Search Results: Titles starting with N from Century Books

Warner Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. This book was my first introduction to Elizabeth Peters, and I've been enjoying her novels ever since. Witty and inventive mystery featuring Jacqueline Kirby.

Harper Collins, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Book is new, unread. Story of a woman's search for self-knowledge, for understanding of others and for an answer to the imperative question: how should she live? Written with the psychological precision and exquisite detail that are the hallmarks of Nunez's work.

Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, [1972]. Softcover. Good condition.. Some edgewear. 225 pages plus author index and subject index. DHEW Publication No. (HSM) No. 73-9007.

New York: Springer Publishing, [1985]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good condition. No dust jacket. One scratch on rear, else fine.

New York: Random House, 1999. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 'Review Copy' stamped on first free endpaper, else fine. Goes beyond word histories and looks at the Americanisms that reflect the spirit, mind, and heart - and contradictions - that define who Americans are. Personally, I think the phrase 'teetotaciously exflunctified' alone makes this book worth the price.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. 1st. Hardback. VG+/VG. DJ has 3 tears at top of spine covered w/ scotch tape, tiny tears at bottom of spine. Owner name embossed on ffep. Authoritative guide to the wild flowers of the northeastern and north central regions of the United States.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. Dust jacket has edgetears, fading to spine. Radical reconceptualization of Freudian metapsychology.

Paris: Unesco, 1979. 3rd printing. Softcover. Very Good condition..

HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. 1st Stated. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Light edge and corner wear. Volume 4 of The Illustrated History of Humankind from the American Museum of Natural History. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey. Lavishly illustrated.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. One little nick on dust jacket. Detective Jacob Horowitz doesn't want to believe that a couple as nice as William and Lizzie Winter would commit murder.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1942. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. Fold-out maps and geologic maps present and in very good condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Faint mark on top edge, some shelfwear, else fine. Map endpapers.

New York: International Universities Press, [1966]. 2nd printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped with an ink price written in. Dr. Spitz, a pioneer in infant studies, tackles the issue of the beginnings of communication in this monograph. Laid in is a typed, signed letter from Dr. Spitz dated December 5, 1961, declining a dinner invitation because he will be away for the Christmas holidays.

New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975. 3rd, 8th prtg.. Hardback. VG+/G+. Edgewear to boards, DJ torn at edges, some soiling. Book is tight and clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. First novel from a successful television writer and producer. Cover blurbs from Scott Turow, Robert Parker and James Ellroy. Ellroy calls FBI agent Ana Grey a 'hybrid of Carole Lombard and Batwoman.'

Pocket Books, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Helen West and Geoffrey Bailey expect a quieter life in the village of Branston, but find instead a crime of passion. Bailey has little doubt about the suspect's guilt, but Helen thinks the evidence is a bit too pat. Was published in the U.K. with the title Trial by Fire and was made into a TV movie by that title (in the U.K.).

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977. Later printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Crease in spine. Previous owner inscription inside front cover. Illustrations by Eugene A. Smith.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. 1st. Hardback. VG+/VG. Blue cloth binding, bright and clean. A small pencil notation on endpaper. Endpapers partly browned. Dust Jacket has some very light soil, few small tears.

Oxford University Press, 1980. Hardback. NF/VG. Some edgewear. Some rubbing, small corner tears on DJ. A gathering of more than 20 children's booklets from the early 19th century with almost 400 color illustrations. Includes such classics as The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and The History of the House That Jack Built plus three metrical alphabets.