Search Results: Authors starting with N from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

[Trenton, NJ]: (Thomas Maddock's Sons Company), 1910. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 224. Limited edition: Number 1,236 of an unknown limitation. Color frontis., with tissue guard, showing a firing kiln. Illustrated throughout with great illustrations typical of the period. Photo portrait, with tissue guard, of Thomas Maddock. Includes a lengthy and seemingly comprehensive roster of maker's marks, international and domestic, organized by region. Bound in green linen with black rule and gilt lettering on front cover. Title page is starting, and nearly separated, which is indicative of a manufacturing glitch. An excellent history of pottery, with a special emphasis on plumbing or, ahem, more politely, "sanitary pottery." The color plate depicting "The Modern Bathroom" is the very height of bathroom design and style -- a timeless aesthetic, all chrome and porcelain. The venerable firm that became Maddock's Sons was acquired by American Standard in 1929. Now covered in a clear,… Read More

Portland, ME: Tucker Printing Company, 1897. First Edition. Printed Wraps. Fine. Transportation. 8vo. Pp. 25. Printed gray paper wraps. Filled with financial information and tables concerning inventory, leases, carriage, passenger facts, etc. An excellent copy with no detracting qualities whatsoever. The report was created at a time when the MCRR was thriving and expanding through leasing additional branch lines. A fascinating artifact from Maine's transportation history.

New Haven: Yale University, 1935. First Edition. Printed wraps. Very Good. Decorative Arts. 8vo. Pp. 37. A catalog for a loan exhibit mounted for Connecticut's tercentenary (1635 - 1935). Over one-hundred sixty-six pieces are described, many illustrated with b&w photos. With an introduction by John Marshall Phillips. Very slight discoloration to cover edges. A presentable copy of this informed monograph.

Chengdu: Szechuan Peopleís Publishing House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. An herbal atlas volume with 333 plates. Limited text, in Chinese. Green textured paper-covered boards, spine and cover with gilt stamped characters, with additional blue lettering on cover. A lovely copy. Sichuan province is by far the greatest provincial cultivator and producer of herbal medicine, supplying the country of China at large. According to one source, of the variety of plants cultivated, about one quarter is now commercialized. Over 200 medicinal plants are exported. These exquisite botanical renderings represent over 300 of the commonly used herbs. A splendid pictorial overview of Sichuan herb cultivation, presented here in a superlative copy with no detracting qualities.

New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Stiff wrappers. New. 8vo. Pp. 224. Illustrated stiff paper wraps. Sealed in shrink wrap as issued from the publisher, with a decal: "With the compliments of Jock Reynolds, The Henry J. Heinz II Director." A handsome, presentable copy.

London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. First British Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. First British Edition. 8vo. Pp. 181. Bound in purple cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Cloth a bit age-toned; price-clipped dust jacket with chips and fading to spine. Nabokov's first work published in England, this edition following the first English-language edition published by New Directions, 1941. A fairly low-budget publication consistent with England's immediate post-WWII economic pressure. With an Edmund Wilson blurb on the dust jacket's rear flap.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Fourth Printing. Stiff Paper Wraps. Near Fine. Small 12mo. Pp. 189; 221. Text preceded by a "Publisher's Digression." Printed September 1959. Titles and decorative borders printed in green and black on the cover and spine, perfect bound, title page in black and green. Volume 1 spine minimally sunned, back cover price overstamped "New Price 6 NF 2 vols." Maurice Girodias's "Digression" concerning censorship of the novel he was first to publish initially appeared in the third printing of April 1959. Superbly well preserved.

New York: Cheim & Read, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. With a six-page essay by Nahas, followed by a page of notes. Richly illustrated with full page color plates. Features a six-page Burton chronology. Bound in Burton-illustrated paper-covered boards. A handsome exhibition catalog for the November, 2019-January, 2000 Cheim & Read show, with no detracting qualities.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good+. 8vo. Pp. ix, 294. Salmon colored cloth, spine titles in gilt on brown panel, top edge dyed ochre. Title page signed by the author in ball point. Boards square, leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. In the illustrated dust jacket, price clipped: light scuffs and a faint cup ring on the front panel. Tales of the town where the Rhodes Scholar and Bryn Mawr professor of philosophy was born and raised, including the libel trials of newspaperman Carl C. Magee. In the crisp type and fine printing typical of this publisher.Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

New York: Vanguard Press, Inc, 1959. First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. 222. Dark yellow cloth, titles stamped in red and black on the spine, ochre endpapers: just a suggestion of spine lean; ink check mark on front free endpaper. Leaves are crisp and bright, binding tight. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with author photo portrait on the rear flap. Edge-wear with light biodepredation; spine just a tad darkened. Price $3.95 intact on the front flap. A bright, presentable copy. Linked stories set in Naipaul's native Trinidad, written prior to, but published following, his 1957 first novel, Mystic Masseur. The collection enhanced Naipaul's acclaim as an emerging voice, a writer of restraint, of vivid people and settings, of universal truths amid the poverty and exoticism of a Port of Spain slum street. The dust jacket, with a brilliant, uncredited illustration by Stephen Russ, is preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 227, (1). Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front cover and spine. In the printed dust jacket. Both book and jacket Fine. A bright, handsome copy with a Knopf-issued review slip asking the critic to embargo their review until the publication date in March,1980. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable, archival sleeve.

Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to. xxi, 24-221. Frontis. Black & white photograph of tree branches. Introduction by Dr. George Wald. Illustrated throughout with color photography and George Nakashima's drawings and designs. Endpapers of handmade textured paper. Bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the price-clipped dust jacket, photo-illustrated. Rear panel with slight wrinkle to lamination, a trifle printing flaw. Withal, a handsome copy. The scarce first edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Nakashima (1905-1990) was born in Spokane, educated at the University of Washington School of Architecture and MIT, and was later incarcerated at the Minidoka camp during WWII. A woodworker and architectural designer by profession, his greater renown might be spearheading the modern American arts-and-crafts movement. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable… Read More

Paris: Galerie Chauvelin, 1975. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers with transparent jacket. Very Good. Square 8vo. Pp. 92. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Text in French with English translation by Patricia A. Railing. Stiff printed wraps with titles in black on the cover and spine, photo illustrated transparent vellum jacket, laid paper leaves. Jacket spine slightly darkened and head chipped. Nakov was one of the pre-eminent scholars of the Russian avant-garde and non-objective art. This monograph was published on the occasion of an exhibition held in Paris then London and Ontario during 1975 of works by Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg including reconstructions of four of the long-lost Spatial Apparatus Constructions (KPS,) commissioned by Nakov in 1973.

Berlin: Dirk Nishen Verlag, 1986. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 4to. Pp. 117 followed by 2 of publisher's advertising. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Introduction by Diethart Kerbs. Text in German. Photo illustrated stiff coated paper wraps, French flaps. Reisner introduced Namuth to photography and the pair were sent to cover the 1936 Workers' Olympiad in Barcelona. For nine months they photographed the Civil War for European publications. Includes an excerpt from Namuth's diary. A bright, fresh copy.

[New York]: Pace Gallery Publications, 1981. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Very Good+. Hans Namuth. 4to. Unpaginated. Foreword by Calvin Tomkins. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography by Hans Namuth. Bound in stiff printed wraps. Covers with light, superficial scratches. Corners sharp. Exquisite photos of artworld luminaries spanning the Cold War era.

(Kent, Washington): (The Boeing Company), 1971. First Printings. Housed in archival sleeves within a blue leather binder. Fine. Long Brothers is pleased to offer a collection of eight in-house color photographs of a Boeing Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV - with "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the verso of each print. Photos measure 10" x 8" and are in uniformly Fine condition, with no detracting qualities. Housed in clear sleeves with archival backings within blue leather binder. Provenance: From an archive of Boeing material formed by a veteran of Boeing's Public Relations department, hired by the company in 1961. Three lunar roving vehicles were built for Apollo missions 15-17. Once Boeing won the contract to manufacture the LRV, in 1971 the company built four vehicles at the Environmental Test Laboratories in Kent, Washington. In a sophisticated facsimile of lunar environment, the facility reproduced the rigors of spaceflight and complex lunar physicality. Boeing then put the Rovers through the rigors of… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938. First English Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Pp. [4], 5-271. Bound in light yellow cloth with red lettering stamped on spine. Edges of text block a tad age-toned; light soiling to front board. In the dust jacket with illustration and lettering in red on front panel, red lettering on spine. Chip to head of dust jacket spine, spine a touch darkened. The amusing comic illustration on the dust jacket by Nicolas Bentley is credited as "drew the picture," and the singularity of the statement is true: no other illustrations are printed in the book. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good+. 4to. Pp. xxxix, 59. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Introduction by Jack Burnham. Selected bibliography. Ivory cloth, titles stamped in dark red and black on the cover and spine, red endpapers: no detracting qualities. In the color illustrated dust jacket: price intact on front flap, upper edge chipped including a missing piece the size of a finger, short closed tear to rear panel, rubbed. This volume closely followed on the first exhibitions outside the Soviet Union for the playful underground duo, two widely publicized shows of smuggled paintings at the Feldman Gallery, New York, in 1976-77. Includes works from the SotsArt and Post-Art series. In his preface Nathanson writes of meeting Vitali Komar and Aleksandr Melamid in Moscow while studying mathematics as an exchange student, and how he helped mount the shows. Dust jacket preserved in a removable,… Read More

Pasadena: The Castle Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo. Pp. viii; 131. Frontis. reprint b&w photo of Osler at his desk. Appendices; notes. Illustrated with b&w photos and other reproductions. A Fine copy bound in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Five hundred copies of a limited edition were printed; this is number 275. Of those 500, 175 copies were reserved for members of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club, of which this was one, with printed note laid-in revealing such. The Zamorano Club was an appropriate channel for distribution of some copies, given Charles Carmac's early membership in the Zamorano Club.

New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 279. Frontispiece photo of "the Cavalier" posing at Camp Cheyenne, 1890. Profusely illustrated, mostly with modern-day photos of extant relics of the opening of the West. Index. Nine maps are featured. With a list of suggested reading. Orange cloth with stamped lettering on spine. In a perfect dust jacket. A solid, attractive copy of this handsome production. Covers military forts and battle sites that are either in the Park system or are eligible for designation in the Park system in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.