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10601 |
Newhafer, Richard THE LAST TALLYHO
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1964). B0006BM3S0 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Sticker ghost to front free endsheet, else fine, in navy blue cloth with gilt spine stamping; in a lightly rubbed, mildly age-toned, near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed edge tear to lower rear panel.
First novel by the WWII Naval ace tells the "lusty, exciting story of a mere handful of men whose exploits high over the Pacific helped change the course of history and wrote finis to traditional concepts of naval warfare."
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10602 |
Newhall, Beaumont SUPREME INSTANTS: The Photography of Edward Weston
Boston: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company, (1986). 082121621X First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket. Oblong quarto. 191 pages. One hundred twenty-three full-page duotone and color plates.
"This volume of photographs commemorates the centennial of Weston's birth. It is notable because it contains seldom-seen early work as well as obscure color work done late in his career."--Library Journal.
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75.00 USD
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10603 |
Newhouse, Vernon L. APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
New York & London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1964). First edition. Hardcover. Shelfwear to spine edges, else near fine in green cloth with gilt titles to the front cover and on black panels to the spine; in a very good dust jacket marred with a sticker scar and light age-toning to spine and closed-edge tear to rear panel.
285 pages; figures, appendices, bibliography, references, index. Provides an elementary but thorough introduction to modern superconductivity and an exhaustive survey of superconductive devices, including electromagnets and flux pumps.
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25.00 USD
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10604 |
Newman, Daisy THE AUTUMN'S BRIGHTNESS
New York: (Special Family Bookshelf Edition), (1989). B0007GZMWS Book club edition. U.S. title of DILLY. Hardcover. Fine, in blue boards lettered in gilt to the spine; in a mildly age-toned, else fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Third volume in the Quaker author's Kendall trilogy. Diligence Bliss (Dilly) finds herself confronted with a friendship she is not sure she is ready to continue. Durand is attentive, attractive and someone she cannot forget.
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15.00 USD
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10605 |
Newman, Kim JAGO
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., (1991). 0881848689 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in silver-lettered goldenrod cloth over blue boards; in a fine, as-new, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket illustration: William Blake's ''The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve.''
"Horror novel about a strange cult in the depths of Somerset."--Locus Magazine. "A novel of breathtaking imagination and impact."--Starburst.
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20.00 USD
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10606 |
Newman, Kim THE QUORUM
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, (1994). 0786701323 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Nearly fine, in gilt-lettered orange cloth shelfback over ochre boards; in a very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to upper rear panel and associated mild creasing.
Supernatural horror and social satire mix in this relocation of the Faust myth to contemporary London. "The best thing Newman has done. It has all his expected cleverness, his witty eye for detail and seemingly endless invention."--Time Out.
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10607 |
Newman, Sharan GUINEVERE
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1981). 0312353189 First edition. Hardcover. Very nearly fine, in green foil-stamped, sand-colored cloth over olive boards; in a very mildly age-toned illustrated dust jacket with artwork by Griesbach/Martucci.
Fresh perspective on the Arthurian legend focuses on the woman of unearthly beauty who was to be the wife of the legendary king. "Superbly handled... a powerful tale which has never been told before."--Anne McCaffrey. The first in a trilogy.
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10608 |
Newman, Sharan TO WEAR THE WHITE CLOAK
New York: Forge Books/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2000). 0312869657 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in black boards with gilt titles to the spine; in a fine, as-new, dust jacket.
The seventh installment in the Catherine LeVendeur series depicts large issues of life in 12th-century France. Seasoned with wit and humor.
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10609 |
Newmark, Maxim, Phd. DICTIONARY OF SPANISH LITERATURE
New York: Philosophical Library, (1956). B0007DPC2G First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine with tiny penned scribble to rear endsheet, wear at spine crown; in tan composition binding with black lettering; in very good plus dust jacket, showing a few short, creased edge tears, light edgewear and mild age-darkening.
Reference work for students of Spanish and Spanish American literature, with entries on the great anonymous masterpieces, the major and minor novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists and literary critics. 352 pages.
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10610 |
Newton, A. Edward THOMAS HARDY, NOVELIST OR POET?
No place: Privately Printed, 1929. First edition, first printing. One of 950 copies printed by the Aquatone Process by Edward Stern & Co., Inc., Philadelphia. Hardcover. Blue boards, with paper labels, original glassine tissue; boxed; all in very fine condition! Tall octavo. Photographic facsimile of manuscripts. Includes the original promotional brochure and advertising leaflet laid in.
Based upon original and unpublished manuscripts in the libraries of Paul Lemperly, of Cleveland, and the author. Presentation copy, inscribed, dated (1929) and SIGNED by A. Edward Newton. Includes a typed letter, SIGNED by Newton. Virtually AS NEW!
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10611 |
Ney, Richard THE WALL STREET JUNGLE
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1970). B00005X4AX First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Ownership signature to the front endpaper, else fine in mustard-yellow linen with black bordered titles to the spine; in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
A detailed analysis on how stock market specialists operate and influence stocks to their own advantage. A timeless, and therefore standard study. 348 pages; charts; transaction sheets; stock symbols and specialists.
