Search Results: Titles starting with V from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Mariner, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.3" H x 9.1" L x 6.0" W (1.05 lbs) 368 pages. Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents, sewn binding. Secure ship w/track #. This "is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, pararachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more. ... Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Often the women themselves kept their stories private, even from their own families. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with [an] ... historical account of American servicewomen… Read More

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 6.4"x9.5" 418 indexed pages. White boards. Slate blue cloth spine w/gold foil letters. Map of PA & NJ for paste downs. First printing w/#1. DJ by Jackie Seow. Jacket painting: George Washington at Valley Forge. Author photos: Anne Drager. Interior design by Lewelin Polanco. Maps by David Lindroth. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (price), remainder mark on bottom edge. Secure ship w/track #. "December 1777. It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment 23 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. The starving and half-naked force is reeling from a string of demoralizing defeats at the hands of King George III's army, and are barely equipped to survive the coming winter. Their commander in chief, the focused and… Read More

NY: Bantam, 1995. 1st Edition Thus. MMPB 4.25"x6.75. Very Good-Collectible. 180 numbered pgs. First printing. Author photo c Michael Pizzuto. Cover art: Dust-Stained Posse, by Frank C. McCarthy. Spine slanted, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Edge & shelf wear. Scrape to back cover. Secure ship w/track #. Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: a land where for every friend there is an enemy, for every handshake a fist, for every dispute a resolution—usually in an explosive showdown of blood and bullets. In these remarkable tales, Louis… Read More

NY: Bantam, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover w/cloth spine. Near fine/near fine. 6.25"x9.25"x.75" 181 pgs. First Printing. Cream heathered boards. Red cloth spine w/gilt letters. Book design by Mierre. Front cover art: Dust-Stained Posse, by Frank C. McCarthy. Back cover photo c Michael Pizzuto taken in 1987, south of No Man's Mesa, in Utah. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and slight tone. Unclipped, unmarked, not x-library. Minor shelf wear to DJ. Gift Quality. "A new collection of short stories from master storyteller Louis L'Amour, never before published in book form, Valley of the Sun tells of the men and women who helped tame the American West. All the danger, the mighty challenge of the law, the brutal land met head-on by the courage and strength of these adventurers springs to active, exciting life." Goodreads ***3.88.

London: Leopard, 1996. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.5"x8.75". 189 pgs. Black pictorial hardboards. DJ design by Leigh Taylor. Intro by Len Deighton (1973). Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Small tear w/crease to BRC of DJ. In this gruesome Sherlock Lock Holmes tale, Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate the mysterious shooting of John Douglas, when he is mysteriously murdered with a sawn-off shotgun at his Manor home in Sussex. The House is surrounded by a moat so the two, are at first, left baffled as to how the murderer entered or existed ... or did he? Fans of the famous detective will love this book, as will anyone interested in a thrilling and exciting read. PART 1-The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter 1-The Warning Chapter 2-Sherlock Holmes Discourses Chapter 3-The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter 4-Darkness Chapter 5-The People of the Drama Chapter 6-A Dawning Light Chapter 7-The Solution PART… Read More

NY: Delacorte, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Very Good-Collectible/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.5" 304 pgs. First printing. Black boards. Maroon cloth spine. Gilt letters on front and spine. Gray paste downs. DJ design by Andrew M. Newman. Lettering by Dave Gatti. Author's photo by Charles Bush. Spine straight, bindingt tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. PON blacked out on ffep. Soiling to backside of DJ. Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a devoted wife and mother, and Malcolm is a man everyone admires. On the eve of Teddy's disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when… Read More

New York: Thomson Gale, 2006. 1st Large Print Ed. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Collectible - VeryGood/No Jacket. 6"x8.75" 397 pages X-library w/graphics. First printing. "In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery, she must first solve a second disappearance that of her client, the now grown daughter of Laurel Greenwood. The case, which forces Sharon to explore the darker sides of two marriages, comes uncomfortably close on the heels of her own marriage to Hy Ripinsky, and she begins to doubt the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel." Goodreads 3.93.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood/No Jacket. 5.25"x7.5"x1.5". 308 pgs. Dk orange cloth boards with blue design and letters on front and spine. PON on ffep: "Snow Moon 19 Sun 26th Greater Sun. Chief William Red Fox Rose Bud, S.D." 4 B&W illustrations incl. frontispiece. First Edition I-Z. 4 pgs of book advertisements in back. Spine straight, binding tight, pages toned, unmarked. Edgewear to head and toe of spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no Dj. Secure ship w/track #. Chief William Red Fox (1870-1976) was the nephew of Crazy Horse. He performed in this early silent western as well as others. He also worked for Buffalo Bill for many years as an actor and translator. "Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future… Read More

Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1986. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x8.5". 463 pages. X-library w/graphics. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Bumps to corners. Multiple initialling inside covers. Nothing much ever seemed to happen in the sleepy village of Hazel Green apart from the occasional tea-party, spiced with local gossip. Until Maggie Bell went out one evening for a breath of fresh air and never came back. Could Maggie's disappearance be linked to security leaks at the nearby Air Ministry? Or is a sinister scheme being hatched closer to home? Miss Silver is called in to solve the mystery just as a second person goes missing ... Goodreads 3.91.

