Search Results: Authors starting with N from Borg Antiquarian

Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. First Edition. Coth and boards. Fine/Fine. Photographs & drawings [often by Vladimir Nabokov]. Thick 4to, red eighth cloth over black boards, numerous illustrations, Mylar-protected dust jacket, 30 color glossy plates and numerous line drawings in text, 782 pages. Important studies by the great novelist on one of his major loves, butterflies/lepidoptera. Uncollected writings gathered by his son, Dmitri, who also translated those written in Russian. Further annotations by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd and lepidopterist Robert Pyle.

Montreux, Switzerland: by the artist, 1969. original. Framed. Fine. Gerard de Rose. Painting by Gerard de Rose (1918-87) for the Time magazine cover depicting novelist "Vladimir Nabokov," dated May 23, 1969. <br/><br/>The famous cover of the novelist at his peak bears a banner in the upper right reading: "THE NOVEL IS ALIVE / and Living in Antiterra." Titled in the upper left area: "Vladimir Nabokov / Sketch for Thime Magazine/ Montreaux Feb 1969." Oil on canvas (Unframed: 27.6" x 17.7" / 70.0 x 45.0 cm; Framed: 33.6" x 23.6" / 85.3 x 60.0 cm.). This is a rare, fine, and large oil painting on canvas SIGNED by the artist Gerard de Rose (1918-1987) of Vladimir Nabokov, the world-renowned Russian-American author and lepidopterist. De Rose painted this highly finished study from the life in Montreux, Switzerland. <br/><br/>Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1987) sat for this portrait in his Montreux hotel room in early… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First U.S. Edition: "Second Printing Before Publication" [no number line]. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, red cloth over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket of glasses by Zen Sekizawa, 211 pages + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! <br/><br/>SIGNED by the brilliantly talented Author. <br/><br/>Sir V[idia] S. Naipaul TC (1932 - 2018), was a writer who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Trinidad in a family with Indian roots, resided in England as an adult, and traveled across, and wrote about, India, Africa, the Islamic world, and South and North America in his novels and non-fiction works. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He published more than thirty books,… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo, gray quarter cloth with shiny scarlet lettering and silhouette of a plane within a scarlet star burst on front cover; red endpapers, [xii] + 435 pages. SUPERIOR COPY: Tight, bright, clean with a bright dust jacket (unclipped) with minimal wear and a 1/16" white spot near the top of the dj's spine.<br/><br/>John J. Nance (born 1946) is an American pilot, attorney, aviation and healthcare safety analyst, and author of more than a dozen aviation thrillers. Two by this "King of the Aviation Thrillers" were adapted as TV mini-series.

New York, N.Y.: Harper Teen, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial cloth. Like New/Like New. SIGNED by both Authors on a special publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, thick 8vo, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Fatima Baig & its reverse art by Pauliina Hannuniemi; 497 pages + [4] Acknowledgements. Sarena Nanua and Sasha Nanua are twin sisters from Ontario, Canada. Born on Diwali, they grew up loving stories about twins and magic, and began writing books together when they were nine years old. They are graduates of writing programs at the University of Toronto. They are also the authors of The Pendant Trilogy.<br /> <br /> Sisters of the Snake will have a sequel entitled Daughters of the Dawn (published a/o Sept., 2022).<br /> <br /> Brilliant "Like New" copy SIGNED by the twins. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2016. First Edition, Second Printing. Boards. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black boards with silver lettering on spine, frontispiece B&W photo of Ray & Joan, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Ray Kroc and his wife Joan, 353 pages. Lisa Napoli is a journalist with broad expence on public radio ( Marketplace; a columnist at the New York Times CyberTimes; as well as the Internet correspondent at MSNBC. She began her career at CNN, and has directed several documentaries about Southern culture and has written this biography and a study entitled, Radio Shangri-La. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped).

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company / Book Publishers of the Southwest, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Near Fine. PRESENTATION COPY by the POET, small 8vo, green textured boards with "Auschwitz" in black on spine and cover, 22 pages. Paul, now living in Edmonton, was born in Vegreville, Alberta. "One of Canad's most brilliant young poets."--jacket "Here is realism . . . that burns like a firebrand before unbelieving eyes."--William Bard, president of the Poetry Society of Texas. Napora's first book, Poems and Passion (1961), was published when he was 21. This work was followed by The Cresset (1963), Hiroshima (1965), Auschwitz (1967), and Death at Belsen (1967). His most recent work is You Through Your Dreams.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First U.S. Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo, golden-tan quarter cloth with irridescent blue-green lettering on spine over pale yellow boards, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), Author's Introduction, map endpapers of Malgudi with tiny cartoon figures, Glossary, ix, [x] + 246 pp. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (1906 - 2001) was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. In his fictionalization of small town life, he has been compared to Faulkner. Narayan was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. <br /> <br /> Malgundi Days is a collection of short stories set in the South Indian village of Malgundi. It was first published in 1942 by India Thought Publications.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Not identified: Author, 1940. Original. Very Good. SIGNED twice by the Author-Poet in black ink: once in block letters & once in script; 8vo (8" x 10"), single sheet neatly folded twice leaving six compartments; contents: a thank you letter with original poem about Nash as a book "browser," undated [ca. May 23?, 1940], no location specified, no watermark, & without envelope. For lovers of humorous verse, no versifier is better than Ogden Nash. This fulsome letter includees his seven-line poem entitled "No Thanks, I'm Just Looking Around," evidently droll reflections about the poet's visit as a "Browser" to a bookstore presided over by a "Mrs. Fenn" (not identified, though possibly at Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, or the Glencoe Bookshop in Illinois where the owner of this letter lived). Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was a prolific and highly popular American poet best known for effusions of light verse. With his… Read More

Scranton, Pennsylvania: William Morrow & Co, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, pale green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over grass green boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with border of flowers painted by Lisa Stokes, pink endpapers, 339 pages. 2 lbs. 1 oz. Sena Jeter Naslund (born 1942 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American writer. She has published several novels and collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. <br/><br/>INSCRIBED / SIGNED and in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder marks.

