Search Results: Titles starting with N from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Literary Guild, 1930. Book Club Edition. Very good plus in custom slipcase.. Twice inscribed copy of this boldly illustrated shipwreck adventure story, inscribed by Rockwell Kent to Washington D.C. poet Ernest Kroll. The National Gallery of Art notes that, for Rockwell Kent, "exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, rural locales provided inspiration for both his visual art and his writings"; the results of this inspiration are on full display in N BY E. Kent's illustrations, which often depict the feeling of his adventures in Greenland rather than their reality, evoke the dreamy figures of William Blake passed through an Art Deco lens. This copy once belonged to noted DC poet and State Department employee Ernest Kroll. In a Thermofax copy of a response to a letter to Kroll, included in this copy of N BY E, Kent expresses amusement that someone writing on "State Department stationary" was expressing interest in his work: "the late… Read More

Kankakee, Illinois: The Bronte Press, 1997. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this petite biography of Brandywine artist N. C. Wyeth, produced by print collector and book artist Suzanne Pruchnicki. Suzanne Pruchnicki was 68 years old when she wrote, illustrated, printed, bound, and colored this little artists' book. A life-long collector of prints and presses, she operated a small museum in Kankakee, Illinois after retiring from teaching; N. C. WYETH: ARTIST OF IMAGINATION AND HEROIC VISIONS was printed on one of the museum's presses. It is quite a scarce title, with only 7 holdings located on OCLC. 2.75'' x 2.25''. Original hand-colored pictorial boards with paper title onlay. Hand-colored pictorial endpapers of a pastoral scene. Eight hand-colored illustrations tipped in. Unpaginated. Signed by Suzanne Pruchnicki to copyright page, numbered 2 of 65. Binding with a hint of toning.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this small-town Kinsey Millhone mystery, which finds the PI embroiled in local intrigue after the death of a detective who left a number of untied loose ends regarding the murder of a petty criminal. The success of the Kinsey Millhone books inspired a generation of writers to create their own casually badass heroines, to the delight of millions of readers. 9'' x 5.75''. Original two-tone boards. Original unclipped ($25.00) metallic color pictorial dust jacket. 290 pages. Signed by Grafton to title page. Jacket with a hint of rubbing. Sharp.

(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition in English of this collection of four of Nabokov's short stories: An Affair of Honor, Lik, The Vane Sisters, and The Visit to the Museum. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original tan cloth with black lettering. In original unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket. Green endpapers. 104 pages. Minor wear and faint toning to jacket panels, with light scuffing to top edge.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel. 9'' x 6.25''. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In original unclipped ($15.00) brown typographic dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Gold endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. xii, 346 pages. Spine of book and jacket sunned, else clean and sound.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First edition. Fine.. First printing of eight stories of Jewish life in Poland for children. Quarto. Original cloth. In original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Zemach with black and white line drawings. 129, [1] pages.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1953. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Scarce inscribed first edition of this hardboiled midcentury novel by the screenwriter and author of JOHNNY GUITAR and THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU. Chanslor's knowing novel of love and commerce is the tale of a man who has, in his own words, "written so many movies that when the chips are down he acts like a movie," and a valiant and professional Twentieth Century Wife doomed to lose at her own game to "a middle-aged child, the All-American male infant." As charming as possible, under the circumstances. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth. In original unclipped ($3.00) pictorial dust jacket by Paul Galdone. 248 pages. Inscribed by Chanslor on front free endpaper: To Clarence / With best wishes, Roy Chancslor / 11/10/52, Encino, Calif." Boards scuffed at extremities; spine a bit sunned. Two ownership stamps to rear paste-down. Light chipping and a few tiny closed tears to jacket; minor soil to rear jacket panel.

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2009. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this story about the importance of dressing however you want, and why wearing (or not wearing) clothes shouldn't stop you from having fun. Mo Willems's art is minimalistic and expressive, hilarious and earnest. He began his career as a writer and animator for SESAME STREET, for which he earned six Emmy Awards - his successful shift into children's literature is not surprising. Willems's picture books have earned three Caldecott Honors, two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medals, and he was named the Kennedy Center's first educational artist-in-residence in 2019. 7'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($16.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. Unpaginated. Signed by Willems to copyright page with original drawing of the MOLE RAT. Card of paper doll dress-up stickers loosely laid in, complete. Jacket with shallow crease to rear joint. Clean and bright.

London: Seagull Books, 2018. Fine in fine jacket.. First English-language edition of these works by the Francophone Djibouti poet, warmly inscribed by translator Carlson to poet Stanley Plumly. 8.5'' x 5''. Translated from the French. Original black boards. In original dust jacket. 76 pages. Inscribed by Carlson on half-title page: "For Stan - Thank you for your poems & for mine. Gratefully & with love, Nancy / Frederick, Maryland June 16 2018." Additionally signed by Carlson on title page. Minor edgewear.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. First edition (stated). Fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter beige cloth with gilt-stamped blue boards. In original unclipped ($24.00) dust jacket. 336 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Light edgewear, rubbing to jacket.

