Search Results: Titles starting with N from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, slightly faded, front hinge slightly loose but a very attractive copy. The second section, rather more than a third of the book, is devoted to the Hawaiian Islands, and includes views of Lahaina, Honolulu, Nuuanu, Waiakea, and the crater of Kilauea. Forbes 2045.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. First edition. Black cloth. Fine, in dust jacket.

New York: Harper, 1979. First edition. Green printed wrappers, slight fading, else fine. Uncorrected proof copy. Juliar E49.1.

Lawrence. Kansas: Vladimir Nabokov Society. Original wrappers, hint of spine fading to some numbers, else fine. Issues 1-12 were titled "The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter". Issue no. 1 in photocopy; lacking issues 46-47, 50,55.

Franklin Center, Penn: Franklin Library, 1977. Book Club edition. Brown leather with gilt stamping, a.e.g. Fine, with "Notes from the Editors" booklet laid in. Juliar A32.9.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. First edition. Black cloth. Ownership signature to front endpaper, else fine, in fine dust jacket. Juliar A32.1.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. First British edition. Red cloth. Bubbling to cloth over front board, pencil marginalia and underlining to a few pages, a very good copy, in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight edge wear. Juliar A38.2.

New York: Phaedra, 1966. First edition. Grey-brown cloth, green endpapers. Fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight toning to spine and a small nick. Juliar A38.1, variant "a"

London: Heinemann, 1959. First British edition. Blue cloth. Fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket lightly worn to extremities. Juliar A32.2.

New York: New York University Press, 1971. First edition. Orange cloth. Very good, in dust jacket.

New York: Popular Library, 1958. New American wrappers edition. Black wrappers, ownership signature, otherwise nearly fine. Juliar A32.4.

New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, 1953. First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to use it -- Many Thanks. Weegee / Worlds Greatest Photographer /1954"

New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, light spotting on the top edge, a fine copy in lightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs on the title page. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition. It contains also the first book appearances of Burroughs's "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness," and "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs." Maynard and Miles A2b.

New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, fine copy in slightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs, and with a typed postcard signed, agreeing to sign the copy. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition. It contains also the first book appearances of Burroughs's "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness," and "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs." With a copy of a 1992 edition inscribed by Burroughs to biographer Virginia Spencer Carr "with shared memories of Paul Bowles and old Tangier," together in a cloth clamshell box with leather label.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, 1982. First edition. Text by John G. Hanhardt, Dieter Ronte, Tom Armstrong. Issued in connection with the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 30-June 27, 1982. Hardbound with dustjacket,143 pp. with bw and color illustrations. Faded top edges of cover else very good in a dj worn at top edges and with a small piece missing. Protected by mylar book cover. 28 X 22 cm. 143.

San Francisco: James Linden, 1989. First separate edition. Mundy, Michael. Original cloth, labels, 9 x 11 inches. One of ten de luxe hardbound copies, from a total edition of 87 printed by Julie Holcomb on Rives Heavyweight paper. Text is "Where It Is" from "Always Coming Home," by Ursula K. LeGuin. With three original photographs by Michael Mundy, mounted, signed, and bound into the book. These ten de luxe copies also include an additional photograph of the Napa Valley signed by the artist, archivally mounted and inserted in a pocket on the back cover. Fine.

Paris: Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, 1927. 45 p. .39 cm.; Illustrations produced by the pochoir (stencil and hand-coloring) method. "Il a été tiré ... des exemplaires sur papier à dessin Olin. Ex. no. 3481." Extract from chapter 3 of the author's Le médecin de campagne. Illustrated boards with discoloration and wear along edges.

London: Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. 8vo, xiv, 480 pp, original boards, uncut, rebacked, new endpapers. Pp. [i]-[xiv], [1]-478, 2 leaves. With a folding chart of the Sandwich Islands and four hand-colored plates. Forbes 610.[33028].

New London: Lay and Hussey, 1828. First edition. 12mo., 168 pp. Original full calf with leather spine label. Front hinge weak; occasional spotting and tanning to the paper, but a better than usual copy of this book which is usually found considerably browned and foxed, due to the poor quality of its materials and its life generally in damp climates. Ownership inscription of George Swain, Jr. on front blank. Lund, Whaling Masters, identifies a George Swain, II who was active as a whaling captain between 1809 and 1823. Forbes 697; Hill 990. The Globe's helmsman and harpooner, Samuel Comstock led the mutiny in which four officers were murdered and the rest of the crew forced to join the mutineers. Comstock was killed and part of the crew escaped, but were attacked by the natives, with only Lay and Hussey surviving.

London: Treuttel and Wurtz, 1823. First edition in English. Quarto, 277 mm x 212 mm. vi, [2], xxvii, [5], 285, [2], 297, [3] pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. 19th century half Russia with marbled boards, spine with slight wear; top edge gilt, other uncut, occasional light offsetting, an excellent copy. Arago was the official artist on Freycinet's voyage (the spine title uses Freycinet's name) and there is an extensive account of his visit to Hawaii, (part 2, pp. 56-154) including six striking lithographs, and a lengthy description of their stay in Australia. Charles Edward Armstrong bookplate. Forbes 562 (See Forbes 537 for the first, French, edition and comments.).