Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bartlebys Books

[various places in Alaska], 1958. A 16 pp. typescript, rectos only, approx. 7800 words, stapled in the upper left hand corner. First sheet detached from the staple, a few ink corrections, lightly creased from a horizontal fold else very good. Although unsigned, the author mentions both her husband's name and her own in the text. From their base in Anchorage, the couple began a two week vacation to Fairbanks, Fort Yukon, and Circle Hot Springs, then on to Dawson City and Whitehorse in Canada, before returning to Alaska. The couple's first stop was at the "novelty" floating hotel, the Nenana, "the last of the old river steamers now permanently docked on the Chena River." They spent the night on board before continuing on to Pedro Dome, one of the White Alice Communications Systems [WACS] sites some 25 miles from Fairbanks on an isolated mountain top. Her husband Bob Donnelly's job was to check out the station which was part of the North American 'over-the-pole' defense system developed by the U.S. Air… Read More

[Hanover, NH]: np, 1835. First edition. Stitched sheets, 18.5 x 11 cm. 24 pp. Ink inscription on front cover: "Presented by Mellen Chamberlain." Chamberlain was a graduate of Dartmouth, a lawyer, historian and librarian. He was head librarian at Boston Public Library for over 10 years. Hale taught for eight years at Dartmouth until his job was abolished. This "letter" to the trustees, was composed by Hale upon his departure. "One of the outstanding injustices in the history of American academic freedom had occurred in his unwarranted dismissal by the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. In 1828 he had been ordained in the Episcopalian ministry, and two years later he began to hold services in his home at Hanover on Sunday evenings. This custom perturbed the Congregational ministers of the region, and they ultimately brought pressure to bear on the college administration to force Hale's removal. This the college fathers accomplished not by removing Hale from his job but by abolishing the job itself.… Read More

(Vallejo, CA?), nd. First edition. 16-panel viewbook of Vallejo and Mare island, two views double-panel, and three panels of promotional description, folded accordion-style into illustrated cream wrappers, each view with a simple caption. "Vallejo is called the 'City of Cash' by reason of the fact that $350,000 of uncle Sam's gold coin is paid monthly to Navy Yard employees and the enlisted and naval service men, all of which circulates in Vallejo." The views are primarily of public buildings and other architecture and naval related scenes. Apparently not in Rocq. OCLC locates on copy (California State Library). Very good. Original green printed illustrated wrappers. (6135).

Norwich, [CT], 1795. Second American edition. First under this title. 12mo. 17 cm. ii, xxii, 240 pp. Contemporary full leather binding with red leather spine label. Front joint cracked, spine ends chipped. Period ownership of D. Huntington. LOWENSTEIN 10. RINK 155. SHIPTON 29243. TRUMBULL 1543. ESTC W28501.

Boston: From J. Bumstead's Printing-Office, Union-Street, 1798. Third American edition. 12mo. 17 cm. xxiv, [1], 26-264pp. Contemporary full leather binding with gilt stamped black leather spine label. Joints cracked, somewhat amateurishly repaired with glue (or shellac?) covering the spine in a protective layer, partly extending onto boards. Spine ends chipped, lacks rear flyleaf. LOWENSTEIN RINK 155. ESTC W28501. EVANS 34913.

Greenwood, SC: The author, 1930. 16mo. 32 pp. Black & white illustrations. Original illustrated self-wrappers, stapled. Lightly rumpled but very good. Trade catalogue for the author's seed business; he is described as "the oldest horticulturist in public business in America." Scarce; OCLC locates a single copy (South Carolina).

NY [NY]: Phair & Co., Steam Job Printers, 22 Beekman Street, 1860. Broadside 23 x 29.5 cm. Soiled and foxed. Laid down on stiff card stock. The invention was designed to allow for passenger cars to safely detach from the engine in the event the locomotive was thrown from the tracks.

Nashville, TN: The trustees, 1881. Handbill, 8 ¾ x 6 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. The auction, to be held in Nashville, June 1, 1881, would offer 11,800 acres "near the Tennessee River, known and designated as Brownsport Furnace, well-built and with all the improvements and appliances for operating a first-class iron works ... this property is esteemed as valuable as any in the South or West for the purpose of manufacturing first rate iron ... iron ore of the most superior quality abounds on the lands to be sold." The furnace was apparently never used again and is now a public park. Fold lines, some soiling, but very good.

Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt U. Press, 1944. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth (dull), illustrated dust jacket (price clipped, corners and spine ends a little chipped). First edition. Signed by 10 contributors: Andrew Lytle, Beatty (the editor), Donald Davidson, Junkin (the illustrator), H. Clarence Nixon, George Pullen Jackson, Frank Owsley, Ethel Moore, Mildred Haun and Alec B. Stevenson. Lytle has appended a brief note. Front hinge repaired.

