Search Results: Authors starting with V from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 106 p. Foreword by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, President of India. 18 textual figures. A brief history of medicine, as it existed, developed, and survived in the Old and New World, with considerable emphasis on ancient India's contributions to medical science. Vakil (1911-74), "The Father of Modern Cardiology," was born in Bombay and returned to India in 1938 after earning his medical degree from the University of London and focused on the treatment of heart ailments at a time when cardiology was not a distinct subspecialty in India. In 1949, after years of scrupulous collation and analysis of data, he published a watershed paper on the antihypertensive properties of Rauwolfia serpentina and effected a paradigm shift in the management of hypertension. Rauwolfia was the world's first successful blood pressure-lowering agent, and its acceptance encouraged research scientists around the world to pursue the development of… Read More

Lugduni Batavorum: S. et J. Luchtmans, et A. et J. Honkoop, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Later writings by the Dutch philologist and critic Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), with a selection of work by his disciple, Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715-85), who succeeded Hemsterhuis as Chair of Greek at Leiden. Octavo: [2], lvi, 412, [2] p. In a later full cloth binding, with gilt titles. The ink signature of Welham R. Williams appears on the title page, with his handwritten notes to the verso of the half-title and the final leaf. Some general dust staining to the top edge, with a bit of mild wear to the corners and tips.

Dublin: The Swan River Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 400 copies. Laid in is a promotional postcard signed by Mark Valentine. A collection of previously uncollected or hard to find tales in the finest traditions of the strange and fantastic. Octavo. Original pictorial boards. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Hardcover. Fine. In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries. This book compares his psychological theories with his diverse exemplifications of Romanticism's self-reflexive quest for transcendence, showing how he continually highlights the circular and mutual influence of ideas and emotions underlying Romantic idealism and the cult of the sublime." Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Small remainder mark to the bottom edge; else a fine, unread copy.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Later printing. Inscribed and dated by Chris Van Allsburg on the half-title. "A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus." Winner of the 1986 Caldecott Medal, this beloved children's classic served as the basis for a 2004 Robert Zemeckis film starring Tom Hanks. Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book surveys the application of the recently developed technique of the wavelet transform to a wide range of physical fields, including astrophysics, turbulence, meteorology, plasma physics, atomic and solid state physics, multifractals occurring in physics, biophysics (in medicine and physiology) and mathematical physics." Tall octavo: 453 p. with numerous textual figures (some color) and tables. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Light bump to the spine heel; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Judith Van Gieson on the title page. The second Neil Hamel mystery. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

San Antonio, Texas: Dennis McMillan, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The first American edition, this is copy #177 of 300 signed by Janwillem Van de Watering, who wrote the postscript. Self-published in Malaysia in 1964, and not since or otherwise until this edition, this is the only murder mystery with a modern day setting known to have been written by the author of the legendary Judge Dee mysteries. The errata slip is laid in. Small octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some very mild sun fading along the spine.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An architectural history of the ninety playhouses, from Moorish masterpieces to Art Deco delights, which once lined Broadway. Quarto: 288 p. with more than 300 rare photographs, plans, and architects' renderings. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating black holes, and the phenomenology of GRB-supernovae. Topics covered include Kerr black holes and the frame-dragging of spacetime, luminous black holes, compact tori around black holes, and black-hole spin interactions. It concludes with a discussion of prospects for gravitational-wave detections of a long-duration burst in gravitational-waves as a method of choice for identifying Kerr black holes in the Universe." Tall octavo: 308 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Nieuwkoop: De Graaf Publishers, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. From the library of Paul Naiditch, longtime curator of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles, with some sparse pencil marginalia. Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, Volume XXXVI. Octavo: lix, 636 p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Publisher's ink "compliments" stamp to the front flyleaf. Near fine.

London and New York: Merrell, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book publishes for the first time one of the supreme accomplishments of nineteenth century urban photography, a series of large-plate views of Reconstruction New Orleans entitled La Nouvelle Orléans et ses environs, taken in 1867 by the German-born photographer Theodore Lilienthal (1829-1894). Comprising the first official photographic survey of any American city, the images feature every aspect of the city, from Garden District mansions, churches and synagogues to mills, refineries and breweries. The photographs were exhibited at the Paris World Exposition of 1867 before being presented to Napoléon III, emperor of France (1852-70). Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

London: Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, three volumes: [8], xxxix, [1, blank], [8], 432 + [10], 504 + [10], 505, [3, errata] pp. with a copper-engraved map and 17 copper-engraved plates illustrating views on land and sea and natives. In modern three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper bindings, with red and green morocco spine labels, decorative gilt stamping, and new endpapers. Faint ink stamp of a historical society to a few prefatory and concluding leaves, with some evidence of attempted removal. Accompanied by a facsimile of the folio atlas volume, with 16 plates (most folding), in a matching binding. The Zamorano Eighty 77. "[Vancouver's] coastal survey of the area north of San Francisco was the most accurate that had been done to that time... His Voyage is important not only for the magnificent charts and splendid views that accompanied it, but also for the valuable and extensive amount of information that it… Read More

New York: MCD, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jeff Vandermeer on the title page. A lyrical and harrowing novel concerning a postapocalyptic world overrun by biotechnology. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The first American edition, translated by David Graham-Young. Small octavo. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. Typical mild toning to the contents; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket.

London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Set in Lima, this story of a love triangle introduces Don Rigoberto, a gray insurance executive by day and a pornographer by night, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso, who has relations with his stepmother, Lucrecia. Vargas Llosa (b.1936) was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with cream titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, Number 461 of 900 copies signed by John Varley. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Additionally signed by illustrator Kent Bash. An eccentric megabillionaire commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in this rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology. Octavo. Full black leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, signed by John Varley. Additionally signed by James Gunn, who wrote the introduction. An Eden-like lunar colony that has become humankind's home since an alien attack had destroyed Earth, Luna is threatened by dark forces that lead reporter Hildy Johnson and other inhabitants to feelings of depression and suicide. The second book in the Eight Worlds series. Artwork by Todd Cameron Hamilton. Octavo. Full gray leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, three raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 194 p. Edited by John M. Carroll. Introduction and Biographical Chronology by Charles K. Mills. Frontispiece, with six textual illustrations. First edition, #140 of 350 copies signed by Carroll and Mills. "Varnum, as chief of scouts for the 7th Cavalry, played an active and important role in the Little Big Horn battle. This is the first publication of the autobiography, with thorough editing by Carroll." From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original light blue cloth binding, with gilt, red, and blue stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy. Clark and Brunet 37. Signed by Editor.

Vaduz: Topos Verlag, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The aim and objective of this bibliography is to provide scholarly, historical research with as complete a catalogue as possible of the printed texts on the Holy Inquisition. For this reason, it is not intended that it shall just be a list of titles, but more a guide to the primary and secondary literature on one of the most controversial chapters in the history of the Roman Catholic Church." Text in German, Spanish, and English. Octavo, two volumes: lxii, 601 p. + 554 p. Original gray cloth-covered boards over a black leather spine, with black and gilt titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips; else a near fine set.