Search Results: Titles starting with V from Uncharted Books

New York: Villard, 2001. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Signed on half-title page. This is a signed copy of the classic feminist play.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with pastedowns on spines and covers. This is a lot of first editions of Stribling's Vaiden trilogy. The middle volume, The Store, won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. All three volumes are in Good condition and lacking their dust jackets. Each has sunning to the spines and some scuffing to the edges. Hinges are tender in all volumes. All were owned by a single collector, whose inscription is on the front free endpaper of each volume. An affordable complete set of first editions of the classic trilogy of Southern literature.

New York: Collier, 1912. Leather bound. Very good. 8vo. 1/2 morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece and illustrations in each volume. Minor shelf wear to leather. Footer of spine to Vol. III has been repaired. Bookplate inside front free endpaper of each volume. Tight and clean. An excellent set. This is a finely printed nine-volume leather-bound set of the works of Stevenson. This set is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.

London: Methuen, 1907. 6th edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece portrait. 366 pp. Minor shelf wear. Pair of bookplates inside front cover. This is an antique printing of Stevenson's posthumously published letters. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.

Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Paper-backed boards. Frontispiece portrait. Uncut pages, with several pages unopened. Vol. I: 281 pp. Vol. II: 275 pp. Top layer of paper cover from both spines is removed (half of vol. I and all of vol. II) and laid in, though binding is quite sound. Bookplate inside front cover of both vols. Tight and clean. This is a limited edition (No. 54 of 100 copies) large paper first American printing of Stevenson's posthumously published letters. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.

New York: Scribner's, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Leather pastedown to spine. Gilt top edge. Hand-pressed paper with deckle edge. Frontispiece. 322 pp. Minor shelf wear. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is a limited edition collection of Stevenson's writings. From the "brown cloth printing" of the Thistle Edition of Stevenson's complete works. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa. (Prideaux 276).

London: Methuen, 1923. 19th edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait. 366 pp. Jacket has several chips to edges but is quite intact. Light offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. An excellent copy. This is an antique printing of Stevenson's posthumously published letters. Quite scarce in jacket. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.

New York: Scribner's, 1900. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Leather pastedown to spine. Gilt top edge. Hand-pressed paper with deckle edge. Frontispiece. 322 pp. Minor shelf wear. 2" tear to cloth on front hinge. Front hinge overopened. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is a limited edition collection of Stevenson's writings. From the "brown cloth printing" of the Thistle Edition of Stevenson's complete works. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa. (Prideaux 276).

New York: Popular Library, 1974. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. Hole punch on front cover. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

Stone Mountain, CA: White Wolf Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Boards. Black and white illustrations. 142 pp. This is a Vampire: The Requiem role-playing sourcebook in very good condition.

New York: Ballantine, 1986. Paperback. Very good. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. Surface tear to front cover where sticker was removed. This is a vintage paperback early printing of the sequel to Interview With the Vampire.

Rotterdam: Galerie-Atelier Herenplaats, 1995. Wraps. Very good. In Dutch. Oblong 8vo. Wraps with French flaps. 21 pp. 2 copies in OCLC. This is an uncommon exhibition catalog of the works of Dutch outsider artist Kranendonk. This copy was previously part of the archives of Chicago's Intuit Gallery, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

New York: Berkley, 1978. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Collier, 1934. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Cloth. 323 pp. Scuffing to cloth. This is an attractive early copy of Sabatini's classic adventure novel.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on title page. This is a signed first edition of Pulitzer-winning journalist and Catholic historian Wills' book. This item previously belonged to literary agent Lydia Wills, daughter of Garry Wills, to whom it is inscribed.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1949. First Edition, 15th Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to jacket. This is a later printing of Nash's classic poetry collection. Jacket illustrations by Maurice Sendak.

Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1937. Pamphlet. Very good. 8vo. 8.5"x5.5" Staple-bound wraps. 30 pp. with advertisements. Bottom right corner of front cover creased. Tight and clean. This is a reprint of McCabe's critical lecture. Though the wraps are colored maroon, this is considered to be part of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' "Big Blue Book" series, an offshoot of his more recognized "Little Blue Books." Haldeman-Julius was a prolific socialist publisher, editor, author, and social reformer, best known for his series of inexpensive paperbacks covering intellectual subjects like literature, politics, religion, fine arts, history, and more. There were 2300 unique titles in the series and most are very collectible.

New York: Tor Teen, 2021. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Signed by Anders on bound-in page. This is a signed first edition young adult science fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders.

London: J. Johnson, 1792. 2nd edition. Leather bound. Very good. 8vo. Contemporary embossed calf. Marbled edges. [xix], [1], 452 pp. Boards are detached, and top layer of leather missing from spine. Text block is near fine, with no foxing and only a few dark spots of tanning in margins. Pages are bright and crisp. 7 instances of pencilled underlining or brackets, otherwise the text is completely clean. From the library of noted collector Edward Hailstone, with his leather armorial bookplate inside front cover. "D. of Grafton, 1793" is signed on title page, which was George Henry FitzRoy, the 4th Duke of Grafton. This copy is listed in the "Catalogue of the Interesting Contents of Walton Hall, Near Wakefield; The Property of the Late Edward Hailstone" (Hailstone, 1891, Item #2663), which mentions Grafton's signature. This is a second edition of the foundational text of feminism and the women's rights movement, with a near fine text block and a fascinating provenance. (PMM 242).

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good+/very good. 4to. Boards. Dust jacket. Fold-out maps and facsimile pages. Ex-library copy with sticker on jacket spine and discard stamp on front matter. This is a vintage illustrated book about the Viking discovery of North America.