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Vail: Triumph of a Dream.

by Seibert, Peter W. With William Oscar Johnson.

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Boulder, Colorado: Mountain Sports Press, (2000). Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), silver letters, 192 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Forty years ago the site that was to become Vail, Colorado, was quiet ranchland alongside U.S. Highway 6, 100 miles west of Denver. Today, Vail is a magnificent mountain resort, attracting winter and summer visitors from all over the world. This is the inside story of Vail by the man who created it, Peter Seibert.
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Valedictory.

by Kuniczak, W. S.

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First Edition, stated. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 389 pp. Ex-libris, with usual stamps and markings, including envelope on ffep.; with dust jacket. From dust jacket: In all the literature of World War II, there is one episode that remains to be told -- the story of the 303 Squadron of the RAF, a unit of valiant Polish airmen who helped to win the Battle of Britain. This is their story, a stunning historical novel about exiles who keep on fighting for a homeland to which they can never return, patriots who cannot forgett the treachery of an accidental ally who is also their country’s oldest enemy, idealists who refuse to accept the reality of a dream betrayed by political expedience. Spanning the years 1939-1945, Valedictory is a novel with the sweep of some of the twentieth century’s most momentous events, told by a writer whose work has been compared to that of Pasternak, Tolstoy, Dos Passos, and Solzhenitsyn. And… Read More
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Valley Forge, A Tale.

by Quimby, Alden W.

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New York: Eaton & Mains, (1906). First Edition. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 283 pp. Near Fine. Illustrated. “It was a sunny Friday afternoon in the first fortnight of September, in the year of grace seventeen hundred and seventy-seven. The soft autumnal breeze that coquetted with the broad green leaves of Peggy Hambleton’s ungainly but hospitable catalpas was born in the southwest, as the lazy weather-vane attached to the eastern gable of Neighbor Reese’s barn, just across the way, plainly indicated. The idlers about the premises, who were more numerous than usual, noted the direction of the wind, and commented upon it ominously, regarding it as portentous of disagreeable events that were likely to have their inception in the southwest quarter. Peggy’s log cottage of a story and a half occupied the northeast angle of the (Old) Lancaster and Howelltown roads, in that portion of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, which comprises the northern suburbs of the present… Read More
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Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864.

by Knight, Charles R.

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New York: Savas Beatie, 2010. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xix, 313 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Charles R. Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in nearly four decades to examine the sweeping combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 -- the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack the Confederacy on multiple fronts so it could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” One of the keys to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategically important and agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, together with a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s… Read More
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Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864.

by Knight, Charles R.

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New York: Savas Beatie, 2010. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xix, 313 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Charles R. Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in nearly four decades to examine the sweeping combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 -- the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack the Confederacy on multiple fronts so it could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” One of the keys to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategically important and agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, together with a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s… Read More
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The Valley of Oil. With Illustrations by Harry Hoehn.

by Botsford, Harry.

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New York: Hastings House, Publishers, (1946). Octavo, dark orange cloth illus. cloth (hardcover), viii + 278 pp. Good+, with slight damp staining to upper cover (interior clean, tight, bright); in a torn (still, attractive), mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Edwin L. Drake came to Titusville, Pennsylavia in the late fifties and founded the petroleum industry. But he died in poverty after a long and disheartening struggle. “Coal Oil Johnny” inherited more than a million from his Aunt Sarah’s oil lands and squandered it in two years. But he had himself a time renting hotels to the tune of $8,000 a day and leading the parades of a minstrel troupe of which he became the “angel.” Samuel M. Kier, the first refiner, advertised Kier’s Petroleum or Rock Oil, the most wonderful rememdy yet discovered,” as equally good for rheumatism, gout, and neuralgia, and even capable of curing blindness...All these and more are to be found in this vivid chronicle of the early growth of the… Read More
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Vancouver’s First Century: A City Album, 1860-1960.

by Kloppenborg, Anne; Niwinski, Alice; Johnson, Eve; Gruetter, Robert.

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Vancouver, Canada: J. J. Douglas, Ltd., (1977). First Edition. Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xix + 151 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket:Vancouver’s Edwardian wood frame houses now stand in the shadow of highrises; her few cobblestone streets reflect neon lights in the rain, and her turn-of-the-century mansions look out onto the terraces of condominium apartments. Only scattered reminders of the earlier city still exist -- an old brick facade on Hastings Street, a giant fir stump in Point Grey. But Vancouver’s past comes alive in the pages of this book. Over 200 photographs and advertisements capture ten decades of the city’s life: teams of oxen in the forest, women in calf-length bathing dresses, broken windows after a race riot, munition factory workers, quiet Sunday picnics, old cars, the joy of a city discovering itself. As a counterpoint to the photographs the editors have selected quotations from diaries… Read More
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Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?

by Yancey, Philip.

