Search Results: Authors starting with H from Certain Books, ABAA

Denmark: Dansk Ornithologisk Forening, 1978. Group includes: Breeding Birds at an Industrial Area by Bent Moller Sorensen 5 pages, printed one side only and with (8) tipped-on color real-photo photographs of the then- Kuwait Petroleum refinery at Stigsnaes Denmark (Kuwait eventually sold the refinery to the Danish energy Co. DONG; it is currently a storage facility only and no longer a refinery), text in English; with Observationer Fra Stigsnaes 50 pages, illustrated with maps & charts, bird activities, observations; and the group with Stigsnaes 1979 - 80; 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 19686, representing Stigsnaes reports 2 through 8; and Stigsnaes flora pa Stigsnaes (report Nr. 9). Laid-in is a hand-lettered note from Bent Sorensen to Dr. Berthel Bruun (1937 - 2011) Danish-American naturalist, international conservationist and neurologist, author of several birding guides. Danish text throughout (excepting the first item here). Also laid-in are a pamphlet regarding the Stigsnaes birding station,… Read More

Garden City Long Island New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968. 124 pages; signed and with a small golf-related drawing by Gahan Wilson on the front endpaper. Approx. 8" size, square format; illustrated dustjacket over hardcover boards; some edge, tips wear, closed edge-tears to the jacket; contents clean and in very good condition.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gahan Wilson.

London: Hutchinson, 1966. 256 pages; color, black and white illustrated; including articles on Valentines by Arthur Calder-Marshall, Glendalough, the Monastic City by Olive Cook and Edwin Smith, The Social History of Nudism by Bernard Denvir and the British Way of Death by Amoret and Christopher Scott, more; slight edge, tips wear, to dustjacket, price clipped; some edge, tips wear to box; very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York City: Underwood Image of Vice Admiral Haggard & Secretary Adams; here the Underwood credits state that (Haggard) "...Commander-in-Chief of the British America and West Indies Station, called on Secretary Adams of the Navy Department, after docking his cruiser 'Delhi' at the Washington Navy Yard...."; with another photograph of the Admiral in mufti as he arrived in Bermuda to assume the post of Commaner-in-Chief; Underwood credits & commentary tipped-on; no date but circa early 1930s; some light wear; very good condition.. Very Good.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1919. Not paginated, approx. 68 leaves and printed one side only; a facsimile of an original work done in manuscript by Susan Hale done in 1863, auctioned in an effort to raise money for Civil War efforts via the Sanitary Commission, according to Caroline P. Atkinson's introductory comments on the book in the Foreword; illustrated throughout with small stories and tales by the prolific Susan Hale (1833-1910) writer and painter; Caroline P. Atkinson, Hale's friend, edited and published selections of her letters - "...Hale left a legacy of enthusiasm and intellectual accomplishment that had a lasting effect on her family and associates..." (Erica E. Hirshler in the ANB); dustjacket over matching paper covered brown illustrated boards; "First Printing" stated on copyright page; some tips, edgewear, darkening to jacket, corners with some chipping, front panel split from spine; nevertheless, the jacket presentable and has done it's job well… Read More

New York: American Heritage, 1965. 415 pages, index; color, black and white illustrated; "...a single first-rate treatment of the subject...history, gallery of art, collection of great writings..."; some edge, tips wear to dustjacket, inner top flap clipped, price still visible; very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Jamaica, L.I.: Union Hall Academy, 1858. A single long sheet, printed one side only by "Democrat Print" Jamaica, L.I.; black on yellow stock, with ornamental surround; approx. 5 3/4" x 19" in size; listing the events of the exhibition, players, actors in skits, teachers, John N. Brinckerhoff & Henry Onderdonk, Jr.; giving the full names of students and their towns of origin; light wear & old fold lines; in very good condition and an interesting Long Island educational history broadside announcement.. Very Good.

Long Island, New York: Author Published, 1986. 23 pages; black and white illustrated; (from the author's preface): "...short simple story of Dutch and English colonial life on Long Island. Designed by a former children's librarian to meet the needs of elementary school children..." Approx. 6 3/4" x 5 1/2" size; light wear to stapled paper wrap covers; very good condition and interesting Long Island New York history for a children's perspective.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Long Island, New York: Author Published, 1986. 23 pages; black and white illustrated; (from the author's preface): "...a short simple story of the Indians of Long Island. In my former position as a children's librarian at the Stewart School in Garden City, N.Y., I long realized the need for such a publication..." Approx. 6 3/4" x 5 1/2" size; light wear to stapled paper wrap covers; very good condition and interesting Long Island New York history for a children's perspective.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good.

