Search Results: Authors starting with V from Frogtown Books, Inc.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. 28th printing. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Gold endpapers. Very good to fine/Very good to fine dust jacket.. Illustrated by van Allsburg.

The British Library, 2013. First ed. hard cover. fine/fine.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-1/8". Black cloth covered boards stamped in green. Fine condition.. Illustrated with four scenes from the American pre-code 1929 paramount photoplay starring William Powell and Louise Brooks. Also several floor plan drawings..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-1/4". Black cloth covered boards stamped in green. Former owner's name in pencil on free front endpaper. Otherwise fine condition.. Illustrated with 8 scenes from the Paramount pre-code 1929 photoplay starring William Powell and Jean Arthur..

Mamie Van Doren, American actress, model, singer and sex symbol best remembered for her role in the 1957 film "Untamed Youth," which "turns a searing spotlight on teen-age 'cons' in a House of Correction!"

Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003. First editon. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Hard cover with glossy illustrated boards. Fine book./Fine dust jacket.. Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. A beautifully illustrated story about the Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk. On December 17. 1903, the Wright Brothers changed the world when they first flew their homemade powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In One Fine Day author Elizabeth Van Steenwyk celebrates that first flight in the form of an old-time radion play, beautifully illustrated by Bill farnsworth. The brotherly banter of the dialogue captures the character of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the excitement of their accomplishment, while offering young readers an opportunity to reenact the drama of that important day. "Elizabeth Van Steenwyk's account is authentic, believable, and appropriate for the age group for which she is writing. The Wright Brothers were articulate, never verbose, and her fictional dialogue reflects that well." -… Read More

Bowling Green, OH: Historical Publications Company, n.d.. Brown leatherette 8vo. 293 pp. plus 8 pp. contents and index, unpaginated. A tight, clean, very good copy with a touch of rubbing at top and bottom of spine and along back joint.. Contains Dr. Joseph Doddridge Pioneer Selections on descriptions of the wilderness, settlement, hunting and beasts and birds. Dress of Pioneers, Description of a Wedding, The Housewarming, House Furniture and Diet, Sports, Mechanical Arts, Working, Wild Fruits, The Fort, Medicines, Morals of the Pioneers and Civilization. Also Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past" including Visit and Talks with John Adams, Lafayette and Colonel Huger, Daniel Webster at Home, A Journey with Judge Story, Visits to John Randolph, The Supreme Court and the "Marianna Flora," Washington Society in 1826, Jackson in Massachusetts. Also included is Colonel Daniel Boone's Autobiography, Mrs. Trollope's Domestic Manners of Americans and Selections from Col. Jas. Smith's Travels and Way's… Read More

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. First Edition. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/4". Midnight blue cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Hamilton. 366 pp. A trace of rubbing to extremities. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.. Laid in is a program for the dedication of the Arthur H. Vandenberg Room at the University of Michigan, dated October 16, 1974. Also, a folder about the Arthur H. Vandenberg Papers in the Michigan Historical Collections at the Bentley Historical Library of the U of M. Vandenberg's career began as a newspaperman in Grand Rapids, MI and became an influential member of the United States Senate for nearly a quarter of a century, the leading exponent within the Congress of a bipartisan foreign policy; after World War II he became one of the principal founders of the United Nations.

Batsford, 1979. First ed. Hardcover. fine/fine.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Edition. 4to. 12-1/4" x 9-1/4. Blue cloth covered boards stamped in silver. Unpaginated. A barely noticeable damp stain at bottom corner of front cover. A slight touch of wear to corner tips and top of spine. Overall very good to fine.. 23 illustrative creations by John Vassos, Text by Ruth Vassos. A fascinating book by this Greek, Romanian born, prolific industrial designer and artist. He came to America in the early 20th century. It is interesting to read this book about the tempo of American life, published at the end of the roaring twenties, on the eve of the crash. Each picture reflects a theme on the minds of Americans in 1929: Electricity, Advertising, Skyscrapers, The Subway, Prohibition, The Jew, Traffic, Radio, The Department Store, Psychologia (see photo displayed), The Market, Commercialism, Air Conquest, The Beach, Sports, The Movies, Washington, The Tabloids, Religion, Suburbia, Science and Modern Art. "It was prophesied by the sages and long bearded… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Red cloth covered boards stamped in black. 276 pp. Some pages still uncut. Top edge of text block stained red. Name and date in ink on free front endpaper. Overall condition is fine./Presentable sturdy dust jacket with a few shallow tears and ruffled edges at top and bottom of spine. Overall condition is very good.. With map and decorations by the author. Dr. Hewlett, an archaeologist, with his niece, who is nicknamed Jimmy, Tom Hinsdale, his assistant, a Carib Indian servant, and a Negro, Sam, go to a small uninhabited West Indian island known as Bloody Gut Cay. According to local tradition there is a pirate treasure on the island, and during the voyage the scientist passes the time by telling stories of the old pirates and buccaneers. Landing on the Cay the party selects a camp site near some caves wherein Dr. Hewlett feels they may find remains of the long-vanished aborigines. The story continues with their numerous… Read More

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1929. 8vo. Two volumes. 316 pp. and 338 pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Both volumes in fine condition.. An intimate memoir of a life dedicated to recording heroic effort and suffering in the depths of the many conflicts that arose across Europe and the Middle East, Russia and India from Serbia as early as 1876 through the end of the Great War. To those who happen to pick up this volume and do me the honor of reading it I wish to state that they will find no fiction in its pages. Every incident I have set down can be corroborated by comrades, "many still living," who have shared my vicissitudes. There is nothing in this book, as the old adage goes, "to make the dead turn in their graves." - Frederic Villiers, August 1919.

Chaucer, 2005. First Edtion. Hard Cover. Photo illustrated.

Franklin Library, 1975. Franklin Library. full leather with moire end papers. fine. Notes From the Editors included Pamphlet of 24 pages.

Barre Mass: Barre Publishers, 1968. Small 4to. 9-1/4" x 7". 60 pp. With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Book is in fine condition./Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear. and a little minor edgewear. Spine of jacket is a little darkened. Overall very good.. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Catherwood. New gleanings by Victor von Hagen from the British Museum and the University of California at Berkeley serve to flesh out the shadowy figure of the great architect, explorer and artist Frederick Catherwood. Catherwood is best known for his magnificent lithographs of Mayan ruins, the drawings of which were made on four expeditions with John Lloyd Stephens in the 1840's. This book is an account of Catherwood's life, travels and work among the ruins of the ancient world in Egypt, the Middle East, North Africa and Central America. Until Mr. von Hagen's studies, Catherwood had been a nearly anonymous figure. His life was marred by lack of appreciation by his contemporaries, his enterprises… Read More

Xay Dung. Perfect bound paper back. 270 pp. Very good to fine condition.. Through this book, I also hope to help Americans understand that the Vietnam War was necessary and just proving that Americans "shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." It was not unnecessary and unjust as antiwar Americans have smeared it. And the South Vietnamese Armed Forces in the war were courageous, not cowardly as some American media dirtied them.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1898. Second Edition. 4to. 12-3/8" x 9-1/8". Pictorial red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Some water spotting on front cover. Some foxing throughout. Spine faded a little and gold flaking off a little.. Illustrated with twenty full-page plates and 409 Illustrations.. Sacred Dances; Religious Dances; THe Grand Ballet; Dancing in the "Great Century"; Dancing Under Louis XV; Madeleine Guimard; Rustic and Pastoral Dances; Spanish Dances; Modern Greek Dances; Contemporary Dances; Public Balls; Modern Dancing; A Grief Survey of the Ballets of this Century; Erly History of Dancing in Great Britain; Irish Jigs, Hornpipe Scotch Reels; Highland Flings, etc.

Blue Crane Books. Limited Numbered Edition. Leather. fine.