Search Results: Authors starting with V from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Iskusstvo Leningradskoe Otdelenie, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on ffep. Hunter-green cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. Approximately 150 illustrations (mostly b/w photographs of artifacts). Dust jacket toned along spine; in an archival mylar sleeve. 197, [3] pages.

Moscow, Russia: AST, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good+. Book is very lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Very faint warp to book. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Illustrated fairy tales for children. 221 pages. Russian language. 20cm x 26.5cm

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition (SD). Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling. Gilt on spine a bit darkened. Interior is clean. Book has been placed in a clear archival sleeve. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was an American poet. This book records his reflections, with some poetry, as he walked from Springfield, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and on to New Mexico. 186 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches.

Chicago: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Vest-pocket size in stiff leatherette boards. Light wear at extremities. Previous owner's name on ffep, else internally clean. pp. 85, plus [8] advertising. 6.5 x 3.5 inches. 1903 soup and entree cookbook by chef Joseph N. Vachon (1860-1929), who was at the time employed at The Transit House in Chicago, a fine hotel owned by the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company. The hotel burned down in 1912. He followed with employment at two other historic hotels: 15 years at the New Harper Hotel in Rock Island and then for a few years at the LeClaire Hotel in Moline. Includes about fifty pages of entree recipes, followed by forty pages of soups and an index. Concludes with an eight-page catalog of cookbooks and hotelier guides published by the Hotel Monthly Press.

Newcastle upon Tyne, England: North-East Publications, 1949. Hardcover. Good. James Alder. No date, but presumed to be mid-to-late 1940's. Previous owner's name and a 1949 date inscribed. Orange cloth boards show general wear and soiling. Interior has a few minor signs of use. 16 plates: mostly illustrations by James Alder; maps for each chapter; end papers are illustrated with Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Norman maps of Northumberland. 242 pages. 8.25 x 6 inches. The author's descriptive travelogue through the region of Northumberland. Contents: Tyne and Derwent Dales; The Dales of Allen; Gilsland and South Tyne; North Tyne; In Heartbreak Valley; Along Dere Street; Roman Redesdale; The Cheviots; Around a Celtic City; Tiptoe through Till Valley; The Silvery Tweed; Berwick to Holy Island; The Smuggleries; The Vale of Aln; The Valley of the In Yore Folk; Upper Coquetdale; Lower Coquetdale; Vales of Wansbeck and Pont; Saxon Shore; Great North Road.

[DeLand, Florida]: Temple of the Healing Spirit / University of Kemetian Sciences, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Boards in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. 710 pages. An extensive treatise on the variety of issues impacting women's health, from issues related to feminism, to a broad range of other sociological, political, metaphysical, pharmaceutical, anatomical, and economic factors. Book 4 of The Re-genesis Chronicles: A definitive guide to the physical, mental and spiritual resurrection of melanated people in the Cosmic Diaspora.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Copyright page states ''First, second and third printings before publication / Published, August, 1924''. Purplish-burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket spine faded; top right corner of front panel chipped; not price clipped ($2.50 net); in an archival mylar sleeve. 286 pages. Carl Van Vechten's 1924 novel, set in the year 1897, partially set it the fictional town of Maple Valley, Iowa, wherein a European countess returns to her hometown in the midwest, encountering and shocking the Main Street mentality of its inhabitants. In 1925, it was adapted into the film A Woman of the World, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Pola Negri.

Amsterdam: N.V. Em. Querido's Uitgevers-Mij., 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition (1938 on title page, no other indications). Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Slightly spine cocked. Previous owner's name on ffep with date (1942). Very slight foxing to some pages. Dust jacket has a small chip at the foot of spine; spine is toned. DJ in a clear archival sleeve. The jacket features a black, grey, and orange night-scene illustration of canal houses with a lamp and crescent moon, illustrated by Leon Holman. 128 pp. 18.5 x 11 cm. Laid-in is the publisher's postcard, to be filled out to be kept up-to-date about their publications.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illustrated by Frank Craig. Boards in maroon cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped pictorials on spine and front cover. Interior is unmarked. Pages show a bit of foxing and a very few spots of minor soiling. A couple leaves are roughly opened. Four plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) with illustrations by Frank Craig. Dust jacket has some speckled spots and a few edge chips; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. 276, [1]. Rare dust jacket. A novel of the heart, set in Italy, colorfully replete with Italian character and atmosphere. The title The Broken Bell was chosen by the author as a metaphor for a woman's heart, which today may be broken, but which tomorrow may be recast to ring as sweetly as ever. The heroine is an American woman, transplanted to Italy an early age, who finds herself wed to a faithless husband. The author, Marie Van Vorst (1867-1936), was a popular American novelist who lived in New… Read More

New York: Dial Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Second printing. Clean and square, crisp pages. Dj dampstained on back panel, light biopredation and edge-wear, not price clipped. 80 pages. Written in 1941, just prior to the entrance of the United States into the Second World War. "In it he [van Paassen] has probed, and realistically answered the most vital question of our time: If Hitler is to be stopped short of his goal of world-domination, what must America do--and do now? ... His recommendations will come as a bombshell to every American.

