Search Results: Authors starting with N from The Book Shed

Madras: Oxford University Press, 1966. Revised & Corrected Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket, previous owner's name and date. Underlining and notations to 11 pages of chapter 3. There may be an occasional instance of underling through the rest of the book. Upendra Nath Ghoshal was the author of nearly 50 works on Indian history and politics. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: New York Historical Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Revolutionary Muster Rolls Vol 1, 1775-1783. Contents are: Artillery; Canadian Troops; Connecticut Troops; Continental Infantry; Maryland Troops; Massachusetts Troops; New Hampshire Troops; New Jersey Troops. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: New York Historical Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Revolutionary Muster Rolls Vol 2, 1775-1783. Contents are: New York Troops; North Carolina Troops; Pennsylvania Troops; Rhode Island Troops; South Carolina Troops; Virginia Troops. Index of names to both volumes. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: New York Historical Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Revolutionary Muster Rolls Vol 1, 1775-1783. Contents are: Vol.1: Artillery; Canadian Troops; Connecticut Troops; Continental Infantry; Maryland Troops; Massachusetts Troops; New Hampshire Troops; New Jersey Troops.Vol. 2: New York Troops; North Carolina Troops; Pennsylvania Troops; Rhode Island Troops; South Carolina Troops; Virginia Troops. Index of names to both volumes. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! Read More

New York: New York Historical Society, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New, previous owner's bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Pebbled green and gilt cloth. First printing, no others noted. Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops. 1755-1764. The New Yorkers serving in the colonial era militia many of whom saw service in the French and Indian War. Much additional information often including place of birth, age and occupation. A valuable genealogical resource. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Girl Scouts Inc., 1940. New. Hardcover. Good. First impression. Much wear to tips, edges and corners. Previous owner's name and addresses, personal information filled in. The October, 1940 first impression of the New Edition of the handbook for the intermediate program. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges. Marker ribbon. Clean and unmarked. In the brown and gilt gilt decorated binding. The Victorian Replica binding "adapted for contemporary use" by Rafael Palacios. Insert present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. Essay by the author. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940Â’s through the late 1980Â’s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar EverymanÂ’s Library (Dent/Dutton), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford WorldÂ’s Classics (Oxford University Press). Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the… Read More

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket which is rubbed; pages 171-174 dog-eared. First printing, logo and no others noted. The story of Marineland, "the world's first oceanarium." The park which preceeded SeaWorld was the first to capture and present dolphins and other sea creatures in an entertainment and "research" facility. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Vermont Life Magazine , 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Robert A. Boyajian. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and price-clipped jacket, a few closed tears. Inscribed by the author with a second non-authorial gift inscription to the title page. Published in conjunction with the Vermont Historical Society. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest wear to the book and jacket, previous owner's name as well as a small bookplate under the flap. First printing, full number line. From the flap: "Exploring the intimate relationship between mathematics, physics, and the tremendous power of modern computers, Number-Crunching will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how these three important fields join forces to solve today's thorniest puzzles." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine jacket. First printing, full Random House number line. "Naipaul's luminous prose provides glimpses of insight into the lives of ordinary people whose dedication and commitment to the practice of Islam is the foundation of their lives."--Publishers Weekly. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Post Mills: Chelsea Green, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Signed. Just about As New in all respects. Inscribed by Helen Nearing on the title page. Later printing. "To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life's rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever. Loving and leaving are part of the living."--Helen Nearing. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: The John Day Company, 1941. Limited ed. Hardcover. Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, spine sunned, clean and unmarked. Limited to 1000 copies, "privately printed for friends of the author. None are for sale." A promotional item for the forthcoming autobiography by one of the principal architects of India's independence. Nehru served as Prime Minister of India from indepence in 1947 to 1964. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Duffield & co., 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Good-/no jacket. much shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, lacks front free endpaper, rear hinge cracked-reglued; no jacket. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1974. Reissue. Hardcover. Good/good. Second printing 1973) of this edition. Shelf wear to the book and jacket, spine sunned, a closed tear too the front panel, about 3/4 of front free endpaper removed (likely for an inscription). Illustrated by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer from the original edition. Red and yellow illustrated dust jacket. The concluding volume of the Bastable trilogy of novels for children. The Bastables, introduced in The Treasure Seekers, were a middle class English family recently fallen on hard times. The books were an acknowledged influence on C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, as well as the works of P.L. Travers and J.K. Rowling. Pretty much all the British children book writers using initials in place of names. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very light shelf wear to the book and jacket. Clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted From the flap: "CATCHING HIM WILL PUSH HARRY TO THE LIMIT. He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to accomplish what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye..." .“Killing Moon is not just an unbearably tense thriller but another of Nesbø’s studies in love and loneliness. At his best, as he is here, there are few greater crime writers.”—The Times (London). Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, a bit more to the jacket which is chipped in four places, clean and unmarked. First printing, colophon. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington.." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Moody's Magazine, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition after the first 1907 edition. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, Christmas sticker to front endpaper, title page lacks upper corner, pages browned. How to avoid getting swindled in mining scheme, quite useful. Dr. Francis C. Nicholas began his working life as an office boy on the New York Stock Exchange. Within eight years he rose to the position of cashier. After receiving a degree in economic geology from Columbia University much of his professional career was spent in the mining industry primarily in the Caribbean and Latin America. Moody's Magazine described him as "perhaps the only technical geologist who has had a thorough business training in finance." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online… Read More

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1953. First U.S.. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to the book, unmarked; jacket spine is stained, edge wear. A Catholic looks at recent developments in Existentialism, Logical Positivism, Freudianism, and other modern philosophies. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Heinemann , 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. William McLaren. Lightest wear to the book and jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Nichols was a poet, a playwright, an author of mysteries, short stories, essays, books on cats, spiritualism, travel etc., etc.. It is however for his garden books that he is not merely remembered but perhaps revered. From the flap: "Garden Opens Tomorrow is essentially a work for the practical gardener to which he can turn for his profit and instruction. ...and could have been written by nobody but Beverley Nichols." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.