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10612 |
Nichols, Beverley DEATH TO SLOW MUSIC
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1956. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket with minor wear to the crown of spine. Jacket design by Paul Galdone.
Horatio Green, amateur detective with a talent for solving highly unusual murder mysteries, is consulted by Inspector Waller of Scotland Yard who is investigating the murder of a woman riding on the Ghost Train at an English seaside amusement park.
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10613 |
Nichols, Fan THE LONER
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First edition. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Hardcover. Mild age-toning to the pages, light bump to upper edge of both boards, else a near fine copy in blue boards lettered and decorated in black; in photo-illustrated dust jacket that shows some light edgewear, mild crease at front flapfold.
"From the subtle beginning to the action-packed conclusion, Nichols gives us a rare and convincing glimpse into the mind of a psychotic killer."--Pronzini and Muller, 1001 MIDNIGHTS. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman.
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10614 |
Nichols, Fan BE SILENT, LOVE
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Hardcover. Pages tanned, else near fine in white-lettered textured gray cloth over olive boards; in a rubbed, lightly nicked illustrated dust jacket that shows a band of abrasion to front flap.
A hit-and-run accident sets off a chain reaction of events that mushroom quickly into murder. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman.
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10615 |
Nichols, John AMERICAN BLOOD
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1987). 0805003746 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a dust jacket with mild fading to the spine panel.
SIGNED by the author to the front free endpaper. Nichols, the author of the New Mexico Trilogy which includes THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, delivers a violent and controversial view of the post-Vietnam world as seen through the eyes of a damaged veteran.
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10616 |
Nichols, John; Edward L. Hart, editor MINOR LIVES: A Collection of Biographies by John Nichols
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. 0674576306 First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine, in pale blue cloth with silver spine titling; in price-clipped, else fine, illustrated dust jacket. Annotated and with an introduction by the editor on John Nichols and the Antiquarian and Anecdotal Movements of the late 18th Century. Illustrated.
Twenty-eight biographies of antiquarians, booksellers, illustrators, and designers by the distinguished 18th century printer, editor and author. Enlarged from their original appearances in Nichols' books, and exhaustively indexed.
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10617 |
Nichols, Ross and Kirkup, James THE COSMIC SHAPE: An Interpretation of Myth and Legend with THREE POEMS and Lyrics
London: The Forge Press, (1946). B0007J2J0S First edition, first printing. Unnumbered. Hardcover. Pages uniformly tanned, mild wear, thus very good plus, in blue cloth with gilt spine titles; in a good only, heavily soiled, nicked and chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece drawing by Muriel Metcalfe repeated on the dust jacket.
Nichols' essay traces the development of myth through Roman times and later, and questions its meaning, social and poetic. "Cosmic Legend" by Nichols, "The Glass Fable" and "The Sleeper in the Earth" by Kirkup, selected lyrics by Nichols.
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10619 |
Nicholson, William NOMAN: The Third Book of The Noble Warriors
Orlando/Austin/New York/San Diego/Toronto/London: Harcourt, Inc., (2007). 0152060057 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. New from the publisher!
An adventure-fantasy, a love story, and a reflection on power and faith, this conclusion to the trilogy finds the Noble Warriors safe haven demolished and the Nomana disbanded. Seeker, finds his mission placing him at odds with a new leader.
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10620 |
Nicholson, William JANGO: The Second Book of the Noble Warriors
Orlando/Austin/New York/San Diego/Toronto/London: Harcourt, Inc., (2007). 9780152060114 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket. Wraparound illustration by John Blumen.
Seeker, Morning Star, and the Wildman return in this sequel to SEEKER and discover that the mysterious warrior sect they were so desperate to join is not what it appeared to be from the outside.
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10621 |
Nickell, Joe CAMERA CLUES: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation
(Lexington, Kentucky): The University of Kentucky Press, (1994). 0813118948 First edition, first printing: Publisher's promotional letter included. Hardcover. Fine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with mild spine fading. Tall octavo. 224 pages; notes and an index.
"From the identification and authentication of old photos to investigations of photographic evidence of the paranormal, this packs in details on photographic investigative processes which delve into tricks of eye and camera."--Midwest Book Review.
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10622 |
Nicole, Christopher MISTRESS OF DARKNESS
New York: St. Martin's, (1976). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Pages lightly tanned, as expected, a suggestion of wear to the extremities, else a near fine copy in a pictorial dust jacket that exhibits some mild edgewear, rubbing and some pale age-toning. A nice copy.
The third novel in the saga of the Hilton family--wealthy plantation owners in the West Indies--sets cousin against cousin as Robert Hilton sells into slavery the young mustee (1/16 African blood) woman that Matt Hilton has fallen in love with.
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10623 |
Nicole, Christopher WIND OF DESTINY
(London): Severn House Publishers, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in pictorial dust jacket that shows some very light edgewear. Cover illustration by Roger Smith.
The fourth novel in the saga of the McGann family. "Where would the Wind of Destiny blow Joe McGann--into the loving arms of Christina Diaz or into the loving embrace of death?"
