Search Results: Titles starting with N from Alkahest Books

Milwaukee: Kalmbach Books, 1974. 2nd printing. softcover. Very good. Quarto (approx. 8 1/4" wide by 11 1/8" tall), 103 [1] pages. Fully illustrated. 092717F

New York: The Beechhurst Press, (c. 1955). Hardcover. Very good/poor. Werth, Kurt. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel. Illustrated by Kurt Werth. Octavo, green cloth covers, 223 pages. Covers slightly sunned at edges. Dust jacket split at folds, chipped, tears, poor. 121901A "First published in Vilna in the year 1873, The Nag is one of the best examples of the work of the celebrated Yiddish writer who won fame under the pen-name of Mendele the Book Peddler. One hundred years ago, Mendele was well known to the Jews of Russia and Poland as a man who traveled from town to town in a horse-drawn cart, selling books, listening to everyone's troubles, and writing stories about them. These Jews knew Mendele well--so well that they also knew there was no such person. Mendele the Book Peddlar was the fictional creation of Sholem Jacob Abramovitch.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, distributed by Doubleday & Co., (1966). Soft cover. near Very Good. 56 pages; approx. 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 in., softcover. Includes black and white illustrations. Top corner bumped, else Very Good. Includes addenda sheet. 051705A

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (2000). first, limited edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, red spine over gray boards, 129 pages. One of a limited edition with a special page signed by the author, inserted by the publisher.

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, (c. 1979),, 1979. Soft cover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, (c. 1979),, 1979. Soft cover. Pages 50 + 2 p. ads,approx. 5 7/16" x 8", softcover. Spine sunned, some rubbing on covers, Good. 082203A ISBN: 0-8229-5311-0

New York, Rand McNally & Co., (c. 1928),, 1928. Hardcover. near Very Good. Eger, Ruth Caroline. Pages: x + 261, octavo, green cloth covers with pictorial inset. Illustrated by Ruth Caroline Eger. Includes both black and white and color illustrations. Former owner inscription on front endpapers: cover corners lightly worn, a bit of rubbing, near Very Good. 081006A

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1967). Stated First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, black cloth covers, 318 pages. Includes black and white plates plus maps on endpapers and in the text.; bibliography, index. 092108C

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, (1973), 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, (1973), 1973. Hardcover. 4th printing of the second edition. Pages x + 243,octavo, hardcover, 4th printing of the second edition. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles. Book is in Fine condition. 120506A No jacket. ISBN: 0-226-20315-8

San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, (1974),, 1974. 1st Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 199 pages, octavo, hardcover, first printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge of book, else book is in Very Good condtion. Dust jacket is creased on rear panel, some light all-over soil. 061507A Law Enforcement, Drugs. ISBN: 0879320516

Hartford: Published by Andrus and Starr, Peter B. Gleason and Co., Printers., 1815. hardcover. Good. Octavo (approx. 5 1/4" wide by 8 3/4" tall). Leather covers, scuffed, worn at edges. Some foxing. 400 pages. Lacks 2 maps. Frontispiece of Prince Koutousoff. 112706A

New York: The Macmillan Co., (c. 1970). hardcover. Very good/good +. Quarto, (approx. 9" by 12 1/8") cream cloth covers, 166 pages. Includes both black and white and color illustrations. Eleven essays by eleven different authors on the narrative aspects of art. Brueghel's World by Lawrence Gowing; Subliminal Dreams by George MacBeth; Steinberg: Callibiography by John Ashbery, plus eight others. Includes index and ads. Small closed tear on bottom of front panel dust jacket. 092717C

Self-published, (1981). first edition. softcover. Very good. Stapled booklet, with string tie and tassel. Approx. 6 1/8" by 9" , 94 pages. Includes halftone reproductions. Laid in is a printed introductory note from the author, dated April 1981; also includes reproduction of a typed 8 page 8 1/2 by 11" folded insert: Descendents of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank and Helen Livingston Graham as of April, 1981. Fairbank was a Chicago businessman and civic leader in the mid 1850s. Studio

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (c. 1935). first U.S. edition. hardcover. Very good. Octavo, orange cloth covers, stamped in black, 204 pages. Very Good. No dust jacket. Gerhart Seger was a member of the German Reichstag in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Parliaments. In the Weimar Republic, Seger was managing director of the German Peace Society and an editor for various Social Democratic newspapers. In 1933 he was sent to the Oranienburg camp, an early Nazi concentration camp. He escaped into Czechoslovakia at the end of 1933, and publcized his experienes in the camp. in book form and also lectured aross Europe and the United States. 092508E German Resistance

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1918. First Edition. softcover. Very good. Wrappers, periodical, approx. 6 7/8" wide by 10 inches tall. 114 pages + 15 pages of ads in rear. Black and white photo reproductions. A little bumping to bottom outside corner, tiny tear at top front, some creasing on spine but covers and spine are complete. Articles are centered upon aviation and World War I including Aces of the Air by Captain Jacques De Sieyes; Tales of the British Air Service by William A. Bishop; Italy's Eagles of Combat and Defense; The Life Story of an American Airman in France by Stuart Walcott; The Future of the Airplane by Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary. 092715B

Urbana, University if Illinois Press, 1967,, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiii + 279 pages, octavo, hardcover. Book is in Fine condition. Dust jacket is price-clipped, else Fine. 112304A

Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1877. first thus. hardcover. Good +. Small quarto, 576 pages. 3/4 leather; joints and hinges starting. Text is clean. Bound periodical with issues from July through December 1877. Illustrated. Articles include an eleven page piece on Liberia with engravings; The Colorado Plateau; Indiana Asbury University, In and About Milan; Southward From the Alps; Capture of Forts Clinton and Montgomery by the Royal Troops; The Brothers Harper; The Exposition of Munich; Over the Alps; Cameron's Journey Across Africa; New York--From the Narrows To High Bridge. Also, poetry, fiction, and reviews 070400A

New York: Viking Penguin, 1991. expanded edition, first thus. hardcover. near very good/near fine. Foreword by Vine Deloria Jr. Small quarto (approx. 6 3/8" wide by 9 1/2" tall), Black cloth spine over terra-cotta colored boards, xxiii [1] 474 pages. Includes black and white photo reproductions; notes on sources, and index. Book has some rubbing, discoloration at foot of spine, near Very Good. Dust jacket in near fine condition. Review copy with publicity sheet laid in. Studio

Reed, a part of William Heinemann Australia, (1993). reprint.. hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Thick quarto, green cloth covers with white titles. 656 pages. Includes 260 photo reproductions in color and over 600 line drawings. Line drawings by David Jones and John Bolger. Cover corners lightly bumped, Very Good. Dust jacket is in Fine condition. This oversize, heavy book may incur additional charges for expedited or international shipping. 122615C

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. first ed.. softcover. Very good. Stapled booklet, approx. 5 1/2' by 8 1/2", with 28 black and white plates. including a map. iv [2] 25 pages.

NY, George Braziller, (c. 1966),, 1966. F. Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, (c. 1966),, 1966. F. Hardcover. first U.S. edition. Pages 127,octavo (approx. 6 1/4" x 9 3/16"). hardcover, first U.S. edition. Illustrated by Toulouse-Lautrec. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Roget. Black and white illustrations. Book has light wear at cover edges, else Very Good; dust jacket is price-clipped, Very Good. 082203A