Search Results: Authors starting with V from Lucius Books

London: John Murray. 1914. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with white titles and border to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh. The contents with a touch of light spotting to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rare, original dustwrapper that is rubbed and split at the extremities with small chips at the spine tips. Correctly priced 6/- to the spine. A comedy drama of love, money, social climbing and fakes and forgeries set in the world of antique dealing. The main character Joseph Quinney is based on the real-life antique dealer Thomas Rohan (1860-1940). Vachell's novel formed the basis for the hit play of the same name, first staged in London in 1914. Twice adapted for silent film; in 1919 directed by Herbert Brenon and in 1927 directed by… Read More

London: Ward Lock and Co. 1931. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles to the upper board and gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh. The contents with some spotting to the text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed dustwrapper which with a few short closed tears to the extremities and some marking to the rear panel remains without loss. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. Scarce short story collection, including a couple featuring Quinney. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

San Francisco: Wire Press. 1980. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original paperback. Illustrated throughout with black and white paintings by Marie Wilson, the author's wife. A near very good copy, the binding firm, with stains to the cover. The contents are clean throughout. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title to the legendary bookseller and collector Martin Stone, reading: "For / Martin Stone / with / my best wishes / + / our common / cause / of / heroic decadent / aesthetics / Nanos / Paris 29.5.98". Valaoritis, Wilson, and Stone all spent portions of their lives living in Paris and engaged with French artistic and literary scenes. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Paris: Librairie Gallimard. 1934. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. One of 58 copies printed on Impérial du Japon paper. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original white paper wrappers with titles in black and red to the upper cover and spine, in glassine. French language. Illustrated throughout with small woodcut decorations by Démétrios Galanis. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed and toned. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. The glassine has small nicks at fold corners Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "à M. M. D. Schwab / bien cordialement / Paul Valéry". One of only 58 copies printed on Japon paper, this being numbered XXVII to the limitation page. There was also an edition of 4,170 copies printed on blanc D'Alfa paper. Further details and images for any… Read More

Netherlands, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij. [1959]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original laminated pictorial boards. Square 8vo. An excellent near fine copy with some rubbing and light bumping at the extremities. The contents are complete and without inscriptions or stamps. The fragile spine remains complete, scarce thus. An excellent example. A superb collection of photographs shot at concerts in Amsterdam and the Hague. Images include Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Louis Armstrong. (Roth p.156; Hasselblad p.184,185; Parr p. 246.) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1926. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. With a signed presentation card. Publisher's original black cloth with red titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent, near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little pushing at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Small bookseller's label to the bottom left corner of the front endpaper. Complete with the very good, first state dustwrapper that is a little rubbed, nicked and creased at the extremities, with some toning to the spine and flap edges. Not price-clipped (correctly priced $2.00 to the upper front flap) and with a faint green date stamp "Dec 17 1926" opposite. An excellent example of a notable rarity in the correct dustwrapper. Loosely laid in is a small white card inscribed by the author in black ink "To A. Laura Murray [underlined] / With the compliments /… Read More

London: Cassell and Company. 1933. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint mottling at the extremities and a slight spine lean. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a few foxing spots to the text block edge are othwerwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has several tiny chips or closed tears at the extremities but remains bright and attractive. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Victor Gollancz. 1928. First UK edition. First UK edition. The Publisher's File Copy. Hardcover issue. Original black cloth with titles to a red paper label on the spine, in dustwrapper. A superb fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper which is a little toned and creased to the extremities and with the publisher's "file copy" stamp to the upper panel. Not price-clipped. Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz. Issued simultaneously in paperback at 3/6 and hardcover and 5/-. Adapted from Rebecca West's novel of the same name. Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: A and C Black. 1906. First edition. First edition. Publisher's original beige cloth, with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in the matching illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with 63 colour plates by Warwick Goble. Folding map to the rear. An excellent near fine copy, the binding tight and square, with a little bumping to the spine ends and corners, the cloth and colour illustration remain bright and fresh. The contents, with a little toning to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. All plates and the map are in fine condition. Complete with the very good, rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several short closed tears mostly to the top edge and a longer tear to the rear spine fold. The spine is a little toned and there are a few pieces of tape to the underside. Scarce in the original dustwrapper. Part of Adam and Charles Black 20 shilling series, which used the newly invented three colour… Read More

London: Routledge. 1939. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the original illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with some bumping to the corners and spine tips, the cloth and titles bright and fresh. The contents, with some minor offsetting to the front endpaper, very occasional spotting, and a previous owner's inscription in blue ink to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. With a four page publisher's catalogue to the rear. The upper edge of the text block is somewhat dusty, with a blue date stamp to the lower edge. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, that has several short closed tears to the upper edge, with loss to the lower spine tip and to the corners of the front and rear panels. Light foxing to the inside and dark toning to the flap edges. Not price clipped (original 7s 6d. net pricing), with the publisher's later… Read More

