Titles starting with N from Windrush Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Yellow/ blue illustrated covers with black titles. 272 pages, including Bibliography & Index. 4 sections of plates (b/w photographs), plus many b/w drawings in text, many by Arthur Ransome, & 6 maps. Well-written & detailed study of Arthur Ransome's boats, particularly his favorite Nancy Blackett, named after the character in his Swallows & Amazons series of children's books. "A lot more than boats to enjoy in this account - intriguing biographical d... (more information)

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London: D. Napier. Glossy ivory covers, with white plastic comb binding. Company publication number 250 introduces "the latest addition to the Napier range of gas turbines, which includes the Eland propeller-turbine & the Oryx turbo-gas generator... Gazelle engines are suitable for any helicopter project requiring power outputs of 1260-2000 s.h.p., & have been selected to power the range of Bristol twin-rotor helicpters & the Westland Wessex (S58) helicopter". 27 (unnumbered) pages, wi... (more information)

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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980. Illustrated glossy white paper covers. 206 pages. B/w drawings & other illustrations by many artists on virtually every page. Very helpful book for nature lovers interested in creating visual records of their impressions; warm & well-informed text. Covers have some light toning, & cover extrems. are lightly rubbed; slight toning to upper margins of pages; crack starting at page 139, otherwise sound. Text & illustrations clean & unmarked. . Third... (more information)

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Self-published 1978. SIGNED by Nancy Hellier. Wraps (pb), 16mo, red covers. 283 pages. Convenient, organized & very thorough pocket guide to rocks, fish, wildflowers, reptiles, trees, birds, mammals etc. of the South Shore area of Massachusetts. many b/w line drawings. Book is sound; front cover & spine are very faded to the point of being bleached, but otherwise the book is in very nice condition. Neat inscription, otherwise unmarked. Nr.VG. ... (more information)

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Fifield, London 1908. Hardcover, 16mo, gray paper-covered boards. 62 pages plus ads. Deckled fore-edge. Book is sound; browning to cover & page extrems., lower spine has piece of backstrip beginning to come loose; crack to cloth p. 33; occasional pencil checkmarks & light pencil list on rear endpaper. G. ... (more information)

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Lee & Shepard, Boston 1878. Hard cover, squarish duodecimo, tan cloth with black and gilt titles & illustration. Bevelled edges, all edges gilt, dark brown endpapers. A nineteenth-century gift book containing the Victorian hymn, with decorations & plates designed by Miss L.B. Humphrey, engraved by John Andrew & Son. Engraved title page, with tissue guard. Book is sound; rubbing to spine, & less so to rear & front boards; corners & spine top & base bumped, lightly worn. Very l... (more information)

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New York: Carl Fischer, 1933. Date given is copyright date: this is a much later printing. Bright green covers. 90 pages. Separate book for violin part only is included. Bindings of both books are sound; spines have been reinforced, unnecessarily, with wide clear tape. Neat ink name & date inside both books, otherwise unmarked & clean in & out. . Soft Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Quarto. ... (more information)

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New York: Transatlantic Arts (David & Charles), 1968. Tomato red cloth, gilt titles; glossy black illustrated DUST JACKET. 248 pages. 21 b/w photographic plates, 6 figures (maps) including folded map, placed at rear endpaper, & 7 tables. Boards are clean; top- & fore-edge slightly smudged; very light foxing to preliminary pages & rear endpaper. Old paperclip mark to top of front endpaper; page 88 has just the beginning of a crack starting at the base, otherwise binding is sound. Book is othe... (more information)

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Cantz, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1968. Hardcover book produced as a souvenir of (presumably) a business convention in Stuttgart, "Your Date with Interstate", & presented by Robert Bosch Elektronik & Photokino GMBH, & Interstate Photo Supply Corp. Hardcover, square octavo, white cloth with color illustration pasted on to front cover. Many illustrations throughout by artist Fritz Busse, some in color, others b/w pen & ink drawings. Text in German & English. Book is very sound, int... (more information)

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London: Hollis & Carter, 1947. Green cloth, top edge green; full-color illustrated dust jacket with white spine. This is an exciting & delightful children's story set in the English village of Lesser Burrows, with some of the same characters who appeared in the author's earlier book, "The Voyage of the Merry Maid" (which we also have available). Beautifully done, lively line drawings in magenta by Evelyn Rhind; full-color illustration on dj & title page by the same artist. Book... (more information)

