Search Results: Titles starting with V from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue cloth spine with copper lettering and light blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 201pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Perfect and tight first edition.

Salt Lake City: Pioneer Music Press, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue leatherette, mylar cover. xv, 224pp. Illustrations. Fine. Inscribed by Wheelwright. First edition. Touching memoir of this devout Danish Mormon (1875-1957) who emigrated to Utah. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Tom and Debora Deaver II / with best wishes of / Ila and Lorin Wheelwright / July 11, "

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth. iii, 113pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Handsome first edition.

New York: Trident Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 499pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition of this vivid biography, capturing the history and atmosphere of the silent screen era. Tight and nice and bearing a unique autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from Shulman, 1p, 5" X 7¼", Los Angeles, CA, 1973 January 17. Addressed to Mr. Stanhope. "Of course I'll autograph your copy of Valentino," he writes, and gives instructions, closing with: "I hope you'll include a book envelope, have it addressed properly, postage, etc." Bold signature. Shulman (1913-95) also authored the bestselling biography "Harlow: An Intimate Biography" (1964, film version 1965) and wrote the screenplay for "Rebel Without a Cause."

Harrisburg: The Stackpole Company, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Colonel W.S. Nye. 8vo. Red paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (6pp), 262pp. Numerous maps. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with somewhat sunned spine and a few small upper edge chips. Quite attractive and tight first edition of this diary of an Irish-born Union soldier who witnessed much action with the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and recorded it in his diary. Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from editor Nye, 1p, heavy stock buff 5½" X 3¼" postal card, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2 August 1962. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar). Fine. "We are sending you three books to be evaluated for our new Book Service," he writes to the "Lincoln Herald" book review editor. "I hope you can read these and send in your evaluations.... Normally we won't jam so many on you at once, but, as you know, we are accepting for consideration anything published so… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very good/good minus. Jacket edgeworn, with chipping at top edge and head of spine. First edition. Despite jacket chipping, a tight and attractive copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 259pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed. Tight, nice first edition.

New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 228pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. First edition. A mixture of fact and fiction highlight this adventurous account of an exploration commissioned by Thomas Jefferson that was later cancelled.

New York: Savas Beatie LLC, 2010. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 313pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine first edition, signed bold but sloppy by Knight in black ballpoint on title page.

Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1963. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 127pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Good plus. Revised edition of this "Utah Historical Quarterly" reprint. Contributors include Dale L. Morgan and Theodore L. Cannon.

New York: Berkley Books, 1983. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 175pp, (1p ad). Near fine. Later (21st!) printing of this Sherlock tale, tight and attractive. From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).

La Jolla: Value Communications, Inc, 1977. Hardcover. Illustrations by Stephen Pileggi. 4to. Glossy pictorial cloth. 63pp. Numerous color lillustrations. Near fine. "H" inkstamped in red on front pastedown. A handsome and tight first edition of this children's biography, part of this publisher's "ValueTale Series." Charming -- uncommon to find with not a grubby, peanut-buttery fingerprint to be found.

New York: The Free Press, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 426pp. Tables. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition, boldly inscribed and signed in blue fineline on half-title page "For the Malotts / Valued friends who / know that values matter / most... / With high regard and / many thanks for all your / help over the years, / Ben Wattenberg / Williamsburg, Va. / 10/95." Wattenberg (1933-2015) was an influential but nonpartisan neoconservative political commentator and author; this title was also turned into a PBS television special. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago civic/business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist.

[Washington, DC]: J. & G.S. Gideon, n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Lightly age toned; binding traces at margin; contemporary "39" in brown ink at upper right corner of first page. An attractive and clean-edged first edition of this attack on the Democratic eighth U.S. president, undated but certainly published in 1848. After losing his bid for reelection to Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in 1840, Van Buren's opposition to Texas annexation in 1844 lost him the vote of pro-slavery Democrats and he failed to get the nomination, and in 1848 the Free Soil Party gave him the nomination. Though his views had become more anti-slavery over the years, this no-holds-barred criticism calls him "the great nucleus of the South, and the greatest enemy of the free institutions of the North" -- among many less tactful labels. Quite a few of his letters are excerpted to show his support of slavery. This pro-Whig piece then warns supporters against being tempted to… Read More

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1939. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. ix, 337pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Good only. Spine slightly sunned; endpapers quite age toned, with inoffensive dampstaining evidence to preliminary leaves at both ends. A tight and decent 38th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, keepsakes produced for customers and employees. Interestingly, front flyleaf bears bold ownership signature in black ink of Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate. "One of the most readable books about Arizona," notes Graff of the 1908 true first edition. GRAFF 4028. HOWES S 1132.

[New York]: Time-Life Books, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 270pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Fine. Tight, handsome facsimile of the 1908 J.B. Lippincott Company first edition, part of this publisher's "Classics of the Old West" series. "One of the most readable books about Arizona," notes Graff. GRAFF 4028. NEW HOWES S 1139.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrations by John Austen. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Lavender cloth spines with gilt lettering and decorative paper over boards, dust jackets with paper labels. xviii, 365pp; vi, pp. 367-772. Color frontispieces, full-page color plates, decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Jackets lightly edgeworn only; lacks slipcase. Magnificent pair of this hefty 1848 Victorian staple, this LEC production features hand-colored Austen lithographs. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #1095) signed by Austen. Lovely copy sans slipcase but with bright, clean jackets. NEWMAN 22.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. x, 636pp. Illustrations, pictorial and map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear, with couple of archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears and some rubbing. First edition, a tight, handsome copy with interesting association: Half-title page bears the bookplate of noted actor M.J. Frankovich (1909-92), whose film credits include "Meet John Doe" (1941) and "Son of Zorro" an as actor and "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969), "Cactus Flower" (1969), "The Shootist" (1976) and many others as a producer.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Hardcover. Illustrations by Justin C. Gruelle. 8vo. Tan cloth with blue lettering. xvi, 302pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, map endpapers. Very good. Spine faintly sunned; cowboy-theme bookplate on front flyleaf. Handsome and tight first reprint edition of Dobie's first book (1929), "Partly from the Reminiscences of John Young," a south Texas cattle man. Characterized by Jenkins as "a lasting contribution to the literature of the Texas range." BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 44 (D). GRAFF 1100. RAMPAGING HERD 696. SIX SCORE 44.

New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, dust jacket. xii, 704pp. Near fine/very good. Occasional inked checkmark in margin. First edition, tight and attractive.