Search Results: Titles starting with N from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good jacket. Jacket has a bit of toning, but is bright and not clipped.

New York: Published by the Century Co., [1927] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Facsimile plate. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket is chipped at binding extremities and lightly browned at spine.

London: Printed by J. Whiting…and published by J. Parsons and Son… 1804 First and only editions of two scarce pamphlets. An Answer to a Pamphlet of Mr. James Poole, Entitled 'A Narrative, exposing a Variety of irregular Transactions…' London: Printed for R.H. Evans, 1804. Octavo. [Togerher with:] Gardiner, [Richard]. Octavo. viii, 129, [2], [1, ads] pp. Nineteenth-century tree calf, decoratively ruled in gilt on both covers with gilt coat-of-arms in the center, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, sprinkled edges. Joints lightly rubbed. Very good condition. In the first work, there are a number of early ink corrections that appear to have been made by the author, editor, or someone intimately involved in the situation. It would be interesting to know whose copy this was, and whose coat-or-arms is on the front cover. James Poole reports that in looking over records in the War Office in 1794, he came across evidence of false accounting in the French emigrant regiments of Roll and Dillon… Read More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1999] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations of this Mississippi-born photographer's home territory. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759 First edition in English of the first history of California, which "gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America," (Hill). The original Spanish edition was published in 1757. . Contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked to style preserving the original red and green spine labels. Spine stamped in gilt and with raised bands. Two volumes, octavo. With four engraved plates (including both frontispieces) and a folding map of Baja California. The plates in volume one are "Women of California" and "Men of California" (frontispiece); plus "The Cayote or Fox" and "The Taye or California Deer." The plates in volume two are "The Manner of Curing the Sick in California" and "Sorcerers of California" (frontispiece); plus "The Martyrdom of Father Carranco" and "The Martyrdom of Father Tamaral." Some rubbing to extremities and some light chipping to lower board of volume two.… Read More

[London:] Portman Books, [1989] Second edition. Boards. Quarto. Text illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Printed by W.B. for Robert Knaplock… 1719 First edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, with burgundy morocco label. Octavo. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initial letters. Intermittent dampstain at top margin, contemporary ownership signature on title-page. A good copy. John Leng (1665-1727) was Bishop of Norwich and an admired Latin scholar. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he subsequently became a fellow. In 1695 he published an edition of Aristophanes' Plutus and Clouds with a Latin translation, and in 1701 he edited the magnificent Cambridge edition of Terence, adding a dissertation on the meters of the author. He also published a revised edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Cicero's De officiis. In 1717, he was invited to give the Robert Boyle Lectures, which are published here. Though he published other sermons, the present work is his major theological work. "…[These sermons] constitute on the whole an orthodox… Read More

Los Angeles: Rounce and Coffin Club, 1960 Clothbacked decorative boards. Octavo. Spine slightly faded.

Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, [1959] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Ink signature. Very good in very good d.j.

Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, [1970] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Rubberstamps on front free endpaper. Very good in dust jacket.

London: Allen and Unwin, [1948] Second impression. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Corners bumped. Very good in very good dust jackets. Minor stain to d.j. of Volume II near bottom edge.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1973] One of 400 copies, printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Cloth. Quarto. Fine.

New York: Dutton, [1982] Boards. Large octavo. Color illustrations. Top corners bumped, light shelfwear. Very good in very good dust jacket with a few chips around the edges and one short tear.

[ Tokyo: 1977] Wrappers, with acetate dust jacket and wrap-around band. Folio. A fine copy. Born in 1920, Ryuichi Yamashireo is a graphic designer actively working in Japan. The works shown in this book are from his Ne Collage Exhibition at The Ginza Shisheido hall in Tokyo, November 1977.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, [1989] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, [c1975] Original wrappers, stapled. Octavo. A fine copy. Scientific American Offprints, #48. Bethe won the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.

Amsterdam: Cornelis Schuytstraat, 1960 First edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt spines. 2 vols., quarto. Plates, including two tipped in color plates. Text illustrations. A very good set. The catalogue of the library Amsterdam's great maritime museum. The museum houses paintings, scale models, weapons, maps, books, and artifacts associated with shipping and sailing. Highlights include works by the famed seventeenth-century cartographers Willem and Joan Blaeu and a first edition of Maximilan Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world.

[New York:] William Morrow & Company, [1954] First edition, presentation copy. Cloth. Octavo. . Plates with photographic reproductions, plus vignette half-title, decorative double-page title, and pictorial enddpapers. A little fading to edges of boards, spine of dust jacket lightly faded. Near fine in very good+ price-clipped jacket. An old donor has inscribed the book in ink: "To Chuck and Harriet with cordial Christmas greetings. Christmas 1954," and then Gardner has written on the same page: "and best wishes from the author, Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner." A very attractive, fresh copy. Book design by Merle Armitage.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed: "Dear Nell & Herb, Sorry that my pictures are still, 'still.' I promise you that they'll be 'moving' very soon. Until then please enjoy the shots in my book I'm very proud of them. That you for being so very special to me. With best wishes, your friend...

[Los Angeles]: St. Anns Press, [2003] Cloth. Quarto. Color and a few black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.