Search Results: Authors starting with V from Grampy's Bookcase

173 pp. Only defects in the text are a highlighted section on pp 12-13 concerning the Spencer carbine rifle and a smudge on the top of p.12. The previous owner's name, an address label, and an inscription are on the inside front cover. Otherwise, the book and DJ are in fine condition. Two hundred illustrations included.

190 pp. Clean and unmarked text. Covers are lightly smudged with a faded spine. Frontispiece photo of Stalin included. "The articles collected in this book were written by Joseph Stalin's closest co-workers for the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, December 21, 1939."

268 pp. In as new condition. Full page color plates and two CDs included. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Benjamin Patterson: Born in the state of Flux/us', organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top text block. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. Plastic cover has been taped to the inside bindings leaving tape stains on the opposite pages. From the front DJ flap, "Mr. Vallins combines profound learning with lucid exposition...He quotes entertainingly from the prescriptive grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he sets their views against those of present-day linguists with their more liberal notions of acceptability and usage."

192 pp. Text is clean and unmarked other than some foxing. Covers are tight but faded. Frontispiece portrait included. The book is in good condition for its age. "In each aspect of his life Zwingli presents a bold and striking figure...from the study of which, they can gain inspiration for future effort." p. 3.

50 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Foxing present on the inside covers. Author's signature and inscription on the front free end paper. Top of front cover and DJ is sun-toned. DJ has a closed tear on the front top edge and minor wear along the top back edge. From the Foreword written by Wilbur L. Caswell, "This book endeavors to present the Gospel of the eternal Humanist and Secularist, which God is."

Text is clean and u unmarked in a tight binding. Binding is smudged with a faded spine. Glue residue is present on the inside front and back bindings. previous owner's name is on the front free end paper. Stated first edition.

Bright and colorful unused volume. Full page illustrations. DJ is in "As New Condition". From the front DJ flap, "Sheep wants to make a special gift for her best friend. When her wool is long enough, she rides her moped to buy some red dye, then dyes her wool and shaves it off. Then she puts on a warm sweater and takes the wool to Poodle, who spins it into yarn. A long project begins. What is Sheep making? And who is the surprise for?"

Clean and unmarked text in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Full page color and black and white plates. "Published on the occasion of the first museum survey of artist and filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston". Appears as an unread copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Outer edges of the text block are age toned. Covers have slight wear n the outer edges. Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "Political frustration transformed Watson...from liberal to racial bigot and from popular spokesman to mob leader. In this biography, through careful study of public and private writings, and through objective and tolerant exposition, Mr. Woodward has attempted to solve the enigma of this man who did much to alter his times and who was, in turn, altered by them."

267 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Book is slightly cocked with a dip and worn places in the spine.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Text block has gilt sides. Gilt lettering is bright and unmarred. Green cloth bookmark is attached.

447 pp. Previous owner's name is written on the top outside corner of the half-title page. Very slight crease on the front cover. The text is clean and unmarked. Book is tight and square. Appears unread.

326 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight binding. Only DJ defect is very light smudging on the back through shelf wear. Previous owner's name is written on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. From the front DJ flap, "By uncovering new data and reinterpreting old, the contributors to this volume debunk some of the myths surrounding the Victorian woman and alter stereotypes on which many of today's oppressive social customs are based."

371 pp. Underlined texts throughout. Volume is solid with intact and square covers. Mild wear at the spine. Previous owner's name on the outside top corner of the front free endpaper. "I have tried to show that Wagnerian romanticism is the most important single fountainhead of Nazi ideas and ideals. How appropriate...in his best and sanest moments, damned the Nazis in advance. In those inspired moments Wagner warned that Germany would some day sacrifice all her best qualities of wisdom, art, science, and peace for the sake of ruling the world by military power." p. 315.

591 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Black and white photos throughout. DJ has very little wear around the outside edges.

268 pp. Previous owner signed his name across the front inside covers. A newspaper review of this book from the Baltimore Sun dated May 6th, 1973 is taped to the front free paper. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ is bright and unmarked.

383 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in bright, square and tight covers. Volume appears unused. Spine is not creased. Very slight wear along the edges of the spine. General von Mellenthin, who saw action in every theater of the European war from 1939 to 1945, follows the panzer armies through Poland, France, the Balkans, across the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastes of Russia, to the final catastrophe on the Western front.

488 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Library stamps are on the outside edges of the text block. Plastic cover edges have been taped over the DJ and covers leaving a tape stain line on the front free end paper. The protected DJ is in fine condition.

505 pp. Frontispiece portrait included. Clean and unmarked text. Binding is tight and square. Top and bottom edges of text block have light dirt scuffing.