Titles starting with H from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Frankfurt A.M: Carl Jugel's Verlag, 1873. Third edition.. Small octavo. Original cloth-backed boards with printed paper cover label; xii, 530p. Covers dusted and rubbed at extremities; hinges cracked (held by cords); text tanned; rear f.e.p. lacking. Text complete and unmarked. ... more information

Riverdale-on-Hudson: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1999. First Edition.. Cloth boards; dustjacket. Fine, unmarked copy, As New. ... more information

New York: L'Association Democratique Haitienne, 1945. First Edition.. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 24pp. Minor external wear and soil; Very Good. On the state of Haitian revolutionary politics in the post-war era. Hudicourt (1907-147) was a lawyer and journalist and would become the first sitting Socialist in the Haitian Chamber of Deputies. He died mysteriously in 1947. The current work was written during a 2-year period of exile in the United States. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. First Edition.. Cloth boards (hardcover); 342pp. Copy of Haitian Ambassador Orme Wilson (1944-46), signed by him on second blank leaf. Mild dusting to text block edges, else a clean, solid copy, lacking jacket. ... more information

Boulder, CO: Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions, 1980. First, Limited Edition.. Quarto (28cm). Original pictorial wrappers, sidestapled, 33pp. Small institutional handstamps (indicating withdrawal) to lower edge of rear wrapper and on page 4, else clean and intact with minimal sings of wear. Very Good. Cover illustration by George Schneeman. ... more information

Hanover: University Press of New England, 1979. First Edition.. Blue cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 291pp. Tiny spot of abrasion to bottom of front board, else a fine copy in mildly rubbed dustjacket. ... more information

Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246 pp. Fine, unread copy; As New. ... more information

Long Beach, CA: Jack Esco, 1969. First Edition.. Staple-bound pamphlet (21cm x 13.5cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 113pp. Mild staining to covers, else about fine. Vietnam-era campus revolt tract, written by two young professors of sociology at Cal State Long Beach. Subjects under attack include the grading system, professorial tenures, and educational elitism. ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. First Edition.. Softcover; 421 pp. New, unread copy. ... more information

Springer Verlag, 2006. First edition.. Softcover; 404 pp. Light shelfwear; brief pencil annotation to preliminary pages; text unmarked, else asnew. ... more information

[Elmira, NY]: The Summary Press, 1927. Later Printing.. Octavo. Original red cloth boards; 92p; ca. 100 leaves of plates; panoramic folding frontis. Gilt on spine and cover slightly dulled, else a tight, clean copy, VG or better. Detailed account of life and labor at this "model" prison, the first in America to use the designation "reformatory" and to adopt as its primary mission vocational training and rehabilitation over punitive measures. The folding frontispiece is a panoramic grou... more information

Winchester, VA: John Handley Foundation, N.d. (ca 1930). First Edition.. Oblong octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 16pp; illus. Mild toning to cover extremities, else Fine. Illustrated with 7 halftone plates and a two-page plan of Handley High School. An attractive item, celebrating the legacy of benefactor Judge John Handley. Decidedly uncommon. Not in Haynes. ... more information

Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986. First Edition.. Two octavo volumes; blue cloth; dustjacket; pp790-1273. Ink hand-stamps and old price-sticker residue to endpapers; Vol I lacking jacket, Vol II in moderately rubbed and edgeworn jacket; else tight and unmarked. Very Good. A sound and unmarked working set. ... more information

Washington, D.C: Davelle Publishers, 1957. First Edition.. Printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 59 + 60pp; text in English and Hebrew. Fine, unread copy (in fact, a remainder from the author's own library). Multiple copies available. ... more information

Washington DC: United States Bureau of Prisons, 1949. First Edition.. Full pebble-grained leather; dustjacket; 317pp; illus. Mild rubbing to leather at board edges and spine ends; bookplate to verso of rear endpaper; early presentation to front endpaper to architect Stanley McGaughan, with ownership label of McGaughan and Johnson Architects. Text clean, complete and unmarked. Jacket rubbed at extremities with shallow chips to spine ends. Scarce monograph, including a section on the history of prison design... more information

Detroit: Information Service Inc, 1963. First Edition.. Orange wraps; 142pp. Minimal wear to extremities, else a clean, bright and tight copy. ... more information

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1961. First Edition.. Large octavo. Green cloth (hardcover); 333pp; 150 text figures. Ex U.S. Government library, with usual indications; text tight, clean and unmarked. Other volumes available. ... more information

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1961. First Edition.. Very Good/No Jacket. Green cloth (hardcover); 443pp; 183 text figures. Ex U.S. Government library, with usual indications; text tight, clean and unmarked. Other volumes available. ... more information

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1956. First Edition.. Large octavo. Green cloth (hardcover); 659pp; 289 text figures. Ex U.S. Government library, with usual indications; text tight, clean and unmarked. Other volumes available. ... more information

New York: Da Capo Press, 1964. Later Printing.. Third printing of the Da Capo edition. Quarter cloth (hardcover); xv, 366pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition. Mild fading to boards, else fine in sl. rubbed dustjacket. Essential work on Handel; J. Merrill Knapp's introduction appears only in the Da Capo edition. ... more information