Search Results: Titles starting with N from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Indianapolis, IN: National Model Railroad Association, Inc., 1978. Ring-bound. Very Good. Each bulletin has just a bit of bumping at corners; no marks. Binding has tiny tear at upper front spine corner; a tiny bit of rubbing wear to logo on front cover. All 12 issues for the year 1978 complete with official NMRA binder. 9.25 x 12 inches.

Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is a bit cocked at the spine Fore edge corners are bumped. Faint soiling/fading to edges of boards. A couple scuffs to cloth on front board. Previous owner name in a small, neat hand on ffep. No other marks. Binding is sound. Approximately 200 pages. Translated by Joseph Shapiro. Text is in Russian, English and Arabic. No jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.

White Rock, B.C.: Blackfish Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good+. One of a thousand copies. Light scuff on rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarkd. 51, [2] pages. Allan Safarik (b. 1948) is a Canadian poet, the author of fourteen books, and co-founder of the Blackfish Press. He is a native of Vancouver/North Burnaby, British Columbia.

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co. and Carey and Lea, Philadlephia, 1826. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Quarter cloth with plain papered boards; paper title label on spine. Spine material chipped. Inner hinges good. Foxing. Three maps (2 fold-outs), one fold-out plate and a handful of in-text illustrations. lxiv, 255, iv, 104, plus appendix 112 p. Narratives of the British expedition to the interior and central parts of Northern Africa and the Bornu Empire in 1822-24, conducted by Dixon Denham, Dr. Walter Oudney and Hugh Clapperton.

Essen / Berlin / Leipzig: Essener Verlagsanstalt, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gray cloth boards with lettering stamped in burgundy. Previous owners name in upper corner of ffep. Some foxing. Short pen-mark on blank page opposite the title page. viii, 312 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Dust jacket shows a bit of edge wear with some minor chipping; in an archival mylar sleeve. An annotated collection of interwar period (1919-1937) political cartoons and caricatures drawn from the world press, illustrating international perspectives on the many issues and crises facing Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, Britain and India, and the Far East. Includes an index which provides the source for each illustration (name of newspaper or magazine, year of publication, artist's name). Contents: [Umsturz und Neubau in der International Ordnung]. 1. Die europaische Ordnung. Bedruckung und Aufstieg Deutschlands. 2. Der Abessinienkrieg. 3. Erschutterungen und Fragen des Britischen… Read More

Los Angeles: Nate D. Sanders, Inc., 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Light edge wear to wraps. Light crease at front spine edge. One stress crease across spine. Fore edge corners are very lightly curled. Pages are unmarked. Auction of autographs, rare books and collectibles, coins and currency, sports cards and memorabilia, Hollywood costumes, memorabilia and props, Charles Schulz original strips, Star Trek, presidential memorabilia, and much, much more. A finely photographed, full color production. Unpaginated, but approximately 320 pages.

[Portland, Oregon]: [Portland State University / Bridgetown Printing & RR Donnelley Company], 2018. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Red cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Color photos throughout. Dust jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. 76 pages. 12 x 12 inches. A beautifully produced catalog of the art, fixtures, and installations at the Native American Student and Community Center (NASCC) at Portland State University. Includes artist biographies and color photos of art/installations by the following Native artists: Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, Yakama), Preston Singletary (Tlingit), Lawrence ''Ulaaq'' R. Ahvakana (Inupiaq), Jim Jackson (Klamath), Doug Hyde (Assiniboine, Nez Perce, Ojibwe), James Lavadour (Walla Walla), Rick Bartow (Wiyot, Yurok), Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), Marie Watt (Seneca), Truman Lowe (Winnebago), Jim Charlie (Salish), Judy BlueHorse Skeleton (Nez Perce, Cherokee), and Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos). Also includes some… Read More

Oslo, Norway: Capellen Damm, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine-. Book has light bumping to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket also is slightly bumped at head and tail. Light edge wear and some rubbing to dj. First edition, 2010. Norwegian Language.

Santa Ana, CA: Elm Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Cora on page facing half-title page, signed and dated '03. Limited printing of 1,000 copies. Book is very slightly bumped at bottom fore edge corners. Faint wear to extremities. Dust jacket has a little curling/wear to top and bottom edges. Some rubbing to rear surface. DJ has been placed in an archival protective clear cover. Essay by Margarita Nieto. Text in English and Spanish. 10.25 x 10.25 inches.

Sydney, Australia: The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is very lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Bottom fore edge corner is slightly bumped as well. Gift inscription on half-title page. All other pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a little creasing at head and tail of spine as well as bottom fore edge corner. DJ has been placed in an archival mylar cover. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. 120 pages.

