Search Results: Authors starting with N from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Boston: S. K. Whipple & Co, 1855. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp. 24; original decorated printed paper wrappers;.

(New York: Allied Printers), 1912. First & Only Edition. Wraps. some adhesive residue and wear along raer spine edge where it was removed from a collection of pamphlets else very good;. 16mo; (6.25" tall); pp; 32; original printed self wrappers;. At this meeting the Committee unanimously adopted a statement which roundly criticized President Woodrow Wilson's "peace-at-any-price doctrine." It called for military preparedness and proposed that the Republican and Progressive parties unite behind "the same standard-bearer and the same principles" during their June conventions, in order to elect a new leader in the fall election. See Edmund Morris' "Colonel Roosevelt" for an in-depth blow by blow account of the move toward the eventual nominee, Charles Evans Hughes.

New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1993). Quarto (8.5" x 11"), "marbled" boards in pictorial jacket. 197, (3)pp. with indices of people, recipes and places. Illustrated with color photography by Naudin. Former owner's embossed stamp. "A gastronomic biography..." Recipes by Andre Daguin, literary content by Genevieve Diego-Dortignac.

New York: Clarkson Potter / Publishers, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1995). Quarto (8.5" x 11"), "marbled" boards in pictorial dust jacket. 191, (1)pp. with index and colophon. Illustrated with color photography by Jean-Bernard Naudin. Interspersed are some of Cezanne's paintings. Former owner's embossed stamp. With more than 50 recipes inspired by the cooking of his mother and his cook Madame Bremond.

Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. Hardcover. cloth wrinkle to the upper board, else a clean tight copy. Oblong 24mo; Unpaginated, (pp; 123); each page is a captioned photograph; blue cloth, lettered in red;. There are several classic photographs in this collection. Rough Riders, TR, Camp Wickoff, Tampa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Philippines and many Generals and Admirals. A photgraphic chronicle of the "Splendid Little War!"

Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine lightly faded else a very good solid copy. Octavo; pp; (x), 354, index; illustrated with twenty-six black and white plates and a double page map; decorated beige cloth lettered in red. A good history of the land in the 19th century with interesting Theodore Roosevelt content.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. (1980). Quarto (7.25" x 10.25"), grey cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 167, (1)pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photos in color and black and white by Robert R. Taylor. Maps. Jacket is chipped and has a few short tears. Former owner's gift inscription on front paste-down endpaper. An excellent book with great pictures of the various aspects of the owl's life; courtship, nesting, flying, hunting etc. The jacket shows a newly banded owl being released from his bander's arms.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1973. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xix, (iii), 613, index; illustrated with photographs, drawings, tables, charts, maps, by Samuel Bryant; green cloth with dark green title tiles on spine and upper board lettered in gilt, map endpapers, in a pictorial dust jacket;. Not an uncommon book but an important contribution.

Detroit: United News Company, National Lithograph Company, 1939. Wraps. Very good. Duodecimo; Original printed stiff red wrappers; large folding map, highlighted in color, approx. 29" x 22", street index on verso; some minor splits at folds; else very good. Shows electric car lines, bus routes and railroads. It would flatten and frame nicely.

New York: George P. Rowell & Co's Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 1879. Wraps. ight wear to spine ends, else very good;. Octavo; pp; 90; illustrations and ads; original printed paper tan wrappers; l. Scarce.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, An Owl Book, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo; pp; (x), 509; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together--and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver--faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy—is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene. This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about… Read More

Np: Reprinted from the Chicago Chronicle, 1904. First & Only Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 16; original printed cream paper wrappers;. OCLC locates a single copy at Harvard in the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. A pro-TR polemic for the 1904 Presidential election; A contrast between TR & the Democrat candidate, Judge Parker. Nichols wrote generally on education. Quite scarce.

London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited Edition. half leather and cloth. Very good. Norman Lindsay. (1928). Folio (12" x 15"), half blue morocco and navy cloth. 62pp. plus the plates, which are unpagiinated. 7 mildly erotic plates by Norman Lindsay. The corners and head and tail are worn, particularly the tail. There is some acid staiining where the leather turn-ins touch the endpapers. A short crack at the front bottom hinge. Quite nice and clean inside. Beautiful paper. A new translation by P. R. Stephenson. This edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies printed on Arnold's Handmade paper. This is copy number 456.Lovely typography, in Poliphilus Type and printed in London by Botolph. The colophon page is shown in the pictures.

Chicago: Star Publishing Company, 1896. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 339; eighteen black and white plates including an frontispiece and a map; green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, blue coated endpapers;. "This little volume is not intended to be a history of Oregon missions or even a complete biography of Dr. Whitman. Its aim is simply to bring out, prominently, in a series of sketches, the heroism and Christian patriotism of the man who rendered great and distinguished service to his country, which has never been fully appreciated or recognized."

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/a good or better. Octavo; pp; xvi 400, index; illustrated with a color frontispiece self portrait and photographs; decorated green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in an unclipped dust jacket; jacket shows some wear at extremities; previous owner's name on a preliminary;. Norman knew Cummings well, they traveled in the same Greenwich Village circles.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo; pp; (viii), (2), 3-272); frontispiece by Leyendecker and three black and white inserted plates by Remington, Hitchcock and Hooper; decorated burgundy cloth , top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; Overall a good or better tight copy, edge wear at spine ends and corners, one abrasion at lower right, bookseller's tag from F. Loesser & Co. Brooklyn on front paste-down also (What were they thinking) an embossed stamp not unlike a library stamp advertising their store on the verso of the half-title and on page 4; Unusual;. Collection of short stories. BAL #15039. Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8. This is a Bleiler item with two ghost stories.

Np: Privately Printed, 1919. Unrecorded, Only printing. Broadside. Very good. Broadside measuring 8.5" x 5" Somewhat humorous eulogic verse telling of the changes TR has wrought in Eternity. TR has taken over St. Peter's Job. This copy bears a small ownership stamp of Frank Grant of Westfield Massachusetts.

New York: Alexander V. Blake, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Some intermittent toning, a damp stain lightly affects the last few leaves else a very good copy of a lovely 19th century book of fables. 16mo; pp; vi, (vii), 8-251; "embellished with numerous engravings on wood"; black cloth boards decorated in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt;. One hundred fourteen brief fables, each with an application, Quite entertaining.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1989). Octavo (6.25" x 9.5"), burgundy and green boards in pictorial jacket. 522pp. with index, bilbiography and extensive notes. Illustrated with vintage photos. Jacket has a slight crease along the length of the spine.

Harrisburg: Stackpole Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. (1958). Quarto, green cloth, gilt. (xii), 250pp. with index. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light moderate wear.