Search Results: Authors starting with V from The Wild Muse

Paris: A. Lahure, 1898. First edition. Beautifully bound in fine three-quarter Morocco leather in heavy boards with raised bands, gilt titles and intricate spine designs, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilting, ribbon marker bound-in. Published Paris: A. Lahure, 1898, printed November, 1897. Folio, 10 1/4", 13 1/2", 172pp., illustratred with 24 tissue-guarded intaglio engraved plates and 236 vignettes engraved in the text. A reference monograph on the painter Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille who specialized in military scenes and was regarded as as the "semi-official artist of the French army." Minor foxing on edges of page block, else a near fine, stunningly bound, attractive copy. . 1st. Three-Quarter Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.

NY: The Geological Society of America, 1951. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: The Geological Society of America, 1951. 8vo., vii+151pp., illustrated with figures, fold out tables, 14 folding maps in rear pocket. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Fine, pristine copy with pristine fold outs. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Buffalo, New York: Western New York Heritage Institute of Canisius College, 1993. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Buffalo: Western New York Heritage Institute of Canisius College, 1993, first printing. 4to., 99pp., illustrated with full page color reproductions, color pictorial endpapers. Fine in very good dust jacket with bump creasing/tear on top edge of front panel. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

NY: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harper & Row, 1980, first printing. 8vo., x+470pp., illustrated with tables. Minor rub at extremities, else fine. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, first printing. 4to., 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", xiv+231pp., richly illustrated with period photographs. "History of the American movie theatre, tracing its evolution and exploring its role in American culture and architecture." Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1991. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1991, first printing. Oblong 4to., 12 1/4" x 11 1/4", 192pp., illustrated with full color photos of James Valentine. Text by James Dickey. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

NY: Wittenborn and Co, 1946. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Wittenborn and Co., 1946. 4to., 8" x 10 3/4." xiv+180 pages, illustrated with 139 plates. Spine sunned with some sunning along edges of covers, else very good, clean, tight, unmarked.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Paris: Privately Printed, 1948. First edition. Hard cover in pictorial boards and old acetate dust jacket. Published Paris: Privately Printed, 1948. 4to., 10" x 12 1/4", unpaginated, illustrated with 35 episodes - full page plates with accompanying text line of a city girl's adventures in the country. Pictorial paper covered boards with paper backed spine. Boards are edgeworn, hairline split to the paper spine covering with loss at the crown. Spine and binding tight and secure. Good plus in good plus, clear dust jacket with tears/loss at the extremities. . 1st. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.

Great Britain: Paper Tiger, 1995. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Great Britain: Paper Tiger, 1995. 4to., 9 1/4" x 12 1/4", unpaginated. Full page black and white and color images of the human physique. Near fine in very good dust jacket. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Astoria, NY: J. C. & A. L. Fawcett, 1989. First edition thus. Reprint of the 1923 edition. Trade softcover. Published Astoria, NY: J. C. & A. L. Fawcett, 1989. 8vo. wrappers, 146pp. Very good. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933, first printing, with "A" and Scribner seal. 8vo., 307pp., with 6pp. ads. Black cloth with pink titles. Light rub to the publisher lettering at heel, some fade to the gloss coating on cover cloth, else near fine. Pages clean and bright, page block straight and tight. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: Hill & Wang, 1973. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Hill & Wang, 1973, first printing. 8vo., xxv+95pp., printed on laid paper. Gray cloth with gilt spine titles. Line of sun fade to the cloth along top and bottom edges, dust foxing to tope edge of page block. Very good, clean bright, in very good minus dust jacket with old tape repair on front cover, several short, closed tears. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo.

Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1922. First and only edition. Dutch language travel guide to Garut and surroundings. Hard cover in limp pictorial cloth. Published Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1922. Large 8vo., 6 3/4" x 9 3/8", 267pp. plus full page ads at front and rear, publisher's catalog, illustrated with tipped-in color frontis, one additional color plate, numerous b/w photos, translucent fold out plans, six partly colored folding maps in rear pocket. Some darkening to areas of the cloth, spine lettering dull, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good plus, unworn, pages clean and bright. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: Appleton Century Crofts, 1950. Revised Edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Appleton Century Crofts, 1950. 4to., 8 1/2" x 11." xix+99 pp., illustrated. Green clothe with gilt titles. Front fly leaf lacking, light soiling/wear, spine lettering somewhat faded. Binding tight. Very good minus. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986, first printing. Folio, 10 3/4" x 13 1/4", 224pp., lavishly illustrated with full color photographs. Observations and photographs of wildlife activity in East Africa. Near fine in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio.

Garden City: Author, 1942. First edition. Published Garden City: Author, 1942. 16mo. white paper covered boards with color cover and end paper designs by the author. Illustrated in full color by the author. One inch long hairline separation along the lower front cover hinge. Very good.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo. Illus.

Waterloo, Iowa: Fred L. Kimball, 1919. Second Edition. Published Waterloo, Iowa: Fred L. Kimball, 1919. 8vo., 297pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads, illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles. Spine titles faded, pages moderately aged-toned, name on fly leaf. Very good minus. . Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/8", 357pp., beautifully illustrated with 95 full page, full color plates and b'w reproductions within the text. Pale green cloth with green titles, green patterned endpapers. "Joseph Prestele (1796-1867) was a flower painter and a master of lithography, the technique of engraving on stone. Skilled in painting and botany, he produced work of aesthetic and scientific value. His three sons, Joseph Jr. (1824-1880s), Gottlieb (1827-1892) and William Henry (1838-1895), followed in his footsteps." Fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

Bowling Green, Ohio: C.S. Van Tassel, 1896. First edition. In original pink card covers with corded string. Published Bowling Green, Ohio: C.S. Van Tassel, 1896. 4to., 9 1/4" x 11 7/8", 136pp., illustrated with numerous b/w photos, portraits, capsule biographies. Slight chipping loss to the cover at corners, sun bleaching to most of the pink shading on front cover and a band of fade across the top or rear, light soil to both covers, else very good. Internally clean and sound. Very scarce in original covers. Only eleven copies in World Cat. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

NY: Carroll & Graf, 2003. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Published NY: Carroll and Graf, 2003. 8vo. wrappers. Near very fine.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.. Galley/Proof.