Search Results: Authors starting with V from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1982. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Jacques Vallee on the title page. x, 213 pp. Publisher's wraps. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges. Information theorist and computer science pioneer Jacques Vallee's vision of the future of computers and "the new information networks." Only two copies found in OCLC WorldCat, neither in the US. Rare in its first edition as a paperback original, especially so signed.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1975. First Edition. First edition. Presentation copy signed by Jacques Vallee, warmly inscribed to occult writer Israel Regardie "with my admiration" on half title. Regardie's bookplate on paste down. viii, 216 pp. Publisher's cloth and boards. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn. A great association between a UFOlogist/ information theorist Vallee and a major figure in the 20th century occult on a very fitting work, which details a fraternity of researchers in different disciplines dialoguing on the quandary of UFOs.

New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by author to former owner "with fond wishes, [signed] Jan Valtin / February 10, 1942" in black ink on front free endpaper. First edition, trade issue. xxxviii, 281pp. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with slight lean, a few light stains to cloth, slightly faded lettering on spine. No jacket. A follow-up to the German-born author's bestselling expose of KGB spy tactics Out of the Night, signed in the year of publication.

Philadelphia: Printed by William Fry for Thomas Dobson, 1814. First Edition. Very Good. The first edition of the first complete Hebrew Bible published in America. Octavo. Two volumes finely bound in modern full leather with spine tooled in gilt. Bound without blanks and half-titles; lacking the publisher's leaf explaining the genesis of this edition, which is found in very few copies. Pages toned with a few stains throughout. Title pages remargined. Small crack to title page of Volume II, and two small repairs made to the following two pages at top margin. Printed from Hebrew type imported from Amsterdam, with Latin annotations in the margins. The text is based on the first Everardo Van Der Hooght edition of the Hebrew Bible, which was published in Amsterdam in 1705 and remains the basis for most modern editions. "After the 'lean' years which followed the Revolutionary War, in the early decades of the nineteenth century America was in the throes of a great religious revival. As part of its… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson, head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from [signed] S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii, 328, (5, versos only, ads) pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good+ with slight crease to prelims, edge rubbing, in Good+ unclipped dust jacket with some chips, tiny edge tears, and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White (rather than the popular William Powell) as Philo Vance.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first state with MCMXXVIII on title page and matching date on copyright page. xii, 388pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Very Good+ with worming to front joint and right edge of board. Light staining to top edge; contents are slightly toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning and moderate wear to crown with fairly small chips; rear panel with one closed tear. A great copy of this whodunit murder mystery, the third in the Philo Vance detective series. Adapted a year later into the 1929 film starring William Powell as the dandy detective.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. First edition. xii, [ii], 311, [1] [6] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red lettering, map endpapers. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at extremities, slight crease along bottom of front panel, unclipped ($2.00). A Philo Vance mystery with a plot revolving around mythological dragons.

Paterson, NJ, 1940. Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1. September 1940. Louis and Gertrude Kuslan's copy. Vertical crease made for mailing and evidence of posting to rear cover. Metal brad-bound sheets. Very Good with soiling, toning and wear. Scarce.

Los Angeles: Artist Ink Editions, 2003. First Edition. Fine. First edition. One of 1500 copies with signed etching. 4to. Linen over boards, slipcased with tie. 88 + 96pp, 1 CD + 1 DVD and numbered etching signed by Van Vliet in pencil. Fine overall condition. Very light wear to both discs, playing fine. A deluxe multimedia tribute to the artist Don Van Vliet and his musical alter ego, Captain Beefheart-- king of outsider musicians. The set consists of two books by Van Vliet: Splinters (photos, poetry, and drawings) and the titular volume which focuses exclusively on his paintings. Anton Corbijn's DVD Some Yoyo Stuff and a spoken word/ solo singing CD included as well. A lovingly-produced tribute to the strange, singular vision of the late American artistic pioneer.

New York: Avalon Books, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jack Vance on the title page. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in brown on the spine. Near Fine with light toning to spine cloth, former owner address label to front paste down and pages toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, spine-fading, light edge wear and a tiny hole to the rear panel. A lovely copy.

San Francisco & Columbia, PA: Underwood Miller, 1983. First hardcover edition. Fine/Fine. First edition. 127, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with tiny stain to front panel, still Fine. A very sharp, clean copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First American edition. First American edition. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt and red metallic lettering to spine, red topstain. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, a little toning to spine, slight crease to front flap, unclipped ($6.95). The novel of political intrigue that inspired a film by the same name, first published in Greece in 1966, then banned a year later.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1930. First Trade Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, trade issue with plain binding. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with black lettering. Fine in Near Fine original dust jacket, spine slightly sunned and rubbed along edges. An attractive, very clean copy. Dystopian phobia-inspired science-fiction by distinguished industrial designer John Vassos about human inhabitation of the inner earth, outer space, and the sky in the face of environmental collapse.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1929. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Trade issue with navy cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with rubbing to silver, edge wear, rear hinge starting. Lacking jacket. Industrial designer John Vassos' stylish black-and-white paintings of modern American life with text by his wife Ruth. The duo would later create Phobia and Ultimo.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Thorstein Veblen on the front free endpaper to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original dark green clot ruled in blind with spine titles in gilt. Very good with rubbing to cloth at extremities, spine titles dulled, corners softened, pages toned. Books signed by Veblen are scarce.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Robert Venturi to previous owners "A graphics monstrosity for Tom and Marjorie with our thanks for a heavenly day / Bob and Denise / April '81" with Denise Scott Brown's signature ("and Denise") added to Venturi's inscription. Errata slip laid in. About Fine, with bottom rear corner and bottom edge of front board bumped, light shelf wear, light toning to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning, shallow chipping at the head, several tears and chips to the edges with very little loss, but still quite a remarkable survival of the notoriously fragile dust jacket.

Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 1974. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Unpaginated. Plain black wraps in black and white pictorial dust jacket. Text in Italian. Near Fine. Many black and white photos and biographical information about various artists working in the "body art" genre that was very hip in the 1970s such as Arnulf Rainer, Luca Patella, Hermann Nitsch, Gilbert & George, Trisha Brown, and more. A rare text.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition. Bound in publisher's elaborately stamped green cloth over bevel-edged boards. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at extremities, rear bottom corner heavily bumped, light worming, rear cloth faintly stained visible in raking light. Several stains to textblock edge occasionally intruding into margins. Previous owner name to preliminary blank. Still a very presentable copy.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [1873] 1874. First American edition. Printed November, 1873 with a post-dated title page listing 1874, hence possibly the first edition in English, as the London edition was also issued that month. Very Good with front and rear inner hinges professionally repaired. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends, corners lightly rubbed through and a patch of board visible on the bottom edge of the front board, short tear at top of rear joint. Foxing to prelims and terminals, pages toned. A bright copy.

Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. (Also the first in the English language. Title page dated 1880 but actually printed in October of 1879.) Original brown cloth with gilt on spine, black lettering. pp. vi, 271, (ix). Very Good+ condition. A bit of foxing and dust-soiling to edges, light wear to cloth. Erased blue penciled name on title page. A very nice copy of an adventure novel by the French author of Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.