Search Results: Titles starting with V from Mike's Library

Moscow: Veche. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 5953317050 . Russian language. Russian film actresses. Contents: Otechestvennoe kino, XX vek -- Vera Kholodnaia: ona byla pervoi -- Olga Chekhova: russkaia zvezda na nemetskom nebosvode -- Liubov Orlova: dva pristalnykh vzgliada na samuiu iarkuiu zvezdu -- Valentina Serova: milliony poklonnikov i odna liubov -- Lidiia Smirnova: "zvezda liubvi privetnaia" -- Rina Zelenaia: koroleva epizoda -- Valentina Karavaeva: zhizn posle zhizni -- Valentina Maliavina: genii i zlodeistvo nesovmestny -- Liudmila Chursina: simvol togo, chego v SSSR ne bylo -- Natalia Varlei: iunaia vedma sovetskogo kino -- Larisa Udovichenko: zhenstvennost vne vremeni.; Mir zhenshchiny; Ex-Library; 352 pages .

London: Hutchinson. Good with no dust jacket. 1915. Hardcover. Edgeworn top edge of front cover, spine sun, edgewear, light tone with random foxing, owner's bookplate, wear. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED from author's husband and fellow-traveler, Lewis Chase, to fellow Union College English professor Edward Linus Carroll in 1929, with Carroll's bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated with over sixty photographs by the author and map endpapers. Humorous account of a month's journey by water through Brittany, from St Malo to Brest, via rivers and canal. Emma Service Lester Chase was formerly a Methodist missionary in China; her husband, the Poe expert and author, Professor Lewis Nathaniel Chase, is the dedicatee "Himself". Together, this unprepared and inexperienced couple had an eventful journey through rural Brittany, experiencing Breton culture, while living the Bohemian life. Nice association copy of this unconventional travel memoir. ; Photographs; vii,… Read More

Nashville TN: Publishing House of the M E Church, South / Smith & Lamar. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Top edge, top margin, spine head and front cover bottom dampstain, light tone, otherwise light wear.; 1908 Christmas gift note. Uncommon first book by Virginia-born, Tennessee author Elizabeth Fry Page. Tale of a child's pet dog who wanders off, having a series of life adventures (with a few involving Negro dialect), before reuniting with the young girl on his death-bed. ; 105 pages .

Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 038710058X . Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Solid copy.; Contents: Ab Initio Studies of the Interactions in Van der Waals Molecules by Ad van der Avoird, Paul E S Wormer, Fred Mulder and R M Berns; Van der Waals Systems: Molecular Orbitals, Physical Properties, Thermodynamics of Formation and Reactivity by Pavel Hobza and Rudolf Zahradnik; Intermolecular Interactions and Anesthesia: Infrared Spectroscopic Studies by Ginette Trudeau, Paul Dupuis, Camille Sandorfy, Jean-Max Dumas and Maurice Guérin. ; Topics in Current Chemistry; Ex-Library; Vol. 93; 132 pages .

Salem NH: Ayer Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. 0405069065 . Slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1886 edition, Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Company. Quite favorable biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt and his family, published shortly after the death of his successor and son, William Henry Vanderbilt, providing details of the building of the Vanderbilt fortune in shipping and railroads. ; The Leisure Class in America; xii, 310, 2 ad pages .

Paris: CNRS Editions Du Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Trade Paperback. 2222037433 . Light edgewear. Crisp trade paperback. ; French language text. "Dans cette étude, nous nous proposons d'étudier les relations acoustiques qui lient les consonnes occlusives et les voyelles en français dans les syllabes accentuées en nous servant principlement de la spectrographie." ; Travaux de l'Institut de phonetique d'Aix-en-Provence. Collection "Sons et parole"; Vol. 4; 293 pages .

Leiden: Brill. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paperback. 9004122451 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, corner bumps, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology; Ex-Library; 268 pages .

Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal. Fair with no dust jacket. 1971. Flexible covers. 0840501706 . Rebound in Library folder, 1" edge tears affecting some text, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear.; French language.; Seminaire de mathematiques superieures - été 1969; Ex-Library; 153 pages .

Madrid: Imprenta del Patronato de Huérfanos de Intendencia é Intervención Militares. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover. ; Spanish language. While this book has no other bibliographic information than the 1914 title page, it has the fresh feel of a modern facsimile reprint and is priced accordingly. Classic biography of Balboa, with extensive documentary appendix, Apendices [documentos]. ; Ex-Library; cxc, 231 pages .

