Search Results: Authors starting with V from Chanticleer Books

NY: Scribner, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Light wear to covers, top edge dusty, overall very good. No jacket. Black cloth, small octavo, 311 pp + ads. The 6th novel in the Philo Vance series.

Antwerp: Nederlandsche Boekhandel, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6 pages letterpress description (2 folded, uncut sheets) together with 14 copperplates in cloth and boards solander case with printed label. Slipcase. Text sheets and plates fine, solander case lightly worn, slipcase moderately worn Complete suite of 14 plates printed from the original copperplates (engraved in 1521) of Van Leyden's "Passion of Our Lord." Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this #55.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1982. Limited edition. Hardbound. Fine; in original plain paper jacket. Original brown linen; oblong quarto (12.25 x 9.25 inches); 44 pp. and 44 color plates. Publication announcement/prospectus laid in. A facsimile reproduction of the artist's portfolio of watercolor drawings created for a book project that remained unfinished in Vischer's own lifetime. Printed at the Arion Press in a limited edition of 600 copies. (Published price in 1982 was $150).

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1963. FIrst edition, 525 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Hardcover. Fine. Original natural linen and decorative boards; folio (10 x 15 inches); unpaginated (54 pp); 21 color plates The paintings reproduced in the book belonged to Edwin Grabhorn

Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1893. First edition. Covers moderately soiled, else very good. 62 pp., 6 full-page illustrations from photographs; 12mo, mustard cloth with title and cover decoration in dark red. No-doubt published in conjunction with the 1893 "World's Columbian Exposition" in Chicago, this little volume suggests corn as a unifying symbol of all that is best in the United States of America. Text is comprised of poems, histories, and essays

Mexico City: Reimpreso en Mexico por Luis Alvarez y Alvarez de la Caden, 1943-44. Reprint. Some rubbing to spines, neat mends to joints, overall very good. 3 volumes, quartos; 169; 348; 255 pp.; 6 folding maps (2 in second volume, 4 in third volume); half tree calf and brown boards, red and black morocco spine labels. (First 2 volumes with imprint as above; third volume with half-title page with imprint of Editorial Layac). A handsome reprint of an important work. Format is somewhat larger than the original and typeface is modern. As well as adding 2 more maps, this edition also has period-style chapter headpieces depicting scenes of Mission life. Generally regarded as the first published history of California, the first two volumes of "Noticia de la California" deal exclusively with Baja (lower) California and are based on the manuscript written by Mexican Jesuit scholar Miguel Venegas in 1739. Though he was himself unable to travel he compiled his history from a variety of sources, including… Read More

New York: Max Holden, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn. [11], 112 pp + 1 catalog page at rear; octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece from photograph and many illustrations from line drawings by the author. Edward Victor was the stage name of Edward Neuschwander (1887-1964), a proficient magician and early member of the Magic Circle and one of the select promoted to Associate of the Inner Magic Circle

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Moderate scuffing and soiling to boards, bit of foxing, contemporary owner name to front free endpaper, else very good.. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind, octavo, 349 pp. Most of the stories were originally published in Overland Monthly and other western magazines. Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902) had a nearly lifelong career in letters. Along with her sister Metta she began writing for publication while still a schoolgirl at the Female Seminary in Wooster, Ohio. The sisters moved to New York in the 1840s and in 1851 together published an acclaimed collection of their poems - "Poems of Sentiment and Imagination." In 1862, Frances Fuller married Henry Clay Victor, a naval engineer and the brother of her sister's husband (Orville James Victor, author and editor for Beadle's Dime Novels). They moved to San Francisco, where Frances continued writing, mainly feature, advice and criticism columns,… Read More

(Leipzig: Carle Sarte), circa 1890. Original edition. Slight wear to wrapper spine, else about fine. Original textured red wrappers blocked in black, 6.25 x 5 inches, 25 accordion-fold panels each with 2 or more lithographed illustrations, 4 pp text at rear. Stunning view book of one of San Francisco's major attractions in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes a plan of the grounds and a portrait of Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) the German-born engineer and mining entrepreneur who made his substantial fortune through his Comstock Lode silver mine in Nevada. He served as mayor of San Francisco from 1895 to 1897.

[Madrid: Sancho Rayon, 1876]. Facsimile of the 1499 original edition. Slight rubbing to edges of covers, small "Withdrawn" stamp above stamped 6-digit number in lower margin of 2nd leaf, old mend to lower corner of last leaf; still overall very good.. XXIX, [1] fl. Small quarto, 23.5 x 15.5 cm, contemporary paneled calf with gilt spine title. Facsimile reproduction of the rare Burgos: Juan de Burgos, 1499 first edition. Palau 369450

NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (1983). First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine in very good jacket with some fogging to glossy jacket surface. No chips or tears/very good. Original brown boards; quarto; unpaginated text and 179 numbered b/w photos. Vishniac's photographs were taken in both rural and urban Jewish communities of Eastern Europe during the years 1934-1939; communities that were subsequently erased in the Nazi holocaust.

Mayavati, Almora, Himalayas: (Swami Yogeshwarananda) Advaita Ashrama, (1949). Fourth edition. Hardcover. Some foxing to text, else very good in moderately worn, price-clipped jacket. viii, 780 pp., 5 full-page illustrations; octavo, original blue cloth, jacket.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1929. Resetting of the Random House limited edition. Hardcover. Some fading to covers, jacket somewhat darkened, else about very good. Original blue cloth with title and decoration in silner, quarto, (112) pp, illustrations and decorations by Rockwell Kent. Literary Guild newsletter "Wings" Volume 3, No. 12, December 1929 laid in. This is a reprint of the Random House edition of Candide illustrated by Rockwell Kent - the first book to bear the Random House imprint - was published the previous year.