Search Results: Titles starting with N from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

London: IDEA, 2016. A fine copy. Color photographs. Printed black wrappers. One of 300 copies, signed by Willy Vanderperre and dated January 11, 2016. 128 pages of film stills from Vanderperre's film about Belgian Youth.

Chicago: Chicago Review, 1958. Some light wear and toning at extremities, but a very good copy. 8vo. 88 pages. Printed wrappers. Containing chapter two of 'Naked Lunch.' This was the second appearance of any section of the novel in print, following the Spring issue of the journal. For those keeping track, the headline above the text contains the misprint "William C. Burroughs." "The 1958 appearance of a Naked Lunch excerpt in the Chicago Review created a scandal that ended in the resignation of the magazine's two editors, Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll. The controversy was initiated when an editorial review by Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley, appeared under the title 'Filthy Writing on the Midway.' Mabley objected to what he called "'obscene' writing in the University of Chicago's literary magazine. Published alongside Burroughs in the Chicago Review were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other young and… Read More

The New American Library, 1972. A near-fine copy with some light wear to corners. 11 x 9.75 inches. 60 pages. Illustrated with color photographs. Pictorial wrappers. "Good health and a tranquil mind!" A classic early 70s document, lavishly and artfully illustrated with color photographs. Introductory text describes various yoga postures, and the images illustrate correct execution, with further textual explanation.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. A fine, well-preserved copy. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing, $13.95 price on inner jacket flap.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Light shelfwear. 8vo. 291 pages. Original printed wrappers, the front cover die cut in shape of the leaves on the cover. Advance uncorrected proof, signed by Lahiri. With a circular TLS laid-in from Houghton Mifflin's marketing department "Enclosed please find an autographed special edition galley...

[San Francisco]: [Four Seasons], 1964. Fine. Broadside. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Matted. FIRST EDITION. The broadside reproduces Snyder's calligraphy and includes his date and signature in the print. One of 300 copies sold at a reading by Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen at Longshoremen's Hall is San Francisco on 12 June 1964. McNeil A7.

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co, 1849. Binding rubbed at extremities; some spotting internally. 12mo. 166 pages. Engraved frontispiece of "The Ship Boston Taken by the Savages at Nootka Sound," small cuts in text. Contemporary sheep, leather spine label. Later edition (the first was n.d., but before 1815). Pilling 1987; Sabin 36123 ("A popular book, compiled from Jewitt's "Oral Relations." by Richard Alsop. Another edition edited by S. G. Goodrich, "Peter Parley." 12mo, pp. 259. It affords us many particulars concerning the life and habits of the aborigines. A vocabulary of the Nootka language occupies four pages.").

Hartford: Loomis & Richards for George Sheldon & Co, 1814. First American edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Prince Koutousoff, two large folding engraved maps (the first with irregular folding creases and 3-in. tear crossing image). (Some foxing.) Contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. First American edition, complete with frontispiece and both maps.

Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, Fred A. Rosenstock, 1965. 4to. 160 pp. Facsimiles in pocket at end. Original cloth. Labels on spine and cover slightly worn, otherwise clean and bright. FIRST EDITION, number 106 of 500 copies signed. Wynar 5742.

Ipswich: W.S. Cowell for The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. A few chips to glassine, otherwise fine. Folio. Illustrated by John Nash. Original morocco-backed decorated boards; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by the Earl of Cranbrook.

New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1959. First. 8vo. Original cloth (spine lightly sunned); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, soft crease to inner flap). First edition, first printing.

InterBooks, 1985. A fine copy in a near-fine slipcase with a few marks. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase. FIRST EDITION.

New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Spotting to edges, some light soiling. 10.25 x 10.5 inches. 140 pages. Illustrated in color. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy with slightest of soiling to wrapper, otherwise virtually untouched. 8vo. [12] pages. Original cloth; plain orange wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Roth, of the first Targ Edition. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.

New York: The Grolier Club Piccolo Press, 2006. A fine copy. 9.25 x 11.25 inches. 212 pages. Photographs by Tom Grill. Patricia Cloth with image mounted on front; slipcase. First Edition. Catalog of the exhibition that took place from September 13 - November 4 2006.

New York: Knopf, 1951. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine cloth a trifle faded, jacket slightly darkened on rear cover. 8vo. Original light blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. One of 3,000 copies. Stevens' first book of prose, containing his selection of essays and speeches on the art of poetry, and on the relationship between the imagination and reality. A very good copy. Edelstein A17.a.1.

Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. Some chipping to sheet edges, characteristic light browning, expected light handling wear. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). Woodcut frontispiece. [4], 208, [2], 536, [10], 24, 82 [i.e., 83], [1] pages. Contemporary calf (lacks clasps and straps). The second edition of a hymnal for the Reformed Dutch Church, including some music. Evans 9495; Hildeburn 1896.

Frankfurt: van Dùren, 1749. Some wear to binding, small areas of worming along spine, light browning of text, one plate with short tear at one fold and some browning along another, otherwise a clean copy, the plates in generally fine condition. Volume one (of 34) only, 4to (24.5 x 20 cm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece (caption shaved), title vignette, and 7 engraved plates, of which four are folding. Contemporary German half calf, speckled paper boards, morocco lettering pieces on spine. Monogrammed bookplabel on front pastedown. The first volume of Loen's extensive illustrated collection of travel narratives, histories, and fables.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Frontispiece map, illustrations in text. Original green black-decorated and gilt-lettered cloth. Some wear at ends of spine, front free endpaper partly loose, hinges cracked, but a fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. Contains some material on road agents and stage coach robberies. Adams, Herd 1016; Adams, Six-Guns 468.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First edition. Small nicks to bottom of dust jacket, otherwise fine. 8vo. 160pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket.