Search Results: Titles starting with N from Books of the World

London: Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet, April 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Third Impression, 1993. Very Good+. Interior is unmarked. Spine is square and very tight. Cover lightly rubbed. Dust stains to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 462 pages. Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonized as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

Cape Town, South Africa: MapStudio. Map, folding. 1995. New Edition. As New. 1995. 1:2,500,000. Folding map in a plastic cover. As New. No markings. No tears.

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, November 1992. Paperback. Navy with gold lettering and design on spine and front cover. Very large, over-sized book: Elephant Folio: 12.0 x 18.25 x 0.9 inches. 6.5 pounds. 135 pages + 135 page index. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light corner and edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. A treasury of definitive maps and informative entries on every country on Earth. In addition, "Worlds Beyond" presents a stunning portrait of our solar system and the universe. 63 political maps, 13 physical maps, 243 city maps. More than 140,000 entries in the most comprehensive index ever. Maps and illustrated articles on Earth's processes and resources. Flags and facts for every country. New maps of the moon, the solar system, the Milky Way, and the universe.

New York: Random House. 1981. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Dust stains to edges. Shelf wear and half-inch tear at the top of jacket. Not from a library. Not clipped. 204 pages. The author analyzes the shortcomings of America's defense, reveals the technical, bureaucrats and psychological sources of these shortcomings, and offers ideas for better preparedness for the future.

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, October 1935. Perfect Bound Magazine. Very Good+. Tightly bound. Interior free of marks or tears, one page dog-eared. Light shelfwear to covers. Light creasing to spine. Pages 399-536 plus 31 pages of advertisements. B&W photos on nearly every page, three B&W maps, 24 pages of color photos. Not from a library. Contents: Richard Evelyn Byrd, "Exploring the Ice Age in Antarctica" (76 pages, 72 illustrations, 2 maps); Joseph F. Rock, "Sungmas, Living Oracles of the Tibetan Church"; "Demon-Possessed Tibetans and their Incredible Feats" (12 color photos); Maynard Owen Williams, "By Motor Trail across French Indo-China" (48 pages, 32 illustrations); "The Tricolor Rules the Rainbow in French Indo-China" (27 color photos). "The Second Stratosphere Expedition."

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, June 1957. Perfect Bound Magazine. Very Good+. Tightly bound. Interior free of marks, tears, folds, or creases. Covers clean and crisp. Half-inch tear at top of spine. Some creasing to spine. No map supplement. Not from a library. Pages 731-874 plus 45 pages of advertisements. Profusely illustrated with B&W and color photos. Contents: George C. Marshall, "Our War Memorials Abroad: A Faith Kept"; Howell Walker, "Here Rest in Honored Glory"; Norma Miller and Ardean R. Miller, "Through Europe by Trailer Caravan" (Airstream trailers); The National Geographic's New Europe Map; Ralph Gray, W. E. Garrett and R. F. Sisson, "Rhododendron Time on Roan Mountain"; Alan Villiers, "The Marvelous Maldive Islands"; David Attenborough, "Animal Safari to British Guiana." Rear cover features Coca-Cola advertisement, "When You Come to Paris," illustrated by Jack Potter.

Ottawa: Canada Map Office / Bureau des Cartes du Canada, January 1983. Three cartographic indexes: Index I - Eastern Canada (eastern Manitoba to the Maritimes); Index 2 - Western Canada - British Columbus to eastern Manitoba; Index 3 - Northern Canada. Geographic coverage complete in three sheets. Color. Printed on both sides. Sheets 28 x 40 inches, folded to 6 x 9 inches. Very Good+ condition. Not from a library. Unmarked. No tears. Light edgewear to Index 1.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First paperback printing / full number line. Near Fine. Foxing to edges, otherwise Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Cover clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.

New York: Bantam. May 1989. Hardcover. BOMC. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Foxing to closed edges. Text unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Shelfwear to cover, including tears at spine head. Not from a library. Not clipped. 389 pages.

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, September 2009. First Edition. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Cover lightly rubbed. Not from a library. Not damaged. x + 217 pages. A pragmatic yet positive assessment of how to engage Iran. Through four detailed case studies of past successes and failures, he draws lessons for today's negotiators and outlines 14 principles to guide the American who finds himself in a negotiation―commercial, political, or other―with an Iranian counterpart.

New York: Hastings House, November 1967. Hardcover. Third printing, October 1972. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Text block pristine. Gift inscription to FFEP. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows age toning and light edgewear with two quarter-inch tears at spine head. Nor from a library. No remainder mark. 192 pages. Numerous black & white photos. Full title: New England Legends and Folklore; Based on writings by Samuel Adams Drake and Others, and Illustrated with Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. Edited, with a Foreword, by Harry Hansen. "Adapted, with additions, from A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore, by Samuel Adams Drake,... 1884."

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. Sixth edition. New. Not a remainder. xiv + 511 pages. 4000 years of Indian history in a single engaging text.

London: JBK Foundation Trust. 1997. Single Issue Magazine. Fine. Rare! Contents include Sierra Leone: Another Battle Looms .

New York: HarperCollins. Hardcover. 2006. First Edition. Good. November 2006. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Librar y discard. Very Good except for the library markings. 433 pages. .

Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2009. Trade Paperback. 15th Anniversary Edition. As New. Written by his father, The Nicholas Effect is the story of the shooting of seven-year-old Nicholas Green. It tells how the Greens' decision to donate their son's organs saved the lives of five Italians and restored the sight of two others. It covers the murder trial, the making of the Jamie Lee Curtis movie, Nicholas' Gift, the bell sent by Pope John Paul II to the Greens for their memorial tower and their unceasing campaign to bring attention to the tens of thousands of deaths caused every year by the worldwide shortage of donated organs. Running through it, like a thread, is the heartbreaking journey of Nicholas' parents and little sister to make some thing good come out of a senseless act of violence.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition, second printing. Quarter-bound in blue linen with blue paper sides and gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 316 pages. On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the fiercely guarded island fortress. The pair join a deadly game of wits that they must win....or perish in the darkness of the "Night of the Fox."

New York: Ballantine Books, September 2004. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Slight reading/shelf wear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 560 pages.Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain's health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they epitomized.

New York: HarperCollins. Hardcover. 1995. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Foxing along edges. Light rubbing to jacket. Black remainder mark to bottom edge. Not from a library. Not clipped. 356 pages. Draws on CIA sources to trace the career of convicted spy Aldrich Ames and the agency's record of incompetence, which allowed Ames to keep his position for nine years.

New York: Avon, September 1969. Avon 41467. January 1979 fourth printing with cover art of a nude Avluela by Elizabeth Malczynski. Near Fine. Interior unmarked, but tanned. Stress creases and half-inch tear at bottom rear of spine. Mild shelf wear typical of a 40-year-old pulp paperback. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 190 pages. Winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novella. "Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in one of the earlier cycles. I knew nothing of that, for my guild was Watching, not Remembering." For a thousand years, mankind has lived under the threat of invasion from an alien race. After the oceans rose and the continents were reshaped, people divided into guilds: Musicians, Scribes, Merchants, Clowns, and more. The Watchers wander the earth, scouring the skies for signs of enemies from the stars. It was Avluela the Flier's ebony and scarlet wings that led the Watcher to the seven hills of the ancient city. In a moment of weakness,… Read more

New York: Doubleday, September 2007. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Slight rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. viii + 369 pages.