Search Results: Titles starting with N from Yesterday's Muse Books

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x0. First edition. Slightly musty. Jacket edges bumped and rubbed, jacket spine lightly soiled. Related papers laid in. 1967 Hard Cover. 397 pp. Andrew Field's superlative biography and comprehensive criticism of the complete works of Vladimir Nabokov was greeted with praise from the critics and hailed as the definitive study of a modern literary genius.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x0. First edition. Top edge of jacket very lightly rubbed. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1979 Hard Cover. ix, 346 pp. Letters between one of the great 20th century novelists, Nabokov, and critic/essayists, Wilson.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x0. First edition. Small tear on jacket spine. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1979 Hard Cover. ix, 346 pp. Letters between one of the great 20th century novelists, Nabokov, and critic/essayists, Wilson.

New York / Boston: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Reprint. Pages lightly toned. 1997 Trade Paperback. viii, 291 pp. "Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

New York: Penguin Studio, 1996. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x0x10. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by Anna Quindlen (Author). Pages very lightly toned. Near Fine. 1996 Large Hardcover. 111 pp. "A photographer attempts to capture the perfection of babies, from the swirl of a cowlick to the smoothness of skin on a neck, while the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author muses on moments like a baby's first steps.

New York: Tor Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x9. First edition. Minor general wear. 2003 Hard Cover. 667 pp. Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooter job for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him; he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill.

New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1948. Early printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Early printing. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears. Board edges rubbed, boards soiled, top page ridge foxed. 1948 Hard Cover. 721 pp. Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

Bobbs Merrill, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Light rubbing to jacket. Very Good. 1974 Hard Cover. Sherlock Homes, fictional masterpiece of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been cherished by generations of readers throughout the world and continues to inspire new legions of devotees. That this legendary character should yield new and unexpected riches is the staggering accomplishment of Samuel Rosenberg, a literary detective whose surprising discoveries about the work of Mary Shelley, Melville and others have gained wide literary attention. Mr. Rosenberg now revels Sir Arthur as a brilliant allegorist who in his Holmes mysteries left "purloined letter" allusions not only to characters throughout literature but to real-life figures as well. Could it really be that behind Professor Moriarty lurked Friedrich Nietzsche? That Irene Adler actually disguised none other than George Sand - the legendary Madame Dudevant, authoress and transvestite? The book… Read More

New York/Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. Minor general wear. 2021 Trade Paperback. 266 pp. Discover the nationally bestselling, true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his rescue cat, Nala, as they adventure together on a bike journey around the world -- from the Instagram phenomenon @1bike1world. When 30-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. But he hadn't bargained on the lessons he'd learn from his unlikely companion. Three months after leaving home, on a remote road in the mountains between Montenegro and Bosnia, he came across an abandoned kitten. Something about the piercing eyes and plaintive meowing of the bedraggled little cat proved irresistible. He couldn't leave her to her fate, so he put her on his bike and then, with the help of local vets, nursed her back to health. Soon on his… Read More

UK: The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1918. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Ink mark on front wrapper. 1918 Stapled Binding. 75-104 pp. Reprinted from The Transactions of The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1918. Marylebone is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary. An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it merged with the boroughs of Westminster and Paddington to form the new City of Westminster in 1965. Marylebone station lies two miles north-west of Charing Cross. There are also two tube stations in Marylebone – Baker Street and Bond Street. Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove) and Tyburn in the east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors. The boundaries of… Read More

New York: Daw Books, Inc, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x2x9. Donato (jacket art). First edition, first printing, in red-haired man jacket variant. Edges lightly foxed, some wear to corners. 2007 Hard Cover. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king… Read More

New York: Daw Books, Inc, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x2x9. Donato (jacket art). First edition, first printing, in red-haired man jacket variant. Corners very lightly bruised, otherwise an excellent copy. 2007 Hard Cover. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the… Read More

New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For ___ ___ with all best wishes. July 26th, 1997." Top edge of jacket stained. Front board soiled. 230 pp. Susan Brind Morrow takes readers from her magical and sometimes troubled childhood in New York State, to the austere splendors of the Egyptian desert. Written with a keen understanding of language, Brind Morrow traces the routes of ideas and images through word origins and time, bringing forth an inner life of words.

New York: Three Sirens Press, 1933. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Mayer, Fred A. No jacket. General wear. 1933 Hard Cover. 485 pp. Illustrated in silhouette by Fred A. Mayer. Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell -- especially Count Muffat.

London: Folio Press: J.M. Dent, 1973. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x3x0. Vertes. 1973 photo-litho reissue. Acetate jacket with paper flaps. Minor general wear. 387 pp.Translated by Charles Duff. Etchings by Vertes. Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell -- especially Count Muffat.

New York: Junior Literary Guild / Harper & Brothers, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Berry, Erick. First edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket, front jacket panel stained. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1936 Hard Cover. 295 pp. "Seventeen was a thrilling age to travel. Meeting new people was fun - Kit, on the boat, and Jennifer, so different from Nancy's American friends, who showed her a part of English life she would otherwise never have seen. Then there were the interesting girls from India who were stopping at the same London hotel. To be shown London and the English countryside by Felix, a real Lord, was especially exciting. The grandeur of Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge at sunset, the Cotswolds, Warwick and Kenilworth were all brilliant bits that made the summer a gorgeous kaleidoscope for Nancy.

Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1921. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 7x4x1. Jacket spine base stained, jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips and minor tears. Light stain on spine base, pencil name on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1921 Hard Cover. 251 pp. Mrs. Prescott and pretty, luxury-loving Alma would rather get at the nice things more quickly; and in the poor circumstances of the little family, it is Nancy who has to struggle to keep off the rocks on which the impractical optimism of her mother and sister threaten to land them. It is after the disastrous results of Mrs. Prescott's efforts to give her daughters advantages and pleasures that are far beyond the scope of their small fortune, that Nancy finally persuades her mother and Alma to her own levelheaded point of view; and then, as if by magic, the "nice, unexpected things" begin to happen.

London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1930. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Browne, Gordon; Johnston, M.D. 1930 reissue. Rear jacket panel soiled. 191 pp. Color frontispiece by Gordon Browne, jacket art by M.D. Johnston.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x4x0. Farrah 1950C-52. Top edge lightly foxed, light stain to jacket spine base, jacket price clipped. Small hole in jacket spine is present on all copies of this printing (it was a publisher correction to remove the incorrect volume #). 1932 Hard Cover. iv, 209 pp. A batch of stolen mail leads to a new case for Nancy Drew. "In the late autumn after returning from Red Gate Farm on a day trip, Nancy and her friends enjoy hot cocoa and a snack at teatime. Postman Ira Nixon, nearing retirement, is invited inside, and leaves his mailbag in the vestibule, where it is stolen. Nancy is summoned by postal authorities, who accuse her of being involved in the theft, which threatens the postman's pension and career. In the meantime, she is invited to spend a weekend as a guest of Ned Nickerson at Emerson College, where a big football game will take place, and she prepares for the trip. Nancy encounters low-brow… Read More