Search Results: Titles starting with H from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: Library of America, 2014. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1958. First American Edition Intrepid. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. French ship & crew disguised as Q-Ship; used on secret missions &escapes. A very good copy, in dust jacket. (223p., apdcs.)

New York: Potter, 1985. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. (275 pages). A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with light external shelf-wear and faint age-toning to the inner flaps. The contents are fine.

New York: Pageant Press, 1954. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (471 pages, 14 illustrations, bibliography, index.). A biography of the dictator and three time president of Venezuela between 1908 and 1935. A good copy, outer hinges & corners worn, front hinge split, without dust jacket.

Halifax, Canada: Halifax Shipyards Limited, (1946). Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Repaired over 7000 merchant vessels in World War II, and built four destroyers. A very good copy, corners a bit worn, spine somewhat rubbed & lightly dampstained, published without dust jacket. (25 leaves, profuse illus.)

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1989. First Edition . Softcover in Slipcase. Very Good. 4to (128 pages. illustrated with black & white photographs). A very good copy, in wraps, as issued, and the publisher’s slipcase, which is lightly shlefworn.

Washington, DC: Washington Government Printing Office, 1920. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (383 pages). Ordnance Department Document No. 2033., the book is in very good condition, it’s missing half the front end paper, and it has a small ink dot on the spine.

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1968. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (256 pages, 3 illustrations, 4 maps.). 1948 War of Independence; kibbutz members held off the Egyptian Army for six days, saving Tel Aviv. A very good copy, except for heavily spotted spine, with light shelf wear, in torn dust jacket, also with spotted spine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1971. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (607 pages). Inter-University Seminar: 15 contributors on orgn., sociology, guerrillas etc.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First American Edition . Hardcover. As New. At the end of her sessions Arnold always took a parting shot of the hands, and sometimes the feet, of her sitters; for luck, and for her personal records. This book collects over 200 of these images. As new, in slipcase.

Washington DC: Washington Government Printing Office, 1926. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Very good condition, without dust jacket.

Berne, Switzerland, 1946. No Binding. Very Good. Handwritten invitation on His Britannic Majesty’s Minister engraved card: “To meet Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill at Home at the British Legation, Tuesday, 17th September [1946] at 9:30 p.m. White Tie.” Hand-dated: “Berne, 4th September.” On August 23, 1946, Winston Churchill, aged 71, landed at Geneva Airport with his wife Clementine and daughter Mary for a stay that would include a major speech in Zurich on September 19. The family was taken to Villa Choisi at Bursinel, overlooking Lake Geneva, where they remained until September 16. On the 17th they visited Berne for this dinner with the British Ambassador Thomas Maitland Snow and his wife, continuing on to Zurich the following day.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (488 pages). A virtually mint copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2006. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (328 pages). A virtually mint copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

Switzerland: Waser Druck, 1985. First Thus . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo (32 pages, 12 color illustrations). A virtually mint copy of this exhibition catalogue, in printed wraps, as issued.

Sydney, Australia: Lansdowne Press, 1980. Reprint . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934. A very good copy, edges worn, stamp on half-title page, in slightly soiled dust jacket with worn edges. (127p., 21 illus.)

New York: Assouline, 2000. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (168 pages; illustrated with color and black and white photographs). This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped jacket.

Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2008. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo (311 pages with index; black and white photos in center section). Wendell Scott joined NASCAR during the 1950s, when segregation became an inflamed issue across America. NASCAR head Bill France Sr. promised to back up Scott, who remained true to his dream of professional racing despite personal setbacks and vicious prejudice. This inspiring story is part biography and part social and political history.

Kansas: University Press Of Kansas, 1992. Reissue . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (384 pages pages). This is a very good copy of the 1992 Reissue in an unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1983.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First Thus . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (5 x 7.5 inches; illustrated with black and white drawings throughout). As-new, from this beautifully produced set, a virtually mint copy in an unclipped dust jacket.