Search Results: Authors starting with N from McNaughtan's Bookshop

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. 378. Original black cloth, front board blocked with VN monogram in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge yellow, dustjacket printed in black, yellow and pink. Dustjacket just lightly soiled, a little bumped, spine panel sunned. Nabokov’s final Russian novel, written between 1935 and 1937.

[s.l.]: [s.n.], 1878. Small broadside (185 x 250mm), woodcut vignette below title, text in two columns. Poor-quality paper chipped and somewhat toned, a few tears touching title, larger area of loss to one margin clear of text. A scarce and fragile broadside of patriotic doggerel, to inspire Englishmen to ‘arrise [sic] with heart and hand, And sweep the cowardly Russian bear from off the Turkish land.’ With reference to Crimean war battles at ‘Inkerman, Sebastopool and Balaclava too,’ it likely dates from the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, when British warships were sent through the Dardanelles to aid the city of Constantinople, although the signing of the Treaty of San Stefano on March 3rd 1878 ended the conflict and obviated the cause for this ‘probable war’. Poorly-printed with numerous compositing errors on thin paper, this is an unlikely survivor and we have not been able to trace any copies in any collections. Although last line… Read More

London: Collins, 1957. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 192. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, dustjacket. Dustjacket a bit creased and torn at edges, with a small area of loss at foot of spine. Bookseller’s label to front pastedown. One of Needham’s last published novels, an example of the ‘Ruritanian romance’ genre that made up the majority of her writing for teenage readers.

Londini [London]: Sumtibus Rodwell et Martin; [et al.], 1819. 12mo, pp. [iv], 114, [ii], 95, [3]. Contemporary vellum, boards framed with double gilt rules, spine divided by double gilt rules, black morocco labels, other compartments with central decorative lozenge tools gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A few minor spots. Binding just slightly soiled.

London: Walker Books, 2011. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, pp. 214, [2]. Original boards printed in black and blue, dustjacket printed in black and silver. Dustjacket just a touch bumped to top edge. The first edition of a modern children’s classic, winner of both the Carnegie Medal (for the writing) and the Greenaway Medal (for the illustration) in 2012.

Edinburgh: A & J Aikman, 1816. Elephant folio, ff. [174 (of 176)]. A run from issue 773 to 866, lacking 16 issues (789, 802, 816-7, 822, 827, 830-1, 833, 837, 840, 842, 844-5, 851, 864) and with the second page of two issues of the Star (773, 828) torn out, and a couple of corners torn away with loss to text. Early nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label, another compartment dated in gilt direct. Variable soiling and spotting, some wear to edges, leaves at beginning and end rather creased vertically. Binding rubbed, joints cracking at ends but strong, rear flyleaf mostly torn away, marbled paper partially worn from boards. Almost all issues with red tax stamp, first issue with early ink note for the binder in upper margin, some ink corrections in the text. An almost-complete year of issues from the Edinburgh Star, a twice-weekly paper ‘popular with the working classes’ (Edinburgh History of… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. FIRST EDITION THUS, 4to, pp. [iv], 22. Original yellow boards printed in colour, yellow dustjacket with same design. Foot of spine gently bumped.

London: Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1812. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [ii], 396, [2, errata] + 39 engraved plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Plates toned and spotted, a little soiling elsewhere. Somewhat crudely rebacked, black leather labels, hinges relined, old leather rubbed and scratched with some wear to corners. Armorial bookplate of Robert Warden to front pasetdown along with his gift inscription ‘to his friend John Urquhart’ dated 1824. An explicit imitation of Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises of the 1680s by Peter Nicholson (1765-1844), the prolific Scottish architect and engineer. It was a popular and influential text, especially in the USA where it was reprinted beginning in the 1830s. There are suggestions that the first edition was in 1811 but no evidence of this seems to have survived if it did exist.

