Search Results: Titles starting with N from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, slightly faded, front hinge slightly loose but a very attractive copy. The second section, rather more than a third of the book, is devoted to the Hawaiian Islands, and includes views of Lahaina, Honolulu, Nuuanu, Waiakea, and the crater of Kilauea. Forbes 2045.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. First edition. Black cloth. Fine, in dust jacket.

New York: Harper, 1979. First edition. Green printed wrappers, slight fading, else fine. Uncorrected proof copy. Juliar E49.1.

Lawrence. Kansas: Vladimir Nabokov Society. Original wrappers, hint of spine fading to some numbers, else fine. Issues 1-12 were titled "The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter". Issue no. 1 in photocopy; lacking issues 46-47, 50,55.

Franklin Center, Penn: Franklin Library, 1977. Book Club edition. Brown leather with gilt stamping, a.e.g. Fine, with "Notes from the Editors" booklet laid in. Juliar A32.9.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. First edition. Black cloth. Ownership signature to front endpaper, else fine, in fine dust jacket. Juliar A32.1.

New York: Phaedra, 1966. First edition. Grey-brown cloth, green endpapers. Fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight toning to spine and a small nick. Juliar A38.1, variant "a"

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. First British edition. Red cloth. Bubbling to cloth over front board, pencil marginalia and underlining to a few pages, a very good copy, in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight edge wear. Juliar A38.2.

London: Heinemann, 1959. First British edition. Blue cloth. Fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket lightly worn to extremities. Juliar A32.2.

New York: New York University Press, 1971. First edition. Orange cloth. Very good, in dust jacket.

New York: Popular Library, 1958. New American wrappers edition. Black wrappers, ownership signature, otherwise nearly fine. Juliar A32.4.

New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, 1953. First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to use it -- Many Thanks. Weegee / Worlds Greatest Photographer /1954"

New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, fine copy in slightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs, and with a typed postcard signed, agreeing to sign the copy. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition. It contains also the first book appearances of Burroughs's "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness," and "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs." With a copy of a 1992 edition inscribed by Burroughs to biographer Virginia Spencer Carr "with shared memories of Paul Bowles and old Tangier," together in a cloth clamshell box with leather label.

New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, light spotting on the top edge, a fine copy in lightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs on the title page. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition. It contains also the first book appearances of Burroughs's "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness," and "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs." Maynard and Miles A2b.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, 1982. First edition. Text by John G. Hanhardt, Dieter Ronte, Tom Armstrong. Issued in connection with the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 30-June 27, 1982. Hardbound with dustjacket,143 pp. with bw and color illustrations. Faded top edges of cover else very good in a dj worn at top edges and with a small piece missing. Protected by mylar book cover. 28 X 22 cm. 143.

San Francisco: James Linden, 1989. First separate edition. Mundy, Michael. Original cloth, labels, 9 x 11 inches. One of ten de luxe hardbound copies, from a total edition of 87 printed by Julie Holcomb on Rives Heavyweight paper. Text is "Where It Is" from "Always Coming Home," by Ursula K. LeGuin. With three original photographs by Michael Mundy, mounted, signed, and bound into the book. These ten de luxe copies also include an additional photograph of the Napa Valley signed by the artist, archivally mounted and inserted in a pocket on the back cover. Fine.

Paris: Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, 1927. 45 p. .39 cm.; Illustrations produced by the pochoir (stencil and hand-coloring) method. "Il a été tiré ... des exemplaires sur papier à dessin Olin. Ex. no. 3481." Extract from chapter 3 of the author's Le médecin de campagne. Illustrated boards with discoloration and wear along edges.

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo, xxxvii, 387; vi, 474 pp., eight engraved plates in Vol. I, 12 plates in Vol. II. 3 folding maps. Original blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt. Spines faded, but a very good copy with a few small closed tears to the large folding map, of a book difficult to obtain in original state. This appears to be a later issue binding, with the maps bound in, instead of in a cover pocket; the spine stamping does not carry the publisher's name as we have noted on other copies, and there are no half-titles and no advertisements.There's an 1848 date pencilled on the front endpaper. Belcher captained this voyage of exploration and survey along the Pacific coasts of North and South America. Chapters 5 through 7 detail the Sulphur's part in the attacks on China during the First Opium War. Forbes 1377 notes the considerable significant Hawaiian content including "one of the most attractive of all nineteenth-century views of Honolulu". Hill 102.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. First English language edition. Three volumes, 8vo. First edition of the German traveller's popular work, containing a lively and amusing account of his visit to Honolulu, with about a third of the narrative dealing with California. Endpaper cracked but holding in Vol I, otherwise fine in original blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt, with a slipcase. Forbes 1915.

London: Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. 8vo, xiv, 480 pp, original boards, uncut, rebacked, new endpapers. Pp. [i]-[xiv], [1]-478, 2 leaves. With a folding chart of the Sandwich Islands and four hand-colored plates. Forbes 610.[33028].