Search Results: Titles starting with N from Blue Sky Rare Books

Tokyo: Tokumashoten Company Ltd, 1964. first edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Book near fine in DJ that is VG+ (couple of small nicks) in original plastic wrap. Very nice copy. Presentation of koshirae for those who would seek to make or assemble appropriate mountings for swords. Combined Japanese and English text addressing the history of sword mountings and describing the examples shown - many Juyo and Juyo Bijutsuhin included. English translation makes the book very accessible. 74 b&w examples and 17 hand-laid color plates, each captioned in both languages, all tissue guards present. 141 pages, 7º x 10º" hardcover. Nice copy of a very rare book.

Los Angeles: Printed at the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Strong VG+ copy, minor fading to spine, contents completely clean. The leaf in this copy is really something special. This leaf has a whopping 18 distinct woodcut portraits. An excellent leaf book, printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press.

WJK Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Near fine, just a couple of neat pencil marks. Jacket near fine.

Duke University, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/-1. HC as new. No DJ, as issued.

Sterling Signature, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. fine/fine. Boxed set: folding case, softcover book, and a set of prints. All fine, as new. Lovely set.

Cambridge University Press,, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Couple of minor pencil marks in text, otherwise near fine. Nice Book. Hardcover without jacket as issued, full cloth.

Printed for Random House [by the Bremer Presse], 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A completely fine copy in the original matching simple burgandy wrapper and slipcase. The wrapper and slipcase are in very good condition -- spine faded and the slipcase with some wear and paper splits but solidly intact. The book itself is, again, completely fine. A beautiful book and scarce in the original wrapper.

Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book and jacket near fine, warmly inscribed by author.

Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket fine, jacket in protective mylar. Inscribed by the author.

Oxford University Press, First. 2000. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket fine, free of all markings. Jacket in protective mylar wrap. Lovely book.

Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. George Homans' copy, his POS on front fly, scattered pencil notes inside. DJ has only minor wear.

Verso, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Paperback, near fine.

Columbia University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book and jacket near fine, free of all markings. Jacket with trivial storage wear only.

London: Hurst, Chance & Co, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Contents exceptionally clean, bound in red 3/4 leather over mabelled board with only minor wear -- very good or better. Nice book. 176pp, no ads.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book near fine -- couple of small pencil marks. Jacket near fine, trival shelwear only. Nice book.

Cambridge, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. Book is near fine, free of all markings. DJ is a strong VG or VG+ in mylar, just a couple of edge dings. Attractive book..

Princeton University Press,, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Book free of all marks, jacket near fine in protective mylar wrap.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and DJ near fine in mylar. Lovely copy.

Paulist Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in protective mylar wrap. Nice book

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ. Lovely copy, Christmas inscription from 1912. Book not dated by publisher, this the artist's edition in blue cloth with lovely gilt. Touch of wear to extremities only. Scarce edition.