Search Results: Titles starting with H from Mike's Library

Yerevan: Armenian Center for National and International Studies. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2006. Trade Paperback. 9994120247 . Corners bumped, light edgewear. Solid oversize trade paperback.; Primarily in Armenian language, some Russian sections, and English language for about a third. Contents: o STATE COLLAPSE AS A PHENOMENON IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Martin Malek, in Russian; o SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC SOLUTIONS TO CONFLICTS: THE MOUNTAINOUS KARABAGH EXAMPLE, Stepan Safarian, in Armenian; o SECURITY ZONE: OCCUPIED AND CONTROLLED TERRITORIES, Alvard Barkhudarian, in Russian; o BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN: INTERESTS AND SPECULATIONS, Alvard Barkhudarian, in Armenian; o VELVET REVOLUTIONS IN CIS COUNTRIES: WILL THE LATIN-AMERICAN SCENARIO REPEAT?, Hovhannes Vardanian, in Armenian; o SOME ASPECTS OF USURPED INTERESTS IN ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN LIGHT OF THE “ASSETS FOR DEBT” FORMAT, Hovsep Khurshudian, in Armenian; o SOME ISSUES IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN-US… Read More

New York: Praeger Publishers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0030554411 . 1" label peel on spine, otherwise light shelfwear. Solid hardcover. ; Papers from the Second Human Hair Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, October 13-15, 1978. ; Praeger Special Studies; xv, 360 pages .

Derwood MD: Nice Breastfeeding, LLC. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2017. Trade Paperback. 0998502413 . Light cover curl, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; INSCRIBED by author on title page. "It is impossible to visualize the poverty and desolation prevalent throughout Haiti unless you are able to personally witness these images. In the literature, we read that Haiti is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world. Its poor infrastructure, lack of healthcare, and political turmoil perpetuate an environment that is defined by social instability and the uncertainty of whether improvements in medical care and social structure will ever occur. The suffering and long-term consequences in this community resulting from environmental disasters and a long history of government instability have not offered an easy solution to uplift this island from poverty and despair." Pharmacist and medical missionary shares his experiences in Haiti… Read More

Chicago: Williams & Rogers. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. Holes torn through front and rear free endpapers, 2" tear to one page, edgeworn, cover soil and tone, light text tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "This little book is designed to give pleasure and profit to children. It is to be used by the intelligent teacher in the school, or the thoughtful mother in the home. The motive is to have the teacher, mother, or companion of the children lead them to a true observation of the world around them, to be much out of doors with them, and to gather from fields, woods, and waysides stories told by the sucession of the months. Do not be afraid of wasting time in studying these objects before attempting to read about them. Be assured that the child's mental pictures must be clear ones before written words can recall definite images. To study an object means not only looking at it with the attention which interest compels, but handling it, drawing… Read More

New York: N Tibbals & Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1879. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks, light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; The author, Chaplain of St Luke's Hospital, New York City, provides a manual to minister the spiritual well-being of the sick, beginning with questions to establish the basic information and religious experiences of the patient. Walter Baker, from a family of Episcopal ministers, was the son of the prolific children's author Harriette Newell Baker. Interesting late-nineteenth century look at the social and religious aspects of illness, and the role of the clergy. ; Ex-Library; 310, 1 ad pages .

New York: Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue, annotations and check marks, owner's signature, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; In two parts: 1. Bibliography; 2. Applied sociology. Part 1 was first issued in 1893 under title: Bibliography of selected sociological references, prepared for the City Vigilance League. The City Vigilance League was a progressive era municipal reform group that attacked the corruption of Tammany Hall and sought to improve New York social conditions. ; Ex-Library; xi, 257 pages .

London: J & A Churchill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Professionally re-spined with original cloth laid on and new endpapers, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "In this handbook I have endeavoured to draw a line between surgical operations on the female organs and proceedings of a more or less purely obstetrical or therapeutical character fully described in current works on midwifery and diseases of women. This manual is devoted to true surgery ...Much importance is attached to the anatomy and methods of examination of the pelvic organs and to a proper selection of instruments. A sound knowledge of these subjects will greatly lighten the task of the operator." An important late Victorian textbook of gynecological surgery.; 485+16ad pages .

The Hague: Mouton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1977. Trade Paperback. 9027933278 . Library stamps/marks/labels, sunned, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; English language with Russian-English glossaries.; Slavistic Printings and Reprintings; Ex-Library; Vol. 120; 124 pages .

London: Martin Secker. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cocked, tone, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First edition per Allen J Hubin; Crime Fiction IV 1749-2000: A Comprehensive Bibliography; page 1129. "This early cowboy western by Scots-Canadian writer Frederick Niven (1878-1944) is a character study of a frontier outlaw with “good” bad man credentials. Like other train robbers and road agents of western history, he is absorbed into the cowboy culture of the open range between his crimes. There, even should his identity be known, he’s given shelter from the long arm of the law." - Ron Scheer; Buddies In The Saddle. Early western by Chilean-born Scots-Canadian novelist Niven, Canada’s favorite hobo writer, featuring runaway Scotsman Will Barclay and train-robber The Apache Kid.; 316, 4 ad pages .

