Search Results: Authors starting with N from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Vintage 1971 First Edition, 4th Printing. Instructions on the art of batik, a resist dyeing process with the use of melted wax. Illustrated with b/w photos, the book covers techniques augumented with a wealth of designs.

London, UK: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1983. Paperback. Good/None as Issued. Text/Bright w/sporadic, tidy marginalia. Green softcover w/red lettering/Good; strong w/heavy edge & surface rubs to front cover. PO name to fEP, and bookshop stamp to title page. First published 1968; this the 4th Edition of 1981. Guide to verbal communication in Portugal and Brazil for visitors & those w/business dealings. 184 pgs in 12 lessons, followed by 2 appendices and Vocabulary. Strong copy despite flaws and a very tired softcover.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highways, 1995. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Arizona Hishways Contributors (Photography); James R. Metcalf (Maps & Illustrations). BRAND NEW COPY w/trace rubs to spine edges. Monograph. Dedicated issue to desert wildflowers of Arizona. 9, profusely illustrated, chapters on seasonal blooms concluding with planting guidelines.

New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1994. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Mark Klett (Photographer). BRAND NEW COPY w/remainder mark to upper text edge. A portrait of the 1,000 square mile Sonoran Desert straddling the U.S. - Mexico border. Its story, of nature and man, narrated by Paul Nabhan and captured on camera by Mark Klett.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition . Black Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 9/16" Tall. The author's second novel, originally published in Russian as Korol', Dama, Valet in 1928, here translated by son, Dimitri, with the assistance of the author. 273 pages with [Author]; plus xi pages, Foreword. Covers are clean and sound; text is clean and strong.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Embossed Black Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8 9/16" Tall. Originally published in Russian as PODVIG in 1932 "(t)he present work closes the series of definitive English versions in which my entire set of nine Russian novels (written in Western Europe between 1925 and 1937, and published by emige houses between 1926 and 1952) is available to American and British readers." 205 pages; plus xiv pages, Forward. DJ shows slight griming, and carries price sticker at rear; boards are clean and sound; text is clean and strong.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1969. First Edition. First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Crest T1287. First Edition, First Printing. Text/New w/faint margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/edge & corner tips rubs, faint creasings to spine & surface, and light soiling to back. Leading text edges dyed red. Originally published in Russian, 1928 under the title "Korol', Dama, Valet". Written when Nabokov was 28 years old, this edition was translated into English by the author's son, Dimitri in 1966 with revisions by author.

Paris, France: Editions du Seuil, 1945. 2nd Edition Revue . Soft Cover/Stiched. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/AS NEW w/margin discoloration & shelfwear. Softcover/VG; intact w/nips to edges & losses to lower spine, and tear to front cover, now secured by archival tape. PO Name to front endpaper dated 1948. Cultural & intellectual history by Maurice Nadeau (1911 - 2013). First published 1944, the Histoire du Surréalisme (The History of Surrealism) has been translated to English by Richard Howard; this is the French language, 2nd Edition of 1945. Classic, historic evolution of Surrealism, born in the 1920s, expressed in both politics and art. 358 pgs plus photos to rear. Text: 1, En Maniere d'Introduction; 2, L'Elaboration; 3. La Periode Heorique du Surrealisme (1923-1925); 4, La Periode Raisonnante du Surrealisme; 5, Autonomie du Surrealisme (1930-1939); 6, Post-Scriptum; and 7, Conclusions, followed by appendices. Strong copy diepite flaws.

Tokyo, Japan: Ministery of Foreign Affais, 1973. First Edition, 11th Printing, 1973 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. A review of Japanese cultural development in terms of formative art to better understanding of contemporary Japan. Sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, authored by four scholars and illustrated by color photos of archival art work. 120 pgs, in 8 chapters. I, Introduction; II, Life & Culture in the Archaic Age; III, Establishment of a Central Gov't & the Assimilation of Buddhist Culture; IV, Life at the Court & the Development of a National Culture; V, Rise of the Warrior Class & Medieval Culture; VI, Art & Japanese Sensitivity in the Pre-Modern Age; VII, Development of Cities & the Birth of a Townspeople Culture; and VIII, The Collapse of Feudal Society & Modernization.

