Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bloomsbury Books

Pontiac, MI: Published by Author. Offered is "HELL - One of the Most Used Words and the Most Misunderstood," a Christian tract written by Glenn Yuille and published by the author out of Pontiac, Michigan. No date, although circa 1970s. A left-folded tract measuring 3-1/2" by 6-1/2" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. The topics are: Can You Describe Hell?; Jesus Taught About Hell; How to Escape Hell; Don't Gamble - Play Safe ("My dear reader, do not take Hell too lightly. If Hell is not real the Bible is not true and Jesus Christ was the biggest liar and faker this world has ever known"). . Fine. Wraps. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1970.

Oradell, NJ: American Tract Society. Offered is a lot of 38 Christian tracts written by Raymond L. Cox entitled "HIDE and Seek" published by the American Tract Society out of Oradell, New Jersey. No date, although 1960s or 1970s (the tracts show a five-digit zip code). Each measures 3-1/2" by 5-3/4" and contains four pages including front and rear covers. The Rev. Cox begins his message, "Did you EVER play 'hide' and 'seek'? Perhaps you are doing it now! Hide and seek may well be the oldest recreation in human history. But it did not start as a game but a shame! The first record of hide and seek occurs in the Bible account of the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve hid! God sought! This was a new development in the relationship between creatures and Creator." . Fine. Wraps. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1970.

New York, NY: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.. A left-stapled magazine with glossy pages, measuring 7-7/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, highlights include: Miracle and the Traffic by Gershom Gorenberg ("If the wonder of a nation's rebirth isn't always apparent, it may be because Israelis are busily absorbed in living it"); 10 Days That Shook the Jewish World by Alan M. Tigay ("Israel has rarely been out of the headlines, but some days have been more momentous than others"); 10 Ways Israel Liberated American Jewry by Jonathan D. Sarna ("Sovereignty not only changed the lives of diaspora Jews, it transformed a comfortable community"); The 10 Commendations - Best of Fifty Years by Allen Hoffman ("Just as 10 laws came down from Sinai, Israel has at least 10 model achievements to offer up"); Signs and Wonders, 1948-1998 with commentaries by… Read More

New York, NY: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.. A left-stapled magazine with glossy pages, measuring 7-7/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, highlights include: A Mother-Daughter Story by Barbara Sofer ("Rosa Sapochnikov's early memory is of an orphanage in Poland where she waited for her mother at the end of World War II. She never dreamed it would take another 43 years before the dreamed-of reunion"); Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels ("A Greek scholar, a lost Polish Jewish boy and a sunken city are at the center of the lyrical novel that won the 1998 Harold U. Ribalow Prize"); Moral Compass: Portrait of Joseph Lieberman by Helen Mintz Belitsky; The Why Before Wye [Summit] by Gershom Gorenberg; [Benjamin] Netanyahu Looks Left by Charley Levine; A Critical Mass of Russians by Rochelle Furstenberg ("Both Israel and the majority of the Russian Jews have cut a good… Read More

New York, NY: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.. A left-stapled magazine with glossy pages, measuring 7-7/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, highlights include: Up Close and Personal by Diana Bletter ("In the Galilee, which has more cooperative programs than any other region of Israel, Arabs and Jews meet not as negotiating partners but as neighbors"); Safe Journeys by Gloria Goldreich ("One woman was heading for the airport. The other had farther to travel. When the life-long friends said good-bye for the last time, they searched for the right words"); Letter from Jerusalem - Election Forecast: Cloudy by Gershom Gorenberg; Memoir from Dachau: Going to Hell on Wheels by Martin Hoffman; The Baton Has Been Passed: A Portrait of Michael Tilson Thomas by Helen Mintz Belitsky. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1999.

New York, NY: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.. A left-stapled magazine with glossy pages, measuring 7-7/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, highlights include: Letter From Tel Aviv: Two Jews at an Empty Table by Gershom Gorenberg; Israeli Life: Meat in the [Aryeh] Deri Case? by Rochelle Furstenberg; Poles Apart, photoessay by Gary Gelb with text by Larry Mayer ("Madeleine K. Albright's discovery of a Jewish past made headlines in America, but in Poland such revelations are a daily occurrence"); Orthodoxy, Meet Feminism by Zelda Shluker ("A first-of-its-kind conference of religious women demonstrates that gender equality has established a bridgehead in Orthodox Judaism"); short story Oy Bambino by Naomi F. Eber; Portrait: Yehoram Gaon by Barbara Sofer. Condition: covers show light wear, two narrow scuffs to lower left corner of front cover (from previous mailing-label… Read More

London, England: Augener Ltd.. Eight pages including front and rear covers with four interior pages containing the complete music and lyrics. Front and rear covers previously detached but present (clear-tape reinforced by former owner); tiny closed tear to lower edge of front cover. . Good. Sheet Music. First Edition. 1950.

