Search Results: Authors starting with V from TBCL The Book Collection Library

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1891. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Vacher, Francis. STORY TOLD TO A CHILD. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1891. First Edition, Presentation Copy from the author Dr. Francis Vacher. "From the author to .". Original illustrated beige paper covered boards. Small 8vo. 82 pp. + 2 pp. of Opinions Of The Press + 1 pp. of adverts. An early mystery with brigands and robbers. Hubin. Crime Fiction IV. A Comprehensive Bibliography. 1749-2000. A very good example showing moderate use. 1 tear on the title page archivally repaired with Japanese paper by our conservationist. "Two English travellers in the Hartz mountains - a gentleman and his wife - by accident put up at an inn in a lonely place where was hiding the notorious robber chieftain Adelbert Ferdinand Boberfeld Burmeister". - The British Medical Journal, February 7th 1891. Very early & very uncommon. Rare signed.

Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1939. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Vaillancourt, Emile. KNOTS. Inscribed. Introduction by T.S. Ewart. Montréal: G. Ducharme, 1939. First Edition. First edition / édition originale.Decorated wrappers, 12mo. pp. 178 [9]. 2 plates. text illus. index. Signed presentation copy inscribed on the half title: "Pour T.R.P. RECTEUR / Du Collège Jean de Brébeuf / respectueuse hommage Emile Vaillancourt / Outremont, le 5 Sep. 39". Ex libris Collège Jean de Brébeuf with stamp on the title-page stricken through, unstamped neat pocket in the rear. A very good copy.

New York, N.d. [1943]: Valentin Publishing, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author(s). Advertising flyer c. 1943 from the Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, promoting original etchings & facsimile reproductions of major art works. Perhaps the most interesting items are the books; Andre Masson's Anatomy of My Universe, limited to 330 copies for $6 - with an original etching $18 - Kathe Kollwiz's Ten Lithographs portfolio, $6 - Twelve bronzes by Jacques Lipchitz, 35 copies numbered & signed, $18 and so it goes. Cream stock , 8vo., 8" 1/2 x 11" folded once, in near fine condition - one small tear repaired. Quite uncommon.

Paris: Ronald Davis, 1925. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Valery, Paul. AN EVENING WITH MR. TESTE. Translated by Ronald Davis. Avec une préface inédite de l'auteur. Paris Ronald Davis, 1925. 8vo. / In-8°, 51-(5) pp. Wrappers/Broché, Première tirage de la traduction établie par Ronald Davis avec une préface inédite de Valery [10 pages]. Un des 200 exemplaires numérotés à la presse sur vergé de Rives, après 2 exemplaires sur vieux Japon et 6 exemplaires sur Japon impérial. Très bel exemplaire. One of 200 numbered copies. A fine example. KARAISKAKIS et CHAPON no. 49.

Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1926. First Edition. First Edition. COMMERCE, Cahiers Trimestriels, Cahier X, Hiver MCMXXVI [1926], Paris. No. 1447 out of the edition of 2900 copies A section contains the first appearance of "Les Temps Passe," a 42-page extract, translated by Charles Mauron from Virginia Woolf's *To the Lighthouse. Brown wrappers, quarto, 200 pp., VG save for slight browning at spine and edges, Uncut pages. Woolf's contribution is at pp. 89-133, this section of "To The Lighthouse" was sent in typescript to Charles Mauron for translation prior to publication, Mauron was Roger Fry's friend and collaborator on the Mallarme translations, the actual Hogarth Press text varies which predates the publication of the book itself" - *Kirkpatrick* D44]. Also included are the works of Nietzsche - André Suarès - Paul Valéry. - Bruno Barilli - Jules Supervielle - Léon-Paul Fargue- Pierre de Lanux. - and of course VIRGINIA WOOLF A very scarce and early appearance of the variant draft… Read More

Paris: Adrienne Monnier, La Maison des ami des Livres, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Valery, Paul. LITTERATURE. Paris: Adrienne Monnier, La Maison des ami des livres, 1929. Petit in-4, 57pp. Broché. Edition originale tirée a 304 exemplaires. Un des 225 ex. num. sur vergé Lafuma. KARAISKAKIS et CHAPON no. 137.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo., pp. 384. Yellow topstain. Hiram Shaw, alias Badger Heart strayed from a wagon train at age 12 to become in the end the son of Thunder Shield & then the second Thunder Shield, Cheyenne to the core but still White to the quick. A tale of the West & of its History, encompassing the vaster conflicts of massacre & retaliation & betrayal, up to the supremely dramatic moment when Custer makes his last at Little Big Horn. This is a rare near fine copy, lettering gilt having migrated a bit on to the delicate pastel green cloth at the spine, in a near fine dustwrapper reinforced on the back with neat pieces of brown paper strips carefully glued at the folds. A bright copy crudely but remarkably well preserved more by instinct than archival knowledge. A handsome book.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first issue of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and the second Philo Vance mystery. A near fine copy in black cloth showing some light use, green titles and decorations in a very good priced-clipped second state pictorial dustwrapper showing moderate use. Adapted into film with William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as the 'Canary'. A reasonable copy of the author's classic whodunnit. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime.

