Search Results: Titles starting with V from The Parnassus BookShop

USA: G P Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Bound in gold half cloth with red titles, bright red boards, very clean, unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Jacket is clean and bright, glossy red with gold V and white lettering, not price-clipped, as new. 437 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 2011.

San Diego, California: Kjos Music Company, 1992. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7. Paperback Book in Fine Condition. A creative step by step approach to successful sight singing: reading a piece of choral or vocal music that you have never seen before, without the help of a piano or other singers; singing music for the first time with the words, pitches and rhythms as accurate as possible. Clean, unmarked, as new book, stapled binding. 96 pages. 6 x 9 inches, 1992, Kjos Music Company, San Diego, CA

New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin Grp, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Book has a remainder mark, otherwise as new. Clean, tight, solid, and square. Seventeenth century England seen in all its magnificence and its brutality. 569 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2007, Riverhead Books/Penguin Grp, New York, New York, USA

New York and Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Hardcover Trade Edition Book and Dust Jacket As New. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. Jacket with archival protective cover. An Anne Rice story crowded with history, drama, invention and romantic intensity. Her new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1997, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York and Canada

U.S.A: HarperTorch, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean pictorial wrappers, trace wear to edges, tight and square binding. Internals are very clean, lightly toned, no markings of any kind. A rousing tale of 14th century England--England is fighting in France, Scotland plans an invasion, and a bloody battle of the Hundred Years' War brings butchery to all involved. A great historical adventure story. 460 pages. 6.75 x 4.25 inches. 2003, HarperTorch, USA

New York: Harper Torch/HarperCollins, 2004. International Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Portugeuse by Alan R. Clarke. First Harper Torch International Edition. Red and lavernder cover is clean with slight wear around edges, binding tight, solid and square. Internals quiote clean and unmarked. A powerful exploration of one man's battle with self-doubt and fear. He confronts his past by going on a forty-day quest into the Majoave Desert with his wife. They encounter the Valkyries, a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. Insights, exotic locales and dramatic adventure, all blended into a riveting story with a message--letting go of the past and believing in the future. 212 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. 2004, Harper Torch/HarperCollins, New York.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A: Moody Publishers, 2007. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean card cover, unmarked, no edgewear. Cover and first few pages have faint depression in the center along the fore edge. You can see a faint indentation a half inch in and down along the fore edge when tipped to the light. Internals are as new. Appears unread. Set against the backdrop of pre-World War II war-torn Spain--love, loss, pain, Spainish patriots, Nazi-backed Franco forces all in this first book in Tricia Goyer's new series, Chronicles of the Spanish Civil 319 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Moody Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.

Scholastic Book Services, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Scholastic Book Services, 1974. Paperback in Very Good Condition. 160 pages. 9 x 7.5". This book is a movie-actually three movies grouped together because of a similar theme. These are printed versions of the actual finished films, not simple screenplays, which are not finished products. For the purposes of this book, 'values' is defined as concepts of what is good, essential, important and right. In these three film-plays, we read of individuals whose personal values are brought into conflict with the values of other individuals or with an entire society, or with needs and desires within themselves and how they resolve these conflicts. Includes sections on How to Read a Movie and a Glossary of Movie Terms. 1974, Rodale Press.

Spokane, Washington, USA: Gray Dog Press, 2010. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback As New. Bright, clean, unmarked wraps, solid, tight & square. Crisp and sharp looking. A tale of the occult set in Spokane, Washington, with the Police Department's Crime Scene Investigation Unit in for some surprises when they find a dead body in a church parking lot. 311 pages. 9 x 6 inches. 2010, Gray Dog Press, Spokane, Washington, USA

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hard Back Student Series of Great Artists Book. 36 Full Color Reproductions in this Small Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. 5.25" x 7.25" tall. 88 pp. White linen cloth with gilt panel on front with white lettering within and gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. Tight and solid. Jacket is glossy and bright with illustration of Van Gogh on front; edgewear with chipping on spine head and upper corner. Van Gogh's life and art are traced simply and clearly.Thirty-six of Van Gogh's greatest paintings--flower pieces, landscapes, interiors, portraits, figure paintings-are richly reproduced in full color.

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Van Loon, Hendrik. First Edition Hardcover Book, 1932. Book in Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in archival protective sleeve. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. An unforgettable and informative story of the world and its people from five continents--over 150 typical Van Loon illustrations/maps, 38 in color and wash. Binding of red cloth with a paper illustration in color affixed to the front panel, gilt titles to spine. Very clean and unmarked, with tight and solid sewn binding, inner hinge cracked. Endpaper leaf loose from binding. Edges rubbed. Rough cut. Frontispiece illustration "The Will to Live". Title page with FACSIMILE Hendrik Willem Van Loon signature. Internals very clean and completely unmarked. NOTE: Unfold the wrapper and you will find a map of the world drawn by… Read More

