Search Results: Titles starting with H from Cat's Cradle Books

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Second Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's name on ffep and previous owner's initials written across text block page edges (visible when closed). Pages off-white with some passages underlined. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge wear, shelf wear including scuffing. ; Study of American journalist, satirist, and cultural critic Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) with focus on his role as a literary critic. Contents: In the beginning. The sultry atmosphere. Moldings. First premise. Cultural credo. Criticism o criticism. Götterdämmerung. The American hydra. A trinity: the prof. drs., the humanists, and Dixie. The devil's advocate. Notes, index. ; 9.25" tall; 282 pages.

N. P.: Author, 1979. Numbered. Softcover. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. Numbered. Book is in the French language. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages with small amount of writing on endpapers. Wrappers have edge wear, shelf wear. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ; Political biography of Habib Bourguiba (al-Habib Burqibah; 1903-2000), Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia then as the first president of Tunisia (1957-87). Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from France, ending a 75-year-old protectorate and earning the title of "Supreme Combatant."; 9.25" tall; 781 pages.

New York: Ams Press, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Bright pages. Black cloth over boards has light shelf wear. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. ; One of 20 volumes by Samuel Purchas (c. 1577 - 1626), an English Anglican cleric who published reports by travellers to foreign countries. Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 526 pages.

Cortina, Italy: Edizioni La Cooperativa di Cortina, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Text is in Italian and English. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is slightly shelf worn. ; Careful selection of the best color photographs taken of the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 by members of the Cortina Astronomical Association. Each photographic plate is accompanied by a literary quotation. 9.5" oblong; 92 pages.

Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. "In this important first study of the fictional half-blood [half Indian, half white], William J. Scheick examines works ranging fromt the enormously popular 'dime novels' and the short fiction of such wtiters as Bret Harte to the more sophisticated works of Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, and others."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 113 pages.

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1973. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Second Printing. A sound copy, in a dark blue cloth binding; text is clean and unmarked, with no creased or torn pages; binding clean and unmarked, with bumped corners, minor rubbing at corners and spine ends, heavier rubbing along bottom rear extremity; dust jacket torn, soiled, and heavily worn. "The only book-length bibliography of criticism about T.S. Eliot -- poet, dramatist, critic, the foremost man of English and American letters in the first half of the twentieth century."; 9.25" tall; 361 pages.

London: Hali Publications Ltd, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing and minor shelf wear. Articles on the history and social significance of textile art in Asia, Europe, and the western hemisphere. ; 12.5" tall; 256 pages.

London: Hali Publications Ltd, 1999. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing and minor shelf wear. Articles on carpets and flatweaves from the Varamin Plain, Kutch embroidery, the Thyssen Collection, stitched inlay, arts & crafts textiles, the 1999 HALI Fair. ; 12.5" tall; 176 pages.

New York: American Church Review Press, 1882. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Pages tanned, clean. All pages are original. Articles are contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopies of volume's title page and table of contents are included for bibliographic context. ; Author, who lived from 1827 to 1896, examines the often fine line between insanity and spiritual inspiration. ; 8.5" tall; 16 pages.

Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1969. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Norwegian language. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, rebound with original wraps laminated over boards as a hardcover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Exterior displays slight shelf wear. Study of the impact of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) on Russian-Soviet theater (the work of Stanislavsky, Nemirovitch-Dantsienko, Meyerhold, and Komissarsyevskaia) and fiction and other writing (Gorkii, Kuprin, Andreyev, Blok, Mayakovskii, Pasternak, Prishvin, Semyonov, Fedin, Fadeyev, Olesya, Yevtushenko). Russian-Soviet criticism of Hamsun is also addressed (Plekhanov, Voronskii, and others). Ex-Library; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 212 pages.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Dorothy Thomas Tucker. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Signed by author and illustrator on ffep with additional inscription. Binding and hinges sound. Pages clean,off-white. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear and overall shelf wear. ; Biography of Civil War Union general Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886), who also served as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. ; Ex-Library; Maps; 8.5" tall ; 368 pages.

Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts, 1972. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Light handling wear to wrappers. Illustrations in black and white. Book accompanied the exhibit of the same name, which traveled to the University Art Museum, Berkeley; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1972-1973. ; 9.5" tall; 192 pages.

New York: Missionary Education Movement, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Front hinge stressed at title page; rear hinge sound. Binding sound. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is bumped at corners and bottom edge with overall general shelf wear. ; Historical survey of protestantism in France and Belgium with emphasis on the immediate past. Photographic plates include several showing damage sustained by protestant churches during WWI. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 245 pages.

London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages are clean, tanned with bookstore stamps on ffep. Cloth over boards is worn with split at front spine joint. ; Notes on the words and music of the hymns. Biographical and historical notes on authors, composers, sources, etc. Calendar of the hymnary. Indexes. ; 7.5" tall; 601 pages.

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Exlibrary markings primarily on endpapers and lower spine. Sound binding and hinges. Pages tanned. Library cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light shelf wear. ; Thorough catalog with illustrations in black and white. ; Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 136; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 164 pages.

Sydney, Australia: Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Pages tanned with writing on title page and small amount of writing on fold-out map. Boards soiled with overall wear, especially along edges and at corners. ; Handbook of basic information about Papua and New Guinea with business directory, general index, index of names. Also includes some Australian advertising. ; 8.25" tall; 318 pages.

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Exlibrary markings primarily on endpapers and lower spine. Sound binding and hinges. Pages tanned. Library cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light shelf wear. ; Thorough catalog with illustrations in black and white and one color plate. ; Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 118; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 224 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Second Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Stamped mark on ffep. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has edge wear, overall light shelf wear, clipped corner. ; Excerpts from the writings of eminent archaeologists describing their discoveries. ; 9.5" tall; 434 pages.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards has minor edge rubbing at spine. DJ clean with very minor shelf wear. ; "This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century."; 8.25" tall; 139 pages.

Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill Museum, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has light overall shelf wear. Creation of the North Carolina Symphony and its work ringing music to North Carolina's children in cities, towns, and rural communities from the Appalachians to the Outher Banks. ; 9.25" tall; 158 pages.