Search Results: Authors starting with B from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Signed by the author on the front free end paper and inscribed to a previous owner. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 374 pages, red quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, clean dust jacket with some fading along the back strip, with original price.

Harper & Row; NY, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 441 pages, brown and black cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed and with slight soiling to the fore-edge. In a very good minus, clean, moderately edge worn dust jacket, rubbed at the upper back strip, with the original price present.

Singapore: World Scientific, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, viii + 469 pages, blue boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with slight shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near-fine dust jacket with light edge wear.

New York, New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 259 pages, red and orange boards; gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price.,

Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 179 pages, black cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 273 pages, red and orange boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; gently read, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Grosset & Dunlap, c. 1924. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good +/ Good. Originally published by Harpers. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 292 pages + 4 black and white plates + 4 ads, black titles on decorative tan cloth. A good plus, neat hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear over all, rubbing at the corners, with slight darkening from a dampstain to the exterior spine cloth that does not affect interior; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with some foxing to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, with chipping at the edges and darkening and foxing to the back strip that is split at the front hinge (and held together in a mylar dust jacket...).

Thames & Hudson, 1998-11-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near Fine. Quarto, 12 1/4” tall, 240 pages with intertextual color photographs throughout, brown boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper bright. In a near fine, lightly worn dustjacket but with with price present.

Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First thus. Hardcover. Good minus. French text. Sold as a good reading copy only because of the difficult condition. 6 1/3" tall, xl + 563 pages, plus a 22-page 'Plans de Berlin'. Fold-out maps, flexible cloth. A good minus copy overall, spine cloth loose, faded, and frayed at the rear hinge, both hinges cracked, internal binding solid, printed map endpapers yellowed and becoming fragile, paper moderately yellowed and still supple; the Frontispiece map is torn out, all others appear to be present but many are tattered at the edges.

New York, New York: Random House, 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 265 pages, blue-quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with minor edge wear, with original price. Not exactly Richard Hannay, or written with the skill of a John Buchan, but an entertainment.

Penn Publishing; Philadelphia , 1926. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 7 2/3” tall, 328 + [1] pages, black titles on blue cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat original hardcover edition with minor shelf wear, binding tight, but paper moderately yellowed. In a good, edge-worn dust jacket.

New York, New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 377 pages, purple boards. A fine, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price .

New York, New York: Viking Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 275 pages, boards. A fine clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. With a remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge. In a fine, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: David McKay; NY, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by the author. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 244 pages, blue cloth. With map endpapers and B&W illustrations. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, some fading to cloth color at the top edges; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed but small stain to top fore-edge tips. In a good, price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and chipping at the folds and back strip edges.

W W Norton & Co / Shoreline books, 1986. First thus. Trade paperback. Very Good minus. Originally published by Putnam in 1964. Sold as a good original reading copy only. Octavo, 8" tall, 319 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A good, sturdy soft cover with moderate shelf wear, light exterior soiling; binding solid, text paper cream white, with some minor foxing to the fore-edges.

New York, New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. Sold as a very nice reading copy. Octavo, 8 3/4," tall, 285 pages, gilt titles on gray cloth. A very good, clean, solid hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear and light exterior rubbing, but slight color fading to the cloth margins; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. Lacking dust jacket.

Simon & Schuster, 2009-09-08. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge. Octavo, 8 3/4” tall, 243 pages, cream boards. A near fine, clean hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price.

California Sea Grant College System, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration in cooperation with Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, 1996-01-01. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo, 9 " tall, xv + 32 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover over all with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white, with a slight touch of soiling to the top fore-edge.

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good / Good. Octavo, 8 1/3" tall, 289 pages, illustrated end papers, green cloth. A very good, clean hardcover first edition over all with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed; with a previous owner's signature on the half title page. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, chipping at the top and bottom edges of the back strip plus two-inch chip at top of rear panel, with original price present.

American Book Company: New York, 1897. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good minus/Without dust jacket (as issued). Octavo, 7 1/2” tall, 160 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, red titles on decorative gray cloth. A very good minus, otherwise generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear BUT soiling to the cloth of the spine; binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket as issued.