Titles starting with N from Peter Ellis bookseller

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London., 1982. First edition. Octavo. 252 pages.Near fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Hodder and Stoughton, London., 1971. First edition. Octavo. A 416-page novel.Fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York., 1996. First edition. Octavo. 201 pages. A collaborative crime novel by thirteen Floridian writers, each of whom writes a chapter. Perhaps the risible title was also arrived at by committee.Signed on the first blank by all thirteen authors: Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, James W. Hall, Edna Buchanan, Les Sandiford, Paul Levine, Brian Antoni, Tananarive Due, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Carolina Hospital and Evelyn Mayerson.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near ... more information

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The Bodley Head, London., 1958. First U.K. edition. 159 pages. The author explains his reasons for leaving the Communist Party.Head of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper with a small nick. ... more information

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John Calder, London., 1964. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 251.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper with a 4 cm closed tear. ... more information

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Arts and Letters, London., 1919. First edition. Small octavo. 60 pages. Original stiff wrappers bearing a Vorticist design thought by some to be by David Bomberg and by others Wyndham Lewis. War poetry, followed by a "prose episode".Covers just a trifle marked. Very good indeed. ... more information

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Clarke & Way, New York., 1963. First edition. The author's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed: "For Yehudi and Diana Menuhin with profound admiration - Jean Burden - Dec. 1963".Slight coffee-staining at inner upper edges of covers. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper with several short enclosed tears. ... more information

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Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles., 1968. First edition. Quarto. 37 pages. Leather-backed decorated gilt boards. Poems. Four full-page drawings, as well as several others in the text, by Jess.Number 222 of 250, out of a total edition of 276, signed by author and artist.Corners very slightly bumped. Near fine in original acetate dustwrapper which is slightly chipped. ... more information

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Abelard-Schuman, London., 1973. First edition. Square royal octavo. A children' story with colour illustrations throughout by the author.Fine in fine dustwrapper. The blue ink used for the blurbs on the flaps of the dustwrapper has bled at the edges leaving the text perfectly legible but with a ghostly aura. ... more information

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Frederick Warne, London., N.D. [1907]. First edition. Scarce. A novel of Quakerism. 306 pages. Black and white illustrations by Harold Piffard. Six pages of publishers' adverts at rear. Decorated cloth in blind and gilt. Publishers' file copy, with stamps on the front free endpaper.Free endpapers partially browned. Very good indeed in very good, nicked, chipped and slightly creased dustwrapper darkened at the spine. ... more information

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John Murray, London., 1828. First edition. pp. xlvii, 631 + vi, 515. 10 plates, 25 wood-engravings in text; map at rear. This copy is lacking the plate of a Pagoda facing page 47, but it has an additional frontispiece plate of the Ghat between Calcutta and Barrackpoor. A pencilled note says this is, in fact, the plate that is supposed to be at p. 47, but of this we have our doubts. Quarto. Original light red cloth, title-labels on spine. Presentation copy, inscribed: "From the Editor's sister to h... more information

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Richard Bentley, London., 1850. Second UK edition, revised. pp.xx, 509. Two folding maps; plates. Royal octavo. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Commander of the expedition, Lynch's mission was to measure the elevation of the Dead Sea but his book contains a wealth of material on the Holy Land in general.Covers faded at spine and edges. Cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine. Spotting throughout. One map repaired at corner. Very good. ... more information

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John Murray, London., 1955. First edition. Photographs. The author's second book.Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper internally repaired and chipped at head of spine. ... more information

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Payne Jennings, London., 1903. First edition. pp.xii, 300. Numerous photographs. Royal octavo. Original green cloth lettered in dark green. Inserted at the rear of the book is a large folded "Bird's Eye" map, in colour, of the [Boer] War District in Natal.Cloth a little rubbed at head and tail of spine. Very good. ... more information

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Hamish Hamilton, London., 1964. First U.K. edition, i.e. the revised and enlarged version of a book first published in New York in 1958. Includes a 32-page ''picture-essay'' on the history of U.S. immigration.Fore-edge slightly spotted. Near fine in very good, nicked and slightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper. ... more information

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Longman, London., 1972. First edition. Octavo. 351 pages. The literary critic Walter Allen's copy with a Typed Letter Signed from the publishers presenting him with the book.Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Delaware. Spring, 1931. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Contains Zukofsky's poem "N.Y. 1927" as well as a couple of short commentaries on "Prose Cantos" which would appear to have made an appearance in the first issue of the magazine. Scarce.Very good. Rubber-stamped "For Editorial use" on contents page. ... more information

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Eyre & Spottiswoode, London., 1963. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 248 pages. The first appearance in Britain of the author's first book, a baseball novel originally published in 1952. For this edition the author provides an appendix of notes on the game.Edges spotted. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a 3-inch enclosed tear at lower edge of bottom panel. ... more information

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London Limited Editions/Viking, London., 1989. First edition. Octavo. pp [x], 309. Cloth-backed marbled boards.One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound.Fine in original plain tissue dustwrapper. ... more information

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Viking, London., 1989. First edition. Signed by the author on title-page.Fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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