Search Results: Authors starting with V from First Folio

New York: Ocatgon Books, 1970. About fine. xii (ii), 492p. Gilt-titled black cloth. Comprises three lectures and the bibliography of 1300 items from 1542-1800 and is "a selection of works written by those living on the frontier..., stories of Indian captivity and promotion tracts by agents for the sale of frontier lands..." (Sheehy DB136.).

Paris: Javal et Bordeaux, 1926. 1 of 300 (of a total edition of 500). Moderate foxing, heavy in a few places, mild rubbing to covers. 1 of 300 (of a total edition of 500). Quarto. [x], 123p. Illustrated with beautiful wood engravings by Camille Beltrand, printed in colors. Each page with architectural borders in color. Bound by Flammarion in half dark blue crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt tiles and triple rules around the panels, original wrappers bound in. Valery's dialogue on architecture between Socrates and Phedre.

Oxford: Editions du Sagittaire (and N.R.F.), 1930. First edition. No. 70 of 150 copies on Arches paper (total edition of 1225 copies). Printed by Maurice Darantiere. Spines evenly faded to mellow brown and with minor rubbed spots, all quite sound and presentable, contents fine. First edition. No. 70 of 150 copies on Arches paper (total edition of 1225 copies). Printed by Maurice Darantiere. Eight volumes. Quarto. L'Ame et la Danse, Eupalinos of l'Architecte, Paradoxe sur l'Architecte (1931); Monsieur Teste, La Soiree, Lettre d'Emilie, Le Log-Book Quelques Epitres (1931), Variete, premier volume (1934); Variete, deuxiene volume (1937); Discours (1935); L'Idee Fixe, Socrate et son Medicin (1936); Pieces sur l'Art (1938); Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci (1938). Bound by Minos, Paris in 3/4 green morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and gilt floral decorations with onlays, original wrappers bound in. Later expanded to 12 volumes. Most libraries searched… Read More

London - Paris: The Author, 1948. First edition. Small bump to lower front corner, else fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Quarto. Written and illustrated by the author. A series of 35 full-page illustrations in black and white with brief comment en face to chronicle a city girl's visit to the country, all in Valira's unique comic style. Bound in color-printed boards.

New York: Scribner's, 1910. A little wear to the white flower petals, else fine. [xii], 322p. Illustrated. Bound in dark blue cloth, t.e.g., the spine and upper cover designed by Margaret Armstrong in gilt, green, blue and white flowers. Gullans / Espey no. 283.

New York: Van Evrie, Horton, 1861. Overall rubbing and soil, spine ends frayed, spine title hard to read, good. xvi, 339p. Embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Blockson 9780 for 1863 ed: Work p. 316 states first edition was 1853 in only 32 pages.

Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1924. Foxing to endpapers, wrappers with wear and minor chips, contents very good+. (vi), 24p. Illustrated with wood engravings by H. Pepler and David Jones. In sewn brown wrappers, the upper cover with red titles and and large wood engraving.

Paris, 1957. Limited to 150 copies, this no. 16. Paper sides rubbed, all else fine. Limited to 150 copies, this no. 16. 32p. Tall 8vo. Engraved vignette on title page. Introductory note by Tony Vibraye. The texts are excerpted from Bulletin of the Society of Avallon. Bound in quarter dark blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine title and marbled endpapers. Inscribed and signed on the half title and on the colophon by Tony Vibraye.

Philadelphia Printed. York: Re-Printed, With Additions, &c. for W. Alexander, 1817. Rebacked with original spine laid down, contents clean and tight. [iv], 156p. Frontispiece. Phillips/Fothergill: London: W. Phillips, 1803. viii, 195p, 1p ads. Two volumes bound together with gilt-titled calf spine over marbled boards. Sabin 98704; Blockson 10431 for American edition of Vaux.

London: W. S. Orr & Co, 1852. Overall wear and soil with darkened edges, the cover gilt bright, front inner hinge paper cracked, binding secure, plates bright and clean. Quarto. xiv, 76p. Illustrated by Gustav Canton of Munich and Dusseldorf with 10 animal tail-pieces, one text illustration and 15 fine full-page tinted lithographs, including portrait frontispiece and decorated title page, by Schenck & McFarlane lithographers, Edinburgh. Bound in the original publisher's full blue ribbed cloth, a.e.g., the upper cover with stylized gilt titles and vignette, the design repeated on the lower cover in blind.

