Search Results: Authors starting with H from Brillig Books

Berlin: Paul Cassirer Verlag, 1925. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, dark blue cloth covered boards. 66pp. of text plus 91 collotype plates with titled guard pages. A tight sound and generally very clean copy with short felt tip mark on pastedown and quite minor soil to half title. One top forecorner rubbed and bumped and two short scratches near spine title. With all defects noted, still an attractive and overall very good plus or better copy with all plates in fine condition. TEXT IN GERMAN..

Cincinnati, OH: Educational Publishing Services, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo, turquoise blue stiff wraps (Trade Paperback). 264 pp. including selected sources and appendix of "Memories of Old Pittsburgh Residents". An eclectic selection of little known or forgotten historical facts about Pittsburgh. Divided into sections of "Events", "Places", "Personalities", "Odds and Ends" and "The City". SIGNED CLEANLY BY AUTHOR TREVOR HADLEY at top of free front endpaper. A very tight, square, stiff, crisp, sharp, clean, glossy volume, with an interior which is unmarked, unblemished and unread and a flat uncreased spine. BRAND NEW BOOK. SCARCE SIGNED..

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998., 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards. 318pp. including index, extensive bibliography and statistical appendices. Fine in fine dust jacket. A perfect and unread copy. AS NEW..

Budapest: Corvina Press, 1962. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards. 186 pp. including a rare and invaluable bibliography. Illustrated throughout with color pastel illustrations. A very uncommon detailed history of wine in Hungary, an often overlooked region of winemaking from ancient times and the home of one of the world's premier fine wines, Tokay. The bibliography is extremely valuable with otherwise unobtainable information on rare books on Hungarian wine. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp sharp biight dust jacket with mere hints of superficial soil visible only because the jacket is primarily white. A beautiful copy and quite scarce thus. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1999)., 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 242pp. with subject index, name index, extensive bibliography and notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publishers material laid in. A pristine and unread copy. AS NEW..

Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1975 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). F. First Edition. Octavo, black calf spine over brown cloth covered boards. 105pp. A very tight fresh and unread copy in original glassine dust wrapper. Wrapper has very minor wear to lower edges. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Small quarto, burgundy colored cloth covered boards. 446pp. including glossary plus Table of Elements followed by twenty black and white plates. Illustrated with photographic plates, charts and graphs. A very tight, fresh, clean and unmarked volume in a clean dust jacket with a few short edge tears and fraying at top of spine. Fine in very good dust jacket. An attractive copy of this uncommon title..

NP: W. R. Halpin, ND (circa 1900). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). F. First Edition. Small octavo, brown imitation of bark textured cloth covered boards with gilt title. 108pp. plus final photograph. AUTHOR SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #414/500. Illustrated with 16 full page black and white photographs including "Chicken Fight in Juerez [sic] Mexico", "Chinatown: San Francisco" and "Indians Gambling at Reno Nevada" plus several of California Missions inter alia. A paean to the American West, (especially the West Coast) as a travel destination for Americans instead of the "Grand Tour". A near fine copy with bright gilt title. Offsetting on lower half of copyright and next page from previously laid in item and spine faded a bare quarter tone, else fine. A very attractive copy of a scarce item..

Amsterdam: Quatre Mains Book. Illus. by Gidi Van Liempd. As New. Hardcover. First Edition.. First Edition. Octavo paper covered clamshell box with white printed introduction on interior board. Unpaginared (approx. 160 pp.). A set of illustrated laminated recipe cards with a semicircular upper portion, revealed by a fold down upper half of the inner clamshell board. TEXT IN ENGLISH. All recipes from the renowned Restaurant Halvemaan in Amsterdam, set forth step by step with illustrations by Gidi van Liempd. Recipes on both sides of the removable cards. A special editions, SIGNED BY CHEF JOHN HALVEMAAN and ILLUSTRATOR GIDI VAN LIEMPD, and numbered "237". A very fine flawless copy. AS NEW. VERY SCARCE..

