Search Results: Authors starting with N from Quaker Hill Books

Westminster:: Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1897. Illustrated with over 120 wonderful illustrations including 16 colour plates fron Nansen's own sketches. Four folding maps. Bound in the publisher's original turquoise cloth with the great sailing ship Fram rendered in gilt on the front cover of volume I and a scene depicting an explorer and dog sled team in a snow storm rendered in gilt on the cover of volume II. The boards and spines are beautifully lettered in gilt. A near fine copy bright and clean showing only very light wear. Former owner's bookplate on ffep.. First Edition. Publisher's Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo.. 2 Volumes..

Springfield,: Regimental Reunion Association,, 1890. Front board embossed in gilt "The Preacher Regiment, 1862-65". Frontis portrait of Col. James Jacques; contents very clean, binding a bit bumped but otherwise a clean and solid copy of a very hard to find regimental history. "Written jointly by three veterans; the narrative, presented in diary form, gives a good account of campaigning in Tennessee." Nevins I-110.. First Edition. Publisher's Brown Cloth Gilt. Very Good. 8vo..

Cedar RapidsCedar Rapids: , 1910 First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The first treatment of Herndon's correspondence with Theodore Parker dealing with the personal and political relationship between the two law partners. At highly interesting first hand look at the rise of Lincoln, the Republican party and the anti-slavery movement.. First Edition. Near Fine/Good.

New York, Feb.21, 1967 Excellent 8vo., 1 page each. To Alden Whitman of the NY Times discussing the press and other matters. Interesting content with envelope..

New York: Warner, 1960. Review copy of the first trade edition. INSCRIBED BY NIXON TO ROBERT BORK on the official bookplate tipped in the title page. Jacket shows some very slight darkening to top edge. Otherwise this is a fine copy with a wonderful association between Nixon and his former Solicitor General, Bork who fired Archibald Cox initiating the "Saturday night massacre" during the Watergate scandal.. First Edition Inscribed. Red Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

New York:: Warner Books, 1982. First Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO ENTERTAINER PEARL BAILEY on the half-title page as follows: To Pearle Bailey/Ambassador of Love/with warm regards/from/ Richard Nixon/ 5-16-85. Jacket with unclipped price shows some minor creasing and wear. A great association piece.. First Edition Signed. Pullisher's Blue Cloth. Fine/Excellent. 8vo..

New York City, 1987. One Page to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the powerful Democrat who once served in the Nixon administration as an adviser on domestic affairs. In this superb and highly interesting letter, the former President candidly reveals his thinking on welfare reform and race relations. In part: " The critics of welfare reform must face up to the fact that the division between blacks and whites is much worse than it was twenty years ago. The affluent blacks have moved upward and outward and have left the ghettos with virtually no hope for the future...." In fine condition..

Washington, D.C.,, 1959. To columnist and television reporter of Meet the Press, Lawrence E. Spivak , on Vice Presidential stationery, with a 5 page memo (carbon unsigned) describing his recent meeting with Fidel Castro. Nixon admires Castro's charisma and bravery here in this memorandum summarizing his discussion with the Cuban leader on April 19, 1959. Nixon characterizes him as having" those indefinable qualities which make him a leader of men." But there was also much that disturbed him. Everything that Castro was doing, from suspending elections to the executions of political opponents he justified as carrying out "the will of the people." Nixon says: "this almost slavish subservience to prevailing majority opinion - the voice of the mob - rather than his naive attitude toward Communism and his obvious lack of understanding of even the most elementary economic principles which concerned me most in evaluating what kind of a leader he might eventually turn out to… Read More

Wichita, Kansas:: By the Author,, 1904. 228pp. Original dark brown cloth.PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED in pencil: "Presented by the author to his nephew Carl Jordan" on the front free endpaper. Northrop, a member of the 76th New York Infantry, was captured in May,1864,near Culpeper in Northern Virginia. His highly interesting account of his captivity is remarkably objective considering the hardships he endured while a prisoner. Front cover with light stain and rumpling of the cloth. Otherwise a very clean copy internally.. First Edition. Original Dark Brown Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.