Search Results: Titles starting with N from Ash Rare Books

[London : N. M. Rothschild & Sons,] 1977. First edition. A privately printed monograph to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Nathan Mayer Rothschild - the first of the English Rothschilds. An essay by Chapman concentrating on Rothschild's early career in England as a textile merchant, 1799-1811. Imperial 8vo (28cm). [iv],(26),[ii]pp. Folding facsimile frontispiece. Family tree on rear endpapers. Original card wrappers; some minor spotting, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket very lightly rubbed and slightly marked.

London : John Murray, 1825. First edition. A first-hand account of Byron's ill-fated venture into the Greek War of Independence - compiled from diaries written at the time by Byron's chief assistant (and the brother of his mistress Teresa Guiccioli) - "one of the most amiable, brave, and excellent young men he had ever encountered". Regarded as giving the most reliable account of Byron's last days, Gamba offers no apologies "for being too minute in any details connected with the name of Byron and the cause of Greece". Demy 8vo (210 x 130mm). xii,(308)pp. Two folding facsimile letters. Bound, without half-title, in a near contemporary full purple calf, banded and gilt; tan label; marbled edges and endleaves; silk ribbon; some minor wear and slight scuffing; colour rather unsuccessfully touched up in places; occasional internal spotting, but still a handsome copy.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1971). First edition. "I was a politician and I was getting out of politics because I was ashamed ... I went to that part of the country I was supposed to represent - represent as a hole might represent a bucket". Stream of consciousness and a mind in torment from Anthony Greville, M.P. - politics, adultery - "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia, when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel" - and excursions into the interplay of power and politics. "An outstanding novel. It throws into the melting-pot the whole problem of the predicament of living and it needs to be read more than once" (Elizabeth Harvey for the Birmingham Daily Post, 26th June 1971). "One of the most interesting and gifted English novelists writing today" (Vernon Scannell). Demy 8vo (23cm). 316,[iv]pp. Original navy boards, ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge orange; edges spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the Peter Cope dust-jacket - the jacket with… Read More

London : for C. & J. Rivington; J. & A. Arch [and others], 1825. A most attractive edition of White's 1789 classic. White was the first to take a census of birds, to study their territories and analyse their migration patterns, the first to understand the concept of a food chain. "The young Charles Darwin would grow up with White's book at his side - [he] is the indispensible precursor to those great Victorians who would transform our ideas about life on earth ... Lyell, Spencer, Huxley and Darwin" (Robert McCrum). Two volumes. Demy 8vo (216 x 132mm). viii,(352); [iv],364pp. Four engraved plates, one with full hand colour. Bound in full contemporary polished calf, banded and gilt; red labels; marbled edges and endleaves; lightly rubbed; a few slight marks; some spotting to prelims and plates, but still very good set.

London : B. T. Batsford, (1914). First edition. An autobiographical essay, interspersed with some poems. In the Fellowship Books series. Foolscap 8vo (18cm). [ii],(56),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; lightly sunned; a few spots, but otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary (1918) ownership inscription.

London : Parker Gallery, 1911. First edition : a variant with the Parker Gallery label pasted over the original T. H. Parker imprint. A catalogue of the collection of 287 prints, with extensive descriptive and historical notes, an index of artists and engravers, a general index, etc. - the whole forming an illuminating history of the British navy. With an interesting introduction by the naval historian, Commander Charles Napier Robinson (1849-1936). Foolscap 4to (22cm). xx,(340)pp. Frontispiece and eighteen plates. Original blue cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt; just a touch rubbed; a few faint marks and some mild occasional spotting, but a bright and sound copy.

[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print - Teddington Weir - men fishing - a cottage among trees. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression. Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 67 x 87mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/052B.

London : Jonathan Cape, (1933). First edition. The daughter of a county family marries the son of one of the tenants and is rejected by her kith and kin - a fine and unsentimental novel of Irish life. "From this straightforward account of the lives of a few Irish families we get an almost complete conception of the problem of Ireland" (Aberdeen Press, 12th October 1933). Crown 8vo (20cm). (414),[ii]pp. Original olive cloth, blocked and lettered in yellow; edges spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the stylish dust-jacket - slightly darkened at foot of spine and with just a touch of edge-wear, but also very good.

New York : Falcon Books, (1951). Second edition. "Blonde and beautiful, but prim and puritanical, Ann Halliday's self-sacrifice and devotion to her family had prevented the realization of her own hidden yearnings". Originally published as "Satan Rules the Night" in 1938, as by "Anthony Scott" - and here re-titled and slightly revised. Ecstasy Novel No. 10. Foolscap 4to (19cm). [iv],7-128,[ii]pp. Photo illustrations. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; worn at tips; rubbed and creased; a few leaves somewhat dusty; a reasonable copy of an uncommon book. No copy of this edition located in any major library worldwide.

Lawrence : University of Kansas Libraries, 1958. First edition. Todd with a plea for more (and more rigorous) work on the eighteenth century - with a lucid analysis of the particular pitfalls and problems of the period. University of Kansas Publications, Library Series No. 4. Post 8vo (21cm). [iv],(34),[ii]pp. Original stapled wrappers; staples very lightly rusted, some very minor wear, but a very good copy.

London : John Murray, 1945. First edition. An early collection of twenty-four poems, including "Henley-on-Thames", "Parliament Hill Fields", "South London Sketch, 1944", "May-Day Song for North Oxford", "In a Bath Teashop", etc. Crown 8vo (19cm). vi,54pp. Original red cloth; paper title label ruled and lettered in black on upper cover; covers faintly flecked as usual; mild spotting of edges; endpapers lightly tanned, but a very good copy in a lightly worn and slightly nicked dust-jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription reading simply "Smethurst".

London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1912. First edition. Hutchinson, the first official amateur champion in 1886, covers all aspects of the game - with additional essays by Bernard Darwin, May Hezlet Ross and others. Crown 8vo (21cm). (xii),(362)pp. Fifty-two photo plates - all the shots displayed by the leading players of the day. Original enamelled cloth in an attractive pictorial design; some mild rubbing and faint wear; a few slight marks and minor signs of age and use; endpapers tanned; some spotting of edges and prelims, but a very good copy. Ownership inscriptions of R. L. Aston and C. E. Evans.

[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A most attractive antique print - a scene at the north-western end of New Bridge Street - a group of passengers crowd on to the omnibus heading for Camden Town from the Elephant and Castle - the bus advertising Pears soap and Van Houten's cocoa. In the background are the premises of L. N. Fowler, publisher of "The Phrenological Magazine". From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication "London City" (1891). Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Image area 161 x 212mm (approx. 6-3/8" x 8-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Chatto & Windus, (1986). First edition. An introductory collection of poems from Dominic Fisher, Alan Jenkins, Pippa Little, Lachlan MacKinnon, Peter McDonald, Jo Shapcott, and Adam Thorpe. This copy signed by Alan Jenkins, Jo Shapcott and Lachlan MacKinnon at the head of their contributions. Post 8vo (20cm). (80)pp. Original wrappers - a design in yellow, black, white and grey; top edge faintly spotted; text just faintly tanned, but otherwise very good.

London : Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition. Signed by Anthony Thwaite on the title-page. A collection of fifty poems, etc. - an "inner commentary" on St. Augustine of Hippo, "partly in verse, partly in prose, which would be written in the margin, as it were, of Augustine's writings". Demy 8vo (22cm). [vi],(58)pp. Original black and white wrappers, the principal lettering in red; lightly marked, one small crease, but otherwise a very good copy.

London : Evans Brothers, (1980). First edition. The extraordinary tale of the British volunteers and mercenaries who helped gain independence for the countries of South America - "the swashbuckling and fearless Lord Cochrane; William Brown, the amateur admiral; the embattled William Miller of Peru", etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). (176)pp. Plates. Portraits. Maps. Original boards; very good in a price-clipped but very lightly used dust-jacket.

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1868. First British edition. "A solid man of Boston; a comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas ...". Foolscap 8vo (18cm). (viii),(224),8pp. Original variant blue cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in blind and gilt; chocolate endpapers; lightly rubbed; spine a touch darkened; some marking to lower cover; a few slight marks, but a very good copy. With the contemporary (1868) ownership inscriptions of Ellen L. Orton.

London : Editions Poetry London, (1945). First edition. A wartime anthology - with twenty-five poems on the fighting forces, nine on factories, and much else besides. Contributors include Honor Arundel, Maurice Carpenter, Idris Davies, Jack Lindsay, John Manifold, Hubert Nicholson, Paul Potts, John Pudney, John Singer, Randall Swingler, and many others. Edited by Carpenter, Jack Lindsay and Honor Arundel. Crown 8vo (20cm). [2],(viii),164,[ii]pp. Original blue-grey cloth, lettered in gilt; edges a little spotted, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - a design in turquoise, red and white - a little worn, soiled, torn and spotted.

[Bath : J. H. Cotterell, ca.1850]. A handsome locally produced map, "sold by all booksellers in Bristol and Bath", on a scale of just under half-an-inch to the mile (1:77982), extending northwards to take in Rockhampton, Wotton-under-Edge and Tetbury, east to include Chippenham and Melksham, south to include Axbridge and Chilcompton, and westwards to the coast, with Newport and Chepstow beyond the Bristol Channel. An uncoloured key along the upper margin presupposes an intention to show the geology of the area, but the actual colouring on the map is of the conventional county pattern. Undated, but presumably post-dating the map of identical title produced by Cotterell's father, Henry Fowler Cotterell (1791-1860), and prior to the lithographer Joseph Hollway or Holloway (1798?-1860) adopting the style "Holloway & Son" in the early 1850s. Lithograph on paper, with original hand colour. Printed surface 393 x 511mm (approx. 15-1/2" x 20"). Dissected, mounted on linen,… Read More

Oxford / Northwood : Donald Parsons & Co. / Peter Jay, 1965-1969. A complete run of all ten issues of Jay's sixties poetry magazine, including new poems by W. H. Auden (1), Gavin Bantock (18), Alan Brownjohn (1), Jack Clemo (1), Marcus Cumberlege (9), Louise Glück (13), Lee Harwood (4), John Heath-Stubbs (3), Anselm Hollo (3), Michael Horovitz (2), Peter Levi (3), Christopher Middleton (2), Tom Raworth (7), Vernon Scannell (1), Peter Scupham (3), Gary Snyder (7), D. M. Thomas (8), etc. Ten issues. Demy 8vo (23cm). Bound, retaining original wrappers, etc., in a smart red buckram; very good.