Search Results: Authors starting with V from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

London: The Daily Mirror, 1935. Folio (12" X 15"). 32pp. Illustrations. Good plus. Mild even age toning throughout. Attractive full issue of this popular daily tabloid newspaper, founded in 1903. Headline reads, "THE KING GIVES THANKS," subtitled "In Unity with All His People," the bulk of the front page consisting of a photograph of the king and queen kneeling on on benches in front of their thrones at their silver jubilee thanksgiving service. The following year, King George V died. A sharp example.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 286pp. Very good/very good. Light jacket edgewear; funky light stain along gutter of rear endpaper (binder's glue problem?). A tight, attractive first edition, boldly inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Karla -- with love," signed as usual with author's first name only, "Louis."

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 217pp. 4 maps. Very good/very good. First edition, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings.

N.p.: Syracuse University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Translation by Robert Mezey. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 133pp. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition.

Glendale, CA: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors' Association, 1948. Paperback. Near-inclusive 11-issue run for this 8-year span, lacking 3 issues (November 1953, November 1954 and November 1955). Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. Various paginations (most issues ca. 25-42pp). Frontispieces (excepting May 1953 issue), occasional illustrations. Good plus to near fine. Most issues to very good to near fine, with only the second issue good plus (wrappers bit age toned and discolored, with wrinkling throughout). Fine grouping of 12 issues, accompanied by a printed letter from president Donald S. Carmichael that accompanies the first issue and introduces it and also a few subscription renewal notices. Seven issues are still in their original mailing envelopes. Also present are two Typed Notes Signed and four Autograph Notes Signed from Valentine, each on buff heavy stock 5½" X 3½" penny postal cards, the first two TNsS (chronologically) from Decatur, IL and dated 26 June and 7 July 1947, the second two… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 299pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. First edition -- tight, clean, nice.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine with black lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorialdust jacket. 233pp. Near fine/very good. Attractive first edition.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Hardcover. Translated by Helen Lane. 8vo. Purple paper over boards with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 220pp. Near fine/very good. First U.S. edition of Valenzuela's second book, nicely signed and inscribed in black fineline on the title page "To Terry, / happy to / have men / reading my / fiction / All the best" and signed. Scarce.

New York: Pantheon, 1948. Hardcover. Translation by Francis Scarfe. 8vo. Black cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 200pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with couple of small edge chips. Tight, quite nice first U.S. edition of this collection of essays by the French poet and critic (1871-1945).

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 269pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. A tight and lovely copy of this facsimile reprint of the uncommon 1953 first edition, entirely in Spanish, covering mainly rare 16th century imprints concerning the explorations into Mexico of this Spanish Conquistador (1485-1547).

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1955. Hardcover. Translation by Andrew Revai and Robin Chancellor. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 316pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Bit of mild jacket edgewear; bookplate on front pastedown. Tight and attractive first edition of this biography of the 16th century Crete-born Spanish painter.

New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth, slipcase. 141pp. Extensive illustrations (many color). Fine/very good. Tight and handsome first edition of this volume in the "Drawings of the Masters" series.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1872. Steel engraving. 4to (12½" X 9¼"). Near fine. Faint age toning at edges. Wonderfully bright and sharp heavy stock steel engraving from the first edition (1872-74) of editor William Cullen Bryant's landmark "Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country," a hefty two-volume study of America's scenery in words and fine steel engraving considered highly influential to American tourism. In this depiction of the glacial valley in the western Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California, the smooth-as-glass lake features a hunter in the right foreground lying prone in the front of a canoe, having just fired his rifle at a deer swimming ahead of him at center foreground; a sandbar and island appear at dead center, and behind that the heavily-forested lake's edge, with majestic mountains rising in the distance; the… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 405pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive. YOUNG 3886.

Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1975. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Buckley. Wide 16mo. Yellow cloth with blue lettering and decorations. xiv, 200pp. Extensive line drawings. Very good. Binding lightly soiled, with homely faint marker smear on front board. Tight, decent later printing of this 1969 -- mild ex-library, with very few markings.

[New York]: HarperCollins, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 234pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Single jacket chip at upper right corner of front panel. Tight, attractive first edition of the Amway co-founder's memoir -- and NOT signed by him (with "Best wishes") on inner flyleaf -- this a printed, non-authentic signature that appears in every copy of this book (despite many online copies touting a signature!).

[New York]: HarperCollins, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 234pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of the Amway co-founder's memoir -- and NOT signed by him (with "Best wishes") on an inner flyleaf, for this is a printed, not authentic signature that appears in every copy of this book (despite the many copies offered online touting a signature!).

This guard played basketball for the New York Knicks (1946-50), which led to successful college coaching (Lafayette College 1951-55, Hofstra University 1955-62, Princeton University 1962-67), which led to successful pro coaching (Los Angeles Lakers 1967-69, Detroit Pistons 1969-72, Phoenix Suns 1972-73, Memphis Tams 1973-74, New Orleans Jazz 1974-77), which led full circle back to college coaching (University of New Orleans 1977-79, Lafayette College 1984-88, Hofstra University 1988-94). Full signature in blue ballpoint, heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., 1973 November 26. Fine. With original envelope.

[Washington, DC]: J. & G.S. Gideon, n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Lightly age toned; binding traces at margin; contemporary "39" in brown ink at upper right corner of first page. An attractive and clean-edged first edition of this attack on the Democratic eighth U.S. president, undated but certainly published in 1848. After losing his bid for reelection to Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in 1840, Van Buren's opposition to Texas annexation in 1844 lost him the vote of pro-slavery Democrats and he failed to get the nomination, and in 1848 the Free Soil Party gave him the nomination. Though his views had become more anti-slavery over the years, this no-holds-barred criticism calls him "the great nucleus of the South, and the greatest enemy of the free institutions of the North" -- among many less tactful labels. Quite a few of his letters are excerpted to show his support of slavery. This pro-Whig piece then warns supporters against being tempted to… Read More

Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black rules and decorations. 176pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Near fine. Faintest of minor binding edgewear only. Outstanding, exceptionally "tight 'n' bright" third edition of this popular memoir (first published 1888) by the first white woman born in the Wisconsin Territory (1819-1907), a noted suffragette, social reformer, first female elected to the Minneapolis School Board and other distinctions. Sharpest condition copy we're ever handled. GRAFF 4455. HOWES V-21 note.