Search Results: Titles starting with H from Daisyroots Books Ltd

MACLEAN, AlistairHMS Ulysses :The greatest sea saga of all (Fontana Books 253) First Fontana editionFontana Books, London, 1960, 1st thus. paperback, VG, lightly tanned, spine strip intact, no inscriptions, one neat annotation on front fly-leaf, no loose pages, lovely clean copy.WAR ADVENTURE, PULP FICTION, PAN, 1ST PAPERBACK EDITIONS43744 COLL PB/M £39.00

HOW TO READ A LATIN POEM If you can't read Latin yet.Oxford University Press 2013 1st edition, 1st impression. Hardback with wrapper. Fine / fine. 277 pp.

A Haiku Journey : Basho's the Narrow Road to the Far North and Selected Haiku
BASHO, Matsuo; BRITTEN, Dororthy (Translator)9780870112392Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1974, large format, 1st Edition, hardback with original protective plastic wrapper as printed by publisher, VG/vg, buckram cloth pictorial boards, dark yellow endpapers, illustrated throughout from beautiful colour photographs, unpag.Boards clean and firm, no inscription or annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Plastic wrapper intact, clean, gentle rubs to edges and corners.LITERATURE, POETRY, MATSUO BASHO, JAPANESE POET, HAIKU,UNRHYMED VERSE, THREE LINES, FIVE, SEVEN & FIVE SYLLABLES45819 LIT/POETRY £16.50

The Half Brothers FRANKLAND, Edward Macdonald & Co.,(Publishers) Ltd., London, 1947, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG-/vg, boards light brown/gilt, glossary of place names, 416 pp. Boards with light shelf wear, damp stains to front and back boards, three dark marks to spine title, neat inscription to front free end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, foxing to edges of text block. Wrapper clean and crisp, gentle rubs to edges and corners, price clipped. Lovely condition. CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, 1ST EDITION, HARDBACK, EDWARD FRANKLAND, HISTORICAL NOVEL, DARK AGES, VIKINGS 46173 CHILD'S COLL £19.00

QUEEN, ElleryHalf-Way House : A Novel in Five PartsVictor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1950, hardback with dust wrapper, Gd/gd, boards red/gilt, 319 pp. Boards clean and firm, one small mark to spine, no inscription or annotations, sound square binding, pages tanned, foxing to endpapers. Appreciable wear to wraps (see scan) with foxing to front and rear, now protected by acid-free archive film, original price (4'6 net) not clipped.CLASSIC CRIME, HARDBACK, ELLERY QUEEN, DETECTIVE STORY45367 hb 58 CLASSIC CRIME/Q £10.50

Halfway to ParadiseSTAFFORD, D & CThe Life of Billy FuryISBN: 9781785584534Omnibus Press, London, 2018, First Edition hardback with dustwrapper, NF/nf, Black boards/silver, 278 pp, illustrated with 38 plates from b/w and colour photographs. No inscription or annotations, sound square binding, no loose pages, clean bright leaves. Wrapper clean and crisp, minimal shelf wear on top edge. Excellent condition.BIOGRAPHY, BILLY FURY, MUSIC, ROCK N ROLL, ENGLAND, 1960'S43660 BIOG/F £16.50

RYAN, Alan (Editor)
Halloween Horrors
ISBN: 9780747403012
Sphere Books Ltd. (Penguin Group), London, 1988, paperback, VG, 245 pp.
Wraps and spine strip intact, creasing to front and back corners, label residue to front. No inscriptions or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, tanned, gentle rubs to corners. Nice tidy copy.
COLLECTABLE PAPERBACK, FICTION, COLLECTION OF 13 STORIES, HORROR, HALLOWEEN, THE UNDERWORLD, GHOSTS, DEATH, EVIL
46285 COLL P/BACK £11.50

INNES, MichaelHamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery)ISBN: 9781842327371House of Stratus, Kelly Bray, Cornwall, 2008, paperback, as new, 304 pp.No inscriptions or annotations, binding sound, pages clear and bright. Covers clean and crisp, several small white marks to front and back covers. FICTION, COLLECTABLE PAPERBACK, CRIME, MICHAEL INNES, DETECTIVE STORY, INSPECTOR APPLEBY44538 hb innes FIC/COLL/CRIME/I £9.00

Penguin 1973 hardback with wrapper, nr fine / Vg 834 pp. Neat inscription under front flap. Minimal rubbing. Tiny chips at spine tail on wrapper. Not price clipped.

A Handbook on Meat and Text Book for Butchers
HAMMETT, R. C. & NEVELL, W. H.
The Meat Trades' Journal Co. Ltd., London, 1929, hardback, VG, boards blue/gilt, b/w frontispiece in addition to 129 b/w photographs and b/w drawings, 544 pp in addition to a 31 page trade directory and buyers guide.
Gentle shelf wear, sound binding, no inscription or annotations, slight lean to the spine, pages clean, tanned, edges dust stained.
COOKING, MEAT, BUTCHERY, HISTORICAL CONTEXT, SLAUGHTER, CUTTING, SHOPS, EQUIPMENT, CURING AND PRESERVING, SALESMANSHIP
46140 COOKING hb 85 £91.50

