Search Results: Titles starting with V from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1935. London, Parke, Davis & Company, 1935. Octavo. 234 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the preface: "Vaccine Therapy" was first published in 1908 and the need for a new edition, as well as for a revision of our publication "Serum Therapy", has provided an opportunity for issuing a volume dealing generally with the prophylactic and therapeutic applications of vaccines, serums and other products of bacterial origin". "Vaccine Therapy" constitutes Part I of this work / Part II of this volume is devoted to serums and antitoxins prepared in Parke, Davis & Company's Biological Laboratories. Part I - Vaccine Therapy includes for example: Respiratory Infections / General considerations in preparation and use of Vaccines / Technique and Administration of Vaccines / Tuberculosis Infections / Actinomycosis / Acne Vulgaris / Bacterial Disease of the Mouth / Gonorrhoea and its Complications / Cholera / Dysentery / Plague / Malta Fever / Cerebro-Spinal… Read More

1993. Madrid, The Valdepenas Denomination of Origin Regulatory Board, 1993. 24,5 x 28 cm. 95 pages. Original Hardcover. Leather with gilt lettering. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Valdepeñas is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is also the seat of the judicial district that covers the localities of Moral de Calatrava, Santa Cruz de Mudela, Viso del Marqués, Torrenueva, Castellar de Santiago and Almuradiel. (Wikipedia)

1966. Second Edition (Printed in the same month as the First Edition - October, 1966). London, Cassell, 1966. Octavo. 442 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name on endpaper. Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a euphemism for pills, and was created by Susann. The term represents the women's reliance on stimulants, depressants, and sleeping pills, and how substance abuse is reminiscent of children clinging to toy dolls for comfort. An overnight success when it was first published, Valley of the Dolls became the bestselling work of fiction of 1966. Since then it has sold more than 30 million copies, making it one of the bestselling books of all time. As the first roman à clef by a female author to achieve this level of sales in America, it led the way for other authors such as Jackie Collins to depict the private… Read More

2010. New York, Random House, 2010. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXII, 722 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Rare. Out of print. Includes for example the following essays: The First Partition of Vietnam, The Colonial War Becomes a Proxy War, Navarre Takes Command, The Battle, and Diplomacy Defeat and Captivity. Maps include:- The Capture of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, and The Strongpoints of Dien Bien Phu.

1944. Second Impression of the first Edition. London, Peter Davies, 1944. Small Octavo. 170 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket. Some signs of foxing. Signed and inscribed by Sean Dorman: "To Elizabeth, of the glorious contralto with love from Sean". Graneen is a valley of scattered white-washed cottages, of bogland, of peat stacks, of black-faced mountain sheep, of black mountain lakes starred with pale water-lilies of bold rocks and a wild sky....(From the front flap of the dustjacket).

2013. London, Fourth Estate, 2013. 15.5 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 589 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. "Violet Minturn grows up within the confines of Shanghai's most exclusive courtesan house, the striking and wilful daughter of its American mistress. In 1912, when the Emperor is deposed and celebrations rock the city, a cruel act of deception seperates Violet from her mother and she is forced to become a virgin courtesan." (from front flap)

1979. Paris, Sté Nlle des Éditions de Chêne, 1979. 29,5 cm x 21,7 cm. 13 pages text.186 black-and-white illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

1851. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with map: 39.5 cm x 46.5 cm. Size of the actual map: 27 cm x 37 cm. Very good condition. John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. (Wikipedia) The most important project John Tallis undertook, was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here, was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it… Read More

1999. London, Royal Academy Publications and Antwerpen Open, 1999. 24.5 cm x 29.5 cm. 360 pages. Original illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Van Dyck's First Antwerp Period - Prologue to a Baroque life story, Genoa and the Genoese at the Time of Van Dyck, Van Dyck in Sicily, and Images of Piety and Vanity. Appendix includes chronology. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white.

1992. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1992. 26 cm x 24.5 cm. XI, 131 pages. With 32 colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes the following chapters: Line of Time, First Season - Complications and Convultions, Second Season - Into the Labyrinth, Third Season - The Shape of Reality, and The End of Dreaming. Appendices include Suggestions for Further Reading. Illustrated throughout both in colour and in black and white, featuring for example maps and images of nature.

