Search Results: Authors starting with N from House of Our Own Books

Paris, France: Galerie Charpentier, 1963. Paper Covers. Near Fine. Catalog of an exhibition of Moroccan art at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, illustrated with 46 plates; preface by Raymond Nacenta, essay on the arts of Morocco by Naima Khatib, director of the Musees Morocains (text in French); stapled pamphlet, crease at lower left rear corner, otherwise a fine, clean, tight copy

London, England, U.K.: Andre Deutsch, 1978. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This is the third printing of this collection of short stories of V. S. Naipaul in the uniform Russell Edition of his works published by Andre Deutsch (dark blue cloth with bright gold lettering on spine; laminated dust jacket is price-clipped with slight corner wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/4" X 10 3/4. This book was designed to complement an exhibition organized by the Whitehapel Art Gallery in 1981 of more than 300 works covering 80 years of British sculpture; it includes a series of essays on British sculpture illustrated with photographs, followed by a bibliography and biographies of sculptors working in Britain who were born between 1845 and 1945 (cover with green lettering, photos of sculptures on the front & back, slight crease on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.: Old Soldier Books, 1994. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is an account of the role of the field artillery of the Union Army of the Potomac, it's capabilities and limitations, its equipment and organization, in all of the major battles of the Civil War from Bull Run to Petersburg; the author is a military historian and former artillery officer; includes many maps (green cloth with gold lettering, maps on the endpapers; orange, green & white pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Italy: Silvana Editoriale, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is an illustrated guidebook to the Borromeo Islands on Lake Maggiore with detailed descriptions, color photogaphs, and diagrams of the buildings and gardens, and a historical profile of the Borromeo family (white pictorial cover with aerial photo of the islands on the front, slight crease along fold, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Tokyo, Japan: Asahi Shimbun, 2006. Paperback. Fine. 8 7/8" X 11 3/4. This is the catalogue of an exhibition in 2006 of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy at the Tokyo National Museum; the text is entirely in Japanese except for a title page followed by brief notes on the exhibition and a list of the works, which are in English; the list is numbered to correspond with the plates and includes basic information about each work, as well as a brief historical introduction to each section into which the works are divided (black & tan cover with gold lettering; this is a large, heavy volume, best shipped by media mail)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. This book is the catalog of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum from November 1996 to February 1997 whose intent was to show that, as important as Dada was to the growth of American modernism, the ferment of New York played an equally critical role in the evolution of Dada itself; New York Dada activity, reflected within a small but important community of artists, writers, critics, and patrons located in and around the Arensberg circle, was influenced by new technologies of photography and cinema, psychoanalytic theory of the subconscious mind, and the social tumult of massive waves of immigration; includes scholarly essays on New York Dada and many illustrations; contributors include Francis Naumann, the exhibition curator, Todd Alden, Steven Watson, Lauren Ross, Allan Antliff, Jay Bochner, Abraham Davidson, Lauren Dalrymple Henderson, Amelia Jones, Rosalind Krauss, Molly Nesbit, Robert Rosenblum, Dickran Tashjian, Beth Venn, Barbara Zabel… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1974. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the Swedish health services which details the structures, processes, and methods of national and regional health planning, with comparisons to health planning in the United Kingdom and the United States; because health planning does not occur in a vacuum, it also describes the political structure of the country, the structure of its health services, and the process of its socioeconomic development (plain white cover with blue lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This volume of readings provides a picture of the culture and civilization of Southern India and Ceylon, and the achievements of the Tamil people, particularly in the domain of art and trade; the material covers such topics as language, literature, political and social history, the fine arts and religion, and represents the views of well-known Asian, American, and European professors of Dravidology, including Thomas Barrow, Murray Emeneau, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Heinrich Zimmer, and Jean Filliozat; the editor, a native of Ceylon, was Secretary-General of the International Association of Tamil Research and editor of the Journal of Tamil Studies (black cloth with gold lettering, pages slightly tanned, former owner's name on front endpaper; red & black dust jacket is edgeworn; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Rutgers University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Inscribed By Author. This is a collection of critical essays by the poet, novelist, and literary critic Howard Nemerov, winner of the National Book Award, Pulitizer Prize, and Bollingen Prize, and twice poet laureate; inscribed by Nemerov on the title page (orange cloth with black lettering, ends of spine creased and slightly worn; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Discussions of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts are usually based on a narrow reading of the Western tradition; this book develops and defends an extention to modernity that is an alternative to both modernism and postmodernism (laminated blue paper-covered boards with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Jamestown Foundation, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. In 17th century colonial Virginia, Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the governor, Sir William Berkeley; this volume is neither a narrative study of the rebellion nor a biography of either Bacon or Berkeley; it is a collection of abstracts of manuscripts microfilmed by the Virginia Colonial Records Project; materials are arranged according to repository and by manuscript numbers assigned by each archive (tan card cover with drawing of the arms of the colony of Virginia on the front; previous owner's name along upper edge of front cover; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is a contemporary chronicle of the sixties youth movement, both the radical student movement and the counter-culture (orange cloth with very slight edgewear; green pictorial dust jacket with orange & white lettering with very small closed edge tear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a geography of Western Europe in the form of a travel book; it is described by the author as "intended, not for the geographer in the technical sense, but for all those interested in their surroundings, and the interrelations between these and the life of man"; includes many photographs, illustrations, and maps; the auithor was editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine (maroon cloth with black lettering on white paper label on spine, fore and bottom edges are rough-cut; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines the legislative changes of the sixties relating to abortion, obscenity, homosexuality and prostitution that are commonly believed to illustrate the permissive or liberal character of the era and casts doubt on the view propounded by politicians and moralists that such changes indicated moral relaxation and increasing sexual license; it argues that the ideology of permissiveness requires close examination; it contrasts the moral climate of the sixties with the moral politics of the eighties (pictorial cover, slightly cocked, otherwise in perfect condition)

