Search Results: Authors starting with V from Cat's Cradle Books

Budapest: Sala Sándor, 1966. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Publication is in the Hungarian language. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wraps have handling wear, tanning, soiling. ; Literary and cultural criticism; short fiction; poetry. ; 9.25" tall; 128 pages.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Hinges broken, binding a bit loose but holding. Pages tanned. Cloth over boards is splitting at joints with spine. Bright gilt design on front. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with steel engravings, black and white maps. ; The title refers to Robert Horatio George Minty, whose cavalry tactics were imporant to the Union Army in the western theater of the Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 550 pages.

The Art Quarterly, 1952. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Art Quarterly" offset reprint. Tightly stapled binding. Yellow paper wrappers are shelf worn. Extended critical review by W. R. Valentiner of Italian art historian Piero Toesca's book, "Il Trecento." Much commentary about the work of medieval Italian artists included, along with black and white photographic plates. Also in the reprint are an exhibit review by William E. Suida ("Savoldo's Paintings in the S. H. Kress Collection") and an essay by Theodore Sizer, "The John Trumbulls and Mme. Vigee-Le Brun." Both are illustrated with black and white plates. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 27 pages; Re#.

The Art Quarterly, 1952. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Art Quarterly" offset reprint. Tightly stapled binding. Yellow paper wrappers are shelf worn. Extended critical review by W. R. Valentiner of Italian art historian Piero Toesca's book, "Il Trecento." Much commentary about the work of medieval Italian artists included, along with black and white photographic plates. Also in the reprint are an exhibit review by William E. Suida ("Savoldo's Paintings in the S. H. Kress Collection") and an essay by Theodore Sizer, "The John Trumbulls and Mme. Vigee-Le Brun." Both are illustrated with black and white plates. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 27 pages.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has no evidence of wear. ; Examination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America, with emphasis on New England. ; 9.5" tall; 337 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Nórdica, 1978. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding, although binding glue has oozed onto the half title page at spine. Pages clean, off-white. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Contents: As estruturas políticas e o seu comportamento (o setudo das instituições, a sociedade de massas e as estruturas políticas, a ação das elites, o modelo Marxista, os modelos liberais, os antecedentes da experiência Brasileira, a experiência Brasileira, a ação terrorista sobre as estruturas). Os partidos políticos e o poder legislativo. As classes conservadoras. As forças Armadas. A igreja. A escola Brasileira. A imprensa. O movimento sindical. As pressões internacionais. O poder regional. Alternativas da revolução. Bibliografia. ; 8.25" tall; 251 pages.

Leipzig: Ernst Bredt, 1891. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Ffep corner chipped. Pages clean, tanned. Leather over boards is heavily shelf worn with scrapes and scuffs especially on front. ; Hebrew language. Torah plus additional books comprising what Christians would call the Old Testament. Ex-Library; 6.75" tall; 1036 pages.

New York: Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has overall light shelf wear. ; Poems by poet laureate of the United States. 9.5" tall; 83 pages.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Seventh Printing. Exlibrary markings. Hinge papers cracked but holding; binding sound. Frontispiece loose in book. Writing on ffep. Pages clean, tanned. Gilt Art Nouveau design on front is a bit faded but visible. Lettering and design on spine is faded. Wear to extremities of spine, corner tips. ; Collection of stories and essays about fishing by Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933). ; Ex-Library; 7.75" tall ; 247 pages.

New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition; First Printing. Exlibrary markings. Bound between clear protective front cover and rear board. Pages clean, bright. Light handling wear. ; Presented by retired chairman of the board of Lance, Inc., at Charlotte, May 30, 1974. ; Newcomen Publication; Ex-Library; Vol. 1002; 9.0" tall; 16 pages.

Philadelphia: David McKay Publisher, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Hendrik Van Loon. First Edition. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at corners, which are bumped. Pictorial paper on front is soiled with wear and small hole at lower right corner. ; Early work by author-illustrator Van Loon with full-page color renderings of his distinctive artwork. 10.25" tall; 127 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2009. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Crook, A sixteenth-century catalog of prohibited music. waeber, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "unité de mélodie." Currie, Music after all. ; 9.25" tall; 269 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2010. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Newcomb, The ballata and the "free" madrigal in the second half of the sixteenth century. McDonald, Jeux de Nombres: automated rhythm in The Rite of Spring. Carter, The Rake's Progress and Stravinsky's return: the composer's evolving approach to setting text. Reviews, index to volume 63. 9.25" tall; 313 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2009. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Rifkin, The creation of the Medici Codex. Chua, Beethoven's other humanism. Karnes, Wagner, Klimt, and the metaphysics of creativity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. ; 9.25" tall; 250 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2008. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Sheppard, Continuity in composing the American cross-cultura: Eichheim, Cowell, and Japan. Drott, Free jazz and the French critic. Levin, et al., Colloquy: finishing Mozart's Requiem. ; 9.25" tall; 237 pages.

Ponca City, Oklahoma: Goatfoot Press, 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have edge rubbing. ; Poetry and short fiction arranged in a compendium as a Christmas greeting to the editors'/publisher's friends and acquaintances. ; 9.0" tall; 102 pages.

The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton & Co, 1971. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, this book has been rebound in cloth over boards iwth original wrapper affixed on front. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Exterior has general light shelf wear. Non-circulating copy. ; A complete bibliography of the works of Russian-American linguist and literary theorist Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896-1982). Ex-Library; 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 60 pages.

Amsterdam: Thomas Rap, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Dutch language. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Book by Dutch comedian and writer Joseph Jacobus Maria "Youp" van 't Hek (1954- ). 7.75" tall; 127 pages.

New York: Random House, 1930. Limited Edition. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Limited Edition. Bare cardstock boards have edge wear, tanning, darkening of label on spine. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. ; Limited edition of 875 copies. (PJ) on colophon page. Fond memoir of the author's cat Feathers and other cats he has known. ; 8.5" tall ; 23 pages.

Kigali, Rwanda: Rwanda Development Board, 2011. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages in first half of book have rippling at top corners and down exterior margins. Pages 1-8 have scraping in same area. Text throughout is clear. Wrappers have light handling wear, some scraping inside front. ; Color photographs throughout with information about and atlases of species in latter part of book. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages.