Search Results: Titles starting with N from Mac Donnell Rare Books

Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] THE NEW PLANET [contained in] HARPER'S WEEKLY. New York: Harper's Weekly, January 30, 1909. Disbound. First printing.

McManus, George. THE NEWLYWEDS AND THEIR BABY'S COMIC PICTURES FOR PAINTING AND CRAYONING. Akron, Ohio & New York: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1917. Oblong quarto. First edition. Original color pictorial wrappers. Neatly rebacked, mild rubbing, some coloring in a few places, but a very good copy, and a miracle of survival. OCLC locates only a single copy of this work. McManus (1884-1954) began his career with the `New York World' in 1905, where `Newlyweds and Their Baby' first appeared, and he is best remembered for his comic strip, BRINGING UP FATHER, the first American comic strip to achieve international fame. That… Read More

[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Todd, William B. THE NIXON TRANSCRIPTS. Austin: University of Texas, 1976. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11, triple-columns, 4pp. Fine copy of the separately printed off-print version of Todd's article in a UT publication about his bibliographic study of the transcripts of conversations President Richard Nixon had with his fellow Watergate conspirators. Todd was able to prove how many typists prepared the 1,308 pages of material (15 in all), and how many pages of material were deliberately altered or suppressed (271 pages!). The results of his landmark study, in which Todd applied the principles of eighteenth… Read More