Search Results: Authors starting with V from Waugh Books

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1948. Revised. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 213 pages, with Addenda and Index. With b/w photographic images and drawings. Slight edge wear. No names or marks.

New York: Knopf, 1930. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 8vo. Yellow cloth, with green spine lettering, and silver decorations on spine (grape clusters) and front cover (Cupid crushing grapes}). Unstained top text block. 260 pages, with a Bibliography of Carl Van Vechten at end. Dust-jacket (with price clipped) is edge worn, with dulled spine and loss at bottom of spine, and scrapes on rear panel. Described, on the copyright page, as "First and Second Printing Before Publication Published August, 1930".

New York: Abrams, 1985. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Oblong Sm 4to. Glossy illustrated wrappers. 117 pages, Illustrated throughout, including color plates. No names or marks. Exhibition catalogue.

New York: Aperture, 1997. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Edited by Melissa Harris. 4to. Black cloth with white spine titles. Illustrated end papers. 319 pages, with Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographic images. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact), designed by Wendy Byrne, is worn at top corners.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Translated from the Italian by Francis Steegmuller. Black cloth, with gilt spine titles. 244 pages of text, followed by 217 b/w illustrations. Wear to spine ends. Name on Front FEP. Lacking the dust-jacket.

Vienna / New York: Phaidon / Oxford, 1937. First printing. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Beige cloth, with brown spine titles and brown title on cover. Yellow top-stain. Frontis color image of Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi." 105 pages, with List of Illustrations. Illustrated with many b/w and 14 color plates [13 + Frontis], including two fold-outs. Name on inside front cover. No marks to text. Lacking the dust-jacket. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985. Second edition. Paperback. Very good +/ . Introduction by Vincent Scully. Oblong 4to. 136 pages, with 350 b/w illustrations. Front Free End Paper [blank] is clipped vertically in half. No names or marks. A crisp copy, with sharp corners, of the 1985 printing of the second edition, first published in 1977. A title in the Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture series.

Paris: Braun & Company, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. Very good. Raphael. Sm 4to. Gray boards, with gilt spine and front cover lettering. Illustrated with fifty plates, with several tinted. Text, notes, and captions are in French. Slight wear to spine ends and corners. No names or marks. The plates are crisp, Fine. DESSINS ET PEINTURES MAITRES ANCIENS. The fourth volume in this series.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. 8vo. Glossy wrappers. 285 pages, with Indexes. Name on half-title page. No remainder marks, or marks to text. A crisp, square copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and tan boards, with silver spine lettering. 656 pages, with Bibliography and Index. With b/w photographic images and drawings. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact). Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Oblong Sm 4to. Glossy black boards, with silver spine titles. Light-blue end papers. 96 pages, with b/w photographic images. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket.

Washington, DC / New York: Smithsonian Institution Press ? Doubleday, 1976. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 4to. Brown cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Green end papers. 152 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact). The 'Gulf States Paper Corporation edition'. Limited/numbered: 1044/2500.

New York: Basic Books, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Orange cloth, with purple and brown spine titles. Black top-stain. 183 pages, with Reading List. No names or marks. In dust-jacket (with price intact) with slight edge wear.

New York: The Free Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Translated by Marian Schwartz. 8vo. Quarter Navy blue cloth over light blue boards, with gilt spine titles. 306 pages, with Biographical Notes and Index.

Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Square Sm 4to. Glossy illustrated wrappers. 89 pages, with b/w and some color illustrations. Crease on front cover. Slight wear at corners. No names or marks. Exhibition catalogue.

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1975. First printing. Paperback. Very good. Oblong 8vo. Glossy illustrated wrappers. 170 pages, with Notes, Bibliography and Index. With b/w images and drawings throughout. Slight edge wear. No names or marks.

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good. Matching Two Volume Set. Translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. Sm 8vo. Quarter brown leather and decorated boards., with gilt spine lettering (over black patch). Brown top stain. Tan end papers. Vol. 1: 324 pages. Volume 2: 335 pages. Wear to spine ends, edges, and corners. Both volumes have a bookplate on inside front cover and a name on front Free End Paper. Bindings solid. No marks to texts.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. First American Edition. Paperback. Very good +. Foreword by Herb Lubalin. In illustrated, glossy wrappers. 142 pages, with Index of Places. Illustrated with b/w and color photographic images, with one fold-out illustration. No names or marks. A Very Good+ copy, with sharp corners, of the first American paperback printing.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Sm 4to. Navy blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. With color frontis image. 307 pages, with Appendix ("On the Proportions of the South Tower of Chartes Cathedral", by Ernst Levy), List of Works, and Index. With b/w (and three color) plates, plans, and illustrations. Includes a Chart of Chartes Cathedral, West facade, in pocket on inside rear cover. Errata sheets (for text and pocket chart) are laid in. Very slight wear to corners and spine ends, else Fine. Lacking the dust-jacket. A handsome copy, with pocket chart and errata slips.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Black cloth, with blue and silver spine and cover lettering. Blue end papers. Frontis b/w photographic image of the author. 285 pages. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Dust-jacket (with price intact) has slight edge wear.