Search Results: Titles starting with H from Collectible Books

1. SIGNED, inscribed and dated by the author on the fep in 1934. Excellent condition. Macmillan 1930 on title page. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules on the spine. 9 x 6 inches. xiii, 512 pages including appendices and index. Foldout b&w map frontis. 4 pages of listed illustrations. No dj. Very light rubbing and edgewear. Clean, bright and tight.

1. HRW first printing. First edition. Unused. Dustjacket under close scrutiny shows faint rub to front. Else book and dj clean, bright and tight.

1. The Harem: An account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to the present time.""; Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia. 277pp., includes index. No date. 1st ed. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black spine lettering and black front device, top edge red. 40+ listed illustrations, almost all full-page, including 3 fold-outs: plan, panorama and large folding map. Very light edge wear to cloth. Else clean bright and tight.

SIGNED by author on half-title (not inscribed). !NOT 1937! 1938 on title page. This book is in FINE condition in a very good pictorial dust jacket. 7 x 9 inches. Yellow cloth, lettering and designs in blue. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam.

1. Stated first edition. HBJ. Fine book in a very good dustjacket with a 3/8""; closed tear to top back edge. Dj shows very light edge tanning.

1. Stated first edition 1980. Book appears unread, clean, bright and tight; but flawed by small stain on fep. Dustjacket has publishers $10.95 on flap, a couple of short closed edgetears, and is lightly faded on spine and foredges.

1. 1863 copyright and title page. Crosby and Nichols, Boston. 368pp. First edition. Pebble textured brown cloth with blind-stamped designs. Gilt spine letters. Very lightly bumped and rubbed. Hinges and binding intact. 3-4 margin corner folds to pages, which are clean and tight but for a tiny neat previous owner inscription, ""To _ from_ Nov. 19th 1863"" on the front endpaper.

1. Very scarce. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1899. By Henry Thompson. xii,[2],288pp. Index. 14 illustrations including photos and tissue covered portraits. Very light foxing to endpapers and a few pages; else clean, bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Dark greenish-blue cloth with a bright gilt emblem on front cover. Spine with lean and dull gilt. Cloth intact but appearance detracted by scattered stain color loss to about half the spine and around the perimeter of covers. Text block edges tanned. Liddell was a noted British scholar, writer, clergyman. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for his daughter.

1. By Slim Hawkins. Published by Rupert S. Dougharty, El Paso, Texas. 1st. edition. 1945. Illustrated by Luis Duarte. 50 pages. Light brown card covers. Front shows illustration, design and letters in green. Small chip to top front cover corner. Pages clean, bright and tight. Mostly named and anonymous jokes, and stories submitted to his Texas radio program over the years. 50 pages.

1. Volume XXI. Complete in itself. By William Mavor, LL.D., London: For Vernor and Hood...Sold by Newbery. 1801. [6],284pp. 3 full-page plates. 3.5"" x 6"". Full leather w. edgewear, cracked joints. Lacquer flecking from spine, hairline vertical crack. Cords tight, binding firm. Marbled edges. Pages clean, bright and tight. Includes: Travels into the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park 1795-1797; Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco by Christian Damberger; two seperate accounts of Travels Into the Interior of Africa by Mr. Ledyard and Mr. Lucas. Marbled pastedown w. illustrated bookplate ""ELTON. CLEVEDON COURT, CO. SOMERSET"". Within banner reads ""ARTIBUS ET ARMIS""; stems from Fairfax army Colonel Richard Elton writing The Complete Body of the Art Military (London, 1650)

1. Very scarce or rare. First edition. Fleming H Revell. 1905. xxi,494pp. Indexed. Illustrated with 3 pristine fold-out charts. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Dark blue cloth w. pressed design and border lines to cover. Spine gilt bright. Spine ends and corner tips very lightly rubbed. Clean, square, bright and tight. From the well kept collection of the Beaver Conference Farm in NY. A small piece torn from the lower corner of half-title page was carefully saved, and minimally glue-tacked for future repair to inside board cloth edge. About a dozen pages show small amounts of neat, light pencil underlining to sentences and/or vertical pencil lines to paragraph margins. Also neat hinge crack repairs. Subjects include: Pre-Constantine and Medieval times, Antichrist, Israel, Reformation, Puritanism, French Revolution, Apocalypse, Papacy.

1. 1976 Harper and Row. Stated first American edition. Isbn: 0-06-012198-X. Book is clean, bright and tight. Dustjacket intact but edgeworn. Not price-clipped. . . Sent with Priority Mail and delivery confirmation.

1. Fleming H. Revell Company. 1893 copyright. 121pp + 4pp ads. Clean blue cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers, and bright gilt letters to spine. Microtips of spine end corners and cover corners lightly rubbed. Light spotting to endpapers; else pages clean, bright and tight.

Dr. Lapthorn Smith wrote the preface to this third 1923 edition at ninety-one years of age. Published by John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. Red cloth with a lightly browned, clean and intact, paper spine label. xv +237 pages. Indexed. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Cloth is intact and clean. Inside is clean, bright and tight.

1. This book is the 1864 edition by Thomas Fuller and published by Little Brown with 325 pages. It has a 1/8 inch chip at the top spine edge, and light rubbing to covers. Otherwise it's in amazingly great condition. Dark brown cloth, blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering on the spine. The pages are all clean and bright (unusual for a Civil War period book) with NO marks, foxing, cracking or tears.