Search Results: Authors starting with N from Underground Books, ABAA

Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012. Staplebound. Good +. Staplebound. 7 1/2" X 11". 15pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges. Foxing to pages 8 and 9. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. A brochure detailing José Clemente Orozco's mural at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Epic of American Civilization by José Clemente Orozco, painted between 1932 and 1934, is one of Dartmouth's greatest artistic resources. As Professor Mary Coffey writes in the Hood Museum of Art's publication Orozco at Dartmouth: "José Clemente Orozco reorients the 'epic of America' from the standard US narrative that begins with British colonization along the northeastern seaboard and proceeds heroically west to a Mexican story rooted in Mesoamerican civilizations and the devastation wrought by the Spanish Conquest . . . Orozco presents America's epic as cyclical in nature, the eternal return of destruction and… Read More

Neenah: The Russell Meerdink Company, 1994. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 282pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in white paper over boards with spine backed in green and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Thoroughbred trainer Carl Nafzger took 84 year-old Frances Genter's gawky yearling, Unbridled, and turned him into a Kentucky Derby winner and Breeders' Cup Champion. Millions of television viewers were touched as Nafzger hugged the frail first lady of the turf and declared, "You've won the Kentucky Derby! I love you!" Now Nafzger gives you his methods for developing champion Thoroughbreds in his book, Traits of a Winner: The Formula for Developing Thoroughbred Racehorses. In it he explains the four traits every champion racehorse must have and how to find those traits and develop them. Nafzger explains the key elements in successful Thoroughbred ownership. He tells you… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 352pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth over baords with spine lettered in silver. Top and bottom edges of spine are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: We've all been bitten. And we all have stories. The bite attacks featured in this dramatic book take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history. Some are as familiar and contemporary as encounters with mosquitoes in New York City and snakes in southern California's Hollywood Hills or as exotic and foreign as the tsetse in equatorial Africa, the camel in Riyadh, and the Komodo dragon in Indonesia. While others, such as people biting other people---well, these are in a category of their… Read More

Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2001. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 287pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Maneater is a personal account by a specialist who approaches her work like a forensic scientist or a case-hardened private eye. Dr. Pamela Nagami is a leading authority on infectious diseases and her stories will shock, amaze, and warn listeners. The patients in Maneater are ordinary Americans. When Danielle Jordan innocently ordered a salad for lunch in Puerta Vallarta she had no idea she had just become the "host" to an organism that six years later would grow into a worm and burrow into her brain. Charlie Blair caught chicken pox, but he wasn't a kid, he was an adult,… Read More

Tokyo: Gentosha, 2005. Paperback. Very good/very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". 163pp. Text in Japanese kanji only. Mild edgewear to dust jacket over printed wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this exploration of the modern art of tattoo, including Japanese traditional, cover-up, neo-traditonal, jail tattoo, black and gray, fine-line, bio-mechanical, demonish, portrait, neo-tribal, Celtic, biker, new school, Aztec, Maori, tribal, and totem-tribal, with color photographs throughout.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". viii, 523pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.(Publisher).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". x, 254pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the "real" Homer.(Publisher).

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1981. First Edition. Leather_bound. Good. First Edition. Leather_bound. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 450pp. Bound in full blue leather over boards, with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Rubbing, dust-spotting, and heavy foxing to all-gilt edges of text block. Discoloration to edges of silk moire endpapers. Foxing to endpapers, and occasional faint foxing to pages throughout, otherwise pages are free of marks and notation. Staining to silk ribbon placemaker. Binding is sound. An admittedly worn but still quite handsome limited first edition of this work by V.S. Naipaul. This limited first edition of Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey was privately printed exclusively for Members of The First Edition Society.

Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1995. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 11 3/4" X 9". 139pp. Mild creasing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this book of erotic photography.

