Search Results: Titles starting with N from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: The Viking Press, [1968]. FIRST EDITION. An anthology which includes the entire text of Pnin with selections from three other novels, Despair, Invitation to a Beheading and The Gift. Also includes ten poems, 11 short stories, an extract from Nabokov's autobiography and a number of essays. There is also a long introduction by Stegner whose "Escape into Aesthetics" was the first book length study of Nabokov's work. A fine book in a dust jacket .

New York:: The John Day Company,, [1948].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.. Hardcover. Small chip to upper corner of front flyleaf. Boards slightly bumped at spine ends. Very good in a nearly fine dust jacket, exceptionally bright and crisp but with a one-inch closed tear at bottom of rear flap fold.

London: G. Bell & Sons, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Neat previous owner inscription on flyleaf. Else very good in a very good dust jacket, somewhat browned at spine and edges but with virtually no paper loss. Da Andrade was a British physicist and chemist who worked with Rutherford.

New York: The John Day Company, [1928]. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth somewhat darkened at spine. Otherwise a very good copy in a bright, near fine dust jacket with several closed tears. Includes numerous photographs of contemporary housing projects.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Review copy with publication date rubber-stamped on front flyleaf. Tight, near fine copy of this large 494-page volume, in a perfect, as new dust jacket. Besides William Carlos Williams (a full lenghth play, "Many Loves", this volume contains Franz Kafka, Richard Eberhart and Ford Madox Ford, among others.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]. FIRST EDITION. A fine book in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Basic Books, [1962]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy (minute rubbing to spine label). One of 450 copies.

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Blue cloth with red paper labels on front and spine. A clean fresh book in a dust jacket that would be fine but for a faint dampstain to the lower edge of the spine and rear panel (visible primarily on verso of jacket). A stellar collection of poets including Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, John Peale Bishop, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNeice, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas and Robert Penn Warren, among others. Includes photographs of the poets with thumbnail biographies. Ed

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1941]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Published slightly earlier in America as The Double Man. Fine copy in dust jacket just a touch faded at spine panel with some very shallow paper loss at head of spine panel. Beautiful, crisp copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Paper label at spine a little browned. Else a clean, near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket (few tiny nicks at edges). The author was a Professor of History at Harvard. Issued as part of the Makers of Modern Europe, Edited By Donald C. McKay & Dumas Malone. 243 pp. Includes a bibliography.

New York: The Century Co, [1932]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine book in a bright unfaded dust jacket with some minor restoration at edges. Beautiful copy of this Connolly 100 title.

New York: Harmony Books, [1999]. FIRST EDITION. Signed by Busch on title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some spotting to page edges. Else a fine copy in dust jacket with a few minor tears with design by Arthur Hawkins. Scotland setting.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a fine bright dust jacket (faint crease at spine).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, [1954]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some light foxing to page edges. Else a near fine book in a sujperb fine dust jacket, virtually as new.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [1937]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A fine fresh copy, unfortunately lacking the dust jacket. T.S. Eliot's introduction appears first in this volume.

Paris: La Table Ronde, [1953]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Review copy with "S.P." marking on rear cover. Pages slightly browned otherwise a fine copy in wrappers and original tissue.

Paris: La Table Ronde, [1953]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Pages slightly browned otherwise a fine copy in wrappers and original tissue.