Search Results: Titles starting with H from Andrew James Books

Very scarce in this edition probably due to error on title page referring to W H Longfellow (see photo). Very clean throughout. Full soft calf leather yapped covers with gilt title to front and spine with blind tooled art nouveau decoration to front minimal handling wear. Pictorial end papers depicting courting shepherd and shepherdess, Colour title page with further art nouveau design and colour frontispiece. Two further colour tipped in illustrations. Undated but circa 1900 - 1910. Features a small selection of Longfellow's poetry but mainly taken up with "The Courtship of Miles Standish" for contents see photo. This is a lovely well preserved edition made more collectible for the error to the title page. 15cm x 9.5cm - 6" x 3,5" approx

Barnes & Noble, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no inscription or markings very clean throughout. The history of Hadrians Wall, the most important surviving memorial to the military power of Rome. This clear and readable account is also a history of Britain through four centuries of the Roman occupation

W H Allen & Co, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New Edition. In very good condition, green buckram boards with black and gilt decoration and titles to front and spine. Spine dulled and discoloured. Some light wear to spine ends and lightly rubbed to fore edge corners. Hinges have cracked and spine is a little shaky although binding remains secure. With lightly foxed tissue guard to frontispiece, otherwise the book is free from foxing throughout. The author in this work has attempted to popularise the subjects it contains so as not to make them 'too dry' for his readers and to shake off the 'stuffiness' associated with archaeology and antiquities, the result being a number of 'half hour' essays presented in an interesting manner and profusely illustrated throughout with over 320 engravings. The subjects covered include: Barrows, Stone Circles and Cromlechs etc, Implements of Flint and Stone, Early Bronze Instruments, Roman roads and villas, Ancient Pottery, Arms and Armour,… Read More

W Collins & Sons, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket, cloth covers with 'Ward's Library' label partly wrapped over front board. Boards slightly soiled. Ward's Library Stamp to ffep text otherwise clear. Publishers advertisements to rear. A good reading copy.

Oxford University Press, 1910. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2nd edition. In good condition, Paper covered stitched pamphlet. Some foxing to edges of covers along with some 'fraying' to cover edges. owners name to top front cover. Internally clean throughout apart from repeat foxing to inner covers. Four black and white plates 34pp

The Book Guild, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Katrina Head. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks an tears, slight age fade along top edge of jacket and very light foxing to edge of text block, internally very clean throughout. A Tale of everday life in eighteenth century Pembrokeshire with two illustrations by Katrina Head. Text in English.

Thick cloth covered boards with gilt titles and inset picture to front. Very clean throughout. Please note the majority of the text is in Chinese although there is an English introduction to the rear of the book that provides a history of the Stone Reliefs and their discovery. Large format 36cm x 27cm - 678 black and white photographs and numerous diagrams and drawings

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unused reviewers copy in mint condition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, no inscritpion, small stain to lower corner of text block which does not affect the pages, otherwise clean throughout. Please note additional postal charges apply for overseas buyers

Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by the author to the title page without dedication. 1st ed 2nd impression. With price clipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears but with some creasing to top and bottom of spine. Now in protective sleeve. Comes with original book sellers promotional 'signed copy' wrap around band. Slight lean to spine. Clean . A routine case about a search for a man, missing for four decades soon proves to be far more dangerous than V I Warshawski had envisaged when everybody involved starts to play dirty.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st english language edition 1952. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket is worn to edges with some slight loss to top and bottom of spine and corners. Repaired tear to top rear jacket edge. Internally clean with some age discolouration to end papers only. This book won the Stalin Prize in 1950. Three parts complete in one volume, the story tells of a struggling state farming community and its battle to improve with the help of the Communist System. Author pseudonym for Galina Yevgenyevna Volyanskaya

Picador, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. Please note the first UK edition was published by Picador in 2003 and not 2002 as stated in some other listings. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, very light creasing to head of spine otherwise fine. No inscription or markings very clean throughout.

London: Tor / Macmillan, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st UK Edition, unclipped dust jacket, no inscription, very clean throughout. A compelling and unpredictable novel by one of America's most honoured storytellers. Jamie, an orphan and a bastard, grew up tough enough to handle almost anything. He survived foreign prisons, smugglers, pirates, gun runners and shark attacks. But what he found in the quiet town of Hawkes Harbor is enough to drive him insane and change his life forever

Fourth Estate, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears with very light shelf wear to top and bottom of spine, very clean, though page edges slightly age tanned otherwise fine. Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England. These are men and women who live, love and lose; men and women who fall apart and who pick up the pieces, who dream useless dreams, and go on dreaming whatever the disappointments. Tough and tender and irresistibly humorous, this unforgettable book takes its reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.

Viking Cruises / Jonathan Cape. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, and clean throughout. The history of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. Sumptuously illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. This edition specially published for customers of Viking River Cruises.

Gomer Press Limited, 2012. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually As New other than owners name to front end paper. A fresh look at some of the heroes and villains of Welsh History put together by the collaboration of twenty two Welsh historians.

Flamingo, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket (as published), No inscription spotless throughout. A highly collectable copy.

E & F N Spon, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing, externally in just about good condition with good interior. Original red buckram boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Some marks and handling creases to boards and with partial fade to rear board. Internally in good clean condition throughout. Illustrated with diagrams and black and white photographs. This treatise describes the application of the modern (1940's) High Speed Diesel or Compression Ignition Engine for various uses both for land and marine propulsion. Much of the information included was provided by eminent engineers of the day. see photo for contents.

undated assumed 1857 1st ed, very scarce example of this single volume James Grant title in its original binding. Good to very good Half leather with marbled boards. Raised bands to spine, gilt titles and decoration to spine have been rubbed away. Leather rubbed in places and some rubbing to marbled faces and edges. Marbled edges to text block. Internally clean other than a few marks to blank end papers. 16cm x 10cm approxGrant was a Scottish author with strong jacobite views, He wrote in all some fifty-six novels. A quick succession of incidents, much vivacity of style, and a dialogue that seldom flags characterise all of them. Those dealing with Scottish history embody considerable research, are vigorous and picturesque in style, and express much sympathy with the reckless daring, loyalty, and manliness of Scotch and border heroes

Salem Press, 1902. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2nd edition Limited No 542. Externally in just about good condition. Green cloth boards with red titles and golfer in black art nouveau border to front and rear and red titles to spine. Boards marked particularly the rear face. End papers slightly grubby but without ownership details. Very light foxing throughout. Illustrated with diagrams and thumbnail photographs of hand positions. Picture of 'Alex' Findlay to frontispiece. Contents: Golf in General, Driving, Curve of The Ball, The Wind and Hills, Approaching, Putting, The Mental Part of Golf.