Search Results: Titles starting with V from KALAMOS BOOKS

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing In the summer of 1900, following his freshman year at the University of Michigan, Harry Franck set out with only $3.18 in his pocket to see Europe. He worked his way across the Atlantic on a cattle boat, visited England and France, and got back to Ann Arbor two weeks after classes had started. While an undergraduate, he bet a fellow student that he could travel around the world without money, and after a year of teaching, proceeded to do so. He spent sixteen months circling the globe, working to earn money along the way and performing feats such as walking across the Malay peninsula. His book, A Vagabond Journey Around the World (1910) sold well enough to encourage him to continue his travels. Often reprinted this copy is undated but has an owner insncription 1937.. 502p. illus.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good with slight chips & Tear. Illus. by Harry A Franck Photographer.

New York: Zebra Books, 2000 (Zebra Regency Romance) Experienced at helping her physician father in his practice, unfashional Vanessa Holland is hired to transform Lord Thurston's shy invalid sister into a healthy and confident lady, but her arrival at the arristocrat's country estate marks the beginning of a series of mysterious and flattering love notes from a secret admirer. . 1st US Edition. Pbk. Near Fine.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1957 Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack - and Kiki - in their third "adventure" First published in 1947. Vintage, clean,tight copy in a nice decorative yellow cloth cover. Just a little shelf wear and a few tiny stains on front.cover.Name of previous owner on ffep. Reprint.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Stuart Tresilian.

New York: Tom Doherty (Tor), 1997 Life in ancient Egypt, aNd the rediscovery of it by Carnarvon and Carter in a novel whch alternates between the two periods.. 1st.US Edition.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

London: Penguin, 1952 Original Vintage Penguin paperback ".in these Persian travels she . explores Luristan, Mazaudevan ,"The Throne of Solomon" and "The Valleys of the Assassins" and has filled in many blanks in the map of that country. In this book there is something more than a recounting of adventure, for there is humour, a keen understanding of the people, and a literary style that is unusual and compelling." 319p. maps. Vintage Penguin Pbk original. Paper suntanned, covers chipped with stain on the front.. First Pbk.Ed... Pbk. Good.

New York: Modern Library, 2001 "...in these Persian travels she ... explores Luristan, Mazaudevan ,"the Throne of Solomon" ans "the Valleys of the Assassins" and has filled in many blanks in the map of that country. In this book there is something more than a recounting of adventure, for there is humour, a keen understanding of the people, and a literary style that is unusual and compelling." Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse. 301p. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Montreal: Vallum, 2006 Contains poem "Mikhael" ( p.43 ) and book review ( pp 80-82) by Helen Zisimatos ( Vallum Contemporary Poetry Vol.4 # 1 (2006) the Desert (ISSN 1496 5178) 96p. illus (some col). Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Warner Books, 1995 Lord Byron as a vampire? That notion may not explain the aberrant behavior of the much-revered Romantic poet, but it definitely provides a racy foundation for Holland's engaging and sophisticated debut novel. The story begins in London in the present, as lovely young Rebecca Carville petitions her lawyer for the keys to the family crypt, where she hopes to find the sole existing copy of Byron's memoirs. Instead, she finds Byron himself, who proceeds to tell her the story of how he became a vampire during his journey to Greece. The first half of Byron's account remains within the conventionsof the horror genre, as the great poet desperately fights the efforts of the powerful Greek vardoulacha, who eventually drains his blood. Once Byron begins to explore his new nature, however, Holland embarks on a remarkable literary journey, touching on how the poet's burden might have affected his relationships with the women in his life as well as his problematic… Read more

London: Bodley Head., 1978 A chance meeting with a drug dealer named Spider takes Tom Austen into the grim streets of Vancouver's Skid Road, where he poses as a runaway while searching for information to help the police smash a gang that is hooking young kids on drugs. ... 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Tom McNeely.

Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1990 Soft Cover. Fine.

Topsfield MA: Salem House Publishers, 1987 Produced for the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Introduction by John Le Carre. " From the Lake Districtto Dartmoor the ever inceasng march of progress fuelled by private profit, lpcal gain, government requirement or the national interest is laying seige to the hearltand of England . This book is a record of 24 of the most beautiful places in England. .each.by an outstanding photographer. A "withdrawn" stamp on ffep, but no other library marks, else near fine. 173p. illus.. 1st US Ed... Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Tospfield MA: Salem House Publishers, 1987 ". 24 of the most beautiful places in (rural) England, each photographed by an oustanding photographer" and each with "a question-mark over its future as the photographs were taken. " Introduction by John Le Carre. Has a "withdrawn" stamp on ffep, but NO other library marking , else fine.0pok777. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine - Price Clipped.

St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 A clever and cunning modern day retelling of the adored Jane Austen novel "Tall, dark, and arrogantly handsome --not to mention distinguished, powerful, and rolling in money. Mr. Darcy? No, that's just the woman director of Pride and Prejudice," reports Nicholas Llewellyn Bevan, impoverished novelist and occasional (reluctant) journalist, when a TV production company trundles into his sleepy North Yorkshire valley. Amusedly he watches these glamorous invaders combine the filming of Jane Austen's romantic classic with the much less modest pursuit, off-camera, of real-life romances with the locals. Under his very nose, his bashful handsome neighbor John is plucked out of a village dance by the famously gorgeous (and wealthy) leading actress, Candia Bingham, with whom he at once falls completely in love. Our would-be hero manages only to trip over the black-booted foot of the intimidating and imperious director, Mary Dance. So he's amazed---and a… Read more

Athens: Ekdoseis Psychogios, 2014 1st Greek Edition.. New Book from Greece.

Macmillan, 1971 Volume 15 of the Whiteoaks of Jalna saga. In this episode of the family saga, Renny's daughter, the young Adeline, plans to marry her Irish lover, much to her father's displeasure. Meg and Finch find new loves, and old Nicholas dies, leaving various legacies. First published 1954] [Exceptionaly clean crisp copy - looks unread.. Reprint. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

London: Pan, 1971 Volume 15 of the Whiteoaks of Jalna saga. In this episode of the family saga, Renny's daughter, the young Adeline, plans to marry her Irish lover, much to her father's displeasure. Meg and Finch find new loves, and old Nicholas dies, leaving various legacies. [First published 1954] .. Reprint. Pbk.. Near Fine.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1996 Biography of Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen, includes an interesting account of his life on the island of Hydra. 325p. illus.index. Transparent dj as issued. 1st Can Ed.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1970 A very small format introduction to the art of Victor Vasarely issued in the "Little Library of Art" series 12p+ 15 plates.. 1st UK Edtion. Softcover. As New.

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1965 Comprehensive account of life, traditions and customs in a farming village in Boeotia in the 1950's. 110p. plates.map.bibliography.. Reprint.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1965 Comprehensive account of life, traditions and customs in a farming village in Boeotia in the 1950's. 110p. plates.map.bibliography. This copy has notes and underlinings, a student reading copy only.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fair > Good.