Search Results: Titles starting with N from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Rosanna, Victoria, Australia: Anne and Don Pitkethly, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Between 1875 and 1905 Caire explored the Victorian countryside to photograph for the commercial market. Lone figures dwarfed by luxuriant tree ferns, crystal waterfalls in forest frames, rustic dwellings with their solitary inhabitants - all convey Caire's deep love of the bush he photographed and reveal the mastery of his art." 85 photographs. Small quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Small bookseller's label to the front flyleaf. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Aarau: Druck und Verlag von H.R. Sauerlander, 1855. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo: [iv], 365, [1] p. (p.230-1 misnumbered 330-1). Original pink paper wrappers, with engraved illlustrations on both panels. Occasional mild foxing to the contents. The wrappers are a bit soiled, with tiny nicks to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. "Born in Germany, Meyer left for New Orleans in February 1849, bound for the Isthmus of Panama. On the Pacific side, he boarded the three-masted ship Sarah Elisha and after a difficult voyage, arrived in Monterey in the spring. Henry Wagner speculates that some inconsistencies and errors indicate that Meyer wrote this book based on his memory rather than a journal. Nontheless, he must be credited with providing some of the strongest 'word pictures' of the Gold Rush. His summaries of the last vestiges of Mexican California are all choice. His descriptions encompass a Mexican caravan on its way to the Mariposa diggings, geology of the region, gold mining… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Illustrated by Margot Zemach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. First edition. A collection of short stories which explores the humor and life of the Polish people. Inscribed by Singer on the title page. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Occasional minor bumping to the extremities of the boards. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine; otherwise very good.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Trade paperback. Fine. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy - as new, still in the original shrink wrap.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 450 copies. "Grapevines and wineries do not tell the whole story of the Napa Valley, and this history covers the settlement of the region up to 1900, beginning with a description of its dramatic geography and topography. Resident Wappo and Patwin Indians were joined by mountain men from the Rockies and desert Southwest - George Yount, Jim Clyman, Old (Caleb) Greenwood, and others - who found the valley in the lee of Mount St. Helena to be a grizzly bear hunter's paradise. Yount became a cattle rancher there in 1836. It was also Yount who pioneered the next phase of development, when wheat was king in California. Grain growers were eventually succeeded by horticulturists and, of course, viticulturists, starting with Charles Krug." Prospectus laid in. Quarto: 382 p. with 43 historical black-and-white photographs and a folding map (laid in at rear). Full linen cloth binding, with an illustration inset on the… Read More

New York: The Angry Arts Against the War, 1967. Broadside sticker meant to be posted on walls and other public places, featuring a disturbing black and white photograph of a disfigured child above the bold red headline Napalm Bombed. The Angry Arts Against the War is printed in the lower left corner. The organization formed in New York to protest the war in Vietnam with a week of events which included protest performances by artists, musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers, writers, and poets. The movement spread to Los Angeles, where this broadside was found. Creative protest activities took place in June and July 1967, including poetry readings, film screenings, theatrical performances, and a sale of the paintings that had been on display at a Peace Tower erected on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. In Philadelphia, the Angry Arts hosted a Napalm Poetry Read-In. Images of napalm-bombed women and children were shown on a large screen while a collection of poets read news reports and poems about the… Read More

London: William Collins, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Adam Zamoyski on the title page, with the publisher's "signed by the author" label on the front panel of the dust jacket. "Based on primary sources in many European languages, and beautifully illustrated with portraits done only from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became 'Napoloen'; how he achieved what he did, and how it came about that he undid it." Octavo: xxiii, 727 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of edgewear; else fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. In this first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron and Hazlitt." Octavo: 259 p. with a frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some occasional marginalia. The dust jacket is clean and bright.

New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. First Edition. Wraps. Limited to 212 copies, with an original lithograph hand printed by Lynton R. Kistler and signed by the artist. Elegantly designed monograph on Italian-American artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano (1901-2001), with fifteen reproductions of his work in oil, sgraffito, fresco, drawing, and mechanical design. Napolitano attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1921 to 1924 and following further study in Italy and Germany, transitioned to figurative modernism. Active in the W.P.A., he executed murals at Bullocks Wilshire, Beverly Hills High School, and the Hollywood Turf Club. Octavo: unpaginated, with a frontispiece portrait by Brett Weston. Original printed cream paper wrappers. The dust jacket is toned along the spine, with unobtrusive tape mends on both the recto and verso; otherwise very good. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

