Search Results: Authors starting with H from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Hardcover. As new/as new. Folio, [33.75cm/14inches], full gilt-embossed curry-cooured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.536, indexed (by artist). Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Bob Haak (1926 – 2005) was a Dutch art expert known mostly as one of the founders of the Rembrandt Research Project. From 1954-1963 he worked in the department of paintings at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. From 1963 he was curator at the Amsterdam Museum, the museum which today is still the formal owner of the Rembrandt paintings on show at the Rijks, including The Night Watch. In 1956 he worked on the Rembrandt commemorative exhibition in the Rijks, where certain paintings were on show which hadn't been back to Amsterdam for decades, such as the pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. It was during this project that involved leading Rembrandt experts that Haak… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1977. First Impression. Paperbound Exhibtion Catalogue. Fine/No. Demy folio, [27.5cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 117. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Kelsey Museum was concieved in 1893 when Francis Kelsey, a professor of Latin at the University of Michigan began acquiring artifacts in order to help his students understand the ancient world. In 1924, Kelsey secured funding for excavations at sites around the Mediterranean and began to ship a large number of artifacts back to Ann Arbor. Hee sent nearly 45,000 objects from Karanis, illustrating "in detail how daily life was lived in Egypt under Roman rule."

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1968. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], full gilt-embossed maize-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 264, indexed. Illustrated with 127 b-w halftone platess. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... German Hafner studied classical archaeology, prehistory and art history in Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1938 with Arnold von Salis in Heidelberg with a dissertation on four teams in front view. He then edited the volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for the Baden State Museum Karlsruhe. After the military service (1940-45) he was a research assistant at the newly founded Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Mainz,where he habilitatedin 1951. In 1957 he was appointed an unscheduled professor, and in 1963 he was appointed to the Scientific Council. He retired in 1976. He continued his research until… Read More

New York: Aperture, 1990. First Impression. Journal. As new. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 77.. Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Barry Lopez (Unbounded Wilderness, Essay), Charles Hagan (Land & Landscape), John Pfahl (Power and Smoke), Rebecca Solnit (Reclaiming History...), Wes Jackson (Wilderness as Saint), &tc.

Journal. As new. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 95. Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Josef' Sudak's early work included many series of light falling in the interior of St. Vitus Cathedral. During and after World War II Sudek created haunting night-scapes and panoramas of Prague, photographed the wooded landscape of Bohemia, and the window-glass that led to his garden (the famous The Window of My Atelier series). He went on to photograph the crowded interior of his studio (the Labyrinths series). He first showed his work in "Five Photographers" at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln in 1968. Then he showed at the George Eastman House in 1974 and he published 16 books during his life.

New York: Aperture, 1990. Journal. As new. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 77. Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Caol Nagger (Algerian Women), David Lewis (South Africa), Wendy Ewald (Retratos de Pueblo), Robert Thompson (Brazillian Alters), &tc.

Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Trust For Historic Preservation, 1980. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. . Royal octavo, [25cm/10in], gilt-embossed turquoise-coloured binding sans dust jacket, pp. 307, indexed. Fully illustrated w/b-w halftone plates. ... The Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary is located in Lompoc, California. It was established on December 8, 1787 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, hence the mission's name) by the Franciscan order. The original mission complex south of Lompoc was destroyed by an earthquake in 1812, and the mission was rebuilt at its present site several miles to the northwest. The mission is part of the larger La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, part of the California State Parks system, and along with Mission San Francisco de Solano is one of only two of the Spanish missions in California that is no longer under the control of the Catholic Church. It is currently the only… Read More

