Search Results: Authors starting with V from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[New York]: Teachers College Press, 1969. Octavo (24cm). Pink cloth in magenta dust jacket; x,165,[1]pp; ads to rear jacket panel. Ownership stamps of Samuel E. Kellams to endleaves. Pinpoint rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Very Good or better. A discussion of student self-governance and reactions to cultural shifts of the 1960s. [62837].

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; xiv,408pp. Jacket extremities chipped with rather messy closed tear at top edge of upper cover, additional wear to top edge of rear panel, spine rather sunned, corners bumped else Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed on half title: "For D + D / From AV. ex-miles sed non ex-pater.

Warrendale, PA: SAE International, 1998. First American Edition. Folio (30.5cm). Blue paper over boards, in blue dust jacket; 329pp; black and white illus. A straight, sound copy with foxing to textblock edges, endleaves, and half-title, not affecting majority of textblock: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor dustsoil to edges, tiny tear at base of spine: Very Good.

New York: Abbeville Press, [1990]. First English Language Edition. Large Quarto (34cm x 25.5cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 336pp; illus. Near Fine + copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. New Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean. Illustrated exploration of the life and work of Italian couturier Valentino. Contributions by François Baudot, Gerry Dryansky, Bonizza Giodani Aragno, and Michael Gross. Hundreds of reproductions. Includes a selection of Valentino's atelier sketches from 1960-1990.

Marseille: L'Imprimerie de Jh.-Franç. Achard fils et Ce, 1809. First Edition. 12mo (20cm.); original unadorned pink side-stitched wrappers; 50pp. Wrappers a bit worn and toned along extremities, bottom third of spine perished, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to upper cover of Reuben Haines, faint pencil underlining to title page, else Very Good, internally fresh and sound. Two missives (following an earlier title first published in 1806) covering the scientific progress made in the early years of the United States, first published in the "Mémoires de l'Académie de Marseille," Vol. 8. The first (i.e. second) notice covers scientific and geographical progress, including brief mention of the expedition of Lewis and Clark (pp. 4-5), and notes that President Thomas Jefferson only consumes sugar procured from his maple trees (p. 11). Latter notice on charitable and social institutions, including the nascent American prison system (pp. 35-42) and the Quaker's introduction of the concept of "solitary… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Edition. Octavo. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; xiii, 337pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor soiling to jacket, showing some external wear. Old price sticker on spine of jacket. Near Fine in Very Good jacket.

London: Peter Owen, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Purple cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 149pp. Fine in Very Good jacket with two small perforations at front flap-fold, price-clipped by publisher with new price label affixed on front flap. Childhood reminiscences of a London-born actress and model, later a highly successful television writer. One of those memoirs. Uncommon, as far as that goes.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraires, 2010. First Edition. Slim folio (30.5cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in green, red, and black; 80pp.; illus. Exhibition catalog in Fine condition and original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical information provided by OCLC no. 668119454.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. First Edition. First printing, softcover issue. Quarto (12" x 9"); pictorial stiff card wrappers (softcover); unpaginated. Ilustrated throughout in b/w and color. Mild bumps to corners, else Fine. An attractive, well-preserved copy. There was a simultaneous hardcover issue. Ambitious collaboration between the noted Peruvian-American fantasy illustrator and his first wife, pairing the former's erotically charged illustrations with the latter's fantasy-themed poetry. The title has been reprinted twice; first printings are comparatively hard to find, especially in nice condition.

Paris: Amicale de Mauthausen, n.d., ca. 1970s. First Thus. Octavo (21cm.); original grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 27pp.; folding plan plate in rear, maps and photographic illus. throughout. Some wear from handling, else About Very Good. French-language guide to the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen-Gusen in Upper Austria, declared a national memorial site in 1949 and opened as a museum in 1975.

Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1985. First Edition. Oblong quarto (29.5cm x 30.5cm). Black faux leather boards (hardcover) with artist's painting embossed in white on cover and titling on spine. Very Good copy; moisture mark on the bottom of last several pages; gently bumped corners; slight soiling to bottom textblock; one page separated, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; slight soiling to cover and back panels; small tear to top cover panel. Exploration of the life and work of Swiss-French artist Félix Vallotton who was closely associated with the "Nabis". 178 reproductions of Vallotton's oil paintings and wood-cuts. In French language only.

Paris: Les Essais, 1960. Offprint. Octavo (26cm.); disbound self-wrappers as issued; 8pp. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Fine. "Chronique sur la politique parue dans la revue 'Les Essais' janvier-février 1960.

New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 183pp; illus. Fine, barely used copy in fine dustwrapper. Neat ownership signature of Smithsonian curator James G. Mead to half-title. A surprisingly scarce monograph.

Vancouver: Heritage Trust of Clark County, 1991. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 110pp; illus. Firm, clean copy with a bit of rippling to page edges; Very Good or better.

Washington DC: Privately published, 1939. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Lucy and Frank / hoping that we may see you up here soon - with the author's best!," signed "Van," datemarked 20 June 1939. Small, slim octavo; blue cloth hardcover, 56pp. Tight and straight, with a bit of dusting to cloth; Very Good, without dustwrapper (if issued).

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2008. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm). Pictorial laminated boards; 542pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy, apparently unread. Issued without dustwrapper.

Bruxelles [Brussels]: Société pour l'Émancipation Intellectuelle, [1853?]. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Three volumes in original paper wrappers, with ornate designs in blue and black to both covers; vol. I: 96pp, vol. II: [iv],[97]-196; vol. III: [iv], 197-348pp; frontispiece in each volume, numerous in-text wood engravings. House in modern archival cream clamshell case, with the bookplate of James Glen Mead. A bright set, largely sound, though with the first few gatherings of volume 3 neatly detached; gentle external rubbing and wear, creases and minor losses to spines, vol. 3 spine largely perished; neat numerals in pink ink on upper covers, but overall Very Good. An illustrated popular work on comparative anatomy, in the elegant and ephemeral original paper wraps. From the Encyclopédie Populaire, 6ème Séries. Van Beneden (1809-1894) was a distinguished zoologist and professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, best known for his research on parasitic worms and marine biology.

Columbus, OH: Jonathan Phillips, 1841. Thick octavo (22cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt morocco spine label; 704pp. Light wear, foxing to textblock, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pencil notes to rear free endpapers, else Very Good and sound. SABIN 48148.

Albany: Jesse Buel, 1820. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); disbound; 37pp. Some spotting and toning throughout else Very Good. Address concerning monies borrowed by Governor Daniel Tompkins on his personal credit for the defense of New York City in 1814. SABIN 98423; SHOEMAKER 4078.

Washington DC, 1838. 26x41cm. Vellum printed form completed in manuscript with affixed paper seal, with brief identification notes on verso. Secretarially signed for Martin Van Buren. Two old vertical folds, minor dust to verso, a few small age spots, but generally Very Good. A land grant for forty acres near Crawfordsville, Indiana, sold to Lewis Dunbar of Montgomery County, Indiana.