Search Results: Authors starting with N from Ravenroost Books

New York: Hearthside Press, Inc., 1972. 8vo. 190 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket, price not clipped, contents clean and unmarked. Not a library copy. Yellow boards with light general shelf wear, shallow bend to rear board, light foxing to endpapers. Jacket with price intact, light edgewear, light foxing and age toning along edges and rear panel, now in removable protective archival cover. Contents: Introduction, Crocheting with Pearls and Beads, Cross-Weaving Patterns, Boutique Jewelry, Bead Flowers and Vegetables, Index.. Illustrated throughout with color photos by Harvey Dresner, black and whit photos by Rex Nathanson and drawings by Carol Nelson. Projects, clearly described and illustrated, include necklaces, bracelets, sandals, snoods, belts, neckties, collars, eyeglass cases, bags, earrings, bolero jacket, rings, place mats, coasters, purses, Christmas and Easter ornaments, decorations, beaded fruits and vegetables, bouquets, lampshades. Classic seed bead reference.… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 8vo. 182 pgs. Fine hardbound in Fine jacket. December 1994. First American Edition Author's first novel to be published in the United States. A Paris-based British diplomat has an affair with his daughter's babysitter. ISBN 0312113374.#577.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Mike P. Gorman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2000. small 8vo. 195 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, with cameo portrait of Virginia Woolf on front board visible through cutout of jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs and paintings. Author, son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West as well as one of Woolf's closest friends, threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. ISBN 0670894435. #2107.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Roger Fry, Gisele Freund, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, George Beresford. Sm 8vo.

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. xii. 274 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover in Very Good jacket. Ex-library with the usual markings and stamps on fore edges, title and copyright pages and endpapers, else minor shelf wear with clean and unmarked text. Jacket in very nice condition, minimal signs of wear. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings by Stanley Wyatt. Chapters: Ingenious Kingdom, The Coming of Life, Algae, Viruses and Bacteria, True Fungi, Slime Molds, and Lichens, Mosses, Ferns and Their Relatives, The Ancient and Honorable Order of Conifers, Flowering Plants, Fruits and Seeds, The Engineering and Design of Plants, Hormones, Calendars and Clocks, Adaptations to Environment, Forests, Grasslands, Tundras and Deserts, Succession and Competition, War and Peace Among Plants and Animals, Guarding Our Environment, Index. ISBN 0134648595. #1695.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Stanley Wyatt. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Ex-Library.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. xix.393 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Clean, sound and unmarked with minimal shelfwear, light rubbing to corners of dustjacket. Laid in and included are a copy of a review of this book and a small card with several notations presumably by a reviewer. Contents divided into six main sections, separated by illustrated vignettes. Table of Contents: Tables of Symbols and Abbreviations; Table of Type-Printed References to Blake Before 1863; Blake's Reputation and Interpreters; Blake's Chronology; Part I. Editions of Blake's Writings: Individual Tiltles, Collections and Selections; Part II. Reproductions of Drawinigs and Paintings: Illustrations of Individual Authors, Collections and Selections; Part III. Engravings: Illustrations of Individual Authors, Selections and Collections; Part IV. Catalogues and Bibliographies; Part V. Books Owned by Blake; Part VI. Biography and Criticism [All editors, annotators, introducers, authors,… Read More