Search Results: Titles starting with V from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979 759pp. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) was a British novelist, famous for his novel, Vanity Fair, which portays English society. Illustrated by the author. Condition: As New.. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by William Makepeace Thackeray.

unknown: self-published, 1963 Soft cover, 8vo in cream wraps printed in black and silver, unpaginated, 54pp. Condition: Good. Wraps worn at edges, somewhat soiled. Small book of contemporary poetry, maybe a little like e.e.cummings in places. Scarce. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

Heidelberg: F.H.Kerle Verlag, 1962 Hardcover, quarto, 97pp + 38 plates. German text. Condition: Near Fine in a like dust jacket. Very Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. ** The author, Reinhard Lullies (1907-1986), was a German museum conservator, specializing in ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. His best-known work is the 1957 four-volume publication, "Griechische Plastik" ("Greek Scupture").. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

33, Rue de Seine, 33, Paris: Librairie Fischbacher , 1111 Reprint. (33rd edition,) in French. Near Fine. Hard cover, 8vo, in a contemporary fine binding of full niger levant morocco with decoration in blind and in gilt, and with the gilt-tooled signature attributed to the early professional debut of the American master bookbinder, bookbinding historian, author and teacher, Miss Edith [Josephine Lee] Diehl (1876-1953), appearing on the rear turn-in with the four-letter monogram and date: "19 EJLD 07." In a cloth covered, felt-lined slipcase. The front board has a panel stamped portrait in blind of Saint Francis within an ellipse, in imitation of panel-stamped German or French religious books of the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. This is contrasted to border decoration tooled in gilt done in the manner of one of her contemporary English bookbinding mentors, Douglas Cockerell, [to whom the bookbinding was once attributed in the past, given some similarities of the somewhat difficult-to-read… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1988 Hard cover, folio, 288pp. Condition: Fine. Very small crease to the dust jacket, now protected in mylar. ** Walter Koschatzky (1921 - 2003) was an Austrian art historian. In this book he gives a history of Vienna from an arts perspective, from 1746 and the reforms of Maria Theresa, through the late nineteenth century. Many color plates. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Milano: Ariel, 1950 Hard cover, 4to, (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches) in half vellum with cream paper-covered boards with title and colored coat of arms in gilt to top board, top edge gilt, 107 pp. with slipcase. 22 color reproduction illustrations laid in. In English. This appears to be a gift or momento book celebrating the northern Italian luxury hotel on Lake Como, complete with a breezy recounting of the original inhabitants, famous-- and infamous-- guests, and views of its expansive gardens. (This is not the Villa D'Este near Rome, however, with an even more famous renaissance garden). Condition: Very Good Plus in a Very Good slipcase. Tanning to the vellum spine, and light age toning to the pages. A former owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Some small wear to slipcase.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.

Como, Italy: Amministrazione Provinciale di Como, 1988 Hard cover, quarto, 134pp. Italian text. Condition: Near Fine, with light rippling to the plastic coating on the dust jacket, as seems to be usual for this book. ** With color illustrations. The Villa Monastero di Varenna, on the shore of Lake Como in Italy, dates back to the 12th century and was originally a Cistercian convent. Over the years it changed purpose and ownership, and is now a museum owned by the state. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1991 Hard cover, quarto, 427pp. Illustrated catalog of the Lessing J.Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Lessing J.Rosenwald (1891 - 1979) was an American businessman and rare-book collector, son of the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He donated his collection to the Libary of Congress. Included in the collection are the Kelmscott Chaucer, a Mainz Bible, and works by Durer, Blake etc. Condition: Near Fine with foxing to edge of text block, in a Very Good plain white dustjacket, with dust soiling. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1903 First Edition (published April 1903.) Hard cover, 12 vo, (measuring 5 ⅛ x 7 ¾ inches) in green publisher's cloth with art nouveau design of leaves and vine in dark green. Printed at The Stanley-Taylor Company, San Francisco upon thick, handlaid-style, paper. Top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed. X-Library, with small hand written paper label to the spine, and a modern printed "withdrawn" sticker from Bowdoin College. Condition: Very Good. Some spots to rear board, light rubbing to head of spine, and slightly cocked. Discrete library blindstamp to title page. Otherwise very clean; fresh enough to be considered unsullied by the hands of the English majors of days gone by. The author, poet Edward Robeson Taylor, (1838-1923) was a lawyer and also 28th mayor of San Francisco in the first decade of the twentieth century. This collection features a few poems reworked from an earlier title, and a bound in note clarifies that the remainder of the material is new.… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1940 First Edition. Signed by Author. Hard cover, 8vo (measuring 8 ½ x 8 ¾ inches,) in blue publisher's cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, map-illustrated end papers, black and white illustrations by Jessie Robinson, 292 pp. Condition: Good Minus. Includes a pencil ownership inscription of a local first-settler descendant, as well as her name in red ink to the fore edge. Joints and corners worn. Some soiling to cover. Quarter inch tear at head of spine; a bit cocked. Sarah Elizabeth Mulliken (1874-1955) was the Newburyport author of several children's historical novels. She was the daughter of an Irish-born sea captain, Capt. Moses J. Mulliken, who in a career at sea made more than sixty trading voyages to all parts of the world from Newburyport. The family lived in a house on High Street, which appears on the City's Heritage Walking Trail. Capt. Mulliken collected stories, as well as other items, which were part of the original… Read More