Search Results: Titles starting with V from Yesterday's Muse Books

England: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd, 1942. Stapled Binding. Good. Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honours systems and no longer recommend British honours. It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command although no civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two-thirds of all awards have been personally presented… Read More

New York: Dell, 1963. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. First paperback printing. Pages faintly toned. 1963 Mass Market Paperback. 192 pp. Film still of Richard Burton kissing Elizabeth Taylor's cheek on front and back cover. A group of ultra-wealthy travelers have a life-altering day of thrills at an airport.

Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1991. 7th Printing. Large Softcover. Very Good. 8x1x11. Seventh printing. Edge wear, page edges lightly toned. 1991 Large Softcover. viii, 408 pp. superb collection of reprinted ads, posters, memorabilia, articles, and photos provide an intimate look at America's home front. Recycling, rationing, parades, assault on the Pacific coast, children at war, Civil Defense, historic moments, important people, everyday activities, and more.

Toronto, Canada: Random House Canada, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First printing. Remainder mark. 2020 Trade Paperback. 312 pp. The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Kay Caton-Walsh, a young English intelligence officer, is living through the turmoil of war. After she and her lover, an RAF officer, are caught in a V2 attack, she volunteers to ship out for newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few… Read More

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1x6x9. First edition. Faint foxing to top edge. 1985 Hard Cover. 310 pp. Never intended for publication, these letters were written almost daily from March 1944 to November 1945 by 32-year-old combat medic to his wife in Philadelphia. This enlisted man's day-by-day reactions to the war, to the natives, to France and Germany and to his intense homesickness for his wife and children are the expressions of an average citizen-soldier.

New York: Crown, 1986. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Third edition. Related papers laid in. Jacket rubbed, faint foxing to top ridge. 1986 Hard Cover. 417 pp. A look at the writings and life of one of Russia's most famous novelists.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Stain on top page ridge, pencil name on front free endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. 303 pp. Grey boards. A fictional story of a woman named Valencia.

New York: Ballantine, 1976. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. First edition. Faint toning, spine creased. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A wealthy business mogul has his life turned deadly when his mistress learns too much about him.

New York: Harper, 2020. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Book club edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2020 Hard Cover. 308 pp. Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1892. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First trade edition. Signed by author on half-title page without inscription. A few minor spots on boards, minor general wear. 1892 Hard Cover. ix, 301 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Author's first book, originally published in 300-copy edition, 1891. Monroe founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and served as editor, publishing poems by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, etc. Monroe, Harriet (23 December 1860–26 September 1936), poet and editor, was born Hattie Monroe in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Henry Stanton Monroe, a lawyer, and Martha Mitchell. Her parents, both of Scotch ancestry and moderately wealthy, came to Chicago in the early 1850s. Their differing personalities created tension that colored Harriet’s childhood. The family enjoyed… Read More

New York: Berkeley Books, 2009. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 4x1x7. Edges slightly worn. 2009 Mass Market Paperback. 712 pp. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices smoke and races to the rescue. He's too late to save the engineer behind the ship's new technology, but helps the man's daughter, Kelly Egan, escape with her father's work in a leather briefcase. While Ms. Egan strives to uncover the hidden value in her father's inventions, Pitt is hired on by maritime insurers to investigate the wreckage. Neither are prepared for the mechanical marvels they'll soon be forced to confront. The machines could only be the stuff of legend, described in the tales of Viking explorers or the accounts of Jules Verne. And they may be Pitt and Egan's only hope when an oil tycoon with… Read More

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1978. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover. Good/Good. 10x9x1. Second printing. Jacket spine fade, loss to jacket spine head tear along bottom edge of jacket, jacket reverse soiled. Boards soiled, top page ridge stained. 1978 Large Hardcover. xiii, 364 pp. Photographs by numerous artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Eugene, Clarence H. White, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward S. Curtis, Arnold Genthe and numerous others. Includes profiles of photographic pioneers, bibliography compiled by Michael Elderman, notes to the text and an index of names.

New York: Penguin, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. 1st printing. Remainder mark. 2017 Trade Paperback. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within.

New York: The American Historical Company, Inc, 1944. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Minor wear along edges. 1944 Hard Cover. vii, 36 pp. A brief history of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during World War II.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Harper, George. Reissue. Very good in good jacket. Jacket toned, some loss from rear panel along spine and front fore edge, two light spots on jacket corner. Related pamphlet ('Jack London by Himself') laid in. 1916 Hard Cover. 530, [8] pp. Color frontispiece by George Harper. A novel by the author famous for White Fang and The Call of the Wild. A lengthy story that mirrors Jack London's own life journey from Oakland that ended at his dream house in Glen Ellen, California, The Valley of the Moon is an intriguing view into life in California at the turn of the 19th century. A working class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, leave their city life in Oakland behind to find a better life in the country. They visit an artist colony in Carmel before moving north to the Valley of the Moon.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 1991 Hard Cover. xviii, 253 pp. Valley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful economy in the rural hinterland of the middle colonies. Peter C. Mancall draws on abundant evidence from seldom-used archives in the region, as well as from libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, to reconstruct their daily economic life. The author describes the varied economic transformations that took place in the area, considering these changes from an environmental as well as an economic standpoint. He shows how different groups of people perceived the resources of the region and how their perceptions shaped settlement patterns, land use, and the formation of commercial networks. Ultimately, each of the three peoples looked beyond the mountains that set the boundaries of their physical world… Read More

New York: Appleton-Century, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Jacket price-clipped. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1965 Hard Cover. 156 pp. Memoir by Frank Lloyd Wright's sister.

New York: Bantam Books, 1983. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x1. 1st printing. Spine creased, 1/2 inch tear to lower spine, edge wear. 1983 Mass Market Paperback. This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship.

Toronto: The J.E. Bryant Company (Limited), 1891. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Edges a bit rubbed, wrappers lightly soiled. 1891 Stapled Binding. 24 pp. Staple-bound printed wrappers. The author was head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto for over thirty years, and was also a member of the American Psychological Association (founded a year after the publication of this lecture). This lecture was the first of his career, and includes mentions of John Locke and Immanuel Kant.

New York: Viking Studio Books, 1992. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 20x20x20. Minor wear along edges. 1992 Soft Cover. 224 pp. "An erudite collection of myth and folklore, literature and popular culture, gathers cautionary tales, firsthand encounters, diagrams, and tips on caring for or avoiding the blood-sucking, black angels that stalk the night.