Search Results: Titles starting with V from Frey Fine Books

New York: International Publishers, 1945. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition thus, 1945. A Very Good copy in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 539 pp., bound in red cloth with green illustrated dust jacket, $2.75. Jacket has overall wear and rubbing; top edge chipped; spine is sunned. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

San Leandro, CA: Early Ford V-8 Club of America, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. quarto, beige hardback with car illustration on front, 1st ed. (1983), 350 pages. Slightly faded spine.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1874. New Edition. Leather. Good. 1874, New Edition. A Good copy. Tall 4to., vi, (7)-36 pp., illustrated with 30+ b&w plates at the end. Bound in quarter leather and brown cloth. The leather spine has been tape repaired, with a tear along the joint. Otherwise, Very Good. Tight.

New York: Valentine's Manual Inc, 1926. Cloth. Good +. 1926 printing. A Good + copy. 12mo., xix, 404 pp., illustrated with color frontispiece, b&w photographs, and 2-page color plates. Blue cloth with gilt title and design. Spine lettering flecked away, else Very Good +.

jrp|ringier, 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Valentin Carron. Fine book in publishers shrink wrap. 4to., full color illustrated boards. This first monograph for a promising Swiss artist arrives during the year of his first New York and London solo shows. Carron's sculptures have been said to mark a renewal of appropriationist discourse. Neither authentic nor kitsch, readymade nor craft, these objects enjoy ambiguity (fake wood, bronze and concrete) and an iconography of power and authority (in traditional forms like public sculptures and commemorative monuments).

2008. Silk boards. Near Fine. Unknown edition, drawings dated 2008. Near Fine. 4to., unpaginated, black & white sketches signed by Valentino with full color fabric images. 12 illustrated pages with 4 blank pages in between. Single title page states only "Valentino", no publisher, date, etc. Bound in red silk covered thin boards. Les Arts Decoratifs - Paris on rear cover. A minor scuff on rear cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Note - this is not the 300 page volume done by Rizzoli. This appears to be a short catalog - perhaps handed out to VIP's at the 2008 Sprint/Summer show.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. red cloth, 1st ed.(1925), 250 pages. Lightly cocked spine, light wear & soil to exterior. {Pseud. Kathleen Mary Agutter}.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. 2nd edition. Cloth. Very Good -. 2nd edition (Published March 23rd, the 1st edition was published March 10th). A Very Good - copy. 12mo., 268 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles and design. Top edge gilt. Spine is moderately sunned. Internally very clean. Tight.

New York: Farrington Memorial Association, 1932. Limited edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Limited edition, 1932, #347 of 1,000 with initial. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 385 pp., bound in publishers red cloth with illustrated tan dust jacket, price clipped. Dust jacket is edge worn with a few small chips and a larger piece lacking; spine sunned; tanned; front end paper tanned; spine and board lettering dulled. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Norwich, (Conn.): Printed by Thomas Hubbard, 1795. First American edition. Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 1st American edition. A Good copy. 16mo., xxii, 240 pp. Bound in contemporary full calf, with title on red morocco label on the spine. Tips, joints and board edges moderately rubbed. Previous owner's name and 1802 date on the front end paper. Text toned, with some light, scattered foxing throughout. A Good copy. **** A handy book, with methods, secrets, and hints, to clean, renew, make, the full range of hand-made crafts, trades, objects from engravings, to ivory, to making corks, cement, cleaning silver, etc. ***.

Philadelphia, PA: B. Frank Van Cleve, 1873. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1st edition. Fair. 8vo., 235 pp., viii index. Bound in brown cloth. Large parts of spine missing, board edges rubbed through. Writing on inside covers and end papers, text clean and unmarked.

Aurora, Co: John Hubert Doty, 1991. Revised edition. Wraps. Very Good. Revised edition, 1991. A Very Good copy. 4to., 104 pp., bound in grey stiff wraps with black plastic comb. Text is clean and unmarked. Minor shelf wear to wraps.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. light blue cloth, 1st US ed.(1931), 297 pages, SIGNED. Faded spine, board edges faded & lightly stained; text clean / unmarked. Signed inscription by the Author.

Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st edition, SIGNED. A Near Fine copy. 8vo.139 pp. Stiff, illustrated paper wraps. SIGNED by the author on the half title page, with an additional inscription on the front end paper.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1868. Cloth. Good. William Makepeace Thackeray. 1868, New York. A Good copy. 8vo., 332 pp., bound in publishers blind stamp decorated green cloth with decorative title in gilt on spine. Binding is slightly cocked. Cloth is soiled. Gilt is still bright. Tips, edges and top/base of spine rubbed. Previous owners names inside front cover. Paper is lightly age toned. Binding is solid.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good+. Charles Crombie. A Very Good+ copy. 8vo., 754 pp., 16 colored plates. Bound in publishers navy cloth with titles in gilt. Interior is clean with no markings or foxing. Color plates are bright. Exterior boards show some wear, dents and fraying to edges and tips. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. First edition. Cloth. Good. 1st edition (1899. Good. ), Sm. 8vo., 290 pp. Blue cloth with white decoration, Light silverfish damage to exterior, tanned textblock edge, owners name in pencil; text unmarked.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858. Copyright Edition. Leather. Very Good. 1st edition, thus (1st Continental Edition). 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 12mo., [Vol.1] 329; [Vol.2] 316 pp. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spine in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips. Spine darkened, with rubbing along the joints. Text pages beginning to age-tone. Hinges very strong. Venetia is a minor novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, the year he was first elected to the House of Commons. The novel is a lightweight romantic fantasy. A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the New Monthly Review, declared that he "liked it least of all Disraeli's works.". Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher, paid the English authors for the works his company published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent. In 1841, Tauchnitz… Read More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 1st paperback edition. Wraps. Very Good. 1st paperback edition, 1984. Very Good. 8vo., 670 pp., with black and white illustrations. Bound in publishers orange glossy wraps. Remnants of price sticker on front cover, some minor soiling to text edges. Otherwise clean and unmarked.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, with full number line. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 214 pp. Black cloth in dark, pictorial dust jacket. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.