Search Results: Titles starting with N from Lux Libri

NY: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, (c. 1948.) Book club edition of Mailer's first book, a novel of World War II in the Pacific. Thick 8vo hardcover. 626 pp. VG in VG dust jacket with clear archival cover.

NY: Crown Publishers, (1992). 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Natural history and cultural study of the Delaware River (New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.) Told through observations, folklore, and portraits of people, past and present. Near Fine 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. vii, 390 pages. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Signed by Bruce Stutz on the colored front endpaper.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924. 1st American edition in the uncommon dust jacket. A history of British sea power, from its genesis more than 400 years ago through the World War I era. A superb, scholarly work by Callender, chair of Naval History at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Illustrated by 17 plates and an engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Drake. Map endpapers. ix, 305 pp., index and chronology. Clothbound 8vo. VG/VG in rubbed and lightly worn dust jacket. Small, old bookshop label to front pastedown ("Gray's / Bookstore / Milwaukee.") A book that has evidently seen little use over the years. DJ protected by a clear archival cover.

Translated from German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. NY: Grove Press, (1969.) 1st edition. A scholarly study that relates the origins of black writing, in the United States and elsewhere, to the African tradition. A comprehensive analysis of how the cultural past of the African continent is manifested in the black literature of the U.S., Latin America, the West Indies, and elsewhere. A rich and varied survey that includes material on early writers of African descent; the African oral tradition; Afro-Arabic literature; Protest literature; African-American writing in the 19th century; the Negro spiritual; minstrels and voodoo; blues and calypso; the Negro Renaissance; 'Indigenism' in Haiti and 'Negrism' in Cuba; the "Negritude' school; and more. 301 pages with appendix and index.. 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. Light spotting to top of text block, but VG+ otherwise. Sound, tight binding. No owner signatures or other markings. DJ is protected by a new clear archival cover.

Three (3) identical broadsides from 1942 for Sunday train excursions to New York City from Boston / Back Bay and Providence, Rhode Island. Fare was $3.85 round-trip with a "Special Coach for Women." Dated 2-6-42 at the bottom. Vertical format, 6.75 x 18 inches long. Blue lettering on white background. Train logo in Art Deco style. Original printings, not reproductions. Great condition with center fold. Intended for brief display before being discarded when schedules and service changed. Given the condition, it doesn't look like these were ever used. Buyer will receive all three broadsides, as pictured.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. 1st edition. Copy "W" of 26 lettered copies. Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the press. Contains the title poem and four others by Bukowski: Revolt in the Ranks, Fellow Countryman, Fame, and It's Slow Tonight. A Fine copy of the hardcover issue in decorative paper boards. No jacket. Slender 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. [14] pp.

St. John's: Killick Press, (2009.) 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A book-length poem based on her travels around the western edges of Newfoundland. 57 pp. Paperbound 8vo. Near Fine. Clean and securely bound, as shown. Appears to be unread.

Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1987. Advance proof of the limited 1st edition. One of just 14 advance copies (hand-corrected on the cover from 12.) Signed and inscribed by the publisher and the book designer. A bibliomystery about the pursuit of a fragmentary lost text printed with strange movable type before Gutenberg. A lively, unsettling tale of desire and deceit in the rare book world. 151 pp. 8vo, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Stiff green wraps. Dated 12/7/87. A couple of stains to the rear cover, but Near Fine otherwise. Signed in 1989 by publisher David J. Holmes and designer Ellis J. Neel Jr. Inscribed "For Phil" [Philip Cronenwett, 1946-2018, a former special collections librarian at Amherst and Dartmouth colleges.] An uncommon advance proof. Very scarce due to the small number printed.

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1936. 1st trade edition. A Marxist morality play in verse, with the waters of the flood represented by the tides of popular revolt and social change. (Day-Lewis later renounced the communist political views that informed this work.) 59 pp. 8vo hardcover bound in yellow cloth. VG in dustwrapper with light wear, moderate signs of age. Partial offsetting to the endpapers, small label of a Liverpool bookseller.

Santa Rosa, [CA]: Black Sparrow Press, 1987 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Signed 1st edition. Copy "V" of 26 lettered copies of this poetry collection. Hand-bound by Earle Gray. With a bound-in, handwritten poem (Core Benders) from the author's Objects in Space series. The poem is signed by Kelly, and he has also signed a preliminary blank page. 182, [2] pp. 8vo hardcover in decorative paper boards designed by Barbara Martin. Laid-in description on blue paper of the Objects series. Light bumps but about Near Fine in the original clear jacket. A nice copy of the uncommon lettered edition with signed holographic poem.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2016.) 1st edition. Signed by the author. A social and design history of the humble chair, spanning the centuries from ancient Egypt and Greece to the modern era. A consideration of the chair's many forms and functions – from a simple "tool for sitting" to the artistry of Thonet, Eames, and others. Illustrated by small drawings in the text. 242 pp., with index. 8vo hardcover. Minor rubbing of the dust jacket, a couple of small spots in the blank margin of p. 155. Near Fine otherwise. Clean and securely bound. Jacket is protected by a clear, archival cover. Uncommon signed.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., (c. 1961.) 1963 reprint of the author's first book of poetry. Signed and inscribed in 1964 with a small sketch of a cityscape. A collection of light-hearted verse that won the Lamont Prize of the American Academy of Poets in 1961. 71 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover. VG/VG. Sound, tight binding. DJ shows moderate wear, light spotting. Lamont sticker on front panel. Not price-clipped and now protected by a clear archival cover. Publisher code "E47" (November 1963) on the last text page. Signed "For Lynne" on the first blank page.