Search Results: Authors starting with H from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1949. Soft cover. Good+. Many leaves are unopened. Oversized wraps have a few chips along bottom edge; short closed tears; one large repaired tear on rear panel cover. Many leaves are unopened. Corner crease on title page; gift inscription on dedication page. 129, plus [30] pp. plates. 13" x 10". Oversize book. A monograph on the Bronze Age wind instruments called lures (also "lur" or "lurr") that are without finger-holes and which are of Nordic origin. These artifacts were found mostly in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, though other examples are also cited which were found in Germany and Latvia. Illustrated with photographs, plus 30 plates.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Book has bumps with some wear to head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. A tiny bit of exposed board at corners. A little edge wear and rubbing to boards. A tiny bit of foxing to end papers. Green-gold cloth covered boards with black embossed designs on boards and spine. Gilt lettering on spine has faded a bit. Pages are clean and binding is tight. No date given, ca. 1880's. 445 pages.

Portland: H. K. Hines / San Francisco: J. D. Hammond, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Boards in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Head of spine pushed; tail of spine rubbed. Inner hinges good. Clean and unmarked. Nineteen illustrated plates, complete, mostly portraits of notable ministers. 510 pages. An attractive copy. The author of this missionary history was Harvey Kimball Hines (1828-1902), brother of Rev. Gustavus Hines. He was deeply involved in both church and political organization during the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest. He also did stints as professor of theology for Willamette University and Portland University.

New York: A. L. Chatterton & Co., 1885. Hardcover. Good. Second Edition. Brick-colored cloth with gilt stamped spine; boards with blind-stamped design. Boards are a bit worn and soiled. Inner hinges good. Contemporary, private medical library bookplate on front pastedown, else unmarked and generally clean. 10-page bibliography. Index. Errata on last page. 377, [1] pages. A treatise on the breast, its diseases, and surgical treatments. First issued in 1877, this revised second edition of 1885 incorporated new knowledge of physiological and pathological histology. The author, Dr. Homer Irvin Ostrom (1852-1925), was for more than 40 years a prominent surgeon in New York City. He graduated in 1873 from the New York City Homeopathic Medical College and went on to serve as the senior surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital, as staff surgeon at the Hahnemann Hospital, and for a few years operated a private sanitorium in the city. He was the son of Orange County's first homeopathic surgeon, Dr.… Read More

Henderson, New Zealand: J.H. Claridge, 1926. Staple Bound. Fair. Saddle stitched booklet has wear along spine edge. Creasing to fore edge corners; heavier at bottom front. Some spotting and age toning to surfaces of wraps. A little very light foxing to fore edges of pages. Pages are unmarked. 24 pp. JH Claridge worked for The Advertiser newspaper in Henderson, NZ.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Derleth on ffep. First Edition. 3000 copies printed [3041 per Jaffery]. Navy cloth boards stamped gold on spine (little bit of rubbing to gold). Head of spine shows some pushing. Ex-libris bookplate on front pastedown (and handwritten number in upper corner). Dust jacket shows light wear at spine ends and corners; short closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel; not price clipped ($2.50). DJ in archival sleeve. 196 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne. A clean copy.

Falls Village, CT: Herb Grower Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Book has minimal shelf wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dj has some age-tanning. Edges have a few small closed tears and very small chips. A little light age toning to edges of dj. Stated first edition, 1967. 99 pp. 14cm x 22cm

London: Methuen & Co., 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to spine ends; small blemish on front cover; 2 cm. split in cloth foot of front hinge. Endpapers very foxed; scattered foxing to pages. else clean and unmarked. A couple leaves roughly opened. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh. 118 pages. First edition of H. H. Munro's first collection of short stories.

Vienna, Austria: Bechgemeinschaft Donauland, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Book has slight cock to spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has wear to head and tail of spine with tiny closed tears & chips. Dj has been placed in an archival mylar cover. German Language. 13.5 x 20 cm. 446 Pages

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Uneven fading to front cover; head of spine pushed. Foxing to pages (particularly next to illustrations) and some light soiling, else generally clean. 12 illustrations on plates, including frontispiece. Index. xx, 193, [1] pages. A history of British roads and their administration by Cyril Hughes Hartmann (1896-1967), a British literary scholar and historian. Covers the development of roads, beginning with the Roman era up through the introduction of motor cars. Introduction by Lt.-Col. Alfred Hacking, D.S.O., M.C., who served as the general secretary of the Motor Legislation Committee in the 1920s. Contents: [I] The Early History of Roads. [II] Roads under the Tudors. [III] Roads under the Stuarts. [IV] The Eighteenth Century. [V]The Age of Telford and Macadam. [VI] The Calamity of Railways.… Read More

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. One of 500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Rust-colored cloth, gilt stamped spine. Fine. 12 illustrations (including 3 tipped color plates and 2 fold-outs). 98 pages. John ''Stickeen'' Janes' narrative, describing his 1874-75 journey from San Francisco to La Paz and his observations and activities in Lower California (Baja Peninsula). With annotations and an introduction by California historian, Anna Marie Hager. [Baja California Travel Series, no. 28]. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, who was responsible for many fine books produced for the Book Club of California, the Huntington Library, The Sacramento Book Collectors Club, Dawson's Book Shop, Jake Zeitlin, and many others.

Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine. Book has a tiny bit of bumping to front fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. No creases to spine. Large Print edition.

Melbourne: Colorgravure Publications, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Buff-color cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and a front cover triangular pictorial in blind. Interior is clean and unmarked. Pages toned. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and rubbing; in a clear archival sleeve. 11 full page illustrations. 160 pages. 7.2 x 4.7 inches. The adventure of Trader John, a young man who wagers his life and fortunes on an attempt to discover the fabulous ruins of Zimbabwe, the last outpost founded by the early invaders of Africa. John William Hairs (1880/2-1958) was born circa 1882 in England, moved to South Africa when he was sixteen, and where he met Cecil Rhodes, fought in the Boer War and World War I, lived in Melbourne and the United States (including Shreveport, Kansas City, and Carmel).

Delhi: Vir Publishing House, 1965. Soft cover. Good. Second printing (July 1965). Softcover. Covers edgeworn, with some loss along the bottom third of the front outer hinge. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated with black-and-white photos on six plates. 160 pages. Scarce. A compilation of addresses, speeches, and remarks made by President John F. Kennedy, as well as some by Prime Minister Nehru and President Radhakrishnan (including joint communiques with JFK), concerning the state of world affairs and touching on India's place role in global conflicts and opportunities.

Daniel W. Hall, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. Dave Myers; Daniel W. Hall. Plastic spiral-bound book has clear cover on front. Corners are just a tiny bit bumped. Clear plastic cover is rubbed with a couple scratches on back. Rare publication. No copies noted on OCLC. Photos throughout. 103 pp. 8.5" x 11

New York: Random House, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed on ffep ''For Nanna / from / Oakley / Iowa City, 1950''. Stated First Printing. A few spots of surface damage (front cover and spine). Tide mark on front cover. Ends of spine lightly worn, publisher's name at foot of spine rubbed. Internally clean. 302 pages. In an archival mylar wrapper. A signed copy of Oakley Hall's scarce second novel. [We made some effort to make an educated guess as to the identity of Nanna. His grandmothers were ruled out, as both were deceased prior to 1950, as was his wife's maternal grandmother. If it was a grandmother, it could have been his wife's paternal grandmother, Mary Ulysses (nee Johnston) Edinger (1865-1953), or alternatively his wife's step-mother's mother whose identity we could not confirm.]

Denver, Colorado: V. E. Hall, Publisher, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Gray cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front cover. Slight curvature to book, else fine. Clean and unmarked. 80 pages. Black and white photographs of Gilpin County, Colorado, most of them taken in and around the historic mining town of Central City. Tyler Hall has captured images of the people, places, mines and mountains.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering; beige boards. Strips of black tape on boards (from previous dustjacket protective sleeve). Lacking ffep. Tape ghosts on half-title page and rear endpaper. Previous owner's name at top of title page and rear paste-down. Soiling on first couple pages of chapter one, otherwise pages are generally clean. Dust jacket shows very light wear along edges; some rubbing and a little heavier wear at head and tail of spine; not price clipped ($2.50). DJ in archival sleeve. 250 pp. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Beat Not the Bones was the inaugural winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (1954). Set in colonial New Guinea, a young woman searches to find out the truth behind the death of her husband, the colonial administration's chief anthropologist. She fights "the heat, the insects, and the human beings who had been distorted by the tropics, by drink, by… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Stated First American Edition, 1974. Book has light bumping and faint soiling to head and tail of spine. Speckling to top edge of text block (not sure if it's publisher's spray or dust spotting). Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a little wear to tail of spine with one very small chip. A tiny bit of wear to fore edge corners of dj. Dj has been placed in protective mylar cover. 149 pages. Set in the South Pacific Islands, this action-suspense mystery concerns a tribe of island natives, recently converted from cannibalism, and the strange doings of the whites on the island.

New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First American edition. Clean and tight. Very slightly spine cocked. Dj lightly rubbed, not price clipped. 402 pages.