Search Results: Titles starting with N from Second Life Books Inc

NY: Vinking, 1977. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 285. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in scuffed dj.

Boston: Beacon, 2000. First printing. 8vo, pp. 782. Edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle. Translations by Dmitri Nabokov. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, some of the latter in color. Fine in very slightly scuffed dj. Heavy.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 214. A nice copy in chipped and price-clipped dj.

Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta / Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2005. 8vo, pp. 602. Index. Maps. In German. Paper wraps. Very slight creases at corners of cover, o/w about as new. Translated from the English, "Unfinished tales.

Mainz-Leipzig: B. Schott's Sohne, 1922. 4to, pp. 114. Stamped "Fritz Reiner" on cover and on first page of music. Brown paper wraps. Cover little soiled; interior looks unused; slightly yellowed, but no markings. VG.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 148. Illustrated. Errata slip laid in. A nice copy in some scuffed and soiled, price clipped, dj. A screenplay.

NY: Grove, 1966. First Evergreen "Black Cat" edn. 8vo, pp. 255. Little rubbed paper wraps, (lacks the black corner of the first leaf). With the 2-page Evergreeen card advertisement, all edges stained red as called for. With the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and excerpts from the Boston Trial. This was first issued in Paris, in 1959. Maynard & Miles A2d. The edition adds the "Naked Lunch on Trial" and expanded version of an article which appreared in Evergreen Review. (See C118). The sinister drug crazed novel gathered from scraps of paper scattered about Burroughs' Tangiers apartment. Much of this was typed by Kerouac who gave the book its title. Because of censorship problems, the US publication was delayed and when it was finally issued, copies were confiscated by various authorities. Defended in trials in Boston and LA, Naked Lunch was a ground breaking book in helping to eliminate censorship in the US.

NY: Harpers, 1928. First edn. 8vo, pp. 383. Illustrated with photographs. A nice tight copy in little worn and yellowed dj. Scuptor, traveler and novelist, the author was unconventional and daring, giving the English, as the book jacket says, "one shock after another.

(San Diego CA): (San Diego Printing), 1926. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 114. Fronits portrait tipped in. Blue paper over boards, cloth spine, paper label on front. Unopened. Cover little scuffed at edges, spotted on spine, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1933. First US Edn. 8vo, Pp. 50. VG.

Madison, WI: Landlocked Press, 1984. 1/250 copies. Concertina biding in aq continuous wrapper of Canson Mi-Tientes. Illus. by Katherine Kuehn. Dedication copy: "for these too--the Pauls, Metcalf & McDonough.": Somewhat rippled. Selected poems from a larger work in progress, Travels Into the Interior.

Winston-Salem, NC: Jargon, 1988. First edn. Large 8vo, pp. 289. Illust. by Philip Guston. A nice copy in slightly faded dj. Poems.

Boston: Little Brown, 1980. First US Edn. 8vo, pp. 192. Nice copy in dj. OP. * A biography of the first woman to sit in Britain's House of Commons. Born in Virginia, Astor travelled to the UK and married Waldorf Astor in 1906.

NY: Tousey, 1864. First edn. small 4to, Pp. 36. Cloth backed boards, a BPL duplicate. This satire of life in New York City has the bookplate of Henry B Anthony, journalist Governor and US Senator(1858-84) from Rhode Island. In verse.

NY: Abrams, 1996. 4to, pp. 207. Chronoloby, bibliography, glossary, index. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. With 203 illustrations, including 188 color plates. Published to accompany an exhibition. Fine in slightly bumped dj.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 340. Illustrated with 20 inserted photographs. Blue cloth, with fancy stamping in dark blue and gilt. TEG. One hinge loose, owner's bookplate on pastedown, o/w VG.

NY: St. Martin's, 1973. First American edn. 8vo, pp. xiii, 173.Illustrated. Brown cloth. Edges little soiled, cover little scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy.

Lexington, KY: Thomas Smith, 1823. Small 8vo, pp. 311. ("Two volumes in one"). Calf. Cover worn, some ink stains on title, a few inner pages and dedication page, front flyleaf missing. O/w a VG tight copy. Imprints 13636. Barry Edward O"Meara (1786-1836). Physician to Napoleon on St. Helena, born in Ireland. He served in the British army, and was on board the "Bellerophon" when Napoleon surrendered to Captain Maitland. He accompanied the Emperor as his private physician to St. Helena, took part with him in his squabbles with the governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, was imprisoned and compelled to resign his post, and in 1818 was dismissed from the service.

NY: Appleton, 1867. First American edn. Large 8vo, pp. 301. In double columns. Illustrated. Translated from the German by F. Jordan. Maroon cloth. Front flyleaf missing, list of Muhlbach's novels pasted in there. Cover faded and slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY: Barnes & NOble, 1995. First printing. 8vo, pp. 104. Translated from the French by Liet.-Gen. Sir G. C. D'Aguilar. Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine.Near fine.