Search Results: Titles starting with N from Abacus Books

First Edition. Number 26 of a limited edition of 250 copies Signed by both Authors. Quarto. 335 pages. Half bound leather over cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Fine in a very good slip case.

More than 300 color and black-and-white illustrations by one of America's preeminent painters are collected here, along with illuminating text from the artist's letters, magazine articles about his work, and many other sources. The result: a fully realized portrait of a "golden age" illustrator. - Goodreads.com

"This booklet was designed and printed by Rosemary Waldrop in an edition of three hundred copies of which this is number 165." SIGNED by author on title page. Stapled wraps in a soft card dust jacket. 8 1/2" by 7" Unpaginated but 36pp.
Laid in is a postcard of a poem, "Shoe Music" by Ron Silliman for TUUMBA Press, signed by him and sent to Keith Abbott. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott taught writing and art at Naropa University. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

Staple bound pictorial wraps. 61 pages with diagrams and b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.For use as a handbook for instructors or as a textbook for students.

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Yellow cloth spine over black boards. B/W images from the inimitable Weegee.Book in very good condition. Unmarked with light shelf wear to covers. No dust jacket.

Tucson: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2002. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed on the title page by four of the Navajo Code Talkers. Gift inscription to ffep.

First edition. Soft cover in duo-tone wraps. Octavo. 65pp. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Very good.

New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Blind stamped and gilt decorative cloth publisher's binding. 12mo. [v] 202pp. with 11 color plates, some vertically fold-out, + 3 pp. publishers advertisements. Some wear and fading to cover. Two color plates loose. Faint moisture lines along edge of some pages.

Stapled wraps. Quarto. Twelve pages including three full page b/w illustrations by N. Zhukov. Translated from the Russian by Fainna Solasko. Very good.
A publication of the Soviet Children's Library For Tiny Tots which tells a story of V.I. Lenin visiting an orphanage outside of Moscow and delivering presents and good cheer. Propaganda in the form of a thinly veiled retelling of the Santa Claus folk tale.

Portland, Maine: L.H. Nelson Company, 1909. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Soft pictorial color wraps, center stapled oblong souvenir booklet consisting of an introduction and 47 pages of b/w captioned photographs.Staples rusted. Small tear to top edge of cover else very good.

First edition, third printing. Hard cover. Octavo. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on title page in blue ink "My greetings to J----- V--- / Philip Pullman" Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Carnegie Medal sticker to front of dust jacket which shows minor shelf wear and is intact.
In this, the first book in his compelling "His Dark Materials" trilogy, Philip Pullman has created a powerfully original universe, remarkable for its combination of electrifying action and heart-stopping emotion. - from the dust flap.

London: Methuen & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. E.H. Shepard. First printing. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Hardcover in dust jacket. Red cloth over boards with gilt decoration. Dust jacket worn with some loss to spine and top edge now stabilized in a brodart sleeve. Gift inscription to front free end paper.