Search Results: Titles starting with N from Elk River Books

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Very good/good. 12mo (17.5 cm), pp. [1-6], 7-225, [226-232], Green wraps in purple and white jacket. Housed in a near fine, custom, clamshell case. First printing with green decorative border on title page and price of 1500 Francs on back cover. From the personal library of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg, author of Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautian and Falling Angel (filmed as Angel Heart). Previous owner's name (not Hjortsberg's) on front free endpaper, light rubbing and edge wear to wraps, damp-staining to bottoms of endpapers. Jacket with moderate chipping and small closed tears. One of 5000 copies printed. [Maynard & Miles A2a]

Los Angeles: Sylvester and Orphanos, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition of 330, signed by Cheever on limitation page. Presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed by both publishers to William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (from his personal library) on a blank leaf before the half-title page. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. [xii], 1 - 29, [7]. Tan linen with red, blue and green illustration. Title page illustration by Vance Gerry. Letterpress on fine Arches Mouldmade paper. In fine condition, tan linen slipcase. No jacket, as issued. A short story of baseball and a father-son relationship, first published in the New Yorker in 1953. Hjortsberg was the author of Falling Angel (filmed as Angel Heart), Alp, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, and several other books and screenplays.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 251. Green cloth with black titling, pictorial jacket. Includes references and index, plus color photos by author. Jacket has moderate wear with chips and small tears. Boards have the slightest wear at base of spine.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1963. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Small octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 206. Burgundy cloth with blue titling. Blue and black illustrated jacket. Sixteen plates of black and white photographs. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and small label from Trophy Room Books on inside rear board. Bumping to spine ends and light rubbing to boards. Price-clipped jacket shows minor creasing, soiling, and closed tears with tape repairs. "The adventure-packed account of life among the awesome beasts of Africa--by the world-famous professional hunter and game conservationist."

Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal Jesuit Society, 1989. Other. Very good. A contemporaneous copy of a three-page, staplebound speech given by Maskey on his first-hand experiences as a heroin addict and subsequent recovery with the help of the Jesuit-founded Freedom Centre (a drug rehab program for boys and men); with statistics and observations of the drug problem in Nepal more broadly. Also includes a two-page companion piece by Gafney, founder of St. Xavier Social Centre which houses the Freedom Centre, on how authority figures should direct youth away from "the attractive but unattainable elements of the modern world..." Both pieces have light edge wear, and dog-eared pages.

New York: Skyhorse, 2016. Second Printing. Hardcover. New. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 160. Signed by author. Pictorial boards, color photos by Lynn Donaldson throughout. No jacket as issued. Includes ingredient and recipe index. Includes the background story of meals prepared for annual Montana gatherings including Michael Keaton's Fourth of July party and Jeff and Susan Bridges' family Thanksgiving.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 394. Yellow boards, black quarter binding, gilt titling. Jacket has light edge wear.

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Black boards with black quarter-cloth and silver spine titling. Blue illustrated jacket. Spine-cocked and light reading wear, else fine.

Salt Lake City, UT: Green Cat Press, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy of Williams' most obscure title, #9/60. Signed by author and artists/designers Patrick Eddington and Susan Makov. Dark brown half-cloth over marbled boards, with a copper pet tag etched with the title. Quarto (26 cm), pp. [32]. Decorative endpapers, deckle edge, hand-bound letterpress.Each two page spread features text by Williams reflecting on the personalities of cats she has owned, with an illustration by Markov with Eddington's calligraphy.

Eckville, Alberta: Spur Graphics, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Quarto (27.5 cm), pp. 32. Black and gray pictorial wrappers, staplebound. Black and white illustrations throughout by Marjorie Vetter. Poem "100 Years from Now" by Daley laid in. "Made in Canada" sticker on front cover, wrappers with light wear. Cowboy poetry by Alberta rancher Doris, who has performed her work in venues ranging from the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, to the Saskatchewan Opera Company.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and affectionately inscribed by the author, "For the dear pals of my misspent youth and tranquil old age, Vesper & Pat Paton, with gratitute and deep affection. Jon (as in Jackson)" Octavo (22), pp. 355. Extremities are bumped.

Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, 1986. Hardcover. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 1,373. Blue cloth boards, no jacket. Endpapers are a map of the North Sea. Light edge wear and smudging.

New York: Tom Doherty, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 320. Signed by author on title page. Black cloth with brown spine titling. Pictorial jacket. A Barnaby Skye ("Skye's West") novel. "In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming."

New York: Tom Doherty, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 320. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Black cloth with brown spine titling. Pictorial jacket. A Barnaby Skye ("Skye's West") novel. "In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming."

US Forest Service, 1989. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (22.5 x 29cm). Full color photographs and illustrations throughout. Commemorative photo book created for those who aided the fire relief efforts during the 1988 fire season. Hinge cracked, page block separating from spine at head. Sticker from previous owner on top right corner of front free endpaper. Small glue mark on back side of front free endpaper stuck to opposite page and has torn a piece off. Inner pages show some creasing from use.

Albany, CA: Boaz, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Unknown edition, presumed first. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 680. Association copy: signed and inscribed on half-title page to the late acclaimed western novelist Richard S. Wheeler (from his estate): "For Richard Wheeler / a master of his craft / with respect and admiration / David Marion Wilkinson / July 2000 / Austin, Texas." Brown cloth with gilt spine titling. Map-decorated endpapers. Brown and tan jecket with map of Texas. Light wear to jacket.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 304. Later printing. Green cloth boards, pictorial jacket. Translated from the Russian, with introduction and annotations by Australian National University professor of Modern European Languages Kevin Windle. Includes black and white line drawings of waterfowl. Black remainder dot on bottom and top edges. A contemporary of Gogol and Turgenev, Aksakov writes here about the water birds of the Russian steppe.

Easton Press, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 288. Collector's edition. Full green leather with gilt titling and decorations, five raised bands, all edges gilt. Sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. Housed in green cloth slipcase with gilt titling and decorations. Lavishly illustrated in black and white drawings by Leslie Brooke. A stunning reproduction of the 1897 original. [Baumgarten p. 126] No jacket, as issued. Light rubbing to slipcase. Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scottish journalist, poet, Classical scholar and translator, literary historian, speculative antiquarian, and folklorist, highly regarded for his translations of Homer and Theocritus. "He carried his learning lightly, a perfected a vigorous, urbane, sensitive prose style." [Steinberg, S.H. Cassell's Encyclopedia of Literature, p. 1144]