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Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1981. Buff textured cloth, buff DUST JACKET. 169 pages, including Index. 5 articles by Henry Guerlac on the work of Sir Isaac Newton. 4 plates, 4 other illustrations. Book is very clean & sound; binding minimally slanted, otherwise Fine. Dj has light rubbing at extrems., & small stained area at base of spine, but sound & otherwise clean, in new archival Mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. Octavo. ... (more information)

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Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1988. Black cloth, gilt titles; russet illustrated DUST JACKET. 184 pages, including index. First English translation of 3 works of fiction by the 19th-century Russian novelist Alexei Pisemsky, the author of "One Thousand Souls". Book is FINE: sound, straight, clean & unmarked. Dj has minor rubbing to extrems., light wear to spine top & base, otherwise sound & clean, in new archival Mylar. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. ... (more information)

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Scribner's, 1968. Hardcover, duodecimo, bright blue cloth, white DUST JACKET. Scholarly study of adolescence by a group of eminent psychiatrists & psychoanalysists who have SIGNED a presentation label pasted into the front of the book. Book & dj clean & bright; neat owner's name, otherwise unmarked. VG+/ VG. ... (more information)

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Godine 1982. A Godine Poetry Chapbook (4th Series). Hardcover, octavo, cream paper-covered boards with gilt titles, green & white dust jacket. The third book of poetry of this Maine poet. Book & dj clean, sound, unmarked. Dj bright, in archival cover. VG+/VG+. ... (more information)

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Turtle Island Foundation, San Francisco 1968. Gray wraps (pb), octavo, with front cover illus. in white. Seafaring in the Atlantic out of Medieval Europe: voyaging to Newfoundland, Greenland, Vinland etc. by the Portuguese, Irish, Vikings etc.; whaling & sea fisheries. 12 maps. Extrems. a bit rubbed, rear cover lightly toned, front endpaper starting to crack to cloth, otherwise sound, clean. G+. ... (more information)

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Luath Press, Edinburgh, 1998. Stated First Edition. Wraps, octavo, trade paperback. A thought-provoking book by a young Englishwoman who felt compelled to move from England to rural Scotland; she sets a study of Scots-English conflicts alongside relevant personal experiences of contemporary incomers' lives in the Highlands. Essential reading for anyone who is thinking of moving to Scotland, & for anyone interested in what Scotland is like today. Book is very clean & sound. Fine. ... (more information)

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Wenham Historical Association 1943. A collection of detailed "notes" on the history of Wenham, Massachusetts, arranged chronologically from the Ice Age through tthe time of the Indians up to the mid-20th Century. Numerous b/ w photographs, including many of old buildings, maps. Hardcover, octavo, blue paper-covered boards with b/w photo pasted on to front board, no titles on spine. 157 pages including Index. Book is sound; spine top & base show wear; light toning & occasional foxing to top... (more information)

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Self-published, copyright 1973. Hardcover, octavo, lime green cloth, green illustrated DUST JACKET. 127 pages. B/w photographs. Detailed & thorough work by a keen Nova Scotia trout fisherman about the Eastern Brook Trout, with a section on trout waters, plus advice on fly fishing & fly tying for the beginner. Book is clean & very soundly bound, even though the front endpaper seems to have been torn out. Light fading to very top & bottom of front board. Text is clean & unmarked. Dj front ... (more information)

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New York: Dover, 1994. Glossy green/orange covers. 259 pages, including Appendices, Bibliography & Notes. 14 illustrations. Unabridged, corrected republication of the work published by Saunders in 1971. Spine is uncreased; binding very sound & straight; spine top & base are minimally rubbed. Unmarked & clean in & out. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Octavo. ... (more information)

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Century, NY, copyr. 1932. Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth. The Reports of the Subcommittees on Nutrition (Lucy H Gillett, Chairman) & Health Centers (J.H. Mason Knox, Chairman). Ex-hospital library copy, but few library marks. Sound; exterior smudged, spine titles a little rubbed. Solid copy, interior lightly toned but clean. G+. ... (more information)

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