Leipsig: Ioh, Lvd. Gleditschii & M. G. Weudmanni, 1712. Two pages of the preface with ink spots, remainder of text midly age toned, clean and complete. Vellum moderately aged and spotted. Quite sound. 12m0. Frontispiece (x), 112p, (viii, excerpta), 450p (Liber I & II), 108p (indices). Bound in contemporary yapp vellum with author's name in manuscript on the spine.

London: J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, T. Ward, and T. Osborne, 1729. Old wear and minor cracking, some browning, but all quite sound. Front and rear pastedowns with residue from removal of bookplates (?).. (viii), 298p, (72p). Two head-pieces, one cul-de-lampe. Bound in full calf with spine label gilt, the covers with double fillet borders and repeating floral border in blind.

Barcelona: Ediciones Nauta, S.A., 1965. Fine. Quarto. 154p. Prolog by Gregorio Maranon. Color illustrations by A. Olle Pinell. Bound in citron embossed imitation leather with title and ship design in gilt.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First edition. Tissue guard torn, small tear to half title, all else VG+,. First edition. xiv, 738p. Illustrated. Gilt-titled brown cloth. Howes V102, Work 306.

San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1927. No. 70 of 200 copies. Contents bright and fine, the vellum with light soil and a few spots, some warping to the vellum, ribbon tie perrished. No. 70 of 200 copies. Unpaged. 38p. Beautifully printed by the Brothers Johnson in black, blue and red. Illustrated by Julian A. Links with two large hand-colored blocks. Bound in yapped vellum with gilt fleur-de-lis on upper cover.

Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1916. Fourth edition limited to 725 copies. Fine. Fourth edition limited to 725 copies. 8vo. xviii, 258p, (ii), (ix, facsimiles). Frontispiece portrait of John Payne. Bound by Bedford, Boston in half golden brown morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., gilt spine title and panel ornaments. This copy presented as an award book to Hester Hastiago (?) of 1931 for the Lida Shaw King Prize, signed by Clarence A. Barbour, President of Brown University and Margaret (?) Thorn Morriss, Dean of Pembroke College. Bishop 303.

Paris: Morel, 1875. First edition. Endpapers chipped, preliminaries dusty, binding with wear, but all quite strong and complete - plates fine. First edition. Two volumes. Large folio. [iv], 28p. Illustrated with 200 engraved plates of facades and floor plans. Volume I bound in quarter maroon morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., brown spine labels, gilt; volume II with the plates laid loose in fascicules in a red cloth portfolio with string ties.

New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.. Reprint of the 1843 edition. Fine but for spotting to top edge of text block. Reprint of the 1843 edition. Two volumes in one. 10p, 624p; Supplement 30p; xii, 252p. Publisher's gilt-titled maroon cloth.

Weimar: The Cranach Press, 1927. No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Occasional light spotting to the text, else fine with slight bumps to outer corners. No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Folio. 116p. Printed on Maillol-Kessler paper hand-made from pure hemp fibre and linen, and sold by Emery Walker. Eric Gill designed and cut the title and lettering around and fourteen initials ornamented by Maillol. With forty-three illustrations drawn and cut in wood by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Set by Erich Dressler and Walter Tanz in Jensen roman and Johnston italic. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with simple vertical gilt spine title of artist and author, t.e.g. (The binding is signed in blind on the rear turn-in which is hard to decipher, but we believe it to be W.L. Smith & Sons). The Book as a Work of Art, The Cranach press of Count Harry… Read More

London: Seeley & Company, 1883. No. 71 of 135 Large Paper copies. Foxed endpapers, the cover with moderate stains and soil, contents clean. Bookplate. No. 71 of 135 Large Paper copies. Folio. xv, 102p, the plates not included in the pagination. Illustrated with an original etching by Palmer and 4 original etchings begun by Palmer and finished by his son, A. H. Palmer, and with 9 facsimiles of Palmer drawings. Bound in full white publisher's parchment vellum, t.e.g., gilt spine titles, the cover with gilt titles and central vignette. Ray. Illustrator and the book in England 1790 to 1914. No. 222.