Search Results: Authors starting with V from Parnassus Book Service

NY: Ballantine Books., 1969. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. 160pp. Illus. Stiff soft-cover. Light shelf wear to covers, else a very good, clean copy.

As New. 211pp. Illus. *An excellent copy. S057. RUSSIA/SOVIET, TOURISM, YALTA, GUIDE BOOK

Chicago:Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1907. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Chicago:Charles H. Kerr and Company. 1907. 179pp+8pp ads. Hardcover. Green boards shelf-worn and soiled. Edge points bumped. Page edges soiled. Internally, bookseller ticket to inside lower edge of 1st free endpage with no other owners marks or signatures found. Pages age-toned but still very good condition. Last few pages have lower edges turned, as a binding error has pages slightly larger than others. A near very good, solid copy. 

Cambridge:Harvard University Press., 1990. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge:harvard University Press. 1990. 388pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is only lightly worn with just a touch of sunning and a stray pen mark on the spine. Binding is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of any stray markings whatsoever. Overall, this is a very good, near fine copy.

Montevideo:(Instituto Historica y Geografico del Uruguay), 1965. First Edition. soft cover. Good/No jacket. Montevideo:(Instituto Historica y Geografico del Uruguay). 1965. 300pp. Illustrated. Softcover. Covers are worna nd frayed at the edges with several small chips and tears. Otherwise in good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy. FB009

New York:Stackpole Sons, 1936. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/03/0_img_7291.jpg. New York:Stackpole Sons. 1936. 1st edition. 199pp. Illustrated by George M. Sutton. Hardcover. Review copy, with review slip still attached to 1st free end page. Boards soiled and rubbed, with title on front cover quite dulled, but brighter on spine. Edges, spine ends and edge points gently worn. Internally end-pages slightly age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.

New York:Columbia University Press, 1940. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/Poor. New York:Columbia University Press. 1940. (xiii)+304pp.With frontispiece. Hardcover.  Green boards slightly worn at spine ends. Label on spine strip soiled and starting to seperate from board at upper left corner. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures.  A very good, clean copy, inside and out.

Mockba, 1917. First Edition. soft cover. Fair/No jacket. Mockba. 1917. 95pp. Wrps. Edges and spine brittle and frayed; pages browned with age. Some pencil marking to margins and two marker lines on page 1.

Lawrence, Kansas:University of Kansas Publications, 1961. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Lawrence, Kansas:University of Kansas Publications. 1961. 76pp, Illustrated in color and black/white. Hardcover. In very good, clean condition.

New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. (1979). 1st edition, stated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good, clean condition, free of previous owners marks or signatures but ligthtly soiled along top page edges. The dust jacket is in very good condition, not price clipped, but with old damp stains to the bottom and top of the spine strip.  *"In this second book of fiction Luisa Valenzuela propels the reader on a shattering journey from the cafes of Buenos Aires to a house of prostitution in Barcelona, from the sinister corrridors of the Ministry of the Interior to a lonely table of torture. Here is modern Argentina - the site of strange happenings - absurd violence, political repression, bizarre personal relationships."...dj.

Boston:J.P. Mendum., 1870. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:J.P. Mendum. 1884. 192pp. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. Library bookplate pasted-down inside of front cover. Internally a very good to fine tight copy. Externally gilt lettering on spine and again on embossed illustration of front binding. Some ink drops on binding and light rubbing at corners, otherwise a very clean binding. FB019

Ediciones Llama, 1943. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Mexico: Ediciones Llama. (1943). 62 pp. First edition. Wraps. Glassine wrapper darkened with age and chipped at edges. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though pages are beginning to show some signs of aging with light foxing throughout. All in all a very good copy.

hard cover. Fine/Very Good. 198pp. Illus. With dust jacket. An excellent copy. S021; (A005).

New York:Reynal & Hitchcock, (1937). hard cover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by author. New York:Reynal & Hitchcock. (1937). 119pp. Illustrated by Bernadine Custer. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Red boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine dulled and page edges soiled.  Internally clean with an Author inscription to the 1st free end-page, but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is still in one piece, with price intact, but soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and folds. 

NY:John Day Company. (1941). 344pp. Illus. With dust jacket. Except for a Christmas gift note on half-title page, an excellent copy.

New York:Union Publishing House, 1884. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Union Publishing House. 1884. 1st edition, sold by subscriptin only. 512pp. Profusely Illustrated. Hardcover.  Green boards, decorated in black and gilt, lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with gilt still bright, but wornalong edges, spine ends and edge points. All edges gilt, with some scratches. Internally free of previous owners marks or signatures, but with occasional smudges scattered throughout. The binding is tight with hinges intact, but cracked between 2-3 end-pages, Overall a very good copy.

Walter H. Baker Co., 1925. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good. Boston: Walter H. Baker Company. (1925). 16 pp. Wraps. Wraps are clean with only some light fading on the bottom of the front wrap and what looks to be a very faint water marking down the spine which does not affect the interior. Inside is clean with no errant markings, though pages are showing some age. A very good copy.

New York:Thomas Seltzer, 1924. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/06/0_03659.jpg. New York:Thomas Seltzer. 1924. 69pp. Illustrated with woodcut b Charles Locke on title page. 1st edition. Hardcover. Grey boards lightly soiled with some edgewear and chipping to spine ends. Internally, age-toning to end-pages with a previous owners name inked to top of 1st free end-page. Otherwise pages clean. Top of page edges soiled from dust residue. *Author's first book of Poetry, later winning the Pullitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems in 1940.

New York:The Viking Press, 1948. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/01/0_img_1861.jpg. Signed by authors. New York:The Viking Press. 1948. 1st limited edtion, No. 367 of 380 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page.  xiii+338pp. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Beige boards soiled with spine strip darkened, and light wear to edges and edge points. Internally, end pages age toned with a previous owners name inked to top of 1st free end-page. Otherwise pages clean and bright. The binding is tight and  hinges intact. There is no slipcase. 

New York:Hill and Wang, (1969). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_6890.jpg. Inscribed by author. New York:Hill and Wang. (1969). 1st edition. 81pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Signed, inscribed copy, signed by Author on 1st free endpage, and dated July 22,1969.  Blue boards very slightly soiled with gilt on front cover and spine still bright. Top page edges blue, but fore-edges and bottom edges soiled with dust residue.  Internally, aside from inscription, pages free of previous owners marks or signatures. Light foxing scattered throughout.  The dust jacket is is good condition, still in one piece, but soiled and shelfworn along edges and folds, with a hole along the lower spine strip, with remains of an old repair.