Search Results: Authors starting with V from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Mexico: Direccion General de Publicaciones, 1966 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Black and white and color illustrations. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket.

Paris: Editions du Chene, 1950 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Bookplate. Very good+ in dust jacket with internal tape repairs. Former owner's rubberstamp on inside of d.j.

San Francisco: John Howell--Books, 1980 First edition. One of 2,500 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Cloth. Folio. With 42 plates, most in color. Fine in partially faded, lightly soiled, very good dust jacket.

Lewiston, ME: Bates College Museum of Art, 1999 One of two hundred copies printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Signed on the colophon by Claire Van Vliet. A trade edition was also published. Hand-bound in boards, the front board covered with a proof of an original Claire Van Vliet print (9" x 11") and with exposed spine sewing. Inscribed on the colophon: "For John and Margaret Class." . Oblong quarto. Numerous illustrations including lithographs, vitreographs, drawings in charcoal-pencil and ballpoint pen, watercolors, and more. A fine copy housed in publisher's dark gray board slipcase. Printed on the occasion of titular travelling exhibition, this work is not only a catalogue. Spanning over four decades, and several continents, with over thirty representative prints, In Black and White presents the chance for many people to see an aspect of Van Vliet's work that isn't as well known. Various mediums were used to illustrate the book. McLean guides the reader through the artist's… Read More

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1973 Jpanese paper boards with printed paper spine label. Tall octavo. A fine copy.

[Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 2001] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Color phoitographic reproductions of California landscapes. Fine in fine d.j.

Paris: Chez les Frères Barbou, 1727 Second edition of a conduct book that first appeared in 1712. The preface states that this edition has been so greatly enlarged, reorganized and corrected that it is virtually a new book. . Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, edges stained red. Twelvemo. . One inch splits along front and back joints near head of spine, binding extremities a bit worn. Old ink signature on title-page, a few small stains. A good, clean copy. Cioranescu describes Varennes (?-1745?) as chaplain to the king and Abbé of Landévennec. In this book, he looks at the behavior of a number of fictional characters (Agenor,"petit maitre, étourdi, sans jugement"; Elvire, "fille d'une grande vertu, & qui fait par cela même tant d'[honneur à son sexe"; Utime, "homme à qui l'ambition à tourne la `tête"; etc.) in order to discuss good and bad conduct.

New York: Harper & Row, [1975] First edition in English of the author's first book. Cloth. Octavo. Edges a bit foxed, minor soiling. Very good in near fine dust jacket with slight edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, [1968] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket with three short tears at head and foot of spine. Unfaded and not price-clipped.

Amsterdam: Gouverneur de Charles D'Autriche qui fut Empereur Cinquième du Nom. H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, First edition. Contemporary panelled calf , gilt spine. From the library of Eaton Hall with the bookplate of Sir Richard Grosvenor, and signed by him 1707. Twelvemo. . 1684. Joints cracked, terminal blank detached. A good, clean copy. This is a biography of Guillaume de Croy, Seigneur de Chièvres (1458-1521), focusing on his relationship with the young Charles I of Spain (Emperor Charles V, 1500-1558), who was his pupil. Charles, who became the greatest of the Hapsburg Emperors, was only sixteen when he ascended the throne, and he appointed Guillaume as his prime minister. Guillaume served in that capacity until 1521. He offended the Spaniards because of his preference for the Flemish, and because of his avarice.

Allen and Unwin, 1915 Cloth. Octavo. Spine faded. Otherwise very good.

London: George Allen & Company, 1914 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, Distributed by Abrams, [1994] Cloth. Oblong quarto. With 187 illustrations, of which 94 are in color. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, 1861 OCLC records one copy under this imprint (Vassar) and eight copies under the imprint of C.A. Alvord, in a larger format with a variant title (Vassar, AAS, Trinity College in Connecticut, New York Historical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, British Library, and UC Davis). We have been unable to determine priority for the imprints. Original buff paper wrappers printed in black. . 24 pp. With large title-page vignette. Minor dust soiling to wrappers. Front cover loosening at head of spine, though still firmly attached. A very good, clean, and attractive copy of an uncommon item dating back to the founding of Vassar College, the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. Vassar College was founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar (1792 – 1868). Following in the footsteps of Elmira College, which was founded in 1855, Vassar became the second college to grant degrees to women… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1951 First edition thus. Cloth. Octavo. Edges lightly foxed, small scrape on bottom edge. Very good in dust jacket with some chipping and fading.

London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759 First edition in English of the first history of California, which "gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America," (Hill). The original Spanish edition was published in 1757. . Contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked to style preserving the original red and green spine labels. Spine stamped in gilt and with raised bands. Two volumes, octavo. With four engraved plates (including both frontispieces) and a folding map of Baja California. The plates in volume one are "Women of California" and "Men of California" (frontispiece); plus "The Cayote or Fox" and "The Taye or California Deer." The plates in volume two are "The Manner of Curing the Sick in California" and "Sorcerers of California" (frontispiece); plus "The Martyrdom of Father Carranco" and "The Martyrdom of Father Tamaral." Some rubbing to extremities and some light chipping to lower board of volume two.… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1971] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1961] One of 1,000 copies. First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 115 illustrations. Fine in dust jacket with some light edgewear.

London/New York: Phaidon, [1972] First edition in English. . Red cloth with gilt spine. . Quarto. With over 264 illustrations in color and black and white. Text in double columns. A fine copy in dust jacket with one small tear, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. A classic survey, with lavish illustrations and with contributions by twenty-five noted scholars.

London: Chapman & Hall, [1946] Second printing. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in dust jacket. Jacket chipped at head and foot of spine.