Search Results: Titles starting with N from George S. MacManus Company

NEW JERSEY: A Profile in Pictures. Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of New Jersey. N.Y., 1939. 12mo. Illus. A scarce WPA guide.

NEW JERSEY AND THE NEGRO: A Bibliography, 1715-1966. Compiled by the Bibliography Committee of the New Jersey Library Association. N.p.: New Jersey Library Association, 1967. 196pp. Fine in orig. cloth.

THACKERAY, [William Makepeace]. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Remarkable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis [pseud.] No. 1 (Oct. 1853) to Nos. 23 & 24 (Aug. 1855). Orig. printed wrappers. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853-55. 24 parts in 23, 8vo. First edition. Full-page plate and in-text illus. by Richard Doyle. Overall a superb set showing little wear. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and half morocco solander box.

(NEW YORK). Niagara Falls. Twenty Fine Views from Negatives made especially for this Work. [n.p., n.d.]. (ca. 1900-1910?). 4to. 21 leaves. Very good in orig. cloth, slightly rubbed. Twenty captioned black (with blue-green tint?) and white photogravures of the Falls on somewhat stiff stock.

(NORRIS COLLECTION). A Descriptive and Priced Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets and Maps Relating Directly or Indirectly to the History, Literature and Printing of California and the Far West. Formerly the Collection of Thomas Wayne Norris, Livermore, California. 4to. Frontis. Facsimiles (some of them colored). Original cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine. Oakland, Calif.: Holmes Book Company, 1948. First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A fine copy.

1886. NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Vol. 6, No 2 (Oct. 1886). Pp. 448-78. Portrait. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine partially abraded, else very good. Includes "Biographical Sketch of General J. Johnston Pettigrew" by J.C. Johnson with portrait. Laid in is invoice to Col. J. T. Morehead of the 53rd North Carolina.

1889. NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Vol. 8, No. 5 (1889). Pp. 195-248. Portrait. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine partially abraded, front wrapper separated but present, else very good. Includes "General Bryan Grimes" by Wharton J. Green with portrait.

1892. HAGGARD, H. Rider. Nada the Lily. Illus., orig. cloth. London Longmans, 1892. First edition. WOLFF 2875. Very good.

NAGLE, John. The Nagle Journal. A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, From the Year 1775 to 1841. Edited by John C. Dann. N.Y., (1988). 1st ed. Illus. xxx, 402pp. A fine copy in d/j. After joining the army at the age of fifteen and fighting in the Battle of Brandywine, Nagle spent the next forty-five years as a sailor, serving in the British navy, on merchant ships and privateers. His travels took him around the globe. A fascintating account.

1998. LEPORE, Jill. The Name of the War. King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. N.Y., 1998. 1st ed. xxviii, 338pp. Illus. map. Fine in d/j.

1865. DOWNING, Fanny Murdaugh. Nameless. A Novel. Orig. cloth. Raleigh, NC: Wm. B. Smith & Co., 1865. 8vo. First edition of the author's first book. A very scarce novel set in England and printed in North Carolina during the last year of the Civil War. The author was born ca. 1835 at Portsmouth, Virginia, and in 1851 married Charles W. Downing of Florida. Thornton 3538. Wright II, 791. Crandall 3087. Not in Haynes. Spine and edges faded; light foxing to endpapers; else a very good copy.

1865. WESTCOTT, Thompson. Names of Persons Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, 1777 & 1789, With a History of the "Test Laws" of Pennsylvania. Phila., 1865. 1st ed. xlii, 145pp. Fine in contemporary 3/4 morocco and marbled boards. Limited to 250 copies.

WESTCOTT, Thompson. Names of Persons Who Took the Oath of Alleiance to the State of Pennsylvania, 1777 & 1789, With a History of the "Test Laws" of Pennsylvania. Phila., 1865. 1st ed. Large 4to. 145pp. Fine, newly rebound in cloth. Limited to 75 copies.

ZOLA, Emile. Nana. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. The Authorized Translation Into English by F.J. Vizetelly, With a Note by Henry James and Also an Introduction Prepared for This Edition by Lewis Galantiere. Orig. linen with leather label in publisher's box. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Limited to 1,500 copies designed by George Salter at the Garamond Press and signed by the artist. Fine copy.

1837. [SARGENT, Lucius M.]. Nancy Le Baron. Founded on Fact. Orig. printed wrappers. Boston: William S. Damrell, 1837. First edition. Wright I, 2296. Rear wrapper lacking, front wrapper soiled and worn.

SHIPPEN, Nancy. Nancy Shippen: Her Journal Book. The International Romance of a Young Lady of Fashion of Colonial Philadelphia With Letters to Her and About Her. Compiled and Edited by Ethel Armes. Phila., 1935. Illus. map. genealogical chart. 348pp. Very good in orig. cloth.

SCOTT, Anne Elizabeth. Nannie Scott of "Bel-Air" School. Arranged by Nell Holladay Boand. [Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1971]. 1st ed. 197pp. Portraits, plates. Orig. cloth. Faint scuffing to cloth, else near fine. Letters of a Virginian woman with much on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

(MASSACHUSETTS). (NANTUCKET). NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Nantucket Lands and Land Owners. [Bulletin of the Nantucket Historical Society, Vol. II, Nos. 1-7]. 1901-1913. Bulletin No. 5 is a 1928 reprint of the 1906 issue. Seven volumes. 419pp. total, plus Indices in Bulletins 6 [xxiv pp.] an 7 [xiv pp.]. Orig. printed wrappers. Minor soiling and chipping to covers and spines. Very good.

CROSBY, Everett U. Nantucket in Print. Original cloth-backed printed boards. [Nantucket Island, MA: Tetaukimmo Press, 1946]. First edition. A bibliography of Nantucket.

(MASSACHUSETTS). (NANTUCKET). DOUGLAS-LITHGOW, R.A. Nantucket, a History. N.Y., 1914. Illus. map. 389pp. Very good in orig. cloth.