Search Results: Authors starting with N from Zetetic Books

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xii, 100pp, original silver cloth, title, author and publisher blocked in black to spine, bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

San Francisco: Happening Press, 1967. Single sided printed poster, approximately 480mm x 635mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, otherwise bright and clean. Anti-war poster, image is from Weege's 'Peace is Patriotic' portfolio. First Thus. Unbound. Good+. Illus. by Weege, Wm.. Elephant Folio. Poster.

No Place: No Publisher [2]p, with docket title to reverse, n.d. but probably 1705. Chipped with loss to head, catching a few letters with loss, but no real loss of sense, slightly chipped to sides and foot, lightly browned with several small tears. ESTC T46435, suggesting that it is possibly by John Sudbury and Robert Griffith, with Hanson providing the date. Notes that sailors, sometimes after many years to sea, are often not paid what they are owed, leading them to sell their wages "at very great loss", which makes them incapable of paying his creditors, leading to tradesmen not being paid, and seamen deserting or entering into 'foreign service'. Hanson 529. First Edition. Unbound. Fair. 4to. Broadsheet.

London: Mrs. S. Burgess Printed, single sided tissue, approximately 385mm x 375mm in size, n.d. ?1908. Lightly browned to edges, small amount of loss to top left hand corner, slightly creased. March of the Royal Naval Volunteers to partake in the Annual Inter-Divisional Field Gun Competition. Probably 1908, given the day and date on the tissue and the imprint address. S.[arah] Burgess specialised in the printing of these commemorative tissues, generally the decorative borders were printed in Japan, with the overprinting which was "commonly primitive .. and display a ... disregard for niceties of typography and spelling" (Rickards, page 221) done locally. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Commemorative Tissue.

London: Stoke Newington Eight Defence Group [20]p, side stapled, original paper wrapper, n.d. but probably 1972. Staples rusted, minor creasing, but generally fairly bright. One leaf on pink paper. Issue No.1 only (of four?) The Stoke Newington Eight were Christopher Bott, Angela Weir, Kate McLean, John Barker, Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelson, Stuart Christie and Jim Greenfield. The Defence Group was based at Compendium Bookshop in North London, 'Conspiracy Notes', deals with the "trials, and the ramifications, of those accused of the Angry Brigade bombings" (Noyce). Noyce 271; Library Hub shows various holdings at the BL, Bishopsgate, Cam and Leeds. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 4to. Journal.

London: Stoke Newington Eight Defence Group [20]p, side stapled, original paper wrapper, n.d. but probably 1972. Staples rusted, lightly browned, corners creased, lightly rubbed. One leaf on pink paper. Issue No.1 only (of four?) The Stoke Newington Eight were Christopher Bott, Angela Weir, Kate McLean, John Barker, Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelson, Stuart Christie and Jim Greenfield. The Defence Group was based at Compendium Bookshop in North London, 'Conspiracy Notes', deals with the "trials, and the ramifications, of those accused of the Angry Brigade bombings" (Noyce). Noyce 271; Library Hub shows various holdings at the BL, Bishopsgate, Cam and Leeds. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 4to. Journal.

London: Stoke Newington Eight Defence Group [4]p, n.d. but probably 1972. Generally fairly bright. Issue No.3 only (of four?) The Stoke Newington Eight were Christopher Bott, Angela Weir, Kate McLean, John Barker, Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelson, Stuart Christie and Jim Greenfield. The Defence Group was based at Compendium Bookshop in North London, the 'Conspiracy Notes', deals with the "trials, and the ramifications, of those accused of the Angry Brigade bombings" (Noyce). Noyce 271; Library Hub shows various holdings at the BL, Bishopsgate, Cam and Leeds. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good+. 4to. Journal.

London: Peace News, 1954. 12pp, original paper covers. Staples rusted, otherwise quite bright and clean. Not in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: J. Booth and T. Clay, 1820. [4], iv, 91pp, [1], five plates. Original boards, new spine to match, lacking original printed label. Rubbed to extremities, corners and edges bumped and worn, light white marks to top left corner of lower cover. Previous owners name to head of title, very slightly browned, otherwise fairly bright and clean. With five plates (one line engraving, two lithographs and three aquatints), two of which are folding. The more uncommon first edition, there was a second edition published in 1823. Prideaux notes that Nicholson (1753-1844) was one of the founders of the Old Water-Colour Society, and that he "settled down as a landscape draughtsman, finding a ready market for his very numerous works, and, later on, attaining to the distinction of having his drawings fraudulently copied ... The 'Practice of Drawing' is a somewhat elaborate treatise, but full of interest, as showing how far in 1820 water-colour landscape art had become emancipated from the earlier… Read More

London: James Tochatti, Liberty Press 16pp, drop-head title, stitched, n.d. c.1896? Covers browned and lightly soiled, rubbed to edges, text lightly browned but clean. Part Two only. Not in Nabrink. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxvii, [1], 481pp, [1], 2pp and Volume Two - vii, [1], 431pp, [1], 24pp. Original blind stamped cloth, author, title and volume number in gilt to spine. Slightly cocked, small ink stain to both lower covers and a small one to upper cover of volume two, corners slightly bumped. Internally fairly bright and clean, light damp stain to head of first twenty pages of text in volume one, a couple of signatures are slightly loose and therefore a little proud of text block, but a decent set. Normanby was the British ambassador to France between 1846 and 1852, and this book led to Louis Blanc writing 'Revelations Historique en Reponse au livre de Lord Normanby'. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

Dursley: W. Rickards [Printer], 1810. Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size. Lightly stained to head, especially to reverse (possibly from glue), rubbed and creased. Reverse has the details in ink of the sheep stolen, detailing four instances over a couple of months in 1809 and 1810. Hand bill offering a substantial reward for information leading to the conviction of the offenders, one of the sheep mentioned was stolen, whereas the other was killed and the carcass stolen, "leaving the head and skin". Dursley is in Gloucestershire. The printer was W.[illiam] Rickards of Long Street, who advertises hand bills, cards etc. "printed at only One Hour's Notice". The BBTI has him at Silver Street between 1830 and 1842, and his press was registered in 1831, but clearly he had been printing for some time before then. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 8vo. Leaflet.