Search Results: Titles starting with V from Frogtown Books, Inc.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936. 8vo. Brown paper covered boards textured to look like cloth. 218 pp. Pictorial endpapers. Faint phantom shadow on title page from a high wood pulp paper laid in for many years. Previous owner's name on verso of dedication page. Otherwise a clean, tight fine copy./Jacket has a 1" tear, two shorter tears and a little ruffling at top edge of spine..

1977. Franklin Library. full leather with moire end papers. fine.

Dey St. Hard Cover in its Original Shrink-wrap. fine/fine.

1892. Professionally matted, dimensions of visible photo are 21-1/4" x 16-5/8. This photo has an inscription "To Hazen S. Pingree and my old friends at City Hall Very Truly Yours, Thomas A. Edison December 18 1892". We purchased is from Profiles in History as a signed item but since then doubt has been cast about the authenticity of the signature. We are not selling it as a signed item. It is however an unusual item. A little flaw across Edison's vest projecting down from his cigar holding hand. A 1" tear and a couple of small scrapes at the bottom edge. See the photo. Otherwise photo is in nice condition..

Perfect condition. A lovely portrait.. Later print signed by Lauren Bacall in felt tipped pen. Comes with certificate of authenticity by Bob Eaton and Bill White.

London: S. Palmer, 1728. First Edition. 4to. (50), 407, (1) pp. 12 folding engraved plates. Headpieces, tailpieces, initials by Pine and Grison. Full Polished Calf - rebacked in the style of the period, marbled endpapers and marbled edges, hinges reinforced. Label affixed on front cover from Cookseys, Auctioneers, Lot 729, Wakehurst Place Sale, July 1890. A very good copy with no foxing or internal blemishes. Abraded area, 1" in diameter, at bottom of back cover. Corners rubbed.. On front pastedown is the coat of arms bookplate of Edgar March Crookshank (10/2/1858 - 7/1/1928) prominent English physician and microbiologist. Henry Pemberton (1694-1771) brought Newton's philosophy to the layman. He was invited by Newton to edit the third (1726) edition of the Principia. The preface includes recollections of Newton in his old age.

Mckay, 1978. First Ed. Hardback. fine/fine.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1929. 8vo. Two volumes. 316 pp. and 338 pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Both volumes in fine condition.. An intimate memoir of a life dedicated to recording heroic effort and suffering in the depths of the many conflicts that arose across Europe and the Middle East, Russia and India from Serbia as early as 1876 through the end of the Great War. To those who happen to pick up this volume and do me the honor of reading it I wish to state that they will find no fiction in its pages. Every incident I have set down can be corroborated by comrades, "many still living," who have shared my vicissitudes. There is nothing in this book, as the old adage goes, "to make the dead turn in their graves." - Frederic Villiers, August 1919.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959. Large 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8." Paper covered boards with a look of knotty pine. Map endpapers. 184 pp. including index. Wayne State University Library rubberstamp on both half-title p. and title p. Otherwise book is fine./Dust jacket lightly worn.. Tales of the pioneers, lumberjacks sailors and others who made history in the Grand Traverse Region of Michigan.

william morrow, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine/fine.

New York: Simon Pulse, 2011. First Edition. Black paper covered boards with white spine stamped in iridescent red. 294 pp. 8vo. As new, fine condition./As new, fine dust jacket..

London: Reeves and Turner, 1883. Second and Revised Edition. 12 mo., two volumes, complete. Blind-stamped brown cloth. Fold-out frontispiece printed in red and black in volume I. Total of 621 pp. including index. A little foxing on endpapers. Overall quality of both volumes is very good.. From the Library of Old Authors series.

Edition Stemmle, 1998. First Edition. Hard Back. fine/fine. Photography by Joanne Savio.

1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. very good. Carol Ruhl.