Search Results: Authors starting with H from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Very Good/Fair. Publisher's Cloth, 8.5 inches tall; xxi, 561 pages, frontispiece, 236 illustrations, mostly photos, maps, 24 tables, and a comprehensive index. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear, the spine is darkened, with spotting at the top of the spine and along the front spine edge. The dust jacket is worn, lacking the spine, held in a clear Mylar sleeve.. A very detailed and well-illustrated work by this horticulturist and writer, covers all types of citruses including kumquats, pomelos and many less common fruits, all aspects of growing, harvesting, breeding, etc. Contents include: The commercial importance of citrus fruits; Botany of citrus fruits and their relatives; Trifoliate orange and its hybrids; Sour oranges; Sweet oranges; Mandarin oranges; Shaddocks, grapefruits, tangelos; Shaddocks, grapefruits tangelos, continued; Kumquats; Citrons; Lemons; Limes; Breeding citrus; Judging citrus… Read More

New York: Sacova Publishing Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. Haas, Robert B.. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Color photographs and text by the author sharing his passion and love for Africa's diverse wildlife.. The photos were all shot between September 8-17, 2001. In the introduction, Haas states, "From that moment (their discovery of the 9-11 attacks) forward, the images captured and the global events that unfurled each day were wound together tightly in a helix of conflicting emotions and deep frustrations." Chobe National Park, in northern Botswana, has one of the largest concentrations of game in Africa.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1944. 5th Impression. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Red cloth with blue titles and front decoration; all edges stained blue; 7.5 by 8.25 inches; 144 pages with decorated endpages; illustrated on every pages in color and b/w drawings, filled with nursery rhymes and songs including music scores for many of the rhymes. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with some hand-soiling to the cloth.. This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal. Containing  more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations

New York: Knopf, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Unread. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; with notes, index, illustrations.. Enhanced by a trove of remarkable documents and correspondence sourced from Wenner's private archives, Sticky Fingers presents a portrait of an enterprising, unpredictable rock and roll enthusiast who celebrates the allure of youth and beauty. This individual masterfully transforms these elements into a marketable entity, skillfully promoting the counterculture of the late 1960s as a representation of the potency of American youth. The outcome is a captivating and intricate depiction of both the individual and the era. It forms an irresistible biography that delves into the realms of popular culture, fame, music, and politics in the United States.

Chicago, IL: John C. Winston Company, 1928. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by Frank Godwin. A second printing designed for school presentation. School Illustrated endpapers, full-color frontispiece, and additional black & white illustrations throughout by Frank Godwin. Including a print of color Betsey Ross painting. Dark blue cloth with darker blue titles, outlines and front emblem in gilt. 8.25 inches tall The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. presentation page filled out.. Children's fantasy about a boy's dreams and how they illuminate America's history and Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey.

London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1888. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Publisher's gray paper boards, red lettering, publisher's advertisement on rear board. Spine rubbed, hand-soiling on the boards; front free endpage pasted down to conceal a bookplate, occasional light foxing and toning to the text. 12mo; 7.25 inches tall; 216 pages. First Edition, First Printing.. The further adventures of Allan Quartermain, Haggard's recurrent adventurer-hero. Simultaneously issued in cloth and boards, the boards issue being the much less common of the two. The fourth book in the Allan Quatermain series. Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. In this the fourth Quartermain book we watch with Allan as a Zulu Woman takes her revenge! Ref: Scott 10; Woolf 2868a;… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. Illustrations by Michael Hague. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.  10.25 inches tall;  125 pages with  notes on the stories.. Fairies come alive in stories, songs, and poetry in this host of children's and fantasy stories, from Andersen's Thumbelina to Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market and James Barrie's Lock-out Time.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. Illustrations by Michael Hague,. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. A later printing. 10.25 inches tall; 146 pages.. For thousands of years, the legendary dragon has inspired awe and wonder in cultures the world over. Now Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, boldly captures seventeen classic dragon tales. Within these pages are the stories of heroic dragon slayers such as Perseus, St. George, and Sigurd, as well as the magical writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The mythical dragon will be very real indeed for all who read these enchanting tales.

Hickory, NC: Clay Printing, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Red cloth with silver titles and decoration; The bindings are good a bit shaken. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbing on the corners and spine edges. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 385 pages followed by several pages of local advertisements; Portrait photographs of many of the soldiers. Post-it notes on Isaac Lefevers (page 271) and a letter from the North Carolina Museum of History with additional information laid-in. From the Title page: "A Sketch of Every Soldier from Catawba County, North Carolina, with the Photograph, Biographical Sketch, and Reminiscence of Many of Them, Together with a Sketch of Catawba County from 1860 to 1911 a Complete History of these Valiant Men, in War and Peace." Catawba County is located in Western North Carolina. This uncommon book lists over 1500 soldiers from the area and gives a biographical sketches and/or reminiscences of… Read More

London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1920. Third Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Maroon cloth with stamped front emblem and gilt spine titles. 7.5 inches tall; x, 137 pages with an index. Illustrated with 25 drawings and diagrams and one fold-out plate. Subjects; Mine Gases. The methods and apparatus which the author has described with such minute attention to detail were still in everyday use for the examination of air and mine gases for several decades.

