Search Results: Titles starting with V from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Milan: Valentino, 2015. A fine copy, the lower corners of final leaves lightly bumped, a few soil-marks and creases to portfolio. 4to. [42] pages. Flexible cloth, laid into branded flexible cloth portfolio. A beautifully produced lookbook for the Pre Fall 2015 season, designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, who collaborated with pop artist Giosetta Fiorini to create a playful and dreamy heart theme.

New York: The Oliphant Press, 1975. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 16 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 100 copies, designed and printed by The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.

Paris: Galerie Pascal Lansberg, 2011. A fine copy. Text in French. Original black pictorial boards. A collection of Victor Vassarely's works from 1933 to 1973.

Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. Fine. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 signed copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, from Garamond type on Fabriano papers. Bertholf A53a.

Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. Fine. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 191 of 200 signed copies. Bertholf A53a.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 volumes, 12mo. Original gilt-decorated white cloth, top edges gilt; original unprinted gold-colored cloth dust wrappers (spines darkened). First illustrated edition, trade issue, with a new two-page Preface by Howells. Of the 18 illustrations, reproduced in aquatint, seven are by Childe Hassam. A fine set. BAL 9664; Bennett, 'A Practical Guide to the American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books', p. 60. (BA).

Venice: Venini, 1983. Front wrapper lightly sunned and with soft crease at top, otherwise a very good plus copy, clean and bright inside. Tall narrow (11.5 x 6 inches). [22] pages. Line schematics of lighting devices. Original spiral-bound wrappers, the rear wrapper unfolding with color codes in Italian, English, and French. Scarce trade catalogue of Venini lighting.

Venice: Venini, 1980. Some light toning to edges of wrappers and sheets, generally in fine condition with some light handling wear. 29.5 x 29.5 cm. [36] pages, four with gatefolds; the first leaf is a clear acetate sheet with "Venini" printed on it. Lavishly illustrated. Original spiral-bound wrappers. Scarce trade catalogue of Venini lighting. Descriptions in Italian, English, French, and German. Designed by Massimo Vigelli and Laura de Santillana. Photographs by Fabio Zonta and Mario Carrieri.

American Printing History Association, 2006. 8vo. 17 poems printed by 15 American fine press printers. Foreword by Henry Lyman. Contents loose as issued in blue cloth clamshell box. Contributor's copy, with printed note from Jerry Kelly laid-in, this being the former copy of Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press, responsible for the printing of Mary Karr's 'A Blessing from my Sixteen Years' Son." The other designers/printers are: Mindy Beloff, Michael and Winifred Bixler, Carolee Campbell, Ed Colker, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, David Pankow, Michael Peich, Robin Price, Michael Russem, Gaylord Schanilec, and Jack Stauffacher.

N.p.: Privately Printed, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slightly bowed. 8vo. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, top edges gilt, by Bayntun, with stamp on flyleaf; tissue dust jacket (frayed). First edition, number 10 of 12 large-paper copies numbered and signed by Fletcher, who was an English author of more than 100 titles in a variety of fields, but best known for his detective fiction. (BA).

London: George G. Harrap, 1929. 4to. 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated vellum, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A near-fine copy with covers gently bowed and lightly sunned, small stain on spine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, number 92 of 375 copies of the English issue from an edition of 575.

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated with 16 plates. Original dark red cloth, top edges gilt; printed dust jackets. Two copies: each a dedication copy of the first edition of Sitwell's first prose work. The book is dedicated "To Helen Rootham and Evelyn Weil." Each copy is also identically inscribed (except for the change of names) on the respective front free endpaper: "For darling Helen [Evelyn] with Edith's best love and the dedication, 4 February: 1936" (publication date was February 13). The dust jacket on Helen's copy is frayed at top edge with a chip costing two letters in "Victoria" on front; Evelyn's jacket is defective. The two dedicatees were sisters and important life-long friends of Sitwell's. Helen Rootham took over as Edith's governess in 1903 and "throughout her teens [was] the most important intellectual and artistic ally [she] had" (John Pearson, The Sitwells, NY, 1978, p. 54). Evelyn Weil lived in Paris and Edith stayed with her when… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1935. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Jacket spine slightly darkened. A very good copy. 8vo. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this novel about a sailing ship damaged in a cyclone and left without a captain or officers. The dedication copy to his wife Constance, inscribed by Masefield beneath the printed dedication (which simply reads "To My Wife"): "For Con from Jan, Nov. 17, 1935." "Jan" was Masefield's preferred nickname. Wight 88. (BA).