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Zondervan, (2014). First Edition. Octavo, hardcover, gilt letters, 297 pp + ads. Fine in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Countering the Bad News about the Good News. “Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?” Philip Yancey has been asking this question all his life, a question more relevant now than ever. Research shows that in a twenty year span starting in the mid-nineties, favorable opinions of Christians have plummeted drastically. And opinions of evangelicals have taken even deeper dives. Yet despite the turn away from Christianity, interest in spirituality is rising. Why the disconnect? Why are so many questioning, “What’s so good about the Good News?” Even more important, how can Christians make a positive, grace-filled difference in a world of desperate need? In this important new book, New York Times bestselling author Philip Yancey explores what may have contributed to hostility toward Christians, especially evangelicals. He then offers… Read More
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Vanishing Culture: Images and Voices of Cortez Fishing Folk.

by Jepson, Michael and Nield, Wayne.

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Florida Humanities Council and the Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage, Library of Congress American Folklife Center, nd. Square octavo, stapled photo. illus. self-wrappers, [34] pp. Illustrations throughout. Near Fine. Vanishing Culture: Images and Voices of Cortez Fishing Folk was a collaboration between maritime anthropologist Michael Jepson and artist/historian Wayne Nield to document the folklife of Cortez fishing village through oral history and photography. Funding was provided by the Florida Humanities Council and the Florid aInstitute for Saltwater Heritage. Additional support was received from the Library of Congress American Folklife Center through the donation of recording equipment. Recent threats to their occupation, community, and cultural heritage have challenged Cortesians’ unique sense of identity and faith, adding urgency to this project. The fishing folk are a traditional group in Florida, but, like so many others their voice is often unheard. Through documentation… Read More
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Vanishing Florida: A Personal GUide to Sights Rarely Seen.

by Warner, David T.

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Montgomery, Alabama: River City Publishing, (2001). Large octavo, softbound (stiff, slick, full-color illus. white wrappers), 302 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: For most people, Florida means palm trees, beaches, and Mickey Mouse. But there’s another, more timeless, Florida,, of places like Crescent City and the St. Johns River, where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s books Cross Creek and The Yearling come alive; of places like Eatonville, where Zora Neale Hurston lived, and St. Petersburg, where Jack Kerouac died; of places like Cassadaga, where you can have your fortune told; and Tallahassee, where the presidency -- and our nation’s fortunes -- were twice decided. This is David Warner’s Florida. Vanishing Florida...
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The Varieties of Women’s Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post-Civil War Century. Edited by Larry Eugene Rivers & Canter Brown Jr. [Signed].

by Rivers, Larry Eugene and Canter Brown, Jr.

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Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (2009). First Edition. ALS laid-in. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), xvi + 342 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Most scholars acknowledge, despite excellent contributions in recent decades, the paucity of available material on the experiences of women -- with the possible exception of wealthy white women -- in the southeastern region of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a crucial era in the evolution of women’s rights and the roles played by women in the public sphere. The contributors to The Varieities of Women’s Experiences offer fourteen compelling biographical essays revealing a broad range of the fascinating lives lived by women in the post-Civil War South. Arranged chronologically, they chart a course of generational change, yet show that despite limitations there were always more opportunities for extraordinary women than we tend to realize. The… Read More
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Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea.

by Bandini, Ralph.

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New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). First Edition. Of an edition of 950, this is No. 130. Tall octavo, gilt-stamped green cloth, uncut, 2222 pp. Map, photos. Very Good; spine faded.
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The Velopharyngeal Muscles in Speech: An Electromyographic and Cineradiographic Study. [Supplement 250 to Acta Oto-Laryngologica 1969].

by Fritzell, Bjorn.

