Search Results: Titles starting with N from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

A Marion Wood Book / Henry Holt and Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Near gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone cloth covers, bright and shiny dust jacket, little worn. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Author's initials stamped to spine. 289 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Penguin Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Printing, First Edition, of yet another fine novel by an acknowledged master of literature. But for a fetching gift inscription, a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, else unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone, black paper over boards, black cloth-backed. From the publisher's blurb, "Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. A portrait of modern urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself." 401 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond being price-clipped. First Edition. Bright blue cloth- covered boards; gilt spine lettering. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Fine Introduction by editor. 346 pp. Photographs of Nabokov and Wilson on rear of dust jacket. Plentiful facsimile notes and signatures by Nabokov in Russian, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: C&M Arts, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Arising out of an idea given to the author by his wife, Adriana, Naked Since 1950 resulted from an exhibition that took place October 11 - December 8, 2001, and this volume features modern and contemporary nudes rendered by means of various media (photography, sculpture, collage, painting, etching) onto various surfaces. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound in gray cloth, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Interior clean and unmarked. Features the work of Diane Arbus, Joseph Cornell, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Sally Mann, and many others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: October House, 1964. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, inscribed to Betty Henry fondly. Stated Second Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed paper wraps in good condition, clean, structurally sound, and not price-clipped, protected in Brodart. A leading Pasadena, California-based poet with serious writing chops. Jean Burden was also a poetry editor of Yankee Magazine for nearly half a century, but didn't publisher her own first collection until well into her 50s. 72 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nalini Malani. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in colorful pictorial covers, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Complete with DVD. A fine example of a student research project from 2014 in the field of art history and performance art, with contributions the editor, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, a Foreword from the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, and with additional contributions from them and from Andreas Huyssen and Johan Pijnappel, and an interview between Appadurai and the artist Nalini Malani. Spectacularly illustrated and 95 pp. of text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

France: Galerie Lelong, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Reperes - Cahiers d'art contemporain #143, an As New condition of a fine gallery exhibit catalog. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps, in gate-fold. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields. Her Wikipedia entry notes that "She works with several mediums which include theater, videos, installations along with mixed media paintings and drawings. The subjects of her creations are deeply influenced by her experience of migration in the aftermath of the partition of India. Subsequently, pressing feminist issues have also become a part of her creative output." She commenced work in 1969 with "Dream Houses," as the youngest and only female participant of the Vision Exchange… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. An unusually attractive binding, being of gray paper over boards, gray and white cloth-backed, gray lettering to spine. Top-stained in purple. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, a little worn of front inner flap, along edges, else protected by a plastic coat and not price-clipped. A fine and accessible biography of a society woman who came to symbolize the literary Bohemia of the '20s and '30s and who was also a writer and poet and muse and friend to many. Full bibliography and notes, several sections of black-and-white photographs, many being by Cecil Beaton. xiii [2]-2-366 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Nancy Graves. A superior copy inside and out of a catalogue raisonne, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely produced in very dark blue cloth over boards, white lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 203 illustrations, 188 in full color. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. List of patrons, an exhibition check-list, a chronology and then captioned and detailed, date plates, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and… Read More

New York: HarperCollins , 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Near Fine condition copy in Imperial octavo hardcover format in a like condition dust jacket. Stated First Edition, First Printing. xxii + 888 pp. and augmented with a colorful pictorial dust jacket. Bound handsomely in gunmetal grey paper over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distinct silver lettering to spine. Augmented further with map endpapers front and rear, with extensive frontis matter, a Preface, Acknowledgments by the author, a Bonaparte family tree, and with plentiful black-and-white and full-color plates. Maps, notes, battle plans, references, index, an Epilogue, Appendixes. The author's remarkable one-volume biography of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte includes his childhood in Corsica and runs to his death in exile on the island of St. Helena.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially… Read More

