Search Results: Authors starting with N from Fine Editions Ltd

New York: Vanguard Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First American Edition of the author's first novel, set in colonial Trinidad, where Naipaul was born. 8vo: xii,[2],7-215,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in French blue and mid-brown, upper cover with vignette of the mystic masseur; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.50. Tightly bound (apparently unread) and clean throughout, with bottom edges very lightly rubbed; better than Near Fine jacket, lightly rubbed to head and heal of spine panel, which is lightened a degree or two. Awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1958, a year following its publication in London, by André Deutsch. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association,… Read More

Milano: Tipografia e libreria Pirotta e C., 1838. Wrappers. Fine. First and only edition, extremely rare, of this celebration of the memorial in honor of Gabrio Maria Nava, bishop of Brescia, with a splendid full-page lithograph illustrating the proposed monument. Royal 4to (320 x 240mm): 8pp, with frontispiece. Uncut in original blue wrappers printed in black. Provenance: book label (Biblioteca del Mottarello, Velate di Varese, Italy) and book plate (Virginio Bianchi-Valentini ["Fortes fortuna adiuvat"]) of two distinguished collectors to inner front cover. A spectacular copy. First Search identifies only one copy worldwide, in Lugano, at the Sistema bibliotecario ticinese. OCLC adds a second copy, at the University of Illinois. Despite being a close friend of Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy (who recommended Nava for the post of bishop), and personal confessor to his wife, Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria, Nava was steadfast to the cause of Pope Pius VII (who Napoleon's prisoner in… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Fine-. First Printing of this pioneering study by the noted Chicago-School sociologist. Crown 8vo (190 x 130mm): xiii,[3],13-219,[1]pp, with 16 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) by Ernie Bushmiller. Publisher's black cloth spine with paper label printed in black, illustrated yellow paper-covered boards, top edge stained yellow, others uncut. Wanting the dust jacket. Includes chapters on panhandling, dressing well, and poetry, and 20-page glossary of hobo terms. An exemplary example, tight, square, and clean throughout (very lightly read, if at all). "Hobohemia" was already beginning to vanish when Anderson published his first book in 1923, The Hobo, the Sociology of the Homeless Man. That study pioneered participant observation as a research tool for revealing the features of a society; it was the first field research monograph of the Chicago School of Sociology and the first in the landmark University of Chicago Sociological… Read More

Dallas, TX: Stellmacher & Clark [Printers], 1928. Half-Morocco. Fine. Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wrappers lettered in black and bound in later red half morocco over rose-pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Book label of Charles B. Sanders, Jr. to rear paste-down. An excellent example with variant title, original wrappers preserved, tightly bound and clean throughout. Worldcat Discovery notes only two copies, both in the United States. Dornbusch II, 3025. Nickleson served in the 28th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War and saw action at Wilson's Creek, Antioch Church, Fayetteville, Devil's Backbone, Fort Smith, Shiloh, and Franklin. He also fought in the Mexican-American War under Winfield Scott, Sam Houston, and others. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in… Read More

Paris: Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur, 1930. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advisers in the art of eating well," with new introduction by the original dedicatee, Robert de Flers. Copy no. 1259 of 2000 copies on verge, from a total of 2150 copies. 8vo (235 x 190mm): [6],viii,339,[1]pp, with numerous drawings in bistre (chapter head- and tail-pieces and vignettes in text). Original salmon-colored stiff paper wrappers, wraparound deco design in black and bistre, edges untrimmed, illustrated end papers, title page in black and bistre, original book marker (stenciled 1259) laid in. A superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout (virtually pristine). Oberlé 277-78 ("remarquable"). Cagle 364 (citing this second edition only). First published in 1926. Nignon was chef to the… Read More

City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Printing. Original Cloth. Fine. First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tables and five text woodcut illustrations. Original forest green publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated end papers. Publisher catalog slip laid-in. Wanting the plain-paper dust jacket. A Fine, bright copy, pristine inside and out. Dibner 50 (for original periodical appearance). Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1895. Both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed priority for the discovery of argon; they eventually agreed to submit a jointly authored paper. Both later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics, Ramsay for Chemistry), and their discovery was a major factor in both awards. "Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted… Read More

Huddersfield: Printed and sold by T. Kemp, 1844. Wrappers. Fine. First Separate Printing (second edition overall) of Nowell's appeal to his fellow mill-owners and manufacturers. With an Appendix, "Example Schedules from the Eastbourne Self-Supporting Schools." Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 24pp. Handsomely preserved in recent stitched marbled wrappers, printed paper label to upper cover. An excellent example and rare survival with few institutional copies and none in commerce at this writing. Goldsmiths' 33646. Originally published, the same year, as the concluding section of a paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, "An essay on farms of industry . . ." From 1750 and over the next 100 years, the majority of common land in Britain was enclosed with hedges planted to divide fields, changing the landscape forever and leaving a whole class of rural poor dispossessed and in peril of starvation for lack of food or the land on which to grow it. The General Enclosure Act of… Read More