Search Results: Titles starting with V from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Price Stern Sloan, 1994. First edition. Stated 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Fine.. Winters, Greg (Cover illustration by).. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 144 p. Saban's VR Troopers. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth fiction series by creators of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers featuring 3 teenage martial arts experts. Their special powers allow them to travel in and out of virtual reality. They must save the world from the evil Grimlord.

Leicester.: Magna Books / Bison Books., 1994. Printed in Slovenia.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface shelf wear.. 1 Dark blue clothlike textured paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. For Volkswagen Beetle fans, a photo essay large format book volume, with auto industry history of the "people's car", developed in Germany during the late 1930s. After World War II when production was diverted to Nazi military vehicles, the need for basic transportation saved the factory from reparation era demolition. Cars were again produced by early 1946. Variations in design in the years that followed are pictured in natural and urban settings. Specs are also charted by design. Derivatives follow: VW motor caravan, crew-cab pick-up, and the Karmann Ghia and others. The last chapter shows buggies, roadster conversions, racing VWs, more.

New York.: Julian Messner Inc., 1953. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight spine tilt. Minor jacket edge wear.. Dunne, Liam (Detailed end paper maps, "The Author's Routes"), and Pedersen, Ray (Jacket design by).. 1 Gray cloth over spine; gray vinyl over boards. Black spine titles. Front graphic Viking bow of boat. 312 p. 22 cm. Epilogue. Index. Explorer Peter Freuchen modestly calls himself a vagrant. He is better-known as an indomitable Viking, an explorer, a wanderer into the unknown (from end paper publisher notes). In his autobiography he is propelled from his native Denmark by steamer, caravan, plane, and train. He amputated his own foot in the frozen North, set his broken arm in a "cast"of wet sealskin, was buried alive in a ice cave, helped refugees from Hitler get to safety, worked for the Danish underground, was captured and Germans confiscated his peg leg to keep him from escaping (but escape he did), then was rescued by the… Read More

London / Philadelphia.: J M Dent / The Jewish Family Publication Society of America., 1902. First edition. Presumed 1st or early reprint, this Dent edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Top spine has 3 qtr-inch spine tears. Otherwise, very nice. Minor age-toning, light foxing to end papers.. Robinson, T. H. (Illustrated by).. 1 428 p. Tan cloth over boards, illustrated in green and brown: Woman and old man walking near cedar tree. Gilt top block; Uneven right and lower blocks. RARE early edition, looking and feeling good in the hand. Jewish-based stories by Grace Aguilar, b. 1816, Hackney-d.1847 Frankfurt, a descendent of Spanish Jews who had fled to England, was "the first woman who had stood forth as the public advocate of the faith of Israel", from a testimonial offered a few months before her death. She was an essayist, novelist, and short story writer. Contents: The Vale of Cedar; The Perez Family; Amete and Yafeh; The Fugitive; The Edict; The Escape; Helon; The… Read More

New York.: Farrar Straus Giroux., 1989. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Marsh, Susan (Jacket and Poster designed by).. 1 Olive green cloth over boards, full front blind-stamped design. Horizontal format: 11x9.5in. 48 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Classic story of twin brothers separated at birth. Valentine is raised as a chivalric knight in the royal court of Pepin, King of France. Orson is a wild man, raised in the forest by a bear. They meet as enemies, become friends, and together seek their true identities. Retold as a folk play performed by itinerant players in Flanders, a magic horse, and other characters. Beautifully illustrated. Told in rhyming verse. The enclosed promotional poster is 18.5x21in. and is quarter-folded and tucked inside front cover, showing in colorful detail the twin men following their packed wagon and entourage down a hill toward a village, with a wooden horse and human rider soaring above. It is a reproduction of the frontispiece.

London: Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers, 1972. First published 1966 by Robert Hale. This 1st Corgi.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear. Slight front bottom corner crease, qtr-inch. Smooth, tight, square.. 0 First edition. 248p.; Historical ficiton, 1850s: Introducing Lt. Phillip Hazard, 1st in a series of his adventures in the Royal Navy. During the Crimean War, the British Black Sea Fleet would pit its wooden ships against the Sebastopol defense: stone fortresses. Aboard the HMS Trojan. a steam-screw frigate anchored at Plymouth, England, all, including 1st Lt. Hazard, were awaiting departure to the Black Sea. They suddenly learned 2 important passengers would join them. This added to the tension in knowing the ship's captain was a sadistic tyrant.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book: edgewear, minor soiling, name on rt. edge pages and inside; math calculation back fep. DJ better with minor edge chips.. Wiese, Kurt (Illustrated by). 0 210 p. Includes illustrations. Brown tweed cloth covered boards; full cover overlap illustrated DJ, German Shepherd guarding field of sheep. 18 Dog Story titles listed on DJ back. Young Tim and his dog Valiant are caught up in a Montana sheep herders vs. cattlemen struggle over land use. The adventure begins!

West Lebanon NH.: Valley Publishing Corp., 1977. circa 1976-1977. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Various photographers; Johnson, D.B. (Cover design by). 1 70 p. Includes B&W Photo with each profile. Dartmouth green wraps w'off-white text and cover drawing. Valley News newspaper reprint of selected feature stories. letter size; saddle-stitched. Off-white pages. New Hampshire and Vermont individual personality feature stories, all from the Upper Connecticut River Valley communities served by the daily Valley News newspaper commemorating its first 25 years. Story dates from the late 1960s through 1976. Names: Talbert, Cobb, Tupper, Rikert, Ratcliffe, Chaffee, McKenney, Hyman, Manchester, Verreault, Pierce, Strohmier, Pollard, Dulmage, Perry, Creeger, Woodward, Barber, Cole, Walsh, Cate, Tonseth, Hagerman, Gauthier, Stetson.

