Search Results: Titles starting with V from Back of Beyond Books

Photo album depicting family and friends vacationing at lodges in New York and home life in Connecticut. Approximately 520 silver gel photos. About half of the pages are dated; no captions. Two-thirds of the pages have photos on recto only. Photos are tipped in and measure between 2” x 3” and 7” x 9 ½” with most measuring about 3 ½” x 4”. Dates range from 1899-1904. “Richard Wightman” is in gilt lettering on the front album cover. Full leather album covers measure 10 ½” x 12 ½”. Album covers have heavy soiling and moderate chipping; about 10 leaves are detached from the binding; some photos are detached from leaves and only a handful of photos are missing; photos have light silvering and a few are out of focus. Overall good. The family pictured in this album, likely the Wightman family, was possibly from Greenwich, Connecticut with some images of large homes and fancy neighborhoods. One page has images of women… Read More

Denver, Colo.: Denver Tourist & Publicity Bureau. Very Good. Softcover. Brown wraps with black illustration and lettering. Staple bound. Published circa 1925. Light soiling to page 47, else very good. One copy at the Denver Public Library as of July 2021. This booklet produced by the Denver Tourist & Publicity Bureau tells the visitor what to see in and around Denver with details about rail, automobile and trolley travel. It includes many b&w photographs and illustrations. ; 48mo 3½" - 4" tall; 48 pp .

Boston: Thomas & John Fleet. Good. 1778. Disbound. Dis-bound pamphlet, but tight binding. Exterior pages moderately foxed. All corners clipped. Small pencil markings inside first page. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 32 pp .

Phoenix: SWCA, Inc.. Fine. 2008. First Edition. Softcover. 1931901228 . Green paper pictorial covers with lettering on covers and spine. Photographs, diagrams, and extensive data provide a detailed account of a study done in the Santa Cruz River area in Southern Arizona. Prehistoric floodplain agriculture was studied. ; SWCA Anthropological Research Paper Number 11; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 242 pp .

Very Good. Image measures 16" x 19 7/8". Light edge wear, with a 1/2" x 6" white spot below the caption, probably from damaged corner of negative plate. Image cropped due to scanner size; more images available upon request. This black and white photograph was developed from the original glass plates of William Henry Jackson, and contains a caption, the number 1023, and the imprint of the Detroit Photographic Company, which bought Jackson's negatives in 1897. Shown are a man sitting in the foreground, a rail car off the tracks, and mountains faintly visible in the background, in the Valley of Los Pinos near the New Mexico-Colorado border. Original plate is circa 1880s. The print was developed from the Colorado Historical Society's glass plate collection circa 1970s by Richard A. Ronzio, a collector of historic Colorado photographs who furnished images for many books on railroads and mining in Colorado. Ronzio also wrote "Silver Images in Colorado." ; .

Bradenton, FL: Opuscula Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. Limited Edition. Softcover. Ivory wrappers with dark green lettering on front wrapper. This book is in fine condition, with only a slight scratch on back wrapper. 2 1/4" x 1 3/4". The value versus worth of a book in the book collecting business. Bradbury - Opuscula Press 10. ; Miniature; 27 pp .

Bishop Auckland, UK. Very Good. 0. No Binding. Three advertisements for W. J. Cummins, no date but at least one is ca. 1925 from text and postmark on envelope. Also with a small return envelope and photograph of one unknown, very self-satisfied looking angler and his catch.; Ephemera; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Mission Hills, CA: El Camino Real Press. Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. Brown boards with red lettering on front cover and spine. 1/150 copies. Print pasted in the front. A recounting by the author of the first time he saw the famous Veil of Veronica, a relic of Christ. ; Miniature; 3 1/8" x 2 1/8"; 27 pp .

