Search Results: Titles starting with N from Crooked House Books & Paper

Paulist Press, 1978. Soft cover. Near Fine. 5x0x9. Trade paperback, 9" tall. A nice & clean copy. Please check our listings for additional titles in the Classics of Western Spirituality series.

Tor Books, 2019-10-28. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. Signed (name only) to title page; first printing with full number line.

New York: Viking, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff. Gray cloth with stamped blue ship on front board, large 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 165 pages, illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff throughout printed in blue, pictorial endpapers. Boards faded to tan along extremities with some foxing, internally clean and bright with sound binding; toned dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with a bit of chipping at spine ends. A biography for young people of Norwegian Polar explorer, Fridtjof Nansen. Newbery Honor book of 1941

Portland, Oregon: Breitenbush Books, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. First edition stated, trade paperback with white covers, 9" tall, 78 pp. No flaws to note. A genealogical verse memoir from the poet/translator, written after her return to the Pacific Northwest.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Chappell, Warren. First edition stated. 416 pages and index, green cloth boards with gilt titling and device, price clipped dust jacket is lightly toned with a tiny bit of chipping at corners, now in protective mylar sleeve. From dust jacket: "A brilliant panorama of the ways men and women have loved and felt about Love -- from the early Greeks to the present day.

Viking Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Grey cloth boards under white & pink illustrated dust jacket, 6-3/4" x 5". Promotional letter from publisher laid in; presumably a review copy though not marked as such. Bottom of front flap clipped, but price intact at top.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Navy blue cloth with bright gilt borders designed as ropes, anchors forming the background to a central medal (the medal which was presented by Congress to Captain Stephen Decatur) on front board; spine also bordered with rope; H & B logo stamped in gilt to rear board, 9-1/4" x 6-1/2", 263 pp. Very faint wear and bumping to tips and spine ends. A beautiful production of this history of naval warfare, including two accounts of American privateers, complete with reproductions of the various medals presented to the victors.

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Hardcover. Very Good. Full morocco with gilt titles in slipcase, 16mo, 384 pages; an attractive edition, binding is tight and pages are clean. 0

Faber & Faber, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Full black cloth binding with white lettering, 8" x 5-3/4", 112 pp. Minor edgewear, mostly at spine ends.

Woburn, Mass: Cook Book Committee Patris, Ladies Philoptohos Society. Soft cover. Very Good. Undated, circa1970s; comb-bound in pictorial stock covers, 67 mimeographed pages, decorative chapter heads. Covers toned with a mild stain (milk, yogurt?) on front cover, internally clean and sound. "Kali orexi" is Greek for "good appetite." The cookbook seems geared to entertaining or special occasions with the opening chapter being Party Delights, and the final is Recipes for a Large Crowd. Chapters for meats and mains, vegetables and salads, breads, etc. Separate chapters for American Pastries and Greek Pastries, and a very brief chapter of Church Foods containing only two recipes, which are for ceremonies of death and living. Scarce, OCLC locates no copies and no copies on the market at this time.

London: The New Leader, 1924. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Gill, Eric; Leighton, Clare. Green paper wrappers printed in black, sewn text block, 11 woodcut plates held in front flap, 12-1/4" tall. Lacks the John Greenwood plate, else complete, in-text illustrations by Gwen Raverat. Small tear to spine, light wear to edges of wraps foxing to title page and Sidney Gausen's "Sulya's Fifth Wife" plate, light other foxing. A nice piece, rarely found complete, but in this case including arguably the two best prints: Gill & Leighton, both of which are quite bright.

New York, NY: Modern Library, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Reprint, Toledano binding style 13, grey cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 559 pages plus publisher's list; previous owner's name written on front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, pages toned; unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed with some visible edge wear, dust jacket now in mylar.

Doubleday & Company, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition stated. Black cloth boards under white pictorial dust jacket designed by Polly Cameron. Some discoloration to top front corner of board, moderate toning and rubbing to jacket. Short stories.

Newton, Iowa: Ways and Means Committee, 1936. Soft cover. Good. Paperback, brown linen-like paper with black printing on front cover, 9" x 5-7/8", one color plate advertisement, 219 pp. Moderate wear, no major flaws. Good to very good condition. Newton, Iowa was the home of the Maytag Corporation which was the major employer for over a century, until it was purchased by Whirlpool in 2006 and began to shut down operations in Newton. This cookbook, however, was published while the founder Frederick Maytag was still alive, and the Maytag family contributed at least one recipe (Cr

Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix / Starstreams, 1976. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Limited edition of 500 copies, with illustrations by Maya, Dana Young, Sidney Hushour, Petra Vogt, Lee Baarslag, and Paul Bowles. 9-1/2" x 7".

New York: William R. Scott. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Weisgard, Leonard. 4to in pictorial cloth, unnumbered pages, green and black illustrations by Leonard Weisgard throughout; dust jacket worn and toned, split in two along front joint with large chips out at head and tail, presents well in mylar. Posthumously published collection of poems by the beloved Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by frequent collaborator and Caldecott Medal winner, Leonard Weisgard.

University Press of Liverpool, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine under offwhite typographic dust jacket, 8vo, 221 pp. Chipping to DJ at spine ends, owner's name stamp to front endpaper, else a lovely copy. Includes the French & English translation of Livre de Divinactions, and the Latin of Tractatus Contra Judicarios Astronomos.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with black lettering & decoration, 8vo, 286 pp. Modest fading to spine, light wear, clean & sound copy. Despite its unfortunate name (against which he was advised), it was well received by the Black population it describes.

Achille St. Onge, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tudor, Tasha. Red leather boards under pictorial dust jacket, all edges gilt. Fine press miniature book. Multiple copies available at time of entry. All appear unread.

Jonathan Cape, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Grey paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; under red & purple illustrated DJ, original price intact. Light stain to front DJ panel, rubbing to rear panel. Szabo is the most-translated Hungarian author; uncommon signed.