New York: Triangle Books, 1940. Reprint. 1934 author copyright;. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Aging to inside page edges, but otherwise beautiful.. 0 297 p.; 20 cm. Red cloth covered boards w/bucking bronc under a challenged cowboy black ink illustration on front. Black titles andf twisted rope graphics on spine. Other titles listed by author number 26 in front.

New York: Robert M McBride & Company., 1934. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Age-yellowing to pages, uniformly; light foxing, heavier darkening under endpapers where glued. Small pencil notations upper rear fep. Slight spine tilt.. 1 320 p. Red cloth covered boards; stamped black titles, sawtooth line, in black, cover & spine. Author of "Sorrell and Son", etc. Set in the town of Scarshott, Britain, centered on a military family. A man believes he has failed at his task; but he perserveres and succeeds, encouraged by the love of a woman.

Mill Street / Parkway Press, Limited., 1989. Unabridged. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor wear. Nice spine and edges. Light top edge soiling. Clean pages. Unmarked.. 1 Trade paperback, 5.5x8.25in. 195 p. Memoir / Autobiography. The children go off to college, and the mother leaves home to travel, to search, and ultimately divides her life between West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, Massachsetts, and in Paris, France.

Minneapolis, MN.: Graywolf Press., 2010. First edition. Stated 1st Graywolf printing.. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 191 p. Audience: General/trade. Literature / Essays: Award-winning editor, essayist, poet, philosopher Ander Monson here examines the "I" in American culture: self-interest, self-presentation; and he does so with wit and with the professionalism of the essay as a form (from back cover).

Greenwich CT: Barnes & Noble; Brompton Books, 1995. One of several editions of this work; No date, 1995 or later.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Alberto Vargas. 0 Reprint. 128 p. Includes: illustrations, index. The work of Alberto Vargas, watercolorist, was popularized with his sensual portraits of American young women, nude or clad, many in advertising. Portraits here are categorized: Sweet Innocence, The Art of Seduction, Patriotic Fever, and Faces. His Esquire calendar appeared in December issues, and his work was common among "pinups" in war and peace, from the 1920s Ziegfeld Follies until the 1970s. This work focuses on his years with Esquire, during the 1940s.

Moscow.: Goznak., 1976. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Name in child's hand inside cover. Slight cover wear. Durable pages.. 1 12 p. Stapled binding, colorfully illustrated off-white covers and pages. Text in English. 9.25x12in. Russian Fable: Wondrously illustrated, the storyline begins much as had been Cinderella's lot, with an unkind stepmother and two step-sisters who have much less work than Vassilisa. There is a magical doll given by her birth mother who is companion to Vassilisa, and a Witch, Baba-Yaga who enters all their lives. Hold tight as 3 odd knights and numerous seamstress tasks come before Vassilisa, for there will be a happy ending.

London.: Watts & Co., 1942. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Minor cover soiling. Light edge wear.. 1 47 p. Blue and off-white paper covers, standardized series design. Stapled binding. World History / Catholic Church / Nazi Party, Germany, World War II. In the face of atrocities including the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis, author Joseph McCabe puts forth his research: mild censure only of brutalities in Poland, and "polite letters of sympathy to the Queen of Holland and the King of Belgium--in the interest of the Church". The Catholic Church's censure of "mercy killings" (the murder of tens of thousands of feeble-minded in Germany, he notes, was on religious grounds. There is more. The Thinker's Forum series is part of The Rationalist Press, 20th century.

New York: A. A. Wyn, 1952. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 0 268 p. illus. 21 cm.

New York.: A. A. Wyn Inc., 1952. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Right and lower darkening patches, front. Tight. Clean interior.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. 268 p. 21 cm. Color photo frontispiece: Vegetable basket. Chart. Index. Bold outline drawings. Cooking: 54 varieties of vegetables with many more recipes. Classic 1950s reference.

New York.: Playmore Inc Publishers / I Waldman and Son Inc., 1978. Wraps. Very good. Age-toning. Light surface wear.. 1 96 p. Includes illustrations. Color photo illustrated sturdy paper covers. 8.5x10.75in. Gardening themes and info to increase confidence and enjoyment, as well as reducing labor: year-round mulching; Basics; Garden Planning; Preparation; When and How to Plant; Working with Birds, insects, worms; Making Compost; Cheap Ideas; Plant-by-Plant guide.

United Kingdom.: Parragon Publishing., 2005. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket shows price sticker residue. Lower page block dark spill-spot, qtr-inch.. 1 Color photo glossy illustrated paper over boards, matching jacket. Color photos. Stitched binding. Audience: General/trade. Cooking: Defining a vegetarian; food categories; soups, main dishes, more.

New York: Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st PB edition, 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Interior fine, spine has creasing.. 0 639p., Index. The US government's Central Intelligence Agency, William J Casey, Director, is the real stuff on which fiction is based. Woodward, a thorough and prolific author/reporter on the arms of government and how they impact each citizen, here provides up front a President Reagan era Cast of Characters (real names), then Intelligence Acronyms, Titles & Definitions. At back is a helpful Central American Covert Action Chronology for all you travelers.