Search Results: Authors starting with V from RC Books

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of a daring escape by three men from Japanese-occupied Java in 1942. 166 pages with eight pages of black and white photographs. A few page edges affected by rough opening but not having any effects on information. Unclipped dust jacket, now protected in archival plastic cover, has edge wear, a half-inch chip, and fading and sticker removal mark on spine. Age-toning and some soiling to book and dust jacket, but no names or marks.

Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, 1945. First Trade Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. Evocative 48 full-page etchings with a 17 page introduction by the artist, who has SIGNED the book on the front free end paper. Previous owner's presentation copy to James Benjamin Lampert (1914-1978). Lampert was a U.S. Army Lieutenant General, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, and an early pioneer of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. The book is signed by eleven of his supporters. A product of the Beck Engraving Company. Light sunning to top of front board. Some mild soiling to boards. Light age-toning to paper. Interior quite fresh and clean. Unpaginated but well over 100 pages. Unclipped dust jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover, has substantial wear with a significant tear at spine tail. An attractive and appealing book.

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Copy #110 of 175 copies on Holland hand-made paper. SIGNED by printer Frank E. Hopkins. "As described in the discovered Autograph Letter of Jonas Michaelius written from the Settlement on the 8th of August of that year and now first published." "With a review of the Letter and an Historical Sketch of New Netherland to 1628." 207 pages with 18 illustrations and a foldout facsimile of the letter from Michaelius. Heavy wear to covers but still tightly bound and solid. Age-toning to paper. An uncommon book in the first edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Twenty-three stories hand picked by Vonnegut, stories never before published in book form. 295 pages. Clean, tight copy boldly SIGNED by Vonnegut on the title page.