Search Results: Authors starting with H from Cornell Books Limited

London: Putnam, 1967. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), x, 532pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original blue cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. Slight rubbing and bumping of the binding, else this book is in very good condition.

London: published by the author, no date [c. 1911]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xiii, 499pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine. There is some rubbing of the binding, and foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good plus condition. The book is undated; there are various estimates on JISC ranging from 1911 to 1915, but the final text page is dated Christmas Day 1910 so I have gone with a publication date of 1911.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 15cm), xx, 387pp. Frontispiece, 59pp plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (minor chafing of the extremities). Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. ISBN 0112901808

Darlington: The Northern Echo, 1947. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), ix, 156pp. Text illustrations by R Pocock. Original grey cloth, no dustwrapper. Several of the illustrations have been coloured in by hand, and there is a tear (a production fault) to pp 90/91 : overall, this book is in good condition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

London: Evans Brothers, 1951. Third impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), viii, 166pp, 2pp adverts. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good plus condition (a little rubbed, light chafing of the edges). the dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: John Murray, 1966. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xvi, 318pp. 15 plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, short ownership inscription; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (light chafing of the edges).

Ithaca: Cornell University, 1956. First edition in English (softcover). 4to (28cm by 21cm), [iv], 38pp. Original printed card covers, stapled to the contents. This copy is in good minus condition (the corners of the pages are dog-eared). Gift inscription from the translator (Leslie H Palmier) to the front cover.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 15cm), x, 176pp. 7pp plates, 85 figures. Original orange cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales sheet 15. ISBN 0118806114

London: The Folio Society, 1972. First Folio Society edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 157pp. Illustrated from photographs by Leonard von Matt, and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Original illustrated cloth binding, red card slipcase. The book is in very good condition; the slipcase is a little rubbed and sunned.

London: Martin Secker, 1927. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 15cm), 178pp. Original brown cloth. Light chafing to the head and foot of the spine, and there is some tanning of the contents; overall, this book is in good condition.

London: Ernest Benn, 1926. Second impression (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 11cm), 78pp. Original printed yellow card wrappers. The covers are rubbed and spotted, there is some foxing to the edges of the text block, and a short ownership inscription; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990. First edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xvii, 174pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. Signed by the author on the half-title page and inscribed to fellow local historian Tim Curr (who collaborated with the author on several of his other books). ISBN 0862998271

Bath: Firecrest Publishing, 1969. Second edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 380pp. 8 plates. Original dark blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition.

London: Augener, no date [c. 1920]. Third impression (softcover). 8vo (18cm by 12cm), 92pp. Original printed blue cloth wrappers. There is some rubbing of the covers, and the endpapers are foxed; overall, this book is in good condition.

Tel Aviv: Dvir Publishing House, 1955. First edition (softcover). Portfolio (35cm by 26cm), 12pp booklet, 10 loose colour plates. Original printed wrappers. The covers are rubbed, and one of the plates is foxed. Overall, this copy is in good condition. The booklet is in English; the plates have captions in English and Hebrew.

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1985. Third edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 17cm), xii, 244pp. 170 b&w plates. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. ISBN 0714823813

London: Wm Isbister, 1889. First edition, complete in two volumes (hardbacks). 8vo, xx, 316pp; xi, 312pp. 24 plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spines, gilt design to the front boards, top edges gilt. Bindings rubbed and lightly shaken, fraying to the head of the spines, endpapers foxed else contents good to very good. Formerly in a reference library, with occasional stamps. Overall, this set is just about in good condition.

London: Skeffington & son, 1900. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), viii, 279pp. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some rubbing and marking of the binding, some foxing of the preliminary pages, and a gift inscription to the front pastedown; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

London: E Step, no date [1921]. First edition (hardback). 16mo (14cm by 11cm), 95pp. Original blue cloth, titling printed in black on the front board. Some light bubbling of the cloth on the front board, else this copy is in very good condition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1979. Facsimile of the 1937 edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 151pp. 83 illustrations from wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (a little rubbed, price-clipped). ISBN 0575001445