Search Results: Authors starting with N from ReadInk

Beverly Hills CA: Spectator International. Near Fine. 1968. (Vol. 4, No. 3). Magazine. [nice copy, very light handling wear, virtually as-new]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: a lengthy "chronicle of the events that led up to the collapse of this year's Cannes Festival" (undoubtedly the most tumultuous in the festival's history, caught up as it was in the political crisis that gripped France in May of 1968); an interview with filmmaker Frank Simon, about his documentary film THE QUEEN, about the "All American Beauty Pageant," held in New York in February 1967 to select "America's most beautiful female impersonator"; an examination of the films of writer-director Robert Rossen, with a filmography; brief writeups on various films then in production (including THE LION IN WINTER, CANDY and MIDNIGHT COWBOY); an interview with graphic designer Saul Bass, focusing on his innovative film title work; an article about the then-current TV series THE… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Very Good+. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [slight bumping to bottom corners (teensy bit of fraying at lower corner of front cover), otherwise a solid clean book]. (pen and ink drawings) "This book offers high school juniors and seniors a broad, highly selective sampling of drama in our time, [presenting] four full length contemporary plays, two long plays somewhat condensed, and four dramatic episodes of various types. From the movies comes the script of a screen play for study; and from radio the complete text of a radio play." This being a textbook, there are "numerous study helps," including historical background notes, brief biographical sketches of the authors, vocabulary helps, study questions, and more. The full-length plays included are: "Watch on the Rhine" by Lillian Hellman, "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, "R.U.R" by Karel Capek, and "Abe Lincoln in… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 031201810X . [nice tight book, extremely light stain on top edge of text block, no significant wear; jacket also very nice, with just one little nick at top of rear panel]. Fulsomely INSCRIBED to friends and SIGNED ("G.") by the author on the ffep. "A hilariously funny and suspenseful murder mystery" about a pair of identical twin sisters who, "thanks to the miracles of Jane Fonda and plastic surgery," hardly resemble one another and, at the age of forty, have taken quite different career paths -- and then one of them is murdered and the other sets out to solve the crime. Signed by Author .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy of a cheaply-made wartime book, with light shelfwear, slight soiling to binding along front hinge, minor dust-darkening to page edges; jacket shows moderate general wear, a little paper loss at spine extremities, one small internal tape-repair at top of front panel]. Curious, unsettling novel about a moody young boxer, given to unpredictable rages, who adores (but also abuses and alienates) his pretty young wife (a nightclub singer) with his obsessive jealousy and sometimes irrational behavior. His ambitions as a fighter are inseparable from his desire to escape his past -- specifically the influence of his father, a small-town gangster -- and just to complicate matters, he must also contend with his in-laws, who are conniving to extricate their daughter from what they view as a very unfortunate union. The action is compressed into a three-day period, and of course has the… Read More

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 081311425X . [beautiful copy, no significant wear to either book or jacket]. "In this book [the editor] brings together the best and most important studies and a new essay written for this volume to giv a comprehensive view of the range of Warren's work. A list of Warren's published works, 1929-1980, and a useful checklist of critical works on Warren's writing supplement this rich and balanced colletion of essays." .

Tokyo: Tokyo FM Books. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1998). First Edition. Softcover. [softcover in dust jacket, both in as-new condition; also includes a wraparound paper band (not pictured) with a couple of tiny tears at the spine]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An almost entirely photographic work, illustrated by scene stills and off-camera shots from the 1998 Japanese film SAMURAI FICTION, directed by Hiroyuku Nakano. Per Wikipedia, the film was a "comedy-samurai film [shot] nearly entirely in black-and-white, paying homage to older samurai movies," but with occasional "artistic and dramatic use of color; this is most noticeable whenever a character is killed, and the screen flashes red for a moment." (A few of the book's illustrations are suffused in red, as well.) NOTE that except for the title and a few headings in English (why?), the text is all in Japanese. (Not that there's much of it: just a short essay by Ramo Nakajima, an interview with director Nakano… Read More

Baltimore MD: Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.2000, c.1997). First American Edition. Softcover. [very slight wear and minor laminate puckering along bottom edge of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the Spanish actor/screenwriter/director (1934-2009) known as "the Spanish Lon Chaney." Excerpts from the cover blurb: "There has never been a filmmaker like Paul Naschy. Naschy's involvement in cinema spans 40 years and counting, with work as an actor, screenwriter, director and producer. If we just speak of the horror genre, Paul Naschy is a distinctive talent. Perhaps one shouldn't step on the carefully protected toes of the familiar horror 'kings' of the past and present, but Naschy is their equal, and in terms of involvement in the genre -- as screenwriter, director and producer -- he outdistances every one of them. This autobiography is Naschy's manifesto of will and dedication." Includes… Read More

