Search Results: Authors starting with V from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1979 1st ed. 203pp. beige cloth 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [edges show some foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy[ Old school tips that can still be adapted to the internet age.

New York: Knopf. 1990 advance uncorrected proof. SIGNED on half-title p. by the author. 237pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [yellow paper covers are slightly age darkened; else VG+] A nice signed proof of the late author's Detective Burke novel.

Antibes: Editions Alp' Azur. 1980. unpaginated illustrated mustard cloth 4to: Fine in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [engraved business cards of two high level tourist officials from Cannes are stapled to ffep; else F; dj = torn in places along the top edge; else VG+] A handsome oversized volume featuring Cannes as seen in old postcard views and other colorful illustrations with French language text.

New York: Charles K. Harris. 1916. sheet music. 6pp. paper folio: fair cond. [cover creases; some edge nicks & tears; cover is still suitable for framing] Cover illustration is a period watercolor of roses and a farmhouse inset.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin/Pelican, 1956 reprint. 333pp. illus. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A standard work by the American scholar Vaillant (1901-45), originally published in 1944. Includes 64 pages of plates.

New York: Broadway Books, 2008 1st ed. thus. 210pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A Dutchman's adventure driving a beat-up 1988 Mercedes to North Africa.

New York: Soho Press, 1996 1st ed. 282pp. hardback sm 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Van de Wetering's (1931-2008) 13th novel in the Amsterdam Cops series.

New York: Soho, 1996 reprint. 231pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. A Grijpstra-de Gier mystery by the Dutch writer van de Watering (1931-2008) that won the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1984.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970 1st ed. thus. 317pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A philosophical novel by the prolific South African writer van der Post (1906-96).

New York: William Morrow, 1997 1st Am. ed. 340pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [touch of foxing; else a nice crisp copy] An exceptional postwar memoir.

New York: Wm. Morrow. 1991 1st Am. ed. 255pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj [rem. stamp top edge; several pp. mid-text have turned corners; fore edge is slightly age foxed; else VG+] The "Blady" of the title was a beautiful Grand Prix show jumping horse discovered plowing a field in Provence who serves as "the symbol of the coherence of seemingly random events" in the life of Sir Laurens Van Der Post (1906-96).

New York: Knopf, 1990 1st ed. thus. 69pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Fine [light top & fore edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy] American poet Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004) won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1991 and was then appointed Poet Laureate of the United States.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on dedication p. & signed "Corinne." 232pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [bottom cover corner and bottom corners of about the first third of the book are all thumbed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A first novel about Italian art.

Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2004 1st ed. SIGNED by author. 196pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Lawndale, CA: A.D.G. Productions, 2003. 43pp. paperback folio: Fine. 66 instructional examples with audio CD.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1989 1st ed. 252pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [edges show foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Classic vignettes of mountaineering from writers as diverse as Italian POW Felice Beuzzi, photographer Galen Rowell, writer Joe McGinniss, naturalist John Muir, travel writer Eric Newby and Himalayan climbers Tenzing Norgay and Maurice Herzog, among many others.

Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley. 1947 4th ptg. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 81pp. illus. green cloth sm 4to w/silver pictorial Charleston decoration: Very Good in a tattered dj now stabilized in a Brodart poly cover [some foxing of top edge and endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A Charleston memoir illustrated with sketches by the author, Charleston artist Verner (1883-1979), originally published in 1941.

Paris: Albin Michel, 1988. unpaginated illus. hardback 4to in pictorial boards: near Fine/no dj [bit of foxing to edges; else a nice crisp copy] A risque French comic.

North Prairie, WI: Laikituk Creek Publishing. 2008 1st ed. SIGNED by author on ffep under "Big dreams are the best secrets!" 115pp. pictorial hardback 8vo: Fine/no dj.

New York: Random House, 1976 reprint. 364pp. navy cloth tall 8vo: Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [ink gift inscription ffep; red crayon doodle ffep; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = edge tears; now protected in poly cover] Historical fiction in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.