Search Results: Titles starting with V from Boston Book Company

1920. HOWELLS, William Dean. THE VACATION OF THE KELWYNS. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1920). First edition, later printing with November code (instead of August). A fine, bright copy; in the dust jacket, mildly foxed and with several tears to edges. Scarce in the dust jacket. (BAL 9862).

1930. VALLEE, Rudy. VAGABOND DREAMS COME TRUE. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., (1930). First trade edition; inscribed by Vallee in red ink on the t.p.: "To Paul, in friendship. Rudy Vallee." Photo illustrations. 8vo.: xiii, [14]-262, [1] pp. Black cloth, title in gilt to spine, facsimile signature and vingette illustration gilt-stamped to upper board, illustrated endpapers, top-edge stained red. Text leaves are lightly and evenly toned. Shallow dampstain along top-edge of upper board and a faint spot of dampstaining at inner margin of endpapers. Slight edgewear to bottom edge of cloth and corners, and a short tear at crown. In a photo illustrated dust jacket showing the Vagabond Lover on the front panel; it is heavily edgeworn and chipped, moderately soiled, and has light dampstain at the top-edge of the front panel. While the limited edition of this book is fairly common, signed copies of the trade edition are scarce.

1917. EPPINGER, Hans and Leo Hess. VAGOTONIA: A CLINICAL STUDY IN VEGETATIVE NEUROLOGY, 2 volumes. New York: The Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1915-1917. 93 pp. ea volume. 8vo, wrappers as issued. Ex-library with inkstamps and labels on wrappers. Very good, edges of wrappers nicked, slightly creased. Interiors fine. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No. 20. Garrison Morton 2234.

1902. WHARTON, Edith. THE VALLEY OF DECISION. A Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First issue. Two Volumes. 8vo., burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine; t.e.g. Both volumes have bookplates and light foxing to endpapers, with a previous owner's stamp in blind. Both show some wear to spine ends (especially to the foot of the first volume), yet text is clean and uncut. About near fine.

1902. WHARTON, Edith. THE VALLEY OF DECISION. A Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition First issue. Two Volumes. 8vo., burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine; t.e.g. Edward Mac Dowell's copy with his and his wife, Marian's bookplate. Some foxing to preliminary pages and flyleaves. Overall very good and a nice association.

1795. VALUABLE SECRETS CONCERNING ARTS AND TRADES or, Approved Directions from the Best Artists, for the Various Methods of engraving on Brass, Copper or Steel, of the Composition of Metals and Varnishes... etc. etc. Norwitch, Thomas Hubbard, 1795. Octavo. xxii,240pp. First American Edition. Ex-lib stamp on front pastedown and title page. Everything from engraving and painting to lost-wax casting of bronze to making jams and whipped cream. Leather, quite worn. Front board and endpaper detached.

1906. CALDICOTT, J.W. THE VALUES OF OLD ENGLISH SILVER AND SHEFFIELD PLATE from the XVth to the XIXth centuries. Edited by J. Starkie Gardner. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1906. First edition. 4to., blue cloth covered beveled edge boards stamped in silver. Illustrated throughout. A near fine copy; clean and bright, with just some slight rubbing at the cloth.

1933. SELLERS, Edwin Jaquett. VAN HECKE ALLIED ANCESTRY. Ancestry of Josina Van Hecke, wife of Roeland de Carpentier. Philadelphia: [Privately printed], 1933. One of 100 copies. 8vo., brick cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine, gilt emblem to front board, t.e.g. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other marks. A bright, near fine copy.

1762. VAN SWIETEN [Gerard]. VAN SWIETEN'S COMMENTARIES ABRIDGED BY DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH [VOL. I]. London: Printed for W. Johnston, 1762. [6] + 416 pp. + [32] pp. Index. 8vo., original calf with gilt ruled boards, raised bands, gilt brown morocco spine label. Boards worn, chipped, joints cracked. Spine shallowly chipped at heel and crown. Owner's inkstamp to front flyleaf. Light soil and dampstaining to endpapers. Light toning, occasional foxing and faint dampstaining to interior. Additional volumes of Ralph Schomberg's abridgments were later publised, but this volume appears complete on its own.