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10626 |
Nielsen, Jean HALFPENNY LINDA
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc., (1963). First edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's rubber-stamp to lower front endsheet with tiny inked price, else a nearly fine copy in lilac cloth stamped in black to the spine; in a lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket with a diagonal crease to the rear panel.
Linda Duncan's father puts the spoiled, stubborn teen on a plane to London to spend a year with Aunt Iris and attend the Lady Phillipa Gramma School for Girls. Juvenile fiction with a romantic angle. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author.
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10629 |
Niffenegger, Audrey THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
(San Francisco, CA): MacAdam/Cage, (2003). 193156146X First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Nicks to the lower spine and shelf edges, else near fine; in a fine, first state dust jacket lacking the Today Show Book Club notice.
"Fiercely inventive, slyly ambitious, and lovingly told...sparkles as it fearlessly explores the delicate interplay of love and time. This novel is a joy."--Anne Ursu. Now into later printings, this debut novel is becoming elusive in the first edition.
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125.00 USD
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10630 |
Nighbert, David F. CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1991). 0312058349 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Dots of stain to upper page edges, else fine; in a faintly age-toned, fine illustrated dust jacket.
Sequel to the author's debut, TIMELAPSE, and second book in the Stryker sequence finds the "thrillerish protagonist...in a traditional search for the long-gone alien 'Builders' responsible for an enormous artifact called The Wheel."--Clute and Nicholls.
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10631 |
Nikitin, E. E. THEORY OF THERMALLY INDUCED GAS PHASE REACTIONS
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1966. First edition in English. Hardcover. American Chemical Society Publications inkstamp on the front flyleaf, corner tips very slightly bumped, else a near fine copy in red cloth; no dust jacket.
Translated by Scripta Technica, Inc., translation editor, E. W. Schlag. 155 pages, references, index. Figures and equations.
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10632 |
Niles, Douglas CIRCLE AT CENTER
New York: Ace Books, (2000). 0441007287 First edition: Trade paperback original; review copy, with materials laid in. Trade Paperback. Fine in illustrated, slick wraps.
From the bestselling author of THE DEMON AWAKENS, this tale takes place in the mystical realm of Seven Circles, a land about to fall into chaos and warfare. The evolved druids must recruit warriors from a strange world called Earth.
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10633 |
Nimoy, Leonard I AM SPOCK
New York: Hyperion, (1995). 0786861827 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos reproduced intext.
"A, well, fascinating history of the 'birth' and evolution of Spock. Nimoy explains the original conception of the character and describes his own contributions to the development of Spock's persona."--PW. 342 pages, including index.
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10634 |
Nin, Anais DELTA OF VENUS: Erotica
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977). 0151246564 Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in a very nearly fine dust jacket. Jacket by Milton Glaser.
Among the tales: a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.
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10635 |
Nin, Anais AN INTERVIEW WITH ANAIS NIN
Athens, Ohio: Duane Schneider, 1970. First edition: Trade paperback original. 176 numbered copies were issued, signed by Nin; this is an unsigned ''out of series'' copy. Trade Paperback. Some very mild age-toning, especially to the spine, else this is a nearly fine, unread copy in printed wraps. 35pp.
Transcript of an interview of Nin conducted by Schneider in March of 1969, almost exclusively on literary topics.
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35.00 USD
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10636 |
Nin, Anais WASTE OF TIMELESSNESS And Other Early Stories
(Weston, Connecticut): (Magic Circle Press), (1977). 0802705693 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With a preface by the author.
Sixteen stories written when Nin was in her twenties, living in Louveciennes, France. Never intended for publication, these sketches and tales pre-date all of Nin's previously published works and offer a fascinating glimpse into a writer's development.
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10637 |
Nin, Anais LITTLE BIRDS: Erotica
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979). 015152761X First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in red cloth with gilt lettering and devices; in a fine, as-new, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Nin explores passion in all its forms, from two strangers on a moonlit Normandy beach to a woman's sudden fulfillment at a public hanging.
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20.00 USD
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10638 |
Nisbet, Jim DARK COMPANION
(Tucson, Arizona): (Dennis McMillan Publications), 2006. First edition in English. (A French edition appeared as SOMBRE COMPLICE in 2005). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket and interior art by Carol Collier. SIGNED by the author!
"A brilliant book on luck, randomness, and the caprices of fortune. The author's acerbic reflexions on our televisual society do not prevent him from evincing a great tenderness for his characters."--Librarie Cdiscount. SIGNED by the author.
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10639 |
Nisbet, Jim THE OCTOPUS ON MY HEAD
(Tucson, Arizona): Dennis McMillan Publications, (2007). 0939767570 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket.
Curly Watson, a jazz musician from San Francisco with an octopus tattooed on his head, is featured in this well-crafted noir-mystery. Nisbet's novels have garnered numerous mystery award nominations.
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35.00 USD
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10640 |
Niswander, Adam THE SAND DWELLERS
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan & Bremer, 1998. 1878252291 First edition, trade issue: one of 1,000 copies. Hardcover. Fine in black cloth, in an illustrated dust jacket with jacket art and interior illustrations by H.E. Fassl.
