Search Results: Titles starting with N from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1972).. (1972).. Very good. - Quarto, dark teal buckram titled in gilt, in dw. The dw is lightly rubbed & soiled with a short tear & light creasing to the top edge & a crease to the rear flap. 335 pp. Owner's ink name & address label on the front endpaper. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed on the half-title by Douglas Allen, Jr.

(New York: N. Chanin Jubilee Committee), 1946.. 1946.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The binding is very lightly bumped. The spine is rubbed & faded & its head is slightly chipped. 434 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white portrait plates, including a frontispiece. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>This is the history/biography of the labor leader N. Chanin. The last hundred or so pages consist of congratulatory letters from friends and associates. The text is in Yiddish.

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973).. (1973).. Fine. - Octavo, black cloth backed mustard-yellow boards titled in gilt on spine and in raised lettering in blind within decorative frame stamped in blind on front board, in dw. The dw is bumped & lightly chipped. xxvi & 249 pp. Near fine. <p>First edition.

(Berlin): Rainer Verlag, (1986)., (1986).. Fine. - Small octavo [approximately 6 inches high by 4 inches wide], softcover bound in blue & white decorative wrappers. Unnumbered pages, including 61 poems, a full-page black-and-white portrait of the author & a colophon. Near fine. Second printing.

(Warszawa [Poland]): Czytelnik, 1967.. 1967.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers in a dust wrapper. The edges of the wraps are slightly darkened with some light offsetting from the dust jacket. There is some very minor soiling to the dust jacket & the edges of its panels are slightly darkened. 65 & [3] pages. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>There are several examples of visual poetry in this collection. The text is in Polish.

Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, M.B.H., 1946.. 1946.. Good. - Octavo, rust cloth backed tan paper covered boards titled in black The boards are warped & there are 2 tiny indentations to the spine. 253 & [1] pp. & 1-page ad. The pastedowns are partially unglued & the rear endpaper & ad are chipped. The pages are slightly darkened and some page corners creased. Illustrated in B&W. Good. <p>A study of "nutrition and raw materials from the sea". The bulk of the book is about fishing, fish and fish products. Other raw materials from the sea such as coral, pearls, dyes, minerals, metals and gases are also discussed. Text in German.

Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1955.. 1955.. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-3/4 inches high by 8 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with a small tear to the tail of the spine. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with tears to the top edge & a piece out of the head of the jacket spine & the adjacent corners of the front panel. There is some staining to the front panel. 112 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>In this book, based on an exhibition shown at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the author writes about the difference between reality and the artist's individual vision.

New York: Associated American Artists, 1988.. 1988.. Fine. - Oblong octavo [6 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wraps. There is some very light rubbing & foxing to the wraps. [16] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. <p>A price-list is laid in.

(Aachen, Germany: Neue Galerie im Alten Kurhaus, 1971).. 1971).. Fine. - Quarto, pictorial tan & brown wraps. The wraps are very lightly rubbed with the bottom corner of the front wrap lightly creased. [x] pages & profuse black-and-white & color plates after works by Nancy Graves. Near fine. <p>Published in conjunction with an exhibition shown at the Neue Galerie in October 1971.

Boston, Mass.: Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Co., (1907)., (1907).. Very good. - 12mo, 8-1/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, stapled color pictorial cream wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with light staining to the front cover along the spine. 40 pages, consisting of a rare advertising book for Crawford Ranges with a short story by Julian Street and Frank Finney charmingly illustrated in color, and with black & white textual and full-page illustrations of the company's ranges. The middle signature [i.e. group of pages] is detached but present. Very good. A RARE advertising book for Crawford Ranges by the Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company of Boston. A charming story by Julian Street and Frank Finney, illustrated in color, features "Zeke" who is "bent on stove-making."