Washington, D.C.: Handgun Control Project, United States Conference of Mayors, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is a first edition, first printing of "Handgun Control - Issues and Alternatives" written by Joseph D. Alviani and William R. Drake and published in 1975 by the Handgun Control Project of the United States Conference of Mayors. A left-stapled softcover measuring 8-3/4" by 8" and containing 76 pages including front and rear covers. A study of nationwide gun violence and methods of gun control, the book contains numerous graphs and tables. The general contents are: Myths and Realities; Existing Controls - Federal, State and Local; Methods of Control; Summary and Conclusions; Appendices. Staples age-rusted; light corner wear to outer covers..

Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Association. Offered is a first edition, first printing, of "Happiness Wall to Wall" written by George E. Vandeman and published in 1968 by the Pacific Press Publishing Association out of Mountain View, California. A stapled softcover measuring 4-3/4" by 7-1/8" and containing 100 pages including front and rear covers. The Chapters are: Happiness Wall to Wall; Formula for Two; Marriage Isn't Easy; Trouble With the Personnel; Teen-age Dilemma; Bribing the Gatekeeper; When the Rain Falls. Staples age-rusted; light grease-stains to front and rear covers (not affecting the inside pages). . Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1968.

New York: Leo Feist Inc.. Four pages including front and rear covers with two pages containing the complete music and lyrics. Name of former owner in small print to upper left corner of front cover; light stamp "SAMPLE COPY NOT FOR SALE" to front cover; short closed tear to upper edge. . Very Good. Sheet Music. First Edition. 1931.

London, England: Cambridge Theatre, 1963. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A left-stapled program measuring 6-7/8" by 9-3/8" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: full-page photo portrait of Tommy Steele; full-page history culminating with the musical play (starting with the 1905 book "Kipps" by H.G. Wells); full-page ad for "The Sound of Music" then playing at the Palace (with six photos); title page with credits for "Half a Sixpence"; full-page Cast in Order of Appearance; full-page ad for the Decca recording of the musical; full-page Musical Synopsis of Scenes; full-page Thirty Years in Seven Dials (a history of the Cambridge Theatre). Condition: outer spine fold tape reinforced by previous owner; narrow chip to upper edge of front cover; tiny chip to upper right corner of each page; periodic narrow edge chips to rear cover (none of this affecting the internal text)..