London: John Murray, 1860. Hardcover. Very good. Twelfth Thousand. "Building on the work of John Rae and other Franklin searches, McClintock rightly can claim the distinction of discovering the true fate of Franklin. His expedition, which was privately sponsored by Lady Jane Franklin, lasted from July 1857 to September 1859. In scouring King William Island for traces of the lost explorers, the expedition's most significant discoveries were the only known paper records of Franklin, especially a composite note describing the besetting of Erebus and Terror in 1846, the death of Franklin on June 11, 1847, the abandonment of the ships in 1848 and the intent of Captain Crozier to set out on April 26, 1846, to Back's Fish River. In additional to several bodies, McClintock found or bought from local Inuit several relics from the crushed ships, including a number of books. McClintock also was able to describe the death march from Point Victory to the Great Fish River as Franklin's 'earliest discovery of the… Read More

Berkeley: Howell-North, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three full color paintings by Howard Fogg, endpaper maps by Frederic Shaw, 250 photographs, and numerous equipment drawings for the model maker. The saga of the narrow gauge railroads like the Denver & Rio Grande and the South Park, which served the Colorado frontier in high style in the late 19th century. Original charcoal cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of minor edgewear along the bottom edge of the boards. The dust jacket is a touch edgeworn as well; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Four Way Books, 2005. Trade paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Tobin to acclaimed poet B.H. ("Pete") Fairchild on the title page. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. With a Review of the Problem in West and West-Central Africa by W.R. Stewart (Late of the Niger Company). Facsimile reprint of the 1903 first edition. It is stated that "South African literature is strangely lacking in works comprehensively handling the African native as he actually lives and thinks," and that this book "is only advanced as a pioneer effort in this region of inquiry." The scope of the publication embraces the "present stage of development and mental plane" of the natives, together with a description of their character and customs, some notes on the influence of the missionaries on their conduct and industry, and a careful examination of the effect of the demand for colored labor upon the tribes, with discussion of the treatment of those employed in the mines. Particular attention has been given to the "native problem" of South Africa, which, it is stated, at the commencement of the 20th century, had a population of between… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1973. Trade paperback. Fine. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy.

Gallup, New Mexico: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ernie Bulow, illustrator Ernest Franklin, and Tony Hillerman, who wrote the foreword, on the title page, with Buffalo Medicine holiday card laid in. Insightful introduction to the superstitions and taboos of traditional Navajo culture, including those associated with snakes, bears, sleep, pregnancy, babies, weaving, hunting, witchcraft, ghosts, etc. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stuart on the front flyleaf: "Presented to Daniel B. Martin, Esq. Chief Engineer U.S. Navy from his friend The Author." Martin succeeded Stuart as Engineer-in-Chief, serving in the post from 1853 to 1857. Although the title pages states "Thirty-Six" plates, the correct number in the first edition is 35 plates. Howes (S-1094) records 35 plates for the first, then notes that the second edition, also published in 1853, has 36. Large quarto: 216, 21, [1] p. with 35 plates, including a chromolithograph frontispiece, a portrait of the author and 6 double-page plates. There are views of the steamers as well as technical drawings. Bound in the publisher's deluxe binding of full pebbled dark brown morocco, with five raised bands and elaborate gilt stamping, including a depiction of a naval steamer on both panels and ornamental dentelles. Some mild to moderate foxing, as often found with this book. A bit… Read More

San Francisco: John Howell, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 600 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Duvall (1818-91) was appointed as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy on January 25, 1842 and assigned to the frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). He joined the Pacific Squadron in 1845, and a few months later was transferred to the sloop Portsmouth, which captured San Francisco on July 9, 1846. He served on land during the Mexican war, and in Sonora he was medical officer of the expedition, composed of marines, seamen, artillerymen, and two companies of cavalry, which defeated the enemy at Santa Clara on New Years' Day 1847. He was also aide to the commanding officer of the expedition, and afterward was senior medical officer of the expedition under Commodore Stockton, which landed at San Pedro to march to Los Angeles. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers. Octavo: x, [ii], 114 p. with 7 illustrations (4 folding). Original burgundy cloth binding, with a rendering the… Read More

New York: New Directions, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Textual photographs and illustrations. New York: New Directions, 1970. First edition. Includes "The Enigma of Ho Chi Minh's Funeral" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "The Voice behind the Curtain" by Gottfried Benn, "Six Poems" by Quincy Troupe, etc. Signed by poet Al Young opposite his entry on the contents page. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very mild rubbing; otherwise very good.

Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, #157 of 250 copies signed by Brian Lumley and illustrator Bob Eggleton. Originally intended to be a chapter in Lumley's 1995 two-part novel, The Lost Years, this supernatural novella is the 17th book in his Necroscope series. Octavo. Full black leather binding, with metallic pink titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Albany, New York: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1945. First Edition. Wraps. A collection of short biographies of modern African American artists, the first of its kind. Includes profiles of Elizabeth Catlett, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibald Motley, among many others. Octavo: vii, 77 p. Original printed paper wrappers, bound with two staples. Minor creasing to the fore-edge of one leaf towards the rear. The wrappers are separating along the spine, with an ink name and small mark to the front panel, and some general toning and minor soiling.