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

New York, New York: Grove Press, 2003. First American edition, first pr. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 215 pages, orange boards with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket, with the original price.

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Originally published as 'Les Eaux Melees' and awarded Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary prize. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman and Maxwell Singer. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 383 pages. A very good, clean, hardcover first English language edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, but with bumping to bottom edge. In a very good, clean dust jacket with chipping at the bottom of back strip and at the folds, several short edge tears, and with original price.

Doubleday Doran: NY, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Sold as a nice reading copy only of this scarce edition. Octavo, 7 3/4” tall, 310 pages, black titles on red cloth. A very good minus over all, internally clean, hard cover with moderate shelf wear, but cloth color significantly faded at the fore-edge margin of both covers front and back from foxing, slight foxing to the fore-edge, corners rubbed, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, but with a small neat penned signature from a previous owner. Without dust jacket.

New York, New York: Viking Press, 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 134 pages, white quarter cloth; with remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white with slight foxing to fore-edges. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price. Author's first novel.

Paris, France: L. Hebert: Edition Hetzel-Quantin, n.d., circa 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 352 pages + 22 black and white plates + 8 ad pages, gilt fore-edges and spine titles, decorative red leather. A good, clean sturdy hard cover over with general shelf wear and rubbing to leather, fore-corner tips through to boards, back strip leather darkened and chipped at the top edge; hinges cracked but secure, and internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with foxing primarily at the front-matter. Note: overseas postage is very expensive and likely more than the cost of the book.

Paris, France: L. Curmer, n.d. [c. 1843]. First thus. Decorative Leather. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 10 1/4" tall, illustrated title page + 18 engraved plate illustrations + viii + 279 pages with intertextual illustration throughout; gilt fore-edges, gilt titles and cover decoration on embossed leather. A good (minus) copy overall; exterior spine leather significantly chipped, fore-corners through to boards; hinges broken, covers loose; internal binding fairly solid and text paper light to moderately yellowed but with foxing to the margins throughout and more heavily on plate paper; illustration pages moderately yellowed; BUT several plate pages are loose along with an attached text page. This copy would require binding restoration and is priced accordingly. Note: overseas shipping is prohibitively expensive at present.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A much cleaned up version of the 16th Century German folk-tales concerning the 14th Century picaresque character. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 116 pages, blue cloth. A very good, moderately worn hard cover with rubbing to the spine ends and fore-corner tips; binding solid, paper clean and just slightly yellowed. In a good+, clean dust jacket with small chips at ends of the backstrip and at the fore-tips; price-clipped.

Alfred A. Knopf/ American Booksellers, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/without dust jacket. Home, James; by Ethel Kelly; "With illustrations by Ralph Barton; published by Alfred A. Knopf for the American Booksellers, assembled in convention in New York on the occasion of their twenty-seventh anniversary banquet, May 12, 1927." Miss Kelly was also the author of Beauty and Mary Blair, Heat's Blood, and Wings. 12mo, 7 3/4" tall, 120 pages, red quarter-cloth over decorative boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities and darkening to the top fore-edge and to the boards, binding solid, text paper clean but light to moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket (which may not have been issued with this special edition).

London, England: John Camden Hotten, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. fair. This copy is not in collectible condition and is offered solely as an reading copyQuarto, 10 1/4" tall, color frontispiece + 639 pages with intertextual 'nearly 400' woodcut illustrations + 14 steel engravings, gilt spine titles, and decorations on 1/4 leather over red boards. A fair copy only with general shelf wear, back strip leather badly chipped, fore corner tips through the boards, binding broken, some signatures and pages loose (but all present) paper moderately yellowed illustrations clean and bright, but title page and one engraved page (both on heavier paper) are edge chipped. Complete but not collectible as is. Priced accordingly. This is a large and heavy volume requiring additional postage.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1919. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Note: this is a later issuance of this scarce title, text printed with the original plates but lacking various elements including the first printing dust jacket art, several of the internal illustrations and one of two ad pages. This copy is in very good minus condition over all but has important defects. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 308 pages + 3 b&w plates, + 1 ad page, black titles and decoration on decorative orange cloth. Generally clean, with "Published, April, 1919 and this title last on the list on both the back of the dust jacket and the rear of the book, with shelf wear and rubbing to the fore-corner tips and back strip edges, cover panel relatively bright; binding solid, but paper moderately yellowed but with surface soiling and foxing to the exterior fore-edges and a slight musty smell from storage in a barn. In a fair, edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the back strip and flap fold edges top and… Read More

