4381. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Housby, Trevor.

The Art of Angling. With illustrations by John Nash and diagrams by David Tuhill.

Second Edition. London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1971. 21.6cm x 14cm. 199 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4382. Housby, Trevor.

The Rubby Dubby Trail – Shark Fishing in British Waters.

London, Gentry Books, 1972. Octavo. 131 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4383. Houssaye, J.-G.

Monographie du Thé. Description botanique, torréfaction, composition chimique, propriétés hygiéniques de cette feuille [ Thé et son propriétés médicales et hygiéniques ].

Paris, Chez L’Autuer, 1843. Octavo (16 cm x 24,5 cm). 160 pages with 17 plates. Hardcover / Decorative publisher’s cloth with gilt illustration on front board repeated as vignette on titlepage. Some foxing, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation-copy, inscribed by the author: “Hommage de l’auteur a Madame Danielle avec les …hommage”.

4384. Houstan, Pam.

Cowboys are my Weakness. Stories.

First Edition. New York / London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. Octavo. 171 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Signed by the author ! Fine condition.

4385. Howard, Munroe.

Nenn mich Brick. Roman.

Darmstadt, Zero Press, 1969. Kl.-8°. 209 Seiten. Hardcover / Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren.

4386. Howard, Richard.

Quantities. Poems.

First Edition of the poet’s first book. Middletown (Conn.), Wesleyan University Press, 1962. 22 cm. 80 pages. Softcover. Some clear signs of foxing. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Wesleyan poetry program].

4387. Howarth, Peter.

A Compendium of Poems and Verse.

First Edition. Castleisland, Walsh, 2000. Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4388. Howarth, Patrick.

The Year is 1851.

London, Collins, 1951. 17 cm x 22.5 cm. 256 pages. Several black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-library copy with stamp (The Times Library, London) plus some related numbering in pencil all to rear pastedown. Pages clean.

4389. Howe, Irving.

New Styles in “Leftism” – Ideologues and Desperadoes – The Cult of Verbal Violence – Charismatic Leaders and Authoritarian States – The Decline of the West – Politics as Style.

New York, DISSENT, 1965. 8°. 31 pages. Softcover. Stapled offprint from “Dissent” – 1965.

4390. Howe, Irving.

The Critical Point, On Literature And Culture.

New York, Horizon Press, 1973. 24cm x 16cm. 232 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4391. Howell, Georgina.

In Vogue. Six decades of fashion. Preface by Beatrix Miller.

London, Allen Lane, 1976. 31,5 cm x 23,5 cm. 344 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout book. Original Hardcover. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4392. Howells, John.

Choosing your Clematis.

Woodbridge, Garden Art Press, 2000. 15.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 143 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4393. Howes, Wright.

U.S. IANA (1650-1950): A Selective Bibliography in which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States.

Revised and Enlarged Second Edition compiled by Wright Howes. New York, R.R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1985. 17.2 cm x 25.4 cm. 652 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor tanning to edges. Otherwise excellent, clean copy. Binding strong. From the library of former specialist Bookdealer ‘Codex Books’ – with their black ink stamp to front free endpaper.

4394. Hoyle, Fred / Hoyle, Geoffrey.

Fifth Planet.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Octavo. VIII, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4395. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

4396. Hsingyuan, Tsao / Naizheng, Zhu.

Transforming Pictures – A contemporary (Re)presenting of Traditional Thoughts. [Including the essays: A Hundred Years of Oil Painting in China / Understanding and Transforming of Being / Transforming Things into Mindimage / Meaning Beyond Image / Visualizing the Poetic Statement / Transforming Oil Painting(s) / With Transcriptions from the Preparation Workshop / Remarks on Translation].

Bilingual Edition in English / Chinese. Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 2009. Quarto (25.5 cm x 29 cm). 250 pages with illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

4397. Huang, Chun-Chieh.

Konfuzianismus: Kontinuität und Entwicklung. Studien zur chinesischen Geistesgeschichte.

Erste Auflage. Bielefeld, Transcript, 2006. 13,5 x 22,5 cm. 254 Seiten. Softcover/ Kartoniert. Neuwertig. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes / Aus der Bibliothek des Philosophen Graham Parkes.

4398. Huang, Chun-Chieh.

Taiwan in Transformation. 1895-2005. The Challenge of a New Democracy to an Old Civilization.

New Jersey, Transaction Publishers. 2006. 15 x 22,5 cm. 276 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4399. Hubbard, Clifford L.B.

Dogs in Britain: A Description of All Native Breeds and Most Foreign Breeds in Britain.

First edition. London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1948. 16 x 23.5cm. (10), 471 pages, 7 colour plates, with black and white photographs throughout. Original hardcover with gilt lettering and badge. Slight signs of external wear, including water stain to rear board, mild foxing, otherwise in very good condition.

4400. Hubbard, Elbert.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers – Aristotle. Written by Elbert Hubbard and done into a book by The Roycrofters, at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, MCMIV.

New York, The Roycrofters, 1904. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 22 pages. A variety of advertisements for Roycroft products and services at the beginning and end of publication. Original Softcover. Hand stiched with silk. Deckled edges. Unusually excellent condition of this fragile publication / Only minor signs of external wear. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers (Vol. XIV. March, 1904. No.3)].