Search Results: Authors starting with V from Americana Books ABAA

Litchfield County: Litchfield County University Club. The De Vinne Press, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. [4], xii, 108 pages, [4]. Burgundy Cloth hardcover with gilt title and University Club seal on the front cover. Illustrated with photographs. Very faint cup ring on the front cover. More recent mailing label of "Mrs E Vaill Framingham Mass 01701" on the right front flyleaf.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. Printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Kingsport Tennessee, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Folio. Harcover with color pictorial dust jacket. 128 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. Lengthy inscription by the author written on the right front flyleaf.

San Francisco: Friends of the Earth. Seabury Press, New York, 1974. Hardcover. Very good/good. Folio. 144 pages. Illustrated with color photography. Pictorial end sheets. Light green cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has light soil and shelf wear.

Akron: The Burch Directory Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover with black cloth spine. 726 pages. Printed advertisements on the covers, spine, in front, in back, and on the text edges. Edge wear to the cloth extremities. Interior contents are clean.

[Savannah?]: n.p., 1905. Wraps. Very good. Stapled wraps. Approx. 9" x 6". 10 pages, [1] blank. Tan paper wraps with title on the front. No printer, date, or location of publication provided. The undersigned at the end of the petition on page 10 include: D. B. Dyer, Chairman; Leonard Phinizy; J. F. McGowen; C. D. Carr; Paul Mustin; Nisbet Wingfield; Martin V. Clavin; Oswell R. Eve; and Tracy I. Hickman. The signers state in their opening argument; "by petition, as we now seek to do, their well matured convictions on the subject and their ernest desire that you unite upon a measure, or on a provision of the proper appropriation bill, that will provide the ways and means to so improve the Savannah River that it will be made, as it can be made, navigable all the year round for steamboats, of reasonable draft, between the City of Augusta and the port of Savannah." Scarce petition. One copy shows up in OCLC (University of Georgia).

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 128 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Glossy pictorial covers.

Washington DC: Printed by Thomas Allen, 1838. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Disbound wraps. 619 pages, [1] page blank. Illustrated with folding maps and tables. Outer covers and original spine are missing. Text block only. Number 344 written on the bottom text block. Light to moderate toning and foxing to the contents. Scattered pencil marks in the margins in a handful of pages. Map illustrations include an approx. 16" x 13" folding map of the United States. This map also shows the United States Territories and Native American tribes west of the Mississippi. Other folding maps include "Flinn's Knoll Light" (Lighthouse) approx. 23" x 16.5"; "Presqu'ile Bay" approx. 17" x 17"; "U.S. Works at Presqu'ile Bay" approx. 18"x 9"; "Dunkirk Harbor" approx. 24" x 14"; "Cataraugus Harbor" approx. 18" x 14"; "Portland Harbor" approx. 15" x 9"; and a folding table, approx. 17" x 11.5" showing 1838 Department of Indian Affairs expenditures for several tribes. In addition to the maps there are 5 folding tables… Read More

New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1886. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. xii, 13-233 pages, [6] pages advertisements, [1]. Green cloth hardcover with black fruit illustration and title on the front cover. Gilt title and fruit illustration on the spine. Cloth is lightly shelf and edge worn. Front hinge is broken and rear hinge is cracked. Untrimmed foredge. Light, occasional pencil marks and underlining in the text. A fair copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Second printing. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo. xvi, 370 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrated in color and black and white. Blue cloth hardcover with illustrated design by Margaret Armstrong. Top edge gilt. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Light toning to the end sheets. A small Christmas gift label pasted on the the front blank end sheet. A 1970 book inscription written on the front paste down.

Washington DC: Gideon and Co., Printers, 1850. First Edition. Wraps. Good. 8vo. Wraps. 14 pages. Rear wrap blank. Title printed page 1. Spine strengthened by archival tape. Page edges creased. Light toning to contents.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 71 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and plates in text. Green cloth hardcover with decorative borders and gilt title on the front cover. Title on the spine. Some fading and rubs to the cloth binding. Light edge wear to the cloth corners and spine. Interior contents clean. Previous owner name in pencil on the right front flyleaf.

Bridgeport, CT: Standard Association, Printers, 1985. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [6], xlvii pages, [6]. Illustrated with photographs. Black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on the front cover. Light shelf wear to the cloth boards. Ex-owner armorial bookplate (Emily Lacy Wheat), ink stamp, and inscription on the front paste down. Foxing to the end papers. Two sheets after the title page repaired in top corner. Minor blue ink marking on title page underlining the year published. Text has hand written annotations to several of the listings. Stapled text block with exposed staples.

New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xiv, 15-470 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Blue cloth hardcover with title and color illustration on the front cover. Title on the spine. Shelf wear to the front cover. The right front flyleaf has been removed. Interior contents in very good condition.

Springfield: H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. [1], 616 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettered title stamped on the spine. Light shelf wear to the cloth and light toning to the contents.

Springfield: H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder, 1886. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 694 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettered title on the spine. Front hinge is cracked and the right front flyleaf is starting to pull. Light toning to the paper. Cloth binding is chipped at the head of the spine.

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. Very good. Soft cover. 128 pages. Pictorial covers. Illustrated with black and white photographs.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956. Civil War Book Club. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo. xvii, xviii (blank), pages 3-143pp. Illustrations. Map illustrated end papers. Reddish marbled hardcover with title on the spine. Red and gray illustrated, non price clipped jacket. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. Signed by author on Civil War Book preliminary page. Toning to the end sheets.

New York and Evanston: A Harper's Magazine Press Book. Published in Association with Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated, price clipped, dust jacket. [8], 362 pages, [2]. Illustrated with maps, one folding. Map illustrated end papers. Stated first edition. Tall Cotton 184.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956. Civil War Book Club. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. [1], xvii, 143 pages. Illustrations. Red hardcover with black title on the spine. Map illustrated end papers. No dust jacket. Signed by the author on the Civil War Book Club page.

Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [1], xliv, 155 pages, [1]. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title and silver illustration on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. No dust jacket. Unfortunately 12 pages in the preliminary section have scattered highlighting and marks in pen. Rest of contents are clean. Binding in very good condition. Armorial bookplate of "Burnside" on the front paste down. Fair condition due to the markings in the text. Tall Cotton 183; Nevins I page 275.