Search Results: Titles starting with N from Brillig Books

Belfast, Ireland: Belfast Telegraph, 1947. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Oblong small quarto, (12" x 9"), yellow wraps over stapled text block. Unpaginated (40pp) A one page introduction followed by forty full page captiioned chromophotolithographs from photographs of Irish scenes, countryside, bays, ports, cities and people. An evocative nostalgic souvenir item from an era long passed from the scene. A tight, clean, bright volume. Front corners of text page with very small dog ears and one very small spot on rear, else fine. All images fine and perfect. Near fine..

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, (1962). Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition, first printing. Octavo, green stapled stiff wraps. 48pp. including selected bibliography. Fine..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards. 111 pp. including bibliography. Review copy with compliments slip from publisher laid in. A very tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread volume with very fresh cloth in a tight, crisp, sharp dust jacket with light to moderate sunning to spine and just barely to edges. Fine in very good plus dust jacket..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Large thick octavo, grey printed stiff wraps. 542 pp. including index and bibliography. An anthology of important works in the philosophy of mind giving a broad and deep introduction to its concepts. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, square, crisp, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. A couple of shallow crisp dogears to pages to note place, else fine. FINE..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Large thick octavo, grey printed stiff wraps. 542 pp. including index and bibliography. An anthology of important works in the philosophy of mind giving a broad and deep introduction to its concepts. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, square, crisp, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Front panel doesn't quite lie completely flat, else fine. FINE..

New York: Doubleday, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, light blue cloth covered boards. 221pp. including bibliography and list of maritime museums of the world. A comprehensive survey of collectible nautical memorabilia, antiques, objects and ephemera. Genuinely profusely illustrated throughout with color and black and white reproductions, photographs and diagrams. The items are carefully explained in terms of their function and details to enable the collector to fully understand and evaluate items for acquisition. A very tight, clean, volume with fresh cloth and no markings. One small faint spot on half title, else fine in a clean unmarked but price-clipped dust jacket. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Uncommon..

New York: E P Dutton, 1985. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Small quarto, stiff wraps (paperback) illustrated with brilliantly colored rug reproduction of rug.150pp. including index, selected bibliography, glossary and notes. Very generously illustrated throughout with many vivid, striking, richly colored photographs of rugs as well as color and black and white photographs of the landscape, the weavers etc. A remarkably comprehensive concise treatment of this essential Native American craft tradition. Tiny bump to top forecorner, else fine. Very near fine..

Louisville, KY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1969. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Revised Edition. Oblong quarto, (14.5" x 8"), red stiff wraps with red plastic comb binding. 4 pages of contents, legends and index followed by 107 full page color navigation charts (NO. 2-108). An excellent copy with no cracking or broken combs in the binding and a crisp, bright, clean, unmarked interior and fine charts. Sign of dampstain to rear endpaper with just a spot barely showing on last map but no others and couple of flecks of grey paint(/) at very bottom of front panel not affecting interior. Internally fine. Very good plus. Uncommon..

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First printing. Octavo, pale blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles.224 pp. A beautiful tight, clean, unmarked and unread volume with very fresh cloth and sparkling gilt titles, in a crisp, very tight, sharp, bright dust jacket. Very fine in very fiine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1977. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Small quarto, black cloth covered boards. 36pp. text and 122pp. designs and patterns. Over 100 designs in all. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Floating World Edithions, 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition, stated. Octavo, hard cover with black cloth spine over yellow paper covered boards and gilt spine title. 174 pp. A practical memoir of the cross-cultural challenges of medical practice and the heatlh care systems of Japan with occasional humorous sidelights. A tight, clean, fresh, crisp, bright volume with sparkling spine gilt, unmarked, unblemished and unread in a very tight, crisp, sharp, unclipped, glossy, dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW in AS NEW dust jacket. Uncommon..

NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, glazed paper covered boards. 192pp. including index and extensive bibliography. Two Library of Congress stamps (one on ffep and one on copyright page), else fine. AS NEW..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf Publishing Group, 1989 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First American Edition. Octavo, black cloth spine over black paper covered boards. 314pp. including index, selected bibliography and extensive notes and references. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Slight dull line on front and back from compression, else fine. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. An excellent copy..

Rutland, VT/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1960. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Octavo, burgundy red cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 185pp. including index and very extensive list of Japanese netsuke carvers with names and short biographical notes. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs of 213 carvings in metal, ivory, wood etc. Both inro and netsuke illustrated and discussed in detail with historical commentary. A very fresh, tight, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy..

New York: Weatherhill, 1975. Book. As New. Original Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto, original brown cloth with a shadow decoration of a netsuke on its cord, with gilt spine titles. 259pp. including index, glossary and bibliography and appendices including a list of carvers, unusual materials represented and collections represented. Very generously illustrated throughout with over 800 netsuke in full color as well as 300 photographs of carvers signatures. Laid in is an insert indicating the actual size of particular netsuke illustrated. A very fine, tight, clean, fresh and unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, brilliant dust jacket. Very ine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Phila: W. B. Saunders, 1943., 1943. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, maroon cloth covered boards with gilt titles and spine titles. 310pp. Volume VI of Military Surgical Manuals. Illustrated. Fine..

New York: Macmillan, 1967. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth covered boards. 168pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Washington, D.C: Southern Sociological Congress, 1915. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth covered boards. 555pp. plus indexes. The annual publication of the Souithern Sociological Congress for the year 1915. Addressing health issues as wide ranging as health, mental health, health of crimnal population, clean air and water, alcoholism, race discrimination, religion, poverty, labor, unemployment, education, children and women's issues, temperance, legal and criminal issues etc. This volume is very tight, sound and internally clean and bright. It is very gently ex-library with a small simple armorial bookplate on pastedown and a few marks to the first few pages. Front hinge is splitting and cover is lightly dust darkened. About Very good. Uncommon..

New York: Macmillan, 1919. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 4.75"), ivory vellum over blue paper covered boards. 79pp. plus ads. The second book of verse by the Greenwich Village poet and editor for the New Yorker. Two neat prior owner signatures on ffep. A tight, clean volume with clear gilt spine titles but slight darkening to spine. Near fine. Scarce..

New York: New Directions, 1971. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards with silver spine titles. 216pp. including brief biographical notes on the authors. Includes poems by Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Bronk, Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Denise Levertov and Carl Rakosi, along with prose works by Charles Henri Ford, James Purdy, Walter Abish and Walter Hamady. A very tight, clean, unmarked and unread volume with fresh cloth and pages, in a crisp, tight, sharp dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually AS NEW..