Search Results: Authors starting with V from Bibliodditiques

Indianapolis New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No tears, chips or creases to pages. Name inscribed on front endpaper. Dust jacket has edge wear with small tears and chips and some paper loss at head of spine. Slight lean. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding, No written inscriptions, tears, chips or creases to pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. 63 half-tone illustrations and 15 line drawings. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 160 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Book explores the fine line between reality and fantasy when Farmer Bailey befriends a stranger who has lost his memory. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and has some light edgewear and a 1" tear on rear panel. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11").

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. A sequeal to Caldecott Medal-winning book "Jumanji". Danny and his brother roll the dice in a game featured in "Jumanji" and embark on a wild adventure. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a small area of surface wear on front, likely from removal of a price sticker. Light edgewear to jacket. Size: 4to (11" to 13").

Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Book shows how to produce a range of colors from just a few dyepots. Contains more than 200 recipes for fiber, yarn and fabric dyes. Signed and inscribed, "May your days be colourful!". No chips, tears, creases. Size: 4to (11" to 13"). 127 pp.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1957. Paperback. Very Good. "A small group of Earthlings crash on a planet overrun cnturies before by assorted dissidents, who have set up the Galaxy's oddest assortment of splinter societies." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Some reading wear to cover. Size: 16mo (6" to 7"). 158 pp.

New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1964. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips or tears. A strip of discolouration on inside of front cover. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5"). 158 pp.

Penguin Viking, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black and white photographic illustrations. 338 pp.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 464 pp.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.. Presumed First Edition. Very Good. No date of publication given, but gift inscription on front pastedown endpaper is dated 1951. Contributors include Billy Steel, Tom Finney, Robert Wall, Bert Williams, Louis Rocca, Jack Aston, Leslie Compton , and Jackie Milburn. Tight binding. No chips, tears or creases to pages. Pictorial coverboards have some light rubbing and edgewear. Spine is sunned. Previous owner's name/address on a sheet of paper glued along one edge to title page. Some residue and wear from removal of the bottom part of the paper sheet. Many black and white and colour photographic illustrationsSize: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 188 pp.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardcover. Very Good. Claude Shepperson. Decorative Cloth. Frontispiece and other woodcuts. Gilt lettering. Gift inscription on half-title page. Dampstain on front free endpaper. No tears, chips, creases to pages. Slight separation between front coverboard and endpaper. Pages yellowing. Some foxing on endpapers. Rubbing of cover boards. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1977. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Light edgewear and rubbing. Numerous photographic illustrations. 195 pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Frank Ver Veck. Little Black Sambo sets out to find Monkeytown and its inhabitants, the Monkey People. A "Wee Book for Wee Folks". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Green coverboards with a a full colour pastedown illustration of Little Black Sambo on the front board. A 1.5" by 1" area of surface paper loss on pastedown. Just minor wear to the corners of the boards. Full colour frontis. Full page colour illustrations by author. Illustrative endpapers with various fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters featured. Size: 24mo (5" to 6"). 62 pp.

New York: Platt & Munk, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good. Frank Ver Beck. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Some yellowing of endpapers. Dust jacket has light crease and some small tears and chips; most significant being a 2" tear along spine. Coverboards are green. One of publisher's "Wee Books For Wee Folks". 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 62 pp.

London and New York: Ward, Lock and Co.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Decorative cloth hard cover with embossed design and gilt highlights. Full colour frontispiece. Marker has been used on endpapers and title page to cross out some areas. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Coverboards have some wear at corners. 132 pages of text followed by publishers catalogue. Gutter at front and back partially exposed. No publication date. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 132 pp.

Loughborough, England: Wills & Hepworth Ltd., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. S. R. Badmin. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket has a couple of very small tears around edges and light surface wear. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped.16 mo (6" to 7"). 50 pp.

New York: Schocken Books, 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Light edgewear to cover and small stain on right lower corner of front cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pp.

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. When Celestine loses Gideon, her toy bird, she is inconsolable. Nothing Ernest does can distract her; until at last he hits on exaclty the right solution." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and is in a clear, archival Brodart cover. A portion of the rear dust jacket flap is missing. Some pages have finger stains. Size: 8vo (8" to 9").

New York: Exile Editions, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Author's signature on title page. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 338 pp.