Search Results: Authors starting with N from Island Books

Reed, [Wellington NZ],, [1982]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

[Profile Publications, Windsor,, 1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page coloured plate and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1952. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates; brown tweed buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.

[Privately Printed], Lisse,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition, with 50 fine coloured plates (one mounted) and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; comb-bound inside blue cloth case, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.

[Privately Printed],, [1972]. 8vo., with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly creased at edges else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1960.

Jonathan Cape,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, uncut, lightly frayed at headband, backstrip gilt faded to illegibility else a very good, crisp, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Scarce in any condition.

Phillimore, [Chichester,, 1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and 9 illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Privately Printed, Buckingham,, 1973. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, neat signatures on front paste-down and front free endpaper; original armorial boards lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE

Allen & Unwin,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates and 3 illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 10220.

Folio Society,, 2021. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and map; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. COLLECTOR'S EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES SIGNED BY MACFARLANE AND STRANG.

Penguin in association with Hamish Hamilton, [Harmondsworth],, [1961]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, page edge tanning slightly; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1532.

Folio Society,, 1992. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 16 plates; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in red, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Folio Society,, 1991. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 14 plates; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in dark green, rose endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Penguin [with] Hamish Hamilton,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1211.

Hamish Hamilton,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates on brown stock, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Striking dustwrapper artwork also by Lancaster.

Hamish Hamilton,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

Hamish Hamilton,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition; elegantly bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

5 Associates, Redwood City CA,, 1970. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with illustrated title-spread, coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and endpaper maps; orange tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1954.

Museum Press,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and with loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Arguably the most evocative of the author's several books expressing her knowledge of, and love for, the South Downs of Sussex. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE : 'TO THE LADY WHOSE FACE ALWAYS GIVES ME PLEASURE' AND ADDITIONAL QUOTATION 'OUT OF THE COMPLICATED HOUSE CAME I TO WALK BENEATH THE SKY'. Loosely inserted is a signed photograph of the author and an unsigned holograph letter on stationery giving her summer (High Salvington, Sussex) and winter (Brompton Road, London) residences. Nancy Price CBE (1880-1970), actress, author and theatre director, and founder of the People's National Theatre (based at the Little Theatre, Adelphi, in the heart… Read More