Search Results: Titles starting with N from Carpe Diem Fine Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dustjacket (short closed tear; minor wear to extremities; slight fading to spine). Octavo. 351pp. Design by Paul Bacon. Grey cloth spine over purple boards, illustrated endpapers in color printed dust. Review Copy. TLS from Simon and Schuster Publicity Director expressing concern for reviewers in the Bible Belt and certain Mid-western and New England areas for the risque dustjacket with an explantion that they were being sent a a less embarrassing jacket to cover up the Minsky dustjacket. A fanciful expedition to the lost Atlantis of show business. Basis for the movie of the same name in 1968 starring Jason Robards, Britt Eckland and Elliott Gould.

St. Louis: R.P. Studley and Co, 1883. 1st. Hardcover. New endpapers, else a Near Fine copy in original blind-stamped olive cloth gilt-stamped at spine.. Octavo; 336 pages. First Issue with tissue-protected portrait frontis. Inscribed on ffep 'Mrs. Kate C, Thomas/with respects of/R.S. Elliott/St. Louis/April 21, 1884'.

St. Louis: R.P. Studley and Co, 1883. 1st. Hardcover. New endpapers and spine (w/original, spine laid down, else a Near Fine copy in original blind-stamped burgindy cloth gilt-stamped at spine.. Octavo; 336 pages. Second Issue without portrait frontis.

Property of the United States Government, 1934. Broadside (14" x 11") printed in red and blue on heavy tan cardstock. Handwritten Registration Number "4-3566". Staple and pin holes at four corners. National Recovery Administration (NRA), established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a short-lived government agency intended to stimulate business recovery through fair-practice codes during the Great Depression. The NRA was an essential element in the National Industrial Recovery Act (June 1933), which authorized the president to institute industry-wide codes intended to eliminate unfair trade practices, reduce unemployment, establish minimum wages and maximum hours, and guarantee the right of labour to bargain collectively. The agency ultimately established 557 basic codes and 208 supplementary codes that affected about 22 million workers. Companies that subscribed to the NRA codes were allowed to display a Blue Eagle emblem, symbolic of cooperation with the NRA. The NRA ended when it was… Read More

Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Limited edition. Small octavo; 218 pages. Near Fine copy (faint wear to extremities). Handsome cover design in black and red by Mario Prassinos. 44 b/w plates. #819 of an edition limited to 960 numbered copies in a total edition of 1,000. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 18th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 222 pp. Index. Photo Illustrations. Signed by Mr. King. FIne in Fine dust jacket. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

New York: George H. Doran, 1921. First Edition with Publisher's colophon on title page. 8vo. 187 pp. Illustrated by E. R. Higgins. Green cloth with color illustrated plate on front cover, illustrated endpapers; in uncommon publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (minor wear; previous owner name in pencil) in good dustjacket (chips, tears and wear to extremities; creasing along edges; small remnant of white label on front cover). The second of five titles in the Nancy and Nick series. "Characters dear to the heart of all childhood fill these pages and in a wonderful land of make-believe Nancy and Nick have adventures that are just the right mixture of things familiar with things unknown." - rear dustjacket flap.

Cambridge: Cambridge International Scie, 2004. 1st. Hardbound. As New. Octavo, (xiv), 351 pp. Copy perfect, except bound upside down!

Napa: Board of Supervisors of Napa County, 1907. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. 8vo. 48 pp. Photo-illustrations of buildings, homes, agriculture and more; full-page map of Napa County. Introduction by C.S. Aiken, Editor of sunset Magazine. Publisher's dark green stiff wrappers with gilt lettering to front cover. A fine copy of an uncommon publication promoting the assets of Napa County. "One of the smallest subdivisions of California, comprising about 800 square miles, yet it contains essential features enough to make an empire. If the average man were to dream of ideal surroundings for comfort, for making a living, for enjoying life, he would name the very things that here are offered with prodigal hand.: - Introduction. Written for large and small investors, works and tourists, describing a variety of offerings to appeal to all. Much on natural resources, opportunities for vineyards, orchards, ranching, mining and much more. (Rocq 5902).

St. Helena, CA: James E. Beard, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition thus. Inscribed by Beard at the colophon leaf. 12mo. 12 pp. Frontispiece photograph of Stevenson at the office of the St. Helena Star in 1880. Decorations by Mallette Dean. Introduction by M.F.K. Fisher. Decorative green paper boards over green cloth spine. A fine copy in publisher's tissue dustjacket (light wear to extremities).

