Search Results: Titles starting with N from DuBois Rare Books

Paris, 1840. Loose_leaf. Very Good -. Hand colored lithograph on heavy, ivory colored, wove paper. Sheet size: 29 x 37.5 cm. Full title and caption underneath reads: "Un homme du vieux temps. Plus de moeurs, plus de religion! voila ce que c'est d'avoir lache la bride a l'esprit humain". [A Man of Old Times. No more morals, no more religion! that is what it is to have let go of the human spirit.]. Print Condition: could use a professional cleaning; moderate to heavy spotting and foxing, though heaviest along edges out of picture safety. Worn at edges with small closed edge tears, verso with paper remains from former mounting in a half a dozen spots. Fundamentally a very strong impression; colors are vibrant and vivid without the oxidization and dulling that can affect this series. Inscription below title and caption reads: "Paris, chez Ostgervald aine, quai des Augustins, No. 37; Rittner Boulevard-Montmartre, No.12; a Hautcoeur-Martinet, rue de Coq." Signature below image reads: "CJ. Travies" then… Read more

New York: AF New York, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Near Fine. Unpaged [125-150pp approx]. 28cm. 4to. Softcover. Glossy photo-illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very near fine. Contents consists entirely of full bleed photographic reproductions of scenes of NYC shot at night. "This is a publication is conceptual product by AF New York." Scarce. Worldcat doesn't show any holdings. A well done, slickly produced book of photography.

[London]: Mackbooks, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. Unpaged: Made up exclusively of illustrations ; 31 cm. Oblong 4to. Softcover. Glossy wraps. Spine title. "NYLPT 2005-2012" Book Condition: Wraps have two turned corners, superficial scratch to rear panel else fine. Interior reproductions pristine. "The film is exposed, rewound, reloaded and exposed again with resulting combinations governed by chance"--The images in NYLPT are drawn from one body of work, collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, presented in discrete digital and analogue forms. Jason Evans is preoccupied with the tradition of street photography as an aesthetically colonized form, with precedents resilient to re-interpretation; he says, "Sometimes you visit a place and it looks exactly as you expected it to. Like it does in pictures or on TV or at the movies. It's like a feeling of nostalgia for something you've never known.

København: V. Pois Boghandel, 1923. First Printing of first Dutch edition. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. Translation of the 11th edition of "Love's coming-of-age" (London, 1919). Chapters II, III, and IV are abridged translations of corresponding chapters in the author's "The drama of love and death". Description: 228 pp. 22 cm. Smallish 8to. Originally issued in rather handsome stiff wraps this copy has been rebound 3/4 crushed Morocco over marbled boards with original front cover bound in. Condition of book is fine.

Genève [etc.]: Nagel, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 415 p. : ill. ; 16 cm. 24mo. Hardcover. Red leatherette over boards with gold lettering on spine and front. Top edge stained orange. 10 plans and 4 illus. in black and white. 4 hand colored maps and plans, most of which are elaborately folded and have never been unfolded. Completely indexed. Cartographic front end papers, rear end papers advertisments. Red silk bookmark present. In French. Out of print. Book Condition: About fine. Spine ends gently pushed; interior pristine, maps perfect, never unfolded. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Moderate wear to extremities. A nice copy.

Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1980. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1504pp. Hardcover. Red leatherette over boards with gold lettering on spine and front. Top edge stained orange. 16 x 11 cm, 6 cm thick. (6" x 4" and 2.5" thick). 92 plans in black and white. 15 large coloured maps and plans, most of which are elaborately folded and have never been unfolded. Atlas of 25 pages in color. Completely indexed. Cartographic front end papers, rear end papers advertisments. Complete with Note of Control laid in to front of volume. Red silk bookmark present. Housed in called for cardboard stapled slipcase with price sticker of $65. Out of print. Sharp copy, uncommon in this condition.

New York: Grove Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. vii, 299 pp.; 22cm. Hardcover in slipcase. Book Condition: light toning to spine, else fine. Slipcase Condition: Near fine with the lightest of wear to extremities. A sharp copy. Featuring the restored text edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles, and first published by Grove Press in 2001, and a new, 2009, afterward by David Ulin.

New York: Summit Books, 1984. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 127 pages ; 23 cm.Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities. A sharp copy. Translated from the French by Victoria Reiter.

New York: Arbor House, 1978. Uncorrected Proof. Wraps. Very Near Fine. 178pp. 8vo. Softcover. Publisher's original rust covered wraps. Uncorrected Proof. Book Condition: Very near fine; mild offsetting to half-title page (and obverse), covers a little dusty, else fine.

[St. Petersburg] Russia: Palace Editions, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 192 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine with a kerfufle here and there at the edges. Copiously illustrated with many full color plates and in-text reproductions. "The publication has been [developed] in conjunction with the exhibition...at the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany; State Russian Museum, Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; and Palazzo Forti Gallery of Modern Art, Verona, Italy."--T.p. verso. Includes listing of artist's solo and group exhibitions, biographical notes, a bibliography, and complete listing of all illustrations contained therein. A sharp copy of a lavish production. Exhibition card laid in.

Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking. vi pages, 1 leaf, 101, [1] pages 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Ex-library but with only spine lettering and stamp to copyright page, PO name on ffep, some fading to cover; interior pristine otherwise, binding very sound and the barest amount of wear all round Dust Jacket Condition: Lacking. A classic of the genre.

München: E. A. Fleischmann, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. XXXVI, 429 S., [13] 21cm. Hardcover. In original teal colored binder's boards (?).. Book Condition: binding rock solid, first and last (of text-block) 20 or so pages spotted and toned; else quite clean and unmarred; boards worn, with tape to top and bottom edges, spine showing crackling and wear but joints are nowhere even near starting, nice and flexible. Very Good at least. In German. Rough and ready Google translation of title: "Natural history of the starry sky. A new, according to its establishment, comprehensible presentation of the newest teachings of astronomy to every scientifically educated person; together with tabular astronomy as an appendix. From Dr. Ms. v. P. Gruithuisen, ord. Professor of Astronomy at the k. b. University of Munich, and member of several learned societies.Gruithuisen, Dr. Franz von Paula." :Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: München bei E. A. Fleischmann 1836. [Original form of the notice of… Read more

US: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 248pp. 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches. Stories by Issac Asimov; Arthur C. Clarke; Frederik Pohl; William Rotsler; Joanna Russ; Harlan Ellison; Gene Wolfe; Robert Silverberg; and Poul Anderson.

New York: Nan A. Talese, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 194pp.: illustrations ; 19 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities, faint signs of handling. Well received memoir of author's experience taking care of his aging parents.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 210pp. 21 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A very sharp copy. (Almost invariably copies of this title have dust jackets with sunned spines, a condition which is sometimes difficult to discern if one has nothing to compare it to. The trick is to look at the yellow field with the author's name: it should be a nice bright yellow, like the front panel.) Warmly inscribed by the author: "For Harold Rosenberg, with sincere good wishes, James Purdy". A sharp copy. A fantastic association! Rosenberg had a long and fruitful career as a writer, a professor, and most importantly a critic, first for literature and then for painting. He spent the last 25 years of his life working for Wallace Shawn at The New Yorker magazine writing about art and the important part that American artists held in reshaping it. From his… Read more

Berlin: R. Wichert, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. 2nd part of two volume work which continues pagination where the 1st volume [c. 1913] left off [307-616 p]. incl. tables. diagrs., illus. (incl. facsims., part col'd, part mounted), 3 plates (part col'd.) 8vo. Quarter bound in blue leather, rose colored diamond patterned cloth over board, silver spine lettering; brilliant red topstained edge. Many in text illustrations. Book Condition: Very Good, with minor wear to the extremities. In German. Publisher's promotional material laid in.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 14 pages 20 cm. 12 mo. Red cloth over boards, paper title label to front cover. Book is in lovely condition with fresh red cloth and charcoal paper label. Dust jacket is clipped on both corners, has two coin sized chips to top edges and wear to the extremites. Second state, with erratum present at page 5.

New York: Knopf, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 641pp. :illus ; 25 cm. Small 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original photo-illustrated paper over boards, white lettering to spine. One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A sharp copy.

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1959. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good +. 251 pages. Black and orange cloth covered boards, orange and white spine lettering. Super sharp jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Book Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ at the very least. Jacket has some wear at the spine ends, a crease or two, small closed tear. It's a sharp jacket anyway, nothing tired about it. Translated from the French by Samuel I. Stone. Writers discussed include: Franz Kafka -- Antonin Artaud -- Henry Miller -- Michel Leiris -- Samuel Beckett -- Georges Bataille -- Albert Camus -- Henri Michaux -- Georges Simenon -- Wladimir Weidle -- Jean Rostand -- Roger Caillois -- Roland Barthes -- Dionys Mascolo -- E.M. Cioran -- A. Robbe-Grillet & Nathalie Sarraute.

Wellington, N.Z.: M. Plummer, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/None Issued. [92] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 x 36 cm. Oblong folio. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth over boards, lettering blindstamped to cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. A sharp copy.