New York: Morrow, William Company Inc, 1989. Book Club Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Book Club Edition [BCE] Also titled The Long Habit of Living (1989). In the 21st century, immortality via the complex operation known as the Stileman Process is attainable by a few wealthy and determined individuals, but the motivations that drive humans to live forever remain shrouded in mystery until ''immortals'' Dallas Barr and Maria Marconi stumble across a dangerous secret and find themselves fleeing for their lives which have suddenly become very short. Fast-paced action and hardcore.

New York: Morrow, William Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. When a con man attempts to pass off forgeries of Hemingway's lost manuscripts, he is tracked down by an interdimensional literary critic with a license to kill.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition - First Printing. Green cloth covered boards with Stamped titles in gilt and decorations. Top edge gilt. Bindings square and tight. Light handling/shelf wear, corners minor bumps. Bookplate on front paste-down. 8vo; xxviii, 429 with index plus publisher adverts. 8 inches tall. Illustrated with photos and drawings. ---- REF: PW v.69:pt.1 p938. New England travel narratives originally printed in the weekly magazine The Outlook; by the historian and Unitarian minister. With 200 black-and-white illustrations.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited Edition # 905 of 1500. Leather Hardcover in Slipcase. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by Edward Wilson. Full brown blind-embossed calf with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine with gilt spine lettering, paper-covered slipcase. Printed on hand-made paper. 10.5 inches tall; (12) 55 (1); Top edge gilt. 6 full-page watercolor illustrations and vignettes reproduced through stencils by hand and SIGNED by Edward A. Wilson. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Designed by Edward Alonzo Miller. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with ribbing on the spine edges; the slip case had age-toned.. "The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic in December 1863 This story came out during the height of the Civil War and served to help the Union recruit… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1915. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Walter Hale. Green cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 314 pages; illustrate with 21 plates and a center folded map. Drawings by Walter Hale. First Edition, First Printing.. ..this volume of vivacious travels and discoveries made in their motor car through New England has proven most satisfactory to bookbuyers...[Bookman] Louise Closser Hale (1872 - 1933) was a successful American character actress who was also the author of popular novels. Subjects: New England: Description and travel. Motor Car Travel. Ref: Brit; Bookman Vol 44

New York: Dial, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. Illustrated by Barry Moser. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. For ages 5-9.. A young boy spends the summer on his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire while his mother works in the war effort in New York and his father serves on a destroyer in the Pacific. The voice of the story is warm, and, as in real-life family storytelling. Moser's full-page watercolor illustrations are surprisingly bright and photoreal, expertly complementing the story. He focuses at times on a simple straw hat that Peter wears just as his father did as a boy, linking him visually to the past. The painter's skill in rendering animals, in capturing people's thoughtful expressions, and his careful inclusion of period details will encourage readers to linger. In the summer of 1942, a window to the past opens and Peter steps through it.

New York: Browndeer Press, [Harcourt], 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. For Ages 7-9.. A fictional history of a New England town celebrates the cycles of growth, change, and renewal, as the town of Blackwater prospers, goes through a decline, and then prospers again, when everyone comes back to visit on "Old Home Day." The ordinary events in the daily lives of the town's inhabitants become extraordinary through text that is at once direct and simple, yet lyrical and poetic. McCully's watercolors expand on the story by providing fascinating details and by capturing the bucolic atmosphere through the seasons and over centuries. Readers will be rewarded with an absorbing window into the life of a village. The author's appended note adds both a personal touch and historical perspective

Warwickshire, England: The Gamecock Press, 1983. Limited edition numbered 275 of 500 and was hand-set in Eric Gill's Joanna and Pertua Type. Cloth Hardcover. Fine/A Dust Jacket was not issued.. Illustrated by Walter Ritchie. An alphabet of quadrupeds with rhymes by Gaston Hall and illustrations for each one by Walter Ritchie. Tan linen with a giraffe in stamped relied in black and black spine titles.  8vo; 8.5 inches tall; No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Errata laid-in.. A delightful alphabet book.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co Inc., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.. No Flaws or Blemishes but minor age spots on text-block; Still Gift Quality, First Edition; First Printing; Full Number Line. Unopened, Unread. Fast, cinematic scene-shifting, garish gallows humor and James Hall nails the Florida Keys. Fisherman Thorn, first seen in the well-received Under Cover of Daylight , is getting his life together slowly, rebuilding his house in the Florida Keys and supporting himself by making fishing lures. When his boyhood friend, ex-FBI agent Gaeton Richards, disappears, his sister Darcy enlists Thorn in a campaign to nail Gaeton's boss, Benny Cousins, the not-quite-respectable head of a multinational rent-a-cop business who is determined to become a force in local "conch" affairs. But little is what it seems: Thorn and Darcy find themselves up against not only Benny but also violent, Florida cracker Ozzie, who… Read More

New York: St Martins Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. SIGNED with inscription on top of title page. No flaws or blemishes, Dust jacket protected in Mylar sleeve. Like Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, Hall brings to life Florida's alluring, addictive mix of sand and ocean, hibiscus and alligator, tanned skin and pastel stucco. Background Information: Crime novelist Hannah Keller's obsessive desire to catch her parents' killer leads her to a strange copy of one of her earlier novels, which is filled with strange scrawlings and hieroglyphs that may be clues.