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Timothy J Boyce, in ink at title page. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". 616pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine backed in maroon and lettered in silver. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This new hardcover edition of Odd Nansen's diary, the first in over sixty-five years, contains extensive annotations and other material not found in any other hardcover or paperback versions. Nansen, a Norwegian, was arrested in 1942 by the Nazis, and spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three… Read More

Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 209pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: How might art disrupt Arabophobia and Islamophobia in the US? In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, Mazen Naous argues that fiction is one of the ways in which Arab Americans can correct dominant narratives of themselves with representation of their lived realities. Looking at both the aesthetics and politics in contemporary Arab American novels, Naous demonstrates that the novels' poetics cannot be extricated from or subsumed under political content. In his finely textured analyses of form and style, Naous uncovers crucial transcultural and transpoetic solidarities that extend beyond the politics of representation. Naous's book offers analyses of Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art… Read More

Sao Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2009. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11" X 11". 99pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Gentle bumps to corners of slipcase. Text is in Brazilian Portuguese. ABOUT THIS BOOK: With an autobiographical testimony punctuated by over 70 images, the book "Pele - My Life in Pictures" condenses the narrative of the scrawny boy from Tres Coracoes who became one of the greatest soccer players of all time. Presented in a scrapbook format, the volume includes a series of collectible items that can be detached and kept by the reader, such as game tickets, the poster of the 1958 World Cup, newspaper clippings from that era, and even an official document from the White House regarding Pele's visit to President Nixon. The images depict memorable moments of the player, such as the sequence of his 1,000th goal, the portrait of Pele created by artist Andy Warhol in 1977, and the embrace with his… Read More

New York: Warner Books, 1982. Mass market paperback. Good. Mass market paperback. 7" X 4". 431pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing to spine. Rubbing to edges of text block. Inked notation to inside of front cover. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. A who's who of vile men (and women) wanted for every crime in the book.(Publisher).

Cincinnati, Ohio: Verlag von Cranton & Stowe / Hitchcock & Walden, 1868. Boards. Fair. Boards. 6" x 3 3/4". 94pp. Heavily worn copy in brown boards. Hinges loose and but text block holding.

New York: Asia Publishing House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 147pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with rubbing and small tears to edges and corners, light rubbing to wraps, and mild dust soiling. Green cloth over boards. Spine lettered in white. Mild shelfwear to binding with bumping to corners. Bookseller stamp to front free endpaper. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean and unmarked. From front flap: "This study is divided into four major parts: Part I deals mainly with the views on, and attitudes towards, the Managing Agency System in the recent past; Part II contains the Council's own assessment of the basic functions relating to promotion, financing and management of companies now being performed by managing agents; Part III analyses the criticism of the system; Part IV presents important features of the various systems of management in India, particularly in terms of structure, statutory provisions, costs, incentives… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 456pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With patterned fore-edge. *WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE ABOUT THIS BOOK: Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them.… Read More

New York: Soho Press, Inc, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 330pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Red paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in red. Very light bump to top edge of front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: The John Day Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". vi, 116pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with foxing, toning, and shallow chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Several small, closed tears to edges of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light rubbing to covers and edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to gutters of endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In her autobiography Krishna Nehru told something of her harsh experience in jail. Like her distinguished brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, and all other members of their family, she was imprisoned for her political activity. Now she tells in more detail what life was like in a prison for women, and gives vivid pen-pictures of twelve women she came to know there. Of these, some were "politicals" like herself. But she took the greatest interest… Read More

Denver: Silver Platter Press Affiliates, 1987. Spiral_bound. Very good. Spiral_bound. 11" X 9". 78pp. Very mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light spots of toning to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Plastic spiral binding is sound. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is Volume one of a three part series on coin magic. Part one, Heavy Work Made Easy, is an attempt to bring more advanced looking work to the hands of the novice. The almost exclusive use of only the fingertip rest position eliminates any difficulties in the presentation of the routines.(Publisher).

Hanover and Princeton: Hood Museum of Art and Princeton University Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 12" X 9". Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Sunning to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: While the Olympics, because of their modern revival, enjoy the greatest fame today, in ancient Greece other religious festivals were equally elaborate and impressive spectacles. The lavishly illustrated Goddess and Polis is the first work devoted to the Panathenaia, the most significant of these festivals to be held in ancient Athens. Founded in 566 B.C., this complex ritual performed for the goddess Athena vied with other Greek festivals in grandeur and importance and was particularly distinguished by the works of art… Read More