Search Results: Titles starting with N from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in coarse off-white cloth over boards with dark blue titles and ornaments to spin and upper board, dark blue topstain. scattered faint brown spotting to boards, rear endpaper browned along gutter, front. Jacket has some minor extremity wear, touch of fading to spine, shallow chips at spine ends and fore corner tips, and some slight surface wear. A beautiful copy overall.. Black & white chapter heads, cuts. Rockwell Kent had just finished illustrating his famous edition of Moby Dick for the Lakeside Press when he set out on a voyage to Greenland with a couple of friends. The were shipwrecked, but that didn't stop the adventure. This is that story, superbly written and stunningly illustrated as only Kent could. Printed by William A. Kittredge at the Lakeside Press. Another lovely piece of book design. Uncommon first edition in jacket, damned scarce in this condition.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, [2], 10-444 pages. Bound in rust colored cloth over bevelled boards stamped in gilt and black, dark teal endpapers. Binding shows minor extremity rubs, shallow bumps to spine ends. Hinges and endpapers sound. Some light scattered foxing inside. Very handsome copy.. Engraved plates. Detailed report which is inscribed and signed by Gustavus Fox on a preliminary blank leaf. The inscription reads: "Miss S. L. Tucker / with the regards of / G. V. Fox / Lowell / July 3d 1873."<br /> <br /> The purpose of Fox's 1866 mission to Russia was to personally deliver a Resolution passed by Congress congratulating Russian Emperor Alexander II on his escape from assassination on April 16th of that year. Fox was also directed to visit various European ports and gather such information as he could on their naval capabilities.<br /> <br /> Fox chose to cross the sea in the Miantonomoh,… Read More

Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1889. First edition. Wrappers. Duodecimo. .x, 104 pages + 1 leaf publisher ads. Near fine. Printed light brown linen-backed paper covers, side-stapled binding. A couple of corner bumps, some light soil, else fine.. The first part of this manual gives a history of National Prohibitory Amendments and Congressional action in relation to them, including arguments, indorsements of organizations and newspapers, etc. The second part consists of the plan to systematically canvass the country to gain support for a Constitutional Amendment for Prohibition of alcohol. <br /> <br /> The author, Ada Bittenbender, was a women's rights and temperance activist and an accomplished attorney representing the the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Washington, DC. She was the third woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.<br /> <br /> A scarce piece of temperance, Prohibition, and women's history. OCLC… Read More

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First edition. Cloth over boards. Folio. 216, (22 ads) pages. Modern binding blue cloth over boards with spine titled and ruled in gilt. Ex-Mercantile Library, with small oval stamp to title page and most plates. Faint moisture tidemarks in text. Small chips and edge tear to a few scattered leaves. Overall a very good copy of an uncommon American naval history.. Chromolith frontispiece, numerous plates. A well-illustrated chronicle of the origin, rise, progress, and triumphs of American marine steam engineering to the mid-19th century, by the Engineer-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy. Includes diagrams and statistics in addition to the text and illustrations of ships.<br /> <br /> Ref. ALBION p. 40.

[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], 1912. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Printed self-wraps bound with a single staple along spine. There is a slight dampstain at head of spine, visible more or less throughout the pamphlet. Otherwise fine.. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial issues as nominee of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. Roosevelt founded the party after losing the Republican nomination earlier in the year. <br /> <br /> This piece contains Roosevelt's statement at the National Progressive Convention, August 6, 1912, at the Coliseum in Chicago, his letter to Julian Harris of Atlanta (son of "Uncle Remus" author, Joel Chandler Harris) and his editorial on the Progressive National Convention at Chicago.<br /> <br /> Ref. WHEELOCK p. 15.

Bath: L. Leake and E. Curll, 1741. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimo. [viii], xvi, 48 pages. Very good. Later binding of marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners.. Engraved frontispiece. A clever and amusing piece of 18th century libertine literature that describes the female anatomy in terms of topography, geography, commerce, cultivation, etc. Satirizes contemporaneous pamphlets that promoted British Colonies while simultaneously punning the name of the Colony of Maryland.

New York: James Miller, 1860. Single sheet. Approximately 17 1/4" x 29 1/4. Map has old fold creases, with a few small holes at intersections and short separations along the occasional fold. Very good overall.. Hand colored. Street map of New York City that was drawn by Humphrey Phelps in 1857. Wards are shaded in different colors. Also included are parts of Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City. Includes a guide to locate streets and avenues. Ferry routes are shown, and the Hudson River is decorated with woodcuts of various ships. An impressive map of New York on the eve of the Civil War.

(New York): (New Directions Publishing Corp.), 1975. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Quarto. About 200 unnumbered pages. Near fine. Bound in coarse green cloth with printed title label pasted on spine, light green endpapers. Some faint spotting to cloth boards. Binding snug, no wear to boards.. Facsimile notebook pages (some color). Signed and numbered by Henry Miller, this is #152 in an edition limited to 700 copies. This is a near-facsimile of Miller's holographic "Notebook of American Tour" housed in special collections, UCLA. This notebook contains source material for "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" and "Remember to Remember."<br /> <br /> This copy comes with its original cardboard shipping sleeve.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Good. Bound in green cloth over boards with embossed ornamental designs, gilt-stamped spine title. The book has been expertly restored, retaining the original binding cloth as much as possible. Interior pages show some foxing to pre- and postliminary leaves, occasional paper repairs, and a short edge tear to an occasional leaf.. Steel and wood engraved black & white plates and text illustrations. Illustrated treatise on fox-hunting, by the Master of Hounds at the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.