Search Results: Titles starting with N from Cox and Budge Books

London: Black and Armstrong, 1835. Hardcover. Good / Fair. Reprint. Hardback, bound in full-leather, gilt titling to spine. 22.5 × 13.5cm, 216pp. A history of London, illustrated with frontispiece of St Paul's Cathedral, engraved title page and 270 engravings on 54 pages (there are five illustrations per page). The illustrations contains everything from zoos to hospitals, churches to residences, street scenes, monuments, parks etc. Condition: A good reference copy. The leather is heavily rubbed to the joints and the boards marked and bumped. There is tanning to the pages and one plate of engravings is neatly detached, and one has a neat taped repair to the rear. However, this remains a wonderful collection of early 19th century London images.

London: Springer, 2013. First Paperback Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. First paperback edition. 23.5 × 15.5cm, xxi + 566pp. Hallucinatory phenomena have held the fascination of science since the dawn of medicine, and the popular imagination from the beginning of recorded history. Their study has become a critical aspect of our knowledge of the brain, making significant strides in recent years with advances in neuroimaging, and has established common ground among what normally are regarded as disparate fields. The Neuroscience of Hallucinations synthesizes the most up-to-date findings on these intriguing auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, and somatosensory experiences, from their molecular origins to their cognitive expression. In recognition of the wide audience for this information among the neuroscientific, medical, and psychology communities, its editors bring a mature evidence base to highly subjective experience. This knowledge is presented in comprehensive detail as leading… Read More

Oxford: Myriad, 2019. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24.5 × 17.5cm, xxxiv + 805pp. This copy has been signed by Margaret Busby to the title, and she has added "in sisterhood". The book is additionally signed, dated and dedicated by poet Patience Agbabi. Margaret Busby was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher (Allison and Busby publishers, founded 1967).This landmark anthology celebrates the work of 200 women writers of African descent and charts a literary landscape as never before. A glorious portrayal of the richness, range and diversity of African women's voices, this major international collection brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres: autobiography, memoir, letters, short stories, novels, poetry, drama, humour, journalism, essays and speeches. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular… Read More

Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First US Edition. . Hardback. Good. First US edition. Hardback, bound in the original buckram with paper title label to spine. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 494pp [6]. A collection of writings from New Directions, the American publishing house founded by James Laughlin in 1936. This book contains: Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka, poetry by Eve Merriam, Pierre Jean Jouve and Marcia Nardi, as well as a fifty-four page piece entitled Homage to Ford Madox Ford, A Symposium (The book is also dedicated to FMF). Condition: The covers are quite heavily sunned but the contents are in good plus condition and it remains in strong readable condition. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers, or decreased where appropriate. Please see the COX AND BUDGE BOOKS website for full shipping details or drop us an email**

Original Artwork. No Binding. Very Good. Trial proof. Date unknown (late 20th century). Linocut, mounted. Overall measurements 47 × 37.7cm, image size 32 × 26cm. Signed and titled by Carol Walklin in pencil below the image. A delightful linocut depicting a mother holding a new baby, one of a series the artist did on this theme. Carol Walklin (1930-2017), was an artist and graphic designer. She was a leading British printmaker and wrote a number of books on printmaking and design, having an influence on many of the current generation of printmakers. Condition; Both mount and image are in very good condition, with one or two small dents to the mount.

Not published. Soft cover. Good Plus. This is a collection of six painters from the Newlyn School, the colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, on the south coast of Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century. Five are cut signatures (from letters), and one is a signed piece of blue paper. The artists are: 1. Stanhope Forbes (1857-1942), he moved to Newlyn in 1884 and was one of the founding members of the NEAC. His signature is a letter-base with some of his handwriting to the reverse. 2. Samuel J Lamorna Birch (1869-1955), moved to Cornwall in 1892. (These first two signatures come with a covering letter from 1903, gifting to the two autographs to a collector). A signed slip of blue paper containing nothing but his autograph. 3. Arthur Tanner (1857-1916), painter and photographer, friend of Henry Scott Tuke and protege of Norman Garstin. He was one of the first artists to settle in Cornwall. A letter-base, rather crudely torn. 4. Norman… Read More

Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 28.5 × 22.5cm, 160pp. Signed and dedicated to the title page by Richard Grosvenor to Irish musician Courtney Kenny. An exploration of the architecture of Newport, Rhode Island, enhanced by watercolor paintings and architectural sketches. Condition: Good condition. There are some dimples to the front panel of the dustwrapper, light fading to the spine, and a very slight ripple to the pages.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 216pp. This copy comes from the library of one of the contributors, Professor Morton N Cohen, the renowned Lewis Carroll scholar, and loosely inserted in a handwritten letter from Jerome Buckley to him. In Nineteenth-Century Lives, ten distinguished critics consider what it means to narrate a life. Their illustrative texts are taken largely from biography, autobiography and the novel, but narrative is the broader genre that unites their inquiries. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, J Hillis Miller, and Phyllis Rose. Morton Cohen contributes a chapter on Lewis Carroll. Condition: Very good condition with one small tear to the wrapper at the head of the spine and offsetting / tanning to the ffep and half-title from the letter, and the envelope is heavily tanned.

London: Methuen, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 13cm, 225pp. One of the author's Breckland series of novels. Set in Norfolk, this book's theme is the reactions of a cross-section of village life to the miraculously sudden departure of the great winter of 1946. The author also wrote several crime novels under his real name, Christopher Bush. Condition: The book itself is in strong readable condition, with some light foxing to the page edges. The dustwrapper has small areas of loss to the bottom edge and creasing to the top of the spine but is now within a protective sleeve and has not been price-clipped.

London: The Bodley Head, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First UK edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 455pp. A Soviet historian who defected to the West when he was harassed by his Soviet superiors during a research sabbatical in Austria analyzes the structure of the Soviet ruling elite, the "Nomenklatura". Condition: Whilst this copy is in good shape and in a clean dustwrapper, the pages are quite heavily tanned.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977. First Edition. . Hardback. Good Plus/Good Plus. First edition. First English language translation. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 195pp + ads. This title was published in Progress Publishers' Socialism and the Developing Countries series, and pitches capitalism and noncapitalism, with the latter being the way forward based on Soviet experiences. Condition: This copy is in strong readable condition, but with foxing along the top edge of the cloth boards.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Gallery, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Paperback in wraps. 23.5 × 19.5cm, 160pp. Norman Cornish (1919-2014) set himself the task of recording what it was like to live in Spennymoor, a small mining town in north east England in the middle of the 20th century. He had little interest in anywhere else and the focus of his gaze has been sharp, true and unblinking. At the age of fourteen he began his working life as a miner at the Dean and Chapter Colliery and at sixteen he joined the Spennymoor Sketching Club, that enlightened educational and cultural project of the late 1930's that enabled a rich broadening of his artistic horizons. On his tutor Bill Farrell's advice, that he could do no better than paint the life he knew, he chronicled an entire way of life. Without diminishing the harsh realities of life and work, his paintings create a sense of time and place by depicting the lyrical qualities of his… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 159pp. Behind the high walls of a mansion in Geneva a night of sinister revelry is about to begin. In the staff quarters, the servants led by the cool, unflappable butler are preparing for the downfall of the Baron and Baroness. Meanwhile in the attic, the Baron's invalid brother awaits his fate as an unwitting pawn in their devious plans. And in the library, the Baron, the Baroness and their young handsome secretary are locked in a mysterious, heated discussion. As the macabre scenario plays itself out, a world of grim humour and gruesome possibilities unfolds. Condition: A good plus copy, but with a little wear to the wrapper along the edges and tanning / spotted foxing to the page edges. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown (George M Gee).

New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Good / Fair. First US edition, second printing. Paperback. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 112pp. Notes from the Gallows is a collection of notes written by the anti-Nazi, communist journalist, Julius Fuchík, originally on pieces of cigarette paper, while imprisoned by the Gestapo in the Pankrac district of Prague in 1942. He was executed in Berlin in September 1943. Condition: A reading copy. The covers are darkened to the edges, the pages a little dog-earred towards the end of the book and with some tanning to the pages but nevertheless remaining in good readable condition.