Search Results: Titles starting with N from Better Read Than Dead

Detroit: Michigan District Unemployed Councils, 1930. Printed handbill with text to recto only. Folded vertically to middle; some short tears at , perimeter not affecting text; toned and creased; some penciled calculations (seemingly a budget of some sort being worked out) to verso. Very good.. 1930 handbill illustrating the plight of the unemployed in the onset of the Great Depression and urging for organization and attendance of all unemployed workers for the National Unemployment Convention to be held that July in Chicago. The bottom section holds a blank form for labor organizations to send notice regarding their delegation size, after calling on "all workers, organized and unorganized, in unemployed councils, trade unions, shop locals and committees, local industrial leagues and groups to send MASS DELEGATIONS TO THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONVENTION AT CHICAGO JULY 4th AND 5th! In preparation, send three (3) delegates to the MICHIGAN DISTRICT UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, at 7:30… Read More

New York: Free Ranger Tribe / Birth Press, 1971. First Edition. 4to, side-stapled newsprint self wraps, 63 pp. Very Good, some toning, chipping to roughly cut newsprint edges. Collaged news clippings and various other images and text pair with Tuli's poetic provocations, with every curation earmarked by his constant irreverence, intellect, and humor.

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Coimpany, 1971. First printing. Softcover, mass market, illustrated wraps, 248 pp. Very good, rubbing to spine lettering, minor spine creasing, wear at head and tail; lightly creased around joints of wraps, lightly worn and rubbed around edges with additional minor creasing to corners, lightly toned and soiled edges. Cover illustration by Earnie Kollar; design by A. Marshall Licht.

Kitchen Sink Pr, 1989. No Binding. Near Fine. Light edge wear, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight binding and clean, bright pages free of marking or spotting. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

London: Clarendon Press, 1899. Hardcover, 6 5/8" x 9 7/8", maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 87 pp. Good, ex-library copy, wear to cloth boards all around, with withdrawn stamp to title page and circulation stamp to rear end paper, soiling to free end papers. Global history of the musical bow as instrument and tool by British composer, teacher and musician, Henry Balfour Gardiner.

Philadelphia: Printed for and sold by the author, 1821. The Fourth Edition, "Considerably Improved and Enlarged. Leather bound octavo (8-1/2 in): contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. 416 [2] 92 pp. Very Good, remarkably square binding, calf rubbed at extremities, pushed bottom corners, front board bowed, pp 267-272 dog eared, foxed throughout, soiled text block, else a handsome and well-preserved copy, especially strong for its age.. Gorgeous tree calf binding on this copy (Volume 1 only) of Dufief's groundbreaking tome for a new system of teaching the French language to English pupils. Dufief (1776-1834) was a French National who emigrated to England and then America, where he became an educator, bookseller, author, and correspondent with many notable people of the time such as Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Priestley.

Boston: Branden Books, 2012. Pre-Publication edition. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 4to, 576 pp. Very good, written on cover wrap in sharpie, 'Pre-Pub. Edition'.. This book presents a universal script, Navlipi, designed to express all the world's languages.

New York: New York University Press, 1965. 8vo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine in pictorial jacket, 246 pp. Very Good, slight cock to spine, light fraying to tail corners, some shelving and handling wear./Fair jacket, significant amount of chipping, including one large 2" chip at tail of spine and onto front and rear jacket panels, chipping and tearing along front panel and front flap, long tear with some chips missing through entirety of jacket spine, soiling, held together in protective mylar jacket,.

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. Hardcover green cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 213 pp. Very good, light wear to cloth/Very good, lightly faded and soiled spine with chipped ends, chipped and worn edges with some soiling and displaced sections on back. Jacket design by Herbert Temple. The Negro Politician was one of three books authored by Ed Clayton in 1964 along with

New York: International Publishers, 1938. 8vo, green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, 222 pp. Good, ex-library with resultant stamps and lending card affixed to rear pastedown, significant amount of wear and rubbing to edges and corners of boards with a good amount of fraying, separation at hinge between rear board and spine, fading to edges of boards, otherwise text is clean and unmarked./No jacket..

Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. Library Edition - First Printing. 4to. Green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. 224 pp. Good, sound binding slightly cocked, some fray to corners and spine, rubbing to spine, gilt lettering slightly faded, toned leaves, previous owner inscription to front free endpaper.. Stated First Printing of this early treatise on Black artists and Black representation in visual art by the groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance scholar on the subject.

New York: Grove Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], yellow cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 301 pp. Very good book, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, about 40 pages of text block annotated and under-lined by literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; dust jacket very good, spine ends worn, edges chipped and creased with close tears, flaps creased. Cover design by Kuhlman.

Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, 2003. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 4to, 592 pp. Near fine.

New York: Midwood Enterprises, 1972. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 176 pp. Very good condition, wraps soiled, toned text block.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover, brown paper boards with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 4to, 280 pp. Very good/Very good jacket. Jacket photography Thomas Hollier.

New York: Holloway House Publishing Coimpany, 1974. First printing. Softcover, mass market, in illustrated wraps, 216 pp. Very good, light shelf wear, bruised head of spine. Donald Goines 1974 novel, first printing by Holloway House.

New York: International Publishers, 1970. Third printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], in illustrated paper wraps, 156 pp. Very good. Editor photograph by Kathie Bauch. Contributions from Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Calvin C. Hernton, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, Don L. Lee [Haki Madhubuti], Audre Lorde, N.H. Pritchard, Sonia Sanchez, and contributions from authors that are equally as great as the above.

Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, up to 50 pages in text block under-lined with annotations from literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers rubbed, edges and corners worn and rubbed, edges creased/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the… Read More

Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chipping and some creases; seams of flaps worn and creased with chipped corners. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the subject of commemoration in his work, In the wake of a 3… Read More

Los Angeles: Stealth Publications, 1982. Velo-bound [quarto] in blue printed card stock wrappers. 122 pp. Very Good, with some toning and soiling.. Comprehensive guide to establishing fake identity documentation and practice, clandestinely circulated and printed, often advertised in the back of "Soldier of Fortune" magazine.