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. Octavo, black textured paper covered boards with red and white titles and spine titles. Rear endpapers illustrated with "Useful Formulae". 396 pp. including index, references and list of supplementary reading. A seminal work in particle physics. This volume is very tight, with fresh cloth and titles and an interior of bright white pages; unmarked, unblemished and, from the tightness of the binding, apparently never read. There are four 1/8" separation spots at the inner hinge, but these are simply a result of the excessively tight binding by the publisher, and there is not the slightest weakness to the binding. In an unclipped tight, glossy dust jacket with a couple of short tears at the top of the spine and minor associated creasing and some very minor edge rubbing. A perfect volume in a near fine dust jacket. Very scarce in the original hardback edition..

Sea Harbor, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, green cloth spine over yellow paper covered boards. 184pp. Nominated for the Man Booker award. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a very tight, crisp, sharp, brilliant dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988. Book. Illus. by Barry Moser. New. Hardcover. Small quarto, red cloth spine over turquoise paper covered boards, with gilt title and spine titles. 161 pp. including "Useful Sources" plus colophon. A Newberry Award winning book generously illustrated by the renowned book illustrator Barry Moser. Very Fine in Very Fine Dusts jacket. Flawless. BRAND NEW BOOK..

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second Printing. Small quarto with sand white cloth covered boards and red spine titles. Top edge stained red. 269 pp. including index and appendices. Very generously illustrated througout with over 800 reproductions and facsimile signatures. A tight, clean, bright volume with fresh white cloth and solid top stain, in a clean, tight, crisp, glossy dust jacket with one short closed edge tear, some minor soil to white rear panel and minor edgewear to top of spine. Fine in very good plus dust jacket..

Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Bollingen Foundation, 1961. Book. As New. Cloth. Thick octavo, green cloth covered boards. 1734 pp. including index. A tight, clean, very fresh, unmarked and apparently unread volume with brilliant white, crisp pages in a clean tight, sharp, sparklnig dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Fresno, CA: Word Dancer Press, 1995. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Second Edition. Second Edition. Oblong small quarto, photo-illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 112 pp. including photograph section and list of his office/studio colleagues and engineers, index, "architectural chronology". Generously illustrated throughout with full color and black and white reproductions of Dyson's drawings and full color photographs of his buildings. A tight, clean, fresh, bright and unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. No marks, no tears, no stains etc. Barely noticeable soft crease on last five pages (just a very slight deformation not a crease per se), else fine. Very near fine. A great copy. Quite uncommon..

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers Ltd, 1973. Book. As New. Soft cover. Octavo, orange and white illustrated printed stiff wraps (paperback). 314 pp. Folding map in front. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A comprehensive history of this mountainous region where Idaho, Nevada and Oregon meet. Full of great true to life western yarns about ranching, pioneering and native american history. A very tight, square, crisp, stiff, bright, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine. BRAND NEW..

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original brown cloth covered boards.358pp. A facsimile edition of the original and only other edition of 1886. This copy is very tight, very clean, fresh cloth and unread bright white pages. There is an odd compression mark to the pages but the book appears unread and otherwise as new. Near Fine..

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. Octavo, plum colored cloth covered boards with silver spine titles. 149 pp. including index and notes. A tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and sparkling spinie titles, unmarked, unblemished and unread in a crisp, very tight, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

Tokyo/New York: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai/Dodd Mead, 1938. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. Thick Quarto, sand colored cloth covered boards with gilt cover decoration and spine titles. 239pp. including index. Generously illustrated throughout with 147 full page plates from photographs 11 of which are in full colour including the frontispiece with printed titled tissue guard. A still unsurpassed explication of the spirit of Japanese art and culture comprised of the texts of 11 lectures given by Professor Harada in the United States (mostly in Oregon) in the years 1935-36. A beautiful book production. This volume is a beautiful, unmarked and apparently unread volume. Very tight, clean and fresh pages with crisp tissue guards on the color plates. The only defect is a faint yellowing to the extreme top edge of the boards, else fine. In a very heavy, crisp, stiff dust jacket which has a couple of mere flecks of soil and some signs of faint dust darkening, else fine. This is a very handsome example of… Read More

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, (1971). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, yellow/green cloth covered boards. 159pp. A very tight, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket with one short very closed edge tear at bottom front, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..