Littleton, CO: Alpine Publishing Ltd, 1978. First edition, 1/2000 copies (this # 492) signed by the author. 4to. 256 pp. Illustrated from photographs, many in color, old advertising, maps and plans (including floor plans of cars), timetables, sample menus, schematics, illustrated endpapers. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Very good.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2010. First edition. 4to. xix, 323 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page, inscribed by Ryskamp on the half-title. Illustrated from drawings, many in color, and photographs, color plates, illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. Fine.

Bethel [VT], 1837. Single sheet, 20 x 19 cm. Partly printed, completed in manuscript. Unevenly trimmed along top edge, some chipping at right margin, old fold lines and occasional spotting. This share No. 389 is made out to Silas Tupper, of Barnard, in Windsor County, Vermont. Tupper, as proprietor of the share, was "entitled to his proportionable interest in the real and personal estate which may be purchased by said Company...." The Vermont Texas Land Company was formed in September 1836, six months after Texas declared its independence from Mexico. The certificate was signed at Bethel on the ninth of January 1837, by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse, Trustees. Endorsed by Tupper on the verso, transferring his rights to the share to Philo Hatch in 1843. Not in Streeter's Texas. The declaration of Texas independence sparked an interest in land speculation there. Although we have been unable to find any specific information about this company, at least one of the trustees was well known… Read More

(Montpelier, VT): Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1912. First edition. 8vo. 89 pp. Illustrated, plates. OCLC locates four copies (SUNY-Binghampton, Rochester Medical Center, Dartmouth, Vermont State Library). Original color illustrated wrappers; some foxing, but very good.

Halle: In der Rengerischen Buchhandlung, 1728. 4to. (8), 191, (1) pp. Six engraved folding plates. Somewhat later half-calf and boards, gilt ornamentas between raised bands and leather label on spine, marbled pastedowns, edges sprinkled. Fine clean copy. First edition of an early treatise on the design and construction of fortifications. OCLC locates three copies (Yale, Society of the Cincinnati, Niedersachsische Staats-und University).

Columbia, (SC): USC Press, 1965. First edition thus, reprinting the author's only publushed book (Poet Skies and Other Experiments in Versification, Baltimore, 1868), with some of her manuscript poems and a biographical sketch by the editor added. 16mo. xv, 85 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, John C. Calhoun's granddaughter. Red patterned cloth, publisher's acetate dust jacket (torn); edges foxed, else very good.

London: Ward & Downey, 1896. 1st ed. 12mo. 64pp. Author's first book. Inscribed by the author: "For John Foster Carr / Hilaire Belloc / 1900." Original green cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Two newspaper clippings of Belloc poems affixed to rear endpapers, else a Fine copy.

Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1969. Second edition (first published 1949). 8vo. lxxiv, 328 pp. Very good. Original brown cloth, gilt spine title. (9472).

New York City: Weir Brothers & Co, 1907. Red lettered grey paperwraps, with colors of the Mexican flag in one corner of the front wrap. 28 cm.; (18) pp., plus a folding plate tipped in to the rear wrapper. Three hole punches in left margin. Illustrated with full-page photos showing the mining operations and the workers. This prospectus offers the property, plan and scope of operations for the mining estate "located at Minas Nuevas (town of New Mines), six miles northwest of Parral in the Parral Mining District..." The company had home offices in New York City, capital of $2,000,000 and 400,000 shares. Short split to spine, else a very good copy. One copy found on OCLC: Univ. of California Berkeley.

Vicksburg, MS: Warren County Board of Supervisors, 1928. Oblong 4to, 9 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches, folded to narrow 8vo. (32) pp. [printed in three or four columns]. Illustrated from photographs (architecture, agriculture, scenery), including two 3 x 20 ¼ inch panoramas. Gives a brief history and a pitch for the area as a place for entrepreneurs, farmers, homesteaders, etc. OCLC locates one copy (Mississippi). Original self-wrapper, printed in red. Very good.

Washington, DC: House of Representatives, 41st Congress, 3d Session, Report No. 22, 1871. First edition. 8vo. 4 pp. The judiciary Committee considered a memorial to Congress by Woodhull asking for the "enactment of a law which shall secure to citizens of the United States in the several States the right to vote ‘without regard to sex,'" laying out her constitutional case on pages two and three. The committee found that "such a declaratory act is not authorized by the Constitution and recommended that "the memorial be laid on the table, and that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from the further consideration of the subject." Disbound pamphlet.