Search Results: Titles starting with H from Chilton Books

Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd, nd. (c.1937).. 1st edition. H.M.S. Kent (54) was a County-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She was was assigned to the 5th Cruiser Squadron on the China Station and spent the bulk of the inter-war years there. This book recalls through word and photographs memories of peoples met and places visited on the China Station. Pp.xiv/136, photo frontispiece + 52 further black & white photos, 2 track charts + numerous vignette illustrations, small loss to lower margin of pp.97/98 (not affecting text). Blue cloth, gilt motif to front board, title to spine dulled, light bleached spots to boards. Scarce. G+.

Glasgow: Collins. 1978.. 1st ed. "Presents simple clear advice grouped in three main sections: Being Prepared - including Equipment and the Help Routine. Routines for Giving Assistance - including Bleeding and Unconsciousness. Special Circumstances - including everything from Road Accidents to Emergency Childbirth". Pp 126, some b/w illustrations. P/b, sunning to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine, 1977.. 1st ed. A Viking Royal Town, Medieval Wool Centre, Chartered Borough & Archbishop's Peculiar. Pp.136, 33 b/w plates + streetplan,signed by the author to the half-title. Stiff card covers. VG.

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1906.. 1st edition. With Introduction and Supplementart Chapter by the Translator, Joseph McCabe. Pp.336, colour portrait frontispiece + 12 black & white plates, occasional spotting. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine. Good.** "Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 � 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny."(wiki).

Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1882.. Verses from Haileybury College written under a variety of 'noms de plume'. Pp.64, owner's name to front free endpaper, foxing to rear endpaper and title page. Purple cloth, gilt college crest to front board, spine dulled. G+.

World's Work Children's Book, 1967.. Poetry about colour. "With compelling sense of rhythm and images that are clear and fresh, Mary O'Neill explores the spectrum in twelve poems about different colours...each colour is made strikingly visual in the lovely illustrations by Leonard Weisgard". 23.5cms x 15.5cms. Pp.59.Red cloth spine with blue illustrated boards, matching dustwrapper has creasing and tears to top edges. VG/Good.

London: James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1899.. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers series.. With numerous illustrations. Life Amid Snow and Ice. Travel to Iceland, Northern Russia, Greenland,Orkney, Shetland, Arctic Seas, Norway, and Sweden. Pp.xii/340/16(publisher's catalogue), numerous black & white illustrations throughout, brown foliate endpapers, occasional minor spotting. Teal cloth, gilt decorated title to front and spine, bleached discolouration to rear board. G+.

London: SPCK, 1993.. 1st ed. "Takes the reader on a compelling journey through many places, times and traditions - African, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim and Taoist." Pp.107. Pbk. VG.

London: Darton, Longman & Todd. 1996.. 1st ed. "Provides a formation programme for individuals and groups......Each chapter includes questions for personal reflection and for group sharing, as well as a weekly New Testament to be read in twelve weeks". Pp 159, convent inkstamp to fep which has corner missing. P/b. VG.

Halstead: The Halstead and District Local History Society, 1987.. 1st ed. Outline History of the achievements, trials and tribulations of the former Halstead Urban District Council. Pp.3/64, 45 b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG.

Halstead: Halstead & District Local History Society, 1992.. 2nd (revised) edition. "The reader will find references to the then novel conditions brought about by war in the air and will as he reads see pictures of evacuees and troops arriving, of soldiers and airmen on duty and hear the noise in our Essex skies from enemy attack and combat. He will learn of the service which was so gladly given and of those who made the supreme sacrifice. Fortunately many were "welcomed home"." Pp.88, many black & white photo illustrations including folding plate of 15th Battalion Essex Home Guard at Nether Priors, Halstead. Pink card cover. VG.

