Search Results: Titles starting with H from Ariadne Books

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First edition, 1992. Hardback. 316pp. Dust jacket. A stunning novel of suspense and accurate psychological insight. All the characters are trapped by their partial understanding of themselves and of each other. Book in near fine condition and with an unread feel. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped.

Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. Second impression. Paperback. Fine/No dust jacket issued.. Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut, 1989. Paperback. Book Condition: Near fine. Uncreased spine and just the slightest amount of shelf wear.Judith Weissman's book makes an original contribution to our understanding of a group of central nineteenth century texts. A very readable book that offers some fascinating perspectives for feminist criticism.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1925. Hardback. x, 126pp. Original red cloth binding. Blind stamped with a lion's head to front and gilt to spine. Top edge tinted. No jacket. An explanation of the Hall Marks placed upon Gold and Silver articles to guarantee the Standard, and struck by Authority of Act of Parliament, by the various Companies of Goldsmiths and Guardians of the Wrought Plate, in England, Scotland and Ireland, with representations of the Hall Marks as impressed together with notes on the guarantee marks of several Foreign Countries. Book in very good condition. A little colour fade to spine and adjacent narrow strip to boards. Printed ex libris plate and a further owner's signature to front paste down.

London: Published for Reeves & Turner by Gibbings & Co Ltd, 1898. Hardback. vii, 102pp. Black & white frontis with tissue guard. Original red cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. No jacket. A little wear to extremities of spine and corners. Generally rubbed and lightly soiled. Spine colour faded. Printed ex libris plate to front paste down plus a previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Very light and occasional spotting.

London: John Murray, 2010. First UK edition. Hardback. As New/Fine. John Murray, London, 2010. First UK edition. Book condition: fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: Near fine - very minor creasing to head of spine and to rear flap. This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border. The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother searching for a child. This is a novel you cannot stop thinking about.

London: Christopher Helm, 1989. First edition, 1989. Hardback. 258pp. Dust jacket. Swallows and martins are familiar and popular birds, largely due to their habit of nesting in close association with humans. This handbook provides a detailed account of their biology and their identification. In the plate section each species is depicted in exquisite detail by Chris Rose, and colour maps showing distribution and breeding ranges alongside the plates make for easy reference. This stunning and authoritative book provides an important source of identification as well as reference to the biology and ecology of the 74 species of swallows and martins throughout the world. Book in very good condition. Very slight toning to page edges. A little colour fade to upper edges of boards. Previous owner's name and date to ffep. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Minor edge wear. Slightly heavier wear and and a small nick to top edge of spine. A little discolouration to spine and to a horizontal band on rear.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1935. Hardback. Very good/No dust jacket.. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, revised edition 1935. Book condition: very good. A little light shelf wear and some slight dust soiling to upper edge of text block. Internally clean & unmarked. No dut jacket. Part of Dent's The Master Musicians series. Illustrated.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1909. First edition. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. The Religious Tract Society, London, 1909. First edition. Book condition: fair. Boards generally rubbed and worn, lightly soiled. Corners a little bumped. Spine slightly discoloured. Decorative front board reinforced internally with a vertical strip of tape at hinge. Gift dedication to ffep. Light spotting to text block edges and sporadically throughout. Colour frontispiece and title page. 33 coloured plates and 182 other illustrations. Publisher's ads at rear. No jacket.

New York: Garden City Publishing, 1932. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. N. C Wyeth & Peter Hurd. Garden City Publishing Co Inc, New York, 1932. First edition. Book condition: Very good. Only minor shelf wear - corners free of bumping. Very small indentation to rear cover (approx 2mm diam) and a couple of very light stains also to rear. Pictorial onlay to front cover very bright and clean. Previous owner's name to pre-printed 'This is My Book' panel on front paste-down. Book very tight and sound, extremely clean internally with just a very slight tanning to the paper. Dust jacket condition: good. Some rubbing and chipping with slight loss to corners, around head & tail of spine and to a small area of lower edge of rear. Some creasing around the edges and a little colour fade to spine. Wrapper drawn by N. C. Wyeth with colour illustrations by Peter Hurd. A lovely book full of friendship, loyalty, patience and self-sacrifice - a real page-turner. How will things turn out?… Read More

London: Tiger Books International, 1990. Hardback. Fine/No dust jacket.. W. Heath Robinson. Tiger Books International, London, 1990. First impression of this facsimile of an edition originally published by Hodder & Stoughton. Book condition: fine. No dust jacket. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.

