Search Results: Authors starting with N from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. Jacket clipped and lightly soiled, small areas of spine split as usual, but a far better example than most. 8vo. Original grey printed boards; printed dust jacket. First edition of a fragile early New Directions title.

New York, 1941. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Very light rust marks on blank fourth page. 8vo. 4-page leaflet. First edition, an offprint from the 'Journal of the New York Entomological Society', Vol. XLIX, September 1941, pages 265-267. Julian AA4.1 ("None examined ... at least 25 copies."). Fine. (BA).

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1959. Some spotting to covers and prelims; light soiling to jacket. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, presumed second state with "A26" on verso of p. [44] (though appearing to have been effaced to make it look like A25). Containing 14 poems by Nabokov written between 1942 and 1957.

Paris: E. Dentu, 1864. 8vo. [i-xvi; I]-XX; [21-]439, [1 ]. Text in French. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, largely unopened (slight lean to spine, tear at edge of front cover, moderate creases, wear and soiling, moderate foxing to bulked edges and front and rear pages). First edition. A superior copy and quite scarce in the original wrappers. Nadar, in addition to being the most famous French photographer of his time, was also a caricaturist who relished his own celebrity. He had an enormous hot air balloon, Le Geant, which came with a gondola and a photographic studio, a print room, two cabins, a storeroom, and a lavatory. The present work describes its brief but glorious career, including the not-so glorious crash in Hanover, in 1863, that seriously injured his wife.

New York: Kodansha International, 1988. A very good plus copy with some pale foxing in the upper margins, the jacket clean and well preserved. Folio (11.75 x 8.75 inches). xxi, 221 pages. Photographs by G. Barrows, G. W. Holland, Dana Levy, Osamu Murai, Ezra Stoller, and Hiroshi Suga; line drawings by the author. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. The fourth printing, published in 1988 (the first was in 1981). Signed and dated April 19th, 1990 by George Nakashima on the front free endpaper, just two months before the artist died on June 15. With an introduction by Nakashima's friend and Nobel Laureate, Dr. George Wald. Signed copies of Nakashima's creative autobiography are scarce.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. A very good set, some light wear at exgtremities, but generally very clean and fresh. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in Norwegian was published the previous year). Arctic Bibliography 11983.

N.p., n.d.. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 35 pages, 4to (10 ¾ × 8 ½ inches), a working draft written in pencil with very extensive revisions by the author (virtually all of the crossed out words and passages are still readable); the pages mounted on heavy gauze for binding, gray wrappers lettered in black and gold on front cover the covers slightly soiled and worn). A fine manuscript by American's first really significant modern theatre critic and an early champion of Eugene O'Neill. "Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Nathan was the most influential commentator on contemporary American drama, attracting hostility from controlling interests in the commercial theatre for his authoritatively iconoclastic denigrations of many productions. Among the playwrights he fostered were O'Neill, William Saroyan, Arthur Miller, and Sean 'Casey" (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English). Nathan's main point in this essay dealing with theatre criticism in America is that "of all the… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight rubbing at extremities. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, paper label, untrimmed. First edition of this book of poetry, limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is Copy No. 1 and also the dedication copy. 'A Cedar Box' is dedicated: "For A. N. M. and The Doctor." Right beneath this printed dedication Nathan has written: "With the poet's best love - Bob." The dedicatees were Nathan's aunt, the writer Annie Nathan Meyer, and her husband. Nathan is best known for the novel 'Portrait of Jennie' (1940), considered a classic of fantasy fiction, which was made into a movie starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Laurence A9; Merle Johnson, p. 391. (BA).

Rio de Janeiro: Cobogo, 2012. New in shrinkwrap. 8.5 x 7 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.

Lincoln: Journal Company, 1887. 8vo. 16pp. Very fine folding map by F. Hirschfeld, with railroad routes in color, printed Chicago: Shober & Carqueville: "Map of Nebraska and Eastern Colorado." Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling; map with a few small separations along folds. FIRST EDITION, published by the Burlington Route. "Karrow [for the map] shows editions of 1883,1885, and 1887 as well as this issue. This map is similar to the 1880 Map of Nebraska by Herman Smith, also published by the State Journal Company, but the title has been moved to the upper right corner to allow coverage of north eastern Colorado and the Burlington Railroad route to Denver. This map was also issued by the Burlington Railroad in 1886 and 1887 as part of their route promotion (Karrow 12-0574 and 12-0591). Compared to the 1880 map, there is much new development of railroads and the northwestern corner of the state" (Rumsey; Karrow 12-0581).

