Search Results: Authors starting with N from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889 ** This is the unique, finely-bound, personal copy by Edinburgh bookbinder Annie S. Macdonald, of her husband's scholarship.** Hardcover, 8vo (measuring 6 ½ x 9 ¼ inches) in full goat morocco with an elaborate decorative scheme hand-tooled in the Edinburgh bookbinder's raised-relief, Arts and Crafts style binding, 169pp. Marbled end papers, t.e.g., the spine with five raised bands, highlighted with stained banding, the title in gilt. Binding is signed on the rear board with the initials "ASM." Condition: Very Good Minus. Exterior boards with some scrapes and edgewear. Overcleaning has resulted in some losses of the varnish originally used to denote darker, glossier areas of the design, and there are a few spots. Stain used to highlight the foot of the spine shows craquelure. On the interior, polish offset shows to the marbled endpapers. An engraved bookplate denotes the inclusion in the Fleming Library of St. Andrews University, and a… Read More

Los Angeles, California: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1946 Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth, 20pp., First Edition. Slim volume of poetry by Edna Selover Nason, who also wrote "The Christmas Bambino - Six fairy stories for grown-ups". Condition: Very Good or better, with a band of sun-fading to the top of the front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

14 St. James Place, London: Collins, 1948 Early printing. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, titles blocked in gold to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket now in mylar, "First printed in 1948," color frontispiece, 158pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good D/j. One corner clipped on ffep. With the bookplate of a noted American naturalist and mammalogist, and pencilled note as to the purchase and reading of the book in dated 1970 on the front pastedown. The five monographs advertised on the back of d/j describe them as a more detailed study of select species the amateur naturalist, meant to accompany the popular "New Naturalist Series," which began publishing in 1945, and continued to at least 2015. Dates on rear of dust jacket suggest this is at least an early printing, as it advertises other books in the series to be released 1948 and 1949. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (cover design).

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975 Hard cover, quarto, 159pp. Bibliography classified by the various campaigns of the war. Condition: Near Fine in like dust jacket. Foxing to fore-edge of text block. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Octagon Books, 1969 Hard cover, 8vo in red cloth with titles in gold to spine. 286pp; 399pp. Reprint of the 1942 edition. Condition: Fine. ** A study of Jewish society in Spain during the Middle Ages, including their interaction with the broader Spanish society and their rulers. Includes sections on Jewish courts, economics and charities. With illustrations, extensive notes and index. ** The author, Abraham Aaron Neuman (1890-1970) was an Austrian-born, American rabbi and historian. "The Jews in Spain" (1942) is based on various sources, including the "responsa" (responses to questions) of Solomon Ibn Adret/Aderet (1235-1310), an influential medieval Spanish rabbi. OCLC 626220910, 626220924.. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: Various, 1909 This collection of Nevill's works was assembled by collector W.A. Foyle, and rebound uniformly in contemporary fine bindings of three-quarter blue morocco over blue cloth gilt, the spine with five raised bands, with titles and dates gilt, t.e.g. Bindings are not signed. CONDITION: Very Good Plus. All volumes show very minor wear to front joints, board edges and tips, and very minor foxing to some prelims. Hinges are in order. Otherwise clean, tight and bright. **"THE MERRY PAST," London: Duckworth & Co., 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden, 1909, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, 306 pp. Index., First Edition. English manners and customs of the 18th century. OCLC 3822676.**"ECHOES OLD AND NEW," London: Chatto & Windus, 1919, First Edition. with 8 illustrations plus index. Part I: Somewhat salacious sketches of various 17th-century characters of France and England being bad boys abroad, with emphasis on the scandals: Henri II, Duc de Guise (1640-1644) and his actions in Naples… Read More

Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1998 Hardcover. 8vo. 157pp. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Near Fine. Very light foxing to edge of textblock visible when book closed. From the series Masterworks of the German Enlightenment. ** Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811) and Moritz August von Thümmel (1738-1817) were popular German authors, here with two of their best works, in modern translation by John R. Russell. ** "Wilhelmine", published in German as "Wilhelmine, oder der vermählte Pedant" in1764, is comic prose. "The Life and Opinions of Master Sebaldus Nothanker", pubished in German as "Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker" between 1773 and 1776, tells the fictional story of Sebaldus Nothanker, a minister, is a moralistic tale, but sheds light on the daily life of 18th century Germany. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Lerwick: Hay & Company, 1982 Hard cover, 8vo, 228pp. Hay & Company has played an important role in the commercial success of Shetland, from the whaling business to oil. Condition: Fine. (As new) in a Near Fine d/j.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1960 Hard cover in red cloth, no jacket, x-library, 224 pp. The author's work is included in a number of crime anthologies, and she wrote teleplays for such programs as "Perry Mason" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Condition: Very Good Minus. Two small stamps, squares of cello tape, and a stain to ffep. Otherwise, tight and generally very clean. Hubin 299.. second printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

