Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Sensible Magpie

Princeton, NJ: Pyne Press, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. Previous owner's name to front cover and half-title page. Moderately soiled covers. Bumped lower spinecap. Light lifting to front corners. Black titles to spine, white titles to front of navy, white and gold illustrated cover. Numerous figures. Clean, bright and solid. 152 pp with index. With a new introduction by Charles V. Swain. This is an excellent volume on all things pewter. Its history, manufacturing, dating, reference, markings, collecting and more. Profusely illustrated in black and white.

Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1931. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Poor Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. This is a very fine volume which happens to have a poor dustjacket. Jacket now has mylar-protective wraps. Dark brown lettering to label affixed to spine of tan boards. Very clean, bright and solidly bound. Sixty-eight pages. Contents include : Song of Myself ; Pierrot To A Timid Lady ; Happiness ; To Earth ; T No.-- ; On The Beach -- A Fancy ; A Hymn To Indifference ; In the Study ; Spring Song Of The Unquiet Heart ; Pain-Song ; Spring-Beckoning ; Content ; A Bow To Folly ; Native Moments ; Shares For Beauty ; and Darts which includes 8 poems.

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1923. Hardcover. Fair. Shaken. Front and rear hinges started. Moderate shelf and edgewear. Corners bumped. A 1" tear to upper front spine. Spinecaps frayed and creased. Age-tanned. Red lettering debossed to spine and front of navy-blue, cloth-covered boards. Frontispiece with tissue overlay of William Honyman Gillespie. 716 pp with appendices and index. William Honyman Gillespie, (1808 -- 1875) was a Scottish Metaphysical Theist. This "is one of a series of volumes, and not the least important, in which [James Urquhart] has done so much to elucidate and modernize Gillespie's own presentation of his thought," (foreword). Volume includes a supplementary chapter giving the views of modern philosophers regarding space by H. R. Mackintosh.

NEW YORK: F. Tennyson Neely , 1899. Hardcover. GOOD . FIRST EDITION. This volume contains artful early examples of color photography, shot in the Phillppines during and after the U.S. military maneuvers which wrested the islands from the control of Spain. Billed as "pictures more perfect than oil paintings," these photographs have a similar quality to paintings, with the outlines of objects less defined than they would later come to be and one color blurring into another. 128 pp. Moderate rubbing to front and rear boards with some slight fraying at the edges. Light bumps to front and rear bottom corners. New endpapers were added recently; moderate rippling to the pastedown endpapers. Light soiling throughout the text block, especially the first 20 or so pages. Light wear to fore edge or bottom edges of several pages. Pages 11 to 22 have small chips or closed tears to the bottom edge, and pages 17 to 22 are joined together at one point along the bottom edge. Pages 3 through 16 are detached… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. No date. Suggestion as the cause and cure of nervousness, with chapters on creative thought, health, singers and performers, and speakers and preachers. 118 pp. Light rubbing to edges. Light bumps to all four corners. Half dime-sized spot to front board. Half-inch long brown streak to spine. Light scratching to front and rear boards, visible only in direct light. Stitching barely visible along front hinge, not loose at all. Clean and tight. Green cloth boards with black lettering.

Zurich, Switzerland. Hardcover. Fair. Men's choir book in brown and black three-quarter leather. Cloth separating, hinges started, but all pages present and still solidly bound. Previous owner's rubber stamped impression to all endpapers. Student's name in faded brown ink, with May, 1876 date. Also bears the rubber stamp of MANNERCHOR LUCHSINGE. Verso has a tiny trimmed (actual?) photograph of Ignaz Heim pasted-in. 312 pp.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. Large volume 9.75" x 11". Light foxing to rear endpapears and edges. Discoloration to spine. Tiny dent to bottom front board. Hardly noticeable curve to back board. A 1" closed tear down front cover of DJ at top spine and a .50" closed tear to top back cover near flap fold. Mild shelfwear and rubbing to DJ extremities. Aqua cloth-covered boards. Black lettering to spine. Blue stylized silhouette to brown DJ. 637 pp. Clean, tight, bright. A kaleidoscopic view of the methods that have been used to investigate neural mechanisms of learning and memory over the past twenty years: electrophysiology, quantitative neuroanatomy, electron microscopy, biochemistry, behavioral psychology, and information-processing mathematics. Perhaps the most remarkable fact...is that recent experiments have seemingly confirmed the susceptibility of the brain to actual physical and chemical changes as… Read More

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. HEAVY VOLUME. No dustjacket. Previous owner's name to FPDEP. Spine lean. Bottom corners, nudged. Mild shelfwear. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of deep red, cloth-covered boards. Glossy pages. Numerous black and white figures, illustrations. Clean, bright, binding solid. 813 pp with index. Clean, bright. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Volume 38. Papers submitted by each attendee on the subject of neuromuscular disorders. Written in five parts : Part I - Basic Structure and Function of the Motor Unit ; Part II - Experimental Pathology ; Part III - Basic Approach to Clinical Problems of Neuromuscular Disorders in Man ; Part IV - Clinical Problems ; Part V - Some Experimental Techniques of Promise in the Study of Neuromuscular Disorders.

