Titles starting with N from Steven Temple Books (ABAC / ILAB)

NY: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, no date.. 1920's reprint, a volume in The Works of H. Rider Haggard set. Octavo, hardcover, maroon decorated cloth stamped in black & gilt. Light spots to front cover; ink name; else a VG tight and unworn copy.. ... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971. Octavo. Black boards. Fine copy, no owner names. The purple dust jacket is price-clipped but otherwise fine, no fading. The master of the thriller novel's only "straight" novel.. First printing. Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971. Octavo. Black boards. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, else fine. The purple dust jacket has a small creased tear at lower inner margin of front panel, small rubbed spot to rear spine fold, very nearly fine otherwise, no fading, flap price intact. The master of the thriller novel's only "straight" novel.. First printing. Hardcover. ... more information

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New York: Grove Press, 1986. Octavo, card covers. Illus. with photos. Small sticker scar on front cover, minor cover rubbing, VG clean copy, no owner names. . First paperback edition. Softcover. ... more information

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NY: Putnam's, (1996).. First printing. 8vo, hardcover, brown and orange boards, orange endpapers. Fine in fine jacket. SIGNED by 12 of the 13 authors on the front fly leaf, the only signature lacking being that of Carolina Hospital. "A wickedly funny Florida suspense thri ller, written serially by thirteen of the state's most talented writers." - jacket. This collaboration was written by Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, James W. Hall, Edna Buchanan, Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Br... more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977. Octavo, 212 pp. Fine unmanrked copy in fine, unclipped jacket. Autobiography of one of the "stately homos of England," a good read, a courageous man. With playbill of AN EVENING WITH QUENTIN CRISP (1979) laid in.. First American edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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NY: Morrow, 1969.. First edition, 2nd issue in 2nd issue dust jacket. Pale green boards, green endpapers. Light rubbing to spine tips, lower edges of covers; very small soft bruise to two outer corners; else fine, no previous owner names. White price-clipped jacket ha s nicks to tips of lightly tanned spine; half inch tear and a few nicks to panels; else VG, still attractive. The Georgia author's 2nd book, a novel of "a corrupted paradise, the Florida-peninsula town of Garden Hills". The loca... more information

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New York: Castle Books, c1959 (1973), 1973. Reprint. Octavo, yellow boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light yellowing on rear panel, nick to front panel, else fine, phony flap price ($6.00 - the price of the original Grove Press edition) intact so that they could offer it at a big "discount" at $1.98. Surprisingly, according to M&M there were only 5K copies. . Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Macmillan, (1987).. First edition. Red boards. Text paper a bit tanned, as usual. Soft crease to lower front free endpaper and to first two leaves; very nearly fine otherwise, no previous owner names, in like jacket, flap price intact. "This was the last Sara Woods / A ntony Maitland novel to be delivered to her publisher before her sudden and tragic death, and contains as a postscript the author's 'biography' of Antony Maitland written some years before her death."- jacket.. ... more information

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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. The paperback issue, card covers. Octavo, 245, 3 pp. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in 1986. Faint soiling to covers, some ink checkmarks; small bruise to head of spine; VG otherwise.. Signed by Author.. First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

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New York: Roy, c1957, 1957. Fine copy. Dust jacket has both corners of front flap clipped; spine shows very light yellowing to white portions; light yellowing and soiling, small skinned spot in margin, to rear cover; VG+ otherwise, bright & attractive. Set in Melbourne, important Australian author’s second pseudonymous thriller. . First US issue. Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Macmillan, 1983. Blue boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. A crime novel with much reference to Edgar Allan Poe.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/VG. Octavo.. ... more information

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Windsor, ON, Canada: Black Moss Press, 1979. Octavo, card covers. Review copy, so rubber stamped at front. University of Toronto Philosophy professor's third book of poetry.. First edition.. Softcover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.. Octavo, hardcover, black cloth. (xvi), 272 pp. Plates inserted. ISBN 039527611X. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has short tears, mild rubbing, VG generally. A book about the Xko Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana.. ... more information

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New York: Scribner's, 1916. Octavo, olive decorated cloth stamped in blind, gilt lettered. Frontispiece with tissue guard and three other colour plates by celebrated American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. A fine, bright copy, no owner names. In the very scarce dust jacket (cover art duplicates frontispiece), which has two chips (loss of "Nan"), creased tears, and old internal repairs, at head of spine; shallow and horizontal crease at lower front panel (no lettering lost); one inch tear, creased nic... more information

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London: Blackie, (1961).. First edition. Small octavo, hardcover, blue boards. 254 pp. Illustrations in text. Some endpaper yellowing, slight sunning to the blue top page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has light tanning to spine and rear panel; edge tears, ver y small chips; small holes to front flap fold; tape stain to rear panel; about VG generally, still attractive in appearance. A novel for schoolgirls, the sequel to NANCY, CANADIAN SCHOOLGIRL.. ... more information

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Salisbury, England: Compton Press, 1972. Octavo, brown cloth. Pp xvi, 173 + plates. Tidy ink owner name (date on other side) at top of front free endpaper, else fine in jacket. Signed by the editor / translator. A collection of Napoleon’s creative writing, inclusing the first complete text of Clisson to appear in translation. . Signed by editor. First edition.. Hardcover. ... more information

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London: Allen & Unwin, 1927. Red cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp (371) + 16 plates. A near fine, bright, jacketless copy, no owner names.. First edition in English. Hardcover. Octavo. ... more information

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NY: Dutton, 1959.. First US edition. 8vo, hardcover, red cloth. (viii), 248 pp. Plates inserted. Fine copy. Dust jacket has spine sunning, short tears, VG otherwise. Mademoiselle George, an actress called "the Venus of Paris", was Napoleon's mistress during his happy years as First Consul of France. Non-fiction account.. ... more information

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(NY): New York University Press, 1965.. 2 volumes, 8vo, cloth. (xiv), 414, [4]; (x), (415)-884 pp. Fine in VG+ jackets.. ... more information

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