Kiev: S. V. Kulzhenko, 1900. Complete set of 20 black-and-white photographs, sheets 155 x 241 mm. Each with printed caption in Russian, manuscript captions in French or English on versos. Laid loose as issued in cloth portfolio. Portfolio slightly worn, photos clean and crisp. A FINE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY SERIES OF VIEWS OF KIEV, by the leading photo publisher of the city. Includes views of St. Sophie's Church, Vladimir Cathedral, Dnieper, the Iron Church, town hall, the university, Golden Gates, monument to Bobrinski, parks, and other monuments and monasteries.

London: Printed for Robert Stodart, et al., 1818. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Somewhat worn, narrow surface cracks to joints, label wanting, internally some foxing and occasional marginal smudges and discolorations. 8vo. xix, [1], 461, [3] pages. Original drab boards, untrimmed; in a green half-morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue; leaf of Stodart ads at end. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Hazlitt to the American actor/dramatist/critic John Howard Payne (1791-1852) on the title-page: "Presented to J. H. Payne / By the Author. June 1818." Payne, beginning in 1813, worked in the theatre of Britain, Ireland, and Paris, eventually establishing himself as one of the most successful dramatists of his era. Today he is best remembered for the lyrics to the song "Home! Sweet Home!" (adapted from his 1823 opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan'). 'A View of the English Stage' is a collection of Hazlitt's writings as drama critic for the 'Morning Chronicle', the 'Champion', the 'Examiner',… Read More

Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. A fine copy. Folio. 50 pages. 31 tritone photographs by Edwin Smith. Original cloth, wood-engraving by Smith on covers; slipcase. Number 236 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. Set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville, printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made paper. Smith's images were made in the 1950s and are here presented with accompanying texts and essays about his life and work.

Portland: Chisholm Brothers, 1879. Folio (14 X 10 3/4 inches). 10 heliotype plates, each with accompanying letterpress description. Original russet cloth, decorated in black and gilt. Front hinge cracked, minor rubbing; some age-darkening to sheets. A fine series of views by an unidentified photographer. With good railroad interest, including a view and description of the Frankenstein Trestle, the Willey-Brook Bridge, and a stunning view of the tracks leading to Lizzie Bourne's Monument on Mount Washington. Copies are known to have been issued with varying numbers of plates, from ten to twenty-two.

New York; London: Peabody & Co; O. Rich, 1831. Some foxing. 4to (26.5 x 21 cm). Text paginated 1-50 consecutively. Engraved title with vignette, marked "proof," three full-page engravings of St. Paul's Broadway, Trinity Church, and City Hall, printed by William D. Smith, folding map colored in outline (mounted on linen); and 20 engraved views on ten sheets, all on india paper mounted, plates 3/4 marked "proof" and plates 19/20 and 21/22 unnumbered and presumed proofs. 19th-century English blue half morocco, marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered on spine, with binder's ticket of Kelly, Gower Place. Provenance: Dora H. Hearne(?), contemporary signature on title; John Hearne, armorial bookplate; with Goodspeed's (note at rear dated March 22, 1929). FIRST EDITION. One of the most celebrated series of early view of New York. "The Peabody prints offer fascinating glimpses of New York in the 1830s" and form "a lively document of a city in the making" (Deák). Includes views of Manhattan from… Read More

London: C. Wittingham for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, and others, 1810. 8vo. xxx, 315, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait after Nash by Romney. Contemporary calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities; frontispiece offset onto title, some light browning. Later edition of 'The Village Curate,' but the first to include late poems by the clergyman poet who had died in 1801.

New York: Levy Gordon, 2017. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.5 x 9 inches. 124 pages. 100 illustrations; 32 are in color. Felt covered boards.