Search Results: Authors starting with V from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Octavo, 341 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $17.95 on front flap. 1 of 1500 copies printed for advance review. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on title page to mystery collector Arthur Parson. Arthor's first book; first printing with full number line. A lovely copy.

Paris (1937): L'edition D'art H. Piazza. Full-Leather. H. Cassiers. Octavo, 216 pages; number 589 of 2350 copies; original wrappers are bound in. Contemporary green full leather binding, spine faded to brown, silk end papers. Illustrated in color, by Cassiers; a lovely copy, near fine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. With Scribner seal + A on copyright page. $2.00 on front flap. A very good+ copy with minimal edge wear and light scattered foxing in a very good dust jacket with chip top tip of dust jacket spine affecting "The" in title, short closed tears, chips, and creases. 328 pp. + 5 pages of Ads.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, 184 pages; Clare Boothe Luce copy, with her stamp on title page. First Printing, stated; owner name and date on ffep. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $3.95 on front flap. A handsome copy.

Edinburgh and London (c. 1870): William Collins, Sons and Co. Full-Leather. Folio. The Old and New Testaments, containing a compact Bible dictionary with a scripture atlas and plans in color and a series of black and white illustrations of the lands of the Bible engraved from photographs; the family register is not written in. The Psalms of David in meter at end dated 1871 and limited to only 5000 copies. A beautiful Bible, bound in contemporary full brown morocco, stamped in blind, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in blind and gilt; all edges gilt. Marginal dampstain to frontis and corner of title page (barely visible).

New York (1934): The Modern Library. Fine/About Fine. 12mo, 404 pages, 8 pages of ads; owner name on front pastedown. $1.95 on front flap of dust jacket, "300 titles" on rear panel. An early printing.

London: Printed By R. Bishop for Henry Hood, 1637. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. 11 leaves, title page plus pages 345 - 364, printed on laid paper; 18th century binding of half leather over marbled boards. Light age-toning to text, but very good. One of the earliest works on tobacco and smoking. Tobias Venner (1577-1660) was a prominent physician in Bath and several other cities. He clearly intended for this work to outline the harmful effects of tobacco on the human body. Venner further opines that if tobacco is taken in a medicinal way, can for the time, "expell melancholie, and excite lumpish spirites." First printed by William Jaggard in 1627 and appended to Venner's "Via Recta ad Vitam Longam" beginning with the 4th edition of that work, which was printed in 1637. The present volume is from that work and is complete in itself and has its own title page.

Bruxelles: Aux Editions Du Nord, 1927. Hard Cover. Henri Cassiers. Number 8 of 25 copies; octavo, 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Original wrappers bound in. A very good copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 264pp. Bound in black paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt. Near fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a small chip to top edge.

Paris: Robert Telin, 1929. LIMITED EDITION. Original Wraps. Very Good+. Large Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES ON VELIN D'ARCHES, NUMBERED 27 TO 326. THIS IS No. 213. 20 copper engravings by North.Title printed in red and black. Bound in orginal printed dust jacket over wrappers with original glassine. A very good+ copy with spine tip wear. Glassine dust jacket chipped. (2), 174, (4)pp.

Geneva: Cramer, 1762. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 358 pages. The first authorized edition, with a number of piracies appearing before this epic, based upon the life of Joan of Arc. Twenty plates by Gravelot. The ornament on the title page is the same as the one on the 1759 first edition of Candide. Contemporary 3/4 brown leather, all edges stained red; a few letters lost on red label on spine; some scuffing and edge wear; light marginal stain, not affecting text on about 50 leaves; overall, a very good copy.

London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED BY C. E. VULLAMY, THE TRANSLATOR, ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 70 COPIES. THIS IS No. 46. Newly translated with an introduction and notes by thr translator and signed; printed on hand-made antique paper; 207pp., bound in 1/4 brown pigskin over paper covered boards; top edge gilt, all others uncut. A handsome, very good + copy.