Search Results: Titles starting with N from Select Tomes

Coward-McCann, NY, 1966. Turquois Boards. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Book Club Edition. 255 pp. clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Text has rough cut edge with orange tinted top edge. Dust jacket is lightly soiled on back. No tears or chips. Like new condition.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1987. Hardbound. First Edition. Condition: Fine (Like New). No dust jacket. Special Limited Edition, bound in full padded leatherette covers with gilt outer edges and silk ribbon page marker. 484 pp. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Endpapers and pastedowns have gilt globe seals depicting the National Geographic logo. Text is clean, unmarked with no foxing or prior owner attribution. Celebrates the first 100 years of National Geographic's reporting on the World of Nature. Gift worthy copy. Oversize book may require additional shipping costs.

A. S. Barnes & Co., Boston, 1869. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Fair/poor. No dust jacket as issued. Partial book with 410 pp (Original book had 598 pp). Text is readable--a tribute to the quality of paper used. Penciled notations and minor underlining in text. Water stain along outside edge. Unable to find comparable copies of this exceedingly rare school book.

American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, 1901. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 194 pp comprised of 162 pages of text and indexes, 24 pages of full-color maps and 8 pages of Ohio specific supplement. Text toned typical of age, clean and unmarked except of prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Rear pastedown has attached full-color period illustration of a woman's head (see photo). Light foxing on front and rear endpapers.

American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, 1897. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. 144 pp. Text toned typical of age. Incised and removed cutout on page 37, torn pages 75 and 89, small chips along edges and curled corners at bottom outer edge. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. This book was designed as a pupil's first textbook in Geography used between the third and fifth school year. Few have survived.

Row, Peterson and Company, Evanston, Illinois and Elmsford, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, no dust jacket. 192 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked except for former library markings on title page and endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color drawings by Florence and Margaret Hooper. Unusual for a former library book to be free of markings. Corners lightly bumped, but hinges tight. The second reader in the Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1928. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Stated first edition with code "B-C" indicating a first printing of February, 1928. 365 pp plus 6 pp of publisher advertising. Text clean and unmarked with no foxing. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Pastedown and endpaper art by Stockton Mulford.

Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, ILL, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket condition: Good+. Signed first edition. 334 pp. Text clean and unmarked on ivory colored paper. Author signed dedication on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has chips, shelf wear and is separated into two pieces. Mrs. Walgreen, the widow of the drugstore chain founder, "recalls her childhood in Southern Illinois and the city, Chicago, which became 'an inseparable part of us'"

Books, Inc. New York, 1941. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ First edition. No dust jacket. 900 pp. Text block tinted green on top edge, clean, unmarked with very light sunning to top and outer edges. Full color photograph by Wynn Richards as the fronticepiece of a bride on her wedding day. B/w and color photos and drawings throughout. The ultimate guide to manners and behavior prior to World War II.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Third printing, April 1961 of this revised edition. 718 pp. Illustrated with 96 pp of b/w photographs and drawings. Text clean, ivory and unmarked. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Front hinge is cracked, but intact. Outer edges indicate usage with food spots.

Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, First Edition. 283 pp in Part One and 277 pp in Part Two. Text clean and unmarked, lightly yellowed by age. Deckled outer edge and yellow tinted top edge. Very small gouge in front cover. Prior owner attribution in ink on front free endpaper. An authority on social behavior and manners as deemed appropriate circa 1924. Part One chapters include: The Dawn and Development of Social Life, An Outline of Etiquette, The New Etiquette, The Social Environment, Friends and Friendship, Introductions, The Little Courtesies of Daily Life, Self-Consciousness, The Rules of Precedence, Cards and Title, Calling Customs, Social Correspondence, Invitations and Acknowledgements, The Give of Voice, Ease in Speech and Correct Dress. Part Two chapters cover: On the Threshold, Childhood and Youth, Courtship and Betrothal, Marriage, The Bride and Her Trousseau, Correct Gifts for Every Occasion, Showers, Divorce,… Read More

The Butterick Publishing Company, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Missing 1 1/2 inches of tail spine. Light shelfwear on outer edges and front hinge. 222 pp. Text yellowed with light foxing. Book has been used with liquid spotting on page 178--does not affect readability. No prior owner attribution, but pencil notation on front free enpaper (Booth 45 $2). B/W photographs throughout. Remarkable condition considering its age.

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. New York, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition, second printing. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fair. Mylar separating from dj paper at rear front cover. Three inch tear from top edge near spine repaired with cellophane tape. Ragged top edge of DJ both front and back. Large grease stain near top outer edge. 805 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Orange paper front and rear pastedown and endpaper showing drawing of a lobster.Book like new inside and out.

C. S. Hammond & Company, New York, 1926. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 144 pp. Text toned typical of age, bright, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. A compilation of maps for each (US) state and the countries of the world. Also contains the 1920 census population of every city in the US and Canada (over 37 pages). Remarkable condition for being nearly 100 years old. Few copies of this book are known to exist.

American Sunday-School Union, Philadelphia. Condition: Fair. Assumed First Edition, Circa 1840-1850. 383 pp text yellowed and foxing typical of age. (Pages 1-364 containing 529 hymns; pages 365-378 Index of First Lines and pages 379-383 Index.) Frontispiece originally contained b/w drawing of 6 children in song with 3 angels with harps hovering overhead. Bottom 2/3 of frontispiece is torn and missing. Title Page illustration is an altar with lamb. Rare to find a complete original from this era.

Carlton Books, 2001. Book condition: Near Fine. No dust jacket. First edition as evidenced by "1" appearing in number line. 256 pp with full color photographs throughout. Ken Schultz served as the Fishing Editor of Field and Stream magazine and was dubbed "Mr. Fishing USA" by ESPN. The fishing encyclopedia any angler would want for his library. Pristine first edition.

North American Almanac Co., Chicago, IL, 1929. First edition. Black & White Illustrations and photographs Condition: Good. Corners bumped and lightly frayed. No Dustjacket. 1929. 160pp., (66 pages of period advertising) Text clean and unmarked. No owner attribution.

North American Almanac Co., Chicago, IL, 1928. Black & White drawings and photographs throughout. Condition: Good-: rubbed, tips lightly frayed/No Dustjacket. 156pp., (66 pgs of period advertising). Text clean. Owner attribution on title page and on cover. Log of prior owner's room cleaning in ink from July 4th (move in day) through Dec. 31st. Text includes biographies of famed musicians and previous U. S. Presidents.