Search Results: Titles starting with A from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: American Spice Trade Association., 1950. Trade paperback. Very good. Light edge and surface wear. Clean pages.. 1 48 p. Includes illustrations. Trade paperback (US). Stapled binding. 94 p. Use of various spot colors. Audience: General/trade. Product promotion; Cooking: World map on end papers in green and white, black lettering, showing source of spices. Front spices, seeds, and herbs listed by category, described, with "food and other uses". Recipes follow alphabetically, Applesauce to Fried Zucchini. Index by recipe type; and spice uses.

Boston.: The Appalachian Mountain Club., 1979. 22nd ed.. Wraps. Good. Signed by previous owner. Missing map: #6 Mt. Washington Range. 7 others present in rear pocket.. 1 Brown vinyl flexible covers, no titles. Glued binding. 3.25x6 in. 509 p. includes 1981-1982 Supplement: White Mt. Guide, 22nd. Index. Audience: General/trade. Four maps printed within pages. Part of the Appalachian Trail that guides hikers between Georgia and Maine, this guidebook is for the White Mountain Range in New Hampshire.

Appalachian Mountain Club, 1977. Unabridged.. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Prior owner name inside.. LaCroix, Marc, and Farquhar, Jean, and Merkle, Janis (Illustrations by), and Bellerose, George (Photographs by).. 1 Paperback, 4.5x7.25in. Illustration, B&W Hiking trails: Design, building, controlling erosion, wetlands, tools, private land. Handy pocket guide.

New York.: Thomas Seltzer Inc., 1922. Second printing, April, 1922; 1st was also April, 1922.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light corner, spine end rubs. Top edges have light bleached spots. Minor end paper foxing. Well-bound.. 1 Dark blue-gray cloth over boards, vertically ribbed. Black titles, upper right quadrant. 347 p. 20 cm. Blind-stamped front impression as with a cross: single vertical and horizontal lines Fiction, D.H. Lawrence, b.1888-d.1930, 7th of 12 novels, six years before "Lady Chatterley's Lover", amidst his works of poetry, short stories, literary criticism, plays, and essays. Introduced with Aaron Sisson returning home late to is family following a Miner's Union meeting, after the World War. It was near Christmas.

New York.: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1961. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Top spine damage, lower spine discoloration. Top page block darkening smudge.. 1 Black, blue cloth over boards. 323 p. 22 cm. B&W archival photo sections, frontispiece. Double page map: Greenland, Northeastern Canada. U.S. Major General Adolphus Washington Greely's tragic arctic exploration story only began to emerge with this volume in the late 1950s. Earlier accounts were obscured by "wishful fantasy and sensational journalism" (from author's preface). Also known more properly as the "Lady Franklin Bay Expedition", author Alden Todd, at age 10, met Gen. Greeley who was then 80, and a friend of his grandfather. As an adult he researched the truth of the Greely arctic exploit.

New York.: Current Literature Publishing Company., 1910. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light surface blemishing. No color compromise. Minor cover soil. Tightly bound.. 1 Gilt top page block. Navy blue ribbed cloth over boards. Spine paste-on title box, blue and red titles. Protective glassine over frontispiece art portrait. 21 cm. x, 337 p. From Preface, "Halevy's novels are remarkable for the elegance of literary style, tenderness of spirit and keenness of observation. He excels in ironical sketches". He was born in 1834 in Paris. After finishing his studies he worked in civil service until he became a playwright, then a fiction writer. This novel, a family story, rose to great success, with 150 editions by1904. This printing is with fine quality materials, some deckled pages not cut. Paper with ink one can feel to the touch.

New York: Macmillan, 1951. 3rd printing. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket.. 0

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1940. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 2 'wash your hands before you read me...' library stickers. Clean. Tight. Easy to read.. Daugherty, James. 0 222 p. : 24 cm. Bold B&W drawings. Sturdy library binding. Rebound in orange cloth covered boards. Reprinted from the author's "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, " the first 27 chapters of that 2-volume series. Includes: babyhood & boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek; games & chores; what he handles & uses; life at Gentryville and on the Mississippi; util he goes to New Salem as a young man. Skillfully drawn illustrations.

New York.: Ballantine by arr. w/ St. Martin's Press., 1988. First edition. 1st Ballantine printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Spine creasing with slight concaveness to thick spine. Tight, unmarked inside. Light wear.. 1 Large trade paperback, 6x9.25in. 575 p. Audience: General/trade. Biography of an American woman of 18th century Boston, Abigail Smith Adams (1844-1818). Wed to John Adams, theirs was a partnership apart from the stereotypes of marriage over the centuries as history has presented. Researcher-author Phyllis Lee Levin finds wit and intelligence and influence in Abigail's letters and journals, written as she and John joined with other bright, determined minds among revolutionaries to forge a new nation from a diverse, colonized peoples.

Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 1998. Illustrated.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear. Inside pages clean.. 1 124 p. B&W small portraits. Participant list. Purple cover, peace symbol in white. White, black titles. Audience: General/trade. Dialogue record: Boulding and Forsberg are peace scholars, and they held forth at 4 seminars on related topics. Preface by Virginia Straus. Foreword by Saul Mendlovitz. Commentary by "Discussants" WE Langley, S Brown, VM Swain, EN Engstrom, B Hildt, RA Irwin, G Sommaripa.

Philadelphia.: Chilton Company., 1961. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. 525 p. 21 cm. Pen&Ink line art, 16 maps, B&W photo section. 5 Appendices. Charts. "The possible existence of the Yeti, Sasquatch, and other Abominable Snowman (ABSMery) forms", from Foreword, describes the roundup of questions, answers, sitings, on various continents over decades. An academic compilation.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 0 192 p. : ill.; 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. Includes bibliographical references.

London.: Thorsons Publishers Ltd., 1961. October 1961 first reprint since July 1960.. Trade paperback. Good. Cover soiling. Clean interior. Tightly bound. Last page has acid age tone from order slip insert on poor paper.. 1 Peach and white covers; dark red titles. 64p., 19 cm. Mineral matter composition chart. Diet, Nutrition, Health series edition: Proteins, what and how much; Fats, Oils; Nut recipes.

Chicago.: Melmont Publishers., 1959. Reinforced library binding; not ex-lib.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Small sticker darkened spot, front.. Van, Frans (Illustrated by).. 1 Tan cloth over boards, illustrated: large driver profile, blue, and 3 small vintage vehicles across lower front. 32 p. Illustrations, diagrams in blue, black, white. 7.25x9.25in. Children / Youth educational series: Vintage art, buses, styles of the 1950s. Buses, driver schools and tests; City, school bus, and cross-country bus drivers.

Boston.: Little, Brown and Company., 1941. 4th July reprint after early July 1st edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Penciled prior owner name inside front. Light wear to extremities. Tight. Clean text pages.. 1 Green cloth over boards. Black silhouette action on front. 333 p. 21 cm. Classic suspense fiction set first in England at Oxford, then in the mountains of Europe on the eve of World War in Europe. A professor and his wife are enlisted to travel to Paris, follow precise directions, pursue their normal tourist activities (mountain climbing), and return home with questions answered about the British spy network.

New York.: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1954. Renewal of 1926 Harcourt. Author Preface: 1954.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light rubs to spine titles. Tightly bound. Clean.. 1 Red cloth over boards; lighter red spine title box. Gold spine titles, front facsimile A.L. signature. xiv, 762 p. 25 cm. B&W photos, portraits, maps. Sources. Index. Carl Sandburg's literary biography of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, compiled history from Wilderness Beginnings through Shock--The Assassin--A Stricken People. End papers designed by photographer and artist Edward Steichen, Sandburg's brother-in-law.

A Yearling Book / Dell Publishing, 1984. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Moyers, William. 0 Illustrated cover. Grayscale pencil or charcoal type drawings. 3 pgs publisher ads. Did you know Abe Lincoln, the boy, once made footprints on his mother's ceiling? Did you know he was a fast reader?

London / Devonport.: 'Printed for the Booksellers' / J Heydon., 1842. 'Price One Shilling' on title page.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Pencil marks, many light, some bold, clock face in child's hand; 'Emma Sherman 1883'. Missing front end paper. Surface wear. Spine, corners, edges significantly worn.. 1 Light brown leather over boards, stamped title front and back w/ shield: 'MURRAY'S GRAMMAR'; stamped borders. 126p. 3.5x5.75in. Font perhaps 7-8pt type. Introduction: Compiler notes that this Abridgment is presented after frequent requests, 'to preserve the larger work from being torn and defaced by the younger scholars...' and ended with, 'Holdgate, near York, 1797. ' p.2-7. As expected, there is some defacement herein. This is an original 19th century edition.

New York.: The Century Company., 1913. First edition. 1st Century printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Age-toning. Nice covers. Tissue-protected frontispiece plate, off-white.. Grant, Gordon (Frontispiece in Pen&Ink by).. 1 Olive green cloth over boards, decorated w/ black design; gold acorn & titles. 3 p. l., 3-169 p. 18 cm. Fiction with theme of prize-fighter management, set in California at first, early 20th century. First copyright 1911, Street & Smith, New York.

New York.: Farrar Straus Giroux., 1976. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light jacket edge wear.. 1 Text in English, French. Sewn binding. Brown cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 374 p. Deckled side page block. Audience: General/trade. Novel of 16th century Europe, a meditation on the nature and condition of man, as was her prior, "Memoirs of Hadrian". This is more somber or bitter in tone, portraying the struggle of a free mind during troubled times. Zeno, the lead character, is an intellectual having a wide range of studies as botanist, physician, alchemist, engineer, metallurgist, philosopher.