Search Results: Titles starting with H from D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Jonathan Cape, 1st edition 2014). From the dustwrapper blurb: Destined to be a classic of nature writing, "H is for Hawk" is a record of a spiritual journey – an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp [10], 300, [2]. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches approx. (222mm x 144mm). Dustwrapper rubbed and worn to extremities; a little rolled/creased to top edge; some light scoring and indentations to front panel; a touch dusty. Front board showing multiple 'blunt dart point' indentations; no inscriptions; pages clean. Overall, showing some light wear otherwise a nice, clean copy – attractive. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Halifax Town From Balls to Lillies - A Complete Record by Johnny Meynell (Desert Island Books Limited, 1st edition 1999).A detailed study. Hardback in dustwrapper. 352pp including b/w illustrations. 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (240mm x 162mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Haslingden edited and compiled by Chris Aspin and Derek Pilkington (Helmshore Local History Society, 1st edition 1979). Photographic study with descriptive text. Card covers - spiral bound. pp [3], 153 including b/w illustrations. Size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches approx. (210mm x 298mm). Covers showing some wear and creasing; some occasional corner curling to pages. Overall, showing some handling wear but otherwise a reasonably nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

Hebble by Keith Healey and Nicholas Harris (Venture Publications, 1st edition 2004) Number Four in the Super Prestige Collection of Transport History Albums. Well illustrated throughout. Card covers. 96pp including b/w and colour illustrations. 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (238mm x 170mm). Slight crease to upper corner of front cover and first few pages but otherwise a nice, clean copy in near new condition. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Heinrich Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler's Reichsführer-SS by Martin Månsson (Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1st edition 2001). Photographic study with descriptive text. Hardback in dustwrapper. 240pp including b/w illustrations. 11.25 x 9 inches approx. (287mm x 223mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

Helmet & Cowl – Stories of Monastic and Military Orders by W. M. [Winifred Mabel] Letts and M. F. S. Letts (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Limited, 1st edition 1913). Nicely illustrated with pictures by Stephen Reid. Hardback – cloth spine over paper boards, titles to spine and boards, onlay plate to front, in a dustwrapper with circular window to front. pp xii, 122, plus tipped-in colour plates. Size: 11 x 9 inches approx. (278mm x 229mm). Dustwrapper rubbed and worn, especially to tall top edge; small loss to spine ends and corner tips; a bit grubby and marked in places, darkened to spine; a few short edge tears; a couple of repairs with archival tape to verso. Covers: light wear and rubbing to spine ends; boards lightly bumped and worn to corners; boards a touch dusty and marked but generally very clean and bright. Some creasing to front and rear endpapers, ownership inscriptions in ink to front; occasional dustiness but generally pages clean throughout; a few plates with the inevitable… Read More

Henry Moore Textiles edited by Anita Feldman (Lund Humphries, reprint 2009), introduction by Sue Prichard.
Very well illustrated throughout.
Card covers. 160pp including b/w and colour illustraions. Size: 12 x 9.5 inches approx. (305mm x 245mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook (Thames and Hudson, 1st paperback edition 1998), comments by Henry Moore and Kenneth Clark
A facsimile of Henry Moore's sketchbook, followed by four pages of commentary. Originally published as a hardback in 1980, this copy being the first paperback edition published in 1998.
Card covers. [Not Numbered]pp including b/w and colour illustrations. Size: 8 x 10 inches approx. (206mm x 252mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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The High Window by Raymond Chandler (Hamish Hamilton, reprint 1949). Originally published in 1943, this copy being a later reprint with different dustrapper art. Hardback in dustwrapper. 236pp. 7.5 x 5 inches approx. (191mm x 130mm). Dustwrapper a little rubbed and worn to spine ends and corner tips with small loss; short tear to bottom edge of front panel; some rubbing, creasing and scuffing in places; a little dusty and marked. Light shelf wear to covers otherwise nice and clean; spotted/foxed to page edges and dusty to top edge otherwise generally clean throughout. Overall, light wear but otherwise a nicely preserved copy – attractive. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Higher Wharfedale: The Dale of Romance, from Ormscliffe to Cam Fell by Edmund Bogg (The Old Hall Press, 1989). Facsimile reprint of the original 1904 edition. Hardback – pictorial covers. 353pp including b/w illustrations. 8.25 x 6 inches approx. (212mm x 168mm). A nice, clean copy.*International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Hindle Wakes by Harold Brighouse (London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd, 1st edition [1927]), based on the play by Stanley Houghton. The Readers Library published affordable editions of popular fiction in the period 1924-35, cheaply produced but very attractive with their wrap-round dustwrapper artwork. A novelisation written for The Readers Library by Harold Brighouse (Hobson's Choice) and based on the Stanley Houghton play (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1912) of two lovers in the fictional Lancashire town of Hindle. Hardback in dustwrapper. 252pp. Size: 6.75 x 4.25 inches approx. (169mm x 106mm). Light wear and rubbing to dustwrapper with minor loss to corner tips; a few short edge tears and creasing to bottom edge of rear panel; nibble to bottom edge of front panel; light moisture marking to verso from boards. Boards a little marked and faded to lower corners from moisture; gilt to spine a little dulled. Pages age-toned throughout but generally very clean. Overall, showing some light wear but… Read More