Philadelphia: J B Lippincott. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light edgewear, light cock, light tone, owner's signature, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket 3" spine chip and creasing, 5" front flap edge tear, edgeworn, price clip, wear. Solid hardcover. ; First Edition, First Printing of the fifth Mr & Mrs North mystery in worn dust jacket.; 301 pages .

Wilkes-Barre: Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0942945204 . Light cover curl, otherwise slight wear. Crisp oversize paperback. ; Printing of 1,700 copies. Catalog of an exhibition held at Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 5-Oct. 15, 2000; 72 pages .

Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Corporation. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; German language. Facsimile reprint of 1937 edition, Berlin: Verlag Dr Emil Ebering. ; Historische Studien; Ex-Library; Vol. 324; 118 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 082403936X . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "One of the two main themes of this disseration is the study of these paintings in relationship to hospital patronage. This includes a thorough examination of evidence concerning the operation and structure of the hospital, the hospital patronage, the individual donors, and a study of the devotional function of the paintings in relationship to the religious life and health care in the hospital. To understand the paintings as devotional images, both meaning and composition are investigated and compared to artistic prototypes. This leads to the second theme of the dissertation: Memlinc's relationship to earlier pictorial tradition, especially Rogier van der Weyden, and the question of dependency and innovation. Three of the four works painted for the hospital bear an unmistakable resemblance to compositions by… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Front cover crease with small tear, light rear cover foxing, light tone, neat owner's name, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket light edge crease, a few red blotches on rear cover, otherwise light wear. Solid thick board hardcover. ; While the book has 1945 on title page, and First Printing, June 1945 on copyright page, both rear cover of book and dust jacket list to #27 The Story of Jesus (1946). Dust Jacket does have its wartime Buy US War Savings Stamps and Bonds on rear flap, with text: "Hansel and Gretel have learned how to provide for the future. Each week they buy War Savings Stamps, and soon they are going to buy a Bond. It's a good way for you to save, too." Highly desirable Little Golden Book with its early blue spine and quite-uncommon dust jacket.; A Little Golden Book; Vol. 17; Illustrations; [42] pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. 0824062795 . Slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; Facsimile reprints of The Happy Colony / Robert Pemberton, originally published London: Saunders and Otley 1854, and Hygeia : A City of Health / Benjamin Ward Richardson, originally published London: Macmillan 1876. Pemberton's work proposes a utopian settlement in New Zealand for the working class without private property. Richardson, a prominent physician and sanitarian, proposes what a city should be if sanitary science were advanced in a proper manner. Victorian views of utopian ideal cities influenced the development of town planning in England. ; The Rise Of Urban Britain; 217, (2), 47, 3 ad pages .

Philadelphia: David McKay. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1901. Reprint. Hardcover. Light tone, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Turn-of-the-century reprint of boys' sea adventure / lost race story in South Pacific.; Boys' Own Library; 300 pages .

Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; German language. Facsimile reprint of 1899 edition, Berlin: Verlag Dr Emil Ebering. Inhalt: Einleitung; 1. Der Sommer 1804. Die Aufhebung Rumbolds und die Verhandlungen mit Russland un Oesterreich; 2. Verhandlungen nach allen Seiten. August und September 1805; 3. Der Potsdamer Vertrag und seine Folgen; Schluss; Anhang: Die Friedensbedingungen vom 11. April und 3. November 1805. ; Historische Studien; Ex-Library; 107 pages .

Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; German language. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition, Berlin: Verlag Dr Emil Ebering. ; Historische Studien; Ex-Library; Vol. 365; 166 pages .

Rochester NY: Heliographis. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0936716010 . Light cock, light soil, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Nineteen poems inspired by Dorothea Lange photographs, with 20 tipped-in photos. #93 of 300, signed by Jennings. Book has pencil errata corrections. Laid in is hand-written letter by author, Michael Jennings, noting "Unfortunately there were printing errors, most of which I've corrected in pencil." Michael Jennings graduated from Penn as an English major and went to Syracuse University for graduate work in creative writing. Jennings' interest in animals began in southwestern Iran where he broke and trained horses, owned gazelles, a mongoose, and numerous dogs. He is an internationally recognized breeder of Siberian huskies. He teaches in upstate New York.; Unpaged pages; Signed by Author .

Cologne: Konemann. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. 3895088978 . Cocked, wear; Dust Jacket taped 2" spine head chip, edgeworn. Solid oversize and overweight hardcover. ; Spanish language. Original title: Ride free for ever: Harley-Davidson : Geschichte und Mythos. Massive pictorial history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Contents: Prólogo; Introducción; History; Models; Special Editions; Dealers; Races; Company; People; Clubs; Events; Customs; Sports; Art & Culture; Apéndice; Indice. ; Photographs; 682 pages .