Search Results: Titles starting with N from Paul Johnson Fine Books

New York: Knopf, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First American edition. Fine in a fine jacket. Unusually nice copy. No writing or other issues. Clean copy.

Calder & Boyars, 1970. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Calder & Boyars (in association with Olympia Press): London, 1970. First edition, sixth impression. The first UK impression was published in 1964. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. The front panel of the jacket has an arresting photo of Burroughs' head by Ian Sommerville with the eyes cut out and replaced with two red dots. Rear panel has reviews by Mailer, Robert Lowell, Kerouac, Herbert Gold, Mary McCarthy, and Anthony Burgess. Price-clipped. Light soiling to rear panel; light wear to top of jacket's spine. Near fine overall. A nice and scarce Burroughs A-list work. Ref: Maynard and Miles.

New York: Grove Press, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Grove Press, 1959 (1962). First American printing. preceded by the Olympia Press (Paris) publication of 1959. The full Grove publication did not occur until 1962. This is a fine copy in a first issue, near fine jacket, priced at $6.00 and without the zip code on the panel as well as a statement from WSB and 4 blurbs from Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, E. S. Seldon, and Jack Kerouac. Ref: Maynard & Miles A2b.

Knopf, 1982. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Fine copy.

Harvester Press, 1983. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first UK edition of this title in a fine jacket. Red discount sticker on the front pastedown.

Harpers, 1940. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the "A-P" code on the copyright page. Gray cloth with gold lettering and black label on the spine - second state. The clipped jacket is also second state. Near fine in a very good plus jacket with light edge wear.

Harper & Bros., 1941. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition with C-Q code on the copyright page. Very good book: top edge dusty, soiled; top of spine a little frayed; one bumped corner; one tap to the edge of the rear board. Jacket is fully intact - it has had some professional restoration. Spine and rear panel a little faded. Still a presentable copy of a scarce book and better than usually found.

New York: Signet Books, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First paperback printing of Wright's classic novel, originally published by Harper in 1940. Signet code of S 794. Priced at 35 cents. Light edge wear and creasing. Tight and square. Very good.

Arthur and Kit Knight, 1977. 1st Edition . No Binding. As New/No Jacket. California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1977. California, PA: 1977. Broadside. Large broadside (14" by 22"). Off white heavy stock paper. In "as new" condition - no flaws. Currently stored in a mailing tube. Issued as Volume 6 of "the unspeakable visions of the individual" series by publishers Arthur and Kit Knight. The poem is by Jack Kerouac's beat friend Neal Cassady and is dated March 30 1954. Illustration of Kerouac by Neal's wife Carolyn Cassady.

Jonathan Cape, 1964. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. 8vo. 218 pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering to the spine. Fading to edges of the boards, else near fine. The jacket, a photo montage designed by Time Jaques, is fine and unclipped. This first novel by Everett won the 1965 Somerset Maugham Award.

New York: Double Doran, 1928. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Sm 8vo. 284 pp. 2nd printing. Red boards with gold lettering to the spine. Very good book with fading to the gilt lettering on the spine; a small dent to the bottom of the front board; a little rubbing to the top of the spine; and soiling to the top edge. The jacket is very good with loss to corners, spine extremities, and to the rear flap fold.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. 8v0. 56 pp. One- quarter blue cloth with faded gilt lettering to the spine. The unclipped jacket is very good or better with light soiling to the rear panel and a couple of short, closed tears. Top edge soiled. Interviews with James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers Inc., 1939. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers Inc., 1939. Sm 8vo. 371 pp. 2nd edition. Red cloth with black titles - about near fine in a very good minus jacket that has some soiling, dampstaining, and a small chip in the center of the spine, championing and teaching basketball to scores young black students. Now known as the "Father of Black Basketball." He was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. From 1926 until his retirement in 1954, Henderson served as director of health and physical education for Washington D.C.'s black schools. Henderson was also an early pioneer of the NAACP. Signed on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of E. B. Henderson, June, 1940.

New York: The Century Co., 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: The Century Company, 1926. First edition. 8vna cloth with black lettering. Top corners bumped. An in-depth study of American negro life.

Hillman Periodicals, Inc., 1954. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Volume 1, #3 of this mystery publication. Sm 8vo. About 7 1/2" by 5 1/2." 144 pp. Near fine or better with two little defects on the spine. Possibly unread. With contributions from Agatha Christie, August Derleth, Craig Rice, Anthony Boucher, Dave Grubb, T.S. Stribling, and Erle Stanley Gardner. Also includes a complete short novel from Rex Stout. Nicely preserved copy and rare as such.

Little, Brown, 1993. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Morris in black marker on the title page. Volume has some fading to he top 1" or so of the boards. Jacket spine is just slightly faded.

New York: Vantage Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated first edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Xander Prober, with our best wishes, Nina and Florence Hairston." Fine book in a fine jacket.

Doubleday, 1984. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated first edition. Fine book in a fine jacket. Signed on the title page by the author. Clean copy.

Norton, 1971. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1971. First American edition. Near fine in a very good jacket. The jacket has a small patch of sticker residue to the front panel and light edgewear. Not price-clipped. SIGNED by Banville on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Jonathan Cape, 1971. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket, which has small nicks to the top corners and a tiny bit of wear of the top of the spine. Briefly inscribed on the half-title by the author in 1983.