Search Results: Titles starting with P from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Harper & Row; NY, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 441 pages, brown and black cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed and with slight soiling to the fore-edge. In a very good minus, clean, moderately edge worn dust jacket, rubbed at the upper back strip, with the original price present.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Charles J. Peterson, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sold as a scarce original volume despite difficult condition. 12 individual issues bound in one volume without individual covers and ads. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, 464 + 464 pages with intertextual black and white illustrations + 8 hand-colored plates and several additional printed with a second color) engraved title page and many patterns; three-quarter leather. A good copy overall with significant exterior problems, cover leather worn through to boards at all edges, leather back strip chipped; hinges cracked but secure, internal binding solid, with minor damp staining to the gutter margins of the first few pages and fore-edge margins of the last 20 pages; paper moderately yellowed, with some minor foxing, with chipping to some interior pages and some folding plates torn at folds, interior otherwise very good. There are pages missing, perhaps in the rebinding process, but no significant text. There are four… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Co, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 245 pages, green boards with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but with a publisher's 'sample' label affixed to the front free endpaper. In a near fine, slightly edge worn dust jacket, some fading to title along spine, with original price.

New York, New York: Soho Press, 1996. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 407 pages, blue quarter cloth with gilt title on back strip. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with slight rubbing, with original price. Publisher's review slip laid in.

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover--paper over boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo,8 1/2" tall, 222 pages, gilt title on spine; with small remainder mark on top edge. A near fine, clean, hardcover first American edition, first printing, one corner bumped, minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, clean, lightly edge worn dust jacket with slight soiling at lower fore-tip, with original price.

Ecco; NY, 1999-08-10. First Edition. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 148 pages, purple boards. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white but with evidence of moisture at the top fore-edge margin (not affecting text). In a very good lightly worn dust jacket with color bleed stains at the top edge on the black side, with the original price present.

Dennis McMillan Publications: Belen, New Mexico, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited limited to 350 copies. Signed by the author and artist (father and son) on the limitation pageOctavo, 7 3/4” tall, 166 pages, blue titles on purple cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. First Edition. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 172 pages, gray cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, BUT some foxing to the top fore-edge; binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.

Washington D.C: Government Printing Office, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sold as a scarce original reference volume despite condition problems. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, lxvii + 1149 pages, 3/4 leather. A good original hard cover overall; the interior is very good (and worthy of being rebound), but covers are significantly worn and loose, the back strip missing; hinges are broken. The internal binding is solid, paper-clean and lightly yellowed.

New York, New York: Viking Press, 1986 . First American Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 540 pages; maroon cloth. A fine, clean hard cover with minimal shelf wear; gently read, binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.

A. C. McClurg & Co: Chicago, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 2/3” tall, 414 pages, brown boards. A good, generally clean, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear, spine title dimmed, corners rubbed. binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Berkley, 2022-01-11. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 319 pages, brown boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover overall with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Boston, Massachusetts: Lothrop Publishing, 1903. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Duodecimo, 7 3/4" tall, 417 pages, decorated blue cloth. A good, sturdy hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear; slight cant to the spine, hinges and binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed, with the previous owner's name on front free end paper (with date penned 1903) plus a bookplate (partially removed) on the front end paper.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 2/3" tall, 184 pages, lime green quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good+, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with minor shelf wear, paper cream white but with light, sporadic foxing to end papers and fore-edges; binding tight. In a very good+, clean, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Knopf, 2010-04-20. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 380 pages, blue boards A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.

New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 240 pages, green cloth. A near fine, clean, tight hardcover first edition with light shelf wear and a slight bump to one corner; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with previous owner's name on the end paper. In a near-fine dust jacket with light edge wear and a short edge tear.

New York, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 221 pages; publisher's review slip laid in. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper clean, lightly yellowed. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913 . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. good/Without dust jacket. A reading copy only. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 115 pages, decorated green cloth with illustrated front cover and gilt title on spine; with four b&w illustrations. A good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities, top and bottom edges of spine cloth just starting to fray, fore-corner tips through to boards; hinges and binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018-01-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket, if issued. This volume has a broken front hinge but appears new and otherwise unread. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xi + 253 pages, illustrated boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover overall with little shelf wear, BUT a bump to the bottom fore-corner, and as noted, the front hinge is cracked (likely due to the corner bumping and poor original binding construction), internal binding is tight, paper white. Without dust jacket as issued. A review slip is laid in.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011-10-04. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. This is an odd edition and looks to be a facsimile of the original hard cover edition with several photocopied reader's marks included. Octavo, 9" tall, 216 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white.