Search Results: Authors starting with V from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1951 Very Good/Fair. Octavo. 187 with appendices and index. Lively exploration of the cotton industry, with several dozen photos and illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Tail of spine browned, with corresponding large chip in jacket spine; jacket spine browned; one-inch tear on lower front jacket; small chips at ends on jacket hinges; price clipped..

Chicago: Occult Publishing Company, 1929. Valentino recounts his belated honeymoon trip to Europe, though his wife, Natacha, leaves early; including a visit to his home town & reminiscences of youth. Stated first edition (first printing), though first published as a magazine serial. Hardcover. Book shows some wear, institutional rubberstamp cross-stamped 'Withdrawn' inside each cover, name rubberstamped on title page & last page (at least); a few gutter gaps; jacket worn & torn with much internalmending & reinforcement, faded spine; flyleaf tanned from old newspaper clipping, now removed but for one small corner. Text clean; [313] pages + Henry van Dyke poem, introduction by Michael L. Romano. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Small Octavo.

Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 2007. A new translation/transcription of important medieval humanist Valla's oration, in which he used "new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule." Includes the original Latin opposite the English translation, and the text of the document being attacked, also in Latin & English. One of the publisher's I Tatti Renaissance Library series. Slim hardcover. Light wear to book & jacket, near fine. Text clean; xvi, 206, [1] pages; index, bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.

Milan: P. e G. Vallardi, 1835. 35 copperplate prints bound in a hardcover folder, cover detached. Published by the Vallardi brothers of Milan, undated, but about 1835. The Vallardis continued the business founded in 1750 by their father, offering maps and prints, with Guiseppe carrying on after Pietro's death in 1819; the firm was renamed Antonio Vallardi around 1920 and continues, as part of a conglomerate, to produce guide & reference books. Some of the images are remakes, sometimes reversed, of prints engraved by Peregrinus de Colle and Francesco Pedro, many from paintings by Venetian painter Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805) (mostly cited on the prints as Maiotto or Magiotto), originally published by Cavalli of Venice some 30-40 years earlier. Often they illustrate quotes from Virgil, Horace, & Voltaire. Includes I Destini Messi Alla Sorte [card players]; La Lettura Della Bibia [father reading to bored family, child playing with small dog]; L'Infanzia Dei Contadini [Dionysian… Read More

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1975. Memoir by the entertainer & pop star, "Unrestrained reminiscences through half a century of sweet and sour relationships with people, places, and performances"; SIGNED by the author on the free endsheet. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; one of Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle, though without the bookmark. Light wear to book; minor creasing to jacket; no names or marks apart from the signature.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954. Informal biography of the German-born Swiss patent examiner who later made some contributions to theoretical physics, winning the Nobel Prize in 1921. The author knew Einstein & family and here focusses on his personality more than his accomplishments. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first British edition (first printing), listing no later printings. Light wear to book; corners rubbed; doubly-price-clipped jacket shows some edgewear, chips, short tear, several spots on spine; ink name. Text clean; [6], 219 pages, b/w frontispiece portrait. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Children's fantasy of a challenging board game, basis of several movies; Van Allsburg's second book and first to win the Caldecott Medal, in 1982. Full green cloth, titling in copper-gold. First edition, first printing, first state jacket (date on title page, number string down to 1, $9.95 price on flap, no Caldecott seal). Light wear to book, minor cockling to endsheets from no obvious source; jacket has a long tear to the front panel with associated creases & small chip, another short tear & creases. Text clean; [32] pages, nearly every other one an exquisitely-rendered Conté pencil-and-dust illustration. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg. 11½" by 10".

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995 First printing. SIGNED by the author/illustrator on the title page. Light general wear to book & jacket; minor spotting (grape juice?) to top edges. Metaphysical cowboy crayon crisis!. Signed by Author. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg.

Delft: Delft University Press, 1980. Technical studies of hearing in humans & animals, including contributions from anatomists, physicists, psychologists & physiologists. Hardcover, full goldenrod cloth, black titling. Shows some wear, corners bumped & lightly rubbed; jacket spine faded, edgeworn with chipping, short tears; corner snipped off free endsheet. Typescript text clean; xvii, blank, 480 pages; index, tables figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7" by 9½".

's Gravenhage (the Hague): K. Fuhri, 1853. Rebound in full blue library buckram, perhaps in the 1960s, rather thuggishly, with trimmed margins and a tighter gutter, rendering the captions for some of the plates unreadable; gilt titling. Light general wear, a little foxing, stain affecting the upper margin of several of the plates, bookplate inside front cover, number stamped on rear free endsheet, most tissue guards for the plates have been removed; those that are still present are badly browned. 1 page ads for upcoming books from the publisher, xiv, [4], 276, 'Drukfouten' (printing errors) page; 13 bicolor lithographed plates, 6 of them folding; 3 maps, 2 of them folding; as called for. Scarce first edition, in Dutch, never translated into English, of this account of travel around the Island Celebes and the Moluccas, present day Sulawesi Island and Maluku; in Indonesia. . First Edition. Buckram. Very Good. 5½" by 9".

Provo, UT: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. Proceedings of the 193rd symposium of the IAU in Mexico 1998; over over 200 papers (including Poster papers). Shiny white hardcover, aqua titling and art. No jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, text clean. Seems barely used. 788 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Huizen, Netherlands: International Theosophical Centre Fair. Octavo. 16 pages. Subtitled "Four Talks Given at Huizen 1950-1957." Entire pamphlet was folded in half at some point so there's a long creases running down the middle of all the pages. Text is otherwise clean..

New York: Bantam Books, 1946. Reprint of this locked-room mystery, involving a wounded doberman & a shattered Chinese vase; basis of a well-regarded film in 1933, the year of its first publication. First paperback printing, Bantam 60, as pictured. Shows some wear, laminate chipping, gaps inside front & rear where cover is glued to binding; ink name on title page, paper tanned. Text clean; viii, 243, [5] pages; list of other Bantam titles, map endsheets. . First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 4¼" by 6½".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Later entry in the Philo Vance series, set amongst the horse-racing set, filmed in 1936 starring Edmund Lowe as Vance. First printing, with 'A' on copyright page. Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt titling. Light general wear, gilt a bit tarnished, ink name & dates + rubberstamped name & address on free endsheet; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, minor chipping & creasing, short tear; front flap too closely trimmed, removing the last letter from most words. Text clean; 332 pages + 8 pages offering brief synopses & reviews of previous Vance novels.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 5½" by 7½".

Chicago/New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1924. Eight stories of moral instruction, involving a wayward & a dour young pig, heedless boy with a magic magnetic hammer, a quarrelsome boy; weasel & possum treachery, an unwise grub aided by a pinching bug, a spoiled dog, a kitten with self-image issues. Hardcover, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), listing no later printings, code 10MA-24 on copyright page, the A signifying the first printing. Light wear, some rubbing, corners bumped, some internal staining, short tears & small chips to pages, paper tanned; subtle bookseller's label "McL" on front endsheet. Text clean; 109 pages; color or b/w line drawings on most pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Clarence Biers. 7" by 9¼".

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. Scholarly study of the rise of "Humanism" or "Ethical Culturism", which the author argues happened in parallel with the Reformation, shifting some cultural attention from God to Man, beginning in 15th century Italy. Hardcover. Light wear to book; bookplate (of Dutch scholar H. Houwens Post), tanned endsheets; jacket scuffed, rubbed & chipped, with short tears. Text clean; x, 406 pages; index, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Walker and Company, 1988. Author's first book, introducing New Mexico lady lawyer Neil Hamel, who here investigates the dubious adoption of a Mexican baby and blackmail of a potential congressional candidate. First printing (first edition) with full number string. Full pale blue hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to head and tail of spine; small smudge on top edge; orange marker stripe on bottom edge. Jacket is a little loose and folded slightly off center.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1953. Discussion of seven problems where science and philosophy intersect, from a thomistic standpoint, including the value of thomistic philosophy, extension of matter, verification, action at a distance, causality, differences between math & science. Duquesne Studies Philosophical Series 3. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, ink name, nick to spine; jacket tanned, scuffed, chipped & torn; top edge foxed & spotted. Text clean; xi, blank, 168 pages; indexes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7¼" by 10¼".

New York: American Artists Group, 1942. Words and music for seven popular carols; the introduction implies the book was intended to be sent to troops serving far from home in World War Two. Small hardcover, red covers. Shows some wear, light chipping, spine tanned; no jacket. Text clean; 30 pages, line drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hendrik Willem van Loon. 5" by 6¾".

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Scholarly study, noted as the first to successfully integrate modern German & Jewish history; one of the publisher's George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Van Rahden teaches at the Université de Montréal. Paperback, as pictured; light wear, minor bumping. Text clean; viii, 477 pages + list of other titles in the series; index, bibliography, notes, tables. . First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 6" by 9".