Search Results: Titles starting with V from Tannery Books

Copenhagen: Berlingske Forlag, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +. Ayn Rand, Vi, Der Lever (We, the Living), Copenhagen, Berlingske Forlag, 1945. Danish translation of Rand's novel. Marbled paper boards and black spine with gold lettering, 8vo, marbled endpapers, 456 pp, speckled edges, illustrated paper cover bound in. Good+/no DJ: covers scuffed and corners worn, light tanning, small barcode sticker on front pastedown and tape (from price tag) starting a tear on rear pastedown, pages crisp, unmarked.

Shire Publications, 1998. Paperback. Good. Trevor May, The Victorian Domestic Servant, Shire Publications, 1998. Stapled, stiff paper covers illustrated with maid and bedwarmer on the front, 32 pp with bibliography and suggested places to visit, many bw photos and drawings. Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, small dark stain through first few pages, no markings. Printed in Great Britain

Crescent Books, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Ake Gustavsson. Bertil Almgren, et al, illustrated by Ake Gustavsson, The Viking, also The Viking: Settlers, Ships, Swords & Sagas of the Nordic Age, Crescent Books, 1984 (ISBN pulls up 1991), English edition second printing.Burgundy cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (30 cm), 288 pp with notes, color photographs and bw line drawings thoughout; glossy white dustjacket. Very Good/Good: corners bumped, erasure on half-title and ffep, no internal markings; DJ bumped on edges, large tear on rear corner, light water stain on rear top edge, unclipped (no price). Details from Viking-era life, including villages, clothing, ships, weapons, maps, etc. Printed in Italy

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Andrew A. Humphreys, The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65: The Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883, First Printing. Rebound in dark yellow cloth with original leather title blocks on spine, marbled edges, xiv, 452 pp with appendices and index, 10 maps. Good: covers bumped and scuffed with spine label wearing, stamp on title page with no other apparent markings, all maps present, some tears and tape repairs especially title page, Washington to Richmond map and final general map.

Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1961. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. John Sumner Wood, The Virginia Bishop: A Yankee Hero of the Confederacy, Richmond, Va., Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1961, First printing. Blue cloth hc, 8vo, xiv, 188 with index, bw illustrated plates; blue dustjacket with portrait on front. Ex-library (Good)/Good: ex-lib with stickers, stamps and tape, crisps except plate 4a lightly creased, no noticeable internal markings. Made in USA

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Philip Alexander Bruce, The Virginia Plutarch - In Two Volumes, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929, First printing. Black cloth spine and light brown cloth hc with red stripe, 8vo (23 cm), antique-style pictorial endpapers. Vol. I: xvi, 328 uneven-cut pp, 23 illustrated plates including one fold-out map of 1612 Virginia. Vol. II: xii, 354 pp with index, 21 plates. Some pages unopened. Good/no DJ: covers scuffed and lightly soiled, minor po markings include bookplate on front pastedowns (over illustration) and 1930 inscription on flyleaves.

New York: Clarion Books, 2004. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, New York, Clarion Books, 2004. Tan cloth and white quarter-spine with copper lettering on spine, 4to, [x] 118 pp, many bw photos; Newberry Honor sticker. Good (ex-lib)/Good: Ex-library with tape residue, corners and bottom edge bumped, pages crisp, no internal markings; sticker on DJ spine, edges bumped, flap creased but not clipped. Printed in USA

Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Nancy Gahan. Charles Darwin, edited by Leonard Engel, The Voyage of the Beagle, Garden City. N.Y., Anchor Books/Doubleday, with The American Museum of Natural History, The Natural History Library Edition (first thus), 1962. Illustrations redrawn by Nancy Gahan, maps by Stephen Kraft. Charles Darwin's journey, at age 23, originally published in 1839, which research inspired "his revolutionary theory of evolution," with explanatory notes by Engel. Paperback with teal and white covers, 12mo (18 cm), xxxiv, 524 pp with index [2 ad], 12 pp plates with bw photos and maps. Good: edges wearing, spine creased, drink circle on rear cover, no markings. printed in USA