1969. ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington. VAN ZORN: A Comedy in Three Acts. New York: AMS Press, 1969. 8vo., boards. Very good condition.

1966. RANSOM, James M. VANISHING IRONWORKS OF THE RAMAPOS: THE STORY OF THE FORGES, FURNACES, AND MINES OF THE NEW JERSEY-NEW YORK BORDER AREA. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966. First edition. 382 pp. 8vo., black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Signature of John P. Remensnyder, noted American collector, on front flyleaf. Front board slightly bowed, else fine in very good lightly rubbed dust jacket. Map endpapers in black and red. Hundreds of b/w photos and illustrations.

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR. Illustrated in colour by Lewis Baumer. [London, New York, Toronto]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.]. 4to., grey cloth with pictorial paper label, gilt lettering; t.e.g. ex-library, no external marks. A good copy only; some rubbing, soil to boards, which bear light bumps and edgewear at the extremes; hinges starting. Text and tipped-in illustrations quite fresh.

1931. (AUSTEN, John). VANITY FAIR. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrations by John Austen. (In Two Volumes). Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1931. 2 vols., small folio, with 20 color plates and many line illustrations by John Austen. Purple cloth backs, patterned paper boards. Fine, in the matching patterned dust jackets with paper labels, with sunning and a few tears to spines; and in the slipcase, darkened and partly split at top.

1917. (AFRICAN STUDIES). VARIA AFRICANA. Edited by Oric Bates Cambridge: The African Dept. of the Peabody Museum of Harvard Univ., 1917-1918. 2 vols. 4to., vol. 1: paper-covered boards backed in cloth. Vol. 2: cloth-covered boards. Illustrated throughout. A near fine set.

1953. (DEUTSCH, Babette, et al). VARIED HARVESTS. A Miscellany of Writings by Barnard College Women. Edited by Amy Loveman, Frederica Barach and Marjorie M. Mayer. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1953). Contributor Helen Puner's copy, with ink ownerhsip and material from author laid in. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth. Slight soiling at boards. Else, near fine, in worn, price-clipped dust jacket. With contributions from Babette Deutsch, Margeret Mead, Helen Gahagan Douglas and Winnifred Welles, among others.

1916. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, VOLUME 28, 1916. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1916. 298 pp. + 25 pp. advertisements. 4to., leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip missing. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall.

1915. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, BEING A RECORD OF THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF VASSAR COLLEGE. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1915. 298 pp. + 29 pp. advertisements. 4to., leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip detached, chipped. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall.

1818. BARTON,William P.C. VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA OF THE UNITED STATES; OR MEDICAL BOTANY: CONTAINING A BOTANICAL, GENERAL, AND MEDICAL HISTORY, OF MEDICINAL PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO THE UNITED STATES. Volume I. [& II.] Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825-1818. A mixed set: second edition of volume one, printed seven years after the first, and a first edition of volume two. Illustrated with 50 colored engravings (24 in Vol. 1 + 26 in Vol. 2) after drawings by the author, including one folding plate. There is a note `to subscribers' page, with an erratum, at the end of Vol. 1., and a 'list of subscribers' at the end of Vol. 2. Two quarto volumes rebound to period in 1/4 maroon leather and marbled boards. Ex library, the only mark being ink and perforated stamps on title-pages and in a few other places in text, not effecting plates. The plates are clean and bright, and unmarked, despite scant light foxing to some tissue guards. A lovely set. Barton (1785-1856) was a botanist, teacher and naval… Read More

YRIARTE, Charles. VENICE. Its History - Art - Industries and Modern Life. Translated from the French by F.J. Sitwell. Illustrated. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [c. 1900]. 8vo., maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g., red silk bookmark bound-in. A fine, bright copy, in a maroon linen dust jacket with slight soil and sun to spine, and lightly soiled maroon cloth-covered slipcase.

1928. CRANE, Nathalia. VENUS INVISIBLE and Other Poems. Illustrations by Ruth Jonas. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1928. First edition. 8vo., black cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards. Minimal soiling to spine. Front hinge tender; 1/2 edgetear to one page. Near fine overall, in a worn and sunned dust jacket.