Hands-On Spiritual Healing (VHS video)
BRADFORD, Michael
ISBN: 9780905249988
Findhorn Press, Findhorn, 1996, VHS Video, VG, 80 minutes.
Plastic storage case clean and sound, VHF video also clean with no defects.
MIND, BODY, SPIRIT, HEALING, MICHAEL BRADFORD, FINDHORN, CHANNELS OF SPIRITUAL ENERGY, STEP BY STEP GUIDE, DEVELOPING HEALING TALENTS
46568 MBS/HEALING £20.50

HADDOW, DenisHanged by a Thread (1st edition) First Novel Library, No.118Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London, 1947, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards red/black, 160 pp.Boards firm, lightly marked on the back and spine strip, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages lightly tanned, cover shadow to endpapers, edges of text block lightly foxed with mild dust stains. Rubs to wrapper edges, back cover lightly foxed, spine strip sunned, now in protective acid-free archive film, original price (5'-) not clipped. FICTION, 1ST EDITION, HADDOW, CRIME, BLACKMAIL, MURDER MYSTERY44308 hb 31 FICTION/1ST ED//H £14.00

LEWIS, Jean
Hanna-Barbera's Boo Boo and the V.I.V.
Whitman Publishing Company, Wisconsin, 1965, Authorised Edition, hardback with laminated pictorial boards, GD+, illustrated throughout by colour cartoons by George DeSantis, unpag.
Boards edge worn (see scans), neat dedication on title page (see scan), no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, tanned.
A Whitman Big Tell-a-Tale
CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, JEAN LEWIS, BOO BOO, YOGI BEAR, CARTOON CHARACTERS, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
46381 CHILD'S COLL/L £12.50

BBC books, paperback. 342 pp. Illustrated. Edges gently worn. No inscriptions. Some ink annotation in the recipe section. How to run a home, spring clean a house and deal with all domestic calamities from pests to scratches on furniture. Hints on washing. Painting and papering a room. Shopping. Holidays...as well as Ruth's own Recipe Book.

RUSKIN, John; WISE, Thomas J. (edit).
Harbours of England
George Allen, London, 1895, hardback, full red leather with gilt Church Schools Company Ltd shield to front, gilt border, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, marbled page edges, marbled end papers with gilt border to boards. 134 pp. School prize platye to front end paper. Thirteen illustrations with tissue guards. Firm, sound binding. A really lovely copy. ANITQUARIAN, HISTORY, SEA PORTS AND HARBOURS, DOVER, RAMSGATE, PLYMOUTH, CATWATER, SHEERNESS, MARGATE, PORTSMOUTH, FALMOUTH, SIDMOUTH, WHITBY, DEAL, SCARBOROUGH
46329 ANTI/Ruskin £71.50

Hardknott : National Park Forest Park Guides - Number 5H. L. Edlin (Editor, Publications Officer for the Forestry Commission)His Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1949, softback with illustrated stiff card wraps, VG, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs and sketches, plans and two maps that form the centre pages (see scan), 65 pp.No inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean and crisp, very gentle rubs, small diagonal crease on back cover.TOPOGRAPHY, THE LAKE DISTRICT, NATIONAL PARK, HARDKNOTT, HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOLOGY, BOTANY, ECOLOGY, WOODLAND HABITATS, WALKS44249 hb lakes TOPO/LAKES £11.50

WOOD, Leslie
Hardship our Garment (First Novel Library 119)
Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1947, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, GD+/gd+, boards brown/black, 272 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle bumps to head and tail of spine, rubs to corners, smattering of faint marks to front and spine strip, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, lean to the spine, pages clean, tanned, edges of text block lightly foxed. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), chips to head and tail of spine, water stains to back panel, rubs and bumps to edges and corners, now protected by acid-free archive film.
COLLECTABLE FICTION, 1ST EDITION, HARDBACK, LESLIE WOOD, SUSPENSE, MURDER, FALSLEY ACCUSED
46257 COLL FIC/W £21.50

Sampson Low, London, 1963, 1st UK edition, hardback with wrapper. 159 pp. Red boards/ black lettering. Illustrated endpapers in orange. Illustrated in the text with b/w drawings. VG/vg. No inscriptions, Printer's paper fault on page 147/8 making part of the paper so thin that in a small part it is missing altogether. (reflected in price). Wrapper not clipped, rubbed on extremities.The Hardy Boys Mystery of the Desert Giant Franklin W Dixon40885 CHILDREN'S Collectable £21.50

Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760O'BRIEN, John 0801879108Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004, hardback with dust wrapper, boards black/gilt, VG/vg, red and yellow tail bands, illustrated from b/w photographs of original pen and ink drawings, 274 pp.Boards clean and firm, no inscriptions, annotated throughout the introduction, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Wrapper clean and crisp, gentle rubs to edges and corners. ANNOTATED.SOCIAL HISTORY, THE ARTS, THEATRE, PANTOMIME, CUTURAL HISTORY, HARLEQUINS, MODERN ENTERTAINMENT45799 hb 72 SOCIAL HIST £29.00

HarryWales. Robert 0947728090Robert Royce Ltd, London, 1985, 1st edition hardback with wrapper, VG/vg, black boards/ gilt, front wrap bears Russell Drysdale's painting Road with Rocks, 277pp, no inscriptions, wrapper not price clipped (£8.95)clean pages, sound binding, slight scuffing and fading to boards, Australian outback adventure story, 1st edition fiction, 42220 FIC/ 1ST/ W £12.50