Needham Market, nd. (c.1962).. Second edition, but strangely no date (approximation made from car advertisement). Local Street and Residents Directory covering Halstead, plus: Greenstead Green, Castle Hedingham, Colne Engaine, Earls Colne, Gosfield, Gt.Maplestead, Lt. Maplestead, Pebmarsh, and Sible Hedingham. 18.5cms x 12.5cms. Pp.98. Orange card cover, rusting to staples resulting in some residual brown spots. A useful source for genealogical research. G+.

Great Britain; National Trust, 1995.. 1st ed. "One of the great Stuart country houses stands only ten miles from the centre of London. Ham [House] still contains much of the lavish decoration, furniture and pictures commissioned by Elizabeth Dysart ... this new guide contains a comprehensive tour of her house and formal garden..." Pp. 85. Pbk. G+.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1996.. 1st ed. "Lavishly illustrated with stills and informal photos of the filming, this book is a unique record of perhaps the most ambitious cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare to date." 22.4cms. x 16.5cms. Pp.8/213, 54 colour illustrations from film, 3 colour & 8 b/w illustrations. Pbk. VG.

London: The Lochend Printing Co.Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. One of a series of humourous cockney parodies. 16.5cms x 12.5cms. Pp.47, inscribed by the author to inside front cover (To Peter Marshall with best wishes & good luck. Leon Cortez), accompanying cartoon illustrations by Anthony Masters, rusting to staples causing some brown spots to inner margins. Paperback, spine worn and small worn spot to front cover, vertical creasing to front. Good.** "Leon Cortez (1898�1970) was a British musician and actor who appeared regularly on stage and in films and television in a career that spanned five decades. He became well known as a Cockney comedian and variety actor and he was regularly heard in his Cockney Coster Band (the act was top of the bill at the Adelphi in Slough in 1936 and appeared in the 1937 film [[Calling All Stars (1937 musical) Calling All Stars]and The 'Appy 'Alf 'Our on BBC Radio during the late 1930s and early 40s. Cortez also became known for his Shakespearean comedy parodies." (wiki).

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1971.. 1st edition. "In a provocative interpretation of the greatest play in the English language, Professor Fisch shows how the idea of a covenant is inherent in the imagery and design of the play. In tthe tradition of a Hellenic tragedy, Hamlet is swept toward an inevitable doom, t in the tradition of the biblical covenant, he harnesses his instinctual fury and becomes the divine instrument of a moral purging." Pp.viii/248, owner's details to title page and final page of index. Red cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed with small edge tears and chipping to top and tail of spine. VG/G+.

London: Ariel Books (B.B.C. Pub.), 1986.. 1st ed. "Can Communism and Christianity exist together?". Pp. 126. P/b. Illust. cover (Jeff Cummins). VG.

London: Epworth Press. 1973.. The author contends that the basis for Christian hope is the assurance that even in a time when for thousands Faith seems to be dying, ultimate pessimism is a little short of blasphemy in those who believe in a God able to find his way out of the grave". Pp 159. P/b, slight scuffing to lower edge front cover. G+.

Alresford: Laurence Oxley, 1975.. Facsimile reprint. Volume I only. "This illustrated account of Hampshire was originally published at Winchester in 1838 and contains much information of historical and topographical interest. The fine steel engravings are reproduced to show views of towns and villages that have now seen many changes." Volume I. Pp.viii/292, engraved title page and vignette + 45 plates + 4 maps (1 folding, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Cream cloth, dustwrapper has minor shelf wear. VG/VG.

Alresford: Laurence Oxley, 1975.. Facsimile reprint. Voloume III only. "This illustrated account of Hampshire was originally published at Winchester in 1838 and contains much information of historical and topographical interest. The fine steel engravings are reproduced to show views of towns and villages that have now seen many changes." Pp.vi//226(Isle of Wight), Vignette title + 20 plates and folding map/iv/98(Channel Islands), Engraved title page + frontispiece and 21 further plates and folding map of the Channel Islands, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Cream cloth, dustwrapper has minor creasing to top front edge. VG/VG.