Search Results: Authors starting with V from Better Read Than Dead

[Las Vegas]: Arcturus Book Service, 1990. First edition, limited to 500 copies, number 152 printed to colophon in ink. Perfect-bound, quarto, pictorial wraps, 458 pp. Very good condition, spine spotted, spine ends lightly creased, joints lightly creased, cover edges and corners lightly worn and bruised. Valdamar Valerian a.k.a. John Grace was a devout investigator into the history and phenomenon of paranormal and alien interactions with human beings. In 1987, he published the prequel,The Matrix, later serialized in five parts in the Valerian-founded Nevada Aerial Research Group newsletter, and evolved from his research publication The Krll Papers. During his time in Las Vegas he was publishing regularly while serving in MUFON directorship and as associate director of the UFO Contact Center International. During the year of publication of The Matrix II, 1990, the newsletter changed it's name to The Leading Edge and became a monthly. This book is an attempt to provide revisions to a long-standing… Read More

Old Chatham: Sachem Press, 1981. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, black endpapers, 122 pp. Very good condition. Cover by Bill Clerk.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2017. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 390 pp. Near fine.

Radius Books, 2019. Hardcover quarto, gray patterned cloth with pasted on pictorial plate to top board and black stamped lettering to spine. As new, in shrink wrap. Fine..

Sacred Bones, 2018. Hardcover. New. New in shrink plastic. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Empire Publishing, 1938. Signature-bound octavo in illustrated card wraps. 127pp, [17]pp advertisements. Lightly edge worn and soiled to wraps; toned leaves; in a sound binding; very good.. Scarce, beautifully illustrated dream interpretation book by the mysterious "Madame Vangine Hammda", any record of who has been seemingly lost to history. Only one copy recorded in OCLC at Yale as of April 2024.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. New and Revised Edition. 12mo, 183 pp. Blue boards with black lettering stamped to spine. Very Good (+), tight binding, touch of wear to corners, trace soiling and handling wear, pages somewhat age-toned./Good jacket, small chipping throughout edges, light creasing and rubbing, aside minor chips all material present.. First printing, two years after initial publication, of the "New and Revised Edition" of Vann Woodward's cornerstone of Black History -- an essential document to the Civil Rights movement contemporaneous with its publication, and illuminating of the fact that its roots were anything but nascent.

New York City, NY, 1964. Second printing. Softcover quarto, stab-stapled with illustrated B&W paper wrappers. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, 1cm tear to cover wrapper, and light soiling to areas of cover wrappers, very light creasing to bottom right corner of book. Cover and Drawings by Joe Brainard. Ted Berrigan started "C" Press in 1963 with Lorenz Gude as publisher and published "C" Magazine from May 1963 to May 1966 for 2 volumes and 13 issues (No #12) and also published Joe Brainard's "C" Comics amongst several books by fellow New York School poets including In Advance of the Broken Arm by Ron Padgett and Homage to Arthur Rimbaud by Ted Berrigan around the time of Veitch's publication.

Sunland, CA: California UFO, 1992. Saddle-stapled in publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good, lightly worn with some sticker residue to cover wrap. Cover image of Mars from Dec. 13, 1990, observation.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Book is in very good condition, slight soiling to bottom of textblock, corners of front boards lightly bumped, fading to edges of boards. Dust jacket is in good condition, some damp staining along interior between rear panel and rear flap, warping of rear panel, tearing at head of DJ spine, 1/2" tear along head of front panel, tears at corners of front and rear DJ head where it meets flaps, some sun fading on front panel. Overall in good condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Sweden: Tensta Konsthall, 2007. Perfect-bound, 4 3/8" x 5 3/4", in brown paper wraps, 128 pp. Near fine.

Radio Raheem Records, 2020. Hardcover. New. New copy in plastic.

Prague, Czech Republic: Institue For The Study of Authoritarian Regimes, 2008. Hardcover. Fair. Book is in fair condition, slight cant to spine, bump to crown and heel of spine, corners lightly pushed, cracked hinge revealing tube of spine and stitching, binding remains strong with no loose pages, though leaves vulnerable to worsening state, shelving and handling wear, some soiling to front pastedown and endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked within. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Walther König, Köln, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very Light wear to the boards and minor bumping to the corners, otherwise this copy is near fine.

Poland: Pacific, 2018. Hardcover. Fine. This copy is in fine condition with tight binding and clean bright pages. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.