Search Results: Authors starting with V from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some stains on the back panel.

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, 1830-34. Fifty-two volumes; small octavo; approximately 6” x 4”. Uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon leather and marbled paper-covered boards; gilt spine lettering and decoration; raised bands; each volume number is enclosed in a gilt circle in the center of the spine. The final volume has been re-backed and there is some minor wear at the extremities of a few volumes; bookplates inside each volume; a handsome, appropriately bound set of a work seldom found complete. These English translations of Greek and Latin classics were published by Valpy in monthly installments over a four year period.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket which is very lightly rubbed.

New York: Scribner’s, 1939. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a tape mend inside the top of the spine.

New York: Scribner’s, 1928. First Edition. A very good copy in a worn and mended dust jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photoplay edition; issued to coincide with the release of the Paramount film with William Powell, Louise Brooks and Jean Arthur. Very good in a dust jacket with some wear and tear and a large internal mend. The front panel reproduces the artwork of the first edition and the back panel is a painting of a dapper Powell as Philo Vance.

No place of publication [New York]: American Magazine/ Crowell, 1928. First Edition of this uncommon pamphlet; 38 pages; fine.

New York: Scribner’s, 1933. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1929. First Edition. Very good in a chipped dust jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Photoplay edition; issued to coincide with the release of the film with Basil Rathbone as Philo Vance. Very good in dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Producer’s Releasing Corporation, 1947. Approximately 36” tall by 14” wide; the color illustration depicts Alan Curtis as Vance. Folded; weak at the folds, but very good or better.

New York: Scribners, 1927. First Edition of the second Philo Vance book. A very good copy in a barely good dust jacket with interior tape mends and some coloring. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.

London: Cassell, 1939. First English Edition. Nearly fine in dust jacket. Very uncommon in jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photoplay edition. Owner’s signature; very good in a jacket with interior tape mends. The back panel is a color illustration of William Powell.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 [1936 or later]. Reprint. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Bookplate; very good in a dust jacket with minor wear and tear.

New York: Scribner’s, 1935. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket.

New York: Scribner’s, 1934. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Producer’s Releasing Corporation, 1947. Approximately 28” wide by 22” tall; the color illustration depicts Alan Curtis as Vance. Folded; some tearing at the folds; very good.

New York: Scribner’s, 1935. First Edition. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket.

London: Cassell, 1938. First English. Aside from an ugly white-out on the front free endpaper, very good in dust jacket.