Search Results: Titles starting with V from Borg Antiquarian

Angel Fire, N.M.: Intrigue Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) suggesting a copter over a Hawaiian coast, by Barbara Gunia, 202 pages + [4] Ads. The Second Charlie Parker Mystery. Set in Kauai, Hawaii. Connie Shelton (born 1951) owns a bookstore; is the author of the Charlie Parker Mystery Series, writes romances, and founded the Intrigue Press. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects. Virtually: As New.

New York: THE ECCO PRESS, 2012. First Edition, Second Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photographic B&W plates. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page, tall 8vo, boards with glossy photograph of Eve by Lucas Cranach, the Elder & white lettering on spine, illustrated with 8 glossy B&W plates, Mylar-protected red & black lettered white dust jacket (unclipped), xii + [xiii-xiv] + 381 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION for this major summary and discussion of women's central reproductive organ. SIGNED by the Author of The Beauty Myth. Naomi R. Wolf (born 1962 is a liberal progressive American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. Wolf first came to prominence in 1991 as the author of The Beauty Myth. With the book, she became a leading spokeswoman of what was later described as the "third wave" of the feminist movement.

New York, N.Y.: Harper, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a front endpaper, tall 8vo, black boards with white lettering, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with image of a stormy sky, 308 pages + [2] About the Author. EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED COPY: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable dj. No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Elizabeth Wetmore is an American novelist, notable for her thrilling debut 2020 novel Valentine, which she published at the age of 52 and which made it to The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, green-gray cloth with red lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicint an impressionistic soldier in camo, red endpapers, 509 pages. SUPERIOR COPY: Tight, bright, clean in a clean, bright dust jacket (unclipped) with some edgewear (mainly noticeable at the head & foot of the dj's spine). No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Dynamic warstory based the author's experience as a Marine during the Korean War.

New York: ECCO / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's special front endpaper, tall & thick 8vo, mauve cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with color detail of a young Chinese woman's face, xiv, [xv-xvi]] + 589 pages. Amy Tan (born 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her novel The Joy Luck Club is her best known novel.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, Confederate gray boards with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with maps, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a detail from the Battle of Cedar Creek painted by Julian Scott, mustard endpapers, 509 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz. Ralph Peters (born 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and author. In addition to his non-fiction books, he has published eight novels under the pen name Owen Parr.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in bright, clean dust jacket (unclipped). Remainder mark on lower page edges. No previous owner marks.

Greenwich, CT: Brompton Books Corp, 1993. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/None. Van Gool. 4to (11 1/2" x 8 1/2"); pictorial cloth (no dj); profusely illustrated by Van Gool; 60 pages. A nicely illustrated cartoonish edition of Dickens' Christmas classic. A bit rubbed at extremities, a tiny speck lost in ISBN barcode on back cover, else near fine.

London: Reeves and Turner, 1881. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/None. 12mo, dark green cloth with gold letternig and bands on spine, brown-coated endpapers, vviii + 184 pages + 8pp. of Ads. James Thomson (1834 - 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym "Bysshe Vanolis" (from poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Novalis), was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. SCARCE title. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very light foxing. Previous owner's name in red pencil on half title.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Roman Vishniac. Square quarto (12 1/4" x 12 1/4" x 7/8"), black cloth with silver lettering on spine and blindstamped facsimile of "Vishniac" on front cover, Foreword by Elie Wiesel, Preface & Commentary on photos, illustrated with unique full-page glossy B&W photos of Jewish ghetto life taken by RV in the 1930's before Eastern European Jewry was destroyed by the Nazis, [xii] + 179, [180] pages. Weight: 4 lbs. 8 oz. Roman Vishniac (1897 - 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.<br/> <br/> Very Fine/VF brilliant copy: virtually As New. Sharp evocative B&W glossy photos. No previous owner's or other marks. Tight, bright clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped).

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1956. Reprint of ML #131. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (7 1/4" x 4 7/8"), blue cloth with dark red labels on spine and cover with gold rules, Introduction by James Warren Beach, facsimiles of wrapper and title page of the first edition as frontispiece, several B&W reproductions of original illustrations by Thackeray, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with line drawing of a portly Victorian gent courting a young woman, publisher's red topstain, xix + xxi-xxii Selected Bibliography + xxiii-xxvi Note on the Text + [ii] facsimiles of wrapper and title page of 1st ed. + xxix-xxx Before the Curtain + [ii] + 730 pages. SUPERIOR Condition! Tight, bright, internally clean. Slightly clipped upper portion of dust jacket's front flap. Thackeray was not only a novelist given to social satire but an accomplished sketch-and-cartoonist who illustrated his most important classic novel Vanity Fair. Toledano's Guide… Read More

New York: ECCO / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on title page, 8vo, coco boards with gold lettering over off-white boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the James River in Fall, [vi] + 356 pages. Charles Frazier (born 1950) is an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain. In this, his fourth novel,, Frazier brilliantly relives the life of indomitable Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. New - SIGNED - & in SUPERIOR CONDITION. Gorgious dj and Fine/VF cloth with minute bend to foot of spine.