Alexandria, VA: VSP Books, 2001. Second printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed early printing of this charming story of the experiences of a grey tabby cat who heads to the beach one warm summer day. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Peter W. Barnes to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild edgewear. Bright.

Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners, 1881. Fine in very good plus jacket.. Early Larssen illustrated book - in rare original dust jacket. Perhaps Larsson's first book, illustrated with engravings not at all characteristic of his later style - not unexpectedly, as it preceded his famous ETT HEM of 1899 by nearly 20 years. Quarto. Original white cloth, elaborately stamped in black and gold. In original printed dust jacket. Illustrated with 17 small and two large page engravings. Text in Swedish. Jacket lightly chipped.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition (stated). Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First printing of Malamud's debut novel, inscribed in the year of publication. A bright and attractive copy of the classic midcentury baseball fantasy, drawing on the American secular mythology of the game as well as the legend of the Fisher King and the quest for the Grail; while the shooting of Roy Hobbs draws on a real historical incident involving a Philadelphia player. The basis for the acclaimed 1984 film starring Robert Redford and still the best-known of Malamud's works. Uncommon signed, and scarce inscribed. 8'' x 5.25''. Original gray cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket. Issued with gray, red, and blue boards; no priority established. 237, [1] pages. Pen inscription to front free endpaper: "For Fred / with all good wishes / Cordially / Bern / August 1952". Boards lightly sunned and worn at extremities; front joint with minor crack starting.… Read More

New York: Horizon Press, 1954. First edition. Near fine in like jacket.. Correct first printing of this architectural monograph on the modern American home. Focused on the American home and infused with postwar optimism, THE NATURAL HOUSE is what Wright scholar Robert McCarter called "perhaps [Wright's] most straightforward and sincere writing." Uncommon in its true first edition, and scarce in this condition. 10'' x 8''. Original tan linen boards featuring facsimile Wright signature in red and black with "54." In original printed unclipped ($6.50) dust jacket. Textual endpapers printed in red. 223, [1] pages. Book has touches of toning to extremities. Jacket has fainting rubbing with trace edgewear. Uncommonly sharp and bright overall.

Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1900. Very good plus.. First and only edition of this rare alphabet book, published the same year as Baum's breakout WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Early in 1900, Baum and Denslow's illustrated book of rhymes, FATHER GOOSE, became a surprise breakout hit as the best-selling picture book of the year. Its success paved the way for four more books by Baum the same year, including the NAVY ALPHABET and THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. The luscious color plates of the NAVY ALPHABET, and indeed, the entire conceit of the work, was meant to piggyback on the success of Baum's book before Baum's meteoric rise as the creator of Oz. Very scarce in this condition. 12.25'' x 10''. Original quarter red cloth, paper pictorial boards. Leaves printed on rectos only, each with a large color-printed illustration by Harry Kennedy below alphabetical text in verse lettered by Charles Costello. Slight cover soil, edges rubbed a bit as usual, front hinge and corner of front blank endpaper repaired; a… Read More

Chicago: M.A Donohue and Company, 1912. Very good.. Pre-war American children's book in lovely Progressive-era style. Octavo. Original pictorial boards. Illustrated by the author with great full page color illustrations. Some edge rubbing.

Zwolle: Erven J.J. Tijl, 1934. First edition. Very good plus.. Rare and gorgeous album of 12 color plates by Sjoerd Kuperus, with commentary on the birds of the Netherlands by famed naturalist and conservationist J.P. Thijsse. With striking Art Deco cover design featuring monumental captials and stylized birds within an orange and black frame. 12.25'' x 14.5''. Original brown cloth spine with pictorial boards. 49, [1] pages. Illustrated with twelve lithographed plates by Kuperus. Minor edgewear and scuffing to boards at extremities.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Very good in very good minus jacket.. Early printing of Clement's story of a teen who unknowing hosts a parasitic alien life-form, issued as part of Doubleday's Young Moderns series following the publisher's first edition. 8'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($1.00) pictorial dust jacket. 222 pages. Ink owner name to front endpaper. Scuffing to boards at extremities. Light edgewear and some chipping to jacket at spine ends; light foxing to rear jacket panel. Page toning with occasional faint foxing. Jacket bright.

New York: William Morrow, 1930. Very good plus.. First edition of a very early work by Edgar D'Aulaire, pre-dating THE MAGIC RUG. The story is a fantasy tale of twins who travel to a fairy land. Most copies found are Junior Literary Guild copies bound in all cloth. Scarce. 8.5'' x 7.5''. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Illustrated by D'Aulaire with beautiful full-page color lithographs. Edges rubbed and cloth a bit darkened.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this tense murder mystery, following the only Black woman member of a police department who must contend with the racism of her colleagues while trying to find her boyfriend's killer. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black boards. Original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 314 pages. Inscribed by Wren to title page "Especially for Linda." Color pictorial promotional postcard loosely laid in. Jacket with a hint of edgewear. Binding with a touch of bumping to top of spine. Clean.