Search Results: Authors starting with V from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

London: John Murray, 1914. 8vo. 336 pp., plus 10 pp. publ. ads (btm half of last ad page torn). Beige illust. cloth, blk lettrng (minor rubbng & shlfwr), VG. First edition, 2nd prntng of this charming story of an Antique dealer and his adventures in Victorian England.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1985]. 8vo. [8], 341, [1] pp. Half-blue cloth over white boards, w/ d.j., NF/NF. First edition of the first Burke mystery.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1924]. 8vo. [6], 127, [1] pp., plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp. photo, numerous photo plates all framed in green decorative borders, photo-illust. endpapers, head- and tail-pieces. Blue cloth, blue decrtn & lettrng (mnr shlfwr, mnr rubbng), w/ d.j. cover art photos from the movie of Valentino and Bebe Daniels (chppng hd of spine, w/o lowr 2/3 of spine, edgewear, creasng), VG/Fair copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First photoplay edition of this silent movie adaptation of the historical novel set in the court of Louis XV, starring Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Lowell Sherman, Doris Kenyon, John Davidson, and directed by Sidney Olcott.

New York: A.L. Burt Co., [1929]. 8vo. 256 pp. Photo frntsp., 3 plates. Orange cloth, blk lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. cover art promotional movie poster of Rudy Vallee (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, couple mnr clsd tears, mnr creasng), VG/VG- copy, w/ label on ffep indicating all songs owned & Copyrighted by Harms, Inc., and booksellers label on rear pstdn for Winch & Marshall, 80 So. First St., San Jose, California. First Photoplay edition of Rudy Vallee’s first movie about a Jazz Sax player during the height of the Jazz age. The RKO picture starred Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon, Norman Peck, Danny O’Shea, and Eddie Nugent as well.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1961. Thick 8vo. xviii, 676 pp. Photo frntsp, photos, diagrams, illusts. Red cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght sunng to spine, ex-lib mrkngs on title, spine, mnr bmpng to crnrs), still good copy from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. Second edition.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., [1940]. 32mo. 392 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated boards (very minor scuffing & wear to fore-edges, slight bumping to corners), still VG copy. First Jumbo Book edition, No. 1175.

New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1985]. 8vo. 189, [3] pp. Half-tan over gray boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this wonderful anthology of Inspector Saito mysteries.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977. 8vo. [6], 185, [1] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght bmpng ft of spine, scuffng, edgewear), NF/VG- copy. First edition of this Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier mystery set in Amsterdam.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. 8vo. 285, [1] pp. Black ribbed publisher’s cloth, teal blue lettering (offset toning on pastedowns), w/ d.j. cover art of telephone receiver off the hook by Paul Laune (1899-1977), best known for his Hardy Boys series cover art (minor rubbing head & foot of spine), still NF/VG copy. First Grosset edition of this mystery featuring David Mallory, a struggling reporter working as a switchboard operator in a swank apartment building trying to solve the mystery, Miss Agatha Paget the acerbic and intrepid disabled wheelchair bound polio victim who knows the murderer of her hired genealogist, and the determined niece.

New York: Platt & Munk Co., [1935]. 32mo. 4.4 x 5.75 in. [6], 5-60, [2] pp. With colour frontisp., 27 colour plates. Red decorated cloth, colour plate mounted front cover, ornament & decoration in black, colour illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art by Willis (minor shelfwear, dustsoiling), NF/VG- copy. First Platt & Munk edition of this title in the Sallie Mandy series originally issued by Altemus Co. in 1927. Willis (1871-1957) was a Pittsburgh born artist who illustrated all of the Little Sallie Mandy series titles, several Wee Folks Peter Rabbit titles, and more.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1930]. 8vo. 328 pp. Red cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art of scarab (slight shelfwear, minor closed tear foot of spine), NF/VG-. First Grosset Madison Square edition of this 5th Philo Vance mystery about an art patron found murdered with an Egyptian goddess bust.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. 8vo. 332 pp. Red cloth, blk lettering (light uniform interior toning as usual w/ Wartime paper), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head of spine, small closed tear, edgewear), VG/VG- copy. Reprint edition of this Philo Vance mystery set in a New York skyscraper, and horse racing. Served as the basis for the 1936 movie starring Edmund Lowe as Philo Vance.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1926]. 8vo. 226 pp. Black cloth, yellow lettering (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to corners), w/ d.j. great vivid cover art by Elsie Carpell (minor foxing to front cover, some soiling, minor shelfwear), still VG-/G copy, w/ Advance Copy stamp on half-title. First edition, advance review copy, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first novel, published previously in serial format in Century Magazine the year before. Van Doren has produced a fascinating novel about the life and career of Kent Morrow, professor of history.

Cincinnati & New York: Jennings and Graham/ Eaton and Mains, [1905]. 12mo. 199, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr rubbng to spine, vry slght bmpng), VG copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this excellent memoir by a Methodist elder appointed to the Spokane district in 1892, which encompassed eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and a little more. The author writes of his experiences in Walla Walla, with the Nez Perce Indians, the Coeur d’Alene area, and much more.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1912. 8vo. xv, [1], 276 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Blue cloth, blk & gilt decrtn & lettrng (mnr shlfwr), NF. First edition, 1st printing of these lectures on citizenship and the American government first presented to promote sympathy in a French audience with America.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. 8vo. [10], 71, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous plates, decrtd woodcut borders to title, and pages throughout, by Amy Richards. Green cloth, decrtd & lettrd in gilt & blk, signed by Amy Richards (vry slght sunng to spine), t.e.g., VG copy. Second edition of this Christmas story dedicated to Hamilton Wright Mabie, w/ decorations and borders executed by Amy Richards.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1913]. 8vo. ix, [3], 298, [2] pp., plus 8 pp. publ. ads. Colour frntsp. Blue cloth, colour plate mntd frnt cvr (mnr rubbng), w/ d.j. (hd & ft of spine chppd, tear on frnt cvr), VG/VG-. Reprint edition.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901. 12mo. ix, [5], 295, [1] pp. Title in red & blk. Colour frntsp. 7 colour plates. Decorated gilt & blue binding, lettrng highlighted in green, designed by Margaret Armstrong (mnr rubbng), VG copy. First edition of this work in the very fine unsigned binding by Armstrong.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. 8vo. ix, [3], 299, [1] pp. Title in red & blk. Colour frntsp., 7 colour plates. Decorated gilt & blue binding, lettrng in gilt, signed by Margaret Armstrong, (mnr rubbng), VG copy. Early printing.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. 12mo. ix, [1], 391, [1] pp. Frntsp., 7 plates. Title in red & blk, paper spine labl (mnr shlfwr), VG. Early printing of Van Dyke’s charming discourse on the Bible, Poetry, Dickens, Thakeray, George Eliot, Keats, Wordsworth, Browning, Walton, Samuel Johnson, Emerson, and Robert Louis Stevenson.