Titles starting with H from 100 POCKETS

Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1976. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/VG, showing faint discoloration, w/nips & small closed tears to upper front, and upper/lower spine edges. Biography of billionaire Haroldson Lafayette Hunt (1889-1974) w/black & white photos. The native son of Illinois farmland will strike it rich on oil, amass enormous wealth, rub shoulders with luminaries, but, contrary to American tradition, gave no thought to philanthropy.. First Edition, First Print... more information

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London, UK: Pitkins, 1952. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon faux-leather boards/Good; Clean & strong with rubs to corner tips and loss to lower spine. DJ/Poor; Nips, chips, short closed tears to edges, & loss to lower spine. Photographic record of the story of Princess Margaret from birth to 1951, the year she came of age; anticipated Volume Two to be pusblished in 1953. . First Edition, First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. ... more information

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Darmstadt Und Neuweid: Luchterhand Bilderrbuch - Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1983. This is an agreeable, unscholarly collection of illustrations and light verses about the head's crowning glory, and not infrequent locus of vanity, - hair. Hair's place in time and fashion is the author's concern, and her survey ranges from American Indians to Simson und Delila to Hohe Frisuren. Not the least interesting examples are drawn from the head and art of Frieda Kahlo, to whom a chapter is given. 128 pages, with Inha... more information

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Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. BRAND NEW Copy. A trim, compact guide to creating temporary indoor habitats that allow study of various animals and plants in natural settings. Rich manual for teachers and home schooling parents with emphasis on conservation and respect for life and nature. Directions to set up 10 different mini-habitats in big jars, aquariums or terrariums. Contents are: 1. Note to Parents & Teachers; 2, What is a Habitat?; 3, Life in a Rotting Log; 4, Wonderful Worms; 5, Watching Wo... more information

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New York, NY: Perennial Library/Harper & Row, 1986. 1991, 13th Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Cover/VG w/light rubs to leading edges & faint creasings to front. Book first published by the Univ of California. In the 1830s French social philospher Tocquerville penned a discerning analysis of the relationship between character and society in America. In his book Democracy in America, Tocquerville isolated customs or conventions essential to, or characteristic of, the nation at large; these mores he someti... more information

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Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1959. A determination of the language facility (monolingual, bilingual) of the inhabitants of 40 Municipios in Guerrero State, based on the 1950 census. Specific non-Spanish languages are not discussed, but a correlation establishes that bilingualism increases with population density. 27 pages, with tables and charts; pull-out map at rear. Ex-Lib markings include sticker affixed to front board, and stamps on front board verso and upper text edge. Boards... more information

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Silver Spring, MD: Institute of Moderna Languages, 1971. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace soiling to lower front adjacent to spine. PO name on title page. Excellent text for beginning students of Spanish. SR (Situtional Reinforcement) is a foreign language teaching method forwarded by the Institute of Modern Languages. The subscribed methodology (spiral approach) means that a mixture of the language is presented at the beginning. No one lesson need be learnt perfectly before proceeding to t... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt. This undated copy, a volume in the publisher's Cornell Series, is likely the second edition of Hagar, as Burt was a reprint house. Honors for the first probably go to Belford, Clarke, Chicago, a copy of which the Library of Congress owns and estimates to have been published c1889. The NYPL, which has a copy of our Burt edition, places its publication date as 190-?. In any case it is probably the first young adult book with a Mormon theme, one of the first set in post-Civil War Ohio... more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Japan Publications, 1968. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace soiling to upper edge of fEP. Soft cover/Fine. First Edition, 2nd Printing of Dec, 1968. Volume 3 in a series of four volumes. Anthology of English verse written in the Haiku tradition.. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. ... more information

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New York, NY: United Artists Music Co, 1968. Text/As New. Illustrated soft cover/VG; Strong & sound w/sticker remanent & light soiling to rear. The 12 songs are: Acquarius, Donna, Ain't Got No, Air, I Got Life, Hair, Easy to Be Hard. Frank Mills, Where Do I Go?, What A Piece of Work Is Man, Good Morning Starshine, and The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In).. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Illus. by Dagmar (Photos). ... more information

