Search Results: Titles starting with V from Better Read Than Dead

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Hardcover quarto, black cloth with silver stamped lettering to front board and spine, 192 pp. In pictorial dust jacket. Very Good, slight lean to spine but stands and shelves straight, toning to endpapers, soiling to edge of text block, previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper in black ink./Very Good, all material present, light handling and shelving wear.. Comprehensive monograph on the legendary Harlem photographer, assembled with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, featuring 187 illustrations in duotone.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 469 pp. Very good, cloth boards lightly worn and faded, top edge dust-soiled, text block light pencil markings; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, else light wear. Jacket design by Richard Bennett; jacket photograph by Frederick Eberstadt. Front free end paper ex libris rubber stamp from music critic and musicologist, Jack Diether. Complementary annotations and notes on end pages with 'Reviewed 3/30/69' written in pencil to front free end paper.

George F Thompson Publishing, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Signed and inscribed by John Willis. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Australia: Angus & Albertson Pubishers, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Grey paper boards with white lettering to cover and spine. Very Good, edge wear to boards, corners and tail of spine bumped, light foxing to text block./Very Good jacket, light edge wear, gently rubbed, 1/2in tear to front panel head edge.. First Edition. A biography of Kieth Virtue, an aviation pioneer who was active throughout the 1930s. Virtue had over 23,000 flying hours and helped to found New England Airways. Endpaper signed by Joan Priest and Keith Virtue, Inscribed by Joan Priest. Text reads: "Joan Priest Kieth Virtue September 1975 For Jaye Don Yule, With my love, Joan" Included are three newspaper clippings containing a review of the book by David Rowbotham, a post humous list of Keith Virtue's "finest moments" by aviation writer, Alan Underwood, and a short summary of the book by an unnamed writer.

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. Hardcover, octavo, glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 464 pp. Near fine.

Moscow, Russia: Planeta Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Linda Karshan. Boards have light wear and toning from age, otherwise this is a very good condition. Grey boards with gold text, no toning on text block of illustrations. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Trinidad: Rilloprint, 1972. Perfect-bound octavo in printed white and purple wrappers. 96pp. Soiled wraps, mild edgewear; Very Good.. Scarce short story collection from the Trinidadian author, whose further work including a study on Trinidad's Syrian-Lebanese community and a treatise on the author Sam Selvon are promised on the back cover of this book but seemingly never made it to publication. OCLC locates under twenty copies held as of May 2024.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1983. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 159 pp. Very good condition. Bilingual collection of poetry from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

London, England: Freedom Press, 1945. Second edition, June 1945. Softcover 4.25 x 5.25", saddle-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, 15 pp. Good, light wear to stapled spine, wear and chipping to perimeter aspects, some fading to text in block and wrappers, some light soiling and creasing to wrappers. Freely adapted from Malatesta's "En péiode électorale" originally published by Freedom Press in 1942, here published as the second edition in 1945. Written as an absurdist theater piece framing a conversation between George and Jack as a philosophical dialogue---the student and teacher of anarchism, respectively. They question the foundational aspects of the democratic system with the imaginary building blocks of the vote as the main character, "...They can go to hell with their elections! I want to learn more of anarchism!" Well-written by Italian anarchist and globe-trotting propagandist Errico Malatesta.

Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst & JRP, 2018. Hardcover octavo in illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 120 pp. Very good, mild wear to edges, corners and spine ends of illustrated boards.