Authors starting with H from John Michael Lang Fine Books

(Cheney, Washington): EWU Press, 1982. Paperback 7.75" x 9.75". 87pp. Glossy illustrated paperback. Mild edge wear and soling, overall nice VG+ condition. packed with black & white photo ilustrations. This book is an informal history of Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington, from its beginnings as the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy. ... more information

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Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gad, 1969. Hardback 11.75" x 8". 481pp. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ownership blindstamp, else near fine condition. A detailed study, with chapters covering genealogy of the Yar-Lun Dynasty, names of the members of the royal family, the Mongol tradition of the Tibetan kings, cosmological and theogonical aspects of the representation of the dynasty, and much more. With many charts and plates. ... more information

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New York: Random House, Inc., 1972. Hardcover 11.75" x 8.25". 26pp. Glossy color illustrated hardback boards, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket has a tiny bit of edge wear, else near fine condition, with the $3.95 price intact. Another great story of the most famous literary elephant. ... more information

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Houston: Paideia Press, 1982. Paperback 8.5" x 9.25". 158pp. Glossy color illustrated paperback. The top of the spine is badly bumped, otherwise the condtion is very good. With many color and black & white illustrations from drawings and paintings. This copy features a gift inscription to Dr. Milton Katims. Katims was a driving force in Seattle's cultural and civic life. A violist and conductor, he led the Seattle Symphony for 22 years. ... more information

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[No place]: (Victor E. Haas), 1965. Paperback 11" x 8.5". [215pp.] Orange paperback with a black cloth spine. Near fine condition. A detailed work, with chapters on what the abacus is and the rational for teaching blind children to use it, a section devoted to readings on the subject of abacuses, methods of abacus usage, lesson plans, etc. ... more information

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Zurich: Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 1991. Hardback First edition 12" x 8.75". 176pp. White cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. One corner lightly bumped else fine condition. Light edge wear on the jacket, else near fine condition. Inscribed by Gwyneth Jones and with an inscribed Christmas card from Jones. An illustrated overview of the life and career of the famous Welsh soprano, from her childhood growing up in a mining town to her performances throughout the great opera houses of the world. ... more information

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Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Hardcover 9" x 5.75". 824pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. An exhaustive work on the Anglo-Irish dramatist. This volume cites over 2600 separate items wholly or partially about Shaw. Several indices cross reference the contents to make this volume particularly useful. ... more information

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Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1959. Hardback 9" x 6". 1006pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has a light bit of rubbing and edge wear and a small scrape on the spine. "Lives of the saintly persons of the three Orders of St. Francis for every day of the year with meditations and liturgical prayers." With many portrait illustrations of these holy Fransiscans. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Paperback First edition 8.25" x 5.25". 109pp. Glossy illustrated paperback. Ownership signature, very mild general wear, else near fine condition. Poems by the winner of the 1975 National Book Award. ... more information

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Seattle : Pat Hackett / Artist Representative, 1994. Paperback 7.5" x 4.75". 51pp. Stiff heavy paper covers with a dust wrapper. Fine condition; the nice jacket has a one inch closed tear along the top edge of the front panel. This book is a Christmas greeting souvenir in which various artists have contributed a color illustration to go along with a short lyric to a Christmas song. The artists represented here include Chuck Pyle, Bobbi Tull, Bill Cannon, Dennis Ochsner, Chris Hopkins, Larry... more information

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1959. Hardcover First American edition 8" x 5.5". 205 pp. Red cloth cover hardback with illustrated red dust wrapper. Wrapper slightly worn at edges, otherwise near fine condition. This socially satirical novel by Alan Hackney skewers such postwar British institutions as the Foreign Office, Big Business and Unionism, through the character of Stanley Windrush, a recent graduate of Apocalypse College, Oxford. ... more information

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New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Hardcover First edition 8.25" x 5.5". 229pp. Brown cloth, lettering & decoration in gilt. A good+ or better copy with minimal overall wear & removal of book plate. Dust jacket is chipped & torn, but overall clean & bright. The story of eleven eclectic French citizen-soldiers caught in a prison camp. ... more information

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Denver: The State Historical Society of Colorado, 1964. Paperback 9" x 6". 14pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. A study of an important fur trade post in the frontier west. With several illustrations. ... more information

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Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930. Paperback 9" x 6". 24pp. Stapled paper wrappers. Near fine condition. This booklet is an offprint from The Colorado Magazine, Volume VII, no. 2, March 1930. This important manuscript resides at the Colorado Historical Society. It is among the most important first hand accounts of pioneering in the American west. ... more information

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Sydney: Reed, 1977. Paperback Second printing 9.5" x 7". 96pp. Bound in color illustrated glossy paper wrappers. Mild general use, but overall a VG+ copy ... more information

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San Francisco: International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union and Pacific Maritime Association, 1963. Paperback 11' x 8.5". 161pp. Illustrated paperback. Light rubbing and fading, else VG+ condition. With an introduction and concluding statements by Harry Bridges and J. Paul St. Sure. Fully illustrated with Otto Hagel's black and white photographs. ... more information

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Spokane, Washington: The Westerners, Spokane Posse, 1956. Hardcover Two 8.75" x 5.75" volumes. [Apr. 100pp.] Pebbled red cloth with gilt spine lettering. This is a specially bound set for Lowell H. Noll, one of the members of the publication committee of the Spokane Westerners. Both volumes in fine condition. These issues of this journal of Pacific Northwest history includes articles on Custer by Edgar Stewart, Spokane, "Mullan's Axe and Shovel Passage," Governor Isaac Stevens... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Hardcover First edition 8" x 5". 162pp. Blue cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket is chipped and worn. An interesting study of air travel in South and Central America. ... more information

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Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1997. Hardback First edition 10.75" x 11.75". 213pp. Green cloth with a coor illustrated label on the front board, brown leather spine with gilt lettering. Fine condition. This edition is limited to only 500 copies. It is signed by the author and by 96 of the authors featured in the book. With numerous illustrations and good informative text on these prominent artists. ... more information

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Seattle: Seattle Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1975. Hardcover 9.25" x 6". 121pp. Maroon buckram with gilt lettering and cover decoration. A fine copy. One of only 500 copies printed. With articles on the printing trade in and illustrations after items printed by the various Seattle Printing House Craftsmen. ... more information

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