Search Results: Authors starting with V from Lighthousebooks, ABAA

Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1978. Octavo, yellow stapled wrappers, 37 pp. Near-Fine, with faint soiling to covers.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1995. First Edition, As Stated. Oblong quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), [56] pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, full-color illus. dust jacket. From jacket: Come enter the amazing art of Boris Vallejo! Stare deeply into his extraordinary images and be transported to a multi-dimensional world where sea creatures leap off of the page and body parts float through space...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1985). Author’s signed bookplate attached to ffep. Oblong quarto, burgundy cloth (hardcover), silver letters and illustration to upper cover, [32] pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Late one Christmas Eve after the town has gone to sleep, the boy boards the mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives, Santa offers the boy any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the harness of the reindeer. The gift is granted. On the way home the bell is lost. On Christmas morning the boy finds the bell under the tree. The mother of the boy admires the bell, but laments that it is broken -- for you see, only believers can hear the sound of the bell. In strange and moving shades of full color art, Chris Van Allsburg creates an otherwordly classic of the Christmas season. The Polar Express evokes the same sense of mystery as his previous imaginative… Read More

Pineapple Press, Inc., (1991). First Edition, Review Copy, with Publisher’s advertisement enclosed. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), xi + 180 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing to page edges. From lower cover: For over 20 years Marian Van Atta has been introducing tropical and subtropicla foods to Americans through her newsletter and syndicated newspaper column. In this book you will find fruits, vegetables, herbs, and wild edibles you can grow in your own backyard -- or a sunporch or greenhouse if you live in a cold climate. You will even find out how to raise quail, not to eat but to provide you with their delicious little eggs. You will find drawings, descriptions, growing instructions, recipes, seed and plant sources for over 100 of these plants, including the Surinam cherry, mango, avocado, lychee, carmbola, roselle, macadamia, carissa, persimmon, calabaza, chuffa, horseraddish tree, and chayote, You;ll find that exotic dining is healthy and can save on your… Read More

Eburon Delft, 2000. Octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), 160 pp. Fine.

Philadelphia: The American Rivera Association, 1915. Reprinted October, 1915, from the Journal American Medical Association, Vol. IV, 1885, Page 536 ff. Octavo, paperbound (stiff stapled white wrappers), 11 pp. Near Fine. “Peninsulas have always been sought by mankind as favorite residences, and have been visited in winter by those living in cold, inland countries, as resorts for health. Excluding the peninsulas of the Indian Ocean and those of the Far North, the six great peninsulas of the earth are: Greece, Italy, Spain with Portugal, Florida, Central America and Lower California. There are many well-known smaller peninsulas on the Mediterranean, in France and Italy, which have climates peculiar to themselves...

The St. Augustine Historical Society, (1959). Octavo, paperbound (stapled red illus. wrappers), 72 pp. Mailing label applied to lower corner of upper cover; otherwise, a Very Good+ copy with minimal edgewear. From upper cover: An accurate account its colorful existence through Four Centuries.

Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwrpen, 1977. Octavo, paperbound (slick orange & white wrappers), 112 pp. Very Good+, with lightly soiled & rubbed covers.

Denver, Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Ltd., (1973). First Edition, Stated. Quarto, hardcover (textured, illus. boards), full-color photo. illus., 272 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner stamp; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Una van der Spuy is one of the best-known writers on gardening. In this, her ninth book, she gives us a wealth of information in concise, non-technical language which will appeal to amateur gardeers as well as those who have years of experience. In addition, to help the gardener make a choice of shrubs, the author has compiled charts indicating which shrubs flower during different seasons of the year. They also show at a glance, which shrubs are suitable for different climatic conditions, which grow in shade, which have decorative foilage, which are suitable for screens, hedges, rock and pebble gardens and for growing in containers; which have scented flowers and which provide material for arrangements. All home-owners in Southern Africa will… Read More

Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1997. Octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), 192 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Dit is het verhaal over de bijzondere belevenissen gedurende de jaren 1935 tot 1955 van een zeeofficier die zich niet voetstoots bij alles heeft willen neerleggen. Joop van der Meij, geboren in Luttenberg in 1910 en opgevoed in Nederlands Oost-Indie werd in September 1931 beedigd als luitenant-ter-zee der derde klasse. Hij diende o.a. bij de Onderzeedienst in oost-Indie. Tijdens de Spaanse burgeroorlog was hij betrokken bij konvooivaren in de Straat van Gibraltar...

