Henry Handel Richardson, 1870-1946, a bibliography to honour the centenary of her birth
by Howells, Gay, compiler
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. First edition. Illustrated violet paper wrappers with white title to front cover. Spine has faded to light blue and is not titled. Upper corner bumped with minor wear to edges. 82 pages. Illustrated. BOB/111516.
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U.S. Iana. (1650 - 1950). A Selective Bibliography in which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States
by Howes, Wright (compiler)
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Scuffing to boards and minor wear to corners & edges. Minor discoloration to rear board. Interior is clean with bright text. Binding is a little loose, but pages all remain securely held in place. 652 pp.
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A Roycroft Anthology
by Hoyle, John T. (selected and edited by)
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1917. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Includes a large selection of poetry by many authors including Robert Browning, Poe, Ernest Crosby, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, et. al. Three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title and decoration to spine. Heavy chipping to foot of spine and crack starting at bottom of... Read More
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Little Journeys to the Homes of Reformers: John Knox
by Hubbard, Elbert
East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Print Shop, 1907. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. Hubbard founded the Roycroft community in 1895. His Little Journeys series of small works on various writers, artists and other famous people, and his visits to their homes began in 1896 and became quite well known. The collection on Reformers was published in 12 separate monthly releases,... Read More
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Elbert Hubbard Speaks, Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, each written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses
by Hubbard, Elbert
East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycrofters, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. 2nd Printing. Very good minus. Beatiful full soft brown leather with only minor chipping to head of spine. 8vo., detailed gilt title to cover. B/W photographic endpapers; front inner hinge is cracked and leather of binding partially detached from top half of textblock; rear inner hinge is... Read More
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The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard. Volumes 1, 2, and 3
by Hubbard, Elbert
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Author's Edition. Each of the three volumes are numbered 491 of 1,000 copies. All are signed by Hubbard. Illustrated. These three volumes include writings from Hubbard's Little Journeys series which discusses authors, artists, politicians, and other people of note. All volumes are bound in three quarter navy... Read More
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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers. Volume XX (20)
by Hubbard, Elbert
East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Print Shop, 1907. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. Hubbard founded the Roycroft community in 1895. His Little Journeys series of small works on various writers, artists and other famous people, and his visits to their homes began in 1896 and became quite well known. The collection on Reformers was published in 6 separate monthly releases... Read More
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (English Authors: Volume V Five)
by Hubbard, Elbert
New York: William H Wise and Co (Roycrofters), 1916. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Memorial Edition. Scarce in jacket. Includes chapters on William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, and Benjamin Disraeli. This is Volume Five in a series of books... Read More
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Zweimal zwei und finfzig auserlesene Biblische historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente, der Jugend zum Besten abgefasset
by Hubnern, Johann
New York: Wm. Radde, 1861. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Green cloth and tan paper covered boards. Original binding Boards stained and edgeworn. Front board and spine detached from text block but firmly attached to rear board. Missing front and rear free endpapers. Top inch of title page torn away. Text has pencil marks in a few spots and occasional... Read More
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Histoire d'Amiens
by Hubscher, Ronald
Toulouse: Privat, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited edition of 4000 of which this is number 856. From the Pays et Villes de France series. Very good+ in maroon cloth covered boards with white title to front board and to spine. Spine slightly rolled. Light bumping to corners. Birthday message written in pencil to bottom edge... Read More
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Robert Penn Warren, a bibliography
by Huff, Mary Nance, compiler
New York: David Lewis, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/very Good. Hardcover. Bound in tan cloth boards with maroon spine. In lightly rubbed dust jacket with short tears. Very good. 171 pages. BOB/11516.
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The Alchemist
by [Mary Hughes Robson / Mrs. Hughs]
London: Printed for William Darton Jun, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Presumed first edition of this uncommon book. English author Mary Hughes Robson wrote many books geared towards the moral development of young ladies, including this one. She moved to Philadelphia and opened a school for girls with the help of philanthropist John Vaughan. She wrote several pamphlets... Read More
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Appearance and Reality in International Relations
by Hugo, Grant
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./207 pp. Political Science. POL11072.
