Search Results: Titles starting with N from WhoByBooks

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...an illustrated analysis of the art form called theatre.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A great read from a master story teller. From St. John's to Manhattan to the Arctic, Johnston " ...seamlessly weaves fact and fabrication, it continues the masterful reinvention of the historical novel...". As new in like dust jacket. Reading slip laid in. Inscribed: "for ___, Sept. 18\ 2002

Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. A foreword by Margaret Mead. B&W photos. Spine creased, edge wear with scrapes to cover.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. 2nd state orange DJ is rubbed with some edge wear and a quarter-circle closed tear (3 cm deep) at top rear near fore edge.

Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Part of the Amos Walker Series. Remainder mark o/w FINE.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 'The New Confessions' is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scots- man born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'The New Confessions' takes us from Todd's boyhood in Scotland to the trenches of World War I, to his fretful progress as film maker in the Weimar Republic, to deportation and exile in Mexico and the Allied invasion of St.Tropez, and finally to dark Hollywood days, and the obscurity of the blacklist, during the McCarthy era. 'The New Confessions' is told from the questionable vantage point of not-so-serene old age and self-imposed exile in the Mediterranean. Charming and exasperating, shrewd and foolish, vain and disarmingly candid, Todd lets us in on the secrets of his chaotic and beguiling life. 'The New Confessions' is one man's astonishing march through the… Read More

New York: The Yardstick Press, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. An Anthology of British and American Verse edited by Oscar Williams. Book has some discolouration/staining on cover and front/rear pastedowns, 1 cm gutter split at heel. PO 'Ex Libris' stamp on false title page - clean. DJ is in good condition, price clipped, chipping and minor tears. An excellent volume of selected early work by then contemporary poets who have since become very famous. Photographic portraits of the poets at the back.

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 21 contemporary poets from the Maritimes, with nine poems by Alden Nowlan. Tape stains to front/back end papers with minor dents to lower boards near spine. DJ has some edge wear. HCB is VG-.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The world renown activist's first book. Signed paper slip laid in. HCB has light bumps to upper board corners, else FINE. [oversize]

London: Faber and Faber, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The British edition (originally published by Random House in 1951) of this collection by this great 20th century poet. A very good book (substantial age related staining on front/back free end papers) in a price-clipped dust jacket that is slightly soiled and tanned on the spine.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectures. Sixth Series. Held at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, January, 1954. At the time C. D. Lewis was Professor of Poetry at Oxford university in England. From the DJ flap: "Freedom: dignity: responsibility. ... In these Lectures I am going to talk about three poets, each of whom, I believe, can enlighten us on one aspect of our three-fold subject. W. B. Yeats was much preoccupied with the idea of human dignity; George Meredith, in Modern Love, was absorbed by the problems of the individual responsibility; Emily Bronte was all her life consumed by a passion for freedom." Light bump to lower front corner with some sun to DJ spine.

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good Flexible green stiff board covers tied at spine with ribbon. Large gift inscription in pencil dated March 2, 1935. [oversize]