Search Results: Authors starting with N from Better Read Than Dead

New Delhi: Sagar Publications, 1970. Hardcover, small octavo, illustrated boards, pictorial dust jacket, 176 pp. Good book, spine worn and chipped at ends, joints lightly bruised and rubbed, some edge wear, endpapers toned with Samuel Weiser sticker to lower front pastedown; fair dust jacket, several open tears to spine, joints with open and closed tears, edges worn with short closed and open tears, covers soiled, lower cover rubbed, flap seams torn. Illustrated with over 80 horoscope, this is a Hindu astrological study of the cause, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and ailments. J.N. Bhasin also draws conclusions regarding cause of death aligned with one's horoscope. Earliest known printing of this edition.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. 8vo, in blue cloth boards with silver lettering and blue decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 205 pp. Very Good, light fading along edges, slight cant to spine, previous owner's name and address on title page, bottom corners frayed./Very Good jacket, chipping to crown and tail of jacket spine, price clipped, general chipping and wear along edges, soiling on rear panel.. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff, jacket illustration by Michael Train..

New York: The New Press, 2018. Signature-bound in pictorial wraps, quarto, 156 pp. Very good.

Cambridge, Massachussetts & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2013. Hardcover, octavo, black paper boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 727 pp. Very good, slight cant to spine/Very good. Design by Graciela Galup.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, offset cream spine titles, lacking dust jacket, 102 pp. Good condition, cocked spine with moderate wear. From the library of New York School poet, librettist and publisher, Kenward Elmslie. On front free endpaper in blue ink: "Kenward Gray Elmslie - 1945," with penciled doodles. Adaptation of Perelman and Nash's hit musical (scored by Kurt Weill), which satirized sexual and cultural mores of the day. The musical's debut production starred Martin, whom Elmslie would unsuccessfully court decades later for his adaptation of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1983. Hardcover octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, xvi, 273 pp. Very Good, corners bumped with resultant fraying, ink stamps from former owners on flyleaf, half-title, and rear free endpaper, light soiling to edges of boards, 1/2" hole on front free endpaper where sticker has been removed./Very Good jacket, handling and shelving wear, some peeling along edges of jacket head, 1/4" chip out of crown of rear panel, light damping to back of rear panel, some soiling to front and rear panels..

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A Black American Missionary in Canada: The Life and Letters of Lewis Champion Chambers. Hilary Bates Neary (Editor). University of McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2022. Softcover in illustrated wrappers, 8vo, [xvii, 5] 272 pp. [2]. Near fine trade paperback in unread condition, clean and bright copy.

Jamaica: Williams Collins and Sangster, 1970. Hardcover, octavo, gray cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, maroon endpapers, 256 pp. Near fine book, front free end paper ink markings; very good dust jacket, lightly chipped spine creased and soiled, upper cover top edge chipped and torn; covers nicked and rubbed, lower cover edges lightly chipped with close tears.

Cambridge: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Hardcover [16mo]. Beige paper boards backed with blue cloth, title panel pasted to spine. 4" x 6 1/8", 130 pp. Very good, fading to pasted-down spine title, lightly worn boards with some rubbing to corners and edges. Boards lightly bowed inwards towards fore edge.. Otto Neurath was a pioneer in infographics and inventor, with artist Gerd Arntz, of the pictorial method of representing social-scientific data known as ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education). Originally known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, developed at the Social and Economic Museum of Vienna between 1925 and 1934, the language recognized the principal importance of pictograms and their utility in transforming complex source data into charts. ISOTYPE communicated multifaceted scientific data into easily understood symbols that became almost universally known. This text describes the the studies that lead to the language's… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Hardcover octavo; brown cloth with cream lettering to front, backed in cream cloth with brown lettering to spine. ix, 384pp. Lightly cocked and edge worn with gently pushed corners; toned to top of boards; top of text block soiled; occasionally marked to margins in pencil. Good or better..

New York: Horizon Press, 1981. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 176 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, light soiling, edges lightly worn with chipping and a close tear to lower cover flap seam top. Jacket photograph by Sheila Yurman. Front free endpaper inscription to dancer and choreographer, 'For Julie Finch with a great heart Donald Drunkspeare [Newlove]' as a birthday gift. Finch was one of the many activists, and artists, that opposed Robert Moses' crosstown elevated expressway that would have then disrupted many active SoHo communities in the late 1960s, possibly further.

Austin/San Francisco: Mike & Dale's Press, 1998. First edition. Copy "E" of 26 signed and lettered, from a total edition of 300. Saddle-stapled imprinted orange wraps, 8-1/2 x 6-5/8 in. 50pp. Near fine, with mild sunning around spine.. This copy additionally inscribed on the title page to Kenward [Elmslie]: "To Kenward with admiration Hoe Nguyen 10-25-98". With a section of six black-and-white images by Suloni Robertson at center. Title re-editioned in 1999 by Nguyen's Skanky Possum Press, who also issued Elmslie's Blast From the Past (2000) and Spilled Beans : A Conversation (2001).

Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. Hardcover, quarto, black boards with pictorial dust jacket. Near fine, in shrink wrap/Near fine.

San Francisco: Terrain, CA. Hand-editioned [53] of 175 to inside back wrap. Spiral-bound [8-1/2 in x 11 in]. Cardstock wrappers with toner printed front cover. Unpaginated [49 pp]. Very Good, some handling wear and soiling in a sound binding.. Exhibition catalog for Robert Nickas' group show at Terrain gallery from February 15 to March 12, 1994. Thirty-four artists represented include Larry Clark, Dan Graham, G.B. Jones, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Raymond Pettibon, and more. Hand-numbered 53 of 175 to inside back wrap.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 2500. Third printing. Hardcover duodecimo, blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped to spine, [xxix] 194 pp. Very Good, tight square binding, fray and push to corners and spine extremities, light scuffing to boards, rear pastedown starting to come up, exposing hinge but not affecting binding.. Third American printing of the Birth of Tragedy, volume one (formerly volume three) of the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Oscar Levy's comprehensive translations of Nietzsche's works first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1909 before being issued stateside by MacMillan in 1923. After two print runs of 1500, this third printing expanded to 2500, of which this is stamped no. 2356, May 1923.

New York: Hans Niggemann, 1961. 'Pilot edition' limited to 500 copies. Softcover yellow paper wraps with cloth spine, 8 3/8" x 11. Very good, lightly worn and soiled wraps, some soiling to paper edges. Self-published dissertation and introduction of the Uranian system of astrology.

Paris: mahj, 2016. Soft cover. Near Fine. Light wear to wrap. Tight binding, clean text block and bright leaves free of soiling. Bilingual, English and French. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: International Publishers, 1970. First American Edition, simultaneous with the cloth. Signature-bound (7 x 4-7/8 in.) in pictorial wraps. 96 pp/. Very Good, light edge wear, wraps soiled and with sunning to spine. Else clean in a sound square binding.. First American Edition (paperback) of the Ghanaian leader's treatise on African class struggle and its efforts against neo-colonialism.

Oakland: Black Family Institute, 1986. Perfect-bound, octavo, paper wraps, 149 pp. Very good condition, spine ends lightly worn, joints creased, edges to wraps worn, text block edges lightly soiled.

New York: CUZ Edition, 1998. Limited to 537 copies. Side-stapled with black paper wraps in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 40 pp. Near fine/Near fine. Published by Richard Hell at CUZ Editions.