Search Results: Titles starting with H from Thorn Books

London: Richard Bentley, et al., 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. (8), 211pp. Brown textured cloth, gilt spine title. Frontispiece of a spinning room, and a few additional illustrations in the text. Upper hinge cracked but firm. Bookplate of Thomas W. Fox, and label of donation to the Textile Institute dated 1918, Stamp of the Textile Institute on the reverse of the frontispiece, and a withdrawn stamp on the donation label. .

Washington: GOvernment Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Thin 8vo. 76pp. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Red pebble-grain cloth, gilt title on the upper board. The cloth is well worn else this is a very good copy. With a bookplate of the War Department assigning this copy to Geo. Van Orden, Captain, USMC, and with Capt. Van Orden's rubber-stamped name in blue on the endpapers as well as page 19. .

London and Kingston: Edward Standford; Government Printing Officed, 1892. Hardcover. Fine. The Twelfth Year of Publication. 8vo. xvii, 94),6-542pp. Large folded map of Jamaica in color. Recent full red morocco, spine titled in gilt; all edges red. Original cloth upper cover, red blocked in gilt, bound in at rear. A fine copy.

Petrograd, 1923. Very good. Single sheet of heavy wove paper 13 by 18 inches with blue, red, green and gold calligraphy congratulating the circus orchestral director on twenty years of service. Addressed to Dear Colleague Stanislav Martinovich Novitsky from the Guild (Collective) of Circus Workers, and signed by what appears to be all of the performers and workers of the circus. The St. Petersburg Circus was founded by an Italian immigrant, Gaetano Cinzelli (Chinzelli) in 1877. Even though Cinzelli died in 1881, his family continued to manage the circus until the October Revolution of 1917. It is still performing today. We are unable to decipher the names of the performers, except for one, which appears on the left margin near the bottom: G. Chinzelli, probably a grandson, possibly the son, of the founder. There are three horizontal folds in the certificate, a little roughness around the edges, and some light soil and offsetting from the gold, but this is a very good example of… Read More

2002. Five items relating to Michael Blake and his Library Tour of 2002: 1. "Dances with Wolves", NY, Newmarket Press, 1991. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine, clipped dustwrapper. 2. Blank notebook with Blake's holograph library speech on the first 10pp. The remaining pages are blank. Some pages have been removed from the beginning, probably earlier speech drafts removed by Blake himself. 3. Two programs from the tour: Hattiesburg(?), MS, Sept. 23 and Notre Dame, Sept. 28. The first is fine; the second as been folded. Both are a single sheet folded to make four pages. 4. Doug Knott, Binder containing original 'Doug Knott Presents the Lhasa Shows' sheets from 1985 to 1987 and with a handwritten notice at the beginning, "...for Mr. Blake to meet some old friends...". Laid in are six typewritten draft sheets of Knott's poetry "...for perusal of Sr. Blake 5/27/91." .

London: Sylvan Press, 1930. Limited edition. Very good. With Wood Engravings by Norman Janes.. Folio. Unpaginated. Finely printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Bound in coarsely woven red cloth blocked in gilt with a design by the illustrator on both the upper an lower boards. Top edge gilt. Contains twelve of William's poems followed by all seven of his Arthurian poetry: Tristam's Song to Iseult; Palomides' Song of Iseult; Lamoracke's Song to Blanchefleur; A Song of Palomides; Taliessin's Song of a Princess of Bysantion; The Song of the Riding of Galahad. One of 250 copies from a total edition of 300, signed by both Williams and Janes. This is copy No. 93. Light soil else a very good copy. Surprisingly scarce. .

New York: Random House, 1942. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Ruth Gannett. Large folio. Unpaginated (40pp). Signed. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with many pages in full color. Stated first printing. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped, is rubbed at the folds and has a few chips and tape-repaired closed tears, but gives a very good plus appearance. With an inscription from the author: "To my long-time friend and neighbor in the Little Cracked House. Affectionately, Dorothy Thomas." .

Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Thick 4to. xvi, 316pp. Index. Tan buckram printed in black on the spine and in black and gilt on the upper board. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. Printed in red and black. The first part (text) is illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous black and white facsimiles. The second part is the "New Hieroglyphic Bible Told in Stories by Frederick A. Laing" The 184 page Bible is printed in color: the leaves (approximately 2 by 3 inches) are mounted four to a page on heavy stock attached to linen guards. Traces of soil to the top and bottom edges of the book, else this is in near fine condition and is indeed a very nice copy. With the scarce printed linen dustwrapper: blue linen printed in black and mounted to card stock. The jacket is a bit soiled, but still quite presentable and a very early exemplar of a printed cloth dustwrapper.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2015. Limited edition. Very good. Hardcover. Illustrated by Jessie King.. Facsimle of the first Jessie King edition of 1903. 8vo. cvii,(1),379,(1). Publisher's light blueleather imitating the orignal light bue cloth, blocked on the spine and upper board with illustrations by King in black and gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with plates by King in black and white or in two colors. Marbled endpapers. One of 600 numbered copies, of which this is #249. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase, also fine. Howey, F-358 for the 1903 edition. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blue printed paper over boards. Trace of sunning at the edges else this is a fine copy. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and is first state, without the Newbery Award sticker. It is lightly sunned at edges and on the spine else is in near fine condition, with a short closed marginal tear on the rear panel. The fifth and final installment of the Prydain Cycle.

Paris: A. Capendu, 1890. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. The text block is loose but holding. Six full page movable illustrations with captions in French. The boards are soiled and worn at the edges. The movables are complete and in working order, though there is some minor creasing. Several of them have repaired closed tears above the tab ends. All in all this is a very good exemplar of a Meggendorfer movable. Montanaro, p. 19, records the English edition, "Artistic Pussy and her Studio", ascribing a date of "189-?" .

Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. (16),384,(12),(8),397,(17) pp. Nine engraved plates. Contemporary vellum binding, leather lettering label, gilt. Title page printed in red and black, and with engraved vignette. Six of the engravings are full page plates, and three are double page (though two of the singles are also on one double page). Trace of wear to the vellum, esp., along the top of the rear board, else this is a fine copy with stunning plates. Graesse IV,212; van der Vekena 1875; Caillet 6693.

Cádiz: Revista Médica, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 224pp. followed by 29pp of appendices. Contemporary quarter leather, spine gilt, marbled ans embossed paper over boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Inner hinge and spine neatly mended, edges worn, else this is a very good copy. The scarce first printing of Castro's groundbreaking History of the Jews in Spain. A member of the Royal Academy, he was so impartial that he felt a need to remark on page 8: "Escribo esta historia sin pasion, ni artificio, como de cosas que nada me tocan. Ni soi judio, ni vengo de judaizantes" (I write this history dispassionately and without craft, as concerning things that do not touch me. I am not a Jew, nor am I of Jewish descent.) Unlike others who followed him, he condemned the Inquisition. His HIstory was translated into English in 1851 by Rev. Edward Kirwan, Cambridge. In Spanish. .

Glastonbury: n.p., 1955. Unpublished manuscript. Fine. Unpublished manuscript. 200pp. written in ink on one side only, bound with cord into a light board cover. 7-1/2 x 9'. The manuscript, entirely in Webb's legible hand, contains a preface 'To the Critic'; a foreword by Albert C. R. Carter, King Arthur's Champion, Knights of the Round Table Club (est. 1720); the main textual sections divided into The Historic King Arthur and The Arthurian Romance; and four appendices: King Arthur's Grave at Glastonbury; Royal Pilgrimages to King Arthur's Tomb; Tintagel and Camelot; and King Arthur and Glastonbury. Laid in are three letters by Webb dated April, 1955, and addressed to Gerald Henderson, Deputy Knight Remembrancer of the Knights of the Round Table Club. In the letters, Webb transmits the manuscript, indicating that he has kept a copy and hoping that it might be published. Albert E. Webb was a printer and longtime resident of Glastonbury, whose published works include 'Glastonbury in Ynyswytryn (Isle of… Read More

