Search Results: Titles starting with V from Boyd Used & Rare Books

[London]: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Head and foot of spine pushed. Foxing to edges of text block. Pages clean. Dust jacket spine missing top 1.25 inch; rear panel is missing a significant part of its top third; not price clipped. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 368 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Another military adventure for Colonel Duncan Grant, wading into the Battle of Britain and the war against Hitler and the Germans. Graham Seton was the pseudonym for Graham Seton Hutchison (1890-1946), an English author, historian, and novelist. Decorated and celebrated as an officer of the British Army during World War One, after the war he was known for his affiliations with various British fascist organizations. His fiction has been commended by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ezra Pound.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good. No date. Circa 1900. Pictorial paper-covered boards with multi-color illustration showing two children riding bicycles. Brown cloth spine. Boards are rubbed and edgeworn; corners rounded; soiling on rear board. Nice gift inscription (dated 1903) on ffep. Pages are toned, but generally clean with good edges and square corners. Color frontispiece and many b/w illustrations throughout. 97 unnumbered pages. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Part of the M. A. Donohue's Happy Home Series. A collection of short tales and verses by a variety of authors. The pieces include Willy's Horse, What Happened to Baby's Mamma, The Naughty Cat, Seeing the Elephant, Dolly's Washing-Day, Jacob's Mishap, The Fawn Chased by Dogs, Pussy Whitenose, Rules for Dolls, The Boy Afraid of His Shadow, Owen and His Squirrel, and many more.

Boston: James French / Printed at Coolidge's Steam Power Printing Establishment, 1847. Hardcover. Fair. Third Edition (1847). Publisher's brown boards stamped with gilt on spine, blind stamped boards. Corners exposed; spine ends worn. Previous owner's inscriptions on front paste down (dated 1853 & 1868). Heavy soiling to some of the pages. The poem at the top of Chapter XIV has been torn out (replacement text for both sides of this leaf is laid in). Five illustrated plates, including frontispiece (each is hand watercolored by a previous owner). 233 pp. 6.25 x 3.75 inches. Mrs. J. Thayer states in the preface that this novel was written with the intention of cultivating in young hearts the beauty of an unselfish, amiable character and a loving spirit, to impel children to endear their mothers with love and to lift their hearts higher, to love the whole human race and God, and incite them to good actions.

Chicago: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Vest-pocket size in stiff leatherette boards. Light wear at extremities. Previous owner's name on ffep, else internally clean. pp. 85, plus [8] advertising. 6.5 x 3.5 inches. 1903 soup and entree cookbook by chef Joseph N. Vachon (1860-1929), who was at the time employed at The Transit House in Chicago, a fine hotel owned by the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company. The hotel burned down in 1912. He followed with employment at two other historic hotels: 15 years at the New Harper Hotel in Rock Island and then for a few years at the LeClaire Hotel in Moline. Includes about fifty pages of entree recipes, followed by forty pages of soups and an index. Concludes with an eight-page catalog of cookbooks and hotelier guides published by the Hotel Monthly Press.

Portland Dallas Washington, D.C.: Bendigo Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on title page. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Crease on rear cover; pen mark on fore-edge of text block, else a very nice copy. Interior clean. 397 pages. A memoir of a hippie, beginning in 1967 at Tufts University, and wending his way through the ups and downs of the counterculture in New England and voyaging across the country and exploring the west coast in 1970. Encounters with communes and seekers, destructive drug use, disillusionment, spiritual realizations, struggles with relationships and family issues unfold as the journey unfolds. Nicholas Park's story is tumultuous and full of insight.

Milan, Italy: Skira, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good+. Inscribed by Author(s). Book has light general surface soiling to wraps; light shelf wear. Inscribed and signed by Demaria on half-title page. Many black & white as well as color photographs by Alberto Piovano. 184 pages. 5.75 x 8 inches. Italian and English languages.

Vancouver, WA: LSW Architects, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Book has a little very light soiling to cloth on spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a few scuff marks and one small closed tear at bottom front edge. A little soiling to dj. Dj has been placed in an archival mylar cover. 105 Pages. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Lovely oversized book has artistic pictures and the architect's floor plan drawings of each of the elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, special projects and upcoming special projects that LSW Architects has done for the district.

[Portland]: Printed by Metropolitan Press for the Bennett Publishing Co., 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Author(s). Boards in burgundy cloth with black lettering. Interior is clean and unmarked. Many illustrations throughout. Dust jacket not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 235 pages. An examination of the problem of vandalism, littering, and other outdoor behavior problems, in the nation's forests, parks, waters and beaches, where the enjoyment of outdoor activities had been marred by damage and disfigurement. Intended to raise awareness of these issues and their causes, from juvenile psychology to excessive population growth, and to suggest possible corrective options.

