Search Results: Titles starting with N from Irving Book Company

New York: Modern Library, 1961. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good, lightly worn unclipped jacket. Jacket lightly scraped, with some rubbing. Binding square and sound, text clean and bright, pages crisp.. 16mo. 5 x 7.125 in. 721 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 8, a.k.a. Blumenthal binding, in gray linen blocked in green; gray Kent endpapers. Presented in publisher's green pictorial dust jacket, with 403 titles advertised on verso and $1.95 price intact. 321.1.1H. Toledano 321.1.

New York: Butterick Publishing Company, 1890. Second, Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good indeed. Lightly soiled covers, moderately rubbed at extremities. Previous ownership signature to front flyleaf; moderate browning to margins of text. Binding square and tight, text otherwise unmarked.. 277 pp + [11] pp. of elaborate adverts. Original olive green pictorial cloth, stamped with gilt and brown. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black & white figures. An attractive and very serviceable copy of this Victorian production. 'So delicate with her needle.' --Shakespeare. 'The bright little needle -- the swift-flying needle, | The needle directed by beauty and art.' --Samuel Woodworth.

Athens: Organismos Ekdoseos Didaktikon Biblion, 1983. Later Printing. Paperback. Good. Small 4to. 256 pp. Original turquoise wrappers. Text in Modern Greek. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with sparse annotation.

London: William Innys, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Just about fine.. Crown 8vo. 4.875 x 7.5 in. [xii], 416, [4] pp. Tastefully rebound to style in full dark chocolate calf, with five raised bands & leather spine label titled in gilt; all edges sprinkled red. Dedication to the honorable Mrs. BERKLEY, whose patronage, writes Mr. ALTIERI, 'will, in a great Measure, recommend [his book] to the candid Acceptance of the Ladies, for whose Improvement it was chiefly intended'. Includes also a note to the Reader. Ferdinando Altieri was an Italian professor living in London. Two years earlier he had published his Dizionario, approved by Lowndes (though the present work is not there mentioned). Here we have a handsomely printed little work for e.g. English noblemen about to embark on their grand tour. ESTC T89754. A pristine copy of a very scarce volume.

New York: Pustet, 1888. Second Edition. Hardcover. Nearly fine. Light rubbing to crown of spine; two old-fashioned library stamps without other markings. Binding square & tight, text bright & otherwise clean.. Large 8vo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. xv, 304 pp. Publisher's full dark bluish green pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spine with ornamentation; floral patterned endpapers. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. A very nice copy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good only. Wrappers soiled.. Demy 8vo. 193 pp. Original aqua wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his ownership signature in year of publication to half-title; several annotations.

Paterson, Jersey: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1941. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light wear, light rubbing to extremities, crease to rear pastedown; a few dings to fore-edge of upper cover. Previous ownership signature to recto of rear free endpaper, with a few pencil markings. Binding sound, text otherwise clean and bright.. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. viii, 762 pp. + color maps & family record. Full black cloth, flexible boards, titled and ornamented in gilt on spine, all edges red. 'Translated from the Latin Vulgate. A revision of the Challoner-Rheims version, edited by Catholic scholars under the patronage of the Episcopal Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Translated from the Vulgate.'.

Freiburg / Montreal: Herder / Palm, 1967. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket, with a touch of edgwear. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 207 pp. Original black boards in blue & white dust jacket. Edited & translated by KEVIN SMYTH.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. As new.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xii, 488 pp. Original black boards, in glossy teal dust jacket. Text in Greek and English.

New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1960. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (University of Pennsylvania), with usual markings.. Crown 8vo. 284 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titles in gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his 1973 ownership signature to front flyleaf.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good indeed in very good jacket. Moderate spotting to endpapers, light spotting to edges; contemp. Blackwell's booklabel to bottom of front pastedown. Moderate toning to extremities of jacket and especially to spine panel. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. 8vo. 5.75 x 9 in. [viii], 287, [1] pp. Original red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in plain printed dust jacket. Chapters on Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Newman & the Oxford Movement, Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, etc.

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Spine very slightly cocked and a touch toned. Some light and occasional foxing to text, more moderate at margins and endpapers; contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, text otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. Gilt remains rather bright.. Demy 8vo. 347 pp. Original green cloth, titled and decorated in gilt on spines, top edge gilt. Volume IX of the Winchester Edition of the Novels of Jane Austen. 'The Winchester Edition has special claims to gratitude through the delightful quality of its print and paper. The print is of a generous design, and very black and clear, and the paper while untransparent, not so heavy but that the book can be held comfortably in one hand. Altogether this promises to be one of the most delightful reprints ever given to the public' (Spectator). An uncommonly nice copy of the charming Winchester Edition of Northanger Abbey.

(New York): Bollingen, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in good, price-clipped jackets; good slipcases. Jackets heavily toned at spine panels, some soiling and moderate wear. Volume 2 (Text) jacket more worn than the others, with a large closed tear to front panel. Slipcases moderately soiled and wormed, yet sturdy. Copious pencil annoation to endpapers, otherwise texts are clean and bright. Bindings square & tight.. Complete, two-volume set (in four books): Volume 1 1794-1804 Text and Notes, Vol. 2 1804-1808 Text and Notes. Large 8vos. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 546, 615; 478, 548 pp. Burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine with Coleridge's facsimile autograph in gilt to upper covers; blue top-stain, ribbon markers; in handsome typographic dust jackets printed in dark blue and burgundy. Presented in publisher's matching slipcases, with large affixed title labels. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1972 ownership signature in pencil to front flyleaves,… Read More

[Paris]: Enfantimages / Gallimard, 1982. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Lightly edgeworn & soiled. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Thin 8vo. 5.625 x 7.75 in. [28] pp. Glossy illustrated boards. Illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by GEORGES LEMOINE. Text in French. Yourcenar's sixth story from Nouvelles orientales ('Oriental Tales'), originally published in 1938.

Stuttgart: Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1932. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities, with Easter 1942 previous ownership signature to front free endpaper.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6 in. 661 pp. + color maps. The 15th edition of Nestle's New Testament in original Greek, with critical apparatus. Blue cloth, titles in gilt, with ribbon marker. A nice copy.

Bergen [Norway]: Chr. Stephansens forlag, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good only. Binding shaken, front hinge starting from top. Moderate edgewear, with closed tear at crown of spine. Most of text moderately browned; corner of p. 79 excised & laid in. No writing.. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.5 in. 288, [8] pp. Quarter-sheep over marbled paper. Scandinavian recipe book; or 'guide to the cheapest and best way to cook, stew, bake, salt, butcher, pickle and prepare the common dishes found in the home, etc.' Illustrated with several black & white reproductions, including frontis. of housewife & fish, as well as cuts of pig, calf, sheep, & ox. Text in Danish blackletter. Uncommon.