George H. Doran: NY, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Good. Octavo, 7 7/8" tall, 319 pages, green titles and decorations on beige cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat, hard cover with moderate shelf wear, spine rubbed; binding solid but front hinge cracked, paper moderately yellowed with soiling to the top fore-edge and at the fore-edges. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, chipping at the spine and flap-fold edges, with a section loose at the top of the back strip with original price present.

New York, New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Lacking dust jacket. Signed by the author and inscribed to previous owner with date 1961. Octavo, 9" tall, 300 pages, blue cloth, decorated endpapers. Two previous owner's names on free endpaper. A very good, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, but color fading to the backstrip cloth, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. Lacking dust jacket.

Chicago, Illinois: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1911. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 417 pages + illustrated color plates, dark green titles on decorative light green cloth. A very good (minus), sturdy first edition overall with minor shelf wear, light exterior soiling to the cloth; interior very good, binding solid, paper clean but lightly yellowed with foxing to the exterior fore-edges; illustrations bright. Without dust jacket.

Personal Books: NY, 1943. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Signed and dated on the front endpaper by the author and inscribed to music historian Rudi Blesh. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 89 pages, "with forty-four full page drawings and nineteen decorations by Elliott Dold" black cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover second edition (the first was very limited) with minor shelf wear but yellowing to the endpapers, interior near fine binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

George H. Doran: NY, 1917. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 129 pages, illustrated end papers, gilt titles, tipped on cover illustration, green cloth. A very good (minus), clean hardcover with moderate shelf wear, minor exterior soiling, binding tight. Interior clean, paper lightly yellowed with light scattered foxing, deckled fore-edge from opening signatures by hand. Without dust jacket.

London, England: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Single volume (of three issued)-complete in itself. Quato 10 1/4" tall, frontispiece plus intertextual illustrations, 800 pages, marbled endpapers, and marbled fore-edges, 3/4 leather over dark cloth. A fair, clean, internally sturdy hardcover, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with minor scattered foxing, primarily to the margins and frontmatter, BUT both heavy covers are loose, cloth back strips missing, hinges broken and first and last signatures loosening or loose; cover edges worn wear and fore-corner tips through to boards; A good reference copy only, or breaker for the hundreds of wonderful black and white engraved spot illustrations.

A. C. McClurg & Co: Chicago, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 2/3” tall, 414 pages, brown boards. A good, generally clean, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear, spine title dimmed, corners rubbed. binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Frank Rosewater, 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Offered as a scarce title, despite difficult condition. "Published Oct.-Nov., 1920. 12mo, 7 1/2" tall, vii + 282 pages, stiff printed wraps. A good, soft cover with moderate shelf wear, light exterior soiling, lower 1" of spine is split and chipped at hinge, back cover lower corner torn; internal binding solid, paper generally clean and moderately yellowed.

Boston, Massachusetts: Copeland and Day, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket (if issue. Printed by Rockwell and Churchill of Boston, September, 1897. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 434 pages, illustrated yellow cloth. A good, shelf worn copy with rubbing at all corners, fore-corner tips just barely through to boards, top and bottom edges of back strip cloth lightly starting to fray at both top and bottom; cover illustration lightly rubbed, hinges cracked but secure, binding solid, paper clean and just lightly yellowed. This is obviously not a sharp copy but still quite difficult to find in better condition.

The Century Co., New York, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/without dust jacket. 12mo, 7 1/4" tall, 290 pages with illustrated black and white plates, silver titles and red and green decorations on limp tan-brown cloth. A very good minus, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, but paper moderately yellowed with minor soiling to the fore-edges. Without dust jacket.