Search Results: Authors starting with N from Muir Books

Utrecht: N.V .A. Oosthoek's Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1938. Large 8vo, original wraps, pp 211. Previous owner's book plate, very good condition. Text in Dutch. University thesis, on conflict in Indonesia and Dutch rule. Covers the Aceh War. C. Snouck Hurgronje was an adviser to the colonial government. Wraps.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1981. 1st paperback edition, octavo, pp.(xii), (13)-218, closed tear to last page of index, b&w illus. relating to chess, pages tanned, light rubbing along edges, crease to lower front cnr of original stiff wraps. Very good condition. Uncommon first paperback edition in English and Russian. Includes 39 Russian poems (with English Translations), 14 English poems and 18 chess problems and solutions which Nabokov called "the poetry of chess". Included is the poem "Lilith" first published in 1970. 1st paperback. Stiff Wraps.

Western Australia: Westlight Publishing. 2012. 1st ed., oblong quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp 200, near fine condn. Many colour photographs of Kalgoorlie and the goldfields, with accompanying text. 1st edition, first issue.

London: Elliot Stock. 1898. 8vo, pp. x, 179, b/w frontis port., library stamp verso of t.p. and last text page, eps tanned, front hinge broken and rear started, stitching weak, edges uncut, orig cl bds., rubbed and cnrs worn. Biography of the artist. Cloth Boards.

Madras. 1981. Octavo, cloth boards, pp vii, 436. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Previous owner's bookplate, very good condition. Boards.

Doubleview (WA): North Stirling Press. 1980. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 251. Near-fine in like d.j. History of the Nairn family (very early settlers) and of Walter Padbury. 1st edition. Boards.

Doubleview (WA): North Stirling Press. 1980. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 251. Signed by the author. Near-fine in like d.j. History of the Nairn family (very early settlers) and of Walter Padbury. 1st edition. Boards.

Philadelphia: ISI Press. 1982. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, colour plates, b&w illus, pp xvii. 320. Inscription rear endpaper, rubbing to edges of spine. Signed by the editor [Robert G. Colodny]. Very good condition. The author was a philosopher, mathematician, and humanist. 1st Edition.

New York: Elsevier-Dutton. 1978. 8vo, cl bds, d.j., b&w illus, pp, (viii) 182. Wear to spine of d.j., spotting to top edge of text block, o/w v.g. 182 100 American planes were bought by the Chinese Nationalist government to use against the Japanese invaders, and were flown by American pilots. The story of the 'Flying Tigers'. 1st edition. Boards.

Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1992. 1st ed., octavo, pp. 224, b/w photos, wraps with some damage to upper front wrap, most upper pages creased, presentation inscription signed by Alice Nannup. Personal story of Alice Nannup, a Yindjibarndi' woman, who was born in 1911 on a Pilbara station in Western Australia. 1st edition. Wraps.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1928. 1st ed., original cloth boards, pp. 173, b&w plates, maps. Very good condition. Travels through the Great Barrier Reef in the 1920s. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

London: T & W Boone. 1835-1840. Various eds., early issues, octavo., 6 vols; Vols I (1835) & II (1838): third eds; Vol III (1833): second ed; Vols IV (1834), V (1836) & VI (1840): first eds; engraved maps and plans, light foxing mainly to prelims of all vols, some water-staining, heavier foxing to latter pages including maps, half leather rubbed, maroon labels to dec. spines, marbled bds worn, from the library of of "Sir John Forrest" with his book-plate to all volumes except the earliest published volume (1833), good condition. General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB (1785-1860) was a British General and historian who served in the Napoleonic Wars, in particular the Peninsular War which was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal, for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The six volumes are Napier's personal account of this war. From the estate of early Western Australian pioneer and former Premier, Sir… Read More

Cardiff: The National Museum of Wales. 1940. Royal 8vo, pp. 33, 1 advert, b/w frontis., b/w plates, b/w ills., 3 fold maps rear pocket, prev owner's inscr., orig bds., browned, spine chipped and worn The history of Caerleon and archaelogical excavations of the site 1st Edition. Boards.

Richmond (VIC): Heinemann Educational. 1983. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xv, 216. Previous owner's ex-libris stamp, very good condn. A report for the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. Aboriginal health and the medical system. Wraps.

Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. 1974. 8vo, wraps, b&w text illus, pp 87. Small mark and edgewear to wraps, o/w v.g. Wraps.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 1994. 8vo, wraps, pp 120. Minor edgewear, no marks or inscriptions, near-fine. Workshop conducted on Aboriginal native title, University House, Canberra, 31 January - 1 February, 1994. Wraps.

London: Digit. 8vo, original pictorial paper wraps, pp 160. N.d., c. 1960. Light wear to edges, previous owner's name to front cover, some light spotting inside wraps to edges (does not affect text), o/w clean, binding firm, good condn. The dramatic story of a Special Assault Group which took part in the Norwegian campaign during WWII. Paperback.

np: Wedneil Publications. nd c(1975). pp 88, colour & b/w photos, stiff wraps. One plate loose. Good condition. Salvage diving around Australia. Wraps.

London: B.T. Batsford. 1960. pp 208, Index, b/w plates, prev. owner's inscr., foxing to end papers, faded spotting to rear board 2nd impression. Cloth Boards.

Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1976. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt tto spine, b&w illus, pp xii, 544. One ink stamp to title page (not an ex-library stamp), otherwise clean and in very good condition. Uncommon. 1st edition. Boards.