Search Results: Authors starting with V from Lippincott Books

New York: Knopf, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 226pp. SIGNED. Gray paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering. Black diamond, club, spade decoration on cover.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. [x], 370, [4] pp. With notes, bibliography, and index. Blue cloth, spine title gilt. Spine and top edges of boards sunned, thumb-soiling, otherwise clean & tight. Long inscription from author on ffep.

New York: Soho Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Grijpstra & DeGier Mystery. 280 pp. Dark gray paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in silver. "A new Amsterdam Cops novel, the 14th in this successful series of Zen mysteries.

New York: Ives Washburn, 1955. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 336 pp. Green cloth, edges of covers show sunning and light soiling, slight spine slant. Price-clipped dustjacket shows edge wear, 2 taped (closed) tears.

NY: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1886. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 233pp. Minor edge rubbing, one small ink spot on spine, a few ripples to cover cloth where board glue has loosened - else clean, tight throughout. A very decent copy.

Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1982. Reprint . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. pp v-xv, 1485-1911. With introduction & a reprinting of the "Ericacae" portion of a much larger work "Alpine Flora of New Guinea". Includes Plates 120-147, figures 467-585. Extensive discussion of New Guinea's rhododendron species. Scarce.

Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine. v, 373 pp. Green cloth. Includes numerous tables and graphs, and 16 pages of references, subject and author indices. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on ffep, otherwise fine.

Seattle/Portland: Epicenter Press/Graphic Arts Center, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 80 pp. Richly illustrated with Van Zyle's paintings, a personal narrative with each one. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket

Hamden (CT): Archon Books, 1972. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 315pp. Index.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 1998. Advance Reader's Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 259 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Pictorial wraps with flaps.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1939. Original Wraps. Near Fine. This six small booklets were published as a set in 1939, limited to 650 copies ea printed by a different fine printer & include: [1] Fernald. The Gentleman in the Barrel - Archetype Press [2] Rhodes. The Case of Summerfield - Windsor Press; [3] Sienkiewicz. Orso - Ward Ritchie; [4] Goodman, The Trumpet Comes to Pickeye - Grabhorn Press; [5] Morrow. The Ape and the Idiot - Johnck & Seeger; [6] Jackson. My Day inthe Wilderness - John Henry Nash. A fine set, lacking the slipcase.

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1996. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 266pp., bibliography, index, illustrations.

Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 208 pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates and 2 maps. With bibliography and index. . A study of the exploration and settlement of Northwest Greenland - Avanersuaq - from the pre-historic, subsistence culture of the Inuhuit to the Danish colonization of northern Greenland in the 20th century. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/VG. 208 pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates and 2 maps. With bibliography and index. A study of the exploration and settlement of Northwest Greenland - Avanersuaq - from the pre-historic, subsistence culture of the Inuhuit to the Danish colonization of northern Greenland in the 20th century. Fine in lightly scuffed dust jacket with two minor tears.

Sussex: Harvester Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. European Philosophy and the Human Sciences No. 6. x, 242 pp. Chapters include Class Struggle, City-State Warfare, Marriage, Society of the Gods, The Pure and the Impure, Between the Beasts and the Gods, The Reason of Myth.

Hudson, Maine: Town History Committee, 1976. First Edition . Soft cover. VG+. iv, 143,[1] pp. Softcover. With folded map in pocket. Includes black & white photographs, records of military service, census data and tax records from various years. After recounting the history of the town, there are descriptions of town life written by seveal towns people , and quotations from the diary of a school teacher named Florentina Patterson written from 1894-1904. The last segment includes photographs and a very detailed description of events and the places the town celebrated on its 150th birthday. GVG

Bar Harbor, Maine: V.F. Thomas Co., 2000. First Edition . Fine. 592 pp. Trade paperback with pictorial cover. A record of names and dates on gravestones in area cemeteries, and the history of some of these cemeteries. Fine.

London: St James Press, 1977. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xiii, 1088 pp. New for the second edition is an appendix of playwrights who have died since the 1950's. Among them are: Brendan Behan, Joe Orton, Lorraine Hansberry and John Whiting. Includes appendix and index. Format includes a biography, full bibliography, locations of manuscript collections, and critical studies for more than 300 living [ie alive in 1977] playwrights.

Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. [x], 52, [2] pp. Red cloth, spine and cover titles black on off-white labels. Clean & tight. Attractive pictorial dustjacket has a touch of sunning and edge wear.

New York: Atheneum Books, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Ray Cruz. Unpaginated. No price on the unclipped dust jacket flap. There is a statement on the copyright page: "Book of the Month Club Records offers recordings on compact discs, cassettes and records.." but no BOMC indications on jacket or back board.