Search Results: Authors starting with N from Old Bookshelf

New Haven: Natonal Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 40pp. Blue stapled wraps, 11"x17". Very faint fading to cover edges, mild wear but contents very sound and clean. remnants of bookplate removed from first page. 40 pages of striking full page photos of World War I.

Mexico: Ernest Flammarion, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 333pp. Printed stiff wraps, inscribed and SIGNED by author on half-title page. Spine is slightly darkened, book is in very good, very lightly used condition.

Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1820. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 19pp, folding chart. Tanned, foxed and lightly soiled. Includes a list of "Persons disabled on board Private Armed Vessels, to whom Pensions have been granted.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stephen Caras (Photographer). 182pp. Blue boards, grey cloth backed. A very nice book in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 121pp. Tan boards. Book condition is very clean and unworn, dust jacket lightly worn and lightly scuffed. Warmly INSCRIBED to a very good friend and SIGNED on the front free endpaper by the author, and also laid -in is an informal typed and SIGNED letter by the author to the same friend. Tipped-in at the front pastedown is an obituary of the author.

Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three volumes: Part I (1916), Part III (1926), Part IV (1916). 340pp. approx. Red hardcovers with slight rubbing to corners, contents are clean. Concise instructions on building superintendence including frame constrruction, concrete construction, plumbing and heating, inspection and legal considerations plus examination papers. ----- 3 volumes------

Lancaster: Jacob Bailey, 1784. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 232pp. Full leather binding, 3 raised bands. Heavy wear to cover, contents are age- tanned and damp staned, fore-edge is trimmed closely with no appreciable loss of text, front free endpaper missing, tiny archival tape repair to title page fore-edge, former owner's name and occasional writing on endpapers, binding is tight. German Evangelium Nicodemi ("Gospel of Nicodemus") + [Purported] Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. A Collection of Short Apocryphal Bible-Related Books. Published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1784 by Jacob Bailey.

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. Blue printed wraps. Fading to spine and to perimeters of cover, contents are clean and sound. Uncorrected proof.

New Orleans,: B.M. Norman, 1845. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 223pp + ads and 6 blank memoranda leaves. Brown embossed cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Edgewear an chhipping to spine ends, contents are age-toned and foxed, bindingis tight. Lacking frontispiece and folding map, includes full page city plan and other in-text illustrations. Howes N-180.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 334pp. FIRST EDITION. Yellow decorative cloth. Corners bumped, binding sound, contents clean. Scarce dustjacket is worn and chipped along edges and has several closed tears; original price ($2.00) still present.

Paris: Brunot-Labbe, 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. . Corners Worn... 507pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt tooling and lettering to spine, red leather spine label, 8 engraved plates. Light wear to edges, binding is tight, slit to upper backstrip neatly mended, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, 1/2 inch strip excised from top of title page, owner's name and date (1819) below. light foxing throughout. topography and physical description of the east coast states, customs and character of the inhabitants, the constitution.

New York and London: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1890. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Unknown. 32pp unoaginated. Pictorial boards, green cloth spine. Light wear, one inch wide stain to foredge, cracking to front endpapers. Contents are clean and mildly age-toned, endapers more heavily age-toned, but all text and illustrations are bright and clear, former owner's named stamped on front endpaper. Nursery rhymes accompanied by tasteful, adorable illustrations.

New York: The New York Times Company, 1918. Soft cover. Good. pp381-570. Decorative wraps. Chipping to spine, light soil to rear cover, text is yellowed but unmarked. Extensive reporting on the progress of the war, including the sinking of the Tuscania, Russia's withdrawal from the war, Germany's claim to Alsace and much more.

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1830. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 248pp. ight wear, miderate soiling, contents age-toned and lightly foxed, binding is tight. Ten articles on ia wide assortment of issues, including historical, political, drama, Indians, and biographical. An 8 page catalog of Carey & Lea's publications is bound in at front.