Moskva / Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Malysh, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. E. Ioffe, L. Kartoshov. Staple-bound in die-cut card covers. Spine shows some rubbing-wear; minor soiling on rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Fully illustrated in color. 24 pp. 27.5 x 20 cm. Russkiye narodnyye pesenki dlya doshkol'nogo vozrasta. Russian folk songs for preschool age.

London: John Churchill, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition enlarged, 1857. Original cloth boards with a circular ''Bird on Charcoal'' stamped in gilt on front cover; spine gilt lettered. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. pp. viii, [9]-90. 22 x 13.5 cm. Treatise on the use of powdered charcoal as a remedy for indigestion and other painful digestive disorders. James Bird (d. 1874, London) was educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and became a Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society in 1821, and Member of the Royal Society of Surgeons in 1825. He began his practice at Cardiff, where he was Surgeon to the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Regiment Militia. After a few years he relocated to Portman Square in London where he was to maintain a considerable practice, retiring in about 1856.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Black cloth boards, white stamped spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chipped; bit of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. viii, 243 pages. 1948 reprint of Lewisohn's novel, Stephen Escott, originally published in 1930.

Genova, Italy: Velier S.P.A., 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Catalog has crease at top edge/fore edge corner of front wraps. Stress creases to spine. Very small blemish on front cover. Light soiling to covers. Pages are free of marks. Italian Language. 23.5 x 33 cm. 111 pages. Gorgeous full-color catalog with labels from the wines produced by each grower and grouped by region. Each wine has the grape growing details listed as well as the wine making process, the total sulfur, the number of bottles produced, features of each wine as well as suggested pairings.

Oakland, CA: Half Full Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Book has wrinkle to fabric on front board. Light edge wear. Very slight cocking of spine. Small bump to front fore edge. Pages are clean and binding is very tight. Hard to find cloth bound edition. Stated first edition, 2004. 260 pp.

Chicago: Charles M. Hertig, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth board with gilt stamped spine; covers ruled in blind. Corners pushed; shelf-side of corners exposed; cloth shows some minor soiling. Owner's private library label and pencil inscription on front endpapers. Light soiling on a few pages. 376 pages. [American Fiction 1876-1900: 5672]. A thinly veiled, questionably libelous satire/fictionalized expose of one of America's robber baron families, the Vanderbilts. It is speculated that the author may have been a family tutor, writing under a pseudonym, from the perspective of Cornelius Jeremiah ''Corneel'' Vanderbilt. The second half is based in part on the legal battle which ensued between Corneel and his brother William over the will of their father, ''Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, following his death in 1877. Reviewed in the May 5, 1880 Springfield Republican: ''The Vanderbilt will case, in all its nauseousness, is spread out... old… Read More

Basel, Switzerland: Faunus-Verlag, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The Sigloch limited and numbered edition (no. 1817). 96 large color photographs of Germany's castles. A very nice production on quality paper and the photographs, which are gorgeous, have very good color. An over-sized book. Cream colored, illustrated boards. All edges gilt. Comes with original clear plastic jacket (which has a couple chips around the corners of the spine and a closed tear to the upper left corner of its front panel). Boards show some light discoloration. Bright, tight, and square. Clean inside except for a gift inscription on the title page. 31 x 27 cm. 207 pages. All text in German, French, and English.

Paris: Russkogo Studencheskogo Khristianskogo Dvizheniya, 1975. Soft cover. Good-. A journal of (Russian) Orthodox Church thought, praxis, and history, it is the Russian edition of Le Messager - Periodique edite par l'Action Chretienne des Etudiants Russes. Wraps worn, dampstained back panel. Interior clean and free of marking. 269 pages. Russian language.

Paris: Russkogo Studencheskogo Khristianskogo Dvizheniya, 1976. Soft cover. Good. A journal of (Russian) Orthodox Church thought, praxis, and history, it is the Russian edition of Le Messager - Periodique edite par l'Action Chretienne des Etudiants Russes. Wraps worn. Interior clean and free of marking. 301 pages. Russian language.

Vienna, Austria: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good+. Gorgeous book has just a little light soiling & staining on the spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. German Language. 1953. All three volumes combined into a single book. 13.5 x 21 cm. 676 Pages.

New York: Murray Poster Printing Co., 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Borges on rear cover. Staple-bound program in printed card covers. Covers rubbed; light corner wear. Interior is clean. Printed sheet with photo/bios of Sahan Arzruni and Marylyn Mulvey. [24] pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. Several Borge related newspaper clippings from 1970-1973 laid-in.

Carson City, NV: Noreen I.K. Humphreys, 1976. Soft cover. Good. Book has creases and bumping at the fore edge corners. 1" split at the lower rear spine corner. A little general soiling and a few spots on wraps. Pages are free of marks. Binding is sound. No creases to spine. 5.75 x 9 inches. 294 Pages.