Search Results: Authors starting with V from SmarterRat Books

New York Graphic Society, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1981 New York Graphic Society. First Edition, stated. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 9.25 x 10.75 inches, has black cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white photographs. High-quality glossy paper. 202 pages. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends and slight bumping to the bottom front corner. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has light edge and surface wear, with creasing just to the inner flaps. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Full title: "Travelers in Ancient Lands: A Portrait of the Middle East, 1839-1919:. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Espasa-Calpe, S. A., 1955. Softcover. Good. Good. 1955 Espasa-Calpe, S. A., Madrid. Eighth edition. Text in Spanish. Softcover with paper dust jacket. NOT ex-library. Hinges pulling, binding cracked at one point in text block; not broken. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Front of jacket has a small rubbed stained area. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Pages very tanned at periphery but still supple. Some markings in ink in the index, but the text pages are clean and unmarked. 291 pages. Coleccion Austral, No. 76. Printed in Spain.

Equine Research Publications, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1977 Equine Research Publications. Oversize hardcover has black faux leather-covered boards and gilt lettering. Black and white photographs and illustrations. xvi, 728 pages. "Written by the research staff of Equine Research Publications." NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Except for a blue ink smudge on one page of the glossary, the pages clean and unmarked. The blank page between the glossary and the index has some light creases. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Aguilar, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1958 Aguilar, Madrid. Text in Spanish. Juan Valera, Complete Works, Volume 3. Third edition. Hardcover has red full-leather-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Spine has embossed portrait of the author; cover has gold facsimile of author's signature. All page edges decorated with red stylized leaf pattern. Illustrated red and white endpapers. Black and white frontispiece. NOT ex-library. Very thin paper. Red silk index ribbon; ribbon is frayed at bottom edge. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have light surface and edge wear, with minor rubbing at spine ends. A few pages have creases; pages are wavy at gutter due to thinness of paper. Name stamped in black on front endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 1477 pages. No dust jacket. Juan Valera, Complete Works, Volume 3. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Mercure de France, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good ; No jackets. 1916 and 1917 Mercure de France. Two Volumes. Text in French. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers, half-bound (spine, part of the boards, and corners) in leather with gilt ruled borders over marbled paper. Brown, blue, and green marbling is in Spanish Moire over Turkish pattern. Endpapers have light blue marbling. Spine has five raised bands, with gilt ribbon and dot pattern. Panels have gilt ruled borders; gilt lettering in two panels. Remaining panels have floral devices at center and corners. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. It appears as though the leather was once green, but the spines and most edges have faded to brown. Some cracking of leather along exterior hinge lines. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Imprinted bookplate on front free endpaper of volume 1; small pencil notation at top inner corner of first flyleaf. Edges of endpapers… Read More

Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1913 Desmond FitzGerald, Inc. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Top edges gilt. Front cover has gold illustration of a sailing ship on the ocean. Deckle fore edges and bottom edges. Black and white frontispiece. Black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Cloth has lifted from the boards in a few places, creating a slight bubbling of the surface. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Appears to be unread. Many pages uncut. Pages clean and unmarked. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Mentor Books / New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Good. Good. 1963 Mentor Books - New American Library. Paperback. First printing, August, 1963. Binding tight. Spine has some light creases and is somewhat sunned. Covers worn. Covers soiled with smudges and light stains. Covers mildly curled. Pages clean and unmarked. 351 pages. A Mentor Book MT508 .

Artcraft Paper Products. Hardcover. Good. Good. Artcraft Paper Products, Cincinnati, Ohio. No date, circa 1950s. Hardcover board-style book with "Five 3 Dimensional Spring-Ups". Color pictorial paper-covered boards. Book has 10 thick cardboard pages, with color illustrated paper surfaces; pages open for viewing from fore edge. Each 2-page section of the book consists of a rectangular area containing text with a simple pop-up illustration above, which spans from one page to the next. Color illustrations by Esther Poth. Front cover refers to book as "An Activity Book". Back cover states: "Litho in U.S.A" and "Stock SU-9". NOT ex-library. Edges of spine are rubbed and worn in places. Spine covering chipped, with some loss of surface at head and tail of spine as well as bottom edge of front cover near spine. Corners bumped and rounded. Covers bright and clean. Interior clean and unmarked. No creases or damage to pop-ups. First page has "Revised by Eric Van Hagen" under title. No dust jacket, as issued.… Read More

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, 2005. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 2005 Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. Third edition. Softcover. Oversized. Black and white photographs and illustrations. 625 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Covers lightly curled at corners. Name in ink on first page. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

The Dial Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1946 The Dial Press. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Not personalized. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and cover lettering. 509 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Page edges lightly soiled. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Oxford University Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1988 Oxford University Press. Trade paperback. 250 pages. Classic English Short Stories, vol. 3. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Appears to be unread. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. "This collection contains stories written in the 1950s and 1960s" First published as "English Short Stories of Today. Third Series 1965".

