Search Results: Authors starting with V from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: William Faro, 1931. First edition. Green cloth with pink paper spine label. A fine copy in near-fine dust jacket (slight wear at ends, a little fading). This was an imaginative reconstruction, not actually written by Valentino.

Paris: Gallimard, 1936. Small quarto, original white printed wrapper, fine, unopened. First typographic edition, preceded by a facsimile, one of 600 numbered copies.

Paris: Henry Babou, 1928. First edition. Martin, Charles. (6),41,(7)pp., 27x21 cm. Unbound in publisher's printed wrappers as issued.. Portrait frontis.,16 plates (8 with some pochoir colouring), 17 illustrations and vignettes in text (4 with pochoir colouring), facsimile letter. Spine slightly faded, a occasional light spots. No.700 of a total edition of 750. The portrait is by Dignimont, all the other illustrations are by Martin. No. 2 in the series, "Les Artistes du Livre."

Paris: Edward W. Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930. First edition. Original wrappers, 40 pp., a few spots on the front wrapper, but a fine copy, unopened. 28 cm., 40 pages. Copy 4 of 12 copies, the entire edition, printed for private distribution, on fine paper, signed by Valéry. The translation by W.T. Bandy first appeared in the third issue (March 1930) of This Quarter, edited by Titus.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1932. First edition. Cloth, fine in fine jacket.

Rotterdam: Museum Boymans - Van Beuningen, 1972. First edition. van Munster, Jan. Cardboard covers, with rubber stamp, two part catalogue fastened with brass screws. Very good.

London: G.G. and J. Robinson; and J. Edwards, 1798. First edition. 4to. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Three volumes, with 17 engraved plates and a chart, plus folio atlas containing 16 large plates. (432 text pages and 7 plates in Volume 1; 504 text pages, 4 plates and a chart in Volume II, 508 text pages, 6 plates in Volume III,) Bound in period style calf, spines elaborately tooled. Mild browning and spotting, mostly confined to the beginning of Vol I, usual offsetting to text pages from facing plates. Forbes 298; Hill 1753.

London: Omega Workshops, 1918. First edition. Copy 38 of 75 printed for the Omega Workshops by Richard Madley. Printed on cream wove paper, bound in publisher's hand printed purple decorative paper over boards, extremities a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. 14 leaves, 7 3/8 inches x 10 1/4 inches. Fourteen original woodcuts (ten are full-page) by Vanessa Bell ("Nude;" "Dahlias"), Roger Fry ("Still Life"; "The Cup"; "Harliquinade" after Mark Gertler; "The Stocking"), Duncan Grant ("The Hat Shop"; "The Tub"); Edward Wolfe ("Ballet"; "Group"), Edward McKnight Kauffer ("Study"), Simon Bussy ("Black Cat"), and Roald Kristian ("Animals"). The fourth and last book published by the Omega Workshops.

Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, 1979. First edition. 1 portfolio ill. ; 22 cm.; Title from container. 8 pamphlets in red vinyl folder. Text in English, French, and German. Issued by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen; Austauschdienstes. Includes bibliography (1 p.). Fine. One of 1000.

The MIT Press, 1972. First edition. Small folio, green cloth with inset label. Fine copy, dust jacket lacks small chips on the spine costing two letters (the first "L" and "M"), and with some little edge wear. Errata sheet present.

Paris: Roger Dacosta, 1955. First edition. Librowicz, Katherine (1912-1991). One of 2500 numbered copies. Original wrappers, slipcase, fine.

Levallois-Perre: Les Amis de Valentin Brû, 1985. First edition. Wrappers, fine. An offprint from Cahier 31 of Les Amis de Valentin Brû. An unnumbered copy, from the printing of 70 copies on Van Gelder paper.

Helskini: Eurographica, 1985. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.

New York: Farrar, Straus, 1983. First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Vishniac.

Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1980. First Cuban edition. The Cuban poet's first novel, it had been published in Mexico in 1978 Original wrappers, very good. Inscribed by the author to the Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora.

New York: Delacorte, 1969. First edition. Blue cloth, minimal lean, but a fine copy in dust jacket which is very slightly tanned. Signed by Vonnegut on the fly title.