Search Results: Titles starting with N from Good Books In The Woods

New York: Grove Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802115454 . Translated from the Japanese by Ann Sherif. "N. P. Is the title of the last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time a new translator takes up the task, death gets in the way. Four young people, each intimately bound to this writer and his work, are brought together by N. P. And its unsettling legacy of secrets and suicides..." - from the dust jacket. Ships same or next business day. Remainder mark. Head and tail of spine are bumped, half inch dent in head-edge of front board, small tear In tail-edge of page 87. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 194 pages .

New York: New Directions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. An international anthology of new and variant trends in prose and poetry. Near Fine with Near Fine dustjacket. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages .

New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679433635 . Stated First American Edition. "Authoritative, powerfully engaging, and highly readable - winner of England's most prestigious prize for nonfiction, the NCR Award - Never Again is the definitive history of a crucial moment in twentieth-century England: the years 1945 to 1951, when Britain established a welfare state even as it withdrew from the Empire." Ships same or next business day. Remainder mark on head edge. Spine is skewed and loose. Damp stains on spine tail, along tail edges of back endpaper, and on tail hinge of front endpaper. Light rippling at spine tail of the last 20 pages. Minor edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Back board slightly bows up. Soiling to edges of pages and on front free endpaper. Text is clean. Dust jacket has minimal edge and shelf wear. Small creases on corners and spine ends. Lightly yellowed on interior. ; B&W Illustrations; Large… Read More

New York: Winchester Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0876910746 . Second printing. This is a book on trout fishing that no serious fly-fisherman can afford to miss. It is the first American comprehensive study of the immature stages of auatic fly-hatches that make up 90% of the trout's normal diet. With 18 full color plates. Black and white drawings illustrating over 200 varieties of nymphs. 35 chapters covering everything from the Giant Stonefly Nymphs to the Microcaddis. Ships same or next business day. Former owner inscription on front pastedown. Dark blue cloth covered boards. Dust jacket has slight wear at edges. Dust jacket now protected in Mylar. Oversize book, international shipping will require extra charges. ; B/W & Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 339 pages .

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. Near Fine. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 5 of 150 hardcover copies Signed and numbered by the author. In publisher's acetate jacket. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0876856539 . Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, small dents on head and tail edges of boards; pages are tight, bright, and clean. In publisher's acetate jacket. Jacket has some shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 245 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine. 1999. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0395822882 . Advance Reading Copy. "In this clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing look back at the world and the people he has known, Galbraith tells what these leaders did - how they looked to him then and how they look to him now - with unforgettable reminiscences and a rich infusing of engaging anecdotes." Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal edge and shelf wear, tiny rub on spine tail. Pages are tight, bright, and clean. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Very Good+. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0385481926 . Bound Galley. A "harrowing and heartfelt portrait of the Vietnam war and the men who fought it." Ships same or next business day. Front cover has minor edge wear at head of spine, tail front corner, front edge. ; 399 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0385481926 . Bound Galley. A "harrowing and heartfelt portrait of the Vietnam war and the men who fought it." Ships same or next business day. Front cover has minor edge wear at head of spine, tail front corner, front edge. Protected in an archival sleeve. ; 399 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395927218 . First Edition with full numberline. "In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends and top right corner of front board. Overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket has minor edge and shelf wear. Lightly faded on spine. Tiny creases on top corners and spine head. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine. 1995. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. SIGNED by author on full title page. "Told in the same haunting voice that made Imagining Argentina one of the most memorable novels in recent years, Lawrence Thornton's Naming the Spirits is the story of a young girl who miraculously survives a night in a killing field." Ships same or next business day. Book is tight, bright, and clean. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First US Edition. "An hEROICAl novel, a grand and loving tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, by Burgess out of Ludwig van, that unteases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed - in liberty, equality, fraternity - from Beethoven." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book has small bumps on top corners and both ends of spine, spine is skewed and loose, head edge color is faded near spine, fabric along head edge is slightly faded. Pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has some edge wear, small spot of discoloration near tail end of spine visible on inside of jacket, lightly tanned, price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages .

London: Osprey Publishing. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 0850453739 . Ships same or next business day. No underlining or highlighting. Not ex-library. Text and plates clean and bright. Upper right corner a bit bent. Reprint from 1983 of 1980 original. Previous owner wrote a question on page 35 above an illustration of a horse harness. ; 0.2 x 9.5 x 7 Inches .

New York: Rand McNally & Company. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First US Edition. Originally published in France in 1966. Translated from the French into English by Frances Patridge. Inlcudes maps and photographs. Author was the French Consul to St. Helena and lived on the island when he wrote the book. He included details about the island and its climate and its effect on the people who live there. Author had access to unpublished material including the journal of Sir Hudson Lowe's secretary. Book includes a detailed analysis by an English pathologist of the known facts of Napoleon's last illness and death. No previous owner marks. Book gently bumped at top of spine. Top and side page edges lightly soiled. Front board slightly warped. Original price present on jacket flap. Dust jacket is bright with no fading. Dust jacket now protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: John Wiley & Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0471024651 . "Fiorello La Guardia was short of stature, but big of heart. This cigar-puffing, roly-poly mayor with a squeky voice was affectionately nicknamed 'The Little Flower' and 'Hizzoner' by those who adored him. Yet those who worked beside him and knew him best were witnesses to La Guardia's other side: a driven, headstrong, personally insecure figure,..." Ships same or next business day. ; B&W Photographs; 1.27 x 9.56 x 6.46 Inches; 392 pages .

London: Greenhill Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1853674885 . Napoleon's Mercenaries examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organisational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual fate." Ships same or next business day. ; B&W Illustrations; 1.3 x 9.53 x 6.36 Inches; 368 pages .

London: Greenhill Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 1853671452 . First Edition by Greenhill Books; facsimile reproduction of the original 1907 edition by John Lane, The Bodley Head. "The Jena-Auerstadt campaign of 1806 was Napoleon's greatest victory. In six-and-a-half weeks from the time the French forces crossed the border, he had completely destroyed the Prussian army and morale." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly cocked and loose. Minimal edge wear. Overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. Faded on spine and on fore-edges. ; B&W Illustrations and Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

London: William Crofts. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. Iv, 412. Frontispiece of Dingarn in His Ordinary and Dancing Dresses, 24 additional plates, Plan of the Town of D'Urban, 2 folding maps with colored borders. Frontispiece and 1 additional plate in full color. Bound in publisher's dark green sand grained cloth with gilt spine titles. Original yellow endpapers. Spine cloth slightly faded, spine slightly slanted, wrinkling to rear board cloth. Letter and newspaper clipping showing provenance laid in, book belonged to the Governor of Natal Colony. Captain Gardiner arrived in Port Natal, a small trading outpost on the edge of Zululand, on January 29, 1835. He traveled into Zululand three times and met with King Dingane (spelled Dingarn in the book) and his top two indunas, Ndlela and Dambeza. On his first trip, Gardiner came as a Christian missionary and failed to make a single convert. On his second and third trips, Gardiner acted as the representative of the European… Read More

New York: Kirk & Mercein. Very Good+. 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. Lxxxi, 410. Twelve illustrations in the text, 1 large fold-out map, appendix. Bound in modern half-leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gold spine titles to leather spine. Binding is bright with minor wear. Some offsetting in the text. Large folding map has a 4 inch tear repaired with tape. Captian Tuckey was sent to explore the Congo River, on a ship named Congo, in 1816. At the time, very little was known about the Congo and some European geographers believed there was a connection between the Congo and the Niger. Tuckey did not get very far. He sailed up the Congo from its mouth on the Atlantic, but soon realized the lower river is not navigable due to cataracts (later named the Yellala Falls). Tuckey explored the river up to Isangila finding ruins of the Portuguese colony and Catholic missions. Tuckey and most of his officers and crew died of fever. What success they had was mostly… Read More

New York: Vintage Contemporaries. Very Good+. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0394755685 . SIGNED by author on full title page. "A Narrow Time marks the debut of a resourceful, sophisticated storyteller with an extraordinary ability to explore the passions and evasions of his characters." Ships same or next business day. Book has some edge wear, small creases on front corners, small bump on spine tail, top corners are slightly creased. Pages are lightly tanned but clean. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages; Signed by Author .