A Copenhague [Copenhagen]: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. FIRST FRENCH EDITION, 4to, pp. [ii], xliii, [iii], 372 + 25 engraved plates and maps (three with hand-colouring, a number of them folding) and 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. One plate (XXI) shaved at fore-edge, a touch of minor spotting. Leather worn (especially at joints) and showing insect damage, label mostly defective, cords weakening but boards held. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the astronomer, naturalist, and sole survivor of the malaria-stricken Royal Danish expedition to Arabia in the 1760s. This, his first book, was initially published in German the previous year and contains a number of important maps and much significant information, including the first European mention of Wahhabism. The plates include depictions of the mosques at Mecca and Medina.

London: Harrison, Bookseller to The Queen, 1860. FIRST EDITION, early issue, 8vo, pp. 79, [1]. Original dark brown limp pebbled cloth boards, boards bordered with triple blind rules, front board lettered direct in gilt. Spine rather nibbled, front joint correspondingly weakened, boards somewhat mottled. An early printing of Nightingale’s enormously influential nursing book, first published in 1860 and reprinted frequently over the following decades. This copy has ‘[the right of translation is reserved]’ on the title-page, ads to the endpapers dated 1860, and 5 of the 6 issue points identified by Bishop & Goldie as denoting an earlier printing. The sixth issue point, the corrected heading on p.73, is noted as potentially later, being found in both states in copies with all other corrections made. But in this copy, that ‘later’ correction is accompanied by the other five in the earlier, uncorrected state - perhaps disproving the assumed… Read More

Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1902. FIRST EDITION, NO. 11 OF 19 LARGE PAPER COPIES, large 8vo, pp. xii, 236, [2] + frontispiece and 12 plates with printed tissue-guards. Partially unopened in original red cloth, boards blocked centrally in gilt, spine lettered direct in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A touch toned. Boards soiled and marked, spine ends bumped. Inscription to flyleaf: ‘L.P. no. 11 of 19 Printed, Eneas Mackay’. A local history compiled by Inverness bookseller John Noble (1833-1897), with a bibliography of Inverness periodicals reprinted from Scottish Notes and Queries. The ad hoc limitation statement is signed by the publisher.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. FIRST EDITION, NO. 727 OF 1,250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [viii], 286. Largely unopened in original tan buckram, spine lettered in gilt, thick japon vellum dustwrapper printed in red. Dustjacket chipped at head of spine panel. Printed on japon vellum, with an engraving by Stephen Gooden.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. NO. 7 OF 1,800 COPIES, 8vo, pp. [vi], 163, [1] + hand-coloured (through stencils) frontispiece. Original quarter black cloth, marbled boards. Edges rubbed, spine ends bumped.

[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1934. NO. 7 OF 1,000 COPIES signed by the author, 8vo, pp. [iv], 123, [3]. Wood-engraved frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, glassine dustjacket with printed gold flaps. Dustjacket chipped with loss to head of front and rear panel, flaps creased.

London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 vols., 8vo, ff. [195]; [185]. Contemporary tree calf, spines divided by gilt rolls, green and red morocco labels, other compartments with cornerpieces and central star tools enclosed by circles all gilt. Some light toning and spotting. Extremities rubbed, spine ends a little worn, joints cracking but sound. Armorial bookplate of J. Kirkby to front pastedowns, with his ownership inscription also. An attractively-bound copy of this copious reference, compiled by John Noorthouck (1732-1816), also known for his history of London (1773). ESTC T136129.

London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, 1821. 10 vols, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], xxviii, 794; xii, xlii, 684; x, 721, [1]; xviii, xxxvii, [i], 841, [1]; viii, lxxxvii, [i], 659, [1]; xxv, [i], xlviii, 728; xix, [i], 786; xxii, 791, [1]; [iv], v, [i], lxx, 776; [vi], xxxix, 764. Contemporary biscuit calf, boards bordered with a blind roll inside a double gilt rule, spines divided by wide raised bands, green and red morocco labels (’Ballantyne’s Novelists’ and a vol. number on green, a list of titles in each vol. on red), other compartments with central flower tools within corner sprays all gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A little minor spotting. Bindings rubbed, extremities worn, several joints splitting (but all sound). Armorial bookplates of Alexander Grant to front pastedowns, over that of James Webster, small bookseller’s stamp of Williams Library Cheltenham to verso of flyleaves. A complete… Read More