Search Results: Titles starting with N from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Huntsville, AL: NSS, 1974. Peck on the Idaho Lava Tube Beetle & Mineralogy of the Crystal Pit Spatter Cone, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho; White & Van Gundy on Timpanogos Cave, NM; abstracts of recent literature. Stapled journal, goldenrod covers, black titling. Light general wear, minor cover crease & stains. Text clean; 28 pages. Volume 36, Number 1, January 1974. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8½" by 11".

Huntsville, AL: NSS, 1974. Curl on Deducting Flow Velocity in Cave Conduits from Scallops; Rutherford & Amundson on Use of a Computer Program for Cave Survey Data Reduction (with flowcharts!) Stapled journal, goldenrod covers, black titling. Light general wear, one corner bumped. Text clean; 18 pages. Volume 36, Number 2, April 1974. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8½" by 11".

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. 12 essays on and a rare interview with Nabokov, most published slightly earlier as the Spring 1967 issue of Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, "intended to help provide a long overdue recognition of Nabokov's genius." Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), with same date on title and copyright pages. Light wear to book; jacket shows a few minor nicks & chips, light tanning to spine. Text clean; x, 282 pages; index, brief bibliography of Nabokov's literary works, checklist of criticism.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Universal Publishing, 1961. 1960s hard-boiled photography, with stylishly lurid cover. Pocket-sized paperback, as pictured, Beacon B459F. Light wear, minor creases to rear cover, minor tanning & rubbing, pages tanned.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4¼" by 7¼".

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. Scholarly study of the psychology of learning names & associated phenomena. Hardcover, full blue cloth with silver lettering. Light wear to book, ink name on front end sheet; minor smudges on front jacket; jacket spine slightly tanned. Text clean; xii, 275 pages with appendices, notes, bibliography and index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Origins of descriptive set theory in Russian mathemeticians' embrace of an abandoned French theory, influenced by heretical Orthodox monks and a mystical tradition known as Name Worshipping; also discusses Russian & French mathematical rivalries in ideas of infinity. Mathematicians noted include Émile Borel, René Baire, Henri Lebesgue; Dmitri Egorov & Nikolai Luzin. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear, near fine. Text clean; x, [2], 239 pages; index, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948 Medium blue hardcover, navy titling, navy 'silhouette' endsheets, top edge blue. Light wear, name & note inside cover; jacket shows some edgewear, chipping, rubbing; long closed tear on rear panel near spine, short tear & creasing at head of spine; jacket spine tanned. Farah 1948B-48; the forty-eighth printing, 1948; good paper, plain b/w frontispiece.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" By 7½".

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932 Light blue cloth, orange titling, orange 'silhouette' endsheets. Light general wear, small whitish spot at base of spine, minor edgewear and two short tears to lightly rubbed jacket. Farah 1940B-27, the twenty-seventh printing, 1940. Nice copy.. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" by 7½".

We've bundled together four Rorem titles: hardcover firsts of The Nantucket Diary, The Final Diary, and Other Entertainment; and a paperback of The Later Diaries. All of them are in Very Good condition or above, including jackets. If interested, please write for a more detailed description of individual titles. We will not sell them separately..

Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1984. Scarce original edition of this account of "Napoleon's ill-judged intervention in Iberia", which the author credits as the most damaging factor in Napoleon'e eventual downfall. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author to fellow historian and VMI professor Henry Bausum. Full orange cloth, black titling. Light general wear; minor waterstain to upper corner of first 20 pages, edges of jacket (not visible externally); pages edges foxed; jacket edgeworn with short closed tears and minor chipping, scratches on rear panel. Text clean; xx, 419 pages, index, glossary of military terms, bibliography, notes, maps, b/w photos & portraits.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 6¼" by 9¼".

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1885. "New edition", copyright 1885, Edward Meeks. We believe this is the Rufus W. Griswold-edited text. Two volumes in one, hardcover. Light wear to book, gilt title bright, some silverfish nibbling to covers, spine lightly faded, corners bumped; pencil name inside, pages lightly tanned, not brittle.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008. Literary journal with six articles by Michael Toolan, Johanna Drucker, Sarah Copland, Sue J. Kim, Lucy Ferriss and Jean Wyatt. Paperback, minor wear, one corner bumped. Text clean; [4], pages 105-221+ ad.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6¾" by 10".

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Notable association copy of this important work of literary theory, INSCRIBED by the author to David [Hayman], one of her 1979 thesis advisors at the University of Wisconsin. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, some fading to spine & rear cover; jacker spine lightly faded with a short tear, creasing, light chipping. Text clean; [x], 308 pages; bibliography, index. . Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. Scholarly study of 'how' texts signify, examining the use of simile in epic poems, including Homer's Iliad, the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Commedia, Milton's Paradise Lost. Hardcover, full orangey cloth, black titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows fading, light rubbing, minor edgewear. Text clean; [12], 211 pages; index, bibliography, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Hall commanded the Lyra, a 10-gun brig, part of Lord Amherst's 1816 Embassy to China. The expedition visited Java, dropped off the Ambassador in China, went on to Korea & Okinawa, then back to China, and finally visited Napoleon, who knew Hall's father at Brienne. As Hall's interview with Napoleon mostly involved Hall's voyage (and because Napoleon was the Rock Star of the day), he felt it proper to include. First published in 1818; first edition thus, combined with the work on South America. Original full brown cloth, gilt spine title. Edges rubbed and faded, corners & spine ends frayed, spine faded, small spot on front, small stain on rear; institutional rubberstamp & ink note/number on front free endsheet, offsetting slightly to the pastedown, former owner's name & place on title page; text clean. Includes 'Accounts of [Captain of the Alceste] Sir Murray Maxwell's Attack on the Chinese Batteries, and of an Interview With… Read More

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Literary journal with four articles: Your Cheatin' Heart: Double Dealing in Cinematic Narrative by David H. Richter; Heteroglossia, Monologism, and Fascism: Bernard Reads 'The Waves'; by Gabrielle McIntyre; What Did 'Jane Eyre' Do? Ideology, Agency, Class and the Novel by Chris R. Vanden Bossche; Surviving 'Memento' by William G. Little. Paperback, minor wear. Text clean; [4], 83 pages + ad.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6¾" by 10".

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. Official account of the ill-fated expedition, in the course of which Hall died - poisoned by arsenic, as determined much later - though the ship made a 'farthest North' record. Later printing, with final revisions to a few chapters by J. E. Nourse, tipped-in facsimile of Hall's last dispatch. Stout hardcover, full orange cloth, gilt titling & decoration. General wear, spine rubbed & tanned; endsheets professionally replaced; some foxing, mostly around the plates. Text clean; [2], 696 pages; index, appendix; two steel engravings, 38 wood engravings, two color 'photolithographs', six maps - as called for.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8½" By 10½".

London: Hutchinson, 1963. Effort to interpret Kierkegaard's works based on his 'concept of man'. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, corners bumped; jacket rubbed with light edgwear, minor stains. Text clean; 224 pages; index, bibliographies, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Hardcover. Light wear to book & jacket, copyright note blacked out.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 8¾".

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1987 Near Fine/No Jacket. Octavo. 125 pages with index. No. 2 in American Poetry Contemporary Bibliography Series. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Upper corners lightly bumped..