Search Results: Titles starting with H from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. Fiction. A sequel to Emily Bronte's (1818 -1848) celebrated Wuthering Heights (1847) --- embroidering of a classic by Lin Haire-Sargeant, professor of 19th-century literature at the Univ of Massachusetts. Well-spun fantasy re-creates Heathcliff's three lost years, between the time he fled Yorkshire to seek his fortune to his return to claim Catherine Earnshaw. Tale spun around a long-lost letter from Heathcliff to Cathy --- delivered 60 years ago, ironically on the day of her marriage to Edgar Linton, which housekeeper Nelly Dean elected to keep from her mistress. A chance meeting between Emily's older sister, Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), returning from Brussels' by train, meets up with a certain Mr. Lockwood who was not only privy to the concealment, but has the letter on hand. A tale of suspense that stands on it own, and that will… Read More

London, UK: Pitkins, 1952. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon faux-leather boards/Good; Clean & strong with rubs to corner tips and 2" oss to lower spine. DJ/Poor; tattered w/same 2" loss to lower spine. Photographic record of the story of Princess Margaret from birth to 1951, the year she came of age. An anticipated Volume Two to be pusblished in 1953.

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW . Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge wear & tiny punctures to front at mid-spine, & tidy notes to rear inner flap. PO name to fEP. A sequel to Emily Bronte's (1818 -1848) celebrated Wuthering Heights (1847) --- embroidering of a classic by Lin Haire-Sargeant, professor of 19th-century literature at the Univ of Massachusetts. Well-spun fantasy re-creates Heathcliff's three lost years, between the time he fled Yorkshire to seek his fortune to his return to claim Catherine Earnshaw. Tale spun around a long-lost letter from Heathcliff to Cathy --- delivered 60 years ago, ironically on the day of her marriage to Edgar Linton, which housekeeper Nelly Dean elected to keep from her mistress. A chance meeting between Emily's older sister, Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), returning from Brussels' by train, meets up with a certain Mr. Lockwood who was not only privy to… Read More

Luchterhand, 1983. Soft cover. New/Fine. Archival Photographs & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. German language text. Softcover/Fine. Darmstadt Und Neuweid: Lucherhand Bilderrbuch - Hermann Lucherhand Verlag, 1983. Originalausgabe. A review of whimsical, admired & fashionable coiffeur, or hair-styles, over time & place --- expressions of human vanity & personal statements. Presentations range from those of American Indians, Samson & Delila, Hohe Frisuren, to both head & art of Frieda Kahlo (to whom an entire chapter is devoted). 128 pgs w/archival photos of sculptures, paintings & real live humans, and illustrations; text accompanied w/light verse.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Sarah Jane English (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & Collectible. Guide to creating temporary, indoor habitats that allow study of various animals and plants in natural settings. Excellent resource for teachers and home schooling parents with emphasis on conservation and respect for life and nature. Directions to set up 10 different mini-habitats in big jars, aquariums or terrariums. Contents are: 1. Note to Parents & Teachers; 2, What is a Habitat?; 3, Life in a Rotting Log; 4, Wonderful Worms; 5, Watching Wood Lice; 6, Slugs & Snails; 7, Ponder a Pond; 8, A Toad's Tale; 9, Amazing Ants; 10, A Forest Under Glass; 11, Mounds of Moss; and, 12, Turn a Pond into a Forest. Projects are designed for ages 7 - 12. Superlative teaching aid.

New York, NY: Perennial Library/Harper & Row, 1986. 1st Paperback Edition, 13th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Cover/VG w/light rubs to leading edges & faint surface creasings to front. Inquiry into the American national character and manifest behavorial patterns. Title taken from the discerning analytical work, Democracy in America, of French social philospher Tocquerville (1805 - 1859), in which Tocquerville discernible, isolated characteristic ore mores he sometimes referred to as "habits of the heart". The 11 chapters are: 1, The Pursuit of Happiness; 2, Culture & Character: The Historical Conversation; 3, Finding Oneself; 4, Love & Marriage; 5, Reaching Out; 6, Individualism; 7, Getting Involved; 8, Citizenship; 9, Religion; 10, The National Society; and, 11, Transforming American Culture. Fine copy.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New. Beige softcover/Good; sound w/rubs to leading edges, light soiling to surfaces, and lean to spine. Humidity stains to upper text edge of pgs 98 to end. Blas de Otero Muñoz (1916 - 1979) was a major Spanish poet of post World War II, 1950s. 162 pages. Page 91, A La Inmensa Mayoria" reads: "Here you have, in song from the soul, to he/ The man who loved and lived, and died/ One fine day on a street/ His songs cast and gone/ ... /I bequeath my verse to man/ In peace, here for you, flesh and bones/ My last will. Bilboa, once upon a time/ on the eleventh day of April, year of the fifties something".

Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to corner tips. Monograph of the highly stylized art and culture of the indigenous Haida peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

New York, NY: United Artists Music Co, 1968. First Thus . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Dagmar (Photos). Text/As New. Illustrated soft cover/VG; Strong & sound w/sticker remanent & light soiling to rear. The 12 songs are: Acquarius, Donna, Ain't Got No, Air, I Got Life, Hair, Easy to Be Hard. Frank Mills, Where Do I Go?, What A Piece of Work Is Man, Good Morning Starshine, and The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In).

Boston, MA: Odyssey/Harcourt, 1999. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New. Soft cover/NF w/light edge wear. Charmingly engaging tale, first of seven stories for children about magic, from lyricist and playwright Edward McMaken Eager (1911 - 1964). Even In the realm of fantasy, logic and rules persist. Katharine, Mark, Jane and Martha come across a magic coin ... unlike the three wishes geniis and fairies are apt to grant, this magic talisman grants but half a wish. Wish to be home? You'll get but half-way there! And, what might a hal-talking cat be? Ingenious, inspiring, and loads of laughter.

Barrington, NJ: Edmund Scientific, 1985. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. Illustrated DJ/VG; strong w/rubs, nips, closed tears to edges. Small sticker to fEP. Treatise on Halley's Comet with photographs of its momentous appearance in the spring of 1910; this book was published in 1985 when the comet reappeared. Apparently on a 76 year cyclical path, its next anticipated visit to Earth will be the year 2040. An exciting astronomy wonder. Fine copy in lesser condition dust jacket..

New York, NY: Ventura Associates, 1981. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/NEW. 1981 First Edition, First Thus. Softcover/Fine. Simple, thrifty, healthy & delicious cookery using ground beef. High protein w/moderate fats (12% to 25%). 128 pgs, in 8 inspiring chapters: 1, Loaves for Loafers; 2, Case that Casserole; 3, Serve in One Dish; 4, Shades of Lord Sandwich; 5, You're in the Dough; 6, Department of Interior Surprises; 7, Soup's On; 8, Quickies; 9, Meat Balls Galore; and 10, Lamburgers. Use your creativity to adapt recipes to ground pork & chicken.

Paris: Editions Du Seuil, 1971. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/16" Tall. This book is a volume in the publisher's CHANGE series. Its interest lies less in the compare-and-contrast of Hamlet and Panurge (Hamlet's "envers burlesque") than how French intellectuals were applying the then new notions of language, linguistics, syntax, semiotics. and sturcturalisme: to literature comparee. Chomsky and Jakobson are ciited, as are Foucaukt, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss. In the second half of the book (the "Entrtiens" of December 4, 1970), the author develops his ideas in conversations with friends. It's probably as close to sitting in on a conversation in the Cafe de Flore of the period as we'll ever get. 159 pages, with [Dedication], Bibliographie, and Table. Covers are clean and sound; text is clean and strong.

New York, NY: C.S. Hammond & Company, 1956. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated yellow linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Charts to endpapers. Introduction, full-color maps and basic concepts of the physical and political world. Written half-century ago, book remains viable, and makes even more apparent the dynamics of political boundaries. Presentation in 3 parts: 1, Maps & How to Use Them; 2, Our Physical & Political World; 3, and 3, Man's Story in Maps.

West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing, 1975. First Edition, 5th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Text/As New. Sienna boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/Good w/nips, chips, & closed tears to edges, & loss to upper spine. PO name on front cover verso. A guide to direct healing engeries, which circulated through the body on specific pathways, through massaging of the hands. Relexology, a system of massage through relex points on the hands, feet, and head to relieve tension and treat illness, was first practiced in the Far East. Indeed, some consider the treatment as a variant of accupuncture. Charts identifying reflex points precede text which is augmented by photographs and experiences of patients. Fine copy with a lesser dust jacket.

Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1981. Printed Gray Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 10 1/4" Tall. This book, while not designed as a textbook, follows the same structured development as one. Its objective is not pedagogy, but "to provide sufficient self-contained design information for scientists and engineers who wish to do practical design of digital systems for their applications... This book contains principally three essential types of information: (1) fundamentals - serving as a review to the readers who are somewhat familiar with the basic theories, but occasionally wish to refresh themselves with the formula, design equations, terminologies, symbols, and notations; (2) characteristics, properties, and principles of operation of the devices, modules, and building blocks that are frequently being used as components in digital system design; and (3) design procedures by means of examples that would provide the readers with some guidelines for system design." The chapter headings are: Review of… Read More

New York: Wiley-Interscience - John Wiley & Sons, 1971. First Printing . Black Boards. Very Good/Fair. 10 3/16 x 7 3/16. Volume 2, which contains chapters 15 to 32, is concerned with support services, production, management, and sources for the tech writer and the technical writing department. For Part II - Supporting Services for Technical Writing - the chapter headings are: Industrial Illustrating and Layout; Industrial Photography; Data Processing; Composition and Reproduction Techniques; and Constructive Editing. Part III - Management of Technical Writing - contains: General Management Considerations; Organizational Structures; The Roles and Responsibilities of Management and Supervision; Role and Scope of Technical Writing Activities; Job Classification; Estimating and Cost Control; Contracting and Subcontracting; Quality Assurance and Control; and Personnel Management. Part IV - Guides and References - offers Data Sources and Uses; Style Manuals; Specifications and Catalogs Frequently Used… Read More

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980. Third Printing . Brown Boards. Fine/Good. 10 1/4" Tall. The editors have taken an eclectic orientation to the theory and practice of geriatric psychiatry. This book brings together a number of contributors who are considered to be highly respected physicians. They are primarily psychiatrists, biomedical and behavioral scientists. The contributors were selected because the editors believe that, in addition to their special area of clinical and scientific competence, they are particularly aware of the skills and knowledge that are needed by many health professionals charged with the care of the elderly." The major parts are: The Biological and Psychological Basis of Gerriatric (!) Psychiatry; The Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders of Late Life; and Future Directions. Three parts, 24 papers, 542 pages, with tables, figures, half-tones, and Index; plus Contributors, Preface, and Contents; References at the end of each paper. DJ has 2 small… Read More

St Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1967. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed black boards/NF. DJ/None. PO stamps (same party) to first two front endpapers, and to rear endpapers. Handbook for Criminal Procedure in the United States District Court prepared by the staff of the Federal Defender's Program of San Diego. Table of Forms precedes text of 22 chapters authored by various attorneys: 1, Defendant Under Investigation - No Complaint or Indictment; 2, Proceeding Before the United States Commissioner; 3, Indictment; 4, Arraignment; 5, Pleas; 6, Motions to Suppress Evidence; 7, Motion for Severance; 8, Motions for Discovery; 9, Other Motions; 10, Search & Seizure; 11, Admissions & Confessions; 12, Jury Selection; 13, The Jury Trial; 14, Evidence; 15, Instructions; 16, Verdict; 17, Sentencing; 18, List of Penalties Under Criminal Statutes; 19, Appeal; 20, Habeas Corpus & 2255; 21, Criminal Justice Act; and, 22, The Bail… Read More

London, UK: Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Univ of New Mexico Press, 1887. Fifth Revised Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. 2 Volume Set. Vintage 1887 publication of the Los Angles County Museum of Art. For both volumes: Text/Near New. Mustard linen boards w/gilt lettering/VG; strong w/light edge rubs, & frays to upper spine edges. Upper text edges in gilt. Frontispiece to both volumes. Volume II has fold-out, detailed illustration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Art historian Franz Theodor von Kugler's (1800 - 1858) Handbook of Painting was first published 1837. In 1851, the portion addressing Italian schools was translated into English & edited by Sir Charles Eastlake, whose preface has been retained. This 5th Edition has been "thoroughly revised and in part rewritten" by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894). Fine copy.