2 Postcards depict:"Scenic New Hampshire Series No. 3607" Jacob's Ladder, Mount Washinton Railway (Grade 1980 ft. to the Mile) published by Green Mountain Card Co. White River Junction, VT, unused, one cent card type and Mount Washington, N.H. in Winter, published by Chisholm Bros, Portland, ME. made in Germany, used, postmarked 1905, one cent Ben Franklin stamp; slight edge, tips wear and darkening; Mt. Washington card with some old dark offsetting on the image; overall, good condition.. Good.

Nashua New Hampshire: David Marshall, 1842. 391 pages + a small 'erratum' slip tipped-in at back, rather interesting since it notes that "...Since the publication of this work the Compilers have ascertained that the notice of the death of Milton Ward is an error. He is still living..."; at back are also some interesting biographical 'notes' on some of the contributors; approximately 150 entries of various literary and historical efforts by New Hampshire authors, and usually including birth and death information as prefatory; Early Settlers of New Hampshire by N.A. Haven to Vindication of New Hampshire by George Barstow; Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Lewis Cass, Mrs. Eliza B. Thornton, Harriette V.M. French, Ephraim Peabody, Hugh Moore, Miss Mary S. Patterson, Horace Greeley, many more; previous owner name on endpaper of Jas. A. Tilton Amesbury Mass.; bound in original publisher's decoratively blindstamped and gilt brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, (dulled); some edge, tips wear… Read More

Black & white; postally unused and with a 2c US stamp; no date but circa 1950s; undivided back; light wear; very good condition.. Very Good.

Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1968. xii + 42 pages, index; color frontispiece portrait illustration of C. Day-Lewis, of Lawrence Gowing; other illustrations in the text, portraits, holograph reproductions, other documents; with an introductory letter by W.H. Auden; Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) British poet, during the the 30s was highly regarded for bringing new life to poetry with contemporary symbols and ideas, created poet laureate in 1968.(Chambers); bound in printed dustjacket over blue cloth covered boards, silver gilt cover & spine titles; light edge, tips wear to dustjacket, spine end with a small closed tear; volume in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: MacMillan, 1922. 288 pages; previous owner's inscription on back endpaper; publisher's green cloth, gilt 'TH' in wreath decorative motif on front cover; gilt spine titles; some light wear to binding, spine titles dulled; some foxing to leaves; good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Paris: Librairie Plon 326 pages; preface by J.-H. Rosny Aine; text in French throughout; bound in marbled-paper covered boards, red leather spine, gilt spine titles; some browning to endpapers; some edge, tips wear to binding, front hinge of leather split, binding cords holding on; good minus condition.. Hard Cover. Good.

Washington, DC: No Publisher Noted, 1964. Typed on Embassy of Israel letterhead paper, with embossed blind-stamp seal at top. Dated January 14 1964, and casually signed 'Avry.' Avraham Harman (1914 - 1992), at this time was the Ambassador to the U.S.; later with a distinguished career as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Approx. 8" x 10 1/2" size; slight wear; old fold lines; in very good condition.. Signed by Author. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good.

New York: Crescent Books, 1986. 128 pages; laid-in is a (blank) notepaper with the imprinted name and address of author Leon Uris - a gift giver has humorously inscribed the book to "Lee" on his 29th (at the time he would have been 68) on his Aug.3 birthday; also laid-in is a short photocopied article on Montauk: A Capsule History for the Newcomer by Jeannette Edwards Rattray; color photographic illustrations throughout; "...history is as fascinating as that of any of the original thirteen colonies...tell the story of what man and nature have made of this beautiful place..."; large format 10" x 14" approximate size; light wear to dustjacket; very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914. 338 pages + (4) + 24 pages of publisher's catalog at back, some unopened; Frank Harris (1856-1931) British writher, perhaps the most colorful figure in contemporary journalistic circles, an incorrigible liar, a vociferous boaster an unscrupulous adventurer and philanderer, with the aspect and outlook of a typical melodrama and an obsession with sex which got his autobiography of My Life and Loves banned for pornogrphy; with all perceived faults nevertheless of lasting influence on news publishing in the 20th century. (Chambers); with the publisher's blindstamp "Review Copy with John Lane's Compliments" on the title page top corner; bound in blue cloth, gilt cover and spine titles; some edge, tips wear to covers, spine cloth sunned to dull; first few leaves a little foxed; overall, very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1906. Black and white illustrated; 111 pages + 24 page Architectural Catalogue for Batsford at back; notes section with extensive pencilled-notations, translating the text into French; some wear to edges, tips of cloth binding; previous owner inscription; very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Information Book Educational Supply Association Ltd. , 1955. 88 pages, glossary of furniture terms, index; black and white illustrations throughout; "...tells the story of furniture which people have used through the ages; furniture for keeping things in, and putting things on, for sitting and sleeping upon."; some wear to dustjacket; volume is in very good condition.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.