Search Results: Titles starting with V from Catron Grant Books

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972 520 pps. plus a fold-out facsimile of the first page of Lenin's 1906 manuscript "The Working-Class Party's Tasks and the Peasantry". Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Brown leatherette boards with blind embossed portrait-in-profile of Lenin and gold printing on both cover and spine clean and undamaged. Near fine except for slightly worn spine. This edition, translated into English was "printed in accordance wth a decision of the ninth congress of the R.C.P. (B.) and the second congress of Soviets in the U.S.S.R." Printed in red on the half-title page: "Workers of all countries unite!". Third Printing.. Leatherette. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 3/8" X 8 1/8".

New York: Scribners, 1974 192 pp with B&W illustrations throughout and a bibliography of Sackville-West's works. A perceptive study of the relationship between V. Sackville-West's life and work, in which he explores her poems "The Land" and "The Garden," biographies, novels, shorter poetry, and all her writings, published and unpublished. Text is clean, tight and unmarked save for a previous owner's name on flyleaf. DJ is bright and intact but for two small closed tears. In mylar jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1953 New York: Doubleday & Co., 1953 250 pp. Text is clean, tight unmarked, lightly yellowed. Would be "fine" but lacks DJ. Black boards are VG+, fvery clean and undamaged but slight bumping to extremities. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Valentine's Manual Inc., 1924 New York: Valentine's Manual Inc., 1924 386 pp with color and B&W illustrations . A collection of pieces on the history of New York City from its founding to Calvin Coolidge. text is clean, tight, unmarked, end papers are yellowed, foxed.Protective tissue covers frontis colored illustration of Gracie mansion. Blue cloth boards are bumped at corners, quite sun-darkened at spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1956 vii, 196 pp with 16 B&W plates and 2 maps. The account of four English climbers to scale a mountain in northern Norway above the Arctic Circle. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, toned. Some foxing to page edges.and glue staining to endpapers. Blue cloth boards are bright and intact. DJ is complete but has considerable edgewear. Now in protective mylar.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair.

The Overlook Press, 1997 The Overlook Press, 1997 vii, 178 pp with twelve maps and B&W illustrations throughout. A history of the Gurkha tribesmaen from southern Nepal who became some of the most loyal and feared volunteer soldiers in the British Army through the Second World War. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Aperture, 2003 Aperture, 2003 190 pp with B&W photos on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards have very slight bumping to extremities. Dust jacket has two short closed tears, else intact and clean. In mylar wrapper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Oxford University Press, 2000 xii, 684 pp with teal and white line drawings on every page.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black buckram boards with silver titles along spine are clean and undamaged. DJ is bright and intact. 'The Variety of Life" in one volume introduces all the principal groups of creatures that are now believed to have existed in the history of the earth and shows how all earthly creatures are related to all the others, despite the vast differences between them.. 1st Ed.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Lane Bodley Head, 1940 316 pp with B&W photo illustration sthroughout text. British traveler in the early 20th century, with observations of the "The natives are so amusing." sort. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards are rubbed at extremities.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St. Louis: House of Repreasentatives Mis. Doc. No. 44, 2006 345 pps. Some B/W photographs.Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Book is as new apart from some minor scuffing on back cover. Dedication by author on title page.. By Author on Title Page. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" x9".

Munchen (Munich): Deutsche Bekleidungs-Akademie, München 199 pp with B&W line patterns throughout and a chart of proportions ina pocket on rear endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Red cloth boards are lightly faded, dulled along spine.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Munchen (Munich): Verl. Dt. Bekleidungs-Akademie, 1960 216 pp with B&W line drawings throughout and a chart of proportions ina pocket on rear endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards are lightly faded, dulled along spine.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NYC: The Metropolitan Museumof Art, 1993 125 (3) pp with color and B&W illustrations on every page. This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition " Verroccio's Christ and St. Thomas: A Masterpiece of Sculpture from Renaissance Florence," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1993. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Red cloyh boards are bright and undamaged.DJ is bright and intact, now in protective mylar.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Quarto.

Versailles: Editions D,Art, 1970 79 pps. extensively illustrated with full-color photgraphs. Text clean, tight and bright. Handwritten date on front endpaper,notes on last page. Soft cover with photograph clean, tight and bright with minor wear. Spine cracked but holding. Colorful little tourist booklet written in Englsh. Softcover. Good. 5"x7.25".

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2001 759 pp with B&W line drawings and photo illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated glazed paper boards are clean and undamaged.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Thick Crown Quarto.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1962 535 pp with B&W charts and diagrams in text. Text is clean and tight with light highlighting on first 20 pp. Blue cloth boards are rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Madrid: Miraguano, 1998 470 pp with B&W illustrations by Gustave Dore in text. Text in Spanish. Clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Softcover. Very Good. Illus. by Dore, Gustave. 6.5" x 9.5".

New York: The Heritage Club, 1939 210 pp with eight color plates. An exceptionally handsome edition of a classic. Tezxt is clean, tight and unmarked. The eight illustrations are each protected by a glasine leaf, all fully intact. Rose beige cloth boards have an embossed frame on front and back. The spine is slightly soiled, has gold stamping on a dark red field.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Austen.

Summit Books, 1980 Summit Books, 1980 155 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green paper boards ith tan cloth spine are undamaged save for a slight dent along the bottom front edge. Dust Jacket is clean, bright, a 1/4 in closed split at spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Little, Brown, 1968 276 pp0 with three maps and B&W plates in text. Text is clean, tight tnd unmarked.Green cloth boards are undamaged. DJ is bright, intact, with edgewear. Price-clipped. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.