Historic Haunts of England by Gwen Woodcock (Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1st edition 1938). A guide with some potted history for the interested traveller of over fifty historic buildings in England. A companion volume to the publisher's 'Historic Haunts of Scotland' and 'England Under Trust'. The dustwrapper has two A. & C. Black price labels to spine and front flap with a revised, and higher, price of eight shillings and sixpence; the original price being 7/6. My understanding is A. & C. Black took on several of Maclehose's titles in the late 1930s. Hardback. Publisher's green cloth with title in blue to spine and front board. In a buff coloured dustwrapper with titles and illustration in blue to spine and front panel; list of Maclehose titles to rear panel. pp xiii, 368, [2] publisher list, including b/w plates. Size: 8.5 x 6 inches approx. (213mm x 155mm). Dustwrapper worn and rubbed, especially to spine ends and corner tips with some loss; a little grubby and marked. Cloth clean and bright. An… Read More

The History of Mellor in Lancashire by Neil Summsersgill (Mellor Community Project Group, 1st edition 1999).
A nicely researched and written village history, well illustrated.
Hardback in price-clipped dustwrapper. 125pp plus b/w illustrations. 9.5 x 7 inches approx. (240mm x 175mm).
Lightly sunned to dustwrapper spine. Page margins age tanned and with some edge cockling to preliminary and final few pages (I have had several copies and it would appear quite usual for this book).
Overall, showing light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy.
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The History of Mellor in Lancashire by Neil Summsersgill (Mellor Community Project Group, 1st edition 1999). A nicely researched and written village history – well illustrated. Signed by Neil, complete with a witty inscription… Hardback in dustwrapper. 125pp plus b/w illustrations. 9.5 x 7 inches approx. (242mm x 177mm). Dustwrapper showing some wear and bruising, especially to head of spine; sunned/faded to spine. Front free endpaper a little marked; page margins age tanned and also with some edge cockling to preliminary and final few pages (I have had several copies and it would appear quite usual for this book). Overall, showing wear commensurate with age and having been read but otherwise a reasonably nice, clean copy. ***International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.***

History of the Great War: Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 Part 1 – The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries compiled by Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds (The Imperial War Museum and The Battery Press, reprint 1995). Originally published in 1935 this copy being a facsimile reprint (ISBN 1870423933). Hardback – cloth with gilt title to spine. pp [i-iv], [6], v-xxx, 569 plus sketch maps. 8.75 x 6 inches approx. (223mm x 150mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

The History of the Caravan by W. M. Whiteman (Blandford Press, 1st edition 1973). A good, solid history of caravans, illustrated with b/w plates. Hardback in a dustwrapper. 295pp including b/w line drawings plus b/w plates. Size: 8.25 x 5.5 inches approx. (209mm x 142mm). Dustwrapper has a small patch of light dampstaining to rear panel/head of spine, not serious and only visible to verso. Edges of page-block a little dusty and marked. Overall, light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

A History of Edenfield & District by John Simpson (Helmshore Local History Society, 1st edition 2003). A good study, well illustrated. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp [x], 316, including b/w illustrations. Size: 10.25 x 7 inches approx. (261mm x 182mm). Dustwrapper worn and creased to extremities; foxed/spotted to verso. Bumped to spine ends and board corners. Occasional foxing or handling mark but pages generally clean throughout. Overall, showing wear from being handled and read but otherwise a reasonably nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Nelson Corporation, 1st edition 1957. A good history of the area, well illustrated. Hardback – publisher's cloth with title in gilt to spine, issued without a dustwrapper. [10], 237pp plus b/w plates. 9 x 5.75 inches approx. (229mm x 147mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

A History of Southport by F. A. Bailey (Sefton Council Libraries and Arts Department, reprint 1992). A history of the Lancashire town and originally published in 1955 by Angus Downie, this copy being a facsimile reprint published to mark Southport's bi-centenary (1792-1992).Hardback in dustwrapper. 237pp plus b/w illustrations and fold-out plan. Size: 10 x 7 inches approx. (254mm x 180mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

A History of the Royal Ordnance Factory Chorley by Michael Nevell, John Roberts and Jack Smith (Carnegie Publishing, 1st edition 1999).
Well illustrated throughout.
Hardback in dustwrapper. pp x, 189, including b/w and colour illustrations. Size: 9.75 x 7 inches approx. (249mm x 172mm).
Dustwrapper a little worn and creased to spine ends and corner tips. Boards a touch knocked to corners and spine ends. A previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper.
Overall, showing some light handling wear but otherwise remaining a nice, clean copy.
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