Boca Raton FL: CRC Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0849343259 . Ex-Lib Library stamps/marks/pocket, lt wear. Crisp copies. Volumes one and two, of two volume set, complete. Contains eighteen chapters/essays in two volumes.; Ex-Library; 185+154 pages .

Basel: S Karger AG. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Trade Paperback. 3805528396 . Owner's stamp on half-title, date stamp and pencil notation on front cover, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; "Contains selected papers presented at the symposium held in Hannover, June 10-11, 1977."; Contributions to Nephrology; Vol. 12; 152 pages .

Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1996. Trade Paperback. 3484320885 . Academic department stamp on two pages, otherwise slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; German language. Kafka literary criticism. ; Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte; Vol. 88; 275 pages .

Bello Horizonte: Edições Apollo. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1936. Trade Paperback. Transparent tape repairs to spine edge/head/tail, random foxing, light tone, light edgewear. Solid copy. ; Portuguese language book of essays on the history of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The essay on Aleijadinho "manifests his indignation with the fact of one's attribution to Aleijadinho of all the artistic creations existing in Minas." - Aristoteles Drummond, Minas: Stories, Tales, Recollections, Culture, Personalities, Economy. Summario: A sedição de 1720 em Villa Rica; A viagem de D Pedro I a Minas, em 1831; O Palacio do Conde de Assumar, em Marianna; A casa de Claudio Manoel da Costa; O Aleijadinho em Marianna; Salvador Furtado de Mendonça; Estampas historicas. ; Biblioteca Mineira de Cultura; 137 pages .

Boston: Privately Printed. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Light tone, otherwise light wear. Errata correction in ink on Contents page. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED May 1957 by author: "With the Authors best wishes & kindest regards". "These fascinating poems and my acquaintance and admiration for the French Canadian "habitants" have so influenced me that, as a recreational activity, I have tried my hand at writing some verse in this "Patois". - Foreword. Dialect poetry in French-Canadian accented English, rather than French language patois. ; 104 pages; Signed by Author .

Milano: Carlo Emilio Bestetti - Edizioni d'Arte. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Trade Paperback. Light wear; Dust Jacket light rub, light wear. Solid oversize trade paperback.; Italian language, with bilingual section: a reduced facsimile of Tome Troisième from the French edition of 1781-1786 and an Italian translation of the third volume of Saint Non's Viaggio Pittoresco: della Manga Grecia da Napoli a Reggio. 43 illustration plates. An attractive folio reproduction of this work of eighteenth-century Italian travel. ; 231 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0824027345 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; 156 illustrations. "This paper directs attention to the situation in Castilian painting during the first forty years of the [seventeenth] century. Its perspective is that of the most active court painter during these years, the Florentine Vicencio Carducho. The choice of Carducho was made for several reasons. His position as court painter to successive monarchs made him equivalent to a kind of barometer of the taste and patronage of the courtly establishment. His expatriate status and foreign training provided an opportunity to investigate some of the broader dimensions of the fascinating and complex relationship between Spain and Italy at this time. His prolific activity both as a painter and writer offer a pretect for probing the relationship between artistic theory and practice. His involvement in contemporary… Read More

Buenos Aires: J Lajouane & Cia - Editores. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1920. Hardcover. Tone, random foxing, edgewear, spine edges rubbed. Solid hardcover. ; Spanish language history of Corrientes politician, Dr Juan Pujol, his rise to power and policies as Governor of this important Argentine province during the 1850s. ; 328 pages .

Paris: Ch. Tanera, Éditeur. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1869. First French Edition. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover with original paperback wraps bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, underlining and notes, some random foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language translation. Portrait frontispiece and five colored battle plans. Biography of Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von Seydlitz, prominent Prussian cavalry general during the Seven Years' War under King Friedrich II the Great of Prussia. ; viii, 220, (1), 2 ad pages .

New York: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0405030681 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Volume III ONLY, of three volume set. Reprint of 1800 London Second Edition. ; Russia Observed; Ex-Library; 628 pages .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Good with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition; Third Printing. Flexible covers. Front free endpaper REMOVED, 1913 Christmas gift inscription on half-title page, light tone, otherwise light wear. Still serviceable and solid with flexible thick card covers.; Collections of columns written under the pseudonym of Vanoc in the magazine "The Referee" by the English nationalist Arnold White, 1907-1910, capturing the flavor of the first decade of the 20th Century from his patriotic point of view. "He is absolutely sincere, extraordinarily fearless, and he is the wielder of one of the most caustic, best-informed and most original pens that is at work on the English press today." - Raymond Blathwayt; "England and Germany: A Talk with Mr Arnold White"; Great Thoughts From Master Minds, page 25.; viii, 419 pages .