Search Results: Authors starting with H from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Reproduces a series of sketches first appeared in the author's Bits of Travel at Home published in 1878. Green decorated paper boards, beige cloth spine with title on spine label. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Designed and illustrated in color by Mallette Dean at Kentfield, California. Light green unprinted dust wrapper. Limitation page notes this an edition of 450 copies and that it is publication number 137 of The Book Club of California. Prospectus and postcard promoting related Club exhibition laid in at front. ; 7-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 84 pp; Little wear to book. Jacket with little wear but somewhat toned, in clear protective cover. .

Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1975. Reprint. Softcover. 0-910240-19-1 . Orange wraps, perfect bound, cover lettered in white and black and with images of canoes. Contents reproduces three volumes in one; this is the first thus. Volume 1 - The Canoes of Polynesia, Fiji and Micronesia (oringially published 1936). Volume 2 - The Canoes of Melanesia, Queensland and New Guinea first published 1937) and Volume 3 - Definition of Terms, General Survey, and Conclusions (first published 1938). Thick and heavy, extra for international shipping. ; 7" x 10-3/4"; xvii, 454 + vi, 342 + ii, 88 pp; Bumped at lower left, sunned at spine, edgeworn, lightly rubbed, light soiling along right edge of pages with edge creases to a few pages, text otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Mt. Dora, Florida: Printed by Golden Rule Press, Orlando. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1969). Softcover. Stiff card covers, blue comb binding at left, cover is pen sketch of S. S. Alaska, fold-out map, text accopmpanied by some photographs. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 210 pp; Light soiling and edgewear to covers, gift inscription to first leaf otherwise clean and unmarked .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Softcover. Tan wraps, perfect bound, text, 24 b&w plates, map. 1927 printing of document first issued in 1922. ; 5-3/4" x 9"; 75 pp; Mild cover wear and soiling, clean and unmarked within. .

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Early science fiction with first appearance in book form of The Brick Moon. Rebound in maroon leatherette with stamp of The Dragon Bindery inside rear cover, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers. ; 5" x 7-1/4"; 293 pp; Covers are fine, solid binding, signatures are slightly offset from one another - as when binding was resewn, a few small stains to pages that are otherwise clean and free of tears or writing. .

London: Henry G. Bohn. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Presents a collection of 52 ballads with elaborate page decorations and engraved designs from a number of noted artists and engravers. Bound in full leather with five raised bands, embossed cover decorations and beveled edges. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed by J. E. Adlard, London. The first edition from this publisher was in 1853; this copy is not dated apart from the prior owner inscription. Heavy, extra for international shipping. ; 7-3/4" x 10-1/4"; vi, 441 pp; Boards worn at spine and hinges with some rubbing elsewhere, hinges solid, scattered foxing to pages, prior owner inscription on front flyleaf dated 1864, pages free of tears or additonal writing. .

Toronto: Canada Law Book Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Notable British Trials Series. Printed using the Hodge sheets with the Canada Law Book Company title/copyright page. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustrated. Folded map of The District follows text and is followed by advertisements for other series titles. ; 6" x 8-1/2"; x, 183+ pp; ; Spine darkened and rubbed, light edgewear, sound hinges, paper toned along edges, scattered generally light foxing, free of writng. .

New York: Columbia University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Presents writings of John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Richard Overton and others. Orange cloth, printed paper spine label. ; 6" x 9"; 405 pp; Bumped at corners, rubbed along joints, spine label toned and rubbed, two flyleaves with small closed tears, a few pages with light corner wear, no inscriptions, text block free of writing. .

Oakland, CA: Regent Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2006). First Edition; No printing noted. Softcover. 1-58790-089-0 . Stiff red and yellow coated wraps, perfect bound, includes a tabular presentation of Active Eskimo -Language Terms for Snow and Ice. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page (first names only) .; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; xxii, 375 pp; ; Signed by Author; Slight wear along cover edges, a few light scratches to covers, clean and unmarked within apart from noted inscription. .