Athens, Greece: Nea Estia, 1974. Journal. Good. Journal has heavy edge wear to wraps; heaviest at fore edge. A little age toning and light general soiling to wraps. Spine has several creases and has curled a bit. 150e epeteios ton Thanaton ton. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron. Most articles are in Greek (Katharevousa) and three are in English. Laid in: Perichomere gia Ianouarios-Iounios). 284 pages. 7" x 10

Cincinnati: Willis Music Co., 1949. Soft cover. Fair. Story and Music Adapted by Kathryn E. Mitchell, Sheet music for the young pianist. Pieces include: Changing of the Guard, Seguidilla, Gypsy Song and Dance, The Toreador Song, The Flower Song, March of the Smugglers, The Card Song, Intermezzo, and Finale. Wraps show some toning, a bit of edge wear (particularly to the head and tail of spine and corners), and very slight soiling.Some of the illustrations have a bit of hand crayon coloring done to them; the music is free of markings. 23 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. Two institutional copies located on OCLC. Rare.

Crete, Nebraska: Doane College, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. Book wraps have light edge wear on spine and corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight with no creases to spine. Uncommon book. 416 pages.

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Boards in brown cloth-patterned paper, black lettering on spine. Head of spine is lightly faded; foot of spine rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. Minor soiling on rear free endpaper, else interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket rubbed; dark streak runs the length of the spine; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 388 pages. A psychological novel about Peter Derwent, a man with a chaotic life who attempts to lift himself up out of despair and put the pieces of his jumbled jigsaw-puzzle life back together. Set in the pioneer years of Portland, Oregon and in the refuge he takes upon the Long Beach Peninsula, north of Astoria, where he meets with a colony of Finns and begins to construct a world all his own, while literally employing the village to assist him in building his new house.

Albuquerque: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1945. Journal. Good-. Journal has light bumping to fore edge corners. Light edge wear. Bumping to head of spine with splits and a small chip to upper back spine corner. Wear to tail of spine. Wraps have age toning along spine and edges. Pages are clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fourth printing, October 1944. Buff-color cloth boards with brown ouroboros design on front cover. Head of spine slightly pushed. Interior is crisp, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket's front panel as lightly rubbed; shows a short scuff; flap not price clipped ($5.00). Jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. An excellent copy in a hard to find dust jacket.

Glendale, Calif.: Glendale Academy Press, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth boards, front cover stamped in gilt. Light soiling on front cover. Minor soiling along top lip of about four pages, else interior is unmarked and generally clean. 165 pages. Eight radio lectures by the Los Angeles-based Seventh-day Adventist radio evangelist Harold Marshall Sylvester Richards Sr. (1894-1985). Contents: - Speaking in Tongues [Is it necessary to talk in tongues in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit?]. - Victorious Advent Truth [Reply to Dr. Louis Talbot, President of Biola, regarding SDA doctrines and prophecy]. - Can We Talk With the Dead? - What is the Soul? - What and Where is Hell. - Spirits in Prison - Under Law and Under Grace. - The Kings of the East and Armageddon.

New York, 1932. Soft cover. Good. Paper a toned. Three issues have some chipping to fore-edge. One has some splitting to spine. Unmarked. Each issue is about 28 pp. 12 x 8.5 inches. Each of the four issues features an article by John Dos Passos, with two about the 1932 Democratic National Convention, one on the Bonus Army/Bonus Expeditionary Force of impoverished WWI veterans encamped at Washington (published just weeks before they were forcibly removed by Hoover), and one with his particular observations of Detroit. Other articles are by Carlton Beals, Bruce Bliven, Stuart Chase, McAlister Coleman, Harold Lewis Cook, John Dewey, Otis C. Ferguson, Waldo Frank, Joshua Kunitz, Robert Morss Lovett, Ted Olson, Felix Ray (pseudonym of Howard Brubaker), Paul Rosenfeld, Allen Tate, C. H. Whelden Jr, Edmund Wilson, Stark Young. One poem by Mark Van Doren. Also included are book reviews by many other authors, including Malcolm Cowley. Included: issue number 890 (Dec. 23, 1931), 917, (June 29, 1932),… Read More

Elmont, NY: University Sports Publications, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Book has light bumping to front fore edge corners with small creases at corners. Light wear to wrap edges with a small crease to upper front edge. A little rubbing and a very few light scratches to wraps.

New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Book has very light wear to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and binding is very tight. Dust jacket has very small chips at spine corners and fore edge corners. Wear to spine edges and fore edges. Very light age toning to dj. 302 pages.