Search Results: Authors starting with V from The Bookpress, Ltd.

VALENTINER, W.R. ORIGINS OF MODERN SCULPTURE. New York: Wittenborn and Co., 1946. 4to. Cloth. xiv, (ii), 181 pages. First edition. With one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations to accompany the text. Valentiner discusses the "Painter and Sculptor"; "Means of Creating the Appearance of Life"; "Sculpture in the Round in Prehistoric and Modern Times" and "Sculpture and Religion" among other topics. Covers rubbed, spine sunned else very good.

Rembrandt. (REMBRANDT) VALENTINER, Wilhelm. REMBRANDT IN BILD UND WORT. Berlin: Rich. Bong, n.d. Small folio. Cloth, top edge gilt. (viii), 160 page 60 plates. First edition. With an introduction by Wilhelm Bode; illustrated with 60 plates, showing artwork from 1631-1668. Faint, sporadic foxing on text, binding worn at extremities of spine and tips, covers and early leaves rubbed, bookplate.

VALLANCE, Aymer. ART IN ENGLAND DURING THE ELIZABETHAN AND STUART PERIODS. London: Offices of the Studio, 1908. 4to. Cloth. x, 120 pages, 23 plates. Fi edition. Drawings of Elizabethan and Stuart architecture by Wilfrid Ball, Harry Cliffo Arthur Rowe, and William Penny. With an article by Malcolm Salaman on Englis engraving. Spine torn, covers darkened, tips worn.

VALLANCE, Aymer. ENGLISH CHURCH SCREENS. London: B.T. Batsford, (1936). 4to. Cloth. xii, 104 pages, (145) plates, (4) color plates. First edition. This is an extremely rare book on "great roods, screenwork & rood-lofts of parish churches in England & Wales". There are two hundred and eighty-eight illustrations on one hundred and forty-nine plates. Inner front hinge starti but still strong, light rubbing to tips, else very good.

VALLEE, Leon. BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES BIBLIOGRAPHIES. Paris: Em. Terquem, 1883. 4to. Wrappers. (viii), 774 pages. First edition. In French, a bibliography of bibliographies. Uncut, extremities of wrappers chipped, spine sunned, title written in pencil on spine.

KANGRA VALLEY PAINTING. (Calcutta): Publications Division, (1954). Small folio. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, (viii), 17, (1) pages, 40 plates. First edition. With an introduction by M.S. Randhawa, and a foreword by W.G. Archer; includ 40 color illustrations. Dust jacket torn, name in ink, margins slightly sunn else very good.

(ROUSSEAU) VALLIER, Dora. HENRI ROUSSEAU. New York: Abrams, (1962). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 328 pages. First edition. A grandly printed monograph on Rousseau with one hundred and eighty-one black and white illustrations and thirty in full-color, all tipped-in. Bookplate. Fine.

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. THE SWEETEST FIG. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine, fine.

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. THE WRETCHED STONE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Fine, fine.

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. Poster for Jumanji. Boston: n.d. Being a black and white promotional poster for Jumanji, 22 1/2 x 20 1/2 inche Fine.

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. THE WRETCHED STONE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Wrappers. Proof Copy. Being a Proof Copy of the first edition. Very good to fine.

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. JUST A DREAM. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Fine, fine.

VAN BRUNT, Henry. ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY, SELECTED ESSAYS OF HENRY VAN BRU Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1969. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, xvi, (ii), 562 pages. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by William H. Coles, these essays show the development of American architecture in the late nineteenth century. With on hundred and ninety-four illustrations. Very good.

VAN DER PECK, J.E. and others. ZEVEN VOORDRACHTEN OVER BOUWKUNST. Amsterdam: Nederlandsche Bibliotheek, N.D. 12mo. Paper boards with cloth spi This book contains seven essays on various forms and styles of architecture. Soiling to spine, some loose leafs, else very good.

VAN DIEVOET, E. CATALOGUS VAN DE INTERNATIONALE VERZEKERINGSBIBLIOTHEEK TE LEUVEN. Leuven: Assurantie van de Belgische Boerenbond, 1954. 8vo. Wrappers. xv, (ii 447 pages. First edition. A catalogue of the Leuven library's holdings, with a foreword by Professor E. Van Cauwenbergh; text written in Dutch and in French; unopened. Wrappers sunned, text slightly yellowed, ex-library copy.

VAN DORSTEN, J.A. THOMAS BASSON 1555-1613 ENGLISH PRINTER AT LEIDEN. Leiden: Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1961. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 126 (2) pages. First edition. A biography of Basson with a bibliography of his works. Fine.

(VAN GOGH, Vincent). LETTERS TO AN ARTIST, FROM VINCENT VAN GOGH TO ANTON RIDDER VAN RAPPARD, 1881-1885. New York: Viking Press, 1936. 4to. Cloth, slipcase. xxiv, 229 pages, 20 plat First edition. One of 650 copies. Van Gogh's letters to Dutch artist Anton Ridder van Rappard, are translated; they reveal van Gogh's early enthusiasms for his craft. The illustrations ar facsimiles of the letters, and several art works. Rubberstamp on front endpaper, slipcase sunned, else very good.

STEDELIJK VAN ABBEMUSEUM. STEDELIJK VAN ABBE-MUSEUM EINHOVEN: DE VERZAMELING. (Einhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbe-Museum, 1960.) Small 4to. Wrappers. 143 pages. First edition. Catalogue of European modern art from the 1920's to the 1950's. Illustrated with many color and black and white plates of the art--including works by artists such as Picasso, Kokoschka, Dubuffet, and Miro. Cover worn; chipped base of spine; torn at hinge.

VAN TRUMP, James D., and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. LANDMARK ARCHITECTURE OF ALLEGENY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1967. 4to. Cloth, dus jacket. (ii) viii, 294 pages. First edition. "The definitive study of significant extant historic buildings in Pittsburgh Allegheny County." Contains photographs of a majority of the buildings liste With maps, an extensive bibliography and index. Bookplate. Browning to cover else very good in a browned and chipped dust jacket.

VANDERBILT, Cornelius, Jr. THE LIVING PAST OF AMERICA. New York: Crown, (1955). 4to. Cloth spine, boards. xiv, (ii), 234 pages. Being a survey of restored, historic houses and villages, with interior, exterior, and detail illustrations. Very good.