Search Results: Authors starting with N from Bytown Bookery

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. 1st Edition. Buckram. Very Good/Very Good, 179 pgs. Green Buckrum Binding / red title on spine. Spine slightly bumped. Good, clean, tight copy. Green Buckram binding. 3 numbers stamped in light black on top right hand corner of front end-paper. DJ is colorful in green/yellow. DJ spine bumped and joints are faded. Some minor edgewear. Describes the development of the fertilised egg until birth and discusses some controversial subjects relating to population and a development.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 179 pages .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1993. Pictorial. 0448435683 . A pictorial cover with Dick & Jane & family on the cover. In very good++ condition. Tightly bound with a bright & unmarked interior. Light spine end and corner bumping." Dick, Jane, Sally, Mother, and Father are not the only family having fun. This time, meet Mike, twin sisters Pam and Penny, and their parents. Two families mean twice the laughs and twice the fun. Beginning readers will love the way each chapter is an individual story, and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young readersa progression. Dick, Jane, Sally, Mother, and Father are not the only family having fun. This time, meet Mike, twin sisters Pam and Penny, and their parents. Two families mean twice the laughs and twice the fun. Beginning readers will love the way each chapter is an individual story, and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young… Read More

Les Entreprises Culturelles, Enr.. Very Good+. 1981. Paperback. 2761400577 . French language. A Very Good+ stapled Paperback. Tightly bound, very clean, unmarked pages. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 65 pages .

Gallimard. Fine. 2009. Paperback. 2070348253 . Un marché de masse raffiné avec une reliure serrée, des pages lumineuses et non marquées. Bordure de couverture très légère. "Lorsque l'armee roughe menace de s'emparer de la crimme, martin et sa mere fuient en Europe de L'Ouest. C'est a Cambridge que le jeune heros va faire ses etudes. Ill y cotoie de anglais, tel son ami Darwin, mais aussi des Russes, plus ou moin anglophiles. "; Folio No.4996; 6.8 X 4.3 X 0.6 inches; 304 pages .

Pyramid Books, No. N-1779. Very Good+. 1968. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good book with a solid binding and a clean, unmarked text. Edgewear and scuffing to the covers . A newspaper clipping about Nabokov's death, with the book. "Speak, Memory, first published in 1947 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times--as it offers incisive insights into his major works ." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages .

Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1992. Paperback. 0140129863 . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition. A solid binding with a bright, unmarked interior. Black and white photographs and maps through the book. "From their first encounters with traders, explorers, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers, to the heyday of "Red Power" during the 1960s and '70s, the relations of Native Americans with white men are explored in a powerful series of documents--seen through Indian eyes and told in Indian voices. "; 8.30 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 496 pages .

Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0385123418 . Grey hardcovers, brown cloth spine covering. In Very Good condition with a solid binding and a clean & unmarked text. Spine end and one corner with bumping. The DJ is in Very Good- condition, cover edgewear and scuffing. Book Of The Month club. ; Cartoons; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages .

Lisbon, Spain: Ministerio Da Educacao Nactional. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Trade Paperback. A small handbook that guides you through the Coach Museum in Lisbon. In very good condition. " This guide has photographs of coaches, saddles and other equestrian equipment." tightly bound with a bright & clear interior. ; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, US. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0931250161 . Oversize book, black & white hardboards that has been laminated. Black marker on the front free end paper and black line on the title page. This book is solidly bound with a clean & unmarked interior. Many table and graphs through the book. Part of this book is written in French. ; Miniature Less than 3" tall; 738 pages .

POINTS. Very Good. 1970. Paperback. 202000576X . A Very Good Paperback. Tightly bound, notes and highlighting through the first 50 pages. The balance of the book is unmarked. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

New York: Pantheon. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 039472111X . Trade Paperback with very light scuffing and edgewear. On half title page is stamped "Free Review Copy", previous owner's name written on the title page, the remainder of the book is clean & unmarked. In very good ++ condition. "Remarkably absorbing portraits of power in the executive suites of America, with updated information on U. S. Steel and General Motors." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 576 pages .

New York: Penguin Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Trade Paperback. 0140084703 . Trade Paperback, some minor edgewear with scuffing on the cover, very clean, tight copy. " A young woman named Hillela is abandoned by her mother, and becomes a major player in the struggle against apartheid. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages .

Editions Saint-Martin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Paperback. 2890351750 . Trade Paperback in very good condition. Tightly bound with a bright, unmarked interior. Light scuffing to the covers with edgewear. French text. A letter signed by author Frederic Lesemann, with the book. ; French Edition; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 196 pages .

Calgary, Alberta: Water Margin Press. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. 0921872003 . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition, tightly bound and unmarked with wear to the cover extremites. ; B&W Illustrations; 10 "; 71 pages .

Pharos Books / Topper. Very Good+. 1992. Trade Paperback. 0886876516 . Trade Paperback, Very Good++, tightly bound, unmarked with light cover wear . ; B&W Illustrations; 8.30 X 5.10 X 0.40 inches .

Abacus. Very Good+. 1999. Paperback. 0349110107 . Trade Paperback in Very Good++ condition, pages are tight and unmarked. Small sticker scar on the back cover, very moderate cover wear. "This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith; and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia? How do the converted peoples view their past - and their future?"; 7.80 X 5.04 X 1.30 inches; 437 pages .

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin UK. Very Good. 1977. Paperback. 0140036415 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition. A clean, unmarked book with one loose page, otherwise pages are tight, some wear to the spine endsm small tear to the bottom spine end. "Focusing on the early 19th century, when British occupants inflicted a reign of terror on the island's black population, V. S. Naipaul's recreation of the history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society - from the idealist to the reactionary - in an account which penetrates aspects of a complex society." ; 7.10 X 4.30 X 0.90 inches; 394 pages .

Penguin Books. Very Good. 1968. Paperback. Mass Market paperback in very good condition. Squared, tightly bound with an unmarked text. Browning to the interior page edges, light wear to the covers. A piece of tape across the bottom of the spine hinge, library sticker. "This text is a semi-autobiographical account of a year V. S. Naipaul spent in India. From his arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, to his departure, Naipaul came to recognize a cultural estrangement from India. It became to him a land of myths, an area of darkness." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 267 pages .

Le Seuil. Fine. 1999. Mass_Market. 2020354535 . A Fine paperback, tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. " Sami Naïr, qui, depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans a consacré son temps à lutter pour les droits et les devoirs des immigrés en France, et qui a élaboré une stratégie de « codéveloppement lié aux lux migratoires » en tant que Délégué interministériel au codéveloppement et aux migrations internationales (en 1998) , propose, dans cette passionnante discussion, un regard nouveau et réaliste sur l’immigration. Sans dérobade ni langue de bois, il répond aux questions, même dérangeantes, de sa propre fille." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 64 pages .

Little Brown & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0446512842 . Black hard boards / black cloth spine / gilt titles to the spine. Very light sunning the the bottom edge, previous owner's name plate on the back of the half-title page. Clean & unmarked interior. The DJ is price clipped with scuffing and edgewear. "This book is the awaited follow-up to Nasbitt's best-selling Megatrends . Beginning with the premise that corporations change faster than other institutions, the authors examine some emerging social trends and how these will influence corporate behavior. Among their more provocative discussions are those of the substitution of computer software for many middle management functions, the feminization of the workplace through the influx of woman managers, the attempts by large corporations to nurture entrepreneurship within the confines of mature organizations, and the need for creativity and integrative thinking to offset the technological… Read More