Dublin: An Association of Members of the Society of Friends, 1851. Hardcover. Good. Volume II only (including Tracts No. 25 through 44). Quarter leather with marbled paper sides. Boards are heavily rubbed/scuffed. Wear along edges; corners pushed. Foxing. 4, [iii]-viii; with 422 pages (each tract is individually numerated). 7 x 4.5 inches. Published in 1851 by the Dublin Tract Association of Members of the Society of Friends (which had been formed in 1814). The introduction is dated 1836. Each of the twenty tracts is presented with an original title page showing dates ranging between 1831 and 1841. Some of the authors represented are: Thomas Chalkey, William Allen, Robert Barclay, Henry Tuke, Josiah Martin, Joseph Phipps, William Penn, Sir Matthew Hale, William Dell, Archbishop Francois Fenelon, Joseph Gurney Bevan, David Hall, Thomas Lurting, and Job Scott. Subjects include piety, reason and revelation, baptism, the nature of true worship, the unlawfulness of war, the prohibition of swearing,… Read More

Moscow, Russia: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Iskusstvo, 1944. Soft cover. Fair. Massovaya Biblioteka Iskusstvo. Printed in January 1944. Antokolskii was a Russian Jewish sculptor. Seven pages have some pen underlining. Wrapper corners are chipped, spine is worn. 10.5 x 16 cm. 16 pages. Russian language. Rare.

Paris: Albin Michel, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. Copyright date 1919, but possibly published in the 1940's. Inscription on ffep dated 1945. Black cloth boards with gilt on front and spine. Minor blemishes on cloth; a few spots of the gilt have been rubbed. Previous owner's book plate on front paste-down. Interior is lightly toned, but clean. 315 pages. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. French language. A partly autobiographical novel by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (1883-1963). This French novelist, poet, essayist, and art historian, was also administrator general of the Comedie-Francaise from 1941 to 1944.

New York: Church Publishing Company, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Some soiling on ffep, else interior is clean. iv, [2], 105 pages. An explanation of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Mystical Body of the Church. The significance of the Holy Spirit in Creation is discussed and in following chapters the author describes the work of the Holy Spirit in its relation to Creation, to Adam, to Old Testament Saints, to Christ's Earthly Life, to Pentecost and the earliest days of the Church, and in relation to Outward Signs, to Holy Communion, Prayer, Union with the Preacher, and to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. David Vaughan Gwilym (1851-1911) was an Episcopal minister in Maine and New York City. He was born and raised in Wales, emigrated to Canada, and later served as rector of the Episcopal church in Houlton, Maine in the late 1880s. In 1890, he was appointed rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lewiston,… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Prescott Street Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Ian Gatley. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Designed and printed by John Laursen at Vi Gale's Press-22. Saddle-stitched in card covers. Minor blemish on front cover, else clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout by Ian Gatley. [24] pages. Placed in a sturdy vinyl slip-on book cover. George Venn's first book of poetry. Venn (b. 1943) has taught at Eastern Oregon University since 1970 where he was writer-in-residence from 1974 to 2002.

Chicago: Charles M. Hertig, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth board with gilt stamped spine; covers ruled in blind. Corners pushed; shelf-side of corners exposed; cloth shows some minor soiling. Owner's private library label and pencil inscription on front endpapers. Light soiling on a few pages. 376 pages. [American Fiction 1876-1900: 5672]. A thinly veiled, questionably libelous satire/fictionalized expose of one of America's robber baron families, the Vanderbilts. It is speculated that the author may have been a family tutor, writing under a pseudonym, from the perspective of Cornelius Jeremiah ''Corneel'' Vanderbilt. The second half is based in part on the legal battle which ensued between Corneel and his brother William over the will of their father, ''Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, following his death in 1877. Reviewed in the May 5, 1880 Springfield Republican: ''The Vanderbilt will case, in all its nauseousness, is spread out... old… Read More

Prague, Czechoslovakia: Mlada Fronta, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dagmar Cerna. Clean and square with just a little bit of edge wear to the blue cloth boards. 48 pages of black and white photography by Rudolf Pucholt and Zdenek Veselovsky. Animal behavior. Dj is in an archival quality protective cover. 293 pages. Czech language.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Lt. Gen. Krulak on title page. First Edition. Red cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Blemishing to cloth, mostly around the front cover's edges. Interior is clean. Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs. xviii, 252 pages. Dust jacket shows very slight edgewear and has some soiling along its fore-edges; in an archival sleeve. A history of the development and innovations of U.S. Marine Corps. First to Fight was the first winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. Lieutenant General Victor Harold Krulak (1913-2008) served in the Marine Corps from 1934 to 1968 and saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, including command of combat organizations from the platoon to a fleet marine force, and serving as a counterinsurgency advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His many awards include, among others, the Navy Cross, Navy… Read More

New York: Dingwall-Rock, Ltd., 1930. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Second edition of 1925 with 1930 copyright. Boards in dark purple cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Mild wear to extremities. Sticker ghost on ffep; light scattered soiling, else interior clean and unmarked. Dust jacket illustration of nude houris lounging upon clouds is color faded; very small chip at head of spine; not price clipped (Net $1.50); rear panel has a couple small scorch marks; in an archival mylar sleeve. 91 pages. Dr. Victor Robinson's essay was written in 1910 and first published in 1912. This is his revised and enlarged second edition of 1925. It explores the history and lore of hashish and describes some contemporary experimentation, including colorful reporting on its effect upon users. Victor Robinson (1886-1947) was a Ukrainian-American physician, medical journalist, and a professor of medical history at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. A collection of his papers is held at the… Read More

London: John Lehmann, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First British edition. Forest-green cloth boards, spine stamped in red and gilt. Previous owner's name on ffep, else clean. Dust jacket has a little chipping at spine ends and corners; some spots of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped; in clear archival sleeve. 296 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Jacket illustrated by Leslie Wood. Gore's novel of Central America, for which, he drew upon his experiences living in Guatemala during the Guatemalan Revolution.