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donation to the Textile Institute dated 1918, Stamp of the Textile Institute on the reverse of the frontispiece, and a withdrawn stamp on the donation label.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 by H. M. and sold by T. Norris, et al., 1721. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VI of the Register. 348,(6) pp. followed by 'The Chronological DIary for the Year 1721', 44pp. 19th century half calf. Spine in six compartments, brown leather lettering label, marbled paper boards. The front blank has some ink notes dated 1737, Light staining throughout, edges and corners and spine rubbed, else a very good copy. Pages 246-256 contain what is considered the most detailed account of pirates to appear in a periodical to date, and include the exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart) in the Caribbean. Bart is considered one of the most successful of pirates, and invented his own PIrate Code as well as an early variant of the skull and crossbones flag. .

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: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1824. Hardcover. Very good. This is the second edition of Warton, considerably enlarged and annotated by Richard Price. 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary hald red leather, spines in six compartments, gilt titles, marbled sides and endpapers in a stone pattern. Top edges gilt. The leather is rubbed, worn at the edges and corners, and unevenly sunned, but still very good textblocks in a good and pleasant binding. Frontispiece engraving of Warton is present, offset to the title page of Volume I. An academically noteworthy edition of Warton's worn, because the editor, Richard Price, makes the first mention of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight then recently discovered in the Cotton Nero manuscript. IN addition, this edition contains a significant number of Arthurian Romances, also discussed by Price in his substantial Preface, his three Dissertations, and in his copious Notes. AS tantalizing as rthe mention of Gawain and the Green Knight is, Green was not able to manage… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. 140, cxviii pp. Illustrated, Index. Full vellum binding, black printed title on spine. The boards yawning a bit else a fine copy. Inscribed to the Dean of Windsor by the author. Cripps-Day (1855-1941) specialized in the study of medieval European arms and armor. He is known for his detailed descriptions and meticulous research. His work is still valued by researchers and collectors of armor today. .

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

America (Philadelphia): Printed for the Subscribers (Robert Bell), 1771. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition printed in America. Three volumes. 8vo. viii,(ii),360;(xvi),374;(xlii),351,(lvii)pp., but with several errors in pagination as noted by Evans. Contemporary full sheep; spines with simple gilt rules and volume numbers in gilt; red leather lettering labels, gilt. A few notes by a former owner, including the beginning of his name on the title page of Volume 2 (Isaac Lew...) possibly a relative of Nathaniel Lewis and Mordecai Lewis who are listed on the List of Subscribers. This publication marks the substantial beginning of the introduction of European literature into America. Bell has published with it an address upon international copyright, the first on the subject. The long list of subscribers is a veritable who's who of early American history: John Adams, Jacob Giles, John Hancock (2 sets), Caesar Rodney, and so on: ''whose names posterity may respect because by… Read More