Pasadena, CA: Press in Hugu's Alley. Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. Limited Edition. Softcover. Soft white paper wrapper with stamped image on front wrapper. This book is in fine condition. 2 5/8" x 2". A keepsake for members of the Serra Bicentennial Commission and participants at the 3rd Annual Conclave at San Fernando Mission. ; Miniature .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good. N.D.. Hardcover. Peach-colored cloth boards with black imprint on front board and spine. Includes color frontispiece. Boards have moderate soiling, corners are bumped and spine slightly shaken; edges have heavy foxing; text block has light toning. No publication date mentioned but likely 1935. Signed by author on title page. From the "Father of Downhill Skiing" comes this history of Venice, complete with b&w photographs and a fold-out map. ; The Kitbag Travel Books; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 158 pp; Signed by Author .

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Dust jacket has mylar cover. Fine condition. This monograph is on the natural history of venomous reptiles in North America and contains many b&w and color illustrations. ; Large 8vo 9" - 11" tall; 236 pp .

Montpelier: E. P. Walton and Sons. Good. 1846. Newspaper. A complete issue of the Vermont Watchman & State Journal Newspaper from Thursday, October, 15, 1846, with Mexican War content. Tears of a few inches, soil, and edge wear. A copy of General S. W. Kearney's Proclamation claiming the Territory of New Mexico is about half a column on the front page. Another column on the second page is "Mexican War. Seige [sic] & Capture of Monterey, 300 Americans Killed!" with a copy of a report from John D. Sloat, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Naval Forcesin the Pacific Ocean, from the USS Savannah at Monterey. ; 25" x 18 1/2"; 4 pp .

[Philadelphia]: [Mathew Carey]. Very Good. [1795]. Map of Vermont engraved for "Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved" from 1795. Map measures 17 ¾" x 14 ¼" and has a decorative cartouche with a hand-colored illustration of a forest scene. Map was at one time folded in half and has archival tape on verso supporting the fold; light foxing and soiling affect content. Amos Doolittle (1754-1832), an American engraver out of New Haven, CT was most well-known for his engravings of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, although he had a very long career publishing hundreds portraits, illustrations and maps. Two copies from 1795 found on OCLC as of November 2018. .

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Grey wrapper over cardstock is in very good condition. In original glassine wrapper. Glassine wrapper has cracks along the edges. Bright and clean copy. ; University of Washington Chapbooks; Vol. 31; 7.25" x 5"; 32 pp .

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Grey wrapper over cardstock is in very good condition. Previous owner inscription on front free end page. Minor fading on spine and corners. ; University of Washington Chapbooks; Vol. 31; 7.25" x 5"; 32 pp .

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Grey wrapper over cardstock is in very good condition. Significant fading on spine and edges. ; University of Washington Chapbooks; Vol. 31; 7.25" x 5"; 32 pp .

London, UK. Good. 1962. Limited and Numbered. Hardcover. Printed and bound privately for the author at Shenval Press, this is 35 of 100 copies. London, Hertford, and Harlow. Musty, some light spotting to cloth boards, interior clean and free of markings. Not all pages have been cut.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Chicago: Privately Printed By R. R. Donnelley and Sons, Lakeside Press. Very Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Green paper with green cloth and gilt imprint. Gilt top edge, uneven edges with a few chips. Interior clean. A letter press card with a poem by the author and Eleanor Favill Tenney with a photograph of a lake is laid in. A collection of poems and stories from the attorney author's forty years of hunting and fishing, with one more academic essay on The Forest Laws of New England. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 155 pp .

Madrid, Spain: El Bibliofilo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Limited Edition. Unbound. 8485381343 . Reflections of an American matador: poems, stories, illustrations. En espanol. Hard slipcase is green with marbled print paper. Interior pages unbound, looseleaf in folder. All lithographs present. Signed and inscribed by author to previous owner.; Book; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Signed by Author .

Phoenix, AZ: State House. Good. 1927. Stapled Soft Cover. Text of vetoes and messages. Wraps have a few small chips and tears, discolored along edges, one dampstain to front cover. Interior is clean and free of markings.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .