Search Results: Authors starting with V from Elk River Books

Mesilla, NM: Wild Sheep and Goat International, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Limited edition (#180 of 750), signed by author on limitation page, and also inscribed "Best wishes from the author" to collector Richard Beagle on first blank leaf. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. [12], viii, 209. Brown faux-leather boards with black-stamped sheep motif and titling, pictorial jacket. Color frontispiece by John P. Boone, black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Includes references, index, and contributions from such hunting legends as Bert Klineberger, George Landreth and Herb Klein. Publisher's promotional material laid in, along with a handwritten postcard from the author to Mr. Beagle. Jacket and top edge of text block each has faint smudge mark.

Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (25 cm), pp. 116. Pictorial paper wrappers. With black and white photos throughout, includes afterword, endnotes and appendix.

Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Folio (32.5 cm), pp. 162. Brown cloth with stamped horse motif on front and silver spine titling. Brown endpapers. White photographic jacket. Foreword by Thomas McGuane. Includes an excerpt from 40 Years' Gatherin's by Spike Van Cleve. Black and white photographs with short personal essays of various women ranchers. Slight bumping to foot of spine. Jacket with light soiling and edge wear.

Hardcover. Blunden, Edmund. Cricket Country. London: The Imprint Society, 1945. Reprint. Green cloth with black and gilt spine label. Green jacket. Back of jacket features advertisement for British radio broadcasting to occupied Europe. Edge wear and chipping to jacket. Very Good in good jacket. Brodribb, Gerald, ed. The English Game: A Cricket Anthology. London: Hollis & Carter, 1948. First edition. Green cloth with red and gilt spine label. Green, white and black illustrated jacket with 10s., 6d. price. Frontispiece portrait of John Myren (1764-1837). Several black and white illustrated plates throughout. Minor bumping and wear to boards, significant chipping and wear to jacket. Very good in fair jacket.Constantine, Learie N. Cricket in the Sun. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d. [1947]. First edition. Black cloth and gilt spine titling. Green and white jacket with 15s. price. Frontispiece and 27 other half-tone illustrations. Bumping and edge wear to boards. Wear and chipping to jacket. Very good… Read More

Paperback. Very good. Includes four quarto volumes related to Yellowstone-area science: Yellowstone Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences (National Park Service, 2007); Integrating Management Strategies for the Mountain Pine Beetle with Multiple-Resource Management of Lodgepole Pine Forests (U.S. Forest Service, 1985); Yellowstone's Northern Range: Complexity & Change in a Wildland Ecosystem (National Park Service, 1997); and Questioning Greater Yellowstone's Future: Climate, Land Use and Invasive Species (Yellowstone Center for Resources, 2011). All have some degree of edge wear, with some material missing at tail of spine from Questioning Greater Yellowstone's Future.

Very good. A variety of titles used by comedian, author, documentary filmmaker and SNL alum, Rich Hall while researching his films for the BBC, with his hand-written notes of ideas and quips used in the films covering many of the endpapers, and marginalia. Hall's films focus on American film genres, culture and history, and include How the West Was Lost; The Dirty South; Continental Drifters; You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas; Countier Than You; Red Menace and several others. The books, from Hall's personal library, include: Eisenberger, Robert. Blue Monday: The Loss of the Work Ethic in America. Second edition, 2000. Paperback. Kennedy, Douglas. The Big Picture. First edition, 1997. Paperback. La Chapelle, Peter. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California. First paperback edition, 2007. Paperback. Laderman, David. Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie. Second edition, 2006. Paperback. Langman, Larry and David Ebner. Hollywood's Image of… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Third printing. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 352. Blue paper wrappers. Includes illustrations by Sally Schrohenloher, bibliography and citation index. Bottom corner of cover and first three pages look as through a dog chewed on them briefly. Light edge wear.

New York: Viking Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 415. Navy blue paper over brown quarter cloth, pictorial jacket. Jacket and boards with slight edge wear, remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. This is the first volume of Vollman's seven book cycle on the settling of North America.

Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 294. Review copy with publisher's note laid in. Red cloth with black lettering. Includes index, black and white photography. Jacket has one small closed tear.

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio (39 cm), pp. 208. Red cloth with gilt titling, photographic endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with 165 duotone photographs selected by Vreeland, with explanatory text based on Hemphill's interviews with Vreeland. Photographers include Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Adolph de Meyer, Cecil Beaton and others, and subjects include Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Queen Mary, etc. Promotional sheet laid in. Reprint of the 1980 original. "As fashion editor of Harper's, editor-in-chief of Vogue, and creator of dozens of famous exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, Diana Vreeland energized and inspired the world of fashion for fifty years." Very slight rubbing to boards, creasing to promo sheet, else fine.