Rumford Falls, Maine: Rumford Falls Publishing Company, 1900 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown pebbled cloth with titles blocked in gold to front board, laid paper, frontispiece portrait. Condition: Good, with repaired hinges, small patch to ffep. Gently age toned, slightly shaken. *** The book claims to be the memoirs of one Samuel H. Noble, aka "Buckskin Sam," (b. 1838), who in the story is a rural- Maine born lad who walks twenty-five miles to ship out (at the age of 11) as kitchen-hand upon a coasting schooner from Thomaston, traveling to Virginia. There follows a series of tall adventure tales some with a decidely New England theme: catching a seven-pound lobster with a fishing line, shooting a whale with a rifle, evading murder in a Boston hostelry etc. Later, his adventures take him to New York, Argentina and Liverpool where he is strong-armed into the British navy... There was actually a whole "Buckskin Sam" franchise of dime novels and magazines--see dimestoredotorg--by the Beadle & Co.… Read More

New York: Orientalia, 1920 Soft cover, 16mo. (measuring 5 x 7 1/2 inches) in mid-blue sparkly card wrapper, sewn with a cream thread binding in a Japanese-style binding. Cased in a blue linen-covered chemise with two printed paper labels, and two ivory clasps with loop closures, unpaginated. Condition: Very Good Plus for both book and chemise. Moderate age toning shows to both exterior labels on the chemise, as well as some corner rubbing. This is more in the line of "patina" than "problem." Book shows faint sunning to top edge of wraps, mild age toning to text within, but is otherwise clean and in excellent condition. The frontispiece portrait of the Author is both signed and bears a red chop (seal). Colophon states this to be a limited edition of 500 copies, a second edition, printed Nov. 1920. First published in 1897, this work contains fifty poems, each highlighted with a decorative stylized chrysanthemum initial capital. **Author Yonejiro Noguchi (1875-1947) was the first Japanese writer to… Read More

Munich: Hirmer Verlag Munchen, 1994 Hard cover, folio, 346pp. Condition: Near Fine. Some wear to lettering of spine. In Very Good slipcase. ** Stunning book of photography of the old city of Munich, Germany. In English. Heavy book - will be extra cost to ship USPS Priority, or outside the US.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1968 192pp. State first printing. Hardback, blue cloth-covered boards with black titles, and a mylar-covered dust jacket. An exotic dancer gets murdered and hard-boiled P.I. Bart Challis is on the case. He "deals with a crooked psychic in a Victorian mansion, a pre-war Packard full of tommygun toting badmen, the Berkeley sex revolution, a San Quentin stoolie, a karate expert, flying saucers and a kidnapped heroine." Nolan also collaboratively wrote the novel which became the movie, Logan's Run in 1976. Condition: Very Good+ in a like dust jacket. Very faint foxing to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, otherwise book is tight and clean. Light foxing to dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1933 Hard Cover. 8vo. 203pp. Condition: Very Good or better in a Good dust jacket which has chips missing from head and tail of spine. ** Includes the essays "Henry James - An Aspect" by the author Graham Greene, "Anger Against Books" by the Scottish author Naomi Mitchison, and "Spirit of Death" by the founder of the famous J.R.R. Tolkien-associated Inklings Club, (Edward) Tangye Lean. OCLC 26693546.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Köln: Taschen , 2021 Hard cover, quarto, 95 pp., measuring 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches. In English. Including many fine color and black and white art reproductions from the Spanish surrealist, Dalí (1904-1989). Commentary on the life of the artist by Gilles Néret, art historian and writer active in in the Japanese museum scene, and winner of the Èlie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Condition: Fine. . English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1928 30pp. Number 145 of a limited edition of 500. The original "Isolario", or Island Maps, was first published in Venice in 1485 and is thought to be the first printed book to contain navigational charts. Condition: Covers very worn. Interior about Very Good. Please call if additional information is required. OCLC 6793313.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fair.