Search Results: Titles starting with V from The Sensible Magpie

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. 9.75" x 7.75" folio. More than 100 colored illustrations. Lovely watercolor illustration of the Grand Canals Rialto Bridge, on a light background, to front dustjacket as well as front board. Dustjacket very good plus. Light shelfwear/soiling to jacket extremities including flap folds. Creasing to length of front fold. 122 pp. Clean, tight, bright. Impressions, seasons, encounters & pigeons. The son of well-known writer/illustrator Richard Scarry. "This charming book presents [the author's] impressions in watercolors, pencil sketches, and journal entries of a Venice most tourists never see. With an acute and ironical eye and a light hand, Scarry studies Venice's unique angles, whims, and details. His observations of moving and changing colors, atmospheres, and perspectives reflect the wonders of a stay in the city," (front flap).

Minneapolis: Veckoblads, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Previous owner's name to front paste-down endpaper. Hinges starting. Age-tanned. Worn edges and corners. Dark brown titles on front of brown, lizard-like textured cloth-coverd boards. Small, thin book. Clean, tight. 59 pp. Verse and Story. A Little Christmas Book for Children by D. Nyvall, (1863 - 1946).

BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. 8vo. Black boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Dustjacket black on red. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Bausch's chillingly masterful fictive account of a horrific convenience store robbery-murder.

London: Virgin Books, 2002. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE/ NO DJ. Hardcover; 542 pages. Clean, square, sharp, unmarked; light rubbing.

San Francisco, CA: Papagayo Press, 1945. Comb-Bound. Good Plus. Small (6" x6") comb-bound book containing nearly-naughty quatrains about various denizens of the sea. Thick card covers, over what appears to be hand-made rice paper. Schenkofsky was a cartoonist, illustrator and even a mapmaker. Staining to covers, but quite intact. Inscribed on first blank page - and could be author's signature. 

Chardon, OH: Bloch and Company, 1977. Hardcover. FINE. FACSIMILE REPRINT. Handsome black Buckram boards. Silver lettering to spine. Unpaginated (68 pp.) Clean, tight, bright. News of This Week 200 Years Ago. Shown are samples from May to December, 1775. Advertisements, notices of lost possessions, military notices, letters from George Washington. Interesting read.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Theilgard, John. Sharp corners! Dustjacket near fine. Very mild edgewear to glossy illustrated jacket. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to black cloth-covered boards. Bright blue endpapers. With 24 gorgeous color photographs of such historical places as Mt. Vernon, St. John's Church, Ruins of Tredegar Iron Works, Monticello, and the Cemetery near Port Republic battlefield Ephemera. A beautiful volume. Very clean, tight and bright. 197 pp. Introduction by Tom Wolfe. "...here is a presentation that spands [Virginia's] long and colorful history and its daily life, from tidewater to mountain, and in doing so not only portrays the Old Dominion as [the author] has known it but offers a retrospective of his own distinguished authorial career", (front flap).

Boston: Weiser Books, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. Anrias, David. Very mild shelfwear. Dark brown lettering to spine and front of brown illustrated covers. Black and white illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 112 pp. The author "reveals Jesus of Nazareth in a light unknown and unsuspected by many, providing the key to the "dark sayings" and subtle teaching of Jesus that have been misinterpreted and misunderstood by Christianity throughout the ages," (rear cover).

San Marcos, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FINE. Matching dustjacket Fine. Color illustrations. Yellow, red and purple illustrated boards. 53 pp. Clean, tight, bright. The story shows children that art is born of real life experiences.

NEW YORK: Hines, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., 1918. Hardcover. NEAR FINE / FAIR. REVISED EDITION. Original book, NOT print-on-demand. "This is what makes a speech memorable and only this: that it should be spoken at a turning point in human affairs on behalf of a great hope. These speeches were spoken in the days when the supreme decision was made to lay down the weight of the New World that the earth may be secure. In the light of such an event any utterance would be repeated while there were men to remember it. But the words printed here are touched not only with the glory of the American decision but with the undying warmth of the Three Years Resistance." 198 pp with 6 pp ads to rear of text. Pages 192/193 unopened at top edge, acid transfer of newpaper clipping (still in book) to pages xii and xiii, very light edgewear to book. Age-tanned spine and edges of DJ, five chips less than 1" squares to edges, some smaller chips and tiny closed tears also, and a 1" closed… Read More