Search Results: Authors starting with V from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

N: N, 1960. Scenes de la vie des commandos parachutistes S.A.S. [Text in French]. Pp. 328, 12 plates, tables of illustrations and contents; post 8vo; stiff pictorial paper wrappers, the laminate lifting on backstrip, edges lightly worn and split, light staining along top edge and with a crease across lower portion of back panel; leaves browned, with some corners creased; Arthaud, Paris, 1960. *Originally published in a limited edition of 50 subscription and numbered copies.

London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xxiv+438(last blank), 16 plates, chronology, list of principal characters, notes, glossary, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Bloomsbury, London, 2014. First edition. *Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, Arturo Barea, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, John Dos Passos, and others in Madrid, 1936-8.

Melbourne: N, 1994. A collection of poetry in Spanish and English. [Dual text, Spanish & English]. Pp.[ii](blank)+42, text illustrations; narrow cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled; Medal Poets, Melbourne, 1994. Medal Poets No. 21. *From the collection of Australian poet Judith Rodriguez, inscribed to her by the author on blank preliminary leaf.

London: Duckworth, 1981. Pp. x+206, text illustrations and maps (several double or full page), pictorial endpapers, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, lower fore-corners bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, verso lightly browned, lower fore-corners bruised; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Duckworth, London, 1981. First edition..

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. Charles Ricketts, a publisher in earnest. Pp. xxiv+266, 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle & London, 2004. First edition. *'As a typographer, publisher, and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a versatile and innovative practitioner who exerted a powerful influence on the development of modern book design.... Beginning with Ricketts' work as "a designer of books and bindings" for Oscar Wilde, the story of the Vale Press reveals for the first time the nature of Ricketts' collaboration with the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press' [wrapper blurb].

Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1973. Pp. xii+238(last blank), frontispiece, plus 8 plates, tailpiece decoration, appendices, index; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards slightly sprung; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with small piece chipped from head of backstrip; edges of leaves faintly soiled; University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1973. First edition. *Written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Academy's founding: 'the most venerable and famous American institution on foreign soil devoted to the pursuit of both the fine arts and humanistic scholarship' [Foreword]..

N: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Pp. 128, illustrations, filmography, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First U.K. edition.

London: The Crime Club, 1982. A Harry Stoner novel. Pp. 224; top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges lightly rubbed and chipped; The Crime Club/Collins, London, 1982. First U.K. edition. *The third Harry Stoner novel.

London: Cassell, 1958. The story of one year (1954-5) in the life of Frederick Valk. With notes by Tyrone Guthrie and Donald Davis. Pp. xvi+134, frontispiece, 8 plates, list of productions, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; a little light foxing; Cassell, London, 1958. First edition.

London: The History Press, 2016. Pp. xiI+282, frontispiece, 7 text illustrations, 2 text maps, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; The History Press/Army Records Society, London, 2016. highlight2 First edition. Publications of the Army Records Society Vol. 36.highlight0.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1961. Pp. 64; demy 8vo; grey/green papered boards, spine lettered in white, the boards slightly sprung; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip lightly browned; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper pastedown, neat inked annotation in bottom margin of page 62; Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1961. First edition. *The Queensland poet and academic's second collection of poetry.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992. Edited by Wray Vamplew, Katharine Moore, John O'Hara, Richard Cashman, Ian F. Jobling. The Australian Society for Sports History with assistance from The Australian Sports Commission. Foreword by Richard Stremski, President, ASSH. Pp. x+430(mostly printed double column), 64 plates, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. *With publisher's publicity bookmarker loosely inserted.

New York: N, 1988. Wine notes and recommendations by Proal Perry. Desserts by Susan Porter. Pp. xii+308(last blank), 8 coloured plates, index; small cr. 4to; blue boards, lettered and decorated in silver/blue, edges of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Ballantine Books, New York, 1988. First edition. *Inscribed and initialled by the author on the half-title page. Key West cuisine.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Pp. [46], printed on rectos only, illustrated; demy 4to; full natural burlap, with printed paper title labels on spine and upper board; uncut; Grabhorn-Hoyem, San Francisco, 1970. Edition limited to 300 copies..

London: The Hogarth Press, 1954. Pp. 60(last colophon); qr. navy cloth, blue & white patterned papered boards, a trifle canted, edges lightly rubbed and bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with closed 3cm. tear at foot of backstrip; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, inked ownership inscription (dated 1956) on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; The Hogarth Press, London, 1954. First edition. *Short story based on the author's experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. The sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919. Pp. 240, 16 plates, endpaper maps, appendices, note on sources, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly browned and foxed, mainly on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, light foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982. First edition.

Ballarat, Vic: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. Pp. x+222+[6](advertisements), 16 plates, text maps, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Pen & Sword, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2012. First edition..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. The Story of the Emden. Pp. 206(last blank), 8 plates, endpaper map, note on sources, index; med 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly browned and foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1983. First edition. *Relevant news clipping loosely inserted. 'The best sea story of the First World War: the lone campaign of the German light cruiser SMS Emden against the British Empire in the Indian Ocean....She terrorised the entire region, delayed troop movements, sank two warships, held up twenty-one British merchantmen sending sixteen to the bottom, abducted four colliers, shelled Madras causing a huge oil fire - and made a daring and destructive hit-and-run raid on Penang' [wrapper blurb].

N: N, 1984. Pp. 78(last colophon), frontispiece, text illustrations (mostly full page), brief biography; small demy 8vo; plain cream paper wrappers, backstrip lightly creased; dust wrapper, lettered in black, edges lightly rubbed and split, the front panel a trifle soiled, short closed tear near foot of backstrip (which is also faded and slightly creased); book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, a little bleeding of dust wrapper colour to top fore-corner of several leaves; Arethusa Pers Herber Blockland, Baarn, 1984. One of 275 copies thus (total edition 400). *Dirk van Gelder (1907-1990) was one of the most important Dutch graphic artists of the twentieth century.

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1993. English translation by Michael Hulse. In two volumes. Pp. 740 (continuously paginated), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full, some double page), appendices, indices; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; ribbon markers; together within a pictorial card slipcase, edges a trifle worn; Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1993. *Originally published in German. Volume I: Etten, April 1881 - Paris, February 1888; Volume II: Arles, February 1888 - Auvers-sur- Oise, July 1890.