New York: Privately printed for the author. 1918. First and only edition. First and only edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with 51 photographic plates and two maps (one of which is folding). A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth rubbed and frayed at the tips of the slightly darkened spine. The contents are in excellent condition, clean and bright throughout. Scarce. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the first blank "To Dr. Joseph Collins / With the compliments of / the author / W. K. Vanderbilt / July 31st 1923". American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman William Vanderbilt II (1879-1944), was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. A wealthy man and heir to a massive fortune, he travelled extensively. After serving with the United States Navy during World War One, he self published this photographically illustrated volume of his travels, mostly by motor car.… Read More

London: Abelard-Schuman. 1974. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth boards and gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with four pages of black and white photographs. A better than very good copy, the binding firm and square with bumping to the spine ends and corners. The contents, with some very light toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Foxing to the top edge of the text block and a little to the fore-edge. Complete with the rubbed, creased, nicked and lightly toned dustwrapper, that has a short closed tear to the top left of the front panel. Price clipped to the front flap. Signed by the author in blue ink to the front endpaper "With my compliments, / P Vanezis / 3. 2. 78". The second book in Dr Vanezis's trilogy about Makarios. A study of the history of Cyprus, which was under British control from 1878, the rise of… Read More

Philadelphia: Terminus Publishing. 1990. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Deluxe limited signed edition, numbered 59 of 200, signed by Jonathan Carroll, illustrator Thomas Kidd, and editors John Betancourt, George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board. The cover of the softback edition is bound in at the front with a colour illustration by Thomas Kidd. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings by Kidd. A very fine copy, the cloth clean and binding firm, the contents, with a few tiny, faint spots to the text block top edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Signed by Jonathan Carroll, illustrator Thomas Kidd, and editors John Betancourt, George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer to the limitation page. A special Jonathan Carroll issue of the classic horror and fantasy pulp periodical. Further details and images for any of the items listed… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1991. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A fine copy with previous owners ink name to the top left corner of the front pastedown. Signed by the author on the title page. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is in fine condition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Blackie & Son. [1934]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with titles in black to the spine and upper board and an illustration in black to the spine, in dustwrapper. With a black and white frontispiece illustration. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean, with a slight bump to the foot of the spine. The contents, with a school award plate (dated 1934) to the front pastedown and a few tiny spots to the text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a very short closed tear to the top of the front spine fold, and shows a little dustiness. Clipped and repriced by the publisher to the front flap. An attractive example. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1928. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a small ownership name in ink on the front free endpaper, offsetting to the endpapers and between pages 118-119 from a loosely laid in publisher's card, some spotting to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean thoughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which is significantly toned to the spine and the panel edges. Not price-clipped (6s on the front flap). Loosely inserted publisher's catalogue for Plays by Eugene O'Neill. Scarce in the dustwrapper. A collection of short stories set in Verga's native Sicily, translated and introduced by D. H. Lawrence. The eponymous story formed the basis for Pietro Mascagni's popular one-act opera… Read More

Netherlands: Aeon Sophia Press. 2020. Second edition. Second edition. Limited edition. Publisher's original purple cloth, with gilt titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, without dustwrapper as issued. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, with bright cloth and gilt, the contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. "Asaya Ka Luxa is a treatise on a cosmological view point of the self and how to obtain connection and awareness of your Over-soul and the dualistic Angelic/Demonic levels of your own Soul Personality" (publishers synopsis). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company. [c.1910]. New and cheaper edition. New and cheaper edition. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in black and pictorial onlay to the upper board, titles and illustration in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight black and white plates by Jules Ferat. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities, a small nick at the head of the spine and the cloth with a few light marks. The contents, with a bookplate to the front endpaper, are toned to the early front and rear pages, lightly foxed throughout and to the text block edge, when closed. An attractice example. The second volume in The Mysterious Island trilogy following 'Dropped from the Clouds' and preceding 'The Secret of the Island'. The first English edition was originally published in 1875. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company. 1896. First English edition, first printing. First English edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth over bevelled boards, illustrated in black, white and gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated title page and 79 full page steel engravings. Tissue guard to the frontispiece. An excellent, better than very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and corners. The contents with two previous owner's names (dated 1912 and August 1966) to the front endpaper, the latter owner's small bookplate to the upper left corner of the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. The inner front hinge is slightly tender and cracked but holding. A very attractive example of the first edition in English, translated by W. J. Gordon and published in October 1896, preceding the first American edition by just over a year. This is the "deluxe" issue binding with bevelled boards and extra gilt blocking, there was also… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1878. Second UK edition. Second UK edition. Original blue cloth with titles and illustrations in black and gilt to the spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. A very good copy, the binding firm, the extremities with light wear, the spine a touch faded, slight cracking to the internal page hinges. There is a school prize plate on the front free endpaper, light spotting to the text block edge, a few fingermarks throughout, and without the plain tissue-guard from the frontispiece. A decade-spanning novel about mysterious happenings in a Scottish mine. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.