Chicago: Prairie Creek Productions, 2000. A near-fine copy with some light shelf wear, and pale stain on front jacket. 12.75 x 14.75 inches. 111 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Signed by photographer on title page in pencil (faint in photo, but legible). "Contemporary cowboy life is masterfully revealed in this new book of large-format duotone photographs.

New York: American Tract Society, 1841. Pale foxing, several leaves dog-eared, light wear to binding at extremities, but overall a handsome copy. Early owner's name in ink on front flyleaf. 8vo. 352 pages. Contemporary tree calf, morocco lettering-piece on spine. First edition.

Urbana: Inky Press Publications, 1992. A very good copy with some light edgewear to wrappers, otherwise clean and bright. 25 x 25 cm. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.

Leipzig: Georg Voss, 1804. Title creased and dust-soiled, final plate creased, lower wrapper detached. Oblong folio (18 x 10.75 inches; 455 x 273 mm). Engraved title in the form of a sampler, 52 pages, 50 engraved plates, consisting of 25 plates in two states, colored and uncolored. 19th-century stiff marbled paper wrappers; modern cloth-backed fitted case. SCARCE: Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art copy of this edition is located in the US. Copies of the 1802 French edition are held by the Smithsonian and Winterthur, and of the 1800 edition at U. Michigan and the Clark Art Institute. European online library databases record only a handful of copies of each edition in German, Swiss, French and British libraries. No copies have appeared at auction in the past century, according to databases. A beautifully illustrated manual for knitting and crocheting. This is the second, enlarged edition in German and the third edition overall, following a French version published in 1802. Netto's goal was to… Read More

Padua: Seminario, 1807. First edition. Dried and somewhat cracked, bottom spine compartment perished, internally a fine, crisp copy. Two parts in one volume, octavo (240 x 165 mm). 441 pages. Errata leaf at end. Contemporary Paduan red morocco, richly gilt, the arms of Padua at center of each side, a wide gilt floral border, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt. A major source, often cited, of bio-bibliographical information on the most famous citizens of Padua, framed around an exegesis of the statues surrounding the Prato della Valle. The two parts of the book divide the exterior ring (containing 44 statues) from the interior ring (containing a further 44 statues and obelisks). The square became the property of the city of Padua in 1767, having formerly belonged to the monks of Santa Giustina. The plan to restructure the square was that of Andrea Memmo (depicted in the final statue of the exterior ring). Among the notable figures represented with a statue, and described in… Read More

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. 8vo. 372 pp. Plates. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with light wear to jacket, a few minor spots to sheet edges. FIRST EDITION. A fine association copy, inscribed by Richard Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan on the half-title: "To Barbara Morgan and her husband - who have suffered making the best book about a man, who deserves only the third best - Most cordially and sincere wishes to them and theirs Richard Neutra." Further inscribed by the artist Annita Delano on the front free endpaper: "To Barbara Morgan and to William Morgan to my mind two of the happiest people I have ever known, Annita Delano." The noted photographer Barbara Morgan - a co-founder of Aperture magazine - taught at UCLA with Neutra and Delano in the 1920s. Barbara Morgan at this time also assisted her husband, the writer Willard Morgan, in photographing the modern architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, including a full… Read More

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. Softcover. Internally fine, the wrappers lightly toned and with a few spots of light wear. 13 x 9.5 inches. 192 pages. Pictorial wrappers. "This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art from May 27 - September 14 1980.

Paris: Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 1969. Softcover. Some toning to the paper and some minor shelfwer to the wrappers. 8.75 x 9.5 inches. Wrappers. In French. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from May - June 1969.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Near-fine, with light edgewear to wrappers. 4to. Original photographically-illustrated wrappers. Signed first edition of this leading 20th-century sculptor's multimedia memoir. Signed by Nevelson on the half-title. "I don't think of myself as a strong woman. I never even heard that word about me until recently. I always thought that bluntly I was a clamorous goddamn exciting woman. I didn't want to be strong at anything. I wanted to have a ball on earth. But I wanted it through the channels that I want." Composed of extended conversations with Nevelson's longtime assistant American photographer Dina MacKown transcribed from interview tapes, the autobiography delivers an immediately intimate portrait of the artist. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos and reproductions of Nevelson, her work, her family, and her studio.

New York: PaceWildenstein, 1997. Softcover. A near-fine copy with a very small marks on covers. 12 x 9.75 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from March 28th - April 26 1997.