University of California Press, 1978. Softcover. Good. Good+. 1978 University of California Press. Softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. There is a small stain on the front cover, in the title. Pages clean and unmarked. 158 pages. A Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 33, No. 1, June, 1978. Contents include: The Problematic of Ending in Narrative, by J. Hillis Miller; Opening and Closing Les Miserables by Alexander Welsh; Dead Souls: The Mirror and the Road by Donald Fanger; Sensing Endings, by Frank Kermode; and other articles.

Tyndale Audio, 1998. Audio Cassette. Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Case. 1998 Tyndale Audio. Two cassettes in a plastic holder with glossy cardstock covers. Approximately 90 minutes run time. "Condensed" from the book, Great Stories Remembered II. Contains an introduction and 9 stories. Read by Joe L. Wheeler. Cassettes are in very good condition. Case has some light wear and the front flap is bumped at the top. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

A.D.A.C., 1958. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1958 L'Association pour la Diffusion Artistique et Culturelle (A.D.A.C.), Brussels, Belgium. Quadrum V. Periodical issue. Text predominantly French, with some English, German and Italian. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Oversized, 8.25 x 10.5). Red and white cover illustration by Max Ernst. Color and black & white photographs and illustrations. High-quality glossy paper. Binding tight. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Spine covering lightly wrinkled. Pages clean and unmarked. 192 pages + advertisements. Printed in Belgium. Title also in English, Italian and German: International Magazine of Modern Art, Rivista Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Internationale Zeitschrift fur Moderne Kunst. Contents include: Les Baigneurs de Picasso; Le bonheur de Max Ernst; Matte, l'Aube, le Vertige; Stanley William Hayter; Tensione e Spazio di Mastioianni; Le noir de Van Haardt. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

The Herb Society of America, 2017. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 2017 The Herb Society of America. Softcover. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Reprint of the first five issues of the periodical, The Herbarist. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Covers lightly curled at corners. Name in ink on inside of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked.

Herb Society of America. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. Herb Society of America, Kirtland, Ohio. Single issue yearly publications. 22 issues, No. 62 - 75, 77 - 85 (1996 - 2009, 2011 - 2019). Missing No. 76, 2010. NOT ex-library. A few issues have small creases at one or two corners; others have light surface wear or a few edge creases. No. 64 has indentations from a paperclip on the top edge of three adjacent pages. No. 79 has some faint moisture rings on the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Note: There was no issue for 2017. The issue numbers run from No. 82, 2016 to No. 83, 2018. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

William Blackwood and Sons Ltd., 1962. Softcover. Good. Good. 1962 William Blackwood and Sons Ltd. Softcover. Spine wrinkled. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine ends worn. Front cover and first page have a crease at the top corner. First few pages have a small moisture stain at fore edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages 193-288. Contents: Staff Wallahs by Robert Hunter - The Gardner by Beatrice Sheepshanks - A Study in Stagnation by Denis Carey - Testa Grigia by John Allen - On Seeking a Job by A. M. G. - Conducted Tour by Barry Sutton - Wolves and Men by C. G. Chenevix-Trench - The Fortunate Village by J. L. Somers - Trek, with Horse by M. N. H. M. - The Looker-On.

Saalfield Publishing Company, 1926. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1926 Saalfield Publishing Company. Illustrated by Lillian Sturges. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has paper-covered boards and green cloths spine with black spine lettering; front is color pictorial cover of a girl holding a goose in front of a landscape scene with a castle. Black and white illustrations. Binding cracked near center, with several other light cracks, but still strong. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded, with fraying at tips and spine ends. Edges worn. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1933 Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover lettering, and "Young Moderns" logo on spine. Binding tight. Deckle fore edges. Top page edges are colored red. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Covers have a few light smudges. Pages clean and unmarked. Introduction by Griffith Ogden Ellis. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Doubleday "Young Moderns Books" series; "Junior Books".

Copper Pig Writers Society, 1993. Softcover. Fine. Fine. 1993 Copper Pig Writers Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Volume 5, Issue 2 (#13). Single Issue Magazine. Black & white illustrations. 5.25 x 8 inches. 94 pages. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to magazine. Pages clean and unmarked.