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914., 1914.. Good. - 12mo, 6-5/8 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Color pictorial boards with an illustration of toy sentries guarding the door to a doll-house on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and soiled with slight wear to the corners and the head and tail of the spine. 49 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece and 5 full-page color plates. The text block is cracked opposite the title page. A previous owner's name and address, dated in the year of publication, is penned on the front endpaper. There is scattered foxing, especially in the margins of the plates. Good. First edition. RARE.Josephine Scribner Gates (1859-1930) was a popular author of children's books at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Gates was known for her "Live Dolls" series and had written over 23 books by 1915. Her characters were dolls who came to life and interacted with the children who played with them. Several of her books were… Read More

(Umanaq): Nordiske Landes Bogforlag, (1981)., (1981).. Very good. - Small quarto [9-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in teal pictorial wrappers. The extremities of the binding are lightly rubbed. 282 & [1] pages. Numerous black-and-white illustrations, including maps & facsimiles. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>An account of the history and development of the commune of Nanortalik.<p>The text is in Danish and Greenlandic.

Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped and are slightly darkened along the spine. xii & 178 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including maps, line drawings & photographic illustrations, by the author. Very good. <p>Second printing.<p>Study of an Eskimo people "whose way of life--due to location, Russian influences in the nineteenth century, and greater contact with whites today--is quite different from that of their more northerly cousins." [From the rear wrap copy].

Boston: LeRoy Phillips, (1912).. (1912).. Good. - 16mo, 5-5/8 inches high by 3 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stiff paper covered wraps illustrated with an illustration across the front and rear covers of Napoleon and an elegant couple overlooking the multitude. There is a small piece out from the bottom edge and inner corner of the front cover. 83 deckle-edged pages, illustrated with a tipped-in double- page color illustration and several black & white vignettes. There is a tiny tear to the front edges of several pages, a tiny tear to the bottom edge of one page and the overlapping edges of a few leaves are slightly chipped. Good. <p>Maxims of Life Series Number One<p>Second edition.

(Milano: Edizioni Conde Nast), (1993).. (1993).. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. 154 & [6] pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine. <p>A handsomely illustrated report on the history, industry and arts of the Italian city of Naples. The text is in Italian with an English summary and English translations of sections of the text.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.. 1983.. Very good. SIGNED BY LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the boards are slightly faded & the cloth on the top edge of the front board is a bit darkened. The dust jacket is rubbed with some creasing to the edges of its panels. The top edges of the flaps are foxed. [ix] & 213 pages. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>Signed in full by Louis Auchincloss on the front endpaper.

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007., 2007.. Fine. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, quarter-bound in gray boards backed with a blue cloth spine, stamped in gilt with a unique motif of the Helm of Hador created by Alan Lee on the front cover and housed in a blue custom slipcase. 315 pages, illustrated with a red and black fold-out Map of Beleriand by Christopher Tolkien, together with eight color plates & 25 pencil sketches by Alan Lee. Near fine. Deluxe Edition, with the original prospectus laid in"The first standalone tale of Middle-earth since 1977 and the first complete version of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Great Tales', with many exclusive features." - from the Publisher's prospectus. Constructed from the original manuscripts by Christopher Tolkien and with his introduction and appendix on the history and writing of the tale.

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1974.. 1974.. Very good. - Small quarto [8-3/4 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide], black cloth titled in red & gilt. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with a small, light stain to the front cover. 189 & [2] pages plus colophon. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. The book is slightly cocked. Very good. <p>"Wooden Folk Sculpture of the Russian North". The text is in Russian.

NY: Maurizio Martino, n.d. [circa 1991].. n.d. [circa 1991].. Fine. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. 120 & 49 pp. Near fine. <p>Reprint, limited to 300 copies, of the original 1912 edition.

circa [1950].. [1950].. Very good. - sc 43 manuscript pages typed on one side of 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheets, with an autograph letter signed by Nick Persoff as cover letter. The material consists of translations by Nick Persoff of what appear to be diaries or short memoirs by Jewish settlers including Israel Shochat, Tova Portugali, Yechezkel Nisamov, Turner, and Igal Portugali, recounting events taking place in Palestine during the early part of the 20th century. Persoff appears to be seeking to interest the scriptwriter and author Ben Hecht in these fascinating narratives. His cover letter, penned in blue ink on an 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet apologizes for the poor typing "the girl came highly recommended". He says that he's included "very little material on their relationship to each other, and many of the notes are rather sketchy...." but if Ben Hecht is still interested they can get all of the material. This letter is signed "Nick". The… Read More