Search Results: Authors starting with N from Keel Row Books

London; Collins, 1979., 1979. Hard Cover. Omnibus Edition. Octavo, pp. 1083, [1]. Publishers' navy faux leather with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board, in unclipped dust-jacket. Clean and bright with tidy ownership inscription to ffep. Jacket lightly spine sunned. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Introduction by Peter Quennell. 5 novels chosen to exemplify the quality and versatility of Nabokov's writing. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested fro overseas delivery.

London; Thornton Butterworth, 1925., 1925. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 270. 9 illustrations by the Author including frontispiece and map. Publishers' maroon reeded cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and blind fillet to boards. Spine rubbed at tips and lightly sunned. Endpapers toned; scattered light foxing, a little heavier to early and late leaves; tidy gift inscription to ffep, and ink stain to verso title page. A Very Good copy. Sporting reminiscences by the Norwegian polymath (1861-1930), whose numerous achievements in the fields of exploration, science and diplomacy brought him worldwide fame. The sports covered include ski-ing, mountaineering and shooting.

London; Orion, 2005, 2005. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. [10], 341 pp. Double page map to fore. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A very good copy in near fine jacket. Small bump to head of spine with associated light crease to jacket. Very light ripple to edge of text block and very slight tanning to pages. Flat signed by the author to the title page. �12.99 original price label to front of jacket. The first book in the Attila the Hun series.

London; Frank Cass and Co., 1966, 1966. Hard Cover. Second Impression, Octavo. 2 vols. pp. xi, [3], 448; vii, [1], 490. Folding map to vol. 2. Bound in forest green publishers' cloth with gilt spine titles and ornaments. With ivory white and navy dustjacket. Ever so slightly bumped to corners and spine tips. 3 very small closed nicks (3mm) to spine tips of vol.1 dustjacket otherwise bright clean dust jacket. Near Fine in Very Good. Comprehensive and highly readable study of the development of the English coal industry from the 1550s to 1700. Supported by illustrative documents, extracts from colliery accounts, and maps.

Glasgow; James MacLehose & Sons, 1899., 1899. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. Octavo. 73 pp, [3]. 4 maps (of 5, lacking 14th century map) of which one folding. Book Condition: Very Good. Dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Boards a little stained with bruised corners, minor wear head of spine; a shaken copy with weak inner hinges and fingermarking throughout. Endpapers toned with Recreation Club stamp and inscriptions to rear pastedown; further stamps to pp 73 and Map IV. Map II complete but detached at fold. First edition in book form, "recast from an earlier essay and read at a meeting of the Glasgow Archaeological Society... reprinted (with a slight addition) from the Society's Transactions". Scarce.

London; C. Arthur Pearson, Limited; 1930., 1930. Mass Market Paperback. Second Edition. Softcover octavo,126. 41 in-text diagrams. Publishers' green, black and white striped card wraps. Covers a little creased and lightly soiled; minor foxing, mainly to prelims and text-block edge. A Very Good copy. Comprehensive guide with chapters on running various distances, hurdles, high-and long-jump, and throwing events, as well as preparing a sports ground and running a sports meeting, by the Olympic and Cambridge University coach.

London; V. H. Nelson, circa [1840]., 1840. Undated. Map with Provinces marked in colour, approximately 68 cm x 48 cm, dissected into 21 parts, mounted on linen and folded into covers. Binding full black calf, heavily decorated in blind with gilt titles in cartouche to upper board. Covers scuffed with wear at corners and edge,minor loss to spine and pale stains to lower board. Ownership inscription in ink over 2 portions of linen to reverse; linen lightly soiled. Overall condition of map Very Good in Good covers. Scarce early map of the area; scale approx. 1:1,800,000.

London; HarperCollins, 1994., 1994. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo, pp. [12], 210, [2]. Publishers' mid blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright. Inscribed to title page "Dear Kenneth, with memories of lovely, boozy times spent together from Eric" with the Author's name scored through and his signature above. Jacket lightly toned and surface soiled with minor creasing top edge. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The story of Newby's restoration of a farmhouse in the foothills of the Alps with his wife, over a period of 25 years from the 1960s.

London; Secker & Warburg, 1974., 1974. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Landscape quarto, pp. xix, [1], photographs, [12] Appendix. 244 photographs including 192 full-page monochrome images with captions. Publishers' black cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket (but retaining price label). A clean and bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little scuffed at spine tips and folds, with a couple of minor nicks top edge, which have been repaired to reverse with adhesive tape. Masterpieces of the photographic art including a remarkable international gallery of portraits of the famous "from Marilyn Monroe to General Franco" together with notable landscapes, with preface by Beaumont Newhall. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards additional postage costs may be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Collins, 2010., 2010. Hardcover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. x, 598 pp. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with cover design by Robert Gillmor; patterned endpapers. Signed by Author to title page, without dedication. Number 113 in the New Naturalist series.Scarce, particularly in this condition.

