Search Results: Authors starting with N from The Parnassus BookShop

China: China Features, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Learn Basic Chinese Words and Phrases with the help of this set of one paperbound book and Two Audio Cassettes in Fine Condition. Packaged in a VCR Like Case. All publication information is in Chinese so publisher and year --or anything else -- are not decipherable to me.

New York: Patricia Ann Publishing, 2008. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Collectible. Paperback Journal in Fine Condition. Barack Obama Issue 01 2008. Lavishly illustrated articles about this historic time in U.S. history. 64 pages. 11" x 8". 2008, Patricia Ann Publishing, New York.

Canada: University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. THE FIDDLEHEAD--a literary periodical; Issue, JANUARY, 1983 No. 135. Very Good Condition. Cover is detail from "A Winter Scene in Fredericton", after W. P. Kay by H. T. Bone, a lithograph. Canadian Poetry, Articles, Short Stories, etc. 149 pages. Clean and unmarked with light edgewear to cover. Tight binding. Pages very clean, no marks, no underlining or highlighting. 149 pages. 6 x 9 inches. University of New Brunswick, Canada, 1983.

Astoria, Oregon, USA: Columbia River Maritime Museum, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Special Edition of the QuarterDeck for the 50th Anniversary of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, in Astoria, Oregon. Paperbound journal in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked with trace wear to some extremities, stapled binding. Fully illustrated with color and b-w halftone plates. 26 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches. 2012, Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon, USA

Japan: Japanese Publisher, 1950. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. PaperbacK in Very Good Condition and Ten 6 x 9 Photos/Postcards--views of Kyoto & Nara--suitable for framing. Beautiful full color in Very Good Condition. If there is a publication date, I can't read it. c1950. Japanese text and illustration on the packet in which these cards/photos are contained. Also, an 8 1/2" x 6" tall booklet with quite heavy illustrated covers held together with ribbon through punched holes. Japanese illustration on front. First page stamped with Japanese stamps from various locales. Pull-out map, indicators in Japanese. Japanese and English text with Buddhist shrines and other landmarks, and historical references. Japanese Publisher, c 1950

U.S.A: International Bible Society, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. NEAR FINE CONDITION NEW TESTAMENT-PAPERBACK.

London, England,: Odhams Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back London, Odhams Press, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fair Condition.16 pages of illustrations and Frontispiece in full color and over 250 photographs. Frontis: full color Constable's 'The Cornfield'. Artists whose landscape paintings are in full color are Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Hollar, Sandby, Girtin, Crome, Cotman. Steer, Sickert, and Nevinson. These landscape paintings of the masters not only mirror the beauty of Britain but also traces the development of its buildings, its trades, tastes, and manners. It is actually quite a nice book. Bound in green full cloth, gilt titled on spine, blind-stamp structure on front. Most of the front cover is quite clean but there is mottling/fading at spine head and that corner and spine tail, also the back has whitish spots scattered on it. Edges and corners are rubbed not… Read More

Australia: Mynah/Random House, 1999. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. 288 pages. 8.5 x 6 inches. Clean, bright, tight, unmarked, untorn. Internals pristine. Beaultifully illustrated with colored photographs. Cover is protected with a polyethylene archival-safe cover. Written specifically for American gardeners and features plants which thrive in American gardens. The entries give general descriptions, essential cultural advice and potential size, flowering time and light requirements, where necessary. A climatic zone map is included, Entries are accompanied by lavish color photographs. 1999, Mynah/Random House, Australia

Racine, Wisconsin, USA: Western Publishing Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Ken Shields. IISigned by Author. Signed by Author Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, with pictorial cover illustrating the four NFL Players who selected the stories within. Stories selected by NFL Players--Dave Robinson, Howard Mudd, Gale Sayers, Charley Gogolak. Green-tone illustrations by Ken Shields. Very clean and unmarked. Corners bumped. Interior is Fine. Includes some of the finest stories ever written about football. 210 pages. 5.2 x 7.8 inches. 1969, Western Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, USA

Paris, France: Selection Du Reader's Digest, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. French Language. Over-size Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Bright, colorful, pictorial laminated type binding. Lower front spine edge scuffed, slight wear to other corners; tight & solid, square volume. Internals As New. Lavishly illustrated, spectacular Illustrations of French Villages, in full color, mosly full page and two-page photographs, with descriptive text in French. 352 pages. 9.4 x 12.25 inches. 2002, Selection Du Reader's Digest, Paris, France.