New York: A Fireside Book - Simon & Schuster, 2001. Advance Uncorrected Proof . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 6 7/8 x 4 15/16. Makoto Ishizuki. Kokology is described by the authors as "1. A series of psychological games designed to uncover emotional and behavioral traits of the players 2. A popular term for the interpretation of the hidden meanings of human behavior and situational responses" [Kokology 101] Offered are 55 provocative scenarios - When Is a Door Not a Door, Spill the Wine, Make a Wish, and Keeping the Peace are four of them - each of which is followed by three or four possible explanations. You choose the solution that best reflects your reaction, and the author explains the psychological "key" to that reaction on the next page. 173 pages, with prefatory matter, and line drawings. Covers are clean and sound; text is clean and strong, but has a 1" crimp at lower text edge from about page 33 to page 134. Laid in is the publisher's… Read More

Augsberg: Battenberg, 1994. Illustrated Coated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 10 1/16 x 8 7/16. This book is one of the publisher's series Antiquitaten-Katalog. It is a useful survey and price guide to European (mainly German and Austrian) regional furniture styles, written in German. Prices are drawn from auctions up to the publication date. Despite the subtitle (which suggests chronological order), the catalog itself is organized alphabetically by subject, from Aachener Mobel to Zylinderbureau. But the introductory pages do provide a stylistic historical overview, a Mobel-Stichwort-Lexikon, and a Literaturverzeichnis. 525 pieces, 236 two- and three-columned pages, with descriptions, dimensions, and numerous photographic illustrations (12 pages in color); plus 11 pages of dealer institutional advertising. Covers are sound, but show grime, and a 2 1/2" scrape at rear lower edge; text is clean and strong.

New York, NY: Praeger, 1974. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Silver embossed, green linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Politics of environmental protection. Anthology addressing the socio-political of environment protection. Articles largely from, but not exclusive to, the 1973 symposium "Environmental Policy & Political Science Fields". 326 pages. 19 chapters in 3 parts: I, General Matters; II, Governmental Levels & Environmental Policy; and III, Political Institutions Within Governments, followed by Ep[ilogue

Bern und München: Francke Verlag, 1969. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Library boardfs/NF. A compltete bibliography of the Swiss poet and essayest, and successor to Rudolf Steiner. 56 pages with prefatory matter including an essay by Walter Muschg.

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1966. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. State First Printing. DJ/Fine; under mylar. College textbook designed for one-semester course. Calculus not a prerequisite. Introduction to finite mathematics including elementary set theory, Boolean algebra, predicate calculus, probability theory, vector spaces, matrices, and their applications. Fine copy.

Zuni, NM: Zuni A:Shiwi Publishing, 1996. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Dale W. Anderson (Photographer). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Towards understanding the ancient art of Zuni pottery and its contempory significance in the Zuni world order. Interviews with today's prominent potters augmented with some 100 photographs of creative works.

New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 1980. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF with faint creasing to spine. A Carribean island in turmoil. The protagonists --- Asians, Africans, Americans, British colonials --- all caught in the swirl of Third World consciousness.

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1972. First American Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV,… Read More

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1979. First Edition, 4th Printing, 1982 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good; sound w/light edge & surface wear, and humidity stains to upper/lower back edges. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932 - 2018), knighted (1990) and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2001), is commonly known as V. S. Naipaul. Born in Trinidad and educated in England, his grandparents had left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants in the late 19th century. Naipaul first visits India in 1962. He sees a country paralyzed by entrenched resignation towards poverty & suffering. This painful year's stay is the subject of his acclaimed "An Area of Darkness" (Book 1 of the Indian trilogy) This, being Book 2, is a masterpiece of journalism & cultural analysis. Heart wrenching, unsentimental portrait of a complex society incapacitated by repeated foreign invasions &… Read More

Baltimore London Tokyo: University Park Press, 1974. Red Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. 10 3/8 x 7 1/2. These are the Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of The Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, Tokyo, 1973. The subjects were Regulation of Gene Expression (10 papers); Phenotypes of Tumor Cells (5 papers); Control of Differentiation: Induction of Differentiation (5 papers); Control of Differentiation: Suppression of Differentiation (3 papers); and Tumor Reversal (6 papers). Participants included Barski, Dube, Holtzer, Hozumi, Ikawa, Isaka, Johnson, Katunuma, Koyama, Ohno, Okada, Ono, Ostertag, Paul, Pierce, Potter, Prasad, Rutter, both Schapiras, Shall, Silagi, Sugano, Sugimura, Tanaka, Thompson, Tomkins, Tsuiki, Weber, and Weinhouse. 554 pages, with tables, figures, color plates, Closing Remarks, and Epilogue; plus xiv pages Frontispiece and prefatory matter. Boards have a slight push at front lower leading corner, otherwise clean and sound; text is strong and clean, though coloring… Read More

Woodbury, NY: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1977. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace shelfwear to softcover. Collection of 20 favoured recipesfrom the Peking (Beijing) capital region and the provinces of Szechuang, Shantung, and Kwantung. 100 pgs w/color photos. Prepared with consultation with Grace Z. Chu. Sections on Hors d'Oeuvre, main dishes, to desserts, as well as information on condiments and beverages. Fine copy.