Search Results: Authors starting with H from The Sensible Magpie

Frankfurt: Peter D. Lang, 1980. Paperback. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. UNMARKED TEXT IN GERMAN. 8vo. Soft cover. Light sunning to front edge at spine. Black lettering boxed in white to grass green front cover. 363 pp. with appendix, list of abbreviations, bibliography, English summary and alphabetic keyword registry. Clean, bright, solid binding. Edition based on a PhD. dissertation. Fascinating study of Middle English lamentations of the dead.

London: New Burlington Books, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Very light rubbing to corner and spine edges. Small, faint indentation to front bottom edge. Dustjacket good plus. Jacket has stripes of delamination down front panel. Light scuffing and edgewear to illustrated cover. Silver-grey lettering to spine of green boards. Beautiful full-colour illustrations. Clean, bright, solid binding. 127 pp with picture credits and index. Watercolours from all over the world. A new assessment of the watercolourist's art. Guidelines given on current trends in watercolour painting -- what to look out for.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. THIRD PRINTING. Red top-stain. Bottom spine cap gently folded under. Top rear corner lightly nudged. Dustjacket good plus. Chipped, torn and creased jacket edges. Spine lightly sunned. White lettering to spine and front of sienna colored jacket. Bright gilt debossed lettering to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Publisher's mark in-blind to front bottom board. 474 pp. with bibliographical notes, chronological table, and index. Clean, tight, bright. Designed as a companion volume to his History of Greek Literature, Professor Hadas' book is written for the curious literate, and is scholarly without being technical.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Thin volume, .25" Black lettering to spine and sweet, violet and white, decorative boards. Thirty poems. 47 pp. Clean, bright, tight. Rachel Hadas (1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grans, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, (from Wikipedia).

LONDON: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd., 1932. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD. The author writes that the aim of the book "is to present, without a burdensome mass of detail, a panoramic view of the ages, as being the best means of enabling you to realise our position on the river of time... We submit to your judgment that the truth of the treatise together with the Chart, is self-evident; that the vastness, the symmetry, the design, and the precision in human events, show them all to be under the controlling hand of the Lord God omnipotent. Also that the whole casts a strong light upon present-day events, as belonging evidently to the end of the dispensation, and showing the imminence of the Kingdom of God, and an entirely new order of things, as foretold in the Word of God..."Absolutely gorgeous multi-color fold-out chart illustrating the author's theses on biblical prophecy. Small tear to edge of chart, near fold. Very scarce.

Madrid: Gredos, 1973. Paperback. Good Plus. IN SPANISH. Untrimmed, uncut pages. Mild wear to cover. Solid binding. Red and blue lettering on tan covers. Illustrations. Clean, bright, solid binding. 464 pp with bibliography and index. Translated by Julio Bombin. A Transformational Grammar of Spanish. Transformative theory is considered the only truly revolutionary theory of the current linguistic, (flyleaf).

London: Hutchinson, 1925. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Actual physical copy. Romance novel set in the Egypt of yore. 287 pp. Hinge just barely starting. Moderate rubbing to extremities. Slight spine lean. Reading crease to spine. Light soiling to front board. Light rubbing to rear board with a two-inch scratch. Acid transfer from old newspaper article placed in book, to FFEP, rear endpapers. Age-browning to pages of text block.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. Paperback. VERY GOOD. SOFT COVER. Covers are moderately worn with some staining. Also a 1 x .75 chip to front bottom corner and a 1.75" closed tear to top corner along with a small chip. Pages are age-tanned and untrimmed. Sweet illustrations. Color profile illustration of a young girl by Gordon Ross to frontispiece with velum overlay. Brown lettering to tan, paper covers. Clean, solidly bound. 98 pp with xxiii interleaves. "At the sign of the weather clerk" printed on brown shield with weather cock to front cover. Each month has eight pages of poems, lullabies, quotations with 12 interleaves, one between each month. The interleaves offer gems of information about such things as The Umbrella, Why the Sky is Blue, Dog-Days, Indian Summer and eight more. A real treasure!

Ashcroft BC Canada: Calabash, 1998. Paperback. Near Fine. Small nudge to lower right corner. 114pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1977. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

Dubuque, IA: Gasogene Press, LTD., 1989. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Paperback. Very Good. Very mild shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. 125pp. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate present.

New York: Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1922. Hardcover. Good Plus. EX-LIBRARY but minimal evidence. Stamp to front free endpaper. Pocket with card tipped-in to rear pastedown endpaper. Discolored and soiled boards. Top corners bumped and worn. Text block edges dark with age. Brown lettering and design debossed to spine and front of olive-green, cloth-covered boards. With twelve black and white photographs including frontis of Booker T. Washington. Photo by Moffett Studio, Chicago. Clean, solid binding. 176 pp. Biographies of prominent figures such as Dr. Charles V. Roman and Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. and Booker T. Washington and more.

Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1972. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS in Very Good Plus DJ. SECOND PRINTING. Stamped name to front free endpaper, title page and top edge. Front flap price-clipped. A .75" closed tear to upper edge of jacket. Mylar protected jacket. Gilt lettering to spine of black cloth-covered boards. 479 pp with summary of morphology. Clean, bright, tight. This guide follows the twenty-fifth edition of the Nestle-Aaland Greek text and designed for use by seminary students. Abbreviations noted in English.

New York: Lark, 2004. Paperback. Fine . REVISED EDITION. FINE. White lettering to spine and front of glossy illustrated cover. Color illustrations. 160 pp with list of contributing artists and collectors. Clean, bright, solid. A fantastic survey of singular works of art created from humble tin cans

San Francisco: Heian International, 1982. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Matching dustjacket Near Fine. Very light edgewear to jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Color illustrations. Unpaginated (30 pp). Clean, bright, tight. Charming color illustrations help to describe each letter of the alphabet. There are even hidden objects to find! A fun way to learn the alphabet!

London: Wright and Brown Limited, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. FIRST EDITION. Mystery novel featuring a hot-bed of murder and intrigue which centers around a gold mine in Africa. 190 pp. Book plates to front pastedown indicates book was held by W.H. Smith and Sons Library in London. Light pipe smoke aroma. Moderate sunning to spine. Light soiling to front and rear boards; moderate soiling to top edge of text block. Moderate bumps to bottom corners; light bumps to top corners. A little bit of scribbling in blue pen to front pastdown; checkmark in blue pen to FFEP. Light foxing to half-title, title page, text block edges; light foxing in varying degrees throughout the entire text block. Very slightly cocked. Tight copy.

New York: E.P.Dutton, 1983. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/ Very Good Plus. Considered to be one of the great literary classics of Japan, this tenth century work of poems and prose reveals the intrigues of ancient aristocratic Japan. Arihara no Narihira is considered to be the author of many of the poems. 247 pp. Contains 16 black and white illustrations of authentic woodblock prints. Handsome rice paper and cloth binding. Rubbed spot 1/4" to bottom edge of rear cover, faintest soiling to bottom edge of pages barely noticeable. Minor age tanning to top edge of dust jacket, inside bottom corner of dust jacket is clipped.

Dubuque, Iowa: Gasogene Press, 1983. Hardcover. FINE. No DJ. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

New York: Dutton, 1977. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD PLUS DUST JACKET. A little minor color loss (shelfwear) to board corners and a little very light wear to dj. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.