Search Results: Titles starting with V from TristanBooks

Rare and early book on Ventriloquism (part of the larger category of Magic and Illusion Performance) in Scarce Dust Jacket! This is the first dust jacket on a book I have seen from before 1910 outside of a book fair or a prestigious collection.
Ventriloquism by Charles H. Olin Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Penn Publishing 1906. Contains several photographs, diagrams, and even an example of a dialogue between the ventriloquist and two dummies! Near Fine+ in Very Good+ Dustjacket! A very tight copy, most pages very clean, in scarce dust jacket! You just don't find books with their original dust jackets from prior to 1910 very often! Essentially complete, very slight edgewear to the top of spine and top edge, otherwise complete and intact! I could find very few examples of this book on WorldCat, and none for sale of the first edition, although some later edition copies are available. However, this may be the ONLY copy surviving in its original dust jacket, or at least one of very few. Probably… Read More

Book about vigilantes and mob justice just after the California Gold Rush in 1849 during the 1850's. According to the blurb, James King is an overlooked character of American history, as the instigator of one of the more notorious vigilante groups in the west.
Villains and Vigilantes The Story of James King of William and Pioneer Justice in California by Stanton A. Coblentz Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Wilson-Erikson 1936. Cover price still intact: $3.00. Illustrated with 8 illustrations/pictures, including the frontispiece. Most of the illustrations depict the so-called Vigilance Committee enacting their raison d'etre.
Near Fine+ in Near Fine Dust Jacket, very clean, pages clean, just a slight creasing to the upper right-hand corners of the pages, not really serious, and a bump to upper right-hand front board. Dust jacket is complete with an amateur repair to the back near the spine, and typical nicks to corners, but all there essentially. Not often found in a jacket of this condition.… Read More