Search Results: Titles starting with V from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Extremities gently rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn; occasional interior thumbsoiling. Very good. LMM-117. Jack Mathis. Valley of the Cliffhangers. Northbrook, IL: Jack Mathis Advertising, 1975. Stated first edition. Folio (approx. 18 x 12.5 inches). Profusely illustrated with b/w photos and film stills, some color. Publisher's brown pictorial leather, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, endleaves in burnt orange. "...scholarly justice was finally done to the serials of Republic Pictures, in a folio-sized study called Valley of the Cliffhangers, by Jack Mathis, published in Northbrook, Illinois. In the stills from a serial called Fighting Devil Dogs the viewer will find an evil figure who looks just like Darth Vader." - Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Sunned to spine; extremities gently rubbed and bumped; lightly cracked to joints; front cover starting; light uniform toning throughout. About very good. LMM-265. Alexander Von Humboldt. E. C. Otté, translator. Views of Nature: or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation (Bohn's Scientific Library Series).  London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. First edition in English. Small octavo. 452pp (indexed); 7pp (Humboldt's Cosmos); 32pp catalogue. Color frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, boards in blind, ads to endleaves.      From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .   .

Slight sunning to board edges, else fine. CDK-62. Virgil Finlay. Robert Bloch, foreword. Virgil Finlay's Strange Science. Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. First edition. Quarto. 149pp. Fully illustrated with drawings by Virgil Finlay. Publisher's hardcover paper boards, stamped in silver to spine and front cover, illustrated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing retail price of $24.95. .

Minor toning, light wear to card wraps. Very good. JBS-432. Bayard Taylor. The Vision of Hasheesh.  Extract from Putnam's Monthly, April, 1854.  First American account of the use of hasheesh, preceding publication in book form in chapter X of The Lands of the Saracens, 1855. Famous article that encouraged Fitz Hugh Ludlow in his historic experiments.  Octavo. 7pp (402 - 408). In later protective card wraps, stapled.   From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .