Search Results: Authors starting with V from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some stains on the back panel.

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, 1830-34. Fifty-two volumes; small octavo; approximately 6” x 4”. Uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon leather and marbled paper-covered boards; gilt spine lettering and decoration; raised bands; each volume number is enclosed in a gilt circle in the center of the spine. The final volume has been re-backed and there is some minor wear at the extremities of a few volumes; bookplates inside each volume; a handsome, appropriately bound set of a work seldom found complete. These English translations of Greek and Latin classics were published by Valpy in monthly installments over a four year period.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket which is very lightly rubbed.

Los Angeles: Producer’s Releasing Corporation, 1947. Approximately 28” wide by 22” tall; the color illustration depicts Alan Curtis as Vance. Folded; some tearing at the folds; very good.

New York: Scribner’s, 1935. First Edition. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket.

London: Cassell, 1938. First English. Aside from an ugly white-out on the front free endpaper, very good in dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1930. First Edition. Minor cloth spotting; very good in a dust jacket with minor wear. This copy is the variant with two dates (1929 & 1930) on the copyright page. No precedence is known or reliably presumed.

New York: Scribner’s, 1933. First Edition. Very good in a jacket with scrapes and wear.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929 (but actually issued years later). Omnibus printing Canary, Greene, and Bishop. Very good in a good, chipped dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1928. First Edition. Some cloth wear; very good in dust jacket. The copyright page prints 1927 and 1928; the dedication copy has a single date of 1928; one could precede, or they could be variants.

New York: Scribner’s, 1935. First Edition. Glue stain on front free endpaper; very good in dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1926. First Edition of the author’s first mystery. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Very good in a very good, very uncommon, but possibly second issue dust jacket given flap reviews, but frankly, this is inconclusive speculation, an inadequate basis for comprehensive bibliography. In a quarter-leather custom clamshell box.

New York: Scribner’s, 1928. First Edition. Very good in a heavily restored dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1933. First Edition. Very in a dust jacket with interior mending.

New York: Scribner’s, 1930. First Edition. Front free endpaper excised; very good in a rubbed and chipped, good dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1933. First Edition. Very good in a good, somewhat worn dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1933. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with some wear and tear.

New York: Scribner’s, 1936. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with some wear and tear.

New York: Scribner’s, 1938. First Edition. A very good copy in dust jacket, the verso of which is nearly entirely reinforced with paper.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photoplay edition. Owner’s signature; very good in a jacket with interior tape mends. The back panel is a color illustration of William Powell.