Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bygone Books

Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 4to, gray boards / red backstrip, 142pp, color photographs. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slightest of edgewear, nearly new. A nice copy of this wonderful compilation of Vermont in winter.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/G+. 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 226 pages, bibliographical notes. VERY GOOD book / GOOD jacket: light edgewear, top page edge slightly darkened, owner inscription, old bookseller label on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn, with a few large chips to top edge, spine darkened with a small hole and a tear. An evaluation of the various Victorian literary personalities, as well as chapters on Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant.

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st ed. (U.K.) 8vo, hot pink cloth / gilt titles, 182 pp, 8 colour plates, 64 monochrome plates, 9 line illustrations, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has small stain to top page edge, contents clean and tight; jacket has sl. edgewear, soiling along folds, stain across bottom of rear panel, spine lt. tanned, prcie-clipped. A nice copy of this book that looks at the fascinating period of book design and printing in nineteenth century Britain.

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1970. Hardcover. VG/VG. Label on title page: "The Reader's Union Group of Book Clubs in association with.. [David & Charles]", 8vo, gray boards, 112 pages, color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has gentle bumping to corners, owner name on front endpaper, first 3 pages have faint spotting, otherwise clean and tight; jacket has slight edgewear.

NY: Henry Holt, 1926, c1913., 1926. Hardcover. VG-. ... including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl." Later printing of the new and enlarged edition. 225p. photographs; frontispiece of the author; red cloth / black titles. VERY GOOD- book / no jacket: lt. edgewear, 3 sm. stains to front cover, spine lt. sunned, spine has a few sm. stains. The villages which the author writes of are all in New York State.

Bruxelles: Albert, Cartes-Vues Marque Albert,, 1900. Soft cover. Very Good. Vintage Postcard Folder: Souvenir de Waterloo, Coloris Aquarelle. Unused. 10 Cartes-Vues Artistiques avec l'Historie de la Bataille et des Monuments [10 Artistical views with the Story of the Battle and the Monuments]. Alb. Dohmen, Albums et Catalogues en Phototypie. 9 Rue Chambéry, 9 Bruxelles: Albert, Cartes-Vues Marque Albert, Les Plus Jolies [no date, circa 1900]. 6 x 3 5/8 in. All 10 color postcards are present and unused; two tissue guards are also present. Views include: La Butte; Le Lion; Monument francais; Ferme "La Belle Alliance"; Ferme "Le Papelotte"; Ferme de Mont St-Jean; Ferme de la Haie-Sainte; Ferme Hougoumont; Vue générale des Monuments; Monument des Belges [The Hill, The Lion, Wounded Eagle, The farm "La Belle Alliance," The farm "La Papelotte," the farm of Mont St-Jean, Farm of the Haie-Sainte, the Hougoumont farm, general view from the hill… Read More

Bruxelles: Albert, Cartes-Vues Marque Albert, 1900. Soft cover. Very Good. Vintage Postcard Folder: Souvenir de Waterloo. Unused. 10 Cartes-Vues Artistiques avec l'Historie de la Bataille et des Monuments [10 Artistical views with the Story of the Battle and the Monuments]. Alb. Dohmen, Albums et Catalogues en Phototypie. 9 Rue Chambéry, 9 Bruxelles: Albert, Cartes-Vues Marque Albert, Les Plus Jolies [no date, circa 1900]. All 10 black and white postcards are present and unused; views include: La Butte; Le Lion; Monument francais; Ferme "La Belle Alliance"; Ferme "Le Papelotte"; Ferme de Mont St-Jean; Ferme de la Haie-Sainte; Ferme Hougoumont; Vue générale des Monuments; Monument des Belges [The Hill, The Lion, Wounded Eagle, The farm "La Belle Alliance," The farm "La Papelotte," the farm of Mont St-Jean, Farm of the Haie-Sainte, the Hougoumont farm, general view from the hill and monuments, Monument of the Belgians]. Condition is VERY… Read More

Chicago, IL: Cassandra Editions, 1978. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Reprint edition (originally published in 1932) 8vo, teal cloth, 203 pages, bibliography. Condition is NERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: very faint spotting to top page edge, otherwsie like new; jacket has light edgewear, a slightly tanned spine.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st ed, 8vo, brown cloth, 270 pages, reading list, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket; very nice condition. Rosenthal focuses on Woolf's "preoccupation with form, her overriding artistic concern and the source of her greatest accomplishment."

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York Public Library, 1993. Soft cover. NF. 0-87104-434-x wraps; limited edition of 1000 copies; stamped on bep: " Stinehour Press, Defective copy" but is complete, no visible defects, except for small glue error at front inside hinge. NEAR FINE with no visible wear.

London: Bracken Books, 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG. First published in 1985 by View Productions, Sydney Australia; this is the 1st U.K.edition. 4to, yellow boards, unpag. picture book with 2-color and full-color reproductions of Victorian circus illustrations w/ accompanying poems. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: lt. edgewear to book, penciled owner name on fep, remainder mark on top page edge; jacket has a small stain on bottom edge at spine tail. A must-have for Circus collectors.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK: Baros Books, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings noted). 8vo, blue boards, 149 pages, b/w photographs throughout, bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: small stain to top page edge, otherwise looks unread. The author discusses the history and development of visiting cards and their cases with more than 300 illustrations of the various cases and the materials of which they were made (silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lacquer, papier mache, Tunbridge wear, etc) and the decoration with which they were embellished, reflecting the social history of the Regency and Victorian periods (from the jacket). Georgette Heyer would have made great use of this book.

Guildford, Surrey, UK: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Antique Pocket Guides. Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st ed, 16mo, stiff wrappers, 64 pages, b/w illustrations throughout (110 to be exact), listing of silversmiths known to have made card cases, index. Condition is NEAR FINE with just an old price sticker on rear cover. Nostalgia at its finest, now we just get a "beep" when someone leaves a text message or voicemail.