Chicago: John A. Hertel, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. NEW ENLARGED VOLUME. Moderate wear to extremities. Front hinges started. Light foxing to endpapers. Age-tanned. A bit shaken. Corners worn, mild bumps. Black and white debossed lettering and design to spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards. Photograph of Charles M. Stuart on frontispiece. Illustrated. Eight color plates. Half-tones, engravings. Clean. 336 pp. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Introduction by Charles M. Stuart. The Bible presented in pictorial and narrative form. Stories told to bring meaning and understanding to children of all ages. "These, and many another picture of child life adorn the pages of this greatest of Books, and assure us that the Bible is indeed "for the child," and should therefore be brought easily within his reach," (introduction).

Piscataway, NJ: Winchester Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. NEAR FINE. Miniscule bit of edgewear. Dustjacket very good plus. Price clipped. Over 200 black and white illustrations. Four page color insert. 282 pp with bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. Starting with the most basic operation -- assembling the fly rod -- Talleur guides you through the requisite skills of the competent flyrodder.

London: Hogarth Press, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FOURTH IMPRESSION. Not clipped. Light age-tanning and foxing to edges. Spine caps gently folded under. Sunning to jacket extremities. Small chips and closed tears to jacket spine. Black lettering to faded green jacket. Gilt debossed lettering to spine of green cloth-covered boards. 240 pp. with index. Clean, tight. Translated by W. J. H. Sprott. "This book is a continuation of the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. It brings the original work up to date, and contains a great deal of previously unpublished material.

Chicago: Shattock & Mckay Co., 1909. Paperback. GOOD PLUS. Soft cloth covers rather worn and creased. Light edgewear with a couple tiny tears to spine ends. Small folds to corners of front cover and first half of pages, decreasing in size as it goes. Last third has very light tideline visible to edges. Soft covers with black lettering, decorated endpapers. No markings. With 6 pages of full color illustrated stained glass designs. Hundreds of excellent illustrations, diagrams and charts. 232 p with index by category. "Containing lists of standard openings of stock, rules for listing odd work, glossary of technical terms, etc. Adopted January 24, 1908, by the Wholesale Sash, Door and Blind Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest and the General Sash and Door Association." Begins with official grades of doors, windows, blinds, and woods admissible. Has directions for ordering, sizes of windows doors, blinds, and extras. Includes designs for store fronts, porches,… Read More

New York: Octagon Books, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. REPRINT. Very slight lean. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of burgundy cloth-covered boards. Photograph of Horace Greeley to frontispiece. Seven additional black and white photographs throughout text. Clean, tight, bright. 420 pp with notes on sources, footnotes and index. Foreword by Royal Cortissoz. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia. Founded by Horace Greeley in 1841, his editorial slogan was, "Spread the Truth". "The pages of the present work offer abundant evidence of the constructive energy with which that aim has ever since been pursued," (Foreword).

London: Cage Birds, 1955. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS in Fair Dustjacket. STATED FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name to front and rear endpapers. Gilt lettering on spine of orange, cloth-covered boards. Tan, illustrated jacket with open and closed tears under 4". With 8 colour plates including frontispiece and 10 black and white illustrations. 103 pp with glossary and index. Clean and tight. History of Canary Breeding with chapters on Inheritance in the canary, Colour in the Canary, Ground Canaries, Breeding for a Red Canary and more.

Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Faded spine extends a bit to covers. Black and white lettering to front of mauve colored illustrated covers. With fourteen pages black and white illustrations and photographs. Clean, bright, solid binding. 244 pp with notes and index. A fascinating look at a nation and the power of its press. "This is the first in-depth look at how newspapers and news-making practices shaped the representation of Native Americans, a contradictory representation that has carried over into our own time," (rear cover).

Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. SHARP. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to front, top edge. A 1.25" slit to near spine and small tear to upper edge of rear pane. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of wine-colored, cloth-covered boards. Eight page section black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 337 pp with bibliography and index. The first journalistic enterprise launched within Nevada's present boundaries was a small, handwritten sheet called the Gold Canon Switch, which appeared in 1854. Over the next 125 years, more than 800 newspapers started up in Nevada. But by 1979, only 70 were still being published. "This volume will be of value to historians ranging from scholars to the information only newspapers can give," (rear cover).

Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Moderate scuffing to board surfaces and edges. White lettering to green, cloth-covered boards. Two black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 199 pp. Foreword by Barry Bingham. "The story of Kentucky's newspapers is the story of our political, economic, and social life. It is the story of issues and answers, the story of life and death," (introduction).

NEW YORK, [1933] 1957. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Facsimile of the very first issue of Newsweek (then known as News-Week), issued in 1957 to commemorate the magazine's The magazine's 20th anniversary. It ceased publication in 2012.

New York: Pantheon, 2001. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

New York: Philomel, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Morgan, Pierr. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Tiny bumps to lower corners. Pictorial dustjacket very good. A bit of creasing to top edge of jacket but no tears! Illustrated glossy yellow boards. Colorful gouache illustrations. Unpaginated (29 pp). Clean, tight, bright. Will Kemp was the merriest dancer in all England. He boasted that he danced all the way to Norwich, which was one hundred and seventeen miles!!