Search Results: Authors starting with V from Graver & Pen Rare Books

London: John Murray, 1918. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Donald I. Fine Books, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket cover states "Special Advance Reader's Edition-Not for Resale. "

Stichting Kunstboek, 1998. Illustrated. . Trade paperback. Very Good/No dust jacket. Near fine, clean copy. Text in Dutch, English. Trade paperback, large.

New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition with A on copyright page, with first issue "1930" only on the copyright page.

New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket not price clippped. No signatures or bookplates to book xii, 328 p. illus., plans (1 fold. ) 20 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plans. jacket with chipping at spine head affecting about half the H and E of "The" of title. First edition with A on copyright page

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY THE AUTHOR. Full page original illustration in black ink by the author on the front free endpaper showing a man fishing, and with the caption "The Hand-Catching a Fish (or not). " A unique copy by this Newberry Award-winning author.

New York: Fantasy, 1948. First edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Condition and dates vary. Three in jacket. Quest for future a first wit "43 L" on page 279, very good in like jacket, with an inscription by author to former owner. Price clipped; Out of the Unknown, in jacket, a stated second edition, also signed; Weapons makers a first revised edition thus, signed, in jacket. Book of Ptath a stated first edition, 1947, no jacket. Destination Universe no statement of printing, printing unknown, no dj. Sold together, shipped inside USA only.

1931. First edition. . Hardcover. Poor/Poor. Poor in poor dust jacket. null Free endpaper with presentation inscription from the author dated 1931, but book book with spotting, loss to front edges of boards, in a badly worn and chipped dust jacket.

Grange Books, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Great Masters. Audience: General/trade. null

Harper, 1935. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dust jacket. null Novel of isolation and drama in the far North, stated first edition. Old top to top edge of jacket at spine head; also, front flap detached, loosely set in.

Chicago: Donnelly, Loyd and Co, 1876. 1st thus . Hardcover. Fine. First combined edition of two of Verne's most famous tales. Near fine, with only modest wear to edges. Green cloth, gilt.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low Searle & Rivington, 1887. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, in the cheaper plain cloth variant (gilt illustrated cover cost extra, as per ads at back). One of the scarcer Verne books, in variant binding. Former owner inscription on front endpaper; minor expert reinforcement to spine head.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1874. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Very good. No dust jacket. null 1st U.S. edition, first issue with ads for two title on verso of title page. Very good in original green cloth. Spine gilt and color still bright, slight wear at spine ends and corners. Nearly invisible expert reinforcement to spine tips, front hinge. Former owner bookplate. A handsome copy.

Philadelphia: John Sartain, 1852. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Binding poor - needs new cover. Textblock basically sound (last page loose but present). Pages generally good to very good. Contains on page 385 Verne's Voyage in a Balloon, thought to be the first printing of Verne's to appear in the United States. This is volume 10 only, including the issues from January to June.

Thomas B Reel Co, 1992. Hardcover. As New/3. Printed in a limited edition of about 900 copies, this copy new in original shrink wrap.

Small-Arms Technical Publishing, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Clean, tight book, in ratty, torn dust jacket.

New York: The Home Journal, 1849. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Six weekly newspapers, all folded naturally into quarters, never bound, condition varies, good to very good. Issues are January 1, 6 (two copies), 13, 27 and February 3. An example of the early fiction of this prolific author, famous for being the first woman to write a detective novel. According to Wikisource Women of the Century: The serial, "The Tempter," a sequel to "The Wandering Jew," published in the " Home Journal," created a derided literary sensation, and the identity of the writer was then first established. Home Journal editor N. P. Willis is said to have paid Fuller only in excessive praise, but otherwise not a penny. Here, in all, are five installments of this work, of a possible six (Jan. 21 not present; Jan 1 Feb. 3 appears to be the final installment, there being none in the Feb. 10 issue, not included here. Jan. 1 may or may not be the first installment, was… Read More

London: Dakers, 1944. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dust jacket. null Psychic visions of Atlantis, very rare in first printing in jacket. Book is very good. Jacket has about a quarter inch chipping to spine ends. Not price clipped.

Marseille: Rivages, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. null Text in French. 127 p. : ill. (some col. ); 24 x 27 cm. Includes Illustrations. blank first page missing, else about fine in like jacket.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Very good. No dust jacket. null Limited edition, no. 445 of 1500 copies. Signed by Illustrator Vertes. Translation by C. S. Calverley. Bound in pictorial tan silk. Without original slipcase. The rear pastedown endpaper has signs of nameplate removal, else near fine.