Search Results: Titles starting with V from Matthew's Books LLC

New York: The Century Company, 1917. first edition. hardcover. good: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned and faded, hinge cracked at FFEP, ex libris sticker on front paste down, name on FFEP, mild foxing to endpapers. foxing to frontispiece. text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 612pp. + 176 photographs by author, fold out color map. published September 1917. Travel memoir of a trip by foot from Panama to Buenos Aires by celebrated 20th century travel author, who wrote about his experiences traveling on little or no money through Europe, South America, Asia. #01322.

Simon and Schuster, 1932. first edition. hardcover. good: boards and spine age worn, slightly bumped corners. name inscribed on front paste down, one color plate loose/tipped in, tear along binding at title page but intact, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo. 525pp. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #00657.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book very good: mild shelf wear, name on FFEP, spots of foxing to endpapers, text clean, hinge starting at half title page, binding intact./no DJ.. 8vo. 525pp. stated fourth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. includes bookmark which appears to be illustrated by van Loon, no date/publishing information/attribution. #01344.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book good: age soil to boards and spine, evidence of staining, toning to endpapers, foxing outer edge text block, text clean, binding intact../no DJ. Hendrik Willem van Loon. 8vo. 525pp. stated second printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01343.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. Book very good: age wear to boards, spine faded. name on FFEP, mild foxing spots to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo. 525pp. stated sixth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01345.

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1927. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning, text clean, binding intact but working loose./no DJ. 8vo 347pp. #01512.

New York: Viking Press, 1960. first edition. hardcover. Book VG- : age wear/soil to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 4to 327pp. A collection of pieces that originally appeared in Vanity Fair during the 1920s and 1930s, with pictures and illustrations. Includes contributions from P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker, T.S. Eliot, W. Somerset Maugham, Gertrude Stein, G.K. Chesterton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, many more. #01653 EXTRA SHIPPING FOR SIZE AND WEIGHT.

Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971. first edition. hardcover. very good: clean and tight, minor signs of shelfwear/dust./good: age toning, plastic cover flaking/separating from DJ at several spots, front flap creased, NOT clipped ($15.00). 8vo 636pp. +illustrations and 72pp. of pictures. stated first edition. from rear flap: "In THE VANTAGE POINT, one of the most complex and fascinating men to occupy the PResidency of the United States describes his years in the White House--utilizing his own recollections and documents and freely and frankly telling us all exactly what he did and why he did it. The book is thus both an invaluable historical document and a portrait of one of the most remarkable of Americans." #01016.

Northport, NY: Costello Publishing Company, 1996. first thus. softcover. Book VG-: card taped to front paste down. age wear/soil to wraps, toning/foxing to endpapers, edges of text block. text clean, binding tight. 8vo 610pp. The Basic Sixteen Documents. A completely revised translation in inclusive language. #02167.

New York: Vantage Press, 1960. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear to boards, mild toning/foxing to endpapers and paste downs, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 160pp. stated first edition. Written by judge, Unitarian minister, law professor, and many times unsuccessful candidate for public office in Connecticut, California and New Hampshire. Exposition of political principles of the Catholic Church with an eye towards countering John F. Kennedy's candidacy for the presidency. He is said to have telegraphed Pope John XXIII to ask whether Kennedy owed political allegiance to the United States or to the Vatican, since by Levitt's research there were 150 principles of the Catholic Church that opposed the US constitution. There is no record of a reply. #01078.

George H Doran, 1925. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards, spine sunned, bookplate front paste down, some foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 182pp. first edition presumed second printing ("B" on copyright page) An eighteenth-century Venetian glass blower makes a young man and animates him by magic. Virginio marries Rosalba, a charming young poetess, but marriage turns into a horror, for Virginio is in perpetual terror lest Rosalba be too rough with him and break him. Rosalba, who is as self-sacrificing as she is loving, is magically transformed into porcelain. The two lovers are now happy, both equally fragile.. #01040.

New York: Bridgehead Books, 1954. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ Fair: age toning, chipping and corner wear, NOT clipped ($4), preserved under brodart cover.. 8vo 252pp. part of Bridgehead Books Library of Unusual Books. from front flap: "...No one has ever dared describe things like this before--but the moral indignation of the author is sufficient justification for the overwhelming incidents which build this book into the most terrifying of its kind ever published." #01827.

Ballantine, 1980. mass market paperback. good. 245pp. anthology of short stories by: P.D. James, Gwendoline Butler, Dick Francis, Michael Gilbert, Christianna Brand, Michael Innes, Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Underwood, Ngaio Marsh, Peter Dickinson, Julian Symons. #00583.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. first edition. hardcover. Book G: shelf wear/age soiling to boards and spine, some toning/foxing in text block, some underlining and marginalia./no DJ. 12mo 655pp. The Roberts and Rolfe Latin Series. Books I-VI of the Aeneid in Latin, with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by authors (in English). #01899.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild lean, mild shelfwear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./very good: age wear/toning, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 240pp. from front flap: "Santha Rama Rau is at all times a delightful traveling companion. In this newest book she revisits, in the company of her husband and young son, the countries described in East of Home--and beyond. [. . .] A book to read for pleasure, View to the Southeast is unique as a one-volume survey of an important part of the world." #01091.

Funk and Wagnalls, 1940. first edition. hardcover. good: stain/discoloration to front board, spine sunned, name on front paste down and endpaper, toning, text with ink underlining in several sections, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 340pp. An attempt to demonstrate an affinity between the Old Norse language and dialects of Algonquin language spoken by native tribes in what is now the New England area. #01047.

Harvard University Press, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good: some age wear to boards, spine sunned, toning on paste downs, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 345pp. novel about life in a rural French village. #00286.

Thomas Yoseloff, 1957. hardcover. good: DJ taped to paste downs, toning and offset from tape on endpapers, name on front paste down,/good: taped to paste downs, closed tears at base of spine, some rubbing and fading. Octavo 261pp. from front flap: "This new, revised edition of an outstanding book that has long been out of print recalls all the excitement and passion of that hectic pioneer era in the story of two San Francisco Committees of Vigilance which took the law into their own hands, defying the power of the state and even of the national government in order to curb the criminals who had been steeping the city in blood and horror." #00188.

Macmillan Company, 1962. hardcover. very good: some shelf wear to boards, foxing to endpapers, else fine. Clean text, tight binding./no DJ. Octavo 284pp. A study of gang activity, with sections on The Violent Gang, The Natural History of the Gang, Social-Psychological Perspectives on the Gang, and Programs for Gang Control: Evaluation and Recommendation. #00255.

New York: Heritage Press, 1944. first thus. hardcover. Book VG+: touch of sun to spine, else clean, tight, square, unmarked. Slipcase VG: mild age/handling. Carlotta Petrina. 8vo 397pp. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. with Mr. Dryden's introduction. #02280 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.