Search Results: Authors starting with V from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: George Braziller, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.00), generally toned. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faded blue top stain, a few dog-earred pages. Vahanian's work that traces the origins of modern religiosity.

New York: Ballantine, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Lester Del Rey. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped, toned, chipped at the edges. White boards with red lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Vallejo's work that appears alongside the work of writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and others.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, a stain at the top-right corner of the front panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A review of literature that shows "neo-Marxist theories are, for the most part, not empirically testable.

New York: Scribner's, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and rubbed, chipped at the head and foot of the spine. Black buckram with white ink lettering on the spine and front board, a bit of rubbing. Bound with a slight forward lean and a bit of reading wear, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The third Philo Vance mystery.

New York: Scribner's, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and bumped with creases and a few closed tears. Black buckram, rubbed at the bottom edge, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and bound with some reading wear, clean internally. The ninth Philo Vance mystery, adapted into the 1936 film starring Edmund Lowe.

New York: Scribner's, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine, lacking the jacket. Black cloth, faintly rubbed and bumped at the bottom edge. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, owner's stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The ninth Philo Vance mystery, adapted into the 1936 film starring Edmund Lowe.

New York: Scribner's, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and bumped with creases and a few small chips. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and bound with some reading wear, clean internally. The ninth Philo Vance mystery, adapted into the 1936 film starring Edmund Lowe.

New York: Scribner's, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black buckram, lightly rubbed, with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a few stray stains at the edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The seventh Philo Vance mystery, adapted into the 1934 film starring Warren William. This copy comes with a supplied jacket from an early Grosset & Dunlap reprint.

New York: Scribner's, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed, tape reinforcements along the edges. Black buckram, lightly bumped, with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The fourth Philo Vance mystery, and the first of the nursery-rhyme mystery genre.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint edition. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally rubbed at the edges, a closed tear at the head of the spine. Black buckram with green ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. The third Philo Vance mystery.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally toned, lightly rubbed. Green buckram with black ink lettering and rules. Square and firmly bound, toned at the edges, clean internally. A collection of letters written by Mary Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Abigail Adams, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Welsh Carlyle, and Jane Austen.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edited and with an Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), toned, rubbed and with some creases and chips at the edges. Blue cloth, faded at the edges, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges, stamp of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A selection of twenty-four fantasy stories from the likes of H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, M.R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, among others.

London: Heinemann, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, a few small chips and bumps at the edges. Purple buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, former owner's name on the half-title page, clean otherwise. A Judge Dee mystery that sees him go "incognito in the underworld of Wei-ping.

New York: Harper and Row, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly rubbed at the surface. Quarter red buckram with patterned red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A Judge Dee mystery that sees him play Seven Board and contend with a boxing master, a one-eyed soldier, and a snowman.

City of Industry: Collectors Publication, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. CP 21182. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed. Square and firmly bond with toned pages, clean internally.

New York: Dial Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. About Fine in a Very Good jacket designed by George Salter, clipped, generally toned, a few small closed tears and small chips. Red buckram, rubbed at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Van Paassen's novel about violent economic, social, and political upheaval.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally rubbed and soiled, loss at the top edge, small chips at the bottom. Quarter beige cloth with patterned paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, green top stain, clean internally. Van Vechten's entertaining novel narrated by Eros as a cartoon for a stained-glass window.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, partially clipped ($2.50), faded at the spine, lightly rubbed, a few small closed tears and chips. Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, clean internally. Van Vechten's novel of an older Midwestern woman who returns home to find love in younger men after living as a countess overseas.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned, chips at the edges and corners. Light pink cloth, faded at the spine and edges, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, dark top stain, clean internally. Van Vechten's Hollywood novel about the extraordinary adventures of Ambrose Deacon.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint Edition. Introduction by Groff Conklin. Forrest Ackerman's copy, inscribed to Ackerman by A.E. van Vogt on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, lightly toned, Ackerman's "A" near the head of the spine. Green boards, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, clean internally.