NY: Viking Studio, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 10.25"x12.25" 318 numbered pages. Khaki cloth boards w/title blind stamped on front and spine. Matching paste downs. Photographers, illustrators, and writers all listed. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped w/price, & unmarked. Faint foxing to edges. Short thin black line on back DJ. Price covers extra shipping costs. Secure ship w/track #. Hailed by "American Photo" as "the ground zero of modern iconography", "Vanity Fair" has from the start made Hollywood its stomping ground. This star-studded book encapsulates a century of the movie mecca's glory, power, glamour, and scandal as the stars of the past rub shoulders with today's cinematic giants in an incomparable collection of luminous images, classic essays, and delightful caricatures from the magazine's archives from as far back as 1914. 300 photos in color and b&w. Source: Publisher.

NY: Harper Wave, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New. Physical Info: 1.15" H x 10.1" L x 8.21" W (2.69 lbs) 336 pages. First printing. Features: Illustrated , Index , Price on Product. Secure ship w/track #. Discover innovative, adaptable, and delicious ways to serve a wide range of vegetables with this inspired cookbook featuring over 150 recipes from Steven Satterfield, the James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef and author of Root to Leaf. In the last decade, vegetables have taken a prominent place on the plate. At his hugely successful Atlanta restaurant, Miller Union, Steven Satterfield is constantly searching for new ways to serve the vast variety offered each season. When it comes to cooking meats and seafood, there are specific guidelines for texture and doneness. But each vegetable has inherent properties that can be enhanced or manipulated in infinite ways, offering numerous opportunities to innovate. In Vegetable Revelations, Satterfield explores how texture affects the… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. Hardcover_boards. Used - Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5". 317pp. BCE. Tan hard boards w/maroon letters to spine. Jacket design by Richard Cardiff. Map of Spain and Mediterranean Sea as paste downs. Deckled edge. Author photo on back of DJ by Editta Sherman. Burgundy top stained. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slight tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light soiling and foxing to cover, in Brodart mylar. It is the story of a lifetime spent on the sea in the most dazzling years in all the history of navigation and discovery. It is the story of dark days spent under the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition; of bright hours of roistering and shining moments of love. But Lepe's story cannot be told without telling of another man -- a brave, arrogant, and determined visionary. That man is Christopher Columbus. The time is late in the fifteenth century, when the scimitar of Islam was across North Africa and the Moors still held Granada. Constantinople had fallen to… Read More

London: Mills & Boon, 2008. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 6"x8.75". 288 pages. X-library w/graphics. Niccolo is shocked when he discovers that the mystery woman he's just made love to after a masked party is Daniella Bell. Dani has a failed marriage behind her and never wanted to wed again. Niccolo has other ideas...especially when Dani announces she's pregnant with his baby! Goodreads 3.47.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING with DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 0.8" H x 8.6" L x 5.7" W (0.95 lbs) 200 pages. Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a private and solitary life, and that, in spite of poor health and unusual emotional vulnerabilities, he worked tirelessly to achieve exquisite new effects in verse. Vergil's most famous work, the Aeneid, was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, who published the epic despite Vergil's dying wish that it be destroyed. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence… Read More

Life Touch Publishing, 2004. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Acceptable. 8.25"x11" Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped & unmarked. Title page has been removed. Secure ship w/track #. 7th & 8th Grade Junior High School located in Ashland, KY.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. author. 8.75"x11.25" 32 beautifully illustrated unpaginated pgs. First printing. X-library w/graphics. Tex set in Optima. Illustrations are acrylic and coloredpencils on paper. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Unclipped. Secure ship w/track #. Little Tooth is so nervous, she can hardly fall asleep. Tomorrow is her very first day of school! Tomorrow will be a day full of new experiences and surprises. Tomorrow will be a very full morning! Eva Montanari's beautiful illustrations and sunset-wattage colors bring this story of the first day of school to life. Kids will sigh with relief to know that even a teacher gets a little scared of September! Source: Publisher.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. Hardcover. Very good/VeryGood. Jonathan Field. Not ex-library. 5.375"x8.5"x.75"; 222 pgs. BCE. Khaki cover with black lettering on spine. Jacket typography by Jonathan Field. Author drawing on back flap by Frederick Fairer. Copy photo by Millar and Harris. Some aging/tanning to pages but otherwise a very good, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to dust jacket such as rubbing, but no tears. Spine straight, binding tight. Unmarked. "There are those among us who are endowed with the gift - not yet understood - of contact in some degree with powers beyond the physical world. Stylish Lorna Teasdale's awareness of possessing this gift pervaded her life, yet she consciously suppressed and resisted it in her anxiety to be an ordinary, normal person. But just how feeble her resistances are, Lorna soon finds out when she and her niece, Christabel, rent a flat in the London suburb of Clapham..."-Goodreads.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1921. Reprint. Hardcover_cloth. Used - Good. 5.75"x7.63" 412 pp. Black cloth boards. Joseph Conrad in red on front. Red letters inside red block on spine. Spine straight, binding tight pages toned. PON inside front board. Light soiling to boards w/edge wear, rubs, & bit of fraying. Pages toned. Not x-library. Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.Marked by a violent and tragic… Read More

France: Golden Master Series. Near Mint/VeryGood. CD 500.060e. Conductor: Peter Falk Johann Strauss (Senior): Dorfschwalbern, op. 164 Johann Stauss (Junior): Artist's Life Love songs, op.114 Voices of Spring, op. 410 Vienna Bonbons, op. 307.

New York: Doubleday, 1954. Hardcover. Used - VeryGood/VeryGood. Book Club Edition. 5.75"x8.5"x1.25"; 409 pgs. Tan cloth boards with blue lettering. No markings throughout, but pages and boards have tanning and mild discoloration due to aging. Jacket has minor tearing at corners and some age tanning, but overall is in great shape. Spine straight, binding tight. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. National Book Award for Fiction Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with… Read More