Syracuse: A.L. Smith, printed for L.W. Hall, 1846. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, an early printing of the true First Edition published the prior year, title page saying “reprinted from the Official Copy.” Bound in leather over boards, paper spine-backed. Scuffed a bit at extremities, newer backstrip over spine, slight separation thereof at spine bottom, loosening of backstrip, which appears to be shellacked vellum. Prefatory Notice is from 1846, and thus begins the report from 1843, "A Report of an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains in the Line fo the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers. Pasted inside is a handsome bookplate from the publisher but that functions also as a School District “Property of” receipt, being from Carillon, No. 8. Reinforced endpapers, heavy toning to frontis matter page… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Michael Sevier also provides some explanatory notes. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 133 fine black-and-white illustrations. ix [2], 1-122 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Faber & Faber, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond short closed tear to front panel bottom at spine, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [13], 14-208 pp. Six maps.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Toledo and Boston: Locke Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately worn, mildly soiled and scuffed of spine head and tail, tips, but still sturdily bound and stands proudly by itself on the shelf. Fine gilt illustration of a traveling Nasby to front cover, stamped black designs to front cover, spine, with gilt lettering and illustration to spine rubbed. Ohio author, the satirist, Petroleum V. Nasby, travels for "Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France." 289 black-and-white engraved illustrations, quite fine. xvi, 17-672 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

1984. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Nate Shiner. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently. 46 pp. of a fine artist exhibit catalog for a show that ran in three different galleries including the New Museum of New York. Precise publisher not stated. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Simple printed wraps, several score fine reproductions, printed on high-gloss paper. Introduction by Marcia Tucker. List of exhibitions and their chronology.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Moraga, California: Heartst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Nathan Oliveira. Sterling condition softcover copy , with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers. Fine full-color reproductions of Oliveira's best paintings in this fine artist gallery exhibit catalog. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Ann Harlow. 17 pp., including a checklist and list of exhibitions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely produced in blue cloth and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to cover, quite nice. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Gorgeously illustrated with full-color reproductions of works by and about Henry VIII to Paul McCarney, Mary, Queen fo Scots, Florence Nighingale, James Joyce, Winston Churchill and Laurence Olivier, among others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 10-376 pp.Member,… Read More

Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologica e Historia S.E.P, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Constantino Reyes Valerio and Armando Salas Portugal. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Printed raspberry card stock wraps, and replete with lovely photographic reproductions, 41 in both full-color and black-and-white, mostly of sculptures in stone and wood, quite nice, focused on Meso-America, masks and ritual objects.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Among the most consummate and admirable, therefore, of the terrestrial works of the great Creator, and signally manifesting his wonder-working skill, his unspeakable wisdom, power, and goodness, and the study of their organization, and character, and habits, cannot be otherwise than highly entertaining and instructive" (from the publishers' Preface). Another fine addition to the Harper and Brothers Family Library, this being No. 104. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in marbled paper over boards, creamy calf leather over tips and spine. Replete with fine half-page black-and-white engravings. Penned anonymously, but probably by a team of natural historians on staff in Britain at the time, but clearly prior to the Darwin/Wallace revolution of two decades later. First Edition was published the prior year. Forty-one illustrations throughout.… Read More

New York: Horizon Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. First appearance in America of Jules Renard's Histoires Naturelles, the supple lithographs of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the sparkling brush drawings by Pierre Bonnard, and the other drawings of Walter Stein. Edgar Munhall's essay evinces his experience curating The Frick Collection. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound copy in hardcover format, virtually pristine of interior, just a bit of sunning at top edge and gutter of front pastedown. Neither rubbing to nor scuffing of tips and extremities. Lovely lithographs and drawings by Toulouse Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, and Walter Stein. An Introductory essay by Edgar Munhall. Two-tone cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Near Fine condition slipcase, sunned along edges, but with two paper labels affixed neatly to front and rear panels, neat and sharp. The complete work in French is included and with a 16-page booklet laid in. Translated… Read More