New York Cambridge Philadelphia San Francisco London Mexico City Sao Paulo Singapore Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall thick 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2" x 2"), red sixth cloth with gold lettering on spine over gray boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a young priest standing between the Pope and St. Peter's.. and above two young women & an older man and young nun painted by Hodges Soileau; 657 pages + [2] About the Author. Weight: 2 lbs. 7 oz. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark. Malachi Martin (1921 - 1999), was an Irish-born American Traditionalist Catholic priest, biblical archaeologist, exorcist, palaeographer, professor, and prolific writer on the Roman Catholic Church.<br /> <br /> "Monumental saga with a scope and daring that slice through the protective… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 2010. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Presentation SIGNED by the Author, tall 8vo, black cloth over red boards, Mylar-protected photo-illustrated dust jacket by Almay, [viii] + 388 pages. A "tangled tale of delightful intrigue. Well done."--Steve Berry. SIGNED Presentation Copy in Exceptional Condition internally and externally.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, beige cloth with brown lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of Colombus leading a procession of Spanish riders accompanied by two natives designed by Richard Cardiff, map endpapers of Spain and the Mediterranean, 317 pages. James H. Street (1903 - 1954) was a Mississippi-born soda jerk-turned-hobo & reporter-turned minister, who became a well respected author of Southern historical novels. He was well known for his boy-and-a-dog story The Biscuit Eater. His first historical novel was called The Promised Land (1940), which led to a series of five historical novels. "Goodbye, My Lady" became a bestseller and was made into a movie. Overall, he wrote 17 novels and many short stories. This is a historical novel about Columbus. SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is very bright with one relatively clean 3/4" cut in the top… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. B&W glossy photos. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gilt spine label over red boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with partial image of Stalin's face within the American flag,illustrated with 8pp. of B&W glossy photos, red endpapers, 512 pages. This book describes Soviet espionage in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. It concentrates on operations during World War II. The VENONA code-breaking project is the first comprehensive analysis of the 3000 telegrams between Soviet spies in the US and their superiors in Moscow, decoded shortly after WWII. Astounding and shocking information!<br /> <br /> SUPERB LIKE NEW COPY! No previous owner or remainder marks.

Rochester, N. Y.: The Manas Press, 1915. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/None. ASSOCIATION COPY once owned by author, poet, & bibliophile VINCENT STARRETT with his Signature and Bookplates, 16mo (6 1/2" x 5"), brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, protected with an archival quality acetate sleeve, 95 pages. Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 - October 8, 1914) was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of an Episcopal minister, and was raised in Rochester, New York, by her parents in a liberal environment that favored the development of women. At Vassar, she was class poet for three years, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and valedictorian for the class of 1897. At Vassar, Crapsey had roomed with "Jean Webster" who remained "her best friend and literary comrade" for the rest of her illness plagued, too short life. "Jean Webster" was the pseudonym for Alice Webster, [1876 - 1916], an American novelist and playwrite… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author in red ink on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with man standing in an eye's red hammer-&-sickle pupil, 272 pages. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st edition circle" bookmark laid in. William F. Buckley Jr. (1925 - 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded National Review, a Conservative standard; and he hosted the public affairs long-running television show Firing Line (1966-1999).<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally. Very Slight wear to the unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder markings. Tenth Brandford Oakes' mystery.

Citadella, Italy: Biblos, 2000. First English Edition: Text in Italian & English. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. Color Photos. Quarto (11 3/8" x 9 3/4" x 2 1/4"), black cloth with title blindstamped on front cover; photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with montage of Venetian images; profusely illustrated with mainly glossy color photographs by 19 photographers of Venetian art, buildings, and people; translated by Jeremy Scott; black endpapers, 471 pages [some on glossy or other stock]. Lacks slipcase. Weight: 6 lbs. 14.5 oz. Beautiful photos and informative essays in this sumptuous overview of Venice. <br/> <br/> Very Fine, solid, clean copy without any marks by previous owners. Dust jacket (unclipped) is very bright and clean with some edgewear (mainly at the top of its spine). Possible extra shipping charges of $5 or more depending on location.

London: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1819. Calf. Very Good. Richard Westall, M.A.. 12mo, calf with decorative gold marginal inlays & edges, steel-engraved title page and 5 engravings in text,194-pages + [2pp. table of contents]. Overall, a nicely illustrated and relatively early edition of the English classic (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). The Anglo-Irish author died young and is remembered principally for this work and for the drama "She Stoops to Conquer" (1771). It is also thought that he wrote "Little Goody Two-Shoes" (1765). Richard Westall, RA (1765-1836) was a prominent English painter and illustrator of fiction and poetry. His portraits of Lord Byron were widely acclaimed, and the poet declared that Westall's "brush has beat the poetry." The artist later served as Queen Victoria's drawing master. (Based upon examples of her work recently revealed on television by her grandson, Prince Charles, the queen became quite accomplished… Read More

New York: TOR TEEN / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo,gray boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket depicting a woman crouching on a building's ledge (unclipped) with cover art by Craig White, light gray endpapers, 334 pages + [2] Author's Note. Two Korean sisters were victims of sex trafficking but in America, they escaped to become successful "stunt girls" for a digital effects firm. When one is murdered, the other brave sister seeks and finds very dangerous answers that led to her sister's death. Paula Stokes is a mental health nurse, freelance editor, and the author of several novels, including Liars, Inc. and Vicarious, which both received starred reviews. Her novel This is How it Happened was a 2018 Oregon Book Award finalist. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITON in all respects.