Search Results: Authors starting with N from Charles Agvent

(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with slightly darkened spine and a small tear along the front spine edge. The preferred variant A binding with green endpapers.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Two tiny nicks on rear panel of dustwrapper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper. Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest," writes Vladimir Nabokov in his Foreword to this revised and first English-language edition of a classic story.

(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a slightly sunned spine. The preferred variant A binding with green endpapers.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a few small holes on the spine and some tanning. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly different in size extending above the top of the covers and resulting in inevitable wear. Review Slip laid in.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Owner inscription on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a soiled and worn Good dustwrapper. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly different in size extending above the top of the covers and resulting in inevitable wear.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper lacking a few chunks from spine and with a few stains on the front. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly different in size extending above the top of the covers and resulting in inevitable wear.

New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). First Edition. Hardcover. Neat owner signature dated April, 1871, on the front endpaper. Some fading and spotting to cloth. Quite Good. Thomas Nast. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.

New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine tips worn, front endpaper detached. Good. Thomas Nast. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.

Mercer, PA, June 16. Framed Art. Long, closed tear, mostly in the margin, otherwise quite nice, not examined out of the frame. Very Good. Thomas Nast. ORIGINAL PEN & INK DRAWING (3-3/4" x 6-1/2" matted and attractively framed with UV protective glass to an overall size of 12-1/2" x 14-1/2") of an African-American woman carrying a bucket titled at the top "Mercer PA June 16th/Betty bringing water" and SIGNED by Nast at the bottom right corner.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Printed wraps. Near Fine. Printed wraps.

Venice: Campo S. Maurizio, [@1880]. Photographs. A bit of light soiling to the mats; the paper holder a bit soiled and worn. The images are bright and Fine. Carlo Naya. A total of 12 large hand-colored albumen photographs, measuring 14" x 10-1/2" mounted on 25" x 19" stiff paper and housed in a paper folder printed and decorated in black. Each photograph is meticulously hand-colored and all but one captioned in ink in the lower left corner. Included are Piazza San Marco (numbered 48 in the negative), Palazzo D'Oro, Canal Grande Ponte Di Rialto, San Giorgio Maggiore, Foscari Palazzo Giustinian Canal Grande (numbered 252 in the negative), Rio della Guerra (numbered 105 in the negative), Riva degli Schiavoni (numbered 93 in the negative), Ponte Dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs] (numbered 9 in the negative), Tintoretto's Il Paradiso in the Palazzo Ducale, Interior of the Basilica San Marco (numbered 131 in the negative), Mosaics in Basilica San Marco (numbered 57 in the negative), and Basilica di Santa… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a short tear at bottom front. Author's second book. The dustwrapper was designed by Chris Van Allsburg.

[New York]: [Associated American Artists], [1945]. First Edition. Print. Fine. Reginald Neal. Lithograph (15" x 10-1/2"; Image size 13-1/4" x 8-5/8") SIGNED in pencil at the lower right. Also seen titled as OCEANSIDE. Apparently issued in an edition of 250 by the Associated American Artists (AAA).

New York: Random House, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear. Poet's second book and his first novel. Owner pencil notation on front free endpaper next to owner's small blindstamp stating that the book was received from the publisher on 7 March 1949. A possible review copy.

Boston: Little Brown, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper with closed tears. An interesting copy in that it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author's mother, also the mother of Nemerov's sister, the photographer Diane Arbus: "February 1955/'A thing of beauty is a/joy forever'--/To Pearl:-/with love/Gertrude Nemerov."

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dustspotting to the top edge. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith,/with affection & admiration/Howard Nemerov."

New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Printed decorated wraps. Number 64 of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies (of a total edition of 126).

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a glass ring on the front cover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page to poet William Meredith: "for Bill,/This little book/in thanks for his big one/with love,/Howard."

[San Francisco]: (Cranium Press), [1970]. First Edition. Pamphlet. Evenly toned. Very Good. Single sheet folded into four 7-1/2" x 10" pages printing Section 12 from Canto General. SIGNED by Bly at the end by the statement "To Be Printed Free Forever."

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1998). Hardcover. Fine in slipcase, as issued. Edward Ranney. Oblong folio (15" x 12") bound in full dark green linen with a black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Translated by John Felstiner and illustrated with photogravures by Edward Ranney. This poem is the result of a visit by the Chilean winner of the Nobel Prize to the mysterious citadel in Peru built by the Incas. "The superb photographs of Macchu Picchu by Ranney that accompany Pablo Neruda's Heights of Macchu Picchu stand among the finest works of a photographer whom one critic calls 'a very modern visionary of the antique,' embodying 'a gnomic monumentality, an almost clinical sublimity.'" Copy #154 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the translator and by the illustrator. Monthly Letter laid in.