Search Results: Titles starting with N from Bygone Books

Boston, MA: A. D. Maclachlan. Soft cover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Printed by Kaufmann Lehr Baden, part of the Victoria Series of R. J. Masters in London. No date noted, but there is an inscription dated 1927 on verso of title page. 32mo (4 ½" x 3 5/8"), illustrated stapled wraps, 16 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear. A vintage religions tract with biblical quotations and unattributed drawings.

Ginn and Company, 1909. Soft cover. Good. The New-England Primer Enlarged, O[r], an early and pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, Adorn'd with Cuts, To which are added, The Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism, etc. Boston: Printed by E. Draper, for B. Larkin in Cornhill. A facsimile reprint by Ginn & Company who knows when [circa 1909, from the original publication of 1785-1790]. 32mo (4 ½ in), softbound, unpaginated, image of General Washington on the front cover, b/w illustrations. Includes poems, hymns, prayers, catechisms, and "A dialogue between Christ, Youth and the Devil." Condition is GOOD- with the covers taped at spine, faint soiling to front cover, a few pages are detaching, otherwise quite a terrific piece of early New England education. Ginn & Co. has a few advertisements in the rear.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition [no additional printings noted], 8vo, gray cloth, 585 pages, chronological table, bibliographical note, index. Condition: VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light rubbing to book edges, faint spotting to pages edges; jacket has light edgewear, one small chip to rear panel. Derived from the newspapers in the Burney Collection of the British Museum, this book offers a view of the world of 1792-93 through the eyes of a contemporary reader of the London daily papers.

NY: Cobblehill Books / Dutton, 1991. Hardcover. NF/VG+. Bowman, Leslie W.. 3rd hardcover printing, 12mo, blue boards, 79p, b/w illus. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD- jacket: jacket has a 2" closed tear at rear fold w/ a few creases, otherwise book and jacket are like new. Story of a Vermont farm boy during World War I.

New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 2001. Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st edition, 174p. NF/NF with lt. rubbing at rear fold of dust jacket.

London: Sampson Low, 1952. Soft cover. Good. Wraps, stapled pamphlet. 3x7" color illustrations. GOOD: some soiling to front cover, lite edgewear. A "Tiny Strip Book," with Blyton's delightful illustrations!

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Harold Connolly, Minister of Industry and Publicity. Soft cover. Very Good. No date noted [late 1940s], 8vo, illustrated stapled wraps, 32 pages, b/w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD: slight damp stain along bottom edge of pages, staples slightly rusty. A nice copy.

London: George Routledge, 1905. First paperback edition . Hardcover. G+. No additional printings noted. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 380 pages, xxxvii - introduction by Ernest A. Baker. Condition: GOOD+ / no jacket: fading to the black at edges and spine, rubbing to extremities with 1" tear to top spine gutter, corners bumped, webbing exposed at endpapers but book remains tight, toning to endpapers, internally clean except for faint spotting to first few pages and an owner name on the fep. Contents: The Royal Slave; The Fair Jilt; The Nun; Agnes De Castro; The Lover's Watch; The Case for the Watch; The Lady's Looking-Glass to Dress Herself By; The Lucky Mistake; The Court of the King of Bantam; and The Adventure of the Black Lady. [ Aphra Behn, 1640-1689, a poet, spy, playwright, and novelist - Baker in his introduction begins with "To most people nowadays the name of Aphra Behn conveys nothing more intelligible that certain vague associations of… Read More

NY: Prospect Press, 1913. Hardcover. G. Jessie Willcox Smith. Later printing (copyright 1911, first published by Dodd Mead). 4to, rust cloth w/ pictorial paste-on; 159pp, 6 full-page color plates. GOOD / no jacket: ex-library (label on fep, a few date stamps on fep, stamp on title page, but no pocket or spine label); edgewear at corners and spine head and tail, lt. rubbing at edges, tissue guard for frontis is creased with edgewear; hinge loose (book is a bit shaken but all intact); interior pages are clean with only gentle wear.