Search Results: Authors starting with N from The Owl at the Bridge

Konigstein in Taunus, Karl Robert Langewiesche, [1957]. Soft Cover. 116 p., 26.5 cm. Series: Die Blauer Bucher.Short text in German, English, French, and Italian. Mostly photographs with one per page. Stock# 34,346. Vg/ paper.

New York : McGraw-Hill, [1969]. Hard Cover. [xiii], 589 p. 22 cm. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects: "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February of 1966 to October of 1968. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 44,294. Vg / no dj.

N.Y., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Hard Cover. xvii, 324 p., 38 illustrations, facsimiles of Nabokov's texts, 26 cm. Essays on Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Dj; VG. Stock#24446.

Atlantic Monthly, 2000. Periodical. Singe issue, 136 p., illus. incl. color & adverts.; 26 cm. "Vladimir Nabokov was a distinguished lepidopterist, and butterflies dance among his writings in the form of images and metaphors and as the subject of enchanted scrutiny. We offer a treasury of unpublished work by Nabokov relating to butterflies, including "the last important unpublished fiction"." Other contents include Cullen Murphy, Notes & Comments: A Hand for the Head; Leslie Leyland Fields, Personal File: Our First Telephone; Mary Graham, Government: Regulations by Shaming; poetry by Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Steven Cramer; Charles Trueheart, A New Kind of Justice [Louise Arbour & the war-crimes tribunal]; Chuck Sudetic, The Reluctant Gendarme [the French in Bosnia]; David Rieff, Midnight in Sarajevo. Stapled in pictorial paper covers; VG. stock#44871x.

New York, Phaedra Publishers, 1966.. Hard Cover. 104 p. ; 22 cm. The four stories are: An affair of honor.--Lik.--The Vane sisters.--The visit to the museum. The first edition, but underlined in ink. Stock# 40,872. Good (underlining)/ dj good some tears and chips.

N.Y., The Library Press, 1972. This study of Flaubert by the French critic-- who, with Camus, established the French resistance newspaper Combat-- was awarded the Paris Critic's Prize when published as Gustave Flaubert Ecrivain in 1969. Hard Cover. 307 pages; 22.5 cm. Extensive red pencil underlining; dust jacket Very Good. Stock#29116.

Facsimile, Transcription, Translation & Critical Edition of the John Carter Brown Library's Spanish Codex I / Facsímil, Transcripción, Traducción & Edición Crítica del Códice Español I de la Biblioteca John Carter Brown. Published by Carvajal S.A., Cali, Colombia and the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, in Honor of the Quincentenary Year 1992. Preface by Norman Fiering. Folio, xiv, 75 pages including 16 pages of facsimile; bound in patterned paper, purple linen spine stamped in gold; as new in identically patterned Very Good cardboard slipcase. Stock#ofc0528.

[Heidelberg?] Nadjmabadi, 1975. Soft Cover. iii, 177 p. illus., 21 cm. A Heidelberg dissertation, in German, on the nomadic tribes of Luristan in Iran and of their tribal and kinship structures. Stock# 31,733.

NY, Columbia University Press, 1977. Hard Cover. ix, 448 p.; 24 cm. Includes papers originally presented at an international symposium held in Kyoto, Nov. 27-30, 1975. ISBN (10): 0860081788. Stock#NEU261. Very Good; no dust jacket.

N.Y., Oxford UP, 1987. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 310 p., 24 illus., genealogical table, 24 cm. "The full story of some of the most interesting and important and articulate women in American history." Stock# 32,877. Vg/ dj vg.

NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ©1988. Hard Cover. xi, 458 p., [16] p. of plates, illus.; 25 cm. Story of the forgery plot that led to three pipe bombings and two deaths in Salt Lake City, and involved the leaders of the Mormon Church in a murder investigation. ISBN (10): 1555840647. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#47653.

N.Y., Weidenfeld & Weidenfeld, 1988. Hard Cover. x, 458 p. illus., 24.5 cm. In October, 1985, a Mormon rare book dealer, Mark Hoffman, murdered two people in Salt Lake City in order to distract his creditors. An amazing story. Stock #29,075x. Fine/ dj fine

N.Y., Joseph W. Harrison, 1857. Soft Cover. 38 p.; 21 cm. A lecture on oratory and the work required to achieve a successful level of skill in it. Stock#OB169. Disbound.

N.Y., John A. Gray, 1854. Soft Cover. 32 p.; 21 cm. Born in Scotland, Nairne was a few years after this Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. The Union and Phoenix Societies were literary societies at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Stock#OB162. Disbound.

"Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series". The hard, nasty, trench and bunker warfare on the western Korean front in 1952. Softcover, 48 pages, illustrations, maps, 28 cm. Very Good in pictorial wrappers. Stock#28322/h.

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] & NY, Cambridge University Press, 1986. Hard Cover. x, 218 p., illus.; 23 cm. Revision of doctoral thesis, London School of Economics & Political Science, 1983. ISBN (10): 052126765X. Stock#NEU214. Vg / issued without dj.

East Providence, R.I., order Eastern Star. Cover title. Ads inserted. There are ink emendations to some recipes. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Soft Cover. 112 pages; 25 cm. Vg/ wrappers. Stock#29067/house.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. . Hard Cover. ix, 212 p. A 1934 MGM film starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore and depicting the 1916 murder of the Russian monk Rasputin resulted in a lawsuit brought by Prince Youssoupoff, one of the murderers. The legal questions raised by the suit still have significance beyond the entertaining issues raised by the film and its subject. Stock #26810. Vg/vg. Film Cinema

Providence, RI, 1956. Soft Cover. 28 p. printed in green; paper; VG. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Stock#32444.

Lincoln, U Nebraska Press, 1990. "In four years the war transformed a backward colonial region into an economic pacesetter for the nation." Hard Cover. xiii, 288 pages, illus.; 24 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#30078.