Search Results: Authors starting with N from James Arsenault & Company

British Columbia and Alaska: July 15th, 1935. Booklet (6 x 3.75"), color wrappers, front wrapper ad folding out to 6" x 7". [12] pp., pictorial green and orange borders. CONDITION: Very good, staples starting to rust, chip to upper wrapper. A visually striking passenger list for a 1935 Canadian steamship cruise to Alaska, with passenger and officer lists, two ads, and two blank pages for notes.

Chicago: Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1887. Mathews, Northrup & Co., printers, Buffalo. 8vo booklet (7.25" x 3.75"), pictorial wrappers in color. 48 unnumbered pp. with illustrations in red and blue; folding map, 13.5" x 14.25" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, a few marginal folds. A detailed record of Union battles and casualties prepared by the Illinois Central Railroad for the twenty-first annual encampment of the nation's largest veteran's organization. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was founded in 1866 in Illinois, around the pillars of charity, fraternity, and loyalty, and quickly became "the preeminent veterans' organization'' in the nation. It served first as a means of veteran camaraderie and gradually became an unofficial political organization as well, promoting, among other Reconstruction aims, voting rights for Black veterans. Its annual encampments drew veterans from all of the country, and railroads often instituted special discounted rates for GAR members. The 1887… Read More

New York: Charels Scribner's Sons, 1964. Hardcover in dj. Oblong Sm 8vo (8" x 10"), red cloth, pictorial upper cover. Color illus. Owner inscription of "Abigail Nancy Aldridge" in ink at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good +, clean and sound volume; in fair dj with perished spine jacket in two pieces, small tears and chips at extremities. First ed.

[No place of publication, Circa 1890]. 32mo (4.5" x 3"), embossed chromolithographic front wrapper, plain back wrapper. 4 card stock leaves, 3 chromolithographic illus., green text and illus. A charming collection of Christmas hymns and poems by Newell, Cook and others, with chromolithographic images of holly, Lillies of the Valley, snow scenes and angels.CONDITION: Very good, with light wear at extremities, light rubbing on back wrapper.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. 4to, red cloth. 16 pp., 50 photographic plates. Very good with good dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth at spine with tan cloth over boards. Frontis., [v]-xvii, 451 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Slight wear at extremities and light soiling to cover, else very good.

Paris: Xavier Moreau, [ca. 1975]. 8vo (8" x 5"), white paperboard box with slip-off lid. 20 color and black & white postcards (6" x 4.25"), loosely inserted in an internal tray; titles in French printed on verso of postcards. Inscribed on front panel of lid in black ink: "For Polly and Henry with my love. Helmet, New York. 14. 3. 1977. P. S. A set of real French postcards.". A presentation copy of an early and exceedingly rare Newton publication, comprising twenty erotic postcards reproducing his photographs, inscribed to the noted fashion editor and stylist Polly Allen Mellen and her husband. First and only edition. This is one of only two examples that we have been able to trace. The other copy, which appeared in the trade in 2014, was inscribed by Newton in 1976 to Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985)-an innovator of twentieth century fashion, best known for his scandalous "monokini," or topless female swimsuit. Although identified as "Series No. 1" on the lid, no other series of Newton's postcards is… Read More

Worcester: Privately Printed at the Private Press of Franklin P. Rice. MDCCCCIX [1899]. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10" x 8.25"), original green cloth, paper label on spine. t.e.g. Frontis. port., xii, 216 pp. CONDITION: Very good, wear to extremities and rubbing to spine, lightly bumped corners and top-edge of spine, spine sunned, front hinge slightly loose, no foxing. One of 25 large paper copies, signed by the author. This copy is number 16.

Bangor: C. H. Glass and Co., 1893. Small 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth. Frontis., v, [2], 8-147 pp. CONDITION: Good, some rubbing, light damp-stains to rear cover, title page lightly soiled, offsetting/toning to six pages from inserted newspaper clippings, a few other minor stains. The first edition of this important book on the culture of the Penobscot people of Maine. Joseph Nicolar, a Penobscot author, undertook in this work, as he states in his preface, to answer the question "where did the red man come from?" and to "remove the fear that the life of the red man will pass away unwritten." His account includes the creation story of Klose-Kur-Beh "The Man From Nothing," once known and proclaimed by all Penobscot people, as well as other traditions of the Penobscots. A valuable ethnographic document and "one of the few books about Native American culture written by a Maine Indian," it was included in The Mirror of Maine : One Hundred Distinguished Books That Reveal the History of the State… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5.5"), gilt red cloth. [6], 421 pp. Early owner's ink inscription on flyleaf. First edition, later printing (lacking edition statement and J.J. Little printing device), published February, 1903. The second work in Norris's unfinished trilogy on the wheat industry. Preceded by The Octopus (1901). CONDITION: Good +, spine slightly cocked, some toning, sound copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo, purple cloth, title and emblem gilt-stamped on cover and spine. [vi]-xviii, 209 pp., numerous b&w illus. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf. CONDITION: Very good in fair dust jacket.