Colorado Springs, Colorado: International Bible Society, 1983. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Paperback New Testament in Very Good Condition. Brown and gold glossy cover is very clean, light creasing to upper and lower corner. Soundly bound. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Faint crease to upper corners of some pages. 193 pages plus 16 page index. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. International Bible Society, Colorado Springs, CO, 1983.

U.S.A: The Academy Awards, 2007. Paperback. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Paperback Folder Type Book, "The Oscars", Remembrance of the 2007 Oscars, 79th Annual Academy Awards, February 25, 2007, in Fine Condition. 13" x 7" tall--Landscape design. Black Paper cover bound with grommets. Clean and unmarked. Two Black and Gold Governors Ball Tickets at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom, February 25, 2007, laid in. 30 pages. 2007. Published by The Academy Awards, USA.

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1928. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. Second Printing, Sept 1928 (24,000 copies). Was first published August, 1928, 10,000 copies. Taupe buckram spine covering with taupe cloth bound boards, gilt titled within scroll outlined panel on front with gilt design; gilt lettering on spine nearly rubbed off; very clean and unmarked, corners slightly pressed in. Tight and solid sewn binding. Bookplate on paste-down, front endpaper slit up from the bottom right next to hinge; very small pale library stamp on endpaper with discard stamp, no other lib marks. Frontis: portrait of George Bernard Shaw, onion-skin protected with black lettering on side opposite the portrait. Illustrated title page. Illustration plates, b/w and full colour. Pages very clean and free of any markings, evenly toned, double column format. 1928 European-writings of and about such personages and topics as George Bernard… Read More

, Anstey, Leicestershire, England: Puffin Books/Penguin Books Publisher, 1976. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. American School of Classical Studies at Athens Series, Athens, Greece, 1976. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Glossy, bright, illustrated cover, very clean and unmarked; faint wear to corners; rear side has a chip out of the upper edge near the corner, approx one inch long and a half inch deep. Square, tight binding. 159 illustrations, b/w. Fold-out plan of The Athenian Agora: Actual State, in the back of the book. Pages very clean and completely free of any markings, no creases. In Athens, as in other city states of ancient Greece, the Agora was the focal point of community life; it was the seat of administration and judiciary, the place for marketing and business, for dramatic competitions, for athletic displays, and a favorite place for social and intellectual gatherings. The Agora came to be a cumulative record of past… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Bantam, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Jacket in Good+ Condition. Green half cloth binding w/gilt titles, green boards. Usual lib mks with check-out card on ffep. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Very nice clean solid book. Very slight lean to spine. Internals clean and free of any markings, no creases. Gary Nabhan writes of his walks and travels in the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside in Italy, cherishing and studying plants and beasts, searching for vestiges of wilderness in a landscape more often admired for its human intervention aspects. An authentic pilgrimage in which the writer travels an ancient way back to the source of all healing and health: the land itself and what it gives us. 227 pp. 5.5 x 8.5. 1993, Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Penguin Classics UK, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Classics, 2000. Edited , with Preface, Introduction and Notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition Gray wrappers with illustration, clean and bright, crease to lower front corner, binding tight and solid, pages toned, spotless. First published in 1955--created a sensation at the time. This annotated edition is a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition. Appel provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games, and verbal patternings and a biographical vignette of Nabokov. 544 pages. 7.75 x 5 x 1 inches.

New York: Random House, 2004. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author Trade Paperback As New. Signed by Author on Title Page. A memoir of teaching Western literature in Iran. For two years the author, an inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics--defying morality squads, and risked removing their veils, while immersing themselved in Jane Austen, F Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Vladimor Nabokov--proving the remarkable, transforming power of literature. 353 pages with Reader's Guide. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2004, Random House, New York, New York, USA

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, gently used book. Solid, square and tight binding. A personal story of growing up in Iran, living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country's political revolution. A girl's pain over family secrets, a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country in upheaval--a gifted storyteller who may transform the way we see the world. From the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Readers Guide Questions and Topics for Discussion. 341 pages. Random House, New York.

New York: Random House, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean gently used book with a whisper of wear to edges. A memoir of teaching Western literature in Iran. For two years the author, an inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics--defying morality squads, and risked removing their veils, while immersing themselved in Jane Austen, F Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Vladimor Nabokov--proving the remarkable, transforming power of literature. 353 pages with Reader's Guide. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2004, Random House, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: Spectra/Bantam Books, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust jacket. A novel about the Bohr Maker, an artificial intelligence system, the most powerful technology known to man which allows the user to control and change the moods and emotions of people, undetected by them--an exciting novel. 325 pages. 5.75 x 8.5. 1995, Spectra/Bantam Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.