Search Results: Titles starting with N from Zetetic Books

San Francisco: Happening Press, 1967. Single sided printed poster, approximately 480mm x 635mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, otherwise bright and clean. Anti-war poster, image is from Weege's 'Peace is Patriotic' portfolio. First Thus. Unbound. Good+. Illus. by Weege, Wm.. Elephant Folio. Poster.

London: No Publisher, 1840. xii, 222pp. Original quarter morocco and cloth binding, gilt title to spine. Spine faded, rubbed, especially to outer joints, slightly chipped to head. Slightly browned internally, but generally fairly clean, previous owners' (William Joyner Ellis) armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Twelve full-page engravings (as called for). Presentation copy from the author to Ellis. Presentation Copy from Author. First Edition. Quarter Morocco and Cloth. Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxx, 480pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine very slightly faded, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846. [5], vi-xix, [2], xvii-xx, [2], 3-130pp and sixty-two leaves of grass specimens. Original publishers morocco, bevelled boards, smooth back, spine with title and publisher in gilt within a decorative cartouche, covers with a thick and thin line border, an inner frame made up of a double fillet, a thick blind line and an inner triple fillet with volute and flower head corner pieces and an elaborate foliate and volute centre piece with the title to its centre (lower cover without the title). Quite heavily rubbed to extremities and lower cover, chipped to spine ends with small amounts of loss, bumped bumped and worn. First section of text slightly loose with sewing broken but holding well, some light browning and dust staining to edges, and occasionally to sample pages. One sample has worn through the opposite page of text leaving a series of small holes but with no loss of text, a few small closed tears to page edges. Samples are generally in good order, some off setting as… Read More

London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789. [3], iv-v, [4], 2-440, 443-468pp, [14]. Original sprinkled calf boards, later rebacked, smooth back, divided into six panels by gilt roll, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge shaped gilt device, gilt roll to board edges, marbled endpapers. Outer joints with Japanese tissue repairs, rubbed to extremities, corners lightly bumped, some light browning internally, light browning and foxing to plates, with offsetting from plates, sporadic pencilled notes, a couple of old bookseller descriptions pasted on to front marbled endpaper, with a couple of loose newspaper cuttings laid in, but generally fairly clean. With the nine plates / vignettes as called for, including two folding. With the errata leaf. Page 292 misnumbered as 262, and 398 misnumbered as 389; the text is complete, despite the pagination. The plates were drawn by Grimm and engraved by Peter Mazell (see Alexander, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and… Read More

London: B. and J. White, 1795. [3]-iv, [3], 8-170pp, [6]. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt single rules, title in gilt to second panel, central bird device to remaining panels. Gilt dulled, rubbed to extremities, paper covering board edges is chipped with small amounts of loss, corners bumped, very lightly browned internally, light offsetting from frontispiece to title, but generally fairly clean. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Whitaker to front pastedown, with a previous owner's signature to head. With a hand-coloured plate, here bound as a frontispiece, of a hybrid bird by J. F. Miller (see Alexander, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714-1820', page 619), after Elmer, though Martin notes that Prof. Newton wrote of this illustration that "it was so badly done as to misrepresent not only the original but also the water-colour drawing from which the plate is copied" (Martin, 'Gilbert… Read More

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. [7], viii-ix, [2], 2-366pp. Original cloth in DJ. Slightly rubbed to extremities, text lightly browned. Presentation copy to Professor James P. Griffin with note to ffep in pencil, and a few notes by Griffin in pen to margins. David Wiggins (1933-) is an English moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics. Presentation Copy from Author. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

London: Labour News Publishing Offices, 1892. 94pp, original cloth, gilt to spine and front cover. Half-title browned, what looks like the remnants of a sticker to reverse of contents page, slightly cracked between contents page and first page of poetry. COPAC shows at BL, NLS, Cam, Ox and TCD. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 12mo.

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. xxii, 241pp, [1], original boards, editors, title and publishers in gilt to spine, bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

No Place: No Publisher Single sided printed poster, approximately 710mm x 555mm in size, n.d. but probably late 1960's or very early 1970's. Curled from being rolled, slightly creased, otherwise clean. Unknown. Unbound. Good. Elephant Folio (Oblong). Poster.

San Francisco: Victor Langer, 1970. Single sided printed poster, approximately 540mm x 720mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, tiny tear to head, otherwise quite bright and clean. The designer was David Goldstein. Unknown. Unbound. Good. Illus. by Langer, Victor [Photographer]. Double Elephant. Poster.

No Place: No Publisher Single sided printed broadside, approximately 125mm x 320mm in size, printed on yellow paper, no publisher, place or date. Slightly creased from old folds, but generally clean. Anti-Church and anti-tithe poem, ending with the verse "These are the men whose blandishment, Increase the daily widening rent, And point to disestablishment". First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Folio. Broadside.

London: Peace News, 1945. 8pp, original paper covers. Staple rusted, otherwise fairly bright and clean. BL only in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: The Clarion Press, 1906. 261pp, [5], original cloth, title, author, price and publisher in gilt to spine, title and author in gilt to upper cover. Covers slightly rubbed, internally lightly browned with some light foxing. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Durham: J.H. Veitch, 1833. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 220mm x 275mm. Browned, slightly creased with small amount of loss to top left hand corner, otherwise quite clean. Notice from the Committee of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company asking contractors upon the Railway and Docks not to employ workers who have dogs and warning the contractors that they will be held responsible for any damage occasioned by the "wanton or unnecessary Trespasses of their Workmen, on the Lands adjoining the Railway". Printed by J.[ohn] H.[ardinge] Veitch, see Hunt, 'The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860', page 91 and Wallis' 'Supplement', page 46. Not in COPAC. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Broadside.

London: Peace News, 1962. 12pp, original paper covers. Very lightly browned, but clean. BL and LSE only in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.