Search Results: Authors starting with N from Classic Books and Ephemera

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Paperback. Fine. Revised and Expanded Edition." x, [2], 388 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. xi, [1], 93 p.illustrations; 17 x 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Gift inscription on the title page from the author to architect Robert Venturi. In Near Fine Condition: slight crease in front cover; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Paperback. Fine. First American Edition." [12], 386, [4] p.; 21 cm. Paperback with white cover; embossed spine and cover titles. White slipcase with embossed title on front. Signed by the author on the first, blank, page. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. xxi, [1], 355, [5] p.; 24 cm. Dark brown cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Blacks in the New World. "At its high point in 1938, the Harlem Communist Party had close to a thousand black members and mobilized many thousands more through its work with trade unions, WPA workers, the Workers Alliance, tenants unions, legal defense organizations and cultural groups. In a work largely based on primary materials and interviews with the leading black Communists from the Thirties, Naison is the first to fully explore this provocative encounter." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good Condition: occasional red marks in margins and a few underlinings through p. 9; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; closed 1-cm. tear from lower edge of front section; clean and bright.

New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Carruth, Paul. [4], 311-406, [2] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. Title page in green and black. One of a limited edition of 2,500 copies. Paginated continuously with Part 7. Contents: The Poet and the Pirate [re: Robert Frost and Thomas B. Mosher] by Ray Nash -- Preserved for Posterity: Some Remarks on Mediaeval Manuscripts by E.P. Goldschmidt -- The Uses of Collecting by John Bakeless, illustrated by Paul Carruth -- Treasure Hunt by John Francis McDermott, illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge -- Where are Shakespeare's Manuscripts? by James G. McManaway -- Manuscript-Hunting in Two Continents by R.W. Chapman. Includes advertisements on final pages and index to vol. 2. With: yellow sheet advertising the Book Collectors' Annual, vol. 3, to be published Oct. 1950. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; ends of spine rubbed; pages are clean and bright.

Bogota, Colombia: Escala, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi, [1], 14-241, [3] p.: illustrations, plans; 23 x 25 cm. Faux leather cover with white spine and cover titles, and cover illustration. Text is in Spanish and English. Architect Vicente Nasi (1906-1992) was born in Italy but worked in Colombia. A pioneer of modernism, one of his his best-known works is the Continental Hotel in Bogota. In the 1960s and 1970s he also worked in Venezuela, the United States, Italy, and Zimbabwe. In Near Fine Condition: small indentation in front cover; otherwise, clean and tight.

Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 262 p.: tipped-in photographic frontispiece portrait; 19 cm. Half reddish calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment and gilt-tooled ornaments in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp at lower edge of verso of blank leaf following front free endpaper: "Bound by. G.S. Smith, Edinr." Purple ribbon bookmark. The Rev. John Nasmyth (1853-1894) was a Scottish minister who spent most of his career in the Parish of ceres, in the Presbytery of Cupar; he also assumed the Chaplaincy of the Fife Light Horse (Fife Mounted Volunteers) in 1884. The contents include The Glendronachy Papers, sketches of Scottish village life that Nasmyth contributed to a local paper. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: edges and boards are rubbed; clean and solid.

Boston: Boston Public Library, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 279 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Light and dark brown cloth with gilt spine title and illustration of a tree on the front. Green illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's advertisement on back section of dust jacket. "Edited by Sinclair H. Hitchings, with commentaries on prints by Paul Swenson, Nason's own essy on the history and practice of wood engraving, and a reprinting of John Taylor Arms' essay on Nason's prints." The definitive catalog of the work of American wood engraver Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Includes an index to the prints and a general index. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: loss at lower edge of front section near spine; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of front section and same from lower edge of back section; loss from lower edge of… Read More

Westport, Conn: Avery, Hand & Co, 1966. Near Fine -. [4] p.; 22 cm. Red with black cover title. Holding facsimile (41 x 54 cm.), folded, of Thomas Nast's large illustration of Santa Claus and his activities. The illustration first appeared in Harper's Weekly in Dec. 1866. No date of publication, but refers to the publication of this illustration 100 years ago. Advertising agency Avery, Hand & Co., produced reproductions of historic documents and models of early mechanical inventions from around 1962 to 1972 or later. In Near Fine- Condition: light creasing at corners; clean and bright.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1915. Paperback. Good. 251, [5] p.: tables; 19 cm. Paperback with plain brown wrapper and black cover titles. Publisher's catalog on final 4 unpaginated pages. Printed pastedown on front cover from the United Mine Workers of America to a newspaper editor urging the paper to use the information in this book when writing about the negotiations for the next anthracite wage agreement. Stamped over the pastedown and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library" (newspaper not identified). Attached to the inside of the front wrapper is a folded sheet with detailed information about the agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 1916. Very scarce in paperback with the United Mine Workers additions. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper over spine; chipping along edges of wrapper, with partial loss of title on front wrapper; back wrapper is detached but present; front wrapper almost detached; tape residue along spine from old repair; minor loss from… Read More

New York: M.J. Ivers & Co, 1892. Paperback. Good -. [3], 6-415, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with covers printed in dark blue and light blue. No date of publication, but front cover dated 1892. This is no. 292 in the publisher's American Series. Back cover contains an illustrated advertisement for Walter Baker & Co.'s breakfast cocoa. Inside back cover contains the contents of Standard Comic Recitations by Best Authors, no. 21. Former owner's name at head of front cover and first page of text: Schall. This paperback edition came out the year after the first edition by Frederick Warne (London, 1891). In Good- Condition: cover is soiled; edges are rubbed, with separation along joints and chipping along edges; some loss of paper at ends of spine; corners lacking from back cover, with slight loss of printing at upper corner; 3-cm. tear from fore-edge of title page with slight loss of paper but not impacting printing; inside back cover scraped, with slight loss of text; pages are… Read More

S.l.: Scholar Select, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine. This is a reproduction of the copy presented to the Harvard College library by the author, which was published in Edinburgh by Thomas Clark in 1831. [4], xi, [1], 144 p.; 24 cm. Brown and black hardback with white spine and cover titles. In Near Fine Condition: cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. x, [2], 212 p.; 22 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket with recommendation by Betty Ford on the front. The author, director of the first national conference on women and drugs, examines the various factors that could lead to accidental addiction to legally prescribed drugs among women, in particular. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: endpapers and top page edges lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is Very Good- Condition: lightly soiled; small puncture along front joint; closed 1-cm. tear from top edge of back section.

Port Washington, N.Y.: Ira J. Freidman, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Empire State Historical Publications Series 51. [128] p.; 26 cm. Dark blue cloth with silver spine title. With, loose, 8-page Additions and Corrections, 1975. Signed by the compiler on the front free endpaper. Arranged by county. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Paris: Flammarion, 1985. Paperback. Near Fine. 390 p.: color illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is entirely in French. Includes glossary and index. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. In Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; back cover is sunned along edges; otherwise, clean and tight.

Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon Books, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 78 p.: color and black-and-white illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Author's gift inscription on title page to architect Robert Venturi. A detailed guide to the original colorful and detailed decoration of the California Missions. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, with minor loss, at tail of spine; edges lightly rubbed; clean and tight.

Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good +. 168 p.: black-and-white photographs; 24 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles and front cover decoration. Series title on front cover: Berühmte Kunststäatten Band 8. All page edges black. Black endpapers. Includes index. Publisher's advertisement on p. 168. Former owner's inscription on blank page following front endpapers: "Lili Neumann 1935." Small pencil marks next to some of the illustration captions suggest that those were things she saw on her visit to the city. A history of Prague from the Premyslid dynasty to the beginning of the 20th century, illustrated with photographs of buildings and art found in the city before the world wars of that century. In Very Good+ Condition: spine slightly sunned; lacking half of blank leaf before back endpapers; clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good -. 247, [1] p.; 19 cm. Red pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; gilt-stamped cover illustration of the Liberty Bell. Boards have bevelled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Contains biographical sketches of 28 Pennsylvania residents, most of whom were active during the American Revolution. Includes Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, and General William Irvine and other military figures, as well as artist Benjamin West and inventor Robert Fulton. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is rubbed, with minor loss at head of spine; occasional light soiling; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Richardson & Steirman, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xii, 395 p.; 24 cm. Maroon and blue cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket title: Turning 200: A Bicentennial History of the Rise of the American Republic. The author portrays "the forces set in motion by the Revolution and the events after the Constitution was unveiled -- the watershed five years from 1787 to the end of 1791 that created the American republic as it is today, in both structure and spirit." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Navigation, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. "Published in compliance with a joint resolution of the forty-sixth Congress." viii, 519, [7] p., 2 double-leaf maps of ecipses: tables; 27 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Preface is by Simon Newcomb, Professor U.S. Navy. Includes corrections to the 1884, 1885, and 1886 First Edition printings. Contents: Ephemeris for the Meridian of Greenwich -- Ephemeris for the Meridian of Washington -- Phenomena [predictions of phenomena to be observed] -- Appendix on the Construction of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for 1887. In Very Good Condition: cloth is rubbed and lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.