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Vision & Revision: Introducing Meriden-Stinehour Incorporated
by Hugo, Harold and Roderick Stinehour; B.A. King, photographer
Meriden, CT and Lunenburg, VT, 1978. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Published to announce a new printing company, Meriden-Stinehour Incorporated, created by the merger of two small, well-known, and well established printing firms. Meriden Gravure Company was founded in 1888 and The Stinehour Press began in 1950. This book commemorates this new entity with a history of the two companies... Read More
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Chefs-D'oeuvre de L'Art Francais. Paris 1937. Tome I: Peintures. Tome II: Sculptures, Objets D'Art, Tapisseries, Dessins, Estampes, Manuscripts
by Huisman, Georges (preface)
Paris: Edition des Musees Nationaux, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. IN FRENCH. VERY SCARCE IN THE UNITED STATES. Includes descriptions and full page black and white photographic reproductions of nearly 400 pieces of art. Tome I, Painters, spans from the 14th century to the late 19th century. Early paintings are religious in nature, and some of the painters... Read More
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A History of the Art of Printmaking from It's Invention to Its Wide-Spread Development in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century
by Humphreys, H. Noel
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Issue. Preceded by a short account of the Origin of the Alphabet, and of the successive methods of recording events before the invention of printing. Includes chapters on ancient writing methods, the earliest Roman records, manuscript and block books from the middle ages, the origin (in the West) of... Read More
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A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
by Hunt, Leigh; Illustrated by Richard Doyle
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Includes numerous vignette wood engravings and illustrated half-title page. Attractively bound in contemporary three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title and author labels to spine. Author label reads: "Leigh Hunt's Works" implying that this is one of several volumes; however, there... Read More
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Pearls and Savages. Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea - in New Guinea
by Hurley, Captain Frank
New York / London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. James Francis "Frank" Hurley (1885 - 1962) was an Australian photographer, filmmaker, and adventurer who participated in several expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer during expeditions as well as during both world wars. His photographic style, which at times incorporates composite shots, staged... Read More
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Power and Prestige: The Arts of Island Melanesia and the Polynesian Outliers
by Hurst, Norman
Cambridge: Hurst Gallery, 1996. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Catalog of exhibition of Melanesian artifacts (including New Guinea) at the Hurst Gallery. Includes many objects from the Johnson family museum, collected on voyages from around WWII. Additional notes and price list laid in. Includes mostly color with a few black and white photographs of 106 items along with brief descriptions... Read More
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The House We Live In: Put Together Book
by Hutchison, Paula
New York: Saml Gabriel Sons & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. A children's activity book showing six rooms of a house, each with a sheet of furnishings to cut out and paste into the picture of the room opposite. The rooms of the house are accompanied by a story about the children who live there. Most of the... Read More
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The New-York Civil List 1868. (Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York.)
by Hutchins, S.C.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. In original binding, full dark green leather with gilt lettering to spine. Minor chipping to leather along head of spine and along front hinge; wear around edges and along hinges; light scuffing to rear board. Rear board is loose. Closed (and repaired) tear to leather in middle... Read More
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Xenophontis de Cyri Institutione Libri Octo. Graeca recognovit, cum Codice MSto Oxoniensi & omnibus fere libris editis contulit, plurimis in locis emendavit, Versionem Latinam reformavit, Observationibus suis, Tabula Geographica, binisque Dissertationibus praemissis auxit & illustravit; Notas H. Stephani, Leunclavii, AE. Porti & Mureti recensitas & castigatas, Variantium Lectionum delectum, Indicesque necessarios adjunxit
by Hutchinson, Thomas [Xenophon]
Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1726. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 BCE) was a Greek philosopher, historian, and commander of the Greek army. He was also a student and friend of Socrates, and is considered to be one of the best writers of antiquity. This is his partially fictious biography of Cyrus the Great.... Read More
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Lord Alfred Douglas: A Biography
by Hyde, H. Montgomery
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S. edition of this first biography of Douglas to be written with the full blessing of his literary executor, It is a fascinating and detailed story of the life of the man now best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde and the resulting scandal. Written with... Read More
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Henri Evenepoel: Belgian Painter in Paris, 1892-1899
by Hyslop, Francis E.
University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Henri Evenepoel (1872-1899) was a French-born painter who lived in Belgium and studied art in both Brussels and Paris. He is most associated with the Fauvist movement. His full-length portraits show the influence of Édouard Manet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and his... Read More
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Eyewitness to History: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era
by Hyslop, Stephen G., Bob Somerville and John Thompson, James Reston, Jr. [Foreward]
Washington DC: National Geographic, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated glossy paper covered boards with beige title to spine. Title page nearly detached though else is tightly bound and pristine. Full color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with grey title to front and spine panels. Index, 463 pages. HIS/010410.
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