Search Results: Authors starting with N from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: American Bible Society. G. 1903. Edge wear, owner name front endpaper in pencil. .

Concord: G. Parker Lyon. Fair. 1860. Leather binding quite worn, tanning to page edges, edge wear. .

NY: American Book Company. Fair. (1901). Green decorated binding somewhat mottled, beginning page edges damp stained as well as binding. .

NY: Pantheon. VG in VG DJ. (1993). 1st ed 1st ptg. Nabhan walks the Franciscan Way, nearly 200 miles from Florence to Assisi, in order to read the countryside as one reads a . sacred book. .

NY: Vintage. G PB. (1989). First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then revised in 1966 is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and . times. One of the 20th century's master prose stylists, Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. In 1940 he moved to the U.S. and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Writing about someone or something he loves, he is irresistible, when about someone or something he despises, he can manage to enlist one's sympathies, if only momentarily, for the object of his contempt. .

NY: Vintage. VG PB. (1990). 7th ptg. Most overtly political novel Nabokov ever wrote, filled with veiled puns & wordplay, a haunting narrative about a civilized . man & his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Sl edge wear. .

NY: McGraw-Hill. VG in VG DJ. NY. BCE. DJ chipped at top. .

NY: Columbia Univ Press. VG in VG DJ. (1994). 1st ptg. Author contends that terrorists are very successful in exploiting the vital link between the news media, public opinion . & decision making. .

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press. VG. (1967). 4th prntg.

Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates. VG. (1981). Owner's name first flyleaf. How Pegasus won a place in the heavens. .

Mahwah, NJ: Troll. G PB. (1981). Some discoloration on cover. .

NY: Pantheon. VG in VG DJ. (1986). 1st ed.

NY: Random. VG in VG DJ. (1996). 1st ed ss. "A searing indictment of lawyer-aided corporate abuse that will become a classic. Should be required reading for law students... .

Maui: Inner Ocean. VG PB. (2006). 1st ptg. Fascinating account of life spent with death, mortician June Nadle shares riveting, bizarre, and inspiring stories from her . 50-year career. .

NY: Amphoto. G ex-library. (1979).

Montpelier, VT.: Down East Books. VG PB. (1994). 1st prntg. Author Nadler developed a popular "Ghosets of Edgartown Tour" and found out her island neighbors were remarkably willing to . get involved. Includes letter from Down East Books to Jack Barnes with a review copy. Letter signed "Hope you are well and ready for winter! Terry Bregy" 11/8/1994 .

Camden, ME: Down East Books. VG PB. (1994). 6th ptg. Ghostly entities of Chappaquiddick, the spirit in an empty house who incessantly murmured a pray for the dead in French, . even a cat in a cemetry. Not fiction, true stories, including the total disappearance of one guest. .

np: Stackpole. VG lg sz PB. (1989). Reprint. Step-by-step photos & diagrams provide clear guidance on making an extended bear family with full-size patterns. .

NY: Random. G PB. (2004). Every Thursday morning for twoyears in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nafisi secretly gathered sever of her most committed . female students to read forbidden Western classics. They risked removing their veils and immersing themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov. Sl edge wear. .

NY: Random. VG in G BJ. (1978). 1st ed 2nd ptg. From Rose's Portland Oregon restaurant. Few tears at DJ edges, bottom of ft hinge separated, DJ price clipped. .