London; Tor/Pan Macmillan, 2009., 2009. Hard Cover. SIGNED, NUMBERED and dated FIRST EDITION. Octavo. [12], 451 pp. Book Condition: Near fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Very light scuff to lower board otherwise fine in fine jacket. Signed and dated (4/6/09) by the Author to the title page in year of publication. No. 39 of 250 numbered copies of the first edition (numbered to limitation page) published by Pan Macmillan in association with Goldsboro Books. The first book in the Legends of the Red Sun series. We currently have a substantial collection of modern crime, fantasy and historical first editions for sale, all SIGNED by the authors and in fine condition. Please see our inventory for details.

London; Tor, 2011, 2011. Hard Cover. SIGNED AND NUMBERED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. [12], 418 pp. Double page map to fore. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy in like jacket. No. 80 of 150 numbered copies of the first edition signed by the Author to limitation page and published by Tor in association with Goldsboro Books. The third book in the Legends of the Red Sun series. We currently have a substantial collection of modern crime, fantasy and historical first editions for sale, all SIGNED by the authors and in fine condition. Please see our inventory for details.

California; LiquidBrush Productions 2015., 2015. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION: No 6 in a Special Edition of only 1000 Signed and Numbered copies. Quarto. Limitation leaf plus 14 colour plates on stiff card, printed recto only. Publishers' pictorial card wraps, housed in printed pictorial slipcase. Small dent affecting slipcase and lower corner tip of book otherwise both clean and bright. Near Fine in like slipcase. Special publication featuring female portraits by the comic artist whose projects include the RoboCop adaptation for Dark Horse and Alien graphics for Marvel.

London; Macmillan and Co., 1892., 1892. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. xxi, [3], 312. 16 in-text illustrations. Prize binding by Bickers & Son of full polished burgundy calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards and board edges, with gilt armorial of Royal Agricultural College to upper board and in blind border to dentelles. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Corners are very slightly bumped with minor surface loss; prize bookplate to pdep and hinge is starting. A clean, neat copy; Very Good condition. A manual of cultivation of tropical crops including coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, spices, with a chapter on the cultivation of drugs, in very handsome prize binding.

USA; PS Artbooks, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto, pp. 288. Cartoon-strip illustrations throughout in colour. Paper covered printed red boards with glossy pictorial panels, and pictorial endpapers. Spine tips very lightly creased otherwise as-new, with no annotation or inscriptions. A Near Fine copy. July/August 1951 to March/April 1952, Issues 1-5, with Foreword by Stan Nicholls. Scarce. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Boston; D. Lothrop and Company, 1881., 1881. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 234. Frontispiece with verse plus 63 illustrations, of which 18 full-page to plates and remainder within text. Publishers' pictorial paper-covered boards in colour, with black titles to gilt panels to spine and upper board. Minor wear to edges, corners and spine tips, with small loss at head of spine and upper corners. Contents clean and tight, with gift inscription dated Christmas 1886 to ffep. A Very Good copy. A sequel to "Overhead" (an introduction to astronomy) and an introduction to science for young children featuring brave and intrepid Harry and his more retiring companion Nelly, in particularly attractive and colourful illustrated boards. A good example of colour printed boards. Scarce.

Loughton; Piatkus, 1981., 1981. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [4], 312. Bound in burgundy publishers' cloth with gilt titles to spine, with black, price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, tight, square copy free of annotations or inscriptions, lightly toned. Dust-jacket clipped with a miniscule closed tear to top corner. Overall Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Supernatural thriller from best-selling author Dean Koontz, in which a grieving mother searches for answers to her son's death in the neon world of Las Vegas and the sun-scorched desert.

London; Watkins Publishing, 1976., 1976. Hard Cover. Seventh Impression. Octavo, pp. [8], 373-777, [1]. Publishers' midnight blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped printed orange and yellow dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased; contents clean and crisp, with bookseller's pencil code to rfep and slight foxing to textblock edge. Jacket slightly spine sunned, with nicks & creases at spine tips and remains of price sticker to front flap. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Second volume of the five volume series, the standard work on the subject. Nicoll was a pioneer of British psychological medicine who studied the inner meaning of Christian ideas.

London; Watkins Publishing, 1975., 1975. Hard Cover. Fifth Impression. Octavo, pp. [6], 1513-1766. Publishers' midnight blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped printed orange and yellow dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased and upper corner of upper board bruised; contents clean and crisp, with minor pencil annotation to rfep and slight foxing to upper edge of textblock. Jacket very slightly spine sunned, with nicks & creases at spine tips and remains of price sticker to front flap. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Fifth and final volume of the series, the standard work on the subject. Nicoll was a pioneer of British psychological medicine who studied the inner meaning of Christian ideas.

London; Watkins Publishing, 1976., 1976. Hard Cover. Fifth Impression. Octavo, pp. [8], 1235-1503, [1]. Publishers' midnight blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped printed orange and yellow dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly creased; pp. 1463-1470 corner creased to margin and top edge very slightly foxed otherwise contents clean and crisp. Jacket a little nicked & creased to edge, and slightly surface soiled to yellow panel, with remains of price label to front flap. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Fourth volume of the five volume series, the standard work on the subject. Nicoll was a pioneer of British psychological medicine who studied the inner meaning of Christian ideas.