Harper Large Print, 2021. Soft cover. Very Good. 6x1x9. First Harper Large Print Edition, 2021. Softcover Large Print Book in Very Good Condition. The rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty. Slight ruffling of lower corner and a few pages, very minor; spine crease and light wear to spine head and heel. Otherwise quite clean and unmarked book; pages completely free from marks of any kind; no creases. Born at the end of the 18th century, the son of a Staten Island ferryman, Cornelius Vanderbilt would go on to become the richest man in America with a fortune built in shipping and railroads. That fortune helped create an American dynasty that re-defined the meaning of excess in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great grandson, Anderson Cooper joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the epic story of this faimly.448 pages. 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches. 2021, Harper Large Print. ISBN10: 0063118327, ISBN13: 9780063118324

San Diego, CA: Harvest Books/Harcourt, Inc, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Printing of First Harvest Edition, 2006. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Trace wear to cover. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight and solid. Pages in Fine Condition. Inspector Javier Falcon investigates what appeared to be the suicide of Rafael Vega and his wife, in Seville, Spain, but when he receives threats from the Russian mafia who has moved into the city and more apparent suicides follow, Falcon reveals secrets buried in the black heart of Vega's life. 360 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 2006, Harvest Books/Harcourt, San Diego, CA ISBN10: 0156032821, ISBN13: 9780156032827

New York: Viking Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Author's First Novel. Book has overstock mark on fore edge of page block, else Fine in a Fine Jacket. Bound in Ivory linen half cloth with gilt titles, gray boards - clean, bright, tight and solid. Jacket not price clipped. A tale of strange love and need between a man no one notices and a woman no one can ignore. They disappear from their small Vermont town--and a few days later a toddler disappears from her playpen in her family home in Massachusetts. . .This 'family' now of three and the lives they live portray lives dangerously our of control. 246 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Viking Press, New York, 1988.

New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2013. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked with light wear to cover corners and lower edge. Solid and tight binding. Pages quite clean, no marks of any kind. The true story of eleven airmen missing in action at the end of World War II, in an accident over the Pacific Island of Palau. Investigators found no trace of them, even though the plane crashed in shallow water and witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety. For sixty years, searches of all kinds have taken place with no success. Now, Wil S. Hylton has the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance has remained a mystery for so long. It is also a story of love, loss, sacrifice and faith of their families and of the determination of scientists, archaeologists, deep-sea divers, explorers to find the answer to this mystery of World War II. 302 pages with Bibliography and… Read More

US: Shoemaker Hoard Publishers, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Shoemaker Hoard Publishers, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Fine navy half cloth with gilt titles, ivory boards, tight and solid, internals pristine. Landscape journalism at its best, portraying an America that is in need of protection of its landscapes, of its lands and structures. The rich American landscape, natural and cultural, is being threatened and in some cases wiped away completely by "progress" and other forms of devastation. Journalist James Conaway takes to the road exploring places, people and traditions that are currently challenged by social and physicsl change. He understands that exploding population and gigantic industry will change the beauty of America's landscape, but asks why does the change so often produce an eyesore to replace vanished beauty? He detects a destructive American lust for the ugly at work. "A… Read More

USA: Dell Publishing, 1966. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. A searching, No-Holds barred study of American youth, not since The catcher in the Rye has a book so powerfully portrayed the explosive world of today's younger generation (CR 1959). A classic study. Paperback in Good Condition. Cover clean and unmarked, slight edgewear, crease on lower corner. Two pages with crease to upper corner. Cover and pages toned. Underlining of text on a few pages. A book as pertinent today as in the sixties--interesting to read the thoughts at that time and then look at today. 223 pages. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Dell Publishing, New York, 1966.

USA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. William Thackeray. Type: Hardback Hardcover Franklin Center Edition in Near Fine Condition, with Illustrations by the Author. No Jacket as issued. A classic work of 19th century English Literature, a satirical epic of love and social adventure. This edition (1848) includes a selection of four wood engravings and all thirty-nine of the steel-engraved plates which Thackeray did for the first edition of his novel. They exemplify the whole comfortable world of Victorian upper-middle class England. There is gentle satire warmed by humor and love of life. The burgundy leatherette binding is decorated with gilt design on front, hubbed spine with gilt decorations within. The binding is very clean and unmarked. There is a gentle bump to the lower front corner and a faint scuff to the lower rear corner. All edges gilt. Internals are as new. An exquisite volume. 679 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. The Franklin Library, 1924, Franklin… Read More

Creswell, Oregon: Shiloh Publications, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Shiloh Publications, 2007, 2nd Printing of First Edition. Spiral Bound soft cover within hard cover binding in Fine Condition. Looks unused. Bright and clean illustrated hardcover; pages of glossy paper, completely free from any marks, full color illustrations. More than 249 vegan recipes. Home cooking simple and cholesterol free--Pesto and Tomato Pizza, Fettuccini Alfredo, Veggie Fajitas, VCranberry Cheesecake--and so many more. 249 pages. Glossary of Ingredients, Index. 8vo. ISBN 0978863208 9780978863203 [US]

U.S.A: Better Homes & Gardens Books, 1978. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback Large Hardcover Gardening Book As New. No Jacket. A complete guide to food growing at home, with basic information for producing over 65 vegetables & herbs and a vegetable know-how section with 32 step-by-step drawings, plus delicious uses for homegrown herbs. Beautiful full color photography and diagrams. 96 pages with index. 10.25 x 7.75 inches. 1978, Better Homes & Gardens Books, Des Moines, Iowa, USA