Search Results: Authors starting with V from Bygone Books

Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. 1st ed., 8vo, red boards, 224 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has slight toning to pages, old price on fep; jacket has slight edgewear to top edge, small tear to top right corner. Uncovers the stories of the privileged women of the Georgian dynasty over a period of 200 years, from the English Civil War to the first 20 years of Queen Victoria's reign [quoting the jacket].

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 3/4 black leather, raised bands, marbled boards, blue-paper endpapers, 864p. b/w illustrations and engravings throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD: light rubbing to edges and spine extremities, sm. tear to front cover paper; light scattered foxing - does not affect reading pleasure. Includes such articles as: Aboard a Sperm Whaler; Accession of the Emperor Nicholas; Bit of life in Oregon; Capital idea for cold weather; Case of Lady Macbeth medically considered; Cotton and its Cultivation, by T. B. Thorpe of Louisiana (p. 447) with illustrations of working slaves; Memoirs of the Holy Land, by Jacob Abbott, with many engravings; Life and Times of Madame de Stael (p. 340); etc. Literature includes: Herman Melville's anonymously published short story "Cock a Doodle Doo - The Crowing of the Cock Beneventano" (p. 77); Charles Dickens's "Schoolboy Story" (p. 365); W. M. Thackeray's serialized "The… Read More

New York: Israel Post, 1845. Hardcover. VG-. Various. Volume III [pages1-286] and IV [pages 1-286] bound in one volume, 1845. Small 4to, ¾ leather with 3 raised bands, dark green pebbled boards, light green paper endpapers, each of the 12 months is paginated separately, each month has a full-page color fashion plate, music notation, various engravings, poetry, short stories, articles of interest, etc..; each volume has its own index at the end. Condition: VERY GOOD - : edgewear to spine extremities, corners and board edges, some scattered foxing which does not affect your reading pleasure, some of the tissue guards are torn / wrinkled, pages 49-50 in August 1845 have a 3" missing piece [I have laid-in copies of the missing text]; issue for Feb and April do not have a fashion plate. Some of what is included: engravings of Napoleon, Daniel in the Lion's Den (by J[ules] Ziegler, engraved by T, Doney), and Mount Vernon; Fragments from the History of Lady Arabella Stuart, by Jane C.… Read More

NY: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1868. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; G+. ...comprising a bill of fare or breakfast, dinner, and tea, for every day in the year; with an Appendix, containing recipes for pickles and sauces." 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 134 pages, [10] pages publisher adverts (these are bound in out of order and mispaginated]. The book has been professionally repaired: a cloth reback. Condition: GOOD+ : binding is now tight, some light spotting and a few tiny tears to the endpapers, some typical browing to pages, light scattered spotting, a faint damp stain at bottom page edge throughout book, a light brownish damp stain at hinge through part of the book, a few pages have a crease and page 119 has a 1" closed tear at margin, otherwise the book is quite clean, and a nice copy of this uncommon early cookbook. "The design of this Manual is to suggest to ladies, without the trouble of THINKING [in italics], what is seasonable for the table, each day of the… Read More

London: Bracken Books, 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG. First published in 1985 by View Productions, Sydney Australia; this is the 1st U.K.edition. 4to, yellow boards, unpag. picture book with 2-color and full-color reproductions of Victorian circus illustrations w/ accompanying poems. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: lt. edgewear to book, penciled owner name on fep, remainder mark on top page edge; jacket has a small stain on bottom edge at spine tail. A must-have for Circus collectors.

London: Illustrated London News, 1967. Soft cover. VG+. Various. The Illustrated London News. Christmas Number 1967. No. 6692A. Vol. 251. Folio stapled wraps, 70 pages, stories, articles, advertisements, color and b/w illustrations of art reproductions, advertisements, etc. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear, internally clean and tight. Includes: Five Centuries of Christian Art from Russia; Light on London by Gerry Graham; An Eminent Victorian in Wartime London: a true ghost story by Alan Dent; The Graceful Fisherman: Herons at Chilham photographed by Dave Waterman; Spellbound: a child's view of Christmas photographed by Frank Herrmann; Inspiration of the Nativity, in Manuscripts fomr the Hans P. Kraus Collection; Flying Colours: the spirit of the turf caught by Gerry Cranham; ILN on the Map, drawn by Ionicus; Shepherd's Watch: a short story by Alan Dipper, illus. by Douglas Gorsline; The Gometra Soiree: a short story by J. Roger Baker, illus by Peter Gibson; Hearts and Flowers:… Read More

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, brownish cloth, 213 pp, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: the slightest rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' is covered in chapter 2: "The Breaking up of the Estate: 'Persuasion.'''

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1906. First Edition . Soft cover. G. 1st edition [NAP]. Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. Quarto wraps backed in olive green cloth, xxvi, 157 pages, b/w portrait of Shakespeare. GOOD condition: edgewear, tearing to spine, front cover loose, binding is just starting between pages 32-33, light soiling to covers and last few pages, owner name inside front cover, text is clean throughout.