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

Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1941. First edition after the priniting of 950 copies for presentation. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 0 First edition. viii p., 3 l., 3-431, [1] p. 21 cm. First edition, after the printing of 950 copies for presentation. Published February, 1941. "A serial version of this story appeared in McCall's under the title of Gone tomorrow. "

New York.: Fawcett Books by arr. w/ Donald I Fine, Inc., 1997. 3rd Ballantine printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Front cover minor angled crease. Light spine creasing.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 405 p. Audience: General/trade. In the seas of revolution, 1793. Interesting tomes with themes of humor and authentic historical detail.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. T 02/76 on copyright page, stated First Edition.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket.. 0 566 p.; 24 cm. Has book plate from Young Men's Library Association, Ware MA inside front cover. No other marks. Tape marks on DJ and boards where it was taped on. Light shelf wear. Book in excellent reading condition, with soiling to page edges. DJ in Good+ condition with minor edge chips. "Has life on earth been destroyed before ~ eons ago ~ and is it about to be destroyed again in a global cataclysm..." (cover subtitle).

New York.: Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday Doran., 1931. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Interior very good indeed. Covers show discoloration, some damp stain. Page block edges foxed. Small library discard, NH.. 1 387 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Black & Blue cloth over boards. Gold stamped titles. Colorful lithograph illustrations. This volume is a joy for family or young adult reading. Illustrations are vibrant and bold and graphically innovative; many full-page plates. Soime in full color, others 2-color. The telling of America's history is fluid, poetic, and honest; and today, some will address the not-so-politically correctness of a few passages, offering up instructive moments. This is an introduction to the flavors of growth in a new land, a mingling of its peoples, and challenges that arose and were met. It is not an academic history laced with footnotes.

Smithsonian Books, 1992. Wraps. No dust jacket as issued.. Becker, Ralph E (Photographer), and Mayo, Edith P (Photographer). 0 Glued binding. 212 p., 9x11 in. List: Presidential candidates 1789-1988; bibliography; index. Showcasing objects in the Ralph E Becker Collection of Political Americana at the Smithsonian Institution, given as a promotional incentive to Contributing Members of the Smithsonian National Associate Program. Much text; many illustrations in color and B&W.

Boston.: L.C. Page & Company., 1929. First edition. Stated First Impression.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has short tears at top spine. Light wear at lower spine.. Cue, Harold (Illustrated by).. 1 311 p. Jacket art: black silhouette on brown. Book cover: duplicate art but in gold, blue on brown faux leather over boards. At back: 8 pigs. publisher titles. Tissue-protected frontispiece and 3 other grayscale art plates. American West Fiction: The character Bill Strain is a boy of the desert whose father has been an outlaw. He is the son of Hair-Trigger Strain overcomes many difficulties to live down his outlaw "blood" and to prove himself the stuff "sheriffs are made of", also with a hair-trigger. Author Reginald Barker was known for his "realistic" Westerns.

London / Boston.: Faber & Faber., 1983. Presumed 1st. No additional printings listed.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor top spine end wear. Moderate cover soil. Clean interior.. Allen, Rowena (Illustrated by).. 1 White glossy color illustrated cover. 84 p. Cartoon style Pen&Ink artwork. Audience: General/trade. British fiction: "There was once a car called the Little White Slug, " and so begins this tale. If four people squeezed in, there was still room for the big, hairy, brown dog could lie squashed uncomfortably on the back seat floor. Hairy and Slug often join the people conversation. Meet the Marlesden family in this collection of amusing stories for children.

New York.: Scholastic Inc. by arr. w/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich., 1982. 5th printing, renewed copyright. 1st Harcourt in 1954.. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name, large in child's hand, inside front cover. Creasing, spine, front.. Bodecker, N.M. (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback. Illustrated cover in pastels. 217 p. 21 cm. Pen&Ink artwork inside. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children find a silver coin. Jane made a wish that half came true. She said if they wish twice as much to get the full wish. What could go wrong?

Boston, MA: Branden Press., 1969. First edition. Presumed 1st; no print line.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Top page block soiling. Foxing to side, lower page blocks. Clean interior. Tight binding.. 1 Red cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 204 p. Audience: General/trade. Horsewoman Julina King was self-assured, mentally and physically courageous, keenly funny, clever in business, modest and individualistic, responsible in motherhood, and illiterate. Author Kunigunde Duncan pieced together the story of this Daniel Boone descendant from 50 years of letters, business documents, and interviews with some of her 12 children. She was at home in the Florida Keys, Mexico City, north along the Continent to the Arctic Circle, mostly when horses provided the horse-power, 1865-1920.

Pocket Books Mystery / Simon & Schuster., 1986. 26th printing since 1970.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. A few center page corners slightly bent.. Brautigam, Don (1986 edition cover art by). 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Green cover; white titles outlined in red, dunking apple barrel w/ face. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction series for the Belgian detective, Poirot, who does not take kindly to murder. And, murder it is when a boastful young woman at a party announces she'd witnesses one. She is later drowned. British author Christie was known as 'the champion deceiver of our time'.

New York.: Vintage Books., 1998. 2nd Vintage printing, first international edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light top cover soiling. Slight edge wear.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. Author's 1st novel explores the romantic love between an enigmatic writer and a reader. The nameless narrator is a graduate student at Cambridge University whose dissertation subject is the work of a French novelist, the brilliant recluse Paul Michel, who had said in an interview he was a great admirer of the philosopher Foucault. "Brilliant, beautiful and gay with a vengeance, Michel scandalized his society". Then he "went mad". Discovered on a deserted beach in the South of France, Michel finds in this student a lover, liberator, and captive. Called "sensually overpowering and intellectually provocative", this novel is among rising contemporary classics 30 years later.

Harper Perennial, 1996. 1st Perennial edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Remainder mark, bottom edge. Cover pricing sticker.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. Fiction: The man Hamilton Stark is a formation in part of New Hampshire granite, a pipe fitter by profession, ex-husband by habit, father by circumstance, and curmudgeon on purpose. He also is at times funny, honest, a good dancer, and rakishly handsome. Banks has placed his narrator at Stark's side as that character tries to understand Stark and to write about him.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. 11th printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has shelf wear.. 0 Blue Cloth & White Paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 544 p. Biography: A private citizen who distinguished himself in public service, b. 1898, Lower East Side, NY. He was not the baking soda king. He had become a doctor, an industrialist, an international entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a collector, and envoy of Presidents.

New York: Dover Publications, 1967. Reprint.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner.. 0 Stapled binding. Sturdy coated card stock covers. 6.5x9.25in. 34p. siingle side print only (17 images). This Dover edition, first published in 1967, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Griffith and Farran in 1859.

Philadelphia.: F. A. Davis Company., 1910. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Blemished from cover w / light staining. Page blocks lightly foxed.. 1 242 p. Brown cloth over flexible boards. Gold stamped titles in box, front, and without, on spine. Rounded outside corners, cover and pages. A history and types of electrics is found in the Introduction. Chapters describe each and its uses in early 20th century medicine. Illustrations: 92 B&W photos and Pen&Ink drawings. At back: Summary of Electrical Treatment, Glossary, Index. This is the real deal, not a contemporary reprint.

Crane Hill Publishers, 1993. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. 0 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade.

Boston / New York.: Woolworth, Ainsworth, & Co. / A. S. Barnes & Co., 1868. First edition. Same date, title and copyright pages.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Significant edge wear, exposing boards. Front board loosening. Minor spine end wear. Light end paper pencilled notes. Clean pages.. 1 127 & 301 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. Black leather over spine, ribbed; black cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Color spectrum lithograph: frontispiece, tissue protected. Two volumes in one, both by "Teachers in the High School, Cambridge, Mass." Each with its own Index. Appendix and Questions for Review and Examination follow each book. Pen&Ink detailed drawings, diagrams, from steel plates are throughout. Lithograph by A. Meisel, Boston. This hardcover is an original volume, with the look and feel of a mid-19th century school text, NOT a print-on-demand copy.

San Diego, CA: A Harvest Book / Harcourt Brace & Company., 1993. First edition. "A" printing. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.. Trade paperback. Fine. Light back cover small sticker residue.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 258p. Audience: General/trade. Music / Cultural History. History of this 18th century classic music composition by George Frideric Handel, its noteworthy performances and reviews; 44 illustrations in B&W, including map and facsimile documents. A Summary of Main Variants; Extensive Bibliography; Index.

New York.: Harper & Brothers., 1949. First edition. I-Y. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Rubbed front and spine titles. Scuffed jacket with edge wear. Front board starting to crack.. 1 Black cloth over boards. Gold stamped titles. xxi, 374 p. 25 cm. Color art frontispiece. B&W & color photos, Portraits. Endpaper art objects w/ map locator. Index. Contents: Historical background: Pilgrims, early industries; Arts & Crafts Movement. 1940s categories of handicrafts (14 chapters). Photos include craftspeople at work from all New England states. Illustration list near front.

St. Louis MO: Ralston Purina Company, 1948. SP3703N--4-48. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor corner, edge rubs.. 0 64 p. Includes illustrations. Numerous B&W photo illustrations. Author was a hunter, professional gun dog trainer, and field trial handler. Contents: Handling on the Hunt; Correcting Faults; Training the Young Dog; Amateur Firld Trial Handling; Feeding and Conditioning; Keeping the Dog Clean and Well.