Titles starting with H from Left Coast Books

Chicago and New York: Museum of Contemporary Art; Abrams, 2001 Cloth, 212 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio.; 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 30-Sep. 23, 2001, and at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Feb. 14-May 12, 2002, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 9-Sep. 8, 2002, and at Menil Collection, Houston, Oct. 4, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003. With essays by Dennis Adrian, Michael Rooks, Robert Storr, an... more information

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Vancouver, WA, and San Gabriel, CA: World Buddhism Publishing; World Dharma Voice, 2008 Revised First Edition. 557 pp., illus. (some col.); 30 x 29 cm. Text in Chinese and English. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Regnery; Gateway Editions, 1987 xxxvii, 349 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In this powerful book Mencken battles against conventional thinking; from Emerson to Shaw, Twain to Joyce, and teetotalers to psychoanalysts" - Publisher.. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970 81 pp., illus. (part col.), ports., bib. notes; 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held Sept. 25-Nov. 1, 1970, at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp/endpaper, otherwise unmarked. An indispensable catalogue on the American painter H. Lyman Sayen (1875-1918), who was strongly influenced by Matisse and Fauvism. He was a scientist and inven... more information

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London: Little, Brown and Company, 1991 Cloth, 159 pp., col. illus.; 25 x 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in an mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. UK Edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Oblong. Collectible. ... more information

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Seattle, WA, and Juneau, AK: University of Washington Press; Sealaska Heritage Foundation, 1987 xvi, 514 pp., illus., map, ports., biblio.; 23 cm. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 1. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "These gripping and powerful prose narratives relate monumental events in the lives of the forebears of Tlingit clans, from the prehistoric migration to the coast of Southeast Alaska to the first contact with Europeans. The stories were recorded from the 1960s... more information

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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960 247 pp.; 18 cm. First published, 1957. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning. Wraps lightly soiled, rubbed. Cover Illustration by Heather Standring. Older edition, scarce, in orange wrappers.. First edition thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Standring, Heather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collectible. ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001 ix, 456 pp., maps, biblio., index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economi, and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast interesting light on these processes from both the European and the Habsburg angle. Opposing views that the natio... more information

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Derby: English Life Publications Ltd., 1984 32 pp., illus. (most col.), geneal. table; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Guidebook. ... more information

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New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995 244 pp., 18 plates, illus., map, index; 22 cm. First published, 1969. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Hadrian's Wall is the most important surviving memorial to the military might of Rome--much admired and emulated as a model of frontier management. Yet the author's provocative study vigorously attacks tradition, calling the wall a military triumph but a politic... more information

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Istanbul: Net Turistik Yayinlar A.S., 1996 60 pp., col. illus.; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, Byzantine mosaics, architecture). . English Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Guidebook. ... more information

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New York: Newsweek; Wonders of Man Ser., 1972 Cloth, gilt, 172 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Turkey. Photograph by Simon Taylor (1998). FOR REPRODUCTION RIGHTS to this image, email: grandhotelabyss@hotmail.com. . ... more information

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Honolulu, HI: Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond in association with University of Hawaii Press, 1995 136 pp., illus., biblio.; 29 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... more information

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Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1962 [62] pp., illus.; 19 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with a small closed tear/bottom edge, front cover. Translated from the masters of the seventeen-syllable poetic form : Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Sokan, Kikaku, Chiyo-ni, Joso, Yaha, Boncho, and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Hill, Jeff. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 xii, 212 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002 x, 198 pp., illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. AS NEW. "Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a 'free' person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we enter the ... more information

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New York and Munich: Museum for African Art; Prestel, 2000 192 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio.; 30 cm. "Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February to 28 May 2000." BRAND NEW. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Prelude: Hairdressing; Prologue, by Roy Sieber; History, by Ray Sieber; Hair in African Art and Culture, by Niangi Batulukusi; Interlude 1: Status or Identity:... more information

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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972 xx, 201 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Wraps lightly rubbed. Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616) was an English scholar-clergyman and a raconteur of seafaring tales. . First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York: Bantam Books, 1995 386 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or ... more information

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