Search Results: Titles starting with H from MLC Books

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: C. Rasnussens Forlagsboghandel Undated, in Danish. Blue boards with bright gilt imprint and title. Gently bumped with a touch of rubbing at the corners and spine ends. Binding square and solid, previous owner's name on the front end paper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Petersen, V. And L. Frolich.

St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Self Published, 1904. Lightly bumped and rubbed with a touch of fraying at the corners and spine ends, a small drip mark on the front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. A study of Keating's writings, with a focus on the Inspector Ghote mysteries set in India. Review copy, slip laid in. Fine, as new condition, jacket in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Pitkins, 1951. Light general wear, small chips. 24 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Staplebound Wraps. Good/No Jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1961. Dawson's debut novel, an exploration of schizophrenia based on her own experiences. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Upper edge of the boards rubbed, small drip mark to the front. Binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, drip marks to the front, in Brodart.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. After a young man dies in an apparent hunting accident, it is found he was in love with his tutor's wife. Chief Constable Driffield has to determine whether it was accident, suicide or murder. Second printing, published in the U.S. as The Brandon Case. Bumped with wear at the edges, tears to the darkened spine, cloth nearly detached at the rear gutter. Hinges cracked, previous owner's name on the rear pastedown.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982. Spine slightly cocked with the ends bumped and rubbing to the lower edges of the boards. Faint foxing to the edges of the text block.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. Gently bumped with just a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends, foxing to the pastedowns. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, light foxing to the rear panel, in mylar. Signed by Coffin on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, 2006. A Neo-Nazi seeking to bring Germany back to the 1930s searches for a mysterious treasure hidden since the end of World War II. Silk Taylor, with a half cross her only clue to finding a kidnapped friend, stands in his way. Fourth printing. Short crease to the lower rear corner.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. No edition stated. Gently bumped, spine cocked with a small pinpoint ink spot on the lower front board. Previous owner's gift inscription, dated 1942, on the front free end paper. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, 2" closed tear down the rear spine fold with internal tape repair. Spine darkened with a sticker scuff, rear panel and flaps a bit tanned. No price on the flaps, jacket in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Chicago, IL: Sunburst Press, 1976. Gently bumped and rubbed, previous owner's name on the front free end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Foulsham, 1951. Insurance claims adjuster Sam Welpton investigates a car accident with blood on the road but no victim. Before he's done someone tries to kill him, succeeds with someone else, and Sam finds himself married and in jail on his honeymoon. Ghost written by Bellem after Saxon's death. First British edition. Gently bumped and rubbed with a small spot of sunning to the spine head. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, in mylar.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Random House, 1948. Eight enchanting children's tales, with nine full-page illustrations, 242 pages. Spine ends gently bumped with a bookplate on the front end paper. Jacket lightly rubbed with a few small chips and tears at the edges, spine a bit darkened, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Thomas, Allan.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. A memoir by the acclaimed and controversial composer of Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, and Doctor Atomic, among others. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 9/11 memorial piece On the Transmigration of Souls. First printing. Spine ends gently bumped with corresponding crimps to the jacket. Price clipped, in new Brodart. Signed by Adams, without inscription, on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.: Christian Writers Guild Publishing, 2014. Dr. Joy Gilbert returns to her hometown and deals with her former fiancee, her family, and the daughter of her former boss, who has stowed away in her car and refuses to return home. Fine, as new condition. Inscribed and signed by Alexander on the title page, with birthday wishes to Kathryn.. Inscribed By the Author. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket.

Evanston, IL: Principia Press of Illinois, 1956. Biographies of Jeremiah, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Epictetus, St. Augustine, Mohammad, and St. Francis by the former Professor of Biography at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947. The first Peter Chambers mystery. Bumped and rubbed, spine slightly cocked. Pages tanned with short tears to the upper edge of the title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Resurrected Press, 2010. Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Rolfe attempt to solve the murder of a High Court Justice before being upstaged by gentleman detective Crewe. Reprint, first published in 1916. Fine, as new condition.. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. A young man's errant snowball throw strikes a beautiful young lady. When he offers to make amends, she asks him to deliver a letter for her and he is drawn into a mystery which could cost them both their lives. Hunting wrote extensively in a number of genres, including relition, science fiction, and silent movies in Hollywood. Hubin lists this as his only mystery. Red boards with bright gilt lettering, spine slightly darkened. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of wear and fraying at the corners and spine ends. Hinges loose with the front hinge cracked, binding cocked. Uncommon first edition.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Marchand, J. N. (Frontispiece).

Roslyn, NY: Detective Book Club / Walter J. Black, 1982. Three great mysteries in one volume. Spine slightly tanned and cocked, lightly bumped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.