1925. London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1925. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 284 pages. 27 monochrome photographs on 17 plates including frontispiece. Fold-out map at rear showing "The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya." Hardcover [publisher's original amber cloth] with lettering on spine. Embossment to front board. Excellent, bright condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discreet bookseller's label on front pastedown. Minor foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Includes, for example, the following chapters: Law / Land Tenure / Periods of Life, Birth - Adolescence / Periods of Life, Marriage - Death / Arts & Crafts / Dress, Tattooing & Teeth-Filing / Weapons & Warfare / Art & Music / Dances / Magic & Religion, Diviners & Doctors / Tradition & Folklore / Natural History / Present & Future etc. The book details Browne's seven years (1909-1916) as Assistant Commissioner throughout the region. "This book is an effort to record the writer's observations of the manners and… Read More

1989. Kildare, The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1989. 25.5 cm x 28.5 cm. VI, 161 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. This is the rare Hardcover - Edition ! Includes the following chapters: Preface by Noel Grove Annesley / Foreword by Kevin B. Nowlan and Pyers O'Conor-Nash / The Irish Georgian Society by Desmond Guinness / Wasting Assets by Nicholas K. Robinson / A Patchwork of Irish Houses by Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin / County Lists of Vanishing Houses in the Republic of Ireland by David J. Griffin / Counties Carlow - Wicklow.

2006. Dublin, Hodder Headline Ireland, 2006. 29 cm. XI, 180 pages : illustrations (some color). Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life and taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today's post-boom generation. Illustrated with over a hundred evocative and stunning photographs, we meet the people and customs that shaped the cultural identity of the Irish nation. Through their own words and memories, sixty-four men and women transport us back to a time when people lived off the land and the sea, when music and storytelling were essential parts of life, when a person was defined by their trade. Divided into five parts - Children of the Field, Children of the Music, Children of the Horse, Children of the Trade and Children of the Water - Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland's… Read More

1872. London, Vanity Fair, 1872. Folio. 208, 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored, original Hardcover (half-leather with orginal spine (gilt letttering and ornament). With new, linen-covered boards, using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour. Portraits include: 1. Caricature of Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, President of France. Caption read "Faute-de-mieux Premier" / 2. Caricature of Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and 9th Earl of Orrery (1829-1904). Caption read "Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds" / 3. Caricature of Dr Frederick Quin (1799 - 1878). Caption read "Homoeopathic Society" / 4. Men of the Day No.38: Caricature of Mr. James Anthony Froude. Caption reads: "He created Henry VIII exploded Mary Stuart and demolished Elizabeth" / 5. Caricature of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Caption read "The Novelist who invented Sensation" / 6.… Read More

1924. London, Arrowsmith, 1924. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 312 pages. 19 excellent photographic illustrations including frontispiece. One fold-out map showing 'Anglo-Egyptian Sudan'. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling and design to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only one of two fold-out-maps present (the small Africa-Map-missing). Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong. Includes, for example, the following: On the Nile / Khartoum / Said Pasha / General Gordon / The Mahdi / Kitchener of Khartoum / Entry into Omdurman / The Dervish Defeat / Birds and Animals / Animal Photography / Empire Day at Talodi / Charging Arabs / Nuba Wrestling / Crocodiles / The Marsh People / Shilluk Warriors / The Hyena Dance / The Dam at Makwa / The Fallata / The Sultan of the Fallata / Cotton / The Camel Corps / At El Obeid / Railway Construction / Kassala / Port Sudan / Egypt and the Sudan… Read More

1993. Münster, Aschendorff, 1993. 8°. XLII, 477 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

1997. London, The Bruton St. Gallery, 1997. 21 cm x 20 cm. 24 pages. Original Softcover. Signed edition. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight ink mark to cover. Includes for example the following colour reproductions: The Pub - London, Interior Valldemosa, Casa Nun. Interior, and Ritz Cafe. This book is signed and dedicated by the artist Josep M. Vayreda Canadell and beautifully illustrated throughout with works from the artist's London exhibition.

1948. London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. 14 x 21 cm. 159 pages. Original Hardcover. Linen. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains among others the following chapters: The Velvet Study; Cavalier Poetry and Cavalier Politics; The Strategy of the Great Civil War; The German Myth; The Origins of Germany; Martin Luther; The City of God; Good Company; Miss Mangnall of the Questions etc.

1851. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 32.7 cm x 24.9 cm. Sheet Size: 37.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. (Wikipedia) The most important project John Tallis undertook, was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here, was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are… Read More

1952. First Edition. London, Hogarth Press and The Book Society, 1952. 20.4cm x 13.2cm. XIII 240 (3) pages. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 – 16 December 1996) was a 20th-century african author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.