Titles starting with N from Alexander Rare Books

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Hardcover Second Printing. The last few pages glued to the back flap (can be cut), otherwise fine in a dust jacket with light chipping at the crown.Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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Evanston: Northwestern, 1970. Hardcover First edition An interesting compilation for his 70th birthday. As well as serious essays by established VN critics, some wonderful short pieces by Stanley Elkin, John Updike, Richard Howard (poem), Anthony Burgess (poem), Irwin Shaw, J. Barth, Herbert Gold, etc., and a bxw photo insert. Traces of dust but Near Fine, in a rubbed (no chips or tears) but Near Fine dust jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General; POETRY / General;

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Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Hardcover First edition. A scholarly work on parody in Nabokov's novels by a poet. The dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing and scratches but no chips or tears. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General; POETRY / General;

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New York: Viking Press, 1968. Hardcover First edition (Juliar A39.1) A volume similar to the Viking Portables with selections from DESPAIR, INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, THE GIFT and SPEAK, MEMORY and the complete PNIN, as well as essays, stories and poems. 536 pages, with a critical introduction by Page Stegner, who would write the first full critical work on Nabokov. Very Good in Very Good DJ. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Hardcover First edition (Juliar A32.1) Very Good in Very Good DJ Thirteen of the master's finest stories, four of which had previously appeared in The New Yorker. The black cloth has lost its gloss along the top edge and upper part of the spine; whether or not it is water damage, neither paper nor the dust jacket seems to have been affected. The end paper show some offsetting, but the interior is bright and clean. The dust jacket is worn, with a few short tears. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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Ardis, 1974. Hardcover Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974. Cloth. 196 pp. First edition, first printing. Author's first book, published simultaneously in paper; this is the hardcover issue fine in a very near fine lightly rubbed, bright dust jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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Athens: Georgia, 1983. Hardcover First edition. A scholarly work covering the eight novels in English. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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Athens: Georgia, 1983. Hardcover First edition. A scholarly work covering the eight novels in English. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New York: Phaedra, 1966. Hardcover First edition (Juliar A38.1b). A collection of four stories, including the classic "The Vane Sisters". There were three variants, this copy with white end papers, and all the paper the same. Phaedra was a small publisher happy to take works that VN's regular publisher at the time Putnam would not take. A touch of dust, otherwise a very fine copy in a bright dust jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Hardcover First edition Fine in Fine DJ Edited, Annotated and with an Introductory Essay by Simon Karlinsky. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New York: Harmony, 1999. Hardcover 1st F A first book, a collection of short stories, by this product of Stanford and the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has since published two well-received books, including the novel Goats. He, also, worked at Larry McMurtry's antiquarian bookstore(s). The upper 1/2" of the dust jacket is rubbed (a production flaw with the laminate?), otherwise fine. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General; POETRY / General;

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New York: Harmony, 1999. First edition, first book, a collection of short stories, by this product of Stanford and the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has since published two well-received books, including the novel Goats. He, also, worked at Larry McMurtry's antiquarian bookstore(s). The uncorrected proof copy in illustrated wrappers. Very good. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General; POETRY / General;

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New York: Knopf, 2001. Hardcover First edition Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket The front flap wrinkled (two run the length of the flap - a production flaw), otherwise fine. ... (more information)

Subjects: POETRY / General;

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Santa Barbarab: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Hardcover First edition. 174 pp. Copy "F" of 26 copies signed and with a drawing by the author, specially handbound in boards by Earle Gray. Top edge spotted otherwise fine and very clean in original acetate dust jacket. ... (more information)

Subjects: POETRY / General;

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Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1956. Hardcover First edition. 74 pp. Hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at his important fine press. A near fine shelf-worn copy in a price-clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket with two large chips and edge wear alongthe top. Over all very good. ... (more information)

Subjects: POETRY / General;

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San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964. Paperback Broadside poem, on heavy white paper, reproducing Snyder's calligraphy. Approx. 12 1/2" x 9 5/8" . Signed by Snyder. One of 300 copies printed by Auerhahn Press. Sold by Don Allen, along with broadsides by Lew Welch and Philip Whalen, at the "Free Way Reading", Longshoreman's Hall, June 12, 1964, where the three friends read to reportedly some 800 people. Light creasing and handling at edges, still at least very good. M... (more information)

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. Hardcover First edition. 93 pp. Back cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket. Fine copy with only minute wear to top edge of jacket. Cloth issue is uncommon. ... (more information)

Subjects: POETRY / General;

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New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. First edition Uncorrected proof in glossy illustrated wrappers of this Korean-American writer's first book. Back cover blurbs by Frederick Busch, Gish Gen and Garrett Hongo. Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New York: Knopf, 1991. Paperback First edition The Advanced Reader's Edition in glossy, illustrated wrappers. Fine copy. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Paperback First edition 53 pp. The trade paper issue, volume 74 in this prestigious series. Foreword and chosen by Richard Hugo. Moderate wear to the edges, but no creases to spine' very good in illustrated wrappers. ... (more information)

Subjects: POETRY / General;

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