Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Curiosity Book Shop

London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd, 1983 With black-and-white illustrations.

Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1980 Exhibition catalog. Essay by Linda L. Cathcart. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. Oblong format. Faint cover edgewear.

Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1931 Copyright 1925. In German. With few portrait illustrations. Portion of gilt spine lettering rubbed away; 1/4" tear to head of spine strip; otherwise light rubbing to cover extremities; large, irregular, moderate whitestain to rear cover cloth. Binding intact; interior clean.

Austin, Texas: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1975 Light yellow cloth; black imprint title and spine. Facsimile reprint of the original 1851 work by Baylies, a Massachusetts Congressman, minister to Argentina (1829), and author. "Baylies not only consulted contemporary private and official sources for his work on Wool's campaign, but had the good fortune to interview Wool himself." Originally published by Little & Company, Albany. Light cover soil/darkening, particularly along spine. Otherwise clean, tight, and only faintly worn.

London: Harvey, Greenacre & Co., 1897 Oblong format. Royal blue cloth with elaborate gilt illustrated cover; upper banner decoration states "Natal's Fourth Centenary," lower banner "Illustrated by Pen and Camera." All edges gilt; yellow endpapers. Only date which occurs--1897--is at the end of the author's Preface [". . .the publishers. . . feel confident that a close perusal of its contents cannot but result in a deep conviction that the time draws near when, by assimilation, the kindred White races of South Africa will, in the natural course of events, become welded together into a Power which will not only be a glory to the Motherland, but a safeguard to that peace which is so essential to the prosperity of a new land and a new people."] Black-and-white photographs within text and featured one to a plate in Illustrations section pp. 94-197. One Railway Altitudinal & Production map reproduction. Heavy rubbing to tail of spine (slight fraying) and corners… Read More

Boston: Educational Publishing Company, 1914 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pictorial cloth. With short poetry selections matched up with significant dates in American history, month-by-month. Frontis portrait of George Washington. Light-to-moderate rubbing of cover extremities. Prior owner name inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 2000 Illustrated with numerous color photographs.

New York: The Macauley Company, 1929 Cloth. Recipient of the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse annual award for best novel, offered conjointly by the two French women's magazines of the same name. Translated by Angelo S. Rappoport. Light rubbing to cover extremities; corners lightly bumped; spine cloth vertically creased and slightly faded; faint soil to cover cloth. Remnants of previously -affixed dust jacket flaps remain on inside covers; old library circulating slip affixed to front endpaper; text pages somewhat age-browned; interior otherwise clean and intact.

Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1983 Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good -. First Edition. Prior owner name/date upper front endpaper. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn, including 1" closed tear at lower rear panel; dust jacket spine somewhat sunned.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1981, 1981 Heavy volume. A comprehensive treatment of natural diversity from a heritage perspective. Fore edge of dust jacket sunned; light edgewear and rubbing to jacket. Clean and tight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Boston: The Murray Press, 1928 Red cloth; gilt title and spine. Editor of the Universalist "Christian Leader" journal describes his experiences and observations traveling in New England and the eastern United States. SIGNED by author on inside front cover. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Light browning of endpaper margins. Otherwise clean and tight.

New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing, Inc.,, 1977 By the Editors of "The Health Quarterly," "Nutritional Update," and "Healthful Living Today."

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1949 Good /Fair "Anyone who knows how to read, add and subtract can learn to navigate." Illustrated with numerous diagrams. General light edgewear and discoloration; upper front corner bumped. Dust jacket is intact, but only fair, with moderate-to-heavy edgewear, some closed tears and creases, chips, and fading of spine. Otherwise clean and tight.

New York: George Sully and Company, 1918 Gray cloth with blue and black pictorial cover. Presumed First Edition. Part of the Navy Boys Series; verso of title page lists two others and this title in the series, and all were published in 1918. Single black-and-white illustration at frontis. Single page at rear lists other juvenile titles by this publisher. Cover cloth deteriorating and age-browned, with moderate darkening to spine (original cloth color may have been light blue) and weave of cloth starting to show through. Heavy foxing to frontispiece, verso, and adjoining pages. Text pages age-browned. Clean and tight with only faint wear.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907 Medium green cloth; gilt title and spine lettering; top edge gilt. Blindstamped cover illustration featuring globe with Arctic region highlighted in white ink, with three red, white and blue flags planted within Arctic region. ? First edition or first thus, with same date on title and copyright pages, and "Published, April, 1907" also on copyright page. Fifth volume in The Geographical Library, as noted on verso of half-title page. With 95 half-tone photographs by the author within the text, and a tissue-guarded frontispiece color illustration by Albert Operti. Two large color folding maps in rear are present and intact, with irregular creasing along edges closest to hinges and short, narrow strip of darkening and minute chips at upper edge of first map. Moderate rubbing along all cover edges and extremities. Spine cloth moderately scuffed. Binding very slightly shaken (heavy text block). Otherwise clean and unworn.

Southampton, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1974 Light card covers. Illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and a few black-and-white photographs. Typewriter-style text. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on title page. Light cover wear, including moderate diagonal crease to lower front cover. Spine and upper margin of front cover somewhat sunned. Faint soil to cover. Interior clean and tight.

Champaign, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 1968 Light cover wear. Interior clean and tight.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937 Blue cloth. Novel by the prolific Maine writer. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Faint, irregular speckle-fade to cover cloth in small patches. Fore edge block lightly foxed. Library marks: spine lettering; bookplate to inside front cover; "date due" slip affixed to inside rear cover; small numeric inkstamps to first text page; small inkwritten notation to upper rear inside cover.

Canton, Massachusetts/ Geneva, N.Y.: Nicholas A. Rasetzki/W.F. Humphrey Press, 1934 Dark blue cloth; gilt title and spine. Authorized translation by Rasetzki, who states in the preface that he is "presenting only a part of a great little book by the late Dr. . . .Conrad of Berlin, Germany [Canon at the Berlin Cathedral]. Whereas the renowned churchman wrote a sermonette for each day in the church year, . . . [this is] a translation comprising only the Sundays and holy days; so that this book may be considered and excerpt from the original "Dennoch [Nevertheless]." Faint rubbing to cover extremities. Upper front hinge paper starting to separate.

New York: American Book Company Decorative cloth. No date; circa 1898. Textbook by the Amherst College professor. With four chromolithograph plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations and diagrams. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Prior owner name, place, and date ink old ink on front endpaper. Clean and tight.