London: Bracken Books, 1985. Hardback. Very Good/Fine. Helen Allingham. Bracken Books, London, 1985. Book condition: very good with small amount of shelf wear around th head & tail of the spine. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped with light shelf wear. Helen Allingham loved to paint in the open air, in spring and summer. Her trees are usually heavy with leaves, her gardens bright with flowers, her shrubs weighed down with blossom. Many of her cottages are almost hidden beneath overhanging boughs, rambling roses, or creeping plants. Only once (plate 18) in this book does she suggest winter - with bare branches - and even then, the sky is mostly blue. It is never, in her pictures, dark or brooding. No wonder, in such unvaryingly fine weather, that the women wear sunbonnets as they stand at their gates; these are days warm enough for the girls to go out in print dresses and pinafores, and the boys in smocks. Helen Allingham always preferred to paint on the spot; and after she had left… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First edition, 1999. Signed and dated by the author to "Simon with all good wishes" on the title page. Hardback. 385pp. Red paper boards with black cloth spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This is the second full-length appearance of V.I. Warshawski following her debut in Tunnel Vision. A dark and emotionally shattering case for V. I. Warshawski that takes her into the home of a wealthy Chicago family, into the pampered world of a Hollywood star, and behind the razor wire of a women's prison where the more dangerous criminals may be on the wrong side of the bars. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket also near fine and unclipped with just a little minor edge wear. Spine very slightly faded.

London: Hutchinson, 1999. First edition, 1999. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 394pp. Dust jacket. A Chief Inspector Wexford novel. On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbours had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Book in near fine condition and unread. A couple of tiny marks to upper edge of text block. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped. Just a touch of edge wear to extremities of spine.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. Hardback. 96pp. Dust jacket. Book and jacket as new. Jacket unclipped.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Originally published in 1884. This edition dates from 1887. One of the Famous Women Series. Hardback. xii, 304pp plus 4 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Brown cloth boards with black and gilt design to front, black design to lower board, black and gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers with floral design. A biographical and critical sketch of Harriet Martineau and her works, Book condition good. A little wear to extremities of spine and very minor wear to lower corners. Small mark to lower board. Text block edges a little soiled. Previous owner's name and address neatly stamped to ffep. Some toning to paper.

London: Picador, 2013. Third impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author. Picador, London, 2013. Signed by the author. Third impression. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine - unclipped and virtually free of shelf wear. In Jim Crace's hypnotic prose, Harvest evokes the tragedy of a land pillaged and communities scattered, as England's fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this beautiful novel of one man and his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever.

London: Walker Books, 1991. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket.. Colin McNaughton. Walker Books, London, 1991. First edition. Book condition: very good and very clean. A little very light creasing around the upper corners and edges of the final fold-out pages. Owner's name neatly on ffep. Very light evidence of use. No dust jacket. King Kong, Mister Thing, piranhas, ghouls. ghosties and aliens...these are just some of the inhabitants of the weirdest street you could ever imagine. But have you seen who's just moved in next door to them? Delightfully illustrated

London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Chatto & Windus, London, 1989. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket condition: near fine but price clipped. This is a story of female courage, told through the eyes of Hannah, whose ruthless teenage vision pierces family pretence, and through the eyes of Jenny, the 'perfect' daughter-in-law, depended on by her own menfolk to be a rock. Black comedy turns to disturbing pathos as the rights of Mrs McKay are fought over, and as generations and sexes clash. Have the Men Had Enough? tells us truths at many levels. At once funny, moving and compelling, it is an unrivalled portrait of an indomitable grandmother and a very special love story.

Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1980. First edition, 1980. Hardback. 154pp. Dust jacket. The species declined from an estimated population of 25,000 in Hawaii in the 18th century to less than fifty birds in the 1940s. Thanks to extended breeding programmes at Slimbridge and Pohakuloa the population had recovered to an estimated 2,000 Hawaiian Geese at the time the book was written. The causes which led to this decline and the hazards faced by reintroduced populations are discussed at length, but the core of the book is the propagation programmes and the problems and successes they brought during many years of patient work. For the conservationist and aviculturalist the accounts of captive breeding will be interesting reading. Appropriately, Sir Peter Scott, whose interest and involvement in the rescue of the Hawaiian Goose was of prime importance, is one of the artists whose drawings supplement the text. Colour frontispiece and 24 monochrome plates. jacket illustration by Tim Halliday. Book in very… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1929. First edition, 1929. Hardback. 322pp. Blue cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. Unclipped dust jacket in a protective sleeve. A novel of the English countryside and the competition of several young bachelors for the hand of a beautiful girl. Book in good condition. Very slight lean to the spine. Just the very occasional spot of foxing. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. A little edge wear. Spine discoloured.