Another horror story set in the desert southwest by Niswander, author of THE CHARM and THE SERPENT SLAYERS. In the tradition of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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27.00 USD
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10642 |
Nitze, William Albert ARTHURIAN ROMANCE AND MODERN POETRY AND MUSIC
Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, (1941). Second impression. Derived from lectures originally given at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hardcover. Foxing to page edges, fading to spine, light use, thus very good in heavy red buckram; no dust jacket. Illustrations on coated stock inserts. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author.
"My object was to illustrate in a kaleidoscopic fashion the present by means of the past: to suggest how a great poetic tradition has been built up and survives as an essential part of our Western culture."--foreword. 101 pages, including index.
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10643 |
Nitzkowski, Monte UNITED STATES TACTICAL WATER POLO
Pittsburgh, PA: Sports Support Syndicate, Inc., (1994). 1878602934 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild rubbing and minor edge wear, else near fine in color photo-illustrated wraps. Quarto. 374 pages; glossary and index. Illustrated with photos and figures including over 300 diagrams and illustrations to help players and coaches.
The benchmark book dealing with the subject of water polo tactics by the four-time Olympic coach who was also an Olympic team member in 1952. This copy has been SIGNED by Monte Nitzkowski and dated in the year of publication.
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75.00 USD
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10644 |
Niven, Larry THE MAGIC GOES AWAY
New York, New York: Ace Books, (1978). 0441515444 First trade edition, first printing: a trade paperback original. Trade Paperback. Very nearly fine, unread, in slick, illustrated wraps. Cover art by Boris Vallejo. Interior black-and-white drwaings by Esteban Maroto.
"His best fantasy yet" (Jerry Pournelle), an illustrated novel of selfish, short-sighted magicians, the dying of the unicorns and centaurs, and those damned stupid barbarians and their damn stupid swords! This copy SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
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10645 |
Niven, Larry THE INTEGRAL TREES
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1984). 0345312708 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket. Jacket painting by Michael Whelan.
In the spirit of his RINGWORLD comes this story of The Smoke Ring, a gaseous envelope around a neutron star where a unique society of humans live without true gravity. Inscribed, dated (1984), and SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
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10646 |
Niven, Larry RAINBOW MARS
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1999). 0312867778 First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author to the title-page. Hardcover. Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket decorated with raised copper foil lettering and a painting by Bob Eggleton.
From the five-time Hugo Award-winner and popular author of RINGWORLD and DESTINY'S ROAD. Hanville Svetz was given the task to go back in time and retrieve Earth's extinct species, instead he must find out why life on Mars suffered the same fate first.
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10648 |
Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry THE GRIPPING HAND
New York: Pocket Books, (1993). 0671795732 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in gilt-lettered blue cloth shelfback over blue boards; with "Map of the Mote System" endpapers; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lee MacLeod.
The sequel to THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE.
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10649 |
Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry THE GRIPPING HAND
New York: Pocket Books, (1993). 0671795732 First edition: Advance uncorrected galley proof. Proof. Some light offsetting to the lower edge of the front cover, light soiling to the covers, else a near fine copy in white printed wraps with a black flexible spine. 8 1/2 by 11 inch format.
The continuing sequel to the award-winning THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE penned by the dynamic hard science fiction writing team of Niven and Pournelle is here presented in the unusual form of a galley, typeset and paginated.
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10650 |
Niven, Larry and Barnes, Steven DREAM PARK
[New York]: Ace SF Books, [no date]. Book club edition. Jacket code, 2665. Hardcover. A near fine copy, in a lightly age-toned, mildly worn illustrated dust jacket that has been corner clipped to the lower front flap and shows a tiny edge tear and attendant crease to lower rear panel. Jacket painting by Carlos Ochagavia.
"Fascinating Niven yarn set in a remarkable place that is a combination of dungeons and dragons (with dungeonmaster) and themepark."--Technovelgy. This copy SIGNED by author Niven to the title-page.
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10651 |
Niven, Larry and Barnes, Steven DREAM PARK
New York, New York: Ace SF Books, (1981). 0441167268 First trade edition, first printing: a trade paperback original. Trade Paperback. Covers somewhat internally age-darkened, textblock shows some minor age-toning, else a fine in illustrated wraps with cover art by Michael Whelan.
"An absolutely dandy novel."--Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine. This copy inscribed and SIGNED by Niven and SIGNED by Barnes.
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15.00 USD
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10652 |
Niven, Larry and Lerner, Edward M. JUGGLER OF WORLDS
New York: TOR/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2008). 0765318261 First edition, first printing. New, fresh from the publisher! Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The award-winning duo's second collaboration and sequel to FLEET OF WORLDS is a continuing 200 year prequel to RINGWORLD. "Exceptional freshness and suspense...full of startling revelations about human and puppeteer politics."--Booklist.
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24.95 USD
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10653 |
Niven, Larry and Lerner, Edward M. FLEET OF WORLDS
New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2007). 0765318253 First edition, first printing: Uncorrected Proof. Hardcover. Faint soiling to covers, nearly fine in white printed wraps.
A 200 year prequel to the multi-Award-winning modern sf classic, RINGWORLD. This, an advance uncorrected proof usually sent to reviewers to enable dust jacket praise.
