Search Results: Authors starting with V from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, a Division of Kraus-Thompson Organization Limited, 1970 The original works were published between 1915 and 1929 by the Milanese firm of Ulrico Hoepli. Hard cover, folio (7 ½ x 11 ¼ inches), in red buckram with titles in gilt to spines, 719, 646 ,368, and 325 pp. In Italian, with numerous full page black and white reproductions. Printed in Germany. A reprint of the well-illustrated cultural survey of social life, customs and artistic output of the second half of the Italian Quattrocento, produced under the auspices of Lodovico Maria Sforza (1452-1508), Duke of Milan, Lord of Genoa, and one of the Italian Renaissance's great patrons of the Arts. Each volume includes an index of names as well as an index of illustrations. Art historian Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri ( 1867-1928) wrote this work while Director of the State Archives of Milan and, later, while Director of the National Art Gallery of Bologna. Condition: Near Fine, tight clean and bright, with one… Read More

Hartford and Utica: O.D. Case & Company and John W. Fuller & Co., 1857 Reprint. Copyright stated as 1853. Hard cover, 16mo, (measuring 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), in quarter calf over brown, paper-covered boards, the front with titles printed, advertising on the rear cover, the spine with gilt banding, title worn away. Advertising for Strong's System of Penmanship, dated September 1854, with testimonials from various Swampscott, Mass. individuals.) Stereotyped by Richard H. Hobbs, Hartford, Connecticut. Printed by Case Tiffany and Co., Hartford, Connecticut (verso title pg.) **Bound in are eight maps (complete) printed in black, red, green and yellow: Map I The World or Hemispheres (double page), Map II North America, Map III U.S. and Mexico (double page), Map IV South America, Map V Europe, Map VI Asia and Map VII Africa and Map VIII Oceana. This was meant to supplement the classroom instruction of geography, as a manual to larger classroom wall maps. Includes hints for teachers, identified places of… Read More

New York: The Chinese Porcelain Company, 2001 Hard cover, quarto, 66pp. Full color plates. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good Minus dust jacket. Dust jacket scuffed with some small tears at edges. ** Auction catalog.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus.

Boston: The City Council, Boston, 1893 Hard cover, 4to, (7 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches) in brown cloth with bevelled edge boards, city seal in gilt circle to front board and in blind on rear, title in gilt to spine glazed brown pastedowns, 236pp. Condition: Very Good. A few small, faint marks to boards. Slight edgewear. News clippings between flies caused a bit of browning there. Otherwise, very clean and tight, mildly age-toned. This profusely illustrated book is a piece of Boston history. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Theatre Museum, 1984 44pp unnumbered. Scarce catalog of an exhibition for The Theatre Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Includes many photos from the stage and from movies. Condition: Very Good with some shelfwear to covers and scuffing to the front cover. Pages age-toned.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: H.M.Stationery Office, 1973 Hard cover, 8vo., pp 82, 36, 58, 66, 82, 90, 40. Reprint edition. In publisher's blue cloth binding. Condition: Very Good, with some light foxing, and some light marks to covers.** A book of several sections, commissioned by the British Foreign Office in preparation for a Peace Conference held around 1917. Sections on The Partition of Africa, British West Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, and Nyasaland. . Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Sotheby's, 1990 Soft cover, quarto, 175pp. Illustrated auction catalog with completed bidding slip stapled to front cover. Condition: Very Good. Some annotations to title page.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Kirkwall: Orkney Herald, 1956 79pp. Smuggling in Eighteenth Century Orkney. Separations and Unions in the Church of Scotland. Sherrif Patrick Graeme and his Substitute in Shetland. Schools in the Clairston Presbytery in the Eighteenth Century. Letters of Thomas Balfour to William Watt, 1784-87. Some light creases to pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1986 Soft cover, quarto, 55pp. Condition: Near Fine. Some light creases to covers. ** Exhibition catalog featuring textile works by modern artists. Text in English and Japanese. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1971 Soft cover, quarto, 52pp. Unnumbered. Staple-bound illustrated exhibition catalogue. Condition: Near Fine. Hole punch in back cover. Light marks to covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1979 Hard cover, quarto, 442pp. The Huntington Library was founded by Henry Edwards Huntington (1850 - 1927), an American railroad tycoon and book collector. The library has a vast collection (7 million manuscripts and 400,000 rare books) including a vellum Gutenberg Bible, and the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer, an illuminated copy of the famous Canterbury Tales. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Tucson, Arizona: The City of Tucson, Arizona, 1996 38pp. Condition: Creases to binding at spine with small closed tear to back cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Hartford, Conn.: The Connecticut Quarterly Company, 1897 pp 502 [10] Scarce issue of The Connecticut Magazine, with articles/illustrations titled: Battle of the Hartford and the Tennessee, Norwich Bean Hill, Connecticut's Soldiery, Connecticut and Virginia a Century Ago, The Convention Troops in Connecticut, Copper Mining in Connecticut, A Daughter of Puritans, Early Rules of Yale, The Enfield Shakers, An Escape from Newgate, The Fair Trader's Voyage, The Farmington River and its Tributaries, Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, Boston Street Madison, A Ministry of a Hundred Years Ago, Old Time Music and Musicians, Music Vale, Miss Sally, A New Haven Church, Newington, New London - A Daughter of Puritans, The Old Whaling Port, The Parks of Bridgeport, A Trip to Paradise, Prehistoric Remains of the Tunxis Valley, In Satan's Kingdom, Three Killingly Boys, Traffic on the Connecticut River, Waramaug Lake, The Wolcott Plateau. With poetry by: Ellen Brainerd Peck, Grace Appleton, Annie Laurie Lynde, James Dixon,… Read More

London: Barnard Quaritch, 2005 Soft Cover, 8vo. Staple-bound catalog of books for the New York Book Fair. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Kirkwall: Orkney Herald, 1973 56pp. Orkney and the King Hakon Conference. Norwwegian Consolidation and Expansion During the Reign of King Hakon Hakonsson. Norwegian Court Literature in the Middle Ages. King Hakon the Old Before the Bar of History. The Battle of Largs. Hakonair Saga - Portrait of a King. Light wear to covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Fincastle, Virginia: Bicentennial Publications Committee, 1977 99pp + supplement + orthography explanation sheet. History of Botetourt County, Virginia. Condition: Very light age-toning to covers. Near Fine. OCLC 3276959.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Maggs Bros Ltd, 1997 Soft Cover, 102pp. Catalogue from the famed Maggs Bros., established in 1853 by Uriah Maggs and still a going concern. Condition: Near Fine, with very light shelf-wear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969 Folio book with color illustrations of the art produced by the Aztecs et al. Condition: About Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1991 Hard cover, quarto, 427pp. Illustrated catalog of the Lessing J.Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Lessing J.Rosenwald (1891 - 1979) was an American businessman and rare-book collector, son of the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He donated his collection to the Libary of Congress. Included in the collection are the Kelmscott Chaucer, a Mainz Bible, and works by Durer, Blake etc. Condition: Near Fine with foxing to edge of text block, in a Very Good plain white dustjacket, with dust soiling. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Washington DC: WPA Federal Art Project, 1937 Soft cover, 8vo., 32pp. Condition: Very Good. Covers dust-soiled and a little worn at the edges. ** A survey of art as sponsored by governments including Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia and the US. An interesting historical document.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.