Search Results: Authors starting with V from Magus Books

Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good plus with name and date written a top of half-title and gift inscription on opposite blank page, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket ($3.50 price intact) with some chipping at the spine ends and corners, and light foxing at the folds. A nice copy of this scarce title.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy, clean and bright inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket (price clipped) with slight rubbing to the extremities. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on the title page. A very attractive signed copy.

Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Near-fine with slight rubbing to edges of boards. In a very good dust jacket (price clipped) with slight wear at the spine ends and corners. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the flyleaf and SIGNED by her on the title page.

Asia Publishing House, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with a touch of foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a near-fine dust jacket with a trace of foxing to the extremities. A beautiful copy of a very scarce title.

Mexico City: Gustavo Lopez y Cia., 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in near-fine maroon and dark blue leather with gilt raised bands on spine (owner's name embossed in gilt at bottom of front cover). Marbled endpapers. Gift inscription at top of page opposite title page, with no other markings. Text in Spanish, with many beautiful black & white bullfighting illustrations. Very scarce.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus with some fading to rear board and minor shelf wear, otherwise clean and tight. A nice copy of this scarce title.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1946. 1st Edition . Very good plus with slight rubbing to corners and a bit of offsetting to endpapers. Neat name and date written on flyleaf, othewrise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket ($2.50 price intact) with light chipping at the corners, about one-half inch chip at top of spine, and a bit of rubbing to rear panel. A nice copy of Vidal's first book.

Utrecht, Netherlands: W. De Haan, 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pieck, Anton. Second edition. A near-fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In the extremely rare just jacket, very good with some clear tape repairs to the top and bottom edges and some minor soiling. A lavishly illustrated survey in Dutch of myths and legends from Egypt, Greece, India, Scandinavia, and more. Anton Pieck was one of the best-known Dutch illustrators of the 20th century.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus in blue boards with a touch of wear to the spine ends and very slight fading to the spine. Name and date written on front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. An excellent copy of this rather scarce title.