Search Results: Authors starting with V from Crooked House Books & Paper

Portland, Oregon: Kilham Stationery & Printing Co, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full beige cloth with brown lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, endpapers with printed advertisements, 9-1/4" tall, 360 pp. + ads. Mild soiling/smudging to covers, light wear to spine ends, generally a nice clean & solid copy. An excellent reference for rural Oregon, with each brand paired with the name & town of the owner.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. McCrea, Ruth. 62 pages, blue and gold illustrations throughout. Dust jacket is price clipped, no other notable flaws. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. McCrea, Ruth. 62 pages, blue and gold illustrations throughout. Small chip out at bottom rear edge of dust jacket near spine. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with black lettering & decoration, 8vo, 286 pp. Modest fading to spine, light wear, clean & sound copy. Despite its unfortunate name (against which he was advised), it was well received by the Black population it describes.

New York: Reynal & Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cowles, Fleur. Yellow paper covered boards with white cloth spine; 4to. Owner's name to front endpaper, fading to DJ spine, generally a nice and clean copy, dust jacket now in mylar sleeve. Preface by Yehudi Menuhin, paintings by Fleur Cowles. 9th printing, 1976.

Ward Ritchie Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5. Small hardcover in pictorial cloth, 6 x 6 inches, 140 pages; boards are clean and square, blank presentation labels on both sides of front free endpaper, occasional spots of light soiling in first few pages, otherwise internally clean and bright with sound binding. From the introduction: A Handbook containing many recipes for Curries as prepared throughout the World; also, for the making of Chutneys, Bhurtas, and other Diverse Things that go with the serving of Curry.

Portland, OR: Prescott Street Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Gray, Don. Signed by Author(s). Linen over boards with illustrated paper paste-down on front board. 60 pages. One of 100 limited copies signed by the author and illustrator.

San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition with matching dates. Hardcover with beveled boards, full rust cloth binding with blindstamped decorative frame and gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, rear cover blindstamped with front design, 9-1/8" tall, 368 pp. Very light wear and bumping to edges, gift inscription dated 1872, a 1955 newspaper article and cartoon about Frances Fuller Victor affixed to rear endpapers. There are several plants pressed between the pages with minimal ghosting, a few scattered words underlined or margin lines.

Berkeley, California: Oyez, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Oblong trade paperback, lime green with blue & pink lettering and decoration. First edition. Fine. Poetry from the "Bubble Lady" of the People's Park demonstrations in Berkeley.

Musee Jenisch Vevey, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Hardcover, illustrated paper-covered boards, 12-1/2" tall, 116 pp. Full color reproductions and essay "Ce 'grand theatre de fous': le dessin cathartique d'Ulla von Brandenburg." Near fine, no flaws to note.

Princeton University Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration to spine, white and brown dust jacket, 8-1/4" tall, 292 pp. Appears unread. A German picaresque novel with an adventuresome woman as the protagonist.