Search Results: Authors starting with H from McBlain Books

Basel: Basel Afrika Bibliographien, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine. 79p. Softcover. 22cm. Poetry by 16 Namibian students.

Le Caire: Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1981. Paperback. Near Fine. x, 151, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Unopened. French text. At head of title page: Supplement aux Annales du Service des Antiquites de l'Egypte; Cahier No. 24.

Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press, 1987. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi, 245p. Original cloth. 23cm. No Jacket. African Studies, Volume 5.

Paris: L'Edition d'Art, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Edmund Dulac. 49 (of 50) tipped in color illustrations (by Edmond Dulac) and accompanying captioned tissue guards, 131p. Contemporary 3/4 leather. 24 cm. Lacks frontis (Shehazarade, heroine des Mille et une nuits). Modest rubbing at top of front joint. Small ring mark on marbled paper portion of front cover. Small gilt decoration (or initials) in upper left corner of front cover. Original wrapper not preserved when this was rebound. French text.

Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1676. Hardcover. Good. [8], 557p. plus [19]p. index. Old leather. 20cm. Cover rubbed and showing moderate wear. No titling on cover. Text has moderate browning and some staining (mostly in lower margin). Old notes in Dutch on rectos of two of preliminary leaves. Dutch text. Sermons.

Paperback. Very Good. Signatures, now faded but still readable, in bottom margin. Photo brown-toned but still sharp and clear. Redmond and Hagen are standing in front of a brick building and are looking at each other while partially facing the camera. Redmond is holding a club in his hands as if showing it to Hagen. Golfing great Hagen is wearing a dark three piece suit; Redmond, a golf pro from New York, is wearing a white suit (with plus fours) over a sweater. Redmond is perhaps best remembered for a protege, Jeanne Carmen, who was a glamour girl and a very talented golfer.

Providence: Cranston; Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1839. Hardcover. Good. 192p. Original cloth. 19cm. Clean ex lib. (Pequot Library). Gift inscription. Bookplate of George Phillips Parker. Scattered foxing. Parker's Library was dispersed at auction in New York in 1859.

Singapore: Printed by Malay Pub. House, 1963. Paperback. Good. maps, 60p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Modest corner crease. Three small holes along left side where this probably had been stitched into a pamphlet folder.

Paris: Benjamin Duprat, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. v, 342p. Later 19th century quartercloth binding (marbled boards backed in purple cloth). 23cm. Edges rubbed. Mostly light foxing. French text. A book about Muslim saints.

San Francisco, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. mounted photos,147p. printed on one side (probably mimeo). Softcover in tied green covers. 27 cm. Abstract from WPA Project 2874, C.P. 65-3-3632.

San Francisco, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. mounted photo on green leaf preceding each of the biographical entries, 160 [3]p. printed on one side (probably mimeo). Tied softcover. Green cover leaves. 27 cm. A couple of photos partially detached. Abstract from WPA Project 2874, O.P. 65-3-3632.

San Francisco, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. mounted photo on green leaf preceding each of the biographical entries (except architect John Henry Howard's), 149p. Tied softcover. Green outer leaves. 27 cm. Abstract from California Art Research W.P. A. Project 2874, O.P. 65-3-3632.].

San Francisco, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. mounted photo on green leaf preceding each of the biographical entries, 119p. Tied softcover. Green outer leaves. 27 cm. Abstract from California Art Research W.P. A. Project 2874, O.P. 65-3-3632.]. Constance was born and educated in Australia. Her husband Spencer was born in New Zealand and attended the National Gallery School of Painting in Melbourne where he met his future wife.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1897. 1st ed. First Thousand. Hardcover. Good. index, iv, 368p. plus 16p. publisher's catalogue. Dark blue cloth. 19cm. Corner of back cover quite discolored; small piece of front cover edge gnawed. Front hinge-paper cracking. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket.

Vancouver: U of British Columbia, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ix, 411p. Brown cloth. dj (backstrip faded). 23cm. Contains revised versions of papers presented at the First International (9th Annual) Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, Vancouver, November 1979.

Fort Valley, Georgia: Fort Valley State College, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 42p. Stapled softcover. 28 cm. Some chipping and wear around edges on back cover. INSCRIBED by Haith on first page of alphabetical list ("To an excellent Librarian on this day 17 June 1983 Best wishes Dorothy M. Haith").

Port-au-Prince, 1961. 3rd ed. Hardcover. Good. index, 183p. Leatherette-backed boards. 18cm. Boards worn at extremities, with chipping in paper covering. A few leaves partially unopened. Pages unevenly browned. At head of title: "Les codes haitiens". Annotated by A. Rigal. French text.

Middletown, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map, 184p. Photocopy bound in black buckram. 28cm. No Jacket (as published). INSCRIBED to Professor Jeffrey Butler (and his wife) whom Hakala thanks in her ackknowledgements as her advisor and mentor. Doctoral dissertation at Wesleyan University.

[Manila?]: Department of Information, Imperial Japanese Forces, 1942. Paperback. Poor. [4], vii, [1], 86p. Original wrapper. 15cm. Cover intact but worn and rather stained. Bottom third of title-page gone as is top fifth of the next (Contents) leaf. Also lacks final six pages --we don't know what those pages contained. Contents browned; some dog-earing.

n.p.: Privately printed, 1881. Paperback. Fair. 8p. No separate wrapper. 26cm. Soiling and several substantial edge tears. Russian Orthodox Church.