London: Printed, for the Author, J. Nichols, 1795. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. xiii, (i), 547,(i)pp. Engraved frontispiece of the abbey; folding hand-colored map of Hertford, and two folding plans of the abbey. Contemporary full calf, nicely rebacked to style in matching calf, red leather lettering label, gilt. Frontispiece mounted without loss, some offsetting and light soil, rebacked, else a very good copy. Apparently this is a reissue of the sheets of an edition printed in 1793-95; either way it is the first separate publication relating to St. Alban's. ESTC TS 3399.

London: F. Gyles, et al., 1729. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. (vi),251,(xxi),52,(xxxvi)pp. Title page in red and black. Beautifully printed on laid paper with ample margins. Engraved head and tail pieces; index. Contemporary full calf; spine in 7 compartments with raised bands. Old theological college stamp on the front blank. Edges and spine tips worn; hinges neatly repaired; lettering label perished; else a very good copy and near fine internally. The first and only edition of John Lewis's History, written in the early part of the 17th century but not published until 1729. Contains a considerable amount of material on King Arthur (pp. 179-200). The main history is followed by Lhuyd's Breviary of Britayne in the translation of Thomas Twine. Rare and important. No doubt written to defend the traditional history of Wales against such critics as Polydore Vergil, to correct some statements made by Camden, and to vindicate Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lewis' History was edited by Hugh Thomas,… Read More

London: J. M. for Rich. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Pauls Church-yard, 1681. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. (28),291,(1)pp. 19th cent. full calf by Hering of Regent Street. marbled endpapers and edges. Author's name from Wing; sometimes erroneously attributed to David Craufurd. Bound without portrait or errata slip, sometimes present. Rebacked with original backstrip laid on (with some loss to the edges), boards yawning a bit, else a very good copy. With a blank modern bookplate on the front free endpaper and the armorial plate of Somerst on the front pastedown. Wing C6853; ESTC R5167.

London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810. Stiff card wraps. Very good. 4 by 5 inches. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Complete with handcolored figures as follows: removable head, seven costume and three hats. The costumes have a pocket built into the reverse to accommodate Fanny's head as she takes on each persona in the storyline. Title leaf, followed by thirteen pages of rhyming verse then a final blank. Housed in original printed slipcase. The booklet is lightly soiled and worn but still in very good condition. The slipcase is worn and quite rubbed and soiled and separated along one side. See Osborne p. 418 (4th edition). Rare in any condition and nearly unheard of with all of the pieces.

Auckland: H. Brett, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 225pp. Original brick-colored cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in black on the upper board, blind on the lower board. Pages darkened with age and a few pp. with light underlining in pencil else a fine, bright copy. With the signature of Benjamin P. Kurtz, dated London, 1921, on the front free endpaper. There are two blank pages in the rear filled with his notes and observations in his neat hand. Besides being a prolific author, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz , born in Hawaii, was Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. The University of California Register places him at the British Museum in 1921, the date of the inscription. Wonderful association copy of a book printed in New Zealand only decades after the arrival of the British. .

New York: The Grolier Club, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Also 21052, but no prospectus. Small 4to. xviii, (2), (150), 2pp. Introduction signed: R.H. (i.e. Robert Hoe). "One of three hundred and twenty-five copies on Whatman paper, and three copies on vellum." This copy on Whatman paper. Bound in full leather with Wynkyn de Worde's device on covers and clasps. tr. by Robert Copland from the French version published in Paris in 1504. A literal reprint in the types of Wynkin de Worde after the unique copy printed by him upon parchment in London, MCCCCCXII. A lovely copy with only a trace of wear. Accompanied by the 4 page prospectus.