Search Results: Authors starting with V from Rulon-Miller Books

Paris: Rene Julliard, 1960. Square 12mo, pp. 168, [12]; text illustrations of frames of the movie; pictorial paper wrappers; light edgewear, text clean and sound, very good. The French script for the movie.

Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2005. Folio, pp. 400; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket,

Venetia: appresso Francesco Barlietto, 1604. Small 12mo (5 1/8"), pp. 436; woodcut initials; engraved vignette title page showing a map of the eastern hemisphere, including the North Pole, Europe, Africa and Asia; 18th century pastepaper boards, manuscript label on spine, mottled edges; dampstain in lower corner of title-p., extending through the first 6 leaves; all else very good.

Mazatlan: imprenta del Gobierno a cargo de Luciano Sanches, 1853. 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; original white printed wrappers; near fine. An unrecorded Mazatlan imprint being a decree from the provisional governor against drunkenness, possession of prohibited weapons, prison escape, premeditated homicide, and robbery. Not in Palau; not in OCLC.

Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier & Paris: E. Belhatte, 1879. Second edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 851, 4; orig. green cloth stamped in gilt and black; very good. Part II only, without the separately published English-Portuguese section. No edition earlier than 1881 in OCLC.

Tours: Ad. Mame et Cie, 1862. Neuvième édition, 12mo, pp. 283; engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 2 plates; contemporary pictorial paper binding printed in gilt, green, red, and orange, cut-out panel on upper overlaid on hand-coloured lithographic plate, cloth and paper spine labels; spine ends chipped, small loss to spine, extremities rubbed; ffep and front flyleaf partially glued together, else interior good and sound. Contemporary Southampton bookseller ticket on front pastedown. A very nice example from "one of the biggest printers and publishers in France...and [specializing] in decorative paper bindings" (McLean, p. 27). This edition in Lyon only in OCLC.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1860. 8vo, pp. [71]-117, [1] (i.e. 48 pages); 2 illustrations and tables in the text; green cloth-backed library boards, typed label on spine; fine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with an Ayer presentation bookplate and a Newberry release stamp beneath. Offprint from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Wester Chester, Pennsylvania: Aralia Press, 1987. Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. [20]; title page printed in pumpkin and black; fine in original two-toned wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. The eighth book of the press. Valery's original French with a facing English translation.

[Publication information in Bulgarian], 1950. Quarto, pp. 31-[32]; 60 color lithographed and 20 color photographic plates; ex-library copy loose text signature and plates, as issued, in original brown cloth-backed portfolio, worn and soiled, joints and hinges tender and fraying.

[Chicago: Thirst, for Gilbert Paper, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1993. Conceived, written, collected, designed and directed by Rick Valicenti and his friends at thirst... 4to, consisting of 3 leaves and 10 bifolia printed and illustrated in color throughout, and contained in a folding portfolio, and the publisher's original printed plastic bag reading: "Warning: This collection of personal words and images may be seen as art." From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press. An early promotional by Rick Valicenti, the founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design practice in Chicago providing design and immersive environments for high profile clients in the architectural, performing arts, and education communities. Bowling Green only in OCLC. To which we can add New Mexico State University and Illinois State.

London: Studio editions, 1986. 4to, pp. x, [2], 462; 33 full-p. black & white illustrations, 16 color plates, 20 illustrations in the text; a fine copy in the dust jacket.

Paris: Flammarion, 1951. First edition, 8vo, pp. 453, [9]; frontis portrait, 3 plates; textblock unopened, original paper wrappers with black and red text; blindstamp on lower cover, mild toning, spine creased; very good overall.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, 1965. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 208; of The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge; fine in original grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in a very good just jacket (spine faded and price-clipped).

[London]: Andre Deutsch, 1955. New, enlarged, and revised edition, 8vo, pp. 239; original boards in tan dust jacket; mild shelf wear to jacket edges, else about fine. "Principles that govern the writing of the language [illustrated] with examples" (jacket blurb). Published in The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, 1956. First edition, 8vo, pp. 188; original boards in blue dust jacket; jacket spine faded, endpapers toned, else about fine. Forms part of the Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge.

London: John Murray, 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 410; original blue cloth, spine gilt; a few tears to cloth at spine, upper hinge cracked; a good, sound copy. Vambéry argues against the accepted notion that the Russian, being semi-Asiatic themselves, were better fitted to "civilize" Asia than were the "stiff, proud" English.

New York: Minton, Balch & Co, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. [104]; spine ends of the dust jacket slightly rubbed, else generally a fine copy. The jacket states rather emphatically, "This is not a cross word puzzle book." contains 50 puzzles, about 6 lightly filled in in pencil. Pencil holder attached to rear pastedown, but original pencil lacking. Scarce in jacket.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. Edition limited to 1000 copies "produced by Andrew Hoyem, printer," 8vo, pp. 91, [1]; photographic frontispiece tipped in; very good in original printed wrappers. The last poems of a poet who died in 1961 in his early 20s, collected from his writings by David Rattray. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. Edition limited to 1000 copies "produced by Andrew Hoyem, printer," 8vo, pp. 91, [1]; photographic frontispiece tipped in; very good in original printed wrappers. The last poems of a poet who died in 1961 in his early 20s, collected from his writings by David Rattray. Although not stated, this is from the library of Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York.

Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith, 1888. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo, pp. 176; frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author; frontispiece partially water-stained, extremities and covers worn, some water-staining to upper and lower cover, else very good in original green cloth gilt. Charlotte Van Cleve (nee Clark, b. 1819) was the first white person born in Wisconsin and, as a child, accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Graff 4455; Howes V-21.