Search Results: Authors starting with N from Evening Star Books

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 3-253, [1] pp. Black blindstamped cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 043a. A sharp copy of Nabokov's last novel. Jacket is Near Fine with a tiny closed tear to the front panel.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [14], 3-268, [8] pp. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine; red topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 040b. A beautiful copy. Jacket with mild toning to the edges of its flaps, else Fine.

New York: McGraw-Hill (1970), 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Slim 8vo. [10], xi-xiii, [1], 114 pp. Black cloth stamped in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 035a. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny in collaboration with the author. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with minor edge wear and a touch of fading to the spine panel.

New York: McGraw-Hill (1972), 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Slim 8vo. [8], 104 pp. Black cloth with the front board stamped in blind, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dustjacket. A Near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a small waterstain on the reverse, wrinkling the front panel.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slim 8vo. [15], 14-114, [2] pp. Beige cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 028b. The first issue book and dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Jacket has a touch of rubbing but overall this copy is exceptional.

New York: The Viking Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], v-xxxix, [5], 5-536 pp. Black cloth with gold and blue lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Ahearn APG 032a. Edited and with a critical introduction by Page Stegner. Includes Nabokov's previously unpublished essay "Reply to My Critics" Near Fine book with some fading to the topstain and a small wrinkle to the front pastedown in a price-clipped, but otherwise very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1959], 1959. First English language edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], 5-223, [1] pp. Quarter red cloth with white patterned paper boards, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. Ahearn APG 019a. The first edition in English. A touch of wear to the spine's tips; jacket has traces of ink notes on the front flap's edge and a subtle discoloration there, minor wear to the front fold.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1966], 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-222, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with author's initials in blind in an oval on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; lavender topstain. Lavender endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 002d. Our copy's jacket with the front flap printed in black. A sharp copy of one of Nabokov's best novels. A name on the free front endpaper; jacket with a small wrinkle to its rear flap.

New York: McGraw-Hill (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 272, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey-black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 031b. A Near Fine book with a tiny, faint crease to the first several leaves in a Near Fine dust jacket with a tiny crease to the front flap and a small closed tear to the rear panel.

New York: New Directions (1960), 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], 7-292, [4] pp. Bound in blue cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 001d. First printing of the 1960 edition of Nabokov's first novel to be published in the US (originally published in 1938). Moderate foxing to the textblock and rubbing to the boards, a tiny push to the top textblock; jacket is Very Good+ with minor rubbing and a tiny chip to the rear panel.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 1-335, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over green cloth, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with twelve plates of black and white photographs. A history of Fort Laramie as it relates to the plains wars that displaced the Lakota people. A small bump to one of the boards' edges; jacket is mildly sunned on the spine panel and has a couple traces of edge wear.

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press [1956], 1956. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-433, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with green and gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by Ernest Nagel on the free front endpaper: "To Professor and Mrs. Frank with the esteem and warm regards of Ernest Nagel." Slater 675. A collection of essays by Nagel examining the philosophy of science, language, theories of truth, and causation. Each essay is informed by Nagel's position on symbolic logic. A Near Fine book with mild foxing to the textblock and a touch of fading to the edges of the spine; dust jacket is Very Good with a few traces of edge wear and moderate toning and foxing to the rear panel.

New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1961), 1961. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 1-618, [6] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the the spine. Price of 50s.net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Slater 676. In this book Nagel explores the possibility of objective truth, the relationship between natural laws and logical necessity, and the logic of scietific explanation. A nice copy of Nagel's important work in philosophy of science, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 1-134, [2] pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering on the spine. Slater 676. The three philosophers consider the contemporary status of scientific theories in relation to observation. Minor dusting to the top textblock; jacket is price-clipped with traces of rubbing and with fading to the spine panel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 1-618, [6] pp. Bound in green and black cloth with lettering in silver and in gold on the front board and the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by beloved children's author Ellen Raskin. Slater 676. In this book Nagel explores the possibility of objective truth, the relationship between natural laws and logical necessity, and scientific methods of proof in chemistry, physics, etc. A nice copy of Nagel's important work in philosophy of science, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of edge wear.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 3-229, [3] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Nagel remains a leading contemporary philosopher, teaching at NYU. This volume contains several of his essays in the philosophy of mind, with writings on ethics and political philosophy as well. Here Nagel explores the work of Searle, Wittgenstein, Freud, Aristotle, Dennett, Rawls, and the ideas of several other philosophers in the analytic tradition.

New York: The Macmillan Company [1967], 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [13], 14-235, [5] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 008c. A Very Good+ book with mild offsetting on the ffep and a tiny nick to the bottom board's edge; dust jacket is Near Fine with minor foxing to the reverse and a spot of offsetting on the front panel.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-593, [1] pp. Blue cloth with a black decoration on the front board and black and blue lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several diagrams. Foxing to the boards and the top textblock; jacket has a few archival tape repairs to its reverse but presents well.

New York: Kodansha International (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], 7-215, [1] pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. Foreword by James Michener. Preface by Hachiro Hosokawa. Translated by Mayumi Ichikawa.

Santa Monica, California: Published for the Bonsai Institute of California [1973] [1984], 1984. First printing; Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 2 vol. 4to. [12], 1-262, [8]; [8], 1-442 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering and two gold decorations on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Volume two bound in textured gold wrappers lettered and decorated in black on the front wrapper, lettered in black on the spine. Volume two with a price of $30.00 on the corner of its free front endpaper. The first volume does not have its slipcase. Volume one illustrated with sixteen color plates and with several in-text and full-page black and white images and diagrams; volume two illustrated with several full-page and in-text black and white images. Volume one is a first printing, volume two is a second printing. Signed by Naka on the half-title page of volume one: "To Thomas Taylor, Welcome to the beautiful world of miniature. John Yoshio Naka". Also laid in is an original drawing of a bonsai signed… Read More