London: Prion, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 216, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. The Golden Age proper is, in practice, usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being written today. In his history of the detective story, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, the author Julian Symons heads two chapters devoted to the Golden Age as "the Twenties" and "the Thirties". Symons notes that Philip Van Doren Stern's article, "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley" (1941)… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [31.25cm/12.5inches], full pictorial cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 176, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1918. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Marshall Jones Company, 1918. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches] full gilt-embossed navy blue faux-levant cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 471. Fully Illustrated with three sepia halftones of Susan Hale and Edward Everett Hale. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Susan Hale, (1833 – 1910), was an American author, traveler and artist. She devoted herself entirely to the art of painting in watercolors which she studied under English, French and German masters. Hale traveled extensively, sketching and visiting the galleries of the world. She was associated with her brother, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in the publication of The Family Flight series, which included the several countries she had visited. She also exhibited her pictures of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, of North Carolina scenery and of foreign scenes, in New York City and Boston.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. AS NEW/Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 336. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Kirkus notes: "Key West chronicler Hall gives rugged adventurer Dick Thorn (Red Sky at Night, 1997, etc.) a well-earned rest as the author heads north to Miami to follow the fortunes of a police photographer, a lethal serial rapist, and two very large bags full of money. As the technician charged with photographing the Bloody RapistÂ’s victims, Alexandra Rafferty would have her hands full with one way or the other. Though the Rapist has obligingly left buckets of his blood and dozens of his fingerprints at each of five crime scenes so far, the cops have no leads, and it looks like the Rapist would be providing Alexandra steady work even if she didnÂ’t have troubles closer to home. But her life with armored-car driver husband Stan and with Lawton… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1996, 1996. Signed First Edition. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 374. Signed on title page. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Kirkus Review notes: "A fiendishly clever saboteur goes up against the uninspired defenders of the Fiesta Cruise Lines in the seventh of Hall's increasingly overblown action fantasies. Butler Jack has a passion for etymology, an integral stun gun installed on his fingers, a consuming hatred of Fiesta mogul Morton Sampson, and a plan to bring Sampson to his knees via a demand for a $58 million ransom he wants to donate to charity. To feed his hundreds of foster kids the world over, Butler plans to override the autopilots of the Fiesta cruise ship Eclipse and Sampson's behemoth, pathetically vulnerable oil tanker Juggernaut. To carry out this James Bond plot, he needs the unwitting help of the hopeless… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 380, Signed on title page. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Kirkus Reviews notes: “Another tangy Florida thriller from Hall (Bones of Coral, 1991, etc.), this one about long-buried treasure—and murder. Once again, Hall works expertly within the rules of the genre, pitting a misfit hero against fever-dream villains. His new protagonist is Hap Tyler, grandson of one of Miami's founding fathers but no prize, a wenching layabout who carves surfboards when he's not locked up at the local asylum for hearing voices. It's Hap's older brother, Daniel, an archaeologist, who upholds the family name—until Daniel is murdered, which sets Hap against four of Hall's nastiest villains yet. They're Ray Alvarez, a brutal ex- cop; Ray's sidekicks, lifetime loser Glenn Hollings and vicious Martina Phelps—Glenn's… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, The Easton Press, et al, 2006. First Easton Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed calf sans dust jacket, pp. 253, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Over the course of his career, Kermit Hall held academic positions in the history departments at Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University, and University of Florida. In 1992, Hall began a rapid ascent in higher education administration that included appointments at University of Tulsa, Ohio State University, and North Carolina State University. He served as president of Utah State University from 2000 to 2005, and in early 2005 he became the seventeenth president of the at University at Albany. During a distinguished career as a scholar, he wrote six books and edited twenty-two, including the award-winning The Oxford Companion to the Supreme… Read More

London & Paris: Robert Hall, 1991. First Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full ebony cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xiv, 130. Fully illustrated with colour plates. 129 illustrated lots with prices realized. . The auction coincided with the annual convention of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. ... The publisher's blurb notes: "Hall's interest in Chinese Snuff Bottles started over thirty-five years ago when he first saw a collection in a shop window. From that point, he has become one of the leading dealers in the field. His integral role in the formation of many of the world's great collections places him in a unique position to both buy and sell, and his knowledge of the subject has enabled him to produce over sixteen publications and numerous articles. Whether you are beginning your time as a collector or have been involved for many years, Robert Hall will offer you expert advice. Robert's business now takes him around the world to… Read More

London: Robert Hall, 1987. First Impression. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Demy folio, [28.5cm/11.25 inches], full London grey cloth with mylared-dust jacket, pp. 174. A Catalogue of 85 snuff bottles, each illustrated with full page colour plate and brief description. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Shelton, Connecticut: First Edition Library, .n.d. (1993). Fascimiie of the First Knopf Edition, (1934). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full embossed pictorial turquoise cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 259. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The story is set in New York City in December 1932, in the last days of Prohibition. The main characters are Nick Charles, a former private detective, and Nora, his clever young wife. Nick, the son of a Greek immigrant, has given up his career since marrying Nora, a wealthy socialite, and he spends most of his time cheerfully getting drunk in hotel rooms and speakeasies. Nick and Nora have no children but they own a female Schnauzer named Asta. (In the film adaptation, Asta is a male wire-haired fox terrier.) Charles is drawn, mostly against his will, into investigating a murder. The case brings them in contact with the Wynants, a rather grotesque family, and with various policemen and… Read More

Falouth, Cornwall: The Ocean Cruising Club, 2008. Paperbound. Lightly muffed. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 188. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The club's website notes: "The Ocean Cruising Club was Founded in 1954 by the late Humphrey Barton after his east-west crossing of the Atlantic in the 25 foot Vertue XXXV; the club exists to promote long-distance cruising in all its forms. The club, administered from the UK, has no premises, regarding the oceans of the world as its clubhouse, although it enjoys visitors' rights with a number of major clubs worldwide. Membership is about what the applicant has done rather than who they are. Membership is open to anyone either as skipper, or certified as competent by the skipper, who has completed a continuous ocean passage of at least 1000 miles, measured along the rhumb line, in a vessel of no more than 70 feet… Read More

San Diego: James R. Hammond. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 30. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: James R. Hammond, 1998. Magazine. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 23. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.