Uitgeverij Pirola Schoorl, 1993. Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo illus. boards), 120 pp. Fine (As New).

New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1935. Quarto, red pebbled boards (hardcover), illustration of Sallie Mandy in a sunbonnet and with a cat and rag doll on upper cover, [64] pp. Illustrated in full color. Contents: The Story of Little Sallie Mandy; Little Sallie Mandy and Tommy Whiskers; Little Sallie Mandy and the Shiny Penny; Little Sallie Mandy at the Farm; Little Sallie Mandy’s Christmas Present.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover)l gilt letters, xiv, 534 pp. Ex-libris, with usual markings; binding tight and text free of any markings.

New York: The American Angler, 1884. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth with gilt-stamped fish and title on front cover, viii, [9] - 177, [vii ads] pp. Plates. Good; minor cover wear, hinges very tender.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1978). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xii + 270 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Between the oscilloscope operator’s manual and the actual application of the instrument to the problem at hand, there’s usually a significant information gap. This compact but comprehensive new book is the first to fully bridge that gap with all the up-to-date information you need to make optimum use and get the best results from these versatile modern tools. Whether you’re using the oscilloscope for traditional electrical and electronic measurements or for applications where purely mechanical methods have been used previously, chances are you aren’t making the most of its numerous applications features and capabilities.

New York: Twayne, [1972]. Twayne’s World Author Series No. 220. First Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 197 pp. Fine in dust jacket.

The Hillsborough County Bar Association, (1996). Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), 94 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Historian Kyle VanLandingham, a meticulous researcher, has written a lively and fascinating account of Law and Lawyers in Hillsborough County over the past 150 years. From the earliest days, when Tampa settlers tangles with military authorities at Fort Brooke, to the present period of sophisticated legal skirmishes, the book holds steady interest for lawyer and layman. In Pursuit of Justice takes a dispassionate look at the way the legal profession has influenced Hillsborough County events.

Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cream boards, gilt letters, 454 pp. Former owner signiture, otherwise Fine in a like (As New) dust jacket. Contents: The Problem and its Universality; Stuttering: Its Definition; The Prevalence and Incidence of Stuttering; The Onset of Stuttering; The Development of the Disorder; Phenomenology: Overt Features; Phenomenology: Covert Features and Loci; the Self-Concepts of Stuttering; The Severity of Stuttering; Types of Stutterers; Stuttering as a Neurosis; Stuttering as a Learned Behavior; Organicity in Stuttering; Stuttering as a Result of Disturbed Feedback; The Nature of Stuttering: An Attempted Synthesis; Subject Index; Author Index.

New York: Privately Printed, 1948. One of 625 copies, designed by Carl Purington Rollins and printed at Yale University Press. Octavo, gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, 68 pp. Color photos, b&w photos, illus., map endpapers. Fine; spine very slightly faded.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Second Edition. Oblong quarto, blue illustrated cloth (hardcover), illus. endpapers, full-color frontis., illus. throughout, 40 pp. From Foreword: This is a book which mothers and fathers will sit up to finish, after the protesting child has been dragged firmly off to bed. Nobody who is once well along in this book well let the fortunes of Evert and Afke -- and even more particularly, perhaps, of Simon -- rest in uncertaintly until tomorrow, except such members of the household as have no choice in the matter. For this is more than just the charming account of certain Dutch customs, a description of what happens in the winter in Holland when there is ice on the canals; this is a good story. The children whose acquaintance you make in A Day on Skates are real children, not puppets; you will meet in these pages no dull little Miss Good, no tiresome little Master Naughty; these are real children, and they are delightful children. It is most unlikely… Read More