Search Results: Titles starting with H from Supercalifabulistic Books

Books Inc., 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/Good, black boards with gilt titles. First fly leaf dirty. Dj is worn along all edges, chips ant tears at spine ends and corners. Lawrence has chosen for his setting an institution as uniquely American as frankfurters and chewing gum: Chautauqua. Every summer for the past 69 years, Americans have gathered at the original Chautauqua, or at one of it traveling branches, to imbibe Culture and Learning. Carl Wayward visited Chautauqua to lecture on criminal psychology; he stayed to discover who had hanged James varrick in the bell tower..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/F Hardcover first edition in Fine condition. Strong, straight spine, crisp pages, no marks. Three sharp corners, one slightly bumped. Flyleafs contain blueprints of the HOUSE. DJ in Fine condition. Slight shelf wear at edges of spine. Not price clipped Straight into the heart of American life, following the dream of building a house. From construction to move-in day, meet all the characters involved as their intimate details are woven between the blueprints and the roof shingles. By the author of "The Soul Of A New Machine".

Doubleday, 1954 Book. Illus. by Helen S. Hamilton. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/NF. Beautiful 1954 copy of a classic youth series. Over 70 illustrations in 2 colors. DJ has price of $1.50. Tight, clean copy, PO's signature, date..

New YOrk: A.L. Burt Company, 1904 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same Date, 1904. VG/none Green Boards with B&W illustration pasted on the front cover of a Victorian Woman helping a 17th century soldier who has just fallen. Slight wear at top of spine and edges. Illustrated. Beautiful condition. Tight, clean, no marks other that PO's signature in pencil. Romance of Virginia in the 17th Century. April 1926, became the first recipient of the William Dean Howell's MEdal for Distinction in fiction from the America Academy of Art & Letters..

New York: Abrams, 1986 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. NF/NF, Beautiful collection of Mitisse's work written by Dominique Foucade, noted authority on Matisse.Contributes a critical essay in which he clarifies what these years in Nice meant for the development of Matisse's art in the span between the great mural commissions from the Russians before World War I and the great commission for La danse for Dr. Albert Barnes in 1931. A full Catalogue (with entries compiled by Cowart, Fourcade, and assistant Curator Marla Price), a Concordance between the Album of Colorplates and the Catalogue, a List of Exhibitions, a Select Bibliography focused on Nice-period research, and more than 250 black-and-white illustrations round out a work in which original scholarship enhances great art. 406 illustration, including 188 plates in full color.Many rarely seen as well as many of his most famous works are superbly reproduced in these pages..

Doubleday 1951, VG+/ Believed to be Hemmerling's copy, as the signature is across 2 pages. Hemmerling was a notable Louisianna Folk Artist who inscribed " A good woman is a crown to her husband and the joy of her children an she will fat their bones and be their delight". And also, "More things are wrought by prayer than dreamed". Gray boards in VG ++ condition with a small dent mid spine and normal bumping to corners from shelf wear. Hemmerling's signature inside front cover (in pen) as well as back of first page (in pencil) Black & white phots adorn the inside of cover depicting scenes from her performances. There is also a 25 cent mark in red on on of the photos. The dj is in good +condition. It shows considerable wear and bumping and few tears along spine and corners. Remarkable photos on front and back. Great DJ! Autobiography documenting encounters with other black vaudeville greats including Jim Crow. A powerful personal testament!

Collier Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Good/none. Copyright and title pages missing due to front board coming loose at binding. Otherwise this copy is tight and unmarked. Maroon boards with gold lettering on spine. 16 colored plates, 32 full page and 2 colored maps. .

1874 , Popular EditionConsidered one of the greatest historical works on the Spanish in America.Historical account of Peru in the late 1800'sBeautiful burgundy covers, all over arabesque designs blocked in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt long the spine. Clean and crisp internally. No dj as issuedVery Good/noneAfter favorable reception of his first books Prescott set out to write about the history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas of Peru. The Incas contact with the devastatingly powerful empire of Spain, one of the most epic confrontations in the annals of human history. Prescotts rendering of the story has always been considered one of the great historical works on the Spanish in America and one of the great works in American history.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF Orange cover with dark blue details and illustration, slight chip on front cover and faint smudges on spine. Straight spine. Besides light penciled inscription on first flyleaf, pages ar pristine. An Indiana adventure and romance, focusing on pioneer lifestyle and rural living. 434 pages Possible first printing. . ..

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

Little Brown and Company, 1933 Book. Illus. by Leroy Baldridge. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very Good ++ to Near Fine orange boards, black blind stamped titles and design to front boards and spine. Interior tight, with slight discoloration at inner binding. Personal dedication and signature by Margaret, whom the book is dedicated to. ("To a dear friend Margaret Hatch...") And then Margaret signed, "Presented to Dorothy Clendenin on her thirty-eighth birthday with the gope that she will enjoy this and many more worthwhile books. Margaret (Hatch). Dust Jacket is bumped and chipped along edges.Stated 6th printing on the front of the DJ. Price of $3.00 inside DJ. Pearl Buck is quoted on the front of the dust jacket, "Undoubtedly one of the most delightful books of personal experience that has yet been written about China.".

Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Press, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine Book with VG + DJ. Printed in limited run by the Naval Institute Press. First Edition. Uniformly colored red cloth, silver spine lettering, submarine, hammer and sickle in blind on the front. 8 endorsements on back of DJ. Price cut. ISBN 0870212850 in silver on the back red cloth board. DJ is bumped along edges. Two 1 inch closed tears along edge on back. Tom Clancy's first novel. Solid, heavy book. Tight, clean copy. PO's name stamped on inside front cover. One of the finest reads of the past 35 years. Basis for film starring Sean Connery and Alex Baldwin..

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Press, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine Book with VG + DJ. Printed in limited run by the Naval Institute Press. First Edition. Uniformly colored red cloth, silver spine lettering, submarine, hammer and sickle in blind on the front. 8 endorsements on back of DJ. Price cut. ISBN 0870212850 in silver on the back red cloth board. DJ is bumped along edges. Two 1 inch closed tears along edge on back. Tom Clancy's first novel. Solid, heavy book. Tight, clean copy. PO's name stamped on inside front cover. One of the finest reads of the past 35 years. Basis for film starring Sean Connery and Alex Baldwin..

Chicago,Henneberry& Co: Donahue, 1853 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/none. Dark blue boards blind stamped with palm fronds, vines and a torch on the front. Spine has blind stamped vines with gilt title. PO's signatue and dedication. Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 was an English Priest, University Professor Historian and Novelist. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.