Search Results: Titles starting with H from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House 1974. 8vo. xxiii, 476 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust wrapper. Old cellotape repairs to verso of jacket showing through discolouration. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. 0835671593 . Very Good. Cloth. Third Printing. 1974.

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1945. Small 8vo. Frontis., 76 pp., very good in chipped with loss dustjacket. . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1945.

Hertford: Privately printed and printed by Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. 1949. 8vo. 43 pp. Original printed paper wraps. Limited to 1000 copies. Compliments slip from the Iranian Consulate loosely laid in. Lecture delivered before the Royal Asiatic Sociey and the Iran Society in London in 1949. Covers slightly age-darkened & marked. A VG copy. . Very Good. Wraps. 1949.

London: William Heinemann 1911, 1912, 1914. 8vo. 3 volumes. [v], 367; [iv], 379; [iv], 363 pp. Black cloth with blind-stamped decor to boards, gilt lettering to spines. Spines faded, minor marks to boards. Occasional light spots to fore-edge and throughout the volumes, though generally clean. Ink names to first two volumes, and split to rear hinge of last one. The Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic Moore's famous three-volume semi autobiographical novel, gossiping about his time in Dublin. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1911.

London: Bell and Daldy 1861. 8vo. First edition. xvi, 212, plus 12 plates, pp. Publisher's original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Wear & chipping to spine ends and spine marked. Boards rubbed. Rear hinge split. Early ink name to front pastedown. Early W. H. Smith & Son embossed stamp to ffep. Head and tail-pieces. A few plates loose. With 12 full-page plates, including 8 hand-coloured. The plates contain 117 specimens of natural and artificial flies, materials, etc. and 4 plates illustrating fishes, baiting, etc. Good condition. . Good. Blind-stamped Cloth. First Edition. 1861.

London: George G. Harrap & Company 1905. 8vo.Prize Binding. xiv, 376 pp. Full dark green morocco with gilt school crest to board and gilt lettering and borders to spine; all edges gilt. Newcastle Royal Grammar School prize binding, with bookplate to front pastedown dated 1927. Spine slightly faded; spotting to endpapers but generally internally clean. Black & white illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1924.

London: George G. Harrap & Company 1905. 8vo.Prize Binding. xiv, 376 pp. Full navy blue morocco with gilt school crest to board and gilt lettering and borders to spine; all edges gilt. Newcastle Royal Grammar School prize binding, with bookplate to front pastedown dated 1929. Spine slightly faded; endpapers foxed and occasional light spots throughout. Black & white illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1924.

London: Peter Davies 1939. 8vo. viii, 345 pp. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust wrapper and in additional printed glassine wrapper. Boards very clean. Jacket edgeworn with tear to glassine at rear panel. Ink name to front endpaper. Internally clean. Photographic illustrations. Uncommon with extra glassine jacket. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1939.

London and Sheffield: David Nutt / William Townsend and Son 1893. 4to. Presentation inscription from the author on the half-title. Out of series. Large paper copy. xii, 295 pp. Original full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight chipping to spine ends & with minor fading to spine. Endpapers darkened. Bookplate to front pastedown. Boards very clean. Internally clean. Frontis and other full-page etchings. Subscriber's list at rear. . Very Good. Cloth. Limited Edition. 1893.

London: Printed for J. M. Richardson and Sharpe and Hailes 1812. Small 8vo. sm. 8vo., 4th edition, xii., [ii] advert., 1/2 title, 109 pp. [verso blank], 2 pp. pub. cat. Recently bound in grey paper covered boards, with a gilt lettered red morocco title label. Very good. 16.3 cms tall . Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. 4th Edition. 1812.

London: Faber & Faber Limited 1930. 8vo. Uncommon, especially in jacket. First Edition. 311 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket; top edge gilt. Chipping around jacket edges, including small areas of loss. Boards clean. Spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Illustrated in black and white. Second volume of memoirs from actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1930.

London, United Kingdom: Historical Publications Ltd 1995. Large 8vo. 144pp. 201 black and white photographs 094866732x . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1995.

London: A & C Black Ltd 1926. 8vo. Second edition. ix, double-page map, 243 pp. 32 colour illustrated plates. Half straight-grained morocco over cloth boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine with raised bands; t.e.g. Minor rubbing to extremities and to front board. Ink inscription and illustration pasted down to prelims. Internally clean with plates bright. A well-researched history of the county in very good condition. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 2nd Edition. 1926.

London: Philip Allan & Co. 1924. 8vo. First edition. xii, 218, [1] pp. 23 illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt Eye of Horus to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Deckle fore-edge. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing scattered throughout. Plates complete. Two books presented together as single volume, the first titled Cheiromancy and the second, Ancient Palmistry. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1924.

London: John Murray 1870. 8vo. Second Edition, with illustrations. xv, 315 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorations in gilt and black to boards. Minor wear to extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Black & white illustrations . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition. 1870.

Gotha: Justus Perthes (1876). Folio. Re-cased, perhaps 1930s - 1950s, in blue cloth, preserving the original front board and remnants of the title. 39.5cms tall. Frontis and 89 double page maps as called for, together with 8 Mayr's Alpenkarte at the rear. Engraved, and mostly in colour. Rubbing to the binding, especially to leather panel at spine & some wax clinging to edges. Map 23 has some outlining, map 30 and enclosed plates darkened (sprayed to be darker on a film set). Other maps clean and in good condition. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Good. Hardback. 1876.

Bideford: The Supreme Magic Company Limited 1977. 8vo. 43 pp. Original colour pictorial wraps. Cover illustration by George Cameron. Illustrations. Clean copy. . Very Good. Wraps. Second Impression. 1977.

London: John Murray 1845. 12mo. bound in 6's. First edition. iv, 264 pp. Original publisher's blue/green blind-stamped cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Wear to spine ends with slight loss. Boards marked. Yellow endpapers. Tear to top of title page with loss of text. With 841 recipes and an index. Scarce. Binding firm. . Good. Blind-stamped Cloth. First Edition. 1845.

London: John Murray 1907. 8vo. x, 571, 34 pp., Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Some marks to the boards and sunning to the spine. Split to the front hinge and rear pocket. Generally internally clean with darkening to the half title and owner's name to the front advertorial endpapers, dated 1967. Maps complete with a tear to the removable map in the rear torn. Advertisements bound to the rear. . Good. Cloth. Revised. 1907.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 1859. Small 8vo. xi, 244, 24 [ads.] pp. Unusual textured black cloth with even gilt spots all over and gilt lettering to spine. Some loss to the spine ends with splits to the joints, particularly the rear. Slight lean to the spine with webbing visible at the hinges. Generally internally clean with occasional marks in pencil and ink, plate of W. H. Smith's subscription library to the front board. Primarily an English Translation of 'Physiologie du goût' by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a book that "changed the way people throughout the Western world think about food." . Good. Decorative Cloth. 1859.