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Goteborg: Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Clinical Neurophysiology of the University of Goteborg, and the Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University of Michigan Medical School, 1969. Quarto, paperbound (stiff green wrappers), 81 pp. Near-Fine, with small inked signature to upper cover. Illustrated with b&w photographs. From Introduction: The primary purpose of the present ivestigation was to produce evidence of the participation of individual velpharyngeal muscles in speech by means of electromyography. Special attention was paid to their different roles in the production of oral and nasal sounds and to variations in their degree of activity for different vowels. Therese were the main objects of the first series of experiments...The aim of the second series of experiments was to provide evidence of the movements of the soft palate by means of simultaneous cineradiography. With this third parameter, time relationships between EMG,… Read More
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The Velvet Cushion. From the Fifth Edition of 1814. With a Few Notes by the American Editors.

by Cunningham, J. W., Vicar of Harrow.

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New York: Published by D. Longworth, 1815. First Edition with the American Notes. Duodecimo, original paper-backed boards (hardcover), uncut, 130 pp. This short novel, touching on evangelical themes, was very popular in America, being published in 1815 by five different publishers. Poor, front cover detached, otherwise clean and tight.
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The Velvet Hammer.

by Baldwin, Faith.

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New York: Holt, Rinehart, WInston, 1969. Stated First Edition. Bookplate Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover, black spine label, git letters, 213 pp. Very Good+, with slightly soiled title, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with very slightly rubbed edges.. From jacket: The difficulties of living with a domineering mother-in-law confront Meg Brand...In accordance with the wishes of her husband, who was killed in the Viet Nam war, Meg arrives in Melton, a small New England town, to have her baby. The young woman has to live with her husband’s strong-willed and imperious mother, the rich Cornelia Brand, who is used to having things her own way. After the birth of the baby, Meg takes a job at Brand Hospital, where she meets handsome Dr. Charles Scott and falls in love with him...Meg is not prepared for the sudden, intense opposition to their relationship from Mrs. Brand -- an opposition which stems from a bitter, mysterious feud between the Brands and the Scotts that… Read More
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The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson.

by Williams, Margery.

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., n.d. Octavo, hardcover (full-color illustrated cream boards), 44 pp. Near-Fine. Illustraitons throughout. “There was once a velveteen rabbit, an in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy’s stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming. There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten...
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Venetian Life.

by Howells, William D.

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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. Small octavo, rebound in full olive polished calf, 392 pp, [1] pp. Frontis. portrait. Very Good; spine a bit sunned.
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Venice through the Years, A Pictorial History.

by Board, Prudy Taylor and Esther B. Colcord.

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Virginia Beach, VA: The Doinning Company, Publishers, (1995). Quarto, turquoise boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 144 pp. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In Venice through the Years, authors Prudy Taylor Board and Esther B. Colcord lead the reader through the City of Venice’s colorful and unique history. They began this intriguing story with the city’s earliest years as a small village named Horse and Chaise and bring it forward through the years when Chicago millionairess Berthe Honore Palmer held court at her elegant home welcoming guests that included European royalty. In the next chapter they share the story of how world-renowned surgeon Dr. Fred Albee visited and was so overwhelmed by the area’s wild beauty, he purchased the villages of Venice and Nokomis and hired a nationally known planner to plan Venice. Next, this engrossing tale deals with the Florida real estate craze that afflicted Americans in the late 1920s and motivated the surgeon… Read More
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Venus on Fire / Mars on Ice: Hormonal Balance -- The Key to Life, Love, and Energy. With Foreword by Hyla Cass, M.D.

by Gray, John, Ph.D.

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Coquitlam, BC: Mind Publishing, 2010. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), silver letters, 253 pp. Full-color illustrations throughout. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: When I wrote Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, my goal was to help men and women understand their differences. The genders come from worlds practically next door to one another, yet in many ways, they may as well have come from opposite ends of the planet. In that book and others that followed, I taught couples how to accept their differences. Some recent and very exciting scientific discoveries have proven that the difference between the sexes and how they relate to one another are biochemically based and can be explained by... our hormones! Without an adequate supply of these hormones, our bodies suffer both mentally and physically. But, with a plan in place to ensure ample production of these hormones, we find we have the strength and energy to cope with… Read More
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Verbotonal Instruction for Deaf Children. Report of 1973-74. Verbotonal Demonstration Project -- Phase IV.

by Craig, Helen B. and William N.

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PA: Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Quarto, softbound, v, 222 pp. Very Good with small tear to spine. Charts, graphs, tables. “In a continuing effort to improve student skills in both the perception and production of spoken language, the Verbotonal demonstration project has been in process at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf from January 1971 to the present. This program, based upon the theory and methods developed by Petar Guberina, concentrates on the maximum use of residual hearing, on the rhythm and intonation patterns of language, and on the feedback loop between speech production and speech
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