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London, UK: Puffin/Penguin Group, 1985. Text/New New. Illustrated cover/NF. Marvellous, fast moving tale of innocent dogs and a tough cat. Told in simple rhyme with excitment heightened by tone of voice when read aloud. Hairy Maclary of Donaldson Diary goes for a stroll and is joined by canine pals Hercules Morse (as big as a horse), Bottomley Potts (covered in spots), Hercules Morse (as big as a horse), Muffin McLay (like a bundles of hay), Blitzer Moloney (all skinny and bony), Schnitzel von Drumm (with a... more information

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Barrington, NJ: Edmund Scientific, 1985. Text/BRAND NEW. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. Illustrated DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs, nips, closed tears to edges & small loss to upper spine; & surface rubs w/light soiling. PO initials (?) on fEP covered. Mongraph. Treatise on Halley's Comet with photographs of its momentous appearance in the spring of 1910; this book was published in 1985 when the comet reappeared. Apparently on a 76 year cyclical path, its next anticipated visit to Earth will be the... more information

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Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1987. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. A poetry of Navajo legends and stories retold by Noël Bennett, and photographs from John Running capturing their very humaness. Bennett is not of Indian heritage by blood, but after a projected two-year stay on a Navajo Reservation that became eight because she found so much to learn, so one can say she is Navajo in spirit. Running's art has been perfected by years... more information

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Cleveland: The Chemical Rubber Co., 1964. "The second edition recognizes the importance of interpolation procedures as involved in numerical techniques. The result is that extensive sections on the solution of differential equations by numerical methods are now included. Special emphasis is given to a section on finite differences, the contents of which should prove very useful. A complete revision of the vector analysis material has been made. These important tables have been prepared by Professor Bry... more information

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Paris: Editions Du Seuil, 1971. This book is a volume in the publisher's CHANGE series. Its interest lies less in the compare-and-contrast of Hamlet and Panurge (Hamlet's "envers burlesque") than how French intellectuals were applying the then new notions of language, linguistics, syntax, semiotics. and sturcturalisme: to literature comparee. Chomsky and Jakobson are ciited, as are Foucaukt, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss. In the second half of the book (the "Entrtiens" of December 4, 1970), th... more information

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New York: C. S. Hammond & Company, 1957. This is a well done volume of maps, of particular interest because of the space it gave to Canada at the time (Political Maps of Individual Canadian Provinces, Illustrated Gazetteer of Canada, Political Map of Newfoundland, Index of Individual Canadian Provinces): no other country except the USA was as well served. The rest of the world was here, of course, and one can only marvel at the political changes that have taken place since this atlas was published. 328 ... more information

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Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Columbia Univ Press, 1964. BRAND NEW Copy w/spot soiling to upper front corner. Translations of basic concepts of Legalist (Fachia) political philosopher Han Fei Tzu (ca. 280 BC -), student of Hsün Tzu who taught man's nature is intrinsically evil in direct opposition to the view of Mencius who held evil to be an acquired trait. Han Fei Tzu wrote his treatise for King Han of his native state, though it was the king Ch'in (also, Qin), the First Emperor of China, who ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1960. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated green, stapled softcover/NF; light rusting of staples. PO name to front cover verso. First published 1937, authored by Ella Gardner. This revised edition includes new chapters on storytelling, youth fitness, and dances. Issued by the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Dept of Health, Education, & Welfare. Excellent compilation of children's games. Subject matter, following Suggestions for the Recreation Leader, ar... more information

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New York, NY: Dover, 1996. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. First published 1986; this is a Dover reprint of 1996. Monograph on the art of bookbinding by hand. Expert guide augmented by illustrations by author with instructions to repair and conserve old books. Fine reference/resource for librarians and all book lovers.. Dover Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Illus. by Aldren A. Watson (Author-Illustrator). ... more information

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West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing, 1975. Text/As New. Sienna boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/Good w/nips, chips, & closed tears to edges, & loss to upper spine. PO name on front cover verso. A guide to direct healing engeries, which circulated through the body on specific pathways, through massaging of the hands. Relexology, a system of massage through relex points on the hands, feet, and head to relieve tension and treat illness, was first practiced in the Far East. Indeed, some consider t... more information

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