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10654 |
Niven, Larry and Lerner, Edward M. FLEET OF WORLDS
New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2007). 0765318253 First edition, first printing. New! Fresh from the Publisher! Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
In this collaboration with the author of Moonstruck, multi-Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Niven, steps back a few centuries before Ringworld's discovery to witness the puppeteers' flight from a lethal explosion at the galactic core.
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10655 |
Niven, Larry and Pournelle, Jerry BURNING TOWER
New York: Pocket Books, (2005). 0743416910 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A new book! SIGNED by the authors at an event in our shop.
Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's THE BURNING CITY, where the fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history.
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10656 |
Niver, Kemp R. MOTION PICTURES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER PRINT COLLECTION 1894-1912
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. 0520009479 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild stains to the upper and lower outer-page edges, very good plus in green buckram; in a very good lightly soiled dust jacket with a slightly age-toned spine, chips from the upper spine end, one chip from lower shelf edge, and several tears. Quarto.
Entries for copyright purposes, of around 3,000 foreign and American films with credits, story synopses, and some descriptions of camera and filming techniques make this a valuable source book for film historians. 402 pages; and indexes.
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10657 |
Nix, Garth LIRAEL: Daughter of the Clayr
(New York, N.Y.): HarperCollinsPublishers, (2001). 0060278234 Publisher's reprint. Hardcover. A few tiny dots of soiling to fore-edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Sequel to SABRIEL, about which Lloyd Alexander wrote, "Nix has created a really remarkable and persuasive world; and done it in the grand style of high fantasy and heroic romance, with some wonderful twists and turns."
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10658 |
Nix, Garth DROWNED WEDNESDAY: The Keys to the Kingdom, Book Three
New York: Scholastic Press, (2005). 0439700868 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket.
"In this third of seven planned installments, each set on a successive day of a single week, Arthur Penhaligon is summoned from his hospital bed by Lady Wednesday, who has metamorphosed into a 126-mile-long whale."--Jennifer Matson.
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10659 |
Nixon, Allan GO FOR GARRITY
New York: Avon, (1970). First edition: Paperback Original. Avon #V2328. Mass market paperback. A hint of rubbing, else this is a fine, unusually bright, unread copy in illustrated wraps.
In the late 60's, early 70's, Nixon was cranking out PBOs in a number of genres. This is an entry in his detective series for Avon starring tough guy PI which opens, predictably enough, with a sex scene and the line, "Waking up was hard and so was I."
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10660 |
Nixon, Edna VOLTAIRE AND THE CALAS CASE
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild uniform tanning to pages, else nearly fine, in red boards with gilt spine titling; in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket that shows moderate tanning to spine, nicking, edgewear, a few tiny spots of stain.
Voltaire's Dreyfus-like effort to open up a trial for the merchant Calas, wrongly convicted and executed for the murder of his son. "Combines the glow of historical scholarship with the kick of a psychological thriller."--Edgar Lustgarten.
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10661 |
Nixon, Joan Lowery THE DARK AND DEADLY POOL
New York: Delacorte Press, (1987). 038529585 First edition: Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Hardcover. A fine, as-new copy, bound in yellow boards with gilt-stamped green shelfback; in a fine, illustrated dust jacket.
Young adult mystery by the prolific and popular author, who won Edgars for THE KIDNAPPING OF CHRISTINA LATTIMORE (1979), THE SEANCE (1980), THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK (1986), and THE NAME OF THE GAME WAS MURDER (1993).
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10662 |
Nixon, Richard 1999: Victory without War
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1988). 0671627120 First edition: Uncorrected Proof. Proof. A fine, tight copy in yellow printed wraps with a hint of soiling to the lower page edges. 324 pp.
The former President's seventh book addresses all the key foreign policy issues of 1988, including examinations of Gorbachev, the Soviet Union, arms-control deals, the Iran-contra affair and advice on presidential preparation for a summit meeting.
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10663 |
No author VIEWS OF BUFFALO
Buffalo, New York: S.H. Knox, [undated]. No edition noted. Mild fading to covers, else fine, staplebound within stiff, purple wraps, lettered in embossed gilt. Oblong octavo.
Promotional booklet features black-and-white photographs of turn-of-the-century Buffalo, with brief caption identifications. Great historical resource.
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10664 |
No author VIEWS OF ASBURY PARK AND OCEAN GROVE
Portland, Maine: L.H. Nelson Company, [circa 1905]. No edition noted. Mild fading to covers, tiny chip to upper front corner, light creasing to covers, thus very good plus; staplebound within stiff, gray wraps, lettered in embossed gilt. Oblong octavo.
Sixteen leaves of half-tone reproductions. Beach, boardwalk scenes, major buildings, snapshots of the 1903 Baby Parade. Valuable historical resource.
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10665 |
Nodier, Charles; illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS: A Fairy Tale for Lucky Children
London: Daniel O'Connor, [1921]. First edition, first printing: Westminster Press issue. Hardcover. A few very tiny nicks to binding, minor bump to spine heel, else a bright, fresh, fine copy in harlequinade-decorated boards, with decorative endsheets; tall octavo; no dust jacket.