Toronto: Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon First Canadian Edition of the seventh Philo Vance mystery. A near fine copy in black cloth, red titles in a bright, fresh very good or better pictorial dustwrapper with some overall use. 8vo. 311 pp. 'The Van Dine novels retain an inexplicable charm that keeps them remarkably popular even today, 62 years after the last one was written. He manages to solve the most complex cases in an utterly fair manner, and The Dragon Murder Case is no exception.' --Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, March 2000. Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights. Barnes, Murder In Print. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Van Greenaway, Peter. MANRISSA MAN. London: Gollancz, 1982. First edition. 8vo., A fine fresh copy in dustwrapper.Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-563.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Varaday, Desmond. DOVE OF ISHTAR: The Story of Semiramis. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt at the spine. 8vo., 277pp. A fine copy in a very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of very tiny chips at the spine crown. A very uncommon title. "Semiramis was a famous Assyrian Princess, who reigned over Babylon for forty-two years and laid the foundation in 800 BC for Assyria's later ascendancy as a world power". Her legends were fabulous.

New York: Caterpillar VIII, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stabled olive green wrappers. 8vo., 12pp. First edition of the Anglo-American poet's second book. [issued as the seventh Caterpillar monograph, a series of publications edited by Clayton Eshleman] One of three hundred copies printed. A fine fresh copy.

New York: Dutton, (1999), 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of Alfredo Vea's third novel, winner of the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award For Fiction, following Vietnam vet Jesse Pasadoble, Signed by the author on the title-page. 8vo. 320 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 black cloth over gray paper covered boards, copper titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. "One Of The Best Books Of 1999." The Los Angeles Times.

Paris: Albert Messein, 1925. First Edition. Soft cover. Maurice Guy-Loé. Maurice Guy-Loé. First Edition. Soft cover. Decorated wrappers / Couverture souple. 8vo., 76pp. A fine copy /Très Bon Etat - in the glassine. Illlustrated by Maurice Guy-Loé / illustrator) Number 30 of 50 examples only printed on Japon subscribed by René Kiefer with an extra suite of plates at the rear / contenant une suite des illustrations tirées à part. Very Nice.

Boston: Geo. Smith / Osgood, 1873. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Verne, Jules. TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Custom Custom Clamshell Case. [Not A Book] Gilt stamped & decorated dark sea green leather spine over custom sea green marbled paper sides, red velour interior. In very fine condition.

New York: Spivak, 1947. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition of this Paperback Original. Perfect-bound digest-sized wrappers. An excellent near fine or better copy. A collection of short stories about a department in Scotland Yard that solves long dead crimes. Queen's Quorum # 104 & Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. One of the few paperback originals with such distinction. A bit dusty but near fine & very uncommon. An excellent example.

Virginia: Privately Printed, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Vickers, Captain Reginald J., M.C. A PLEA FOR SANITY IN THOTOUGHBRED RACING. Inscribed. Virginia: Privately Printed, 1962. Quarter brown cloth over beige cloth covered boards with yearling photo on the cover in about very good condition showing moderate use. 8vo., 55pp. Signed & dated by Vickers on the front free endpaper followed by another signature of N. Stalle date 1963 as well. Included is 1 1/3pg. ALS dated Aug. 29th 1963, The Plains / Fanquier County / Virginia USA / addressed to: Sir Wintringham Stable / Edgbaston, Birmingham, 15. [UK]. A chatty letter about "the spotsman owned thoroughbred fast becoming overruled by thoroughbred industrialists" & the readyness of three year olds to race with references to equine physiology. An interesting item. Contains a plea to eliminate early training of horses so that they are not broken down at an early age. Includes: They Deserve Better Treatment,… Read More

London: Faber And Faber, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of these mystery short stories with selections from the author's highly-regarded, The Department Of Dead Ends, inclusive of his first, The Rubber Trumpet. 8vo. 256 pp. A near fine copy in blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine, bright, fresh, pictorial dustwrapper with some very light soiling. Barnes, Murder In Print. Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights.

New York: The Zero Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, (only one thousand copies printed), of this early collection of short stories by master storyteller Gore Vidal. 8vo. 154 pp. A near fine copy in 1/4 beige over black cloth, (previous collector's tiny discreet name to the front free endpaper, small bookseller's ticket affixed to the front pastedown), black titles to the spine in a very good or better neatly price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of small closed tears neatly, archivally mended. "Mr. Vidal can command as many characteristic styles as his themes suggest, for he is that comparative rarity among American authors, a man of letters." The Boston Globe.

William Heinemann: London, 1953, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First UK edition. 8vo., 353pp. A fine copy in a very good pc dustwrapper showing a couple of tiny chips, a 1/4" chip & a closed horizontal tear at the top of the back panel.