Search Results: Titles starting with V from Caroliniana

Charlottesville, Virginia: The Michie Company, 1933. 6.25 x 9.25", light grey covers with black lettering, 7 black and white illustrations including a fold out map, 272 pp. "Biographical Sketches of all Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets who fought in the Battle of New Market May 15, 1864." One five-inch long stain to front cover, light foxing and toning to covers and text block edge, creasing to spine, small area of sticker ghosting to front endpaper.

Finland: Schildts Gebers, 1960. Quarto, illustrated paper boards over grey cloth spine. First Finnish edition of the second Moomin Picture book. Gift inscription to front pastedown, mild toning to covers, light rubbing and wear to edges, else a very nice copy.

Canada: Harris Publications, Inc, N.D.. Octavo, softcover. Very good with mild wear to covers.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Hardcover, 352 pp, purple cloth, with pictorial slipcase. Number 36 of 71 specially bound copies from the first printing signed by Frazier. A fine copy.

London: Cassel & Co Ltd, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 219 pp. A collection of portraits of pre-World War I nobility, by the daughter of the last British Ambassador to Imperial Russia. Foxing to text block edges and endpapers, toning and rubbing to jacket, discoloration to covers, owner inscription to front endpaper.

Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1783. 8vo, original full calf with gilt and morocco spine label, 358, [1] pp. Two volumes in one, with three numbers, each with separate title page. First gathering missing one leaf, third number possibly missing an ad leaf, front cover detached, foxing and toning to pages, binding worn and rubbed, upper portion of front endpaper excised, removed bookplate to front pastedown.

England: Hills & Saunders, 1890s. Commercially produced photograph album by the notable Hills & Saunders studio of England. Consists of 22 albumen photographs, each captioned in manuscript and measuring 8 x 6", in a blue cloth album titled "Views of Cambridge" in gilt on the front cover. A striking series of views of Cambridge University, in excellent condition with sharp tonal quality. Inscribed "Richard Blades, 1898" to front pastedown. Foxing to page margins.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First American edition, first printing without the appendix at the end. A very good copy with toning to pages, areas of soiling and discoloration to covers.

Montpelier, Vt: Printed by Wright and Sibley, for Isiah Thomas & Company, Walpole, N.H., 1812. 8vo, iv, [1], 6-262 pp, original brown sheep with gilt and morocco spine label. Scarce American edition of this imaginative travel narrative. Covers worn, spine label gilt faded, pages toned and foxed, minor chipping and tears to a few leaves, affecting a letter of text on two or three leaves, lacking front endpaper, rear endpaper chipped. 20th century bookplate of noted bibliographer and librarian Marcus A. McCorisong to front pastedown.