Search Results: Authors starting with V from B Street Books, ABAA

Prentice Hall, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean and umarked. Almost like new. One small library stamp.

Springer, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages.

Horace B. Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A charming and whimsically illustrated children's story: "Being a true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part of the world which does not exist. . Written and drawn for the fun of it by Hendrik Willem van Loon" (title page). 10.25" x 7.5". Black cloth boards with pictorial pastedown front cover and gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. 110 pages with vivid color illustrations. Dust jacket matches front cover, priced $3.50 on front flap. Condition: Wear to top and bottom edges, corner, head/tail of spine. Previous owner's name and year 1932 marked in blue ink to front paste-down endpaper. A four-leaf clover was pressed between pages 14 and 15 and has left a light brown mark. We are leaving the four-leaf clover inside for your good luck. Dust jacket: 2.5" x 2" chip missing from back cover, spine, and left corner of front. Many other small chips and tears to dust jacket, now protected in Mylar cover.

Chronicle Books, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by the author. Pages are clean and unmarked. Partial sunfading to front cover.

Editions A&J Picard, 1983. Paperback. New. New.

Picard, 1988. Paperback. Like New. Like new. Clean and unmarked.

DC Comics, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. Almost like new, clean and unmarked.

Dark Horse, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean and unmarked, almost like new.

Folle Image, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Delux limited edition, signed by Didier Cassegrain, number 226 of 300. Hardcover with 28 additional pages detailing character and page design and a laid in print numbered and signed by Cassegrain. 12.75 x 9

Brewer & Warren, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930, Fading to spine, wear to covers. Binding is tight, clean and unmarked.

Marketplace Books, Inc, 2013. DVD-ROM. New. New in publishers shrinkwrap.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. Hardcover. Good. A fascinating early work on the history of the bicycle. Beginning with a reflection that "Whether velocipedes are only the 'toy of the hour,' or are destined to become a permanent adjunct to our civilization and every-day life or not, no one can doubt their extending popularity", the pseudonymous author offers chapters on "advantages of velocipedes", "The Velocipedes of the Past", "The Velocipedes of the Day", "Art of Velocipede Management", "How to Manage a Bicycle", "How to Construct a Bicycle", "Velocipedum Variorium" and "Progress of the Velocipede". Many illustrations in the text, including past, present and imagined models and a short sequence of instructions on how to mount, start, and go down hill, demonstrated by a man in top hat and whiskers. Worn orange printed wrappers over boards, with loss to the corners and the rear panel. Rebacked. Publisher's ads as endpapers, with embossed stamp from W.H. Smith on front free endpaper.… Read More

Merehurst, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Very little wear, only minor shelfwear. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Acadia Summer Arts Program, 2010. Hardcover. Like New. New condition.

London: Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for J. Rothwell and T. Underhill, 1644. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A contemporary history of the English Civil War, from an enthusiastic supporter. Covering in detail, as the title-page promises, the years 1641 to October of 1643, concluding with the Solemn League and Covenant. "Collected and published, principally for the high honour of our wonder-working God, still most graciously and gloriously carrying-on the great work of a pure Reformation in Church & State; As also for the great encourageme[n]t of all that are zealous for God & Lovers of their Country". Vicar's Chronicle has been professionally restored, leaving it suitable for reading or display. Rebacked, retaining a panel from an early binding reading "Vicar's Chronicle, 1644". A weak section of the title page is reinforced on the verso (see photos). Wear and loss to the corners of the boards. Slight toning to the pages, more pronounced to the index then elsewhere. Edges, now darkened,… Read More

Paris: Société Artistique Du Livre Illustré, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition (31 of 500) illustrated by Georges Scott, with laid in letter signed by Alfred de Vigny. Ornate full morocco binding with elaborate gilt and tooling, doublure and silk endpapers, all edges gilt, large paper, with felt-lined slipcase. Shelf wear to exterior of slipcase, front joint starting. [24], [1]-334, [8] pp. 12.25 x 9.5

Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK), 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A De Luxe limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the translator Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The full vellum binding is bright, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Previous owner's mark on the free endpaper, small bookseller's label on the rear fixed endpaper. xii, 300pp. 9 x 7

Ad. M. C. Stok, 1973. Hardcover. Like New. New condition.

Viking Adult, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED first edition of the second volume in Vollmann's saga of the Jesuits and the Huron. The unclipped jacket is protected in a plastic sleeve, the green and black cover is clean and bright. [xvii], 990 pp. 9.25 x 6.25