Search Results: Authors starting with V from Fine Editions Ltd

London: Elliott Stock, 1879. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, front cover decorated and lettered in black. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, the plates in fine condition. Not in Margolis & Moss. Van Gruisen and a friend toured the coast on the Danish steamer Phoenix, occasionally traveling inland on horseback, observing wildlife, landscapes, and living conditions. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum]: Apud Joannem Le Clerc, 1707. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine-. 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary to publication, covers framed in blind with gilt-stamped coat-of-arms on both, spine in six compartments richly gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, marbled end papers. About Fine, joints skillfully reinforced; clean, well-margined leaves with occasional mild foxing and edge stains; most plates with faint tide mark to upper edge. Huzard II 944. Thiébaud 917-918. Schwerdt II, p. 278-79. First Edition (according to Schwerdt, but Thiébaud calls the Paris edition of 1696, which is "fort rare," the "Édition originale") of this didactic poem in ten books praising the pleasures of life in the countryside. Vanière instructs on the art of gardening while inspiring, in picturesque… Read More

Bruxellis [Brussels]: Apud Franciscvm Foppens, 1682. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Near Fine+. First of the Brussels Foppens editions of Veen's enduringly popular "Emblems from Horace" (principally from the Odes and Satires), a classic of emblematic literature. 4to: [8],205,[3]pp, with full-page engraved coat-of-arms, portrait of "Octavio Vaenius," and 103 engraved emblems with mottoes in Latin and stanzas in French below each plate and verses in Latin, Italian, Dutch and French on verso of preceding plate. Contemporary sprinkled calf, very skillfully rebacked, spine in six compartments between raised bands with central printer's ornament in blind, recent blue morocco lettering piece gilt, title page in red and black with portrait medallion. Provenance: Crawfurd Antrobus (armorial book plate on front paste-down). An excellent, well-margined copy with several old well-executed paper repairs to short closed tears, mostly marginal; few marginal stains, else clean, fresh, and bright, plates in deep, rich… Read More

Paris: Paul Rosenberg Éditeur, 21, rue La Boétie, 1936. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition of the first catalogue raisonné of works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, complete in two volumes. Inscribed by Venturi and numbered XV (probably one of an unspecified number of copies reserved for the author, separate from the edition of 1000 copies). Thick royal 8vo (302 x 232mm): 407,[3]; [4],[2], with 406 full-page black-and-white plates on coated stock. Publisher's original textured stiff aquamarine wrappers lettered in saffron yellow, white spines titled in black, title pages in scarlet and black, edges uncut. Text in French. Inscribed and dated August 2, 1936 to first volume fly leaf, less than a month after publication, to Mme. Pellerin, probably the widow of Auguste Pellerin (1852-1929), one of the earliest and greatest collectors of Cézanne works (see below). A superb set (trivial edge wear; occasional light, erasable pencil notations to margins, chiefly check marks), tightly bound… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 255,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, in an illustrated dust jacket priced $3.00. Fine (former owner's name to corner of front paste-down) and unread, in a Fine jacket with briefest of wear to spine panel crown. Vidal's fifth novel, the story of the troubadour Blondel's search for Richard the Lionheart, kidnapped and held for ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade. From castle to castle, across the face of Europe, Blondel journeys, encountering giants and dragons and enchanted forests, as he follows the trail of his king. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar, 1696. Second Edition. Vellum. Fine. Second Edition of this work on the ancient synagogue and development of the early Church. Complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound in one. Small 4to (194 x 156mm): [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38]pp, with identical additional engraved title pages showing Jews before a temple and signed "J. Goeree delin. / J. Mulder sculp" to both parts and woodcut headpieces, initials, and ornaments. Contemporary vellum, edges stained red, manuscript title to head of spine in early hand. Title pages printed in red and black, with woodcut printer's device bearing motto "Ego Iehoua vocauite iuste," the title page to the second part reading "Campegii Vitringa De synagoga vetere liber tertius: quo rectores & ministri synagogarum conferuntur cum praepositis & diaconis ecclesiae Christianae pars II." Bookseller's ticket to front… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of Vonnegut's sixth book. 8vo: 217,[1]pp. Publisher's maroon cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained rose pink; illustrated dust jacket by Jonathan Miller, priced 21s, printed in purple, pink, and black. Top stain a bit faded and dust-soiled, but an exemplary example, square, tight, clean, and bright (probably unread). Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz and Klinkowitz AF8. Currey, p. 503. "Most of Vonnegut's important themes are to be found in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which ranks among his top three or four novels. (Mr. Rosewater is also significant because it marks the first appearance of Kilgore Trout, the recurring character who is one of Vonnegut's most popular creations.) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, like Slaughterhouse-Five, despite its pervasive, often flippant, humor, attains to an almost Dostoevskian understanding of the suffering of humanity and the necessity of realizing… Read More