Search Results: Authors starting with V from poor mans books

Philadelphia / Cincinnati: Ziegler, McCurdy & Co. / C. F. Vent & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1867. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 318 pages; Width: 6" Height: 8.25". This is a stated sixth edition, "revised and enlarged," of this biography of the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bound in green cloth over beveled boards, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. A decorative emblem with initials appears blind stamped on front and rear cover. The book shows moderate external wear, with uneven discoloration to the covers. The binding is sound. The plates may display light foxing. A small number of pages at the rear of the volume have minor spotting. The pages are otherwise clean and without markings. This work contains a frontispiece portrait of Brigham Young and plates, including additional portraits, a map and plans of the Lion House, a large residence built by Brigham Young, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in… Read More

N Y: John B Alden. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1884. Cloth. 133 pages; Crisp and clean, no markings. Corners sharp. Campaigns, etc to 1884. .

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. 277 pages; Width: 6.5" Height: 9". From the dust jacket flap: A story of Indian warfare in Maine in the early part of the 18th century, and particularly of Captain Lovewell's expedition and the famous fight at Saco Pond. Review copy of this work, stamped on the half-title page with a publication date of September 24, 1936 and a price of $2.00. The vintage volume is bound in tan cloth covers with black lettering on the spine. There is light to moderate shelf wear. The binding is solid. The text block is adorned with pictorial endpapers displaying a map of the Saco River region. The frontispiece depicts a colonial boy fighting an American Indian. The pages are clean with mild age toning. This work includes numerous plates and illustrations by Wilfred Jones. This volume has its original illustrated dust jacket, with moderate edge wear/loss, and a price of $2.00 on the rear flap. .

Cambridge: Alice James Books. As New with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; Third Printing. Paperback. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed and dedicated on title page in red ink by author, dated 1992. ; Signed by Author .

Boston: New York Graphic Society. As New in As New dust jacket. 1971. First US Edition. Cloth. Color and b/w; 4to 11.5"; [6], 7-387 pages; First printed in 1969 in Italy. This copy in the First in USA which was printed 1971 in New York. Of color plates there are 55 with 281 black and white. Unmarked, jacket unclipped. Blue linen cloth boards. Sharp and new appearing. Domestic shipping is $2.00. Spotted spine. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395423317 . Children's; We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; Color Illustrations; Oblong 4to 11" - 13; 30 pages; Unpaginated. Lustro-Offset Emanuel Dull printed by Litho Company. Flatsigned by author on free colored end paper. Very clean. Faint book smell. ; Signed by Author .

NY: Liveright Publishing Corp.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 487 pages; Custom bound in full brown morocco, spine with 8 raised bands, custom slipcase (slipcase is GOOD+). Bound for the library of the noble John Lynford Viles. .

Amsterdam: P N Van Kampen & Zoon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; HET LEVEN VAN MR. JACOB VAN LENNEP, 2 vols, publisher's brown cloth, contents firm and clean. Dutch language. Plates- portraits and scenes and bldgs. Thought to be complete .

London: Tonson. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1730. Hardcover. Drama; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 303 [4] pages; Headpieces, tailpieces. Light foxing Good+. Plays are The False Friend, The Mistake, A Journey to London, The Provok'd Husband, The Relapse, The Provok'd Wife, Esop, and The Confederacy. Armorial bookplate of Babcock. 1st collected ed. 2 vols. 12mo, contemp. Calf; heavily rubbed, re-backed? , red & black morocco spine labels. Frontis. Portrait. .

Avalon Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1957. 1st; 2nd. Cloth. 223 pages; Currey 497. Red cloth, fine in near fine price clipped DJ. Provenance- Brammer Sci-Fi Collection. Slight rubbing to head and foot of spine. Tale of a Utopia set up on a beautiful and barbaric planet. Provenance- Brammer Sci-Fi Collection. .

Joliet, IL: P. F. Volland. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1928]. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Square 12mo 7" - 7½; Brief aging to text, owner's name on fep, wear to extremities. A naughty Elephant and a hungry Tiger. .