Andover, MA, U.S.A.: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2004. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8 1/2" X 10 7/8. This book examines some of the finest works on paper from the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachussets; essays by Faye Hirsch, Linda Konheim Dramer, Carol Clark, and Trevor Fairbrother are followed by portfolios with full-page color reproductions of about 150 works from the collection of more than 2,500 drawings, pastels, charcoals, oils, and watercolors; inroduction by Susan C. Faxon (white pictorial covers with art works on the front and back, red end papers; white pictorial dust jacket also with works of art on the front and back; a bright, clean, tight copy; this is a very large, heavy book that can only be shippped by domestic media mail without additional charge)

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. This is a 1933 first edition of an account of the medical and public health administration in the Soviet Union, based on the authors' 9,000 mile tour of the country in 1932, supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund; Sir Arthur Newsholme was a public health authority and the chief medical officer for Britain's Local Government Board; John Adams Kingsbury was a public health advocate and New York City's Commissioner of Public Charities; includes 19 full-page black & white photographs, 8 by Margaret Bourke-White; a separate card in the book is inscribed to Louis J. Dublin, a statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and an expert on the causes of mortality, and signed by both authors (black cloth with black lettering on red spine label; end papers have Bourke-White photos; half-title page with Louis J. Dublin's signature and date of March, 1934, has some erasures and impression of paper clips that held… Read More

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Chicago Review, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. This is a retrospective anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays published in the Chicago Reivew over the fifty years since its founding at the University of Chicago in 1946 (black cover with slight corner creases, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Stads- Och Kommunhistoriska Institutet, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This volume consists of papers presented at a conference, Capital Cities and Their Cultural Identities, organized by the the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University in 1998; the purpose of the conference was to compare urban historical experiences from different European cities, including Amsterdam, Glasgow, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm; the authors include Michael Wagenaar, W. Hamish Fraser, Tomas Kizwalter, Sylvia Hahn, Vera Backsai, Marjatta Hietala, Jan Eivind Myhre, Lars Nilsson, with commentary by Henrik van Dijk and Hakan Forsell (purple cover has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In this volume, a group of political scientists, economists, and practitioners examines the political and economic causes and consequences of the Asian financial crises of 1997-1998, which ignited fierce debate about domestic economic weaknesses and flaws in the international financial system (red & black cover, minor edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)