Search Results: Authors starting with N from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

University Press of the Pacific, 2005. First English language edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, 255 pages; inked name Photographs.

New York: Phaedra Inc., ( 1966 ). First Edition. Fine/very good. 8vo, 111 pages, blue cloth; very light edgewear to dj with 1/4th in. at top of rear panel, 1/8th in. tear at top of top panel.` With a "Foreword" by Vladimir, this translation is by his son, Dmitri - with revisions by his father. It first appeared in a Russian emigre at Paris. The performance of the play in 1939 was frustrated by the German army. "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." - Foreword.

New York: Pocket Books, ( 1967 ). First Printing. Very Good. 16mo, 156 pages, black wrappers, rear wrapper creased horizontally, inked name on first page; stiff, possibly unread, light edgewear, a bit convex With a "Foreword" by Vladimir, this translation is by his son, Dmitri - with revisions by his father. It first appeared in a Russian emigre at Paris. The performance of the play in 1939 was frustrated by the German army. "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." - Foreword.

Evanston, IL: Tri-Quarterly, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo, 371+ pages, pictorial wrappers creased. The entire issue devoted to the man and his work. Contributors include John Updike, John Barth, Anthony Burgess, Saul Steinberg, Charles Newman, Stanley Elkin, Alfred Kazin, Alfred Appel, Jr., Herbert Gold, etc. Includes the Supplement to TriQuarterly 17: "Anniversary Notes" by Nabokov. Nabokov called this festschrift a "precious treasure".

New York: Franklin Watts, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 8vo, 147 pages, white pictorial cloth Issued in the Immortals of Engineering series, with photographs.

Saigon, Vietnam: Sili, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, ix, 69 pages, bark paper covers. Scarce Preface by Georges Vial Mazel. No. 451 of 500 copies on bouffant navarre paper. Full-page inscription by Raymond

New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo; xiv, 400 pages, clothbacked boards Signed by Nagel on the free endpaper. This covers the saga of the Adamses from 1735 to 1927. My family's history was "one of the great triumphs in the world but of deep groans within, one of extraordinary brillincy and deep corroding mortification." - Charles Francis Adams, historian and grandson.

NY: Knopf, 1981. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. 8vo, 430 pages, clothbacked boards, clipping burn to front endpapers Explores the life, culture, the ferment inside Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia & Indonesia by this Nobel Prize winner.

( London ): Little, Brown & Co., 1999. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 333 pages, cloth With Introduction and Notes by Gillon Aitken, and family trees.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 191 pages, cloth; in blue cloth custom slipcase. Inscribed by the author to James O. Freedman, a former President of Dartmouth College. Naipaul was awarded an honorary doctorate at Dartmouth in 1997. This is the second volume in Naipaul's India trilogy. Signed copies of the Knopf edition are quite scarce.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, xi, 176 pages, boards and cloth, bumped; dj bumped, scuffed "The two personal narrative pieces that make up FINDING THE CENTER were written one after the other and occupied the best part of two years. They are offered as a book ... because, over and above their story content, both pieces are about the process of writing. Both pieces seek in different ways to admit the reader to that process." - Foreword. As a wroter. of course, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, charcoal cloth Advance Review Copy, with Review Slip and glossy drawing laid in. Author's first book. Extraodinarily fresh condition.

New York: Knopf, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 248 pages, clothbacked boards, remainder mark, smudged endpaper; dj softly wrinkled "Probably the best novel of 1975" -NY Times Book Review. Naipaul, of course, later was awarded The Nobel Prize, and after his first Booker Prize.

Macmillan, ( 1967 ). First American edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 235 pages, cherry cloth; In a custom green cloth slipcase. Eleven stories set in England, India, and the West Indies. Winner of the Booker Prize. Inscribed by the author to James O. Freedman, a former President of Dartmouth College, with a photograph of both of them laid in: Naipaul was awarded an honorary doctorate at Dartmouth in 1997 . After Dartmouth, the remarkable Freedman was named the President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The title story here was in response to a commission to write a comic musical about the Caribbean - for film treatment.

London: Heinemann, ( 1990 ). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 521 pages: small spots on top edge; this book was stored ineptly, and became bumped at the upper corner of the spine, causing damage to the book block, but still tightly bound; with a fine, original glassine dust jacket. Copy no. 82 of only 150 signed by this Nobel Prize-winner, and in the publisher's special binding with marbled paper boards. This is the third volume in Naipaul's India trilogy. "He is indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India - NY Times Book Review

New York: NYNY: Harcourt, Brace, 1975, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, boards; creased flap on dj The Stone Age people in the Philippine rain forest.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 16 color plates, 120 photogravures, 4 folding maps in pockets.. Quartos, green cloth, Vol. 1 torn at head of spine, inked 1897 inscriptions on blank pages. In the space of 280 years previous to 1893 the combined efforts of all the Arctic expeditions succeeded only in travelling 150 miles nearer the Pole. Dr. Nansen in three years penetrated 200 miles beyond the farthest point then reached. Originally published at $10. Publisher's advance prospectus in front pocket. 16 color plates, 120 photogravures, 4 folding maps in pockets. [Bennett, PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS, p.82 - "The 16 colored plates are on a par with all the rest of this fine and honest and permanent work."]. One of his aims was to explore arctic ocean currents. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. [ PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 384; Arctic Bibliography, 11983]. Preceded by the Danish edition… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. First edition. Octavo. Fine dark green cloth, untrimmed, unopened, bookplate removed. 8vo, Napoleon's Notebooks on his study of English history are here collected with contextual annotations. "My first object ... has been to throw the true atmosphere round Napoleon's historic abstract by means of contemporary notes. it is important to realise exactly what material was available in 1788 to a historical student, and what was the best available work that could have been done with it - Introduction."

The American Spectator, 1932 - 1933. First Edition. Fine. Folios, folded in fourths, with original wraparound green bands with red print, slight wear at folds " It will be the policy of The American Spectator, in short, to have no policy that will in any way interfere with or restrain any expression of opinion that any of its invited writers may desire to offer… " [RING LARDNER BIBLIOGRAPHY, D223].

Louisiana State University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 384 pages, cloth Signed by Hughes, at Chattanooga, on the title-page. Previously the history and exploits of the Fifth Company of the Washington Artillery have been overlooked and under-rated. This book corrects those oversights.