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Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. First Edition. Coth and boards. Fine/Fine. Photographs & drawings [often by Vladimir Nabokov]. Thick 4to, red eighth cloth over black boards, numerous illustrations, Mylar-protected dust jacket, 30 color glossy plates and numerous line drawings in text, 782 pages. Important studies by the great novelist on one of his major loves, butterflies/lepidoptera. Uncollected writings gathered by his son, Dmitri, who also translated those written in Russian. Further annotations by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd and lepidopterist Robert Pyle.
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NABOKOV'S BUTTERFLIES; Unpublished and Uncollected Writings / Edited and Annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle / Nabokov, Dmitri, New Translations from the Russian
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THE NAGA KING'S DAUGHTER
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New York: Atheneum, 1965. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Photos. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped title on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with photo of Thai temple; profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos of Thai and Malaysian Buddhistic and naga sites plus maps, yellow endpapers, publisher's red topstain, 247 pages + [2] Re: Stewart Wavell. Stewart Wavell (1921-2010), was a British-Malayan and BBC broadcaster, sound recordist and writer, and a member of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. This is the story of the 1962 Cambridge University anthropological expedition through the Malay Peninsula in search for lost civilizations and cultural survivals. <br/><br/>The N ga are divine, semi-divine deities, or a semi-divine race of half-human half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala) and sometimes take human form. Mythological, they are typically…
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NAKED IS THE BEST DISGUISE; The Death & Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes
by [Sherlockiana] Rosenberg, Samuel
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Indianapolis New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, light brown cloth over tan boards, archival polyester-protected dust jacket designed by Terry McKee, [x] + 203 pages. Very clean dust jacket has been price-clipped.<br/><br/>Laudatory blurb on rear panel of dust jacket by Buckminster Fuller, noted architect of geodesic domes.
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NAPOLEON; An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy / 1800-1814 / Edited by Proctor Patterson Jones / With Assistance by Charles-Otto Zieseniss / Preface by Jean Tulard
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San Francisco: Distributed by Random House / P"ublished by Proctor Jones, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photo repros. Square quarto (11" x 11"), rich red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected glossy dust jacket (unclipped) with color image of the youthful First Consul in his red uniform, profusely illustrated with glossy color and B&W images with detailed commentary, map endpapers (front) & autograph specimen endpapers (rear), xxxvi + 444 pages. Weight: 6 lbs. 12 oz. A SPLENDID LABOR of LOVE by Proctor Pateson Jones, the editor & producer of this EXTREMELY WELL-ILLUSTRATED and expertly annotated overview of Napoleon's "Supremacy" from 1800 through his defeat in 1814. Almost "As New" apart from a wee bit of rubbing to the dj. Tight, square, unblemished and magnificently illustrated volume.
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NAPOLEON; A Life
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New York: Basic Books, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. As New/As New. Maps, photos,. Thick quarto (9 5/8" x 6 3/8" x 2 5/8"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over dark gray [field gray] boards; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with a watercolor of young Napoleon; illustrated with 28 maps, a double-spread genealogical table of the Buonaparte Family; and 24 pages of glossy color photo reproductions of period images; red endpapers, xvii, [xviii] + 764 pages + [2] Note about the Author with B&W photo. Weight: 2 lbs. 9 oz. Next to Andrew Roberts' brilliant biography, which has many more profound insights into Napoleon's military operations, Adam Zamoyski's comparably sized--though very readable major biography--focuses more on Napoleon's personality and human factors against the military background. <br/> <br/> Roberts himself calls this Exceptional work "hugely readable, highly…
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THE NARRATIVE JESUS; A Semiotic Reading of Mark's Gospel
by Davidsen, Ole
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Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1993. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Quarto (9 3/4" x 7" x 1 1/2"), orange cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, illustrated with several in-text diagrams, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with oil painting by Cranach of The Old & New Testament, x + 404 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 3.6 oz. Prof. Ole Davidsen, Magister artium (mag.art) in Religious Studies, Aarhus University 1980 - Doctor Theologiae (dr.theol), Aarhus University 1993 - Professor at Aarhus University until retirement in 2015. <br /> <br /> The good professor here examines the Gospel of Mark using a remarkable and very uncommon semio-literary analysis. <br /> <br /> FINE COPY in all respects: tight, bright, clean copy with spotless pages and diagrams.
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NATURAL CAUSES
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New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books, 1994. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine over charcoal gray boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a blond dead woman on a gurney, 389 pages + [1] About the Author. INSCRIBED, SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean. Sharp dust jacket (unclipped) with slight edgewear. No remainder marking.<br/> <br/> Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (1942 - 2013), was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers.[1] Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Naturalist's Calendar by the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. / with Additions and Supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine, Bart, etc. / Edited, with further illustrations, a biographcal sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse, Esq. / With Forty Engravings
by White, A.M., Rev. Gilbert
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1881. Bohn's Illustrated Library Edition. Embossed cloth. Very Good +/None. White & Jesse. 8vo, green elaborately blind-stamped decorated green publisher's cloth, illustrated with 40 engravings, supplemented with sundry additions including a biographical sketch by Sir William Jardine & Edward Jesse,16 pp. for Standard Works of George Bell & Sons + xxiv Biography of Rev. Gilbert White + 416 pages + 31 pp. of adverts. for Bohn's Library. An UNCOMMON impressively edited and illustrated Bohn edition of White's natural history classic in the original elaborately embossed publisher's cloth. Frontispiece and other handsome full page engravings are unfoxed and clean. Many gatherings unopened and pristine; backstrip slightly faded with a lightly repaired tears affecting the head of the spine & small white spot mid-spine. Reprints the 1895 Bell edition.
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NATURE POEMS and others; By William H. Davies
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London: A. C. Fifield, 1908. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/None. SIGNED by the Author on the title page & signed on the ffep by Greg Gatenby, Canadian poet-author, 12mo (7" x 4 5/8"), original publisher's gray boards with black lettering on spine and front cover, cream endpapers, rough-cut edges to the 62 pages + [2] Publisher's advertisements. SIGNED by the author on the title page; pus SIGNED on the free front endpaper by Greg Gatenby--Canadian writer-poet and founder of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. <br/> <br/> William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (1871 - 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time.<br/> <br/> The principal themes in his work are observations about life's hardships, the ways in which the human condition is reflected in nature, his own tramping adventures and the…
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NATURE'S WEB; Rethinking Our Place On Earth
by Marshall, Peter
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New York: Paragon House, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo, green cloth with dayglow tourquoise lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Howard R. Roberts, xiii, [xiv] + 513 pages. Peter Hugh Marshall (born 1946) is an English philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer and poet. He has written fifteen books, and created the 6-part HTV series 'Voyage Around Africa' (1994), as well as the two-part series 'Celtic Gold: A Voyage around Ireland' for BBC Radio Wales in 1995.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean. Dust jacket (unclipped) is clean and bright with slight rubbing. No previous owner or remainder markings.
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NAVAL BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; With a foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke USN
by Bennett, Geoffrey
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New York: David McKay Company, I nc, 1975. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Photos, maps, diagrams. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with B&W period photos, maps, & diagrams; archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped); Index, [x] + 253 pages. SUPERB & Illustrated thoughtful overview of major naval battles during WW-II. Among those discussed and diagramed are: Montevideo, Narvik, the sinking of the "Bismarck," submarine attacks on Convoys, Midway, Guadalcanal, and the Philippines.<br /> <br /> Previous owner's circular blind-embossing stamp marks--nearly imperceptible visually--on title page and Contents. No other marks on paper. B&W illustrations are immaculate and unfoxed.
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THE NAZARENE GOSPEL; by ROBERT GRAVES and JOSHUA PODRO / Being PART III (text only) / of their Nazarene Gospel Restored
by Graves, Robert and Joshua Podro
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London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected parchment-colored dust jacket (front flap price clipped; rear flap with price not clipped) with red and black lettering, xi, [xii: blank] + 175 pages. RARE title, especially in this EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. The cloth is tight, clean, and the text is clean--a light tincture of toning--with a NEAR FINE but RARE dust jacket with only a few small nicks at the head of the spine, slight rubbing, and a somewhat faded spine. <br/> <br/> Fascinating summary of what Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)--with the assistance of Josh Podro on Jewish resources--believed Jesus actually said and did--at least according to the primitive Nazarene Gospel, which was mentioned by several early Christian fathers. <br/> <br/> The detailed, exhaustive (and occasionally quite speculative) reconstruction was previously set forth in the author's massive and unabridged…
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NECKLACE AND CALABASH; A Chinese Detective Story / by ROBERT VAN GULIK / WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR IN CHINESE STYLE
by Van Gulik, Robert
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London: Heinemann, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Robert Van Gulik. Small 8vo (8" x 5 3/8"), pale red cloth with gold lettering on spine, with 8 illustrations drawn by the learned author in Chinese style, Mylar-protected B&W photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a double-gourd--or "calabash"--and necklace, pictorial endpaper drawings of same, vii + 143 numbered pages, [144]. A Judge Dee mystery. (The first to be printed in England was The Chinese Bell Murders [1958] by Michael Joseph.) Robert Hans van Gulik (Chinese: ; 1910 - 1967) was an orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, Learned Judge Dee arrives in Rivertown for some relaxation and fishing, when the inn cashier is found in the river, tortured and murdered. Next, the judge is summoned to the Water Palace of a princess who wants him to find out who has stolen her precious pearl necklace? "Only by risking his…
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"NEGRO PRESIDENT"; Jefferson and the Slave Power
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Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED Presentation Copy by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering over dark brown boards, two oval half-tones of Thomas Jefferson & Timothy Pickering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a detail from Thomas Sully's 1821 portrait of Thomas Jefferson, xiv + 274 pages. By the Pulitzer Prize Winning author, Garry Wills. Exceptional Condition! No remainder marks.
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NEIL SIMON REWRITES; A Memoir
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. B&W glossy photos. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), red quarter cloth with gold lettering over off-white boards, illustrated with 16 glossy B&W photos, 397 pages. Neil Simon (1927 - 2018) was a brilliant American playwright, screenwriter and author famed for his gentle humor. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer.<br /> <br /> INSCRIBED/SIGNED COPY IN SUPERIOR CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with slight edgewear. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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NELSON MANDELA; A Life in Photographs / Created by David Elliot Cohen / Text by John D. Battersby / Includes Six Historic Mandela Speeches
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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press / Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2009. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photos. Quarto (11 1/8" x 9 1/4" x 1 1/8"), gilt-stamped brown leather with inset color photo of Mandela on front cover, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos of Nelson Mandela and associates, tan silk moiré endpapers, tan rayon page-marker, a.e.g., 221, [222-223] pages + [1] Photographic Credits, etc. Blank bookplate laid in. Very Handsome leather bound collection of photos covering Nelson Mandela's life.<br /> <br /> As New!
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NERO; by Michael Grant / Introduced by Kenneth MacLeish
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London: The Folio Society, 2004. Fourth Printing: [copyright 1994]. Pictorial cloth. Very Fine/Slipcase: Very Fine. Photos; maps. Quarto (10 1/4 x 6 1/2" x 1 1/4"); golden tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt outline of Nero's head on front cover; green carboard slipcase; 9 maps and light olive drab map endpapers by Russell Piggott; illustrated with 37 images in text [B&W] and on 16 glossy pages of color photos; xxvii, [xxviii: blank] + 222 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 14 oz. Stand-alone edition of The Folio Society's series "Rulers of the Ancient World," which includes Hannibal, Alexander the Great,Julius Caesar, and Cleopatera. Reprint of the 1970 Weidenfeld & Nicholson Edition, which was published in this format by The Folio Society in 1998.<br/> <br/> Michael Grant CBE (1914 - 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous VERY CLEAR & READABLE books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of…
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NERO'S KILLING MACHINE; The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion
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Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Son, Inc, 2005. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. maps. 8vo, brown boards with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with an Atlas consisting of 5 maps, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) by Corbis, xiv + 322 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean in comparable sharp dust jacket. Rome's Fourteenth Legion, LEGIO XIV G M V [Gemina Martia Victrix, "Twinned Martial and Victorious"] was raised from defeat after being wiped out by an ambush in Gaul when led by none other than the great Julius Caesar. Thereafter, after being "raised" again (i.e., reconstituted), the legion was honored by receiving the cognomen Martia Victrix (martial and victorious) for their outstanding service in the Pannonian War c. AD 9. Under Germanicus, they retaliated against Arminius and the Germans who had destroyed 3 of Caesar Augustus's legions in the Teutoberg Forest. Never resting for…
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THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK; with 226 new photographs in color and gravure / adapted from the Japanese by Raymond Bushell
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Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1979. Eleventh printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Photographs. 8vo, maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographicc dust jacket (price-clipped), profusely illustrated with 226 color and B&W glossy plates; biblio., index; 325 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. Raymond Bushell (1910-1998) was an expert collector and scholar of Netsuke, and this is an important and very useful reference.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy with many bright, unfoxed illustrations. No previous owner's or remainder marks.raymond.
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NEUPORT 28; America's First Fighter
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Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2008. First Edition. Glossy pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. Photos & Reconstructions. PRESENTATION COPY from the Author to Captain James Lovell (& from his personal library), quarto, glossy color pictorial cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing cover art with painting of a Neuport attacking a German biplane, profusely illustrated with period B&W photos, recent color photos, and reconstructions of this early warplane, Index, marbled endpapers, 277 glossy pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 9 oz. ASSOCIATION COPY from the Author to Captain James Lovell. Obtained by this dealer from the personal library of famed astronaut Captain James Lovell. A magnificently detailed and illustrated volume.<br /> <br /> Captain James Arthur Lovell Jr., USN [Ret.] (born 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer.<br /> <br /> Lovell flew in space on two Gemini missions, Gemini…
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