Search Results: Authors starting with N from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Illustrated by John Keely. Pp. [viii]+270, printed in blue & black, frontispiece portrait, plus 13 full page illustrations (all but the frontispiece printed in blue & black); demy 8vo; brown leather, lettered and decorated in gilt with a butterfly motif, the spine faintly faded; a.e.g.; ribbon marker; moire silk endpapers; The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1977. The Collected Stories of the Worlds' Greatest Writers series.

London: Headline Book Publishing, 2006. Pp. xii+306(last blank), full page map, glossary; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Headline Book Publishing, London, 2006. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. An Inspector Ikmen novel.

London: Headline Book Publishing, 2006. Pp. [viii]+276, glossary; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, with publisher's 'signed copy' sticker on front panel; text block slightly browned, top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Headline Book Publishing/Review, London, 2006. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Geelong Historical Society, 1994. Inside American Special Operations Forces 1945 to the Present. Pp. 256, 16 plates, occasional text illustrations, glossary, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; Greenhill Books, London, 1994. First U.K. edition..

Yarmouth, ME: Western Publishing Comapny, Inc, 2011. Espionage across Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Pp. xiv+274, text illustrations including maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, general index, index of spies; med. 8vo; qr. black and grey papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Westholme, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2011. First edition..

New York: N, 1983. Pp. viii+248, 12 coloured plates, black & white text decorations, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased and split; New Century, New York, 1983. Reprinted. *Translated from the French. Originally published by Editions Menges, 1982.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. With The Killings in Trinidad. Pp. [x]+228+[2](blank, colophon); gilt lettered black cloth, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, backstrip faded; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Andre Deutsch, London, 1980. First U.K. edition. *Essays, mostly written between 1972 and 1975 and originally published in The New York Review of Books.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. Pp. 254(last blank); bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine cloth faintly creased; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled and foxed; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Andre Deutsch, London, 1975. First edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. An Islamic Journey. Pp. [ii]+viii+430+[4](blank, colophon); qr. black cloth over beige papered boards, lettered in gilt, boards a trifle sprung and with a couple of tiny bruises to edges; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly creased, edges lightly rubbed and split, with neat tape repair at foot of backstrip on reverse; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981. First U.S. trade edition. *Written after seven months travelling across the Asian continent, 'Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the current ferment inside the nations of Islam' [wrapper blurb]..

London: Methuen, 1999. Captain Robert Nairac, GC and the undercover war in Northern Ireland. Pp. xvi+272, 8 plates, text map, select bibliography, index, cr. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; leaves browned; Metro, London, 1999. Second printing of paperback edition. *First published in 1999 in hardback. An account of what happened to Robert Nairac and his murder by the IRA.

New York: Random House, 1995. Pp. xxii+666, mostly printed double column; demy 8vo; black art. leather, spine lettered in purple & white; dust wrapper; Random House, New York, 1995..

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893. Translated by William Archer. Pp. xvi+350+24(publisher's catalogue, dated August 1893), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 15 plates, text illustrations; tall demy 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards flecked and slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the fore-corners and spine extremities lightly worn; uncut; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, two inked ownership inscriptions on half-title page (dated 23/2/[19]06 and Oct 1973), hinges starting, a couple of closed edge tears (one extending from bottom edge into last 4 lines of text pp. 87/8), advertisements browned, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1893. First edition. *In 1888 Nansen's team made the first successful crossing of Greenland's interior, spending several months living among the Inuit. The English translation includes revisions made by Nansen. The translator also 'requested and received Dr. Nansen's… Read More

Wilby, Norwich: Michael Russell, 1995. A life of Admiral Sir Charles Napier KCB 1787-1860. Pp. [xiv]+238, frontispiece, 3 text maps, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers very slightly offset; Michael Russell, Wilby, Norwich, 1995. First edition.

London: Brassey's (U.K.), 1995. A life of Admiral Sir Charles Napier KCB 1787-1860. Pp. cii+246, 8 plates, index; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered & ruled in gilt, lower board slightly scuffed; dust wrapper, a couple of small chips in back flap fold; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Brassey's, London, 1995. First English edition..

London: Barthes & Lowell, 1876. New Edition, Revised by the Author, with fifty-five maps and plans. In six volumes, totalling approximately 3,000 pages, with 55 plates, appendices, justificatory notes, replies and counter remarks in Volume VI; nineteenth century full calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered and decorated contrasting red & black title and volume labels, boards with double gilt rule borders and gilt edges, a couple of corners faintly bruised, all professionally rebacked, retaining the calf spines; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedowns, plus remains of binder's ticket on upper pastedown Volume I, the plates faintly browned, a couple of tiny edge chips, occasional slight creasing and soiling, a little light foxing; Barthes & Lowell, London, 1876. *Napier's eyewitness account of the Napoleonic conflict in Spain and the South of France was originally published… Read More

London: Thomas & William Boone, 1835. In six volumes. Volume I: To which is affixed A reply to Lord Strangford's observations; Also, A reply to various opponents; Together with observations illustrating Sir J. Moore's campaigns. The third edition, 1835; Volume II: The third edition. 1838; Volume III: To which is prefixed His justification of the third volume forming a sequel to his reply to various opponents. The third edition, 1840; Volume IV: First edition. 1834; Volume V: To which are prefixed Answers to some attacks in Robinson's Libre of Picton, and in The Quarterly Review, with counter-remarks to Mr. Dudley Montagu Perceval's remarks upon some passages in Colonel Napier's fourth volume . . . First edition, 1836. Volume VI: Prefixed to which are several justificatory pieces in reply to Colonel Gurwood, Mr. Alison, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Beresford, and The Quarterly Review. First edition, 1840. Totalling more than 3,700 pages, with 55 plates (some foxing and staining and with a small chip and a 2… Read More

London: James Ridgway, 1847. Pp. viii+138, appendix; plain grey paper wrappers with printed paper title label at centre of upper wrapper, slightly soiled, edges of wrappers lightly chipped and split, lacking most of the backstrip, the upper wrapper partially detached, with splits along backstrip and a 4 cm. closed tear from backstrip into upper wrapper; a little faint foxing and soiling; James Ridgway, London, 1847. First edition. *Inscribed by the author at head of title page.

London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Edited by G. Butler Earp. Pp. xlvi+[ii]+622+[2](advertisement, blank), errata slip tipped in at page 1, index ; demy 8vo; rebound in recent black buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, with new endpapers; edges uncut, with some slight cropping of fore-edges of first few leaves, and light creases or splits to a few leaves; bookplate on upper free endpaper, contemporary inked name on title page and same name plus date (1862) on verso, the title page soiled and with some ink staining, partially covering the date in the title, some foxing throughout, small surface graze to one page affecting a few words on four lines of text, light waterstaining to bottom margin of eight leaves at end; Richard Bentley, London, 1857. First edition..

Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, 1996. A Memoir of Sir Sathi Narain. Pp. x+164, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, full page map glossary, bibliography, index; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; bottom edge of leaves a trifle marked; Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, 1996.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1965. Foreword by Sir James Plimsoll. Pp. 200, select bibliography; boards slightly foxed, corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split; name & date in ink on upper free endpaper, tiny split to fore-edge of lower free endpaper, a little light foxing; Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1965. First Australian edition. *Originally published in Mysore, India, in 1964, as a special issue of The Literary Criterion. Contributors include Vincent Buckley, A. D. Hope, James McAuley, Judith Wright, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, and Russel Ward.