Search Results: Titles starting with V from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Grenoble/Paris: B. Arthaud, (1948).. (1948).. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers. The front edge of the front wrap is creased. The spine is creased with tears to the head & tail & the front wrap is partially detached. There is a small stain to the tail of the spine & the adjacent corner of the rear wrap. 275 & [3] pages plus colophon. Black-and-white frontispiece & full-page black-and-white illustrations. The pages are toned & the rear endpaper is nearly detached. Fair. <p>First edition in French.<p>From the library of arts consultant and mountain climber George Alan Smith with his signature on the front endpaper and a few of his pencil markings in the text. The text is in French.

New Haven, CT: S. Babcock, circa [1844]., [1844].. Good. - 32mo. chapbook [3-5/8 inches high by 2-1/8 inches wide] softcover bound in printed blue wraps sewn with tan cord with a vignette & a decorative border on the front wrap and an ad for Babcock's Toy Books on the rear cover. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled with 2 stains to the front wrap & a chip to its inner edge. 16 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut title vignette, a decorative border at the top of the first text page & 6 full-page woodcuts in the text. There is a stain to the inside front wrap, partially obscuring an owner's faded name. The text pages are unevenly darkened. Good.

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soners forlag, (1967).. (1967).. Good. - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 8 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. A large section of the binding's film surface, which is somewhat darkened, is lacking from each cover. There is minor soiling to the covers with some light staining to the spine. 167 pages plus colophon. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations. The front pastedown & endpaper are darkened & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. <p>"What did grandfather do in Molle?" A pictorial account of life and social customs in Molle, Sweden around the turn of the century.

Goteborg [Sweden]: Wettergren & Kerbers Forlag (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Small quarto [9-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in printed cream wrappers. The binding is bumped with the spine & extremities darkened & with the surface rubbed away from the bottom corner of the front wrap. The tail of the spine is chipped. There is a small stain to the front wrap & some tiny marks to the rear wrap. Title, 168 & [1] pages. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece & full-page black-and-white illustrations. Very good. <p>The text is in Swedish with an English summary. The English subtitle printed on the title page is "A study in the religious art and ideas of Ernst Josephson".<p>An important Swedish artist and pioneer of modern art, Josephson's latent, inherited schizophrenia overtook him at the age of 37.

(New York): Mcfadden-Bartell Corporation, 1966).. 1966).. Good. - Small octavo, pictorial purple & gold wraps. The wraps are rubbed with the corners of the front wrap lightly creased. 192 pages. The page edges are darkened. Black-and-white illustrations. Good. <p>First edition.<p>Over-excitedly described on the cover as "An Intimate and Shocking Expose / The Sensational Never-Before-Published Truth about the Most Fiery Sex God of Our Time", this book deals with Valentino's sex life and whether he was gay.

(Cambridge, MA and London, U.K.: The MIT Press), (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The head of the spine is faded. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with some minor soiling and its top edge is slightly darkened. xiii, [1] leaf &190 pages. Illustrated in black & white with maps, plans, tables & photographic illustrations. Very good.

[New York]: Thames & Hudson, (2001)., (2001).. Fine. - Quarto, 12-7/8 inches high by 10-1/8 inches wide. Gray cloth titled in red on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. xii, [ii] & 418 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout, including many full-page illustrations. Near fine. Published by Thames & Hudson for The Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.With contributions to the text by Kristin Hoermann Lister and the assistance of Mary C. Weaver.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1982)., (1982).. Very good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9 inches wide. Brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust jacket is slightly rubbed & soiled. 240 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. There is a small tear, reinforced with document tape, at the top edge of the front endpaper. Very good. First American edition.

Amsterdam:Van Gogh Museum / New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (2005)., (2005).. Fine. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray cloth titled in yellow on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. 319 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.
First edition.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1949., 1949.. Good. - Quarto, 9-5/8 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in color pictorial wraps titled in black on the spine. The covers are soiled & creased. 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. The top front corners of several pages are creased. Good.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (2013)., (2013).. Fine. - Quarto, 10-3/8 inches high by 9-7/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth titled in white on the spine, in a color pictorial white dust wrapper. There is a faint light stain to the front cover of the book. xi, [i], 187 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in color. Near fine.
First edition.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions organized by The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes contributions by Sylvia Albro, H. Travers Newton, and Galina K. Olmsted.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (2001)., (2001).. Fine. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green boards titled in white on the spine, in a color pictorial light green dust wrapper. 264 pages, with a few textual illustrations in color and black & white. Near fine.
First edition.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (2012)., (2012).. Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red boards titled in blind on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust jacket's front inner flap is slightly faded and there is a tiny tear to the head of the jacket's spine. 288 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.
Edited by Cornelia Homburg with contributions by Cornelia Homburg, Anabelle Kienle, Joseph J. Rishel, Jennifer A. Thompson, Rakhee Balaram, Noelle C. Paulson, Ulrich Pohlmann, and Richard Shiff.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2000)., (2000).. Fine. - Oblong quarto, 8-1/2 inches high by 10-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in orange boards backed with a red cloth spine, in a color pictorial teal dust wrapper. 494 pages, illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.
First edition.

(Secaucus, NJ): The Wellfleet Press, (1989)., (1989).. Very good. - Quarto, 13-1/4 inches high by 9-7/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue boards titled in gilt on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is creased along the top with a couple of tiny tears. The book's covers are lightly soiled with bumping along the bottom edge. 190 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. Very good.

Brussels, Belgium: Mercatofonds, (2013)., (2013).. Very good. - Oblong quarto, 10 inches high by 11-7/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in white boards titled in silver on the spine with a color illustration on the front cover, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. 304 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. The tail of the dust wrapper has a tiny chip else near fine.
First edition. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

New York: Thames & Hudson, (2000)., (2000).. Very good. - Quarto, 12-3/8 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The corners and tail of the book's spine are lightly bumped. 272 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
First American edition.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions at The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1932.. 1932.. Good. - Octavo, maroon cloth with color pictorial label on front cover. The covers are bumped & rubbed & 1 corner of the label is chipped. The spine is rubbed & the titling completely faded. xx & 525 pp. The book is cracked at the flyleaf. There is an owner's ink inscription on the title page & an attractive owner's bookplate mounted on the front pastedown. B&W frontispiece, 37 plates in B&W & color & B&W textual illustrations by the author. Good. <p>Seventh printing.

[New York: Publishing Society of New York], 1907., 1907.. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, three parts bound together in green cloth titled in gilt on a label mounted on the spine. The spine label is chipped and rubbed with minor loss to the titling. Bound in are the "Vol. 2, No. 1, January, 1907" issue, with pages 1-23 illustrated with a frontispiece. Subsequently bound in are "Vol. 2, No. 2, March, 1907", with pages 129-144 illustrated with a frontispiece; and "Vol.2, No. 3, May, 1907", with pages 187-212. Very good.
Scarce.
An association copy from the library of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer with her bookplate with the printed statement "ex libris ad novi eboraci historiam pertin engibus" (from the library of books on the history of New York). She has written a few notes and marked passages in pencil in the first part of the work.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) was an art and architectural critic. She was an honorary member of the American Institute of… Read More

Woodstock, NY: Twines' Catskill Bookstore, (1963).. (1963).. Good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are very lightly bumped with the edges slightly faded & a small area of very light staining to the front cover. There are areas of heavy rubbing to the dust jacket front panel & spine with a tear to the top edge of the panel. There are small stains to the rear panel & the flaps. 350 pages. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper & there are small stains to the fore-edge. Good.