[Tokyo?]: Road and Sky Creative. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (1998). Softcover. Stiff wraps, front cover with b&w photo of Hamada, well illustrated mostly in color. Oversized-extra for international shipping.; 10" x 14-1/4"; 88 pp; Slight corner wear, clean and unmarked. .

Oakland, Cal.: Pacific Press Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth with gilt lettering to front board, illustrations include some full page. ; 6" x 9"; 184 pp; Small spot to front board, light corner wear, worn at spine ends, spine with lean. a few tniy spots on otherwise unmarked pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages; somewhat unusual for a book of this age. .

New York: Brentano's. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1894). Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth, cover and spine decorated in gilt with red and black details, and with lettering in gilt, illustrations within are of cards - in black for black suits and red for hearts and diamonds. No publication date, edition or printing noted.; 6" x 8"; 599 pp; Would be VG+ if not for spotting to covers from moisture. Foxing to right edge of pages but no evidence of moisture damage within. Light corner wear, solid binding, clean and unmarked pages. .

Bangkok, Thailand: Amarin Printing and Publishing Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (1996). No edition noted. Softcover. Catalogue from an exhibition held at the National Galley in Bangkok, November 1996 and at Chieng Mai University Art Hall, December 1996 - January 1997. Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, Preface by Somlak Charoenpot, Texts by Hanne Weskott and Somporn Rodboon, illustrated with most reproductions in color, text in English and Thai and partly in German. ; 9-1/2" x 11-1/2"; 85 pp; Covers with slight soiling and minor corner wear. .

Boston: D. C. Heath & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1893. Softcover. Together with illustrative class exercises, and an outline of the work for the last three years of the grammar school. Publishers brown wraps, further bound in library card stock covers, 8 pages of publishers ads at rear.; 52 pp; Wear to covers edges and page corners. Cut out section of FFEP, prior owner name inked below, one page with closed tear extending across entire page, one other page with small tears, text not affected. .

Walnut Creek, California: Hardscratch Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. One Family's Journey From a Depression-Era New Jersey Farm to a New Life in Wasilla, Alaska (cover). Stiff wraps, perfect bound, b&w photographs. ISBN 978-0-9789979-8-4. ; 6" x 9"; 301+ pp; Mild wear to corners, clean and unmarked. .

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1921. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Original publishers blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, well-illustrated including fold-out map of New York highways. ; 6 x 9"; xiii, 294 pp; Slight fraying to extremities of cloth, prior owner name inked inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Republican National Committee. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1956. Softcover. Green wraps, perfect bound, illustrated with 10 photographs. ; 6" x 9"; 380 pp; Slightly worn at lower right corner, sunned top 1" on rear cover, little worn or used. .

City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1910-1914. Hardcover. Included are Volume IV - Geology and Paleontology, Volume V - Cryptogamic Botany, Volume VIII - Insects Part 1, Volume IX - Insects Part 2, Volume X - Crustaceans, Volume XI - Nemerteans, Bryozoans, Volume XIII - Land and Fresh Water Mollusks, Hydroids and Volume XIV - Monograph of the Shallow-Water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic Ocean to California, Part 1. Text. Smithsonian Institution reprints uniformly bound in publishers green cloth, Smithsonlan logo to front covers, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, most with dual title pages, many illustrations - some in color. Various publication dates between 1910 and 1914. The first six of these volumes are 1910 reprints with dual title pages of series initially published by Doubleday, Page & Co. in 1904 (Vol. XIII initially published 1905). The latter volume is the first publication in 1914. ; 7-/4" x 1/4";… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine with no dust jacket. (2002). Second Printing. Hardcover. 0-618-13392-5 . Lavender coated paper boards, color cover photo, illustrated. Review slip laid in. ; 7-1/2" x 9-1/2"; xv, 464 pp; No wear to note. .

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1892. Softcover. Fur seal hunting in the Bering Sea area, and rights for the Government of her Britannic Majesty. Pink wraps. ; 5-3/4" x 9"; 7 pp; Small splits at ends, worn area along top edge, toned paper, clean and unmarked. .