Tolouse: Sebastian Henault,. Good with no dust jacket. 1755. Hardcover. 18th; French Language; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Regia Parnassi, Seu Palatium Musarum In Quo Synonyma, Epitheta, Periphrases, et Phrases Poeticae, ex Officina Textoris, Delectu Epithetorum, Scala Parnassi...Contemp full leather, with red spine label. Corners worn/rounded, covers slightly bowed, minor external wear. [16], 744, [6] pp. Main portion of text is followed by the first 3 leaves of the "Table de la Quantite des Terminaisons & des Cremens...," but at least 4 subsequent leaves are lacking. Preliminary leaves slightly loose, lacking free eps, old red wax spots on pastedowns. Bit of dampstaining. Occasional small inkstains (mostly marginal). .

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Pr. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. cloth. Explores the concept of sacred sociology which brngs pople together in voluntary communion and brotherhood . Set at the beginning of WW II in the backroom of a Paris book store. Clean, no markings, upper rt corner jus slightly pushed. Seeking to counter the anarchistic individualism of the Surrealists .

London: Country Life. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Architecture; FARMING; Sports; Hunting; Royalty; ENGLAND; B&W Illustrations; 10 x 14"; 892 pages; COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE for All INterested in Coutry Life and Country Pursuits. Featured coverage of country houses, architecture and gardening with manorial estates it's mainstay. Features many Fashion pictures [The frontispiece, which usually features a young woman from a landed British family, is very well known and is called popularly "Girls in Pearls"], along with numerous examples of period dress. Quite a few architectural photo plates of various structures, gardening, sports, hunting, gentleman farming, royalty, art, etc. Mostly photos. A heavy book about 1000 pages of text printed on slick paper. Also includes some how-to and fiction as well. Generally designed as a useful but informative publication. Founded 1897. Occasional faults but contents generally VG+. Bound in green cloth,… Read More

Country Life. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs; 668 pages; British country life at the turn of the century. All issue pages bound in sequential order. Firmly bound in brown cloth with linen hinges and morocco leather spine label. Clean and fine contents. Unusually nice and bright. 10" x 15" , 10 pounds. . Architecture; FARMING; Sports; Hunting; Royalty; ENGLAND; B&W Illustrations; 10 x 14"; 848 pages; COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE for All INterested in Coutry Life and Country Pursuits. Featured coverage of country houses, architecture and gardening with manorial estates it's mainstay. Features many Fashion pictures [The frontispiece, which usually features a young woman from a landed British family, is very well known and is called popularly "Girls in Pearls"], along with numerous examples of period dress. Quite a few architectural photo plates of various structures, gardening, sports, hunting, gentleman farming, royalty,… Read More

Various. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1. Wraps. B/w; About 20 pieces weighing 3-4 pounds from 1906 to 1940 .

Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 792 pages; The Hidden Self- Will James. Brown morocco leather over marbled red cloth. Rubbing to extremities. Theaters of Japan 603. Tripoli of Barbary 37. Includes pictorial of American Locomotives. .

Philadelphia: Klemm & Brother, [Ca. 1838-9].. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1838. Hardcover. "Apollo" nos 1-9 (of 29) , "to be continued." 4to, half morocco & marbled bds; bumped & rubbed. Orig green paper wrappers bound in, 144 pp (cover qua tp) , index, advts; some wrinkling & closed tears to margins, browned & foxed throughout. Contemp ownership inscriptions "Samuel Marshal, Wilmington, DE, 1839" on ffep & "Samuel Marshall, West Chester, 1882" on paste-down; scattered contemp musical annotations in ink. .

Paris: France. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950s?. Unknown. Slipcase. facsimiles; 4to ; 100-300 pages; 8 different folders of historical facsimiles. 1600'S through 1800'S. Quite detailed, including wax seals, pictures etc, all tipped in. Political documents, wedding certs, a gamut of collectible items were they not facsimiles. Interesting. Profusion of mounted facsimile documents. 8 (of 16) volumes. All held in a case within a slipcase. Back of slipcase partly detached. Which are usually tipped in on individual sheets. .

Tokyo Japan: The Toyo Bunko,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Softcover. Photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages; Grey light card covers, crisp and clean. Mixed English and Japanese text. Photos of early manuscripts [15 plates]. .