Search Results: Titles starting with N from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. hardcover. Very Good/very good. One of Le Carre's best, concerning a rich arms dealer and his beautiful mistress and the man who unmasks the secrets.Previous owner has signed the front endpaper.

Like new. An analysis of why anthropologists reach the conclusions the do.

New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fair. True First Edition (A-P on © page) DJ missing part of spine and generally ragged--may have come from a different copy since book is in great shape, although pages slightly yellowed from age

Like new (except for wear on dust jacket) First American Edition of The Natural History of Mammals, which includes 97 wonderful drawings (see samples on title pages) and 24 halftone illustrations. A wonderful book that was the first in any language to describe the activities of mammals--other similar books are largely about birds. The author a University of Paris professor at the time the book was written, has traveled worldwide while investigating the ecology of mammals.

New York: The Free Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover cloth. Like new/LIke new. A history of diets and dieting that also has many amusing sidelights. Interesting old photographs

The adventures of two American women in 1926 who traveled to New Guinea to paint portraits of the Papuans and to record of a society that was becoming extinct. They stayed for four years and learned how natives lived and Caroline painted the headhunters and ceremonies, etc. . Mytinger, (1897-1980) an artist who studied at the Art Students League in New York and elsewhere, was born in Sacramento and raised in Ohio, and later lived in the artist's colony of Monterey, CA. Many b & w textual drawings, 8 full-page drawings (1 is double-page). Endpaper maps. Dust jacket is price-clipped, but there is a $4.00 price printed on the side of the front flap. Important anthropology along with amusing adventures. This was her second book--the first was about the earlier part of their trip.

From Anne Bradstreet through Sylvia Plath

Although rebound the text inside is in very good shape, marred only by the usual library stamps on the copyright page and opposite. Also included is a copy of the New York Times Book Review review

Although this copy has been rebound by the library, the entire book is intact and in good condition with only the usual library stamps or notes, primarily on the copyright page and facing it.

Introduction by Hiseph Wood Krutch, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, All God's Chillun Got Wings, Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

The most readable historian tells how this extraordinary couple kept our spirits up during no ordinary time.

Account of what is claimed to be the first complete walk of the Natchez Trace, from Natchez, MS, to Nashville, TN

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Photographs throughout. Fine tight copy with no added markings. Gold signature on front cover as bright as new, but gold lettering on spine somewhat dulled by time.

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Copyright 1896 Very tight book with black line at top of pages indicating it was once remaindered; Edges of cover with shelf wear, slight partial separation of back cover