Search Results: Authors starting with V from George S. MacManus Company

1915. VAIL, Enos B. Reminiscences of a Boy in the Civil War. [Brooklyn]: Printed by the Author for Private Distribution, 1915. 1st ed. 159pp. portrait frontis. Erratum slip. Orig. cloth. Very light shelf ear, else very good or better. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "To my school-mate of sixty years ago. William E. Cleary, with compliments of the Author. Dec 16th 1915." "Some good material exists in this dramatic and very polished narrative"-Nevins I, p.171. Dornbusch I: NY-413.

1973. (BURR, AARON). VAIL, Philip. The Great American Rascal: The Turbulent Life of Aaron Burr. N.Y., [1973]. 243pp. Very good in d/j.

VAIL, R.W.G. The Voice of the Old Frontier. N.Y., [1949]. 492pp. An essential reference work, originally published as one of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography studies. An indispensable bibliography of books realating to the American frontier, published before 1800.

VAIL, R.W.G. The Voice of the Old Frontier. Original cloth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. A fine copy. One of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography publications. An indispensable bibiography of books published before 1,800 relating to the American frontier.

(CONNECTICUT REGIMENTAL). VAILL, Dudley Landon. The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. [Winsted, CT]: Litchfield County University Club, 1908. 1st ed. xii,108pp. Portrait frontis, portraits, plates. Orig. full green gilt-armorial morocco, brown, morocco spine label, T.e.g. Spine lightly sunned, minor edgewear, else very good or better copy. Nevins I, p. 172.

1868. (CONNECTICUT REGIMENTAL). VAILL, Theodore F. History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery. Originally the Nineteenth Connecticut Vols. Winsted, Conn: Winsted Printing Company, 1868. 1st ed. 366 pp. Ports. A very good copy in orig. embossed cloth. Vaill, a First Lieutenant and Adjutant, wrote this immediately after the War. His account includes letters and memories from the war.

1841. (PAINE, THOMAS). VALE, G[ilbert]. The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of "Common Sense," "Rights of Man," "Age of Reason," &c., &c. With Critical and Explanatory Observations on His Writings; and an Appendix, Containing His Letters to Washington, Suppressed in His Works at Present Published in This Country. New York: Published by the Author, 1841. 192,xxix,[1]pp. Portrait frontis. Later cloth. Very old water stain to head of first few leaves, not affecting text, light scattered foxing, else very good. Includes Paine's letters critical of Washington. Howes V-9.

VALE, Joseph G. Minty and the Cavalry. A History of the Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies. Harrisbury, 1886. 1st ed. Illus. maps. 550pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes V-10.

1865. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1865. [N.Y., 1865]. Profusely illus. including engraved portrs. and lithographic views, some tinted, 13 in full color (two folding). very large folding map, tinted. 879pp. Orig. cloth. Very good copy with the plates in fine condition.

(NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D. T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. [New York, 1841-1866]. 25 Vols. Orig. gilt-armorial cloth, housed in uniform custom brown cloth slipcases, inner cloth chemises, with red morocco spine labels (except for 1865). A very good or better set. A rare run of Valentine's Manual, complete with a wealth of maps, plates and information about the growing city during the 19th century. The earliest volumes, printed in a small format from 1842-1848, are quite scarce. Most of the volumes are in remarkable condition. This run lacks only the final three volumes.

1969. VALENTINE, Alan. Lord Stirling. N.Y., 1969. 1st ed. Frontis. 299pp. Fine in d/j.

1855. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, for 1855. [N.Y., 1855]. Illus. including numerous lithographic views, two large folding. Two very large folding maps. 600, (1)pp. Orig. cloth. A very good copy with the plates and fragile maps in good condition.

1998. VALENTINE, Clifton C. To See My Country Free: The Pocket Diaries of Ezekiel Armstrong, Ezekiel P. Miller and Joseph A. Miller "Magnolia Guards" Co. K, 17th Regiment Mississippi Infantry Confederate States of America. [Pittsboro MS: Calhoun County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., 1998]. xvi, 358pp. Portraits, illus., maps. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Inscribed by the editor. Fine. .

1864. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1864. Thick 8vo. Illus. with engravings and folding maps (many in color). 856pp. Very good copy.

1856. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, for 1856. [N.Y., 1856]. Profusely illus. including one folding illus. in color and numerous lithographic views, some folding. folding facs. 2 very large folding maps, one tinted. (collates complete). 600pp. Orig. cloth. A fine copy with the maps and plates in particularly good condition.

1853. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, David T. History of the City of New York. N.Y., 1853. 1st ed. Illus. map. 404pp. Orig. cloth, rebacked with orig. spine laid down.

(NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1858. [New York: Chas. W. Baker, Printer, 1858]. 646pp. Illus. with numerous lithographic views (including two folding views), facsimiles (some folding), folding maps. Orig. gilt-armorial blindstamped cloth. Light scattered foxing, very old waterstain to lower outside corner of front free endpaper, small tear to map of City and County of New York, else a very good copy.

1863. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1863. [N.Y.: D.T. Valentine, 1863]. Illus. xii, 852pp. Very good copy illus. with engraved and lithographic views (many in color). Bound in orig. cloth.

1929. VALENTINE, Elizabeth Gray. Dawn to Twilight: Work of Edward V. Valentine. Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, 1929. 1st ed. 201pp. Portrait frontis., portraits, plates. Orig. cloth. Small amount of faint scattered foxing, else near fine. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author and the subject. Life of the noted sculptor who sculpted many noted Confederates including Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis.

1860. (NEW YORK CITY). VALENTINE, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, for 1860. [N.Y., 1860]. Profusely illus. including numerous lithographic views, one very large, some folding. folding facs. three folding maps, one tinted (collates complete). 630pp. Orig. cloth, rebacked. A very good copy with the fragile maps in particularly good condition.