Authors starting with N from Boston Book Company

1966. Fine. NABOKOV, Vladimir. NABOKOV'S QUARTET. New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First edition. 104pp. 8vo., patterned cloth. Very light shelfwear. Near fine, in a dust jacket with a few closed tears, one fore- edge chip, and sprinkled with foxing near the bottom of the front panel. ... more information

1944. (NABOKOV, Vladimir). THREE RUSSIAN POETS. Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev, in new translations by Vladimir Nabokov. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, (1944). First edition. Wrapper issue. The paper covers rather sunned, split at the spine. Touch of soil. ... more information

1975. Paperback. Very Good. NAGEL, Dr. Fritz. 256. AUKTION, STUTTGART. Stuttgart: Kunst-Und Auktionshaus, Dr. Fritz Nagel, 1975. 8vo., wraps. Color and black & white photography throughout. Very good. ... more information

1989. Fine. NAIPAUL, V. S. A TURN IN THE SOUTH. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First trade edition. 8vo., blue cloth-backed boards. Fine, clean and neat, in dust jacket. ... more information

1963. Fine. NAIPAUL, V.S. MR STONE AND THE KNIGHTS COMPANION. New York: The Macmillan Company, (1958). 8vo., textured brown paper boards, gilt spine title. A fine copy, in a bright dust jacket. ... more information

1959. Fine. NAIPAUL, V.S. THE MYSTIC MASSEUR. New York: Vanguard Press, (1959). First American edition. A fine copy in a dust-jacket with a little soil and nicks and short tears to crown and perimeters. It is clipped at the top-corner of the front fold-in; however, the original price ($3.50) is printed at the bottom corner of the fold-in. ... more information

1967. Fine. NAIPAUL, V.S. THE MIMIC MEN. New York: Macmillan, (1967). First American edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Fine, in the dust jacket. ... more information

1944. Paperback. NAMIOT, Rebecca M. SOLUTION OF PRESENT-DAY PROBLEMS. [n.p., n.p.] 1944. 72 pp. 8vo., green wrappers printed in black. Light soil to covers, top of spine chipped 1/2 inch, bottom of spine nicked. Faint pencil notation to front cover. By the author of "What Judaism Teaches." Publisher's name excised from title page, covered with blank strip of paper affixed to title page recto. Light soil to first few pages. Jewish history and the interpretation of events contemporary to 1944. ... more information

1886. Good. NANJIO, Bunyiu. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TWELVE JAPANESE BUDDHIST SECTS. Translated from the original Japanese. Tokyo: Bukkyo-Sho-Ei-Yaku-Shuppan- Sha, Meiji, 19th Year [1886]. Small 8vo., green cloth; xxxi + [78] pp. Ex- library. Just a good copy; some soil, rubbing, edgewear to cloth; ink ownership and a few ink and pencil notations internally; hinges starting with slight insect activity at the rear. Overall, a little musty with an occasional touch of soil internally. ... more information

1804. Good. [EHON] Nishimura NANTEI. NANTEI GAFU. Kyoto, Kyowa 4, [1804]. 3 vols. in one, gappon, in tan covers with a blindstamped vegetal gourd pattern. 25.8 x 18.2 cm. The printed papaer label is present but chipped, the covers are soiled. Good printing with slight worming. Overall a good copy of this classic Shijo work. See Mitchell 432 for a description of this book. Our version is printed without the kyoka poems. Complete. ... more information

1853. Good. NAPIER, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James, ed. Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. P. Napier. DEFECTS, CIVIL AND MILITARY, OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT. London: Charles Westerton, 1853. Second edition. xii + 437 pp. 8vo., original brown cloth stamped in blind, backstrip obscured by dark blue cloth tape. Ex-library with usual markings, spine chipped at heel and crown, corners worn. Occasional thumbing or minimal foxing in the text. Contains supplementary chapter by the editor. Fair to good overall. ... more information

1936. Very Good. NARAMORE, Elisabeth. WILLIAM AND HIS FRIENDS. A group of notable creatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Viking Press, 1936. 12mo., pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated throughout. A very good copy only lightly sunned at the spine. ... more information

1966. Fine. NARAZAKI, Muneshige. THE JAPANESE PRINT: Its Evolution and Essence. English adaptation by C.H. Mitchell. Tokyo & Palo Alto: Kodansha International, (1966, 1st Printing) Folio, 274 pp., with 107 tipped-in color plates. Black cloth. Fine in like dust jacket. $125.00[a] ... more information

1934. Paperback. Fine. NASH, Ogden. FOUR PROMINENT SO AND SO'S. Lyrics: Ogden Nash. Music: Robert Armbruster. Illustrations: Otto Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First edition. The original, unbowdlerized version, as performed at the Dutch Treat Club in 1933. Pamphlet, 16 pp., in pictorial wrappers. About fine. Scarce. ... more information

1964. Fine. NASH, Ogden. THE UNTOLD ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, (1964). First edition. 8vo., green cloth. Illustrated. Touch of bubbling to upper joint, else fine in uncommon publisher's library binding; in edgeworn dust jacket with a tear to top edge of back panel. ... more information

1945. Fine. NASH, Ogden. MANY LONG YEARS AGO. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1945). Warmly inscribed with a clever doodle (self-portrait with glasses?) on front flyleaf and signed below by Nash. xvii + [1] + 333 pp. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Spine lightly sunned, else a fine copy. Nash's trademark humorous poetry (The Rabbits: "Here's a verse about rabbits | That doesn't mention their habits.") and verse musings (Reflection on a Wicked World: "Purity | Is obscu... more information

1917. Very Good. NATHAN, George Jean. BOTTOMS UP: AN APPLICATION OF THE SLAPSTICK TO SATIRE. New York: Philip Goodman Company, 1917. First edition. 73 pp. 8vo., black paper covered boards stamped in gilt. Fine in very good white dust jacket with faint soil and nicked edges. A series of short theatrical satires. ... more information

1938. Good. NATHAN, George Jean. THE MORNING AFTER THE FIRST NIGHT. New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition. ix, 282 pp. 8vo., black cloth stamped in silver and blind. Near fine, bottom front corner gently bumped, faint inkstamp to rear flyleaf. Offset tanning to front endpapers from review newsclipping. In good dust jacket with b/w cover illustration; Borzoi books spine emblem. Minor edgewear, a few nicks, light soil. Interior clean and bright. Essays on the theatre of the day. ... more information

1917. Fine. NATHAN, George Jean. BOTTOMS UP, An Application of the Slapstick to Satire. New York: Philip Goodman Company, 1917. First edition. This is a fine copy in decorated paper covered boards, in a white dust jacket that is slightly soiled and moderately edgeworn. An exceptional-ly nice copy. ... more information

1960. Very Good. NATHAN, Robert. THE COLOR OF EVENING. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First edition, inscribed to William Koshland, Nathan's editor and the man to whom this book is dedicated: "For Bill himself, whose gentle patience and good humor have so often soothed my writer's cramps and tantrums - affectionately, Bob." 211 pp. 8vo., red cloth back, title and decoration gilt-stamped to spine, blue paper boards, blind-stamped decoration to upper board and publisher's device to... more information