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Contents of this issue include: The Moment of Attack: Two First-Hand Reports (Bougainville Landing by Harold Azine, and Target: Ploesti by Captain William D. Banks); Wendell Willkie: Man of Words by Fred Rodell; Geopolitics With the Dew on It by Bernard DeVoto; The Kind of Freedom We Need: A Letter from a Soldier Overseas by John B. Voris; San Francisco Looks West: The City in Wartime by John Dos Passos; How Basic is Basic English? by Rudolf Flesch; The Campaign for the Solomons No. 1 - Bloody Island by Fletcher Pratt (with two maps); poem Lincoln Memorial by Martha Keller; Senator Bob Reynolds: Retrospective View by Burke Davis; The Stagecoach: A Story by Griffith Beems; Some Real Trouble in South America: The Truth About the Argentine Crisis by Ricardo Setaro. Condition: covers show periodic edge and corner wear, a few light narrow edge creases; two short corner creases to rear cover; still very respectable with internal pages in excellent condition. .… Read More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. A complete issue. Contents include: The President's Trigger Man by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen (on James - Jim - Farley); Shall We Nationalize Munitions? by Ernest Angell; Grand Canyon (Part 2) by J.B. Priestley; Revolutionary America: An Interpretation of Our History by Louis M. Hacker; The Misunderstood Savage by John W. Vandercook; The Screen Enters Politics: Will Hollywood Produce More Propaganda? by Richard S. Ames; The Revival of Feudalism by Reinhold Niebuhr; short story On the Rock by Susan Ertz; short story Slot Machine by Margaret Culkin Banning. Outer covers show light to moderate wear in places, small chip to upper outer spine edge. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1935.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Offered is the December 1934 issue of "Harper's Magazine" (Issue No. 1015) edited by Lee F. Hartman and published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6-5/8" by 9-1/2" and containing 130 textual pages (not including numerous unpaginated ads appearing in the front and rear sections of the issue, which are present, a complete issue). Notable articles in this issue include "Was My Life Worth Living?" by Emma Goldman; "Good-By to Germany" by Dorothy Thompson (a haunting account of her last days in Austria, Munich and Berlin shortly after the [Ernst] Rohm Purge - the "Night of the Long Knives"); "I See the King of Hell" by Harrison Forman; "Paradise Lost - or Mislaid? The Dilemma of the American Rich" by D.W. Brogan; "The Capital Goods Fallacy" by David Cushman Coyle. Condition: chip to lower left corner of front cover; in very worn, edge-scuffed outer covers showing tears along the outer spine fold, soil, and minor… Read More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. A complete issue. Contents include: New World Symphony - With a Few Sour Notes by Elmer Davis; Huey Long and His Background by Hamilton Basso; The Concept of Race in the Light of Modern Genetics by Julian Huxley; From Crisis to Conversation: The New Phase in Europe by Frank H. Simonds; The Tennessee Valley Experiment: Kilowatts and Human Habits by Drew and Leon Pearson; Some Hard Words About Confucius by Lin Yutang; Is Feminism Dead? by Genevieve Parkhurst; The Technic of Mob Rule by George Boas. Spotting to rear cover; in light edge and corner-worn covers. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1935.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. A complete issue. Contents include: [Brigadier General Pelham D.] Glassford and the Siege of Washington by Fleta Campbell Springer; The Statesmanship of Mr. [John Nance] Garner by George Milburn; Wall Street Boy by John R. Tunis; Study Abroad: The American Scholastic Tourist Trade by Olaf Axelgaard; Wanted: Political Courage by Charles Willis Thompson; Sex in Biography by Ernest Boyd; short story The Shepherd's Interval by Elizabeth Madox Roberts; short story Augusta and the Brewers' Big Horses by Dorothy Thomas. In edge-ragged and worn outer covers; interior pages in very good condition. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1932.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Outstanding journalism. Contents include: The Truth About Air Power by Keith Ayling; England in the Great Lull by John Dos Passos; The Tory Leaders by Vincent Sheehan; On Board the "Bismarck" by Edwin Muller; Spreading Out Our War Production by Irwin Ross; The Swiss Pension by Carl Zuckmayer; The Magic of High-Octant Gas by Harland Manchester; They Mature Later in the Tropics by C.A. Mills; Your German-American Neighbor by Wolfgang Zu Putlitz; column One Man's Meat by E.B. White; column The Easy Chair ("Lecture to a Women's Club") by Bernard DeVoto. Covers lightly soiled and show periodic edge and corner wear. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1942.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Contents of this issue include: Who's Getting the Money? by Frederick Lewis Allen; These Railroad Wrecks by Ruth and Edward Brecher; The New Kid: A Story by Murray Heyert; Arabian Oil and American Imperialism by Eliahu Ben-Horin; Airpower and Gunnery: The Battle of Truk, A First-hand Report by George E. Jones; Who Killed Estelle Carey? The Murder That Lifted the Veil on the Syndicate by John Bartlow Martin; You Can't Ignore Rh by Jessie Hardie; Washington is What We Make It: An Eyewitness Report on Bureaucracy by Paul Grabbe; Look at Miss Mulford: A Story by Dorothy Bardos; For Fun and Fame, or The Young Authors by Austin Gray; Finnish Tragedy by Erwin Lessner. Condition: covers show light edge and corner wear in places, small scuff to front cover; rear cover shows light age-spots; still very respectable with internal pages in excellent condition. . Very Good. Magazine. First Edition. 1944.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Outstanding reading. Contents include: Who Is Loyal to America? by Henry Steele Commager; The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory; short story The Collection by V.S. Pritchett; Doctors Along the Boardwalk by Bernard DeVoto; More Fallacies About Art by W.M. Ivins, Jr.; How Not To Run A Spy System by Fletcher Pratt; The American Master Counterfeiters by Stewart Robertson; [General Douglas] MacArthur Era: Year Two by Robert Cochrane. Front covers lightly rubbed and show light to moderate edgewear in places; short, light corner crease; interior pages in excellent condition. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1947.

New York: Harrington Park Press, 1987. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offered is the Fall 1987 catalog from the Harrington Park Press offering books on "Human Relations - Health Care - Feminist - Women's Studies - Gay & Lesbian." A left-stapled catalog containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. Each title contains a lengthy synopsis accompanied with a front cover image..