A fairy tale translated from the French, accompanied by the deco-influenced colored drawings of Fraser, both full-page and intext. Fraser was a British illustrator and theatre designer, whose work here is exquisite: delicate, haunting, witty, original.
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10666 |
Nodier, Charles; illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser THE WOODCUTTER'S DOG
London: Daniel O'Connor, 1922. B00085H1O0 First edition, second printing: Curwen Press issue. So noted on colophon page at rear. Hardcover. Hint of a crack to endsheets over upper rear inner hinge, which is holding strong; in laminated cardstock boards with printed label affixed to front cover; no dust jacket.
Tale of a dog's selfless loyalty to his human family from the French fantasist who was librarian of Bibliotheque de I'Arsenal in Paris. Translated from the French, "Le Chien de Brisquet"; with the exquisite, gaily colored, decoish illustrations of Fraser.
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10667 |
Noel, Atanielle Annyn SPEAKER TO HEAVEN
New York: Arbor House, (1987). 0877958599 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in a fine, if faintly age-toned, illustrated dust jacket.
"Sf novel of rogue psi powers, an academic murder mystery set in post-holocaust Baja."--Locus.
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10668 |
Nohebel, D.C.; Tedder, J.M.; and Walton, J.C. RADICALS
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1979). 0521293324 First edition: Trade paperback issue. From the library of physicist Daniel H. Deutsch with his embossed seal to the title-page. Trade Paperback. Underlining and marginal notes in red ink to pages 1-13 and 192-197, and a few faint creases to the rear cover, else near fine in glossy blue and green wraps. 200 pages, suggestions for further reading, and an index.
A volume in the Cambridge Texts in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Foreword by W.A. Waters. An introduction to the chemistry of free radicals, with an emphasis on the role of these radicals in organic synthesis and other reacting systems.
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10669 |
Nolan, William and Johnson, George Clayton LOGAN'S RUN
Cutchogue, New York: Buccaneer Books, (1995). 0899668968 First edition thus. Facsimile reproduction of the text from the 1967 first edition. Hardcover. Fine in slate grey linen with red metallic spine titles; no dust jacket, as issued. Octavo. [149] pages.
"A dazzling, breathless, spectacular future-world phantasmagoria...I couldn't resist its ferocious energy."--Robert Silverberg. This copy SIGNED by both Nolan and Johnson to the title-page. Filmed in 1976 with Michael York and Jenny Agutter.
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10670 |
Nolan, William F. THE BLACK MASK MURDERS
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). 0312109423 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
A Black Mask Boys mystery thriller featuring a fictionalized Dashiell Hammett as detective. By the prolific genre veteran, critic and historian, whose best known work may be sf cult book/film LOGAN'S RUN.
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10671 |
Nolan, William F. THE BLACK MASK MURDERS
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). 0312109423 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket with appealing deco jacket art by Chris Gall.
"A Black Mask Mystery Thriller Featuring Dashiell Hammett." Pastiche by the veteran pulp writer, genre historian, racing enthusiast and screenwriter. Nolan has SIGNED this copy to the title-page.
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10672 |
Nolan, William F. DARK ENCOUNTERS
[no place]. Dream House, (1986). First edition, first printing: one of 200 chapbook originals. 50 additional copies were bound in boards. Tiny dot of pale stain to fore-edge, else fine in stapled, cardstock wraps. Wraparound cover art by Robert Kellough.
Collection of verse from the prolific and versatile Mr. Nolan, whose best-known work is probably LOGAN'S RUN. SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
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10673 |
Nolan, William F. SEVEN FOR SPACE
No place: Park Hill Publishing, 2008. 0980112516 First edition, first printing: hardcover issue. One of 250 numbered copies, SIGNED by the author; SIGNED by George Clayton Johnson; and Ron Lemen. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover and interior illustrations by Ron Lemen.
All seven (two novels and five stories) of the incredible adventures of Nolan's futuristic private eye, Sam Space have been collected in this nifty edition. The limited edition also includes a film treatment, a screenplay excerpt, and illustration.
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10674 |
Nolan, William F. & Johnson, George Clayton LOGAN'S RUN
New York: Bantam Books, (1976). 0553025171 First edition thus. #X2517. SIGNED by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. A fine, unread copy in color-illustrated wraps foregrounding the stars of the film adaptation, Michael York and Jenny Agutter, as they flee the domed city. With 16 pages of color photos from the cult fave.
PB edition of Nolan and Johnson's enduringly popular sf fable. Logan is a Sandman, an operative trained to kill "Runners"--all those who refuse to willingly submit to state-decreed euthanasia as soon as they hit 30. Logan is 29...
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10675 |
Nolan, William F. & Playdon, Paul THE PLOT TO ROB CENTRAL JAIL
No Place: Rosner Television/MGM Television, 1976. First edition. Mild uniform offsetting to the margins of the covers, a few nicks to the extremities, else near fine in wraps. 112 pages; 8 1/2'' by 11'' duplicated sheets, printed on rectos only, bradbound in MGM Television covers.
Unproduced original television screenplay, based on a story by William F. Nolan and Rick Rosner, inscribed, SIGNED, and dated by Nolan to the title-page: "FYI, This one never got produced, Alas! Bill Nolan/May 30. '87."
