Search Results: Titles starting with H from Grampy's Bookcase

172 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. DJ is bright, unblemished except for a very small ding at the top spine. Only other blemish is the previous owner's name on the top outside corner of the half title page. From the front DJ flap, "The Crusaders chose their target shrewdly. Hagia Sophia represented the apotheosis of Byzantine art and wealth. rare marbles, gathered from the farthest reaches of the empire, shone in its side galleries, gold candelabra glinted from its nave, and breathless gold mosaics covered every inch of its ceilings."

633 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Spine is faded. Card holder attached to the back free endpaper. Library stamps on the outside edges of the text block. A very good solid copy. "Hannay...pointed out that an examination of the rate at which the volatile constituent of a compound is driven off at a constant temperature may afford valuable information as to the constitution of the body examined, and would bring out the relation between the varying vapor tension of a decomposing body and its chemical constitution."

248 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Maps and charts included. DJ is worn around the edges with small closed tears and chips. From the front DJ, "Written since the fall of Poland and the 'peace offensive', this is the first factual guide to the strange new war in Europe."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Only defects are some light smearing on the front and back covers. Illustrated throughout. Text in Korean and English. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Handmade Memories' Kukje Gallery 17 October - 15 November, 2008."

In "As New Condition". Red cloth book marker attached. Volume is No. 73 of the Everyman's Library series. A very attractive copy.

47 pp. Front and back covers are detached but included. Text is clean and unmarked. "There is an element of the incredible in the brutal facts of Harriet Tubman's early life. Indeed, she had no childhood, for in her fifth year she was plunged into hard labor, and was beaten so mercilessly and so regularly that the meaning of slavery is to be found in her experience." p. 5.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Author's photo frontispiece included. A separate list of characters is included. Green cloth book marker attached.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. A green cloth book mark is attached. DJ is worn around the edges with two small chips out of the spine. A stain at the bottom of the front binding. Some foxing on the outside edges of the text block. From the Library of Selected Soviet Literature. Received the Stalin Prize in 1950.

373 pp. In as new condition.

Staining on the text block fore edge and several text margins. One photo page is unattached but included. Back hinge is cracked. Top of spine outer cloth is torn but attached. A two cent postage stamp is attached to the back free end paper.

308 pp. Tight, clean copy with light fading on the blue top edge. Scenes from the Republic movie serial, Hawk of the Wilderness, on the back DJ panel. Owner's signature on the front free endpaper.

128 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Stated first edition. "Writings and Speeches Edited with an Introduction by Philip S. Foner...", from the title page. Only defect with the DJ is age toning and fading on the spine.

505 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Color scraped in several small spots on the front cover. Slight wear along the outside edges of the covers. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused. From the back cover, " 'Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism' is the first study to interpret Marcuse's work as a critique and development of Marxism which responds to a series of what has been called 'crisis of Marxism'."

Text is bright, clean, and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Price clipped DJ is intact with two small chips and other minor wear along the outer edges. From the front DJ flap, "Professor Waith offers something new in sixteenth and seventeenth century English dramatic criticism; he takes a pro-heroic view of his topic, with emphasis on the positive aspects of 'heroic energy'. The focus of attention is on seven English tragedies by Marlowe, Chapman, and Dryden, in which the hero is remarkably different from the 'standard' tragic hero."

511 pp Text is clean and unmarked in tight covers. Slight wear to the outside covers with a mark from a previous label.

Text is clean and unmarked in intact, glossy, and square covers. Spine is not creased. Very slight wear at the cover corners. From the front cover, "An anthology of entertaining reading...selected exclusively for the guests of the Hilton Hotels."

516pp. Clean, tight and unmarked copy except for previous owner's name and address in front free endpaper. Black and white photos included.

227 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. The covers are tight and square. An inscription and several numerals are written on the front free end paper. Several black and white photos included. DJ is wrapped in plastic with several small chips around the outside edges.

192 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Inside front and back covers and free end papers have age toning. Foxing spots on the bottom of the text block. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight binding. DJ has very slight wear to the edges and a small closed tear at the bottom front. DJ also has minor faded spots.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Volume is from a university professor's private library and has a card holder attached to the back free end paper. Volume was not circulated. Name label is attached to the top outside top corner of the front free end paper. Price unclipped DJ has minor wear along the outside edges and faded at the spine. From the front DJ flap, "...Father Copleston surveys the schools of Western thought from the Patristic period and St. Augustine, through the Carolingian renaissance, St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus...The author displays the same brilliant exposition and objective critical analysis as in his earlier volume."