London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. Royal 8vo. xx, 511; 542 pp. Half-title in Vol. II. Index. Footnotes and bibliographical references. Vol. I has frontispiece portrait of Napoleon, engraved by T.A. Dean, from a medal in the possession of Mr. O'Meara; and engraved plate titled "The house in which the Emperor Napoleon expired after a confinement of nearly six years" by G.H. Jones. Vol. II has frontispiece portrait. of Napoleon drawn by Mr. Heffernan from a statue presented by the Emperor Napoleon to Mr O'Meara July 23 1818, etched by T. Woolnoth. Bound by Taffin in full red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration & gilt lettering; top edges gil; marbled endpaperst. Occasional foxing; rubbing and scraping along joints; front joint of Vol. I partially split but holding; scrape on Vol. II spine; a very good set. Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836) was an Irish surgeon who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena and became his physician, having been surgeon… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 467 pp. 12 plates, including frontispiece; folding map. Publisher's purple blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration of a ship on front cover; gilt lettering & decoration to spine. Light general wear; some internal foxing; else a near fine copy of the scarce US first edition. George Smith (1815-1871) was a missionary in China and the Anglican bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) from 1849 to 1865, the first of this newly established diocese. The primary object of his tour among the newly-opened cities of China was to explore the ground, and to prepare the way for other missionaries of the Church of England, by collecting statistical facts, by recording general observations, and by furnishing detailed data for rightly estimating the moral, social, and political condition of that peculiar nation." - Preface.

San Francisco: Privately printed by Thomas C. Russell, 1917. Limited Edition to 200 numbered copies, this copy not numbered. Small 8vo. Illustrated plates. Publisher's brown paper covered boards with cream title label on spine. Previous owner blindstamp at top of title page; previous owner name in pencil; else a fine copy. Including a Full Account of the Author's Adventures and Perils While Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 - Together with a Report of His Trial Which Resulted in His Acquittal. First published in 1857, described in The Zamorano 80 as "one of the rare pieces of Californiana...published in pamphlet form by `Ned' McGowan, one-time justice of the peace in San Francisco, and an ex-convict from Pennsylvania, as a vindication of his conduct in absconding after being accused of complicity in the murder of James King of William...." (Adams Six-Guns 1408; Cowan p.407; Howes M103; Zamorano 80 #54).

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 314pp. Index. Turquoise cloth in illustrated dustjacket. Book is fine in very good plus dustjacket (price-clipped; minor wear to extremities; faint blue line across upper and lower edges of dustjacket). A comparative study of nation-building around the world with a number of distinctive problems analyzed: the political structure of Medieval Europe; characteristics of the Nation-State; bureaucratization; the features of a totalitarian social structure; and the transformatio of authority-relations from paternalism to modern individualism.

Bingley: Emerald Group, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; vii, [i], 299 pages. Library markings but unused. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. 1st. Hardbound. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo, 288 pages. A sharp copy. A very nicely designed jacket over rich gold-stamped lavendar boards. Art!

New York: Academic Press, 1977. 1st. Hardbound. Ex-library with usual faults, else Near Fine copy.. Octavo, (xv), 255 pages.

Np: Department of Interior - Pacific Southwest Field Committee, 1960. 1st. Paperback. First editions. 4to. Various pagination; Vol 1: 40 pp, including references; Vol 2: 103 pp. Black & white illustrations; charts; graphs; maps; photographs; fold-out maps. Grey stiff wrappers. Creasing and minor wear to edges; scraping to rear cover of one volume; light age toning; Very good. Volume 1: Geology; Mineral Resources; Mineral Industry. Volume 2: A Preliminary Survey of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Denver, CO, 1905. Color map (22 1/2" x 28 1/4"), folding into stiff paper covers (7 3/4" x 3 3/4"). Includes portions of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Shows standard gauge, narrow gauge, three rails, and connecting lines. The verso of the map is covered with printed information on the Denver and Rio Grande System and the region it covers, including a comparison of Colorado and Switzerland. Includes much information on natural resources, mineral springs and resorts, climate, agriculture and much more. The original map in stiff printed wrappers has been bound in a later green cloth folder; minor libray number notations on upper front wrapper and "The State Historical Society of Colorado" stamped at lower edge inside front wrapper. The red lettering and red rail lines on map have bled through to verso; light age toning; a very good copy of a scarce railroad map.

England: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 150 pp. Bibliography. Ilustrations. Fine condition.