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10676 |
Nolan, William F. & Rosner, Rick HEIST
Burbank, California: Warner Bros. Television, 1974. First edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by Nolan to the title-page. Very nearly fine in green printed wraps. 95 pages; 8 1/2'' by 11'' sheets, duplicated on rectos only, and bradbound in Warner Bros. Television covers.
This original television script was produced as SKY HEIST by Warner Bros. in 1975. A husband and wife team devise an ingenious plan to steal ten million dollars in gold bullion, hijacking a police helicopter as a diversionary tactic.
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10677 |
Nolan, William F. and Jason V. Brock; editors THE BLEEDING EDGE ANTHOLOGY: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers
Vancouver, Wa.: Cycatrix Press, 2009. 0984167617 First trade edition: One of 400 copies printed. Hardcover Fine Fine Octavo SIGNED by the editors!
Sure to be a landmark anthology: contains original, never before published works by Ray Bradbury, Gary A. Braunbeck, Jason V Brock, Christopher Conlon, Norman Corwin, Cody Goodfellow, Earl Hamner, George Clayton Johnson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Lisa Morton, Kurt Newton, William F. Nolan, Dan O'Bannon, Frank M. Robinson, John Shirley, James Robert Smith, Steve Rasnic Tem, and John Tomerlin.
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10678 |
Nolan, William F. and Jason V. Brock; editors THE BLEEDING EDGE ANTHOLOGY: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers
Vancouver, Wa.: Cycatrix Press, 2009. 0984167617 First trade edition: One of 400 copies printed. Hardcover Fine Fine Octavo SIGNED by the editors!
Sure to be a landmark anthology: contains original, never before published works by Ray Bradbury, Gary A. Braunbeck, Jason V Brock, Christopher Conlon, Norman Corwin, Cody Goodfellow, Earl Hamner, George Clayton Johnson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Lisa Morton, Kurt Newton, William F. Nolan, Dan O'Bannon, Frank M. Robinson, John Shirley, James Robert Smith, Steve Rasnic Tem, and John Tomerlin.
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10679 |
Nolan, William F. and Johnson, George Clayton, from the novel by; Barry Blair, plot and art LOGAN'S RUN, #1-6
Newbury Park, California: Adventure Comics/Malibu Graphics, Inc., 1990-91. First edition, first printing: six series set of comic books. Mint, as-new: six staplebound comic books with color covers and b&w interior. The entire series; followed later by another six set series adapting LOGAN'S WORLD.
Six-part comic-book adapation not of the movie but of the book--each of these comics has been SIGNED by both original authors, Nolan and Johnson, and the first issue bears an inscription from Nolan, who provides a foreword in issue #1.
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10680 |
Nolan, William F. and Martin H. Greenberg, editors URBAN HORRORS
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. 0913165549 First edition, first edition. Hardcover. Fine, in jungle-green faux-leather; in an illustrated dust jacket. Bloody jacket painting of the aftermath of some horror at building no. 666 and scary interior illustrations by Robert W. Lavoie.
"The horrors found within these pages are real; born of urban pressures and nurtured in the darkness of our swarming cities." 18 yarns by Bradbury, Matheson, Leiber, Dick, Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Beaumont, Nolan, Oates, Etchison, Lansdale, more.
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10681 |
Nolan, William F., editor A WILDERNESS OF STARS: Stories of Man in Conflict with Space
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, (1969). Second printing. Hardcover. Upper corner tips lightly bumped, else near fine in a mildly age-toned illustrated dust jacket.
A collection of ten science fiction short stories by some of the giants in the field including Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and Walter M. Miller, Jr., among others. With an introduction by Shelly Lowenkopf and a "postscript" by Nolan.
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10682 |
Nolan, William F., editor THE BLACK MASK BOYS: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1985). 0688039669 First edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. SIGNED inscription with original drawing of a hard-boiled character. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Anthology of classic BLACK MASK fiction by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Horace McCoy, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, Raoul Whitfield and Paul Cain presented with biographical and critical comments by Nolan. SIGNED!
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10683 |
Nolan, William F.; Introduction by George Clayton Johnson. SEVEN FOR SPACE
No place: Park Hill Publishing, 2008. 0980112508 First edition, first printing: trade paperback issue. This copy has been SIGNED by the author. Trade Paperback. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover and interior illustrations by Ron Lemen.
All seven (two novels and five stories) of the incredible adventures of Nolan's futuristic private eye, Sam Space have been collected in this nifty edition. Introduction by George Clayton Johnson.
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10684 |
Nonami, Asa THE HUNTER
Tokyo/New York/London: Kodansha International, (2006). 9784770030252 First edition, first printing in English: Uncorrected Proof. Hardcover. Fine in color illustrated wraps.
Winner of the Japanese Naoki Prize, this neo-noir novel debuts a young female detective, Takako Otomichi, and her tough-guy older partner. Set in Tokyo. Nonami has authored over 50 books in Japan. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
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10686 |
Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, James Norman THE BOUNTY TRILOGY
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1962). 0316611611 Book club issue of the Wyeth Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Jacket painting by N.C. Wyeth.
