Search Results: Titles starting with N from Classic Books and Ephemera

New York: McGraw Hill, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. vii, [1], 382 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. In Very Good Condition: cover very lightly soiled; edges rubbed; pages are clean and tight.

Stockholm: Fornvännen, 1932. Pamphlet. Good. [2], 89-94 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Green wrapper printed in black. "Särtryck ur Fornvännen" -- on front wrapper. Former owner's name at head of front wrapper: "Professor Dr John Sjoqvist." Stamped at lower edge of front wrapper and on several pages: "Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College." In Good Condition: wrapper is scraped along spine; remains of library identification at head of spine on front wrapper; otherwise, clean and solid.

Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 186, [7] p.; 18 cm. Paperback; cover illustration by Sharon Long. A collection of 15 short stories about human relationships by Irish author Clare Boylan (1948-2006). In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; spine lightly creased; possible remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1999. Paperback. Very Good +. 116 p.: full-page color reproductions of the pages of the manuscript; 26 cm. Black paperback with blue wrapper, which has silver spine and cover titles and color pastedown on front cover. Nakahama Manjiro was shipwrecked in 1841 with four other Japanese sailors. After rescue by American whalers, he spent a decade in the United States before earning enough money in the California Gold Rush to return to Japan. His fascinating story of life in this foreign land was recorded and illustrated by hand. This publication accompanied the exhibition by the Rosenbach in 1999 and 2000 of a copy, probably owned by Manjiro himself. In Very Good+ Condition: head of spine rubbed; one closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of wrapper; faint stain at tail of spine on wrapper; otherwise, clean and bright.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1969. Hardcover. Good/good. xxiv, 387 p.: portraits; 23 cm. Purple cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Printing. Contains poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, Kenneth Patchen, William Stafford, Weldon Kees, John Berryman, Robert Owell, Denise Levertox, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Mersin, James Wright, Philip Levine, Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, Stephen Berg, and Robert Mezey. Book is in Good Condition: pages x-xi, xv-xviii are soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: slightly rubbed and soiled; loss along upper edge, at tail of spine, and along front fold.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. Lamotte, Bernard. xxvi, [2], 409, [1] p., 35 leaves of collotype plates (some in color); 29 cm. Burgundy moire silk; oval blue silk spine label with gilt-tooled title. Grey slipcase with burgundy floral pattern. Many pages unopened. This is number 631 of a limited edition of 1500 copies designed by George Salter and printed at the Garamond Press in Baltimore. The illustrations were drawn by Bernard Lamotte and reproduced in collotype by Georges Duval in Paris; signed by the artist, Bernard Lamotte. Book is in Near Fine Condition: spine very slightly faded; clean and bright. Slipcase is in Good+ Condition: top section and edges are browned; top and bottom sections just starting to separate at opening; otherwise solid.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated First Edition. 159, [1] p.: color illustrations; 21 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. American architect John M. Johansen (1916-2012) was known for his creative modern designs. The "ten hypothetical projects illustrated in this volume have an overlay of science fiction." -- p. 19. In Very Good Condition: underlining and marginal marks in the Preface and Introduction; otherwise, clean and tight.

Narberth, Pa: Narberth Choral Society, 1921. Paperback. Good. [44] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Tied with red thread; wrapper printed in red and black. The chorus was conducted by Clarence C. Nice. The soloists in this concert were soprano Lucy Marsh and violinist John Richardson. The chorus was accompanied by the Victor Orchestra. The Narberth Choral Society was created in the spring of 1921, opened the Steel Pier in New Jersey in June, 1921, and, as this program indicates, performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in Nov. of that year. There is no evidence that it continued to exist after that year. In 1923 Clarence C. Nice conducted the San Carlo Opera, in 1928 he became director of the Rollins College conservatory, by 1932 he was at the Orlando College of Music, and in 1935 he became state director of the Florida Federal Music project. American soprano Lucy Isabelle Marsh (1878-1956) recorded frequently for the Victor Talking Machine Co. from 1909 to the late 1920s, both… Read More

Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845. Good -. viii, 96 p., frontispiece portrait; 23 cm. Lacking binding. This version ends at page 96; it did not include pages 97-104, found in some copies, which contain poetry, or pages 105-108, found in other copies, which contain "From the South." Howes only includes the 108-page version. This is the least common version of the life of Lewis Garrard Clarke (1812-1897), born into slavery in Kentucky. After escaping to Canada in 1841, Clarke was active in speaking against slavery and dictated his experience, presumably to J. C. Lovejoy (1805-1871), author of the Preface and abolitionist. In Good- Condition: lacking binding; loss and closed 2-cm. tear along fore-edge of frontispiece, without loss of image; upper corner of frontispiece creased and lightly soiled; minor loss at fore-edge of title page; foxing and small stains throughout; solid.

Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission." 15, [3], 17-283, [1] p., 4 leaves of plates: 1 full-page map of the prison at Andersonville, Ga.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards; the leather spine covered a metal spine, Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding, identified by a circular stamp on front fixed endpaper, dated 1876. The hinges were strengthened later with dark brown cloth book repair tape. The 4 plates are copies of photographs of Union soldiers after their return from imprisonment at Belle Isle. Howard M. Hoyt's Indestructible Binding was advertised in 1878 and 1879 in school and library journals, and in Publishers Weekly and The American Bookseller. Examples of this type of binding are very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: lacking the leather over the metal spine; boards are rubbed; front free endpaper chipped; a few pages soiled; otherwise clean and tight.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1969. Paperback. Very Good +. xxviii, 98 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This is the second in the publisher's series Fugitive Slave Narratives. William Wells Brown (c. 1814-1884) was born a slave in Kentucky but escaped when he was 19 and settled in Boston and then Buffalo. He became an author and abolitionist, publishing Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, in 1847; in 1849 he went to England lecturing in support of the abolition of slavery. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is slightly browned; edges are rubbed; clean and tight.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1965. Paperback. Very Good -. xxx, 98 p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (1802-1837), Presbyterian minister and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the Alton Observer, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois. This account of the events leading up to that senseless act was written by Edward Beecher and published soon afterward. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed and slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Krefeld: Stadt Krefeld, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 158 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Krefelder Hefte zur Deutsch-Amerikanischen Geschichte Band 3. Text is entirely in German. Gift inscription on half title page to Kenneth Kusmer from John Higham. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: creased at head of spine; back joint open at head of spine for 1 cm.; clean and bright.

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good -. [4], 388 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Navy linen-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-ruled border on front cover. An index of maps follows the general index. With the pocket inside the back cover intended to hold the Cumulative Supplement to Volume II, which is not present. With, loose, a price list for publications of the National Geographic Society. In Very Good- Condition: top page edges and fore-edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

Harrisburg, Pa: The Patriot and Union Steam Print, 1863. Pamphlet. Good +. 12 p.: 22 cm. Disbound. Former owner's name "Wallace" in pencil at head of title. That part of Seymour's speech dealing with national, rather than state affairs, which is reprinted here, appeared first in the Weekly Patriot And Union of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on January 22, 1863. The author, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), had served in the New York State Assembly, as Mayor of Utica, N.Y., and as Governor of New York from 1852 to 1854. A supporter of Stephen Douglas, Seymour became a leading opponent of Lincoln's support for emancipation, centralization of power, and restriction of civil liberties. He was re-elected as governor of New York in 1862. In his inauguration speech, printed here, he noted that New York had already furnished 220,000 soldiers for the Union effort and addressed the imposition of martial law and the necessity of restoring the Union. In Good+ Condition: disbound and lacking… Read More

New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. The Book-of-the-Month Club Classic facsimile reprint of the Harper & Brothers 1940 First Edition, with the pamphlet containing the new introduction by David Bradley. xi, [1], 359 p.; 21 cm. Dark grey cloth with gilt-on-black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The new introduction is a separate, stapled, unpaginated 12-page pamphlet. Scarce with the new introduction. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of front section and same from upper edge of back section; chipped at ends of spine; clean and bright. The pamphlet is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Hardcover. Good. vi, [2], 242, [2], 32 p.; 20 cm. Light grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and brown illustrations on spine and both boards. Black endpapers. Publisher's catalog from March 1883 on final 32 pages. Gift inscription from Christmas 1886 on title page verso. A charming work by English nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), transporting the reader to the natural world that surrounded London in the late 19th century, most or all of which is long gone today. In Good Condition: slightly cocked; spine is sunned; edges are rubbed; cover is lightly soiled; hinges are weak; pages are clean and tight.

S.l.: s.n., 1895. Pamphlet. Very Good. [12] p.: illustrations in black and red; 19 cm. The front illustration has a stylized signature: E. Carrell or Yarrell? No publication information; not listed in WorldCat. The illustrations and text suggest that it was published in the 1890s. A "humorous" criticism of the activities of late 19th-century women's clubs. The final two verses: "Eight naughty little maids, Seldom doing right, For little girls weren't meant To scream and shout and fight. So we'll stand them in a row With their backs to us; They surely should be punished For making such a fuss." Extremely scarce. In Very Good Condition: front is slightly browned; scattered light soiling; solid.

Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. xiii, [1], 243, [7] p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A collection of essays by Australian author Peter Goldsworth (b. 1951). In Very Good Condition: edges slightly rubbed; front cover lightly creased; several creased page corners; clean and tight.

London: T. Woodward, 1744. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes: vol. 1: [8], xvi, [8], 984 p., [16] leaves of plates; vol. 2: [10], 1056, [22] p., frontispiece and [21] leaves of plates: tables; 44 cm. Contemporary? half calf with seven compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment of vol. 1: Harris's Voyages. Plain light grey paper over boards. Leaves are untrimmed. Title pages in red and black. Vol. 1 imprint: Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, T. Longman, R. Hett, C. Hitch, H. Whitridge, S. Austen, J. Hodges, J. Robinson, B. Dod, T. Harris, J. Hinton, and J. Rivington. Vol. 2 imprint the same, except for omission of A. Ward. The dedication to George II with royal crest and signed by Carteret appears opposite the title page in vol. 1. A second dedication, "To the merchants of Great-Britain" signed "The author" follows the title page. Index and "List of Charts, Maps and Cutts, in this Work" follow text in vol. 2.… Read More