Boston: David R. Godine. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. In this novel, in which Dr. Watson sets out to write a biography of the recently-deceased Great Detective, Ms. Naslund "has cunningly recreted the world of Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Watson, expanding and embroidering upon the long-familiar and beloved tropes to build an engaging, powerful narrative of her own. [The book] takes Watson -- and the reader -- through a gripping series of adventures, involving unearthed diaries, stolen journals, apparitions from the past, characters who are anything but what they seem, and even, in a stunning tour de force, a complete, unknown Sherlock Holmes mystery (in which the renowned duo come to the aid of Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria). Through it… Read More

Houston: Arte Publico Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2002). First Edition. Hardcover. 1558853642 . [nice clean copy with very slight wear at spine ends; jacket shows just a tiny bit of creasing and wear along top and bottom edges, minor puncture wound near bottom of rear hinge]. (Hispanic Civil Rights series) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To _____________, / With my best wishes, / Julian Nava / May 30, '08." Memoir by "one of the most renowned and distinguished elder statesmen of the Hispanic community of the United States. The child of poor Mexican immigrants, Nava rose through years of hardship and hard work to achieve what no other Latino in the United States had achieved before him: Nava became the first Mexican American to serve as ambassador to Mexico. [He was also] a civil rights activist during the height of the Chicano Movement; he also became the first Mexican American to serve on the Los Angeles… Read More

Lahore: Mumtaz Publications. Very Good in Good dj. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, binding a little compromised in the early part of the book (a couple of signatures slightly shaken, but no loose or detached pages), longish gift inscription on ffep (see notes), slight rippling in cloth near bottom sections of both covers; jacket has a 1/2" chip at top left corner of front panel, a little paper loss at spine extremities, some fading to spine lettering]. Purported to be the first South Asian English-language novel to be set against the background of the political turmoil in the Indian subcontinent during the 1930s, which ultimately led (in 1947) to the partitioning of the region into the separate nations of India and Pakistan. The book covers the period 1930 to 1942, and the primary story is your basic Romeo-and-Juliet plot -- "the drama of frustrated love of a Muslim young man and a high caste Hindu girl" and their respective families, in whose lives… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1949). Unstated edition (possible BCE). Hardcover. [light bumping to a couple of corners, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is age-toned, spine faded (title is almost unreadable), minor paper loss at several corners, one small closed tear and associated short diagonal crease at top edge of front panel]. Uncommon memoir about the author's happy childhood in his native village in Transylvania. "This is the richly-rewarding day-to-day happenings in the village; of the legends handed down through the generations; of peasant wisdom and human passion; and above all, the story of a family remembered with love." Most of the author's work (both fiction and nonfiction) dealt with folk life in his native Romania; he spent much of his life in the U.S. after coming here to study in 1901 at the age of nineteen. .

Lanham MD/Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice, as-new book, with no discernible wear to the book, and the jacket showing just a trace of surface rubbing]. (Filmmakers, No. 98) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To ___ / from / Ronnie" at the top of the title page, and additionally SIGNED and dated (2003) by the author above his printed name. The famed British director discusses the making of his films in his "informative and entertaining" style, and the book "also contains original commentary by many of Neame's contemporaries and associates, including Alec Guinness, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Shirley MacLaine, Walter Matthau, John Mills, and Shelley Winters," among others. The book also boasts two Forewords, by Michael Caine and Alan Parker. Signed by Author .

New York: The Macmillan Company. Fair. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [ex-library with many markings, labels, considerable shelfwear, etc.; a reading/reference copy only] A reference/reading copy only (ex-Brooklyn Public Library) of this informative work by this noted American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and pacifist, and his then-wife -- who, one suspects, might actually have deserved top billing on this particular book. (The book apparently wasn't considered important enough to even rate a passing mention by Nearing biographer Stephen Whitfield, who also has very little to say about Nellie herself, at one point referring to her slightly dismissively as "a suffragist with a doctorate.") The text is divided into four sections: Woman's Innate Capacity; Environmental Influences Upon American Woman; The Opportunities Before American Women; Women and the Future. .

Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Fair in Good dj. 1933. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [ex-lending library copy, although minimally marked as such (no stamping, labels mostly removed from ffep, four-digit call number in ink at bottom of rear endpaper; the book itself is shelfworn, with the boards showing through the cloth at all corners and at a couple of spots on the bottom edge, but the binding is good and the book is internally clean despite some soiling to the page edges; the jacket is worn but largely intact, having been (in typical rental-library fashion) backed with brown paper and affixed securely to the pastedowns at both flaps]. First of only three novels published by this hard-boiled writer (all of which are quite scarce), whose career was largely confined to the pages of "Black Mask," "Dime Detective" and the like. A suspense yarn that takes place largely aboard a passenger train, it was filmed twice: by Fox in 1934 under its original title, then again by 20th… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, light shelfwear, very slight bumping to corners; jacket a bit faded at spine, one short closed tear and associated minor creasing at bottom of front panel, another short closed tear at top of rear panel]. A "gay, lighthearted book" by a 36-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with polio at the age of 27, an affliction which left her paralyzed from the neck down and confined to an iron lung -- but "went bravely on to make a home for her children, face her troubles with high good humor, and learn to live with the true spirit of religion." (This in spite of having been divorced by her husband.) The book's tone is primarily cheerful and upbeat, although in the words of one reviewer, "she does manage to occasionally convey the anger at her fate and the anguish of her spouse’s betrayal; occasionally she is downright cutting, and… Read More

New York: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, small remainder stamp (the little S&S man) on bottom of text block; the jacket shows a little wear at the extremities and across the bottom edge of the rear panel]. (drawings, photographs) A very entertaining memoir by one of Hollywood's best raconteurs, who also directed some pretty good movies (THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS, DEEP VALLEY, JOHNNY BELINDA, ROAD HOUSE, PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, and more). His tales may not all be strictly, you know, true -- but as the book's disarming title implies: so what, if it makes for a good story? ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

New York: Whitney Publications, Inc.. Good in Fair dj. 1955 (c.1953). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [shelfworn book, with slight fraying to cloth at extremities and along top and bottom edges, and the binding feels a little loosey-goosey, although there are no detached pages; the jacket, although substantially complete, is well-worn, with bits of paper loss at most corners and a number of internal tape repairs and reinforcements]. (Interiors Library, 3) Series (B&W photographs, line drawings) A state-of-the-(1950s)-art treatise on the practice of commercial display design; the third volume in this publisher's 'Interiors' Library. "The 300 photographs in this book include shops, show rooms and window displays as well as exhibitions from small portable shows to world's fairs. They present some of the most original work of more than 125 designers and architects of international note, with an interpretation of their design objects and values by George Nelson."… Read More

New York: Whitney Publications, Inc.. Good in Good dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [ex-library book (date-due slip and pocket on ffep, stamped "withdrawn" in several places, call number in ink on bottom of text block), moderately shelfworn, a couple of small nicks in cloth at bottom edge of rear cover, small tape marks/remnants at top and bottom edges of both covers; the jacket, despite some creating and shallow chipping along the top edge, and a few old internal tape repairs (one of which neatly repairs a long horizontal tear in the front panel), is in pretty decent shape, all things considered]. (Interiors Library, 1) Series (B&W photographs, floor plans) "Interiors, a monthly periodical published for professionals in all branches of interior design, answers the demand for a popular and comprehensive book on contemporary interiors. Now, in a single volume Interiors presents the finest of its research and content for laymen and interested home… Read More

New York: Arcadia House. Fair in Fair dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [ex-rental library book with moderate wear, a few small dents in edges of covers, front hinge weakened by removal of ffep, one-time owner's name at top of synopsis page, "Withdrawal" stamp on page 1 of text; jacket is NOT the original jacket, but a tricked-up version containing the imprint of University Libraries, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts (see notes); the jacket is also backed with heavy brown paper, and firmly attached to the book at the rear pastedown]. Romance novel about the love between the "only son of a successful Jewish merchant [and] the only daughter of a lovable, but extremely bigoted German father," and their uphill battle against "the anachronistic stupidity of racial and religious prejudice." Set in a small town in Colorado. NOTE (again) that this is NOT the book's original jacket, but a specially-prepared version for University Libraries, Inc. --… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid clean copy, light shelfwear, slight exposure of board at bottom corner of front cover, one-time owner's signature at top left corner of front pastedown; jacket is heavily edgeworn, internally reinforced with brown paper tape, some paper loss along front hinge, at lower left corner of front panel and rear panel ("filled in" with the brown paper tape in those places), etc.]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the co-founder (with Konstantin Stanislavsky) of the Moscow Art Theatre, pitched in the jacket blurb as "a fitting complement" to Stanislavsky's book "My Life in Art." .