Omnibus reissue of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, MEN AGAINST THE SEA and PITCAIRN'S ISLAND; illustrated with eight paintings by Wyeth; map-decorated endsheets.
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10688 |
Norman, Bruce THE INVENTING OF AMERICA
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1976). 0800842200 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Slight splaying to the covers, thus near fine; in a nearly fine photo-pictorial dust jacket. 240 pages, map, over two hundred b&w illustrations and photographs, book list, and an index. Quarto.
A history of America's inventions from the colonial days to the modern industrial world. Norman argues that the people of the United States were forced to be more inventive to survive and overcome the problems of their hostile environment.
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10689 |
Norman, Frank TOO MANY CROOKS SPOIL THE CAPER
New York: St. Martin's, (1979). 0312808992 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in a dust jacket with shelfwear to the edges, light rubbing, else very good plus.
Author of DEAD BUTLER CAPER. "He is a clever, facile author with a delightful sense of humor in his writing." --West Coast Review of Books
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10692 |
Norman, Howard THE HAUNTING OF L.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2002). 0374168253 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. As-new!
"As with THE BIRD ARTIST, Howard Norman here makes brilliant metaphoric use of the portrait-maker's compulsion. Mysterious, morally complex, and erotically charged...compelling on every level."--Andrea Barrett. "Norman's best work yet."--Thomas Pynchon.
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10693 |
Norman, Howard THE BIRD ARTIST
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1994). 0374113300 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
In the first paragraph, narrator Fabian Vas--the title's bird artist--reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper. Set in Newfoundland in 1911. "Bewitching...glows like a night light in the reader's mind."--NY Times.
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10694 |
Norman, Howard THE BIRD ARTIST
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1994). 0374113300 Third printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"Combines colorful backwoods eccentrics and gothic melodrama that strongly resembles the work of film director David Lynch." --Edward B. St. John, Library Journal.
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10695 |
Norman, Howard THE BIRD ARTIST
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1994). 0374113300 First U.S. edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author to the title-page. Hardcover. Fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.
Howard Norman's much lauded novel THE BIRD ARTIST was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award. "...so vivid and finely imagined that to finish it is to leave behind some of the warmest-blooded people you're ever likely to meet." --Harper's Bazaar.
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10696 |
Norman, Howard, told by; Pohrt, Tom, illustrated by TRICKSTER AND THE FAINTING BIRDS
San Diego/New York/London: Gulliver Books/Harcourt Brace & Company, (1999). 0152008888 First edition. Quarto. This copy SIGNED by Norman to the title-page. Hardcover. Fine, in illustrated boards; in matching illustrated dust jacket.
Seven Algonquin stories of the outrageous antics of the Trickster, from the esteemed author of THE NORTHERN LIGHTS and THE BIRD ARTIST. Pohrt is the illustrator of Barry Lopez's bestselling CROW AND WEASEL.
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10697 |
Norman, John DANCER OF GOR
New York: Daw Books, Inc./Donald A. Wolheim, Publisher, (1985). 0886771005 First edition, first printing: Paperback Original. Identified on the cover as DAW #650, and within as DAW Collectors Book No. 651. Mass market paperback. A bright, unread, fine copy with only a bit of age-toning. Cover art by Ken W. Kelly shows the eponymous exotic dancer/bibliographer.
22nd book in the Counter-Earth saga of an alien world "where men were all-powerful and women were living jewels of desire." This entry concerns a shy librarian who after hours practices semi-nude her secret studies in belly dancing.
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10698 |
Norman, Marc & Stoppard, Tom SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
[No place]. [No publisher], (1998). Shooting script. 8.5 x 11 inch xeroxed pages bradbound within color xerox covers with photo art of Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow. The front cover page shows a diagonal crease to lower righthand corner and a bit of edgewear. 129 pages.
Apparently produced to use in promoting the screenplay to Academy and Golden Globe voters, this shooting-script copy has been SIGNED to the front cover by Stoppard and Norman. The screenwriters, the film, Paltrow, Judi Dench all won Oscars.
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250.00 USD
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10699 |
Norris, Frank COLLECTED LETTERS
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Quarto. Hardcover. Fine, in crimson leather-backed decorated boards, with gilt and black titles to spine; in cream dustwrapper. This copy is from the library of noted California historian/collector John Haskell Kemble and bears his attractive bookplate to the pastedown.
Compiles 124 letters of the influential and popular California novelist with annotations and introductions by Jesse S. Crisler. The exquisite title-page woodcut of Norris is by Rik Olsen. A handsomely produced volume.
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125.00 USD
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10700 |
Norris, Frank THE PIT: A Story of Chicago
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1914]. Later issue of the Photoplay Edition, with the frontispiece still the only interior illustration. Wraparound jacket still is color-tinted. Hardcover. Very good only (spine slant, soiling, wear); in reddish cloth with black lettering and devices; in a good dust jacket, with nicking at spine head repaired with cello-tape, chip to heel of spine panel, nicking at corners, light overall wear.
Photoplay Edition of Norris's 1903 muckracking "Epic of the Wheat"--the second book in his projected trilogy, re-issued to correspond to the 1914 silent film adaptation written by Channing Pollock and directed by Maurice Tourneur.
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