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 339pp. Photo illustrations. Figures and Charts. Chronology. Fine in fine dust jacket. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Wailuku: The Maui Publishing Co, 1935. First Edition. Small folio (12" x 9 1/4"). 99 pp. 6 full-page photograpic reproductions; iIllustrations; business advertisements. Color pictorial wrappers in very good condition (rear cover has neatly pulled away from text block; staining to upper corner on cover and first few pages) Scarce special issue magazine published on the occasion of completion of the Haleakala Highway. Contents includes a variety of stories of news and feature stories depicting many aspects of Maui history, life and tourism.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. 1st. Hardbound. As New Review Copy with slip tipped to front pastedown.. Octavo; (xxi), 710 pages.

boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1989. Quartos; (xvi); 337pp; (xvi) 357pp; (xii), 303pp. Illustrations; Bibliography; Index. A fine, unread set. "Free radical research has become fashionable, as reflected in the abundance of symposia and publications dealing with the subject. However, there is a scarity of textbooks which deal systematically and in a concise and simple fashio with both the fundamental and the clinically relevant aspects of free radicals and antioxidants. This handbook is a step in that direction." - Preface.

Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine copy in dust jacket. Octavo; 602 pages.

London: George. Godwin in association with the Plastics and Rubber Institute, 1981. Second edition. Unknown Binding. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (sunned at spine). Octavo; xx, 423 pages.

1997. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine set. Quarto, 3008 pages. Volume 1, Theoretical Models of Human Development, Volume 2, Cognition, Perception, and Language , Volume 3, Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, Volume 4, Child Psychology in Practice.

New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine copy. Quarto; xv, 527 pages.

Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1903. First Edition. Original wrappers. Oblong 8vo. 105, (1) pp. Stiff red covers with black illustration & lettering. Illustrated with black & white protographic reproductions and drawings. Text block mostly pulled away from the wrappers; lower front corner tip missing; else a very good copy. The uncommon first printing of a guide to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum which was founded in 1889. The museum it is the largest in Hawai'i and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. Third edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 779pp. Index. Diagrams. Illustrations. Review copy. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Oildale, CA: Bear State Books, 1949. First edition. 4to. (xiii), 287pp. 50 illustrations. Green cloth in cream and green illustrated dustjacket; map endpapers. Fine in fine dustjacket; an exceptionally nice copy. The most exhaustive data published concerning the Yokuts Indians of California. Covers: Geography of 44 tribes; Trade; Dress and Communications; Houses and Housekeeping; Foodstuffs; Games: Hunting and Fishing; Basketry; Artistry; Language and Names; Stories and Ceremonies; and concludes with ten first-hand accounts by aged Indians. Frank Latta was a well known historian who in 1906 while still a student conducted his first interview. He later went around and found old timers still living and interviewed them about various historical people and incidents. (Rocq 16498).

New York, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine copies. Quartos; viii, [2], 727 pages - xvii, 729-1417 pages. Faint evidence of label residue to front pastedown, o/w Fine copies.

Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2002. 1st. Hardbound. As New in dust jacket. Quarto, 168pp. Beautiful full-page color reproductions.

Boca Raton: Auerbach Publishers, 2003. 1st. Hardbound. As new.. Octavo, (xxxii) 337 pages. Bibliography and index. INSCRIBED by the author.

New York: Published by the author, 1935. Second Printing. 8vo. 223 pp. Stiff pale yellow wrappers with yapp edges, printed in red and black. Light general soiling; fading and rubbing along spine; a very good copy. "H.T. Tsiang's satiric, quasi-experimental novel...explores leftist politics in Depression-era New York..." The first printing was issued in April, 1935 and quickly sold out.