Scranton, Pennsylvania: William Morrow & Co, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall & thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over golden boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with detail of painting of a French woman with fan added, xiv + 545 pages. 1 lbs. 12 oz. Sena Jeter Naslund (born 1942 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American writer. She has published several novels and collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. <br/><br/>INSCRIBED / SIGNED and in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder marks.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Thick 8vo, black cloth over oxblood boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket, [2] Author's Note + [706] pages. An important novel in Exceptional condition by Hungarian born author Peter Nádas, who also wrote the very well received A Book of Mermories.

London: Methuen, 2006. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Karen Neale. Oblong 16mo (6" x 8 1/2"), blue ribbed boards with silver spine lettering, illustrated with 42 pen & watercolour studies of greater London, map endpapers keyed to illustrations, [v] + 42 pages. Delicately colored and evocative street scenes throughout Greater London made by this talented artist with her marginalia as commentary. Exceptional Condition! An excellent choice for a gift!

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Small quarto, gray cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold line drawing of Mark Twain on the cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with colored watercolor vignettes of places Twain visited, scarlet endpapers, 448 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1/2 oz. Charles Neider (1915 - 2001) was a Russian-American writer, known for One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Unterwegs zur Familie Mann (2001). He also edited several authorial collections by Washington Irving, a prolific essayist, novelist, nature writer and Mark Twain scholar, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 86. Mr. Neider edited and annotated a dozen anthologies of Twain's short stories, humorous sketches, essays, travel books, novels and letters, as well as ''The Autobiography of Mark Twain,'' published in 1959. Compiled from material in Albert Bigelow Paine and Bernard De Voto's earlier Twain autobiographies,… Read More

London New York: Hogarth Shakespeare, 2018. First United States Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on two tipped in front endpapers, black quarter cloth with red lettering over matching black boards, archival mylar-protected B&W photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a shadowy man walking near a train, [xiv] + 446 pages + [2] About the Author + [2] Hogarth Shakespeare Promo. Weight: 1 lb. 12 oz. Jo Nesbø (born 1960) is a bestselling Norwegian writer, musician, former economist and reporter. Known primarily for his crime novels featuring Inspector Harry Hole, Nesbø is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. <br /> <br /> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects! Book has TWO tipped-in SIGNED sheets that were evidently bound in side-by-side by the printer. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a tipped in front endpaper, gray quarter cloth over yellow boards, archival mylar-protected gray dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a hooded person, [viii] + 401, [402] pages + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. Jo Nesbø (Norwegian: born 1960) is a bestselling Norwegian writer, musician, and former economist and reporter. Known primarily for his crime novels featuring Inspector Harry Hole, Nesbø is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. This is a stand alone novel about drugs, prison, a police officer / father's suicide, and corruption in Oslo. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects!

New York London: A Michael Neugebauer Book / North South Books, 1996. First American Edition, First Printing by North-South Books. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Fine. Lisbeth Zwerger. Quarto [4to] (8 3/8" x 11 3/8"), glossy pictorial boards, image repeated on pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) executed by Lisbeth Zwerger, illustrated with 11 full-page colored paintings by Zwerger, [24] pages. .Lisbeth Zwerger is an Austrian illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1990. Deliverers of their Country was originally published in Zurich (1985) by Michael Neugebauer Verlag. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects!

New Yok Joliet, Illinois Boston: The P. F. Volland Company, 1929. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine Box. Ellery Friend. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5 1/8"), thin brown spine and light brown chain-marked paper over boards with brown lettering and girl with flower cartoon in disk on cover, Introduction by James J. Davis, illustrated by Ellery Friend with running designs and light brown pictorial endpieces of children, plus endpapers with repeating pattern of children in circlets, 96 pages with running floral-&-girl headings. Housed in the original laid-paper beige box which repeats cover art & a book mark from The Volland Company. RARE survival of the 1929 Depression in SUPERB overall condition! Beautiful printing, decorations, and production values. Charming poems for children. Only "defect" is slight rubbing to bottom of the handsome box.<br/><br/>Wilbur Dick Nesbit (1871-1927), also known by the pen name Josh Wink, was an American poet and humorist. He… Read More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/None. Tall and thick 8vos (9 5/8" x 6 1/2"), 2 vols., red cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover, [xviii] + 500; [xii] + 528 pages. Contents: v. 1, The Tradition. v. 2, Analysis of the Tradition / The Man (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity from the first to the seventh century, 3-4).   2.1kg. Please Note the heft of the two volumes, which will necessitate extra charges for shipping. One of prolific Prof. Neusner's more important studies. Rabbi Eliezer b. Hyrcanus was one of the most prominent tannaim of the 1st and 2nd centuries. A youth when the temple was destroyed, in middle age, he became a disciple of R. Johanan ben Zakkai and colleague of Gamaliel II, whose sister, Imma Shalom. He helped carry R. ben Zakkai to Jamnia, and later established his own academy at Lydda. Known for his phenomenal memory and acumen, he is one of the most frequently mentioned sages in the Mishnah. Two hefty volumes will possibly… Read More

New York: Forge / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo, black cloth with gold stencil-style lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with jacket art painted by Don Demers, colored American flag as endpapers, 448 pages. SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean in a NF unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.