Search Results: Titles starting with V from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987. [4], 184 pp. Original white paper covered boards. [21.5 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Just a hint of faint foxing or soil to edges of spine; some very faint tanning to endpapers; minor dust soiling to top edge. Jacket is a trifle age-toned and has a tiny closed tear to the head of the front panel with neat repair on verso, a minor scuff to the front panel, and slight evidence of soiling to the extremities. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. His presentation inscription begins on the front free endpaper: "For Eva McKenna, with the compliments and affection of the Author." It is continued on the half-title: "-- but this is not `the sequel to the Phoenix and the Mirror,' though it will form with it parts of the trinity of trilogies, The Ennead entitled `Vergil Magnus;' and may we both live to see it. A.D." The book is signed by the author on the title page, which also bears his manuscript… Read More

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1847. 12mo (signed in sixes) [16.5 cm]. xii, [17]-219 pages, plus [1] page errata. Complete with two folding maps: "Map of the Routes & Distances to the Virginia Springs" (approx. 28 x 39 cm) and "White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. J. Calwell Proprietor. 1847" (approx. 19 x 24 cm). Contemporary (perhaps original) half calf over marbled boards with gilt-lettered black leather spine label, raised bands, and gilt rules on spine. Good plus. Front hinge professionally repaired with Japanese tissue. Light wear and a few small scuffs to leather. Leaves just a trifle toned, but generally clean. Small adhesive remnant to margin of one leaf, in no way affecting text. First folding map has a professional tissue repair along the length of one vertical fold with loss of several letters of text (the "ewi" in Lewisburg and the "h" in Salt Sulphur.) It is also a little tanned, and shows several short, clean marginal tears… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Two volumes. xiv, 328 and x, 353 pages, plus frontispiece in each volume, folding map, and numerous plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth (dark blue on spines, tan with red stripe on covers), stamped in gilt on spines. Top edges stained red; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. [23.7 cm.] Bright and near fine in very good publisher's cardboard slipcase. Also issued with glassine dustjackets, not present. Small bookseller's ticket at base of front pastedown in each volume, with minimal impact on illustration; short marginal tears to lower corners of two leaves, in no way affecting text; still a nice, clean set. Slipcase shows a small amount of wear and a mark to the paper label, but is sound. FIRST EDITION. A history of Virginia told in a series of biographical sketches of prominent figures.

[Winston-Salem]: Red Maple Press, [1998]. Unpaginated. [80] pages, mostly comprised of full-page color photographs. Original blue-green cloth. Oblong: 21 x 25.8 cm. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER on the front free endpaper and additionally signed by him on the title page. An attractive series of photographs depicting the swamps, forests, and waterways of eastern North Carolina, interspersed with a few pages of prose by the photographer discussing his exploration of the region and his vision for its future. Introduction by J. Merrill Lynch.

Karlsruhe: C.F. Mullers, 1819. Two volumes in one, as issued. [5] leaves, 294 pages, [2] leaves, 52 pages, plus plates. The first leaf is a collective title page for both volumes. The second part bears a separate title page. Complete with 23 lithograph plates, including twenty-one double-page plates and two folding plates. One of the plates is a map; the remainder are diagrams of military movements. Original publisher's illustrated light boards, with a lithograph decoration on spine and a different lithograph vignette on each cover. [14.3 cm.] Housed in original cardboard slipcase covered in marbled paper, with printed paper spine label, and semicircular cut-out at head of front and rear panels (to ease removal of the book from case). A very good or better copy. Hint of wear to spine ends. Moderate soiling to small portion of each board (corresponding to cut-outs in slipcase), with no impact on illustrations. Light scattered foxing, with almost no impact on plates. Slipcase is lightly… Read More