Authors starting with N from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

Massachusetts and Vermont, 1965-1968. Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 Ð July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize and Bollingen Prize. He was brother to photographer Diane [Nemerov] Arbus and father to art critic Alexander Nemerov.This group is comprised of six typed letters, eight typescripts of poems, three typescripts of short stories ... more information

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Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1929. First edition. Tall octavo (10 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 263 x 181 mm). 139 pp. With sixteen plates and one folding map, a facsimile of Ord's Survey.Original blue-green cloth, side title stamped in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Signed by Los Angeles bibliophile and Zamorano Club founder Arthur Ellis on the front pastedown. A near-fine copy. ... more information

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Tokyo: Domoto, Kumagawa and Perkins, 1939. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the publisher, Mr. Kaji, and signed by the author. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). [xiv], 302 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations and plans of Japanese gardens. English text, printed on mulberry paper. Publisher's binding in the Japanese manner of green silk boards held by purple string ties, lettered in English on front in gilt and in Japanese on paper cover label. Original printed card slipcase (some wear and... more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [Jovanovich later eds], 1966-1980. First editions of all seven volumes. Octavos. Publisher's cloth with original dust jackets. Minor wear to jacket extremities. Overall, a very good set.This set belonged to an employee of A Different Light Books bookshop, a gay and lesbian bookshop active in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles in the 80s and was a friend of Rupert Pole, Anais Nin's "West-Coast husband". Mr. Pole, who was trained as an act... more information

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