Search Results: Authors starting with V from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original burgundy cloth and very good, pictorial dust jacket, with fingernail sized scrape on front panel. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. Thin, oblong quarto. 11.75 x 9.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated in color. Overall, a great copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Very good in a very good dustjacket. Burgundy cloth richly colored, with quarter sized stain on rear lower edge and a few spots. Dustjacket with small chip at spine head, closed tear on front cover, and wear and spotting along the front top edge. Thin, oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Overall, a nice copy of this Caldecott Medal winner.

First Edition, First Printing of Chris Van Allsburg's scarce first book. (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1979). A Caldecott Honor book for 1980. Fine in a fine dust jacket, presents almost as new. Profusely illustrated throughout by Van Allsburg.

A wonderful story about a young boy named Alan who, while looking for his dog, Fritz, stumbles in the garden of Abdul, a somewhat sinister retired magician. And thus begins Alan's adventures! Illustrated with beautiful and captivating full page illustrations by Van Allsburg in black and white. Oblong Quarto. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. 32 pp. A lovely copy of the renowned Van Allsburg's first book.

Fine in a fine dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original light cream cloth, blind-stamped central vignette. Gilt lettering o the spine bright. In publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Navy endpapers. No sunning or fading, jacket and internal content fine, clean and bright.

First Edition thus. Deluxe Easton Press Edition (Connecticut, 2016). Signed by Van Allsburg. New; sealed in original shrink wrap. Fine in green leather with gold accents on cover and spine, All edges gilt; with green satin bookmark ribbon. Includes a CD of the book read by the late Robin Williams. 8vo. A fantastic collector's or gift book of this Caldecott Medal winner and timeless classic!

First Edition, First Printing. Good in original navy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Large folding map included at rear. Ex-library, with usual markings. Spine heavily sunned, spotting to edges of pages and text block; corners bumped, especially lower top corner. Octavo. 6.75 x 9.75 in. xxv + [i], 248 pp.

First American Edition, First Printing. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Near fine in original black cloth and very good pictorial dust jacket, with light scratch-like impression marks on the front and rear panels. Octavo. 15 x 21.5 cm. 601 pp. Overall, a very nice copy of this classic classic from this prolific Nobel Prize winning author.

First US Edition, First Printing. Signed by LLosa on the title page. The author's seventh novel and one his finest achievements. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. In "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta," Llosa presents an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary, in the form of an account by a former friend. Through this prism, the novel examines the long, violent, and painful history of Latin-American politics. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with only a tiny closed tear on the top edge. A lovely copy of this Nobel Prize winning author for Literature, and one of the most renowned of his generation.

First US Edition. Signed by Llosa on the title page. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Fine in a fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), a bit toned on the flaps. Fine black cloth with yellow paper-covered boards. Square and firmly bound.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this book we have Llosa's take on the backland uprisings in Brazil. Considered by many to be his masterpiece and boldly stated on the jacket, "To compare The War of the End of the World with the great historical novels of a Tolstoy or a Stedhal is no hyperbole." A beautiful copy of this Vargas classic.

First Edition, from a limited edition of 780 copies. Warmly inscribed by Robert Vavra in 1973 on title page. Fascinated by bullfighting on Mexico, Varva moved to Spain in 1958 and immersed himself in the bull fighting life, spending six years studying (and photographing) the national past time, which culminated in this famous work. Introduction by James Michener. Printed and bound in Spain. Near fine in original black cloth with design and lettering in gilt, spine a touch faded, and near fine in wonderful pictorial publisher's slipcase. Quarto. 11.25 x 11.25 in. 274 pp. A wonderful copy.

First Trade Edition, First Printing. Scarce history of the renowned James Veitch and Sons Nurseries. Illustrated with 50 beautiful black-and-white plates, many full page. Front and rear endpapers browned, occasional light spotting in the text, else a near fine copy in original maroon cloth ruled in blind on the covers and lettered in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Thick quarto. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 542 pp. A lovely copy.

First Edition thus. Fine in original green cloth and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Barry Moser on the title page. Full page color illustrations by Moser. Translated by George Makepeace Towle. Large octavo. 17.5 x 23.5 cm. 242 pp. A wonderful copy of this timeless classic.

First Softcover Edition. Fine. Signed by Vidal on the title page. 435 pages. Published in 1995, the author's debut memoir, and one of the greatest American memoirs of the 20th century. Occasionally illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of photographs. A lovely copy, rare thus.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Blue and yellow cloth bright and as new. Dust jacket with slight rubbing near top and tail of spine, else fine. In protective mylar. A wonderful copy that is rare in this condition.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. First Edition and instance of the author's play that was later made into the 1960 motion picture starring Jerry Lewis as Kreton. Book near fine in original orange and black cloth, very richly colored. Very good dust jacket with a bit of very mild water staining, light rubbing and a couple small chips. Octavo. 14 x 21 cm. xix; 278 pp. A wonderful signed copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Vidal's first book. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in blue, richly colored. Content internally fine. First state dust jacket is bright and in very good condition for age, only lightly rubbed at extremities with wrinkles and minor chips and top and tail of spine; endpapers unevenly tanned. An excellent copy of this amazing author's first book.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Used/Near Fine.

First Special Limited Edition. Signed by Gore Vidal. This being number 309 of 350 copies. Fine in a near fine publisher's slipcase. The novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and extends from the start of the American Civil War until his assassination. Rather than focus on the Civil War itself, the novel is centered on Lincoln's political and personal struggles. Though Lincoln is the focus, the book is never narrated from his point of view (with the exception of several paragraphs describing a dream Lincoln had shortly before his death); Vidal instead writes from the perspective of key historical figures. Vidal draws from contemporary diaries, memoirs, letters, newspaper accounts, the biographical writings of John Hay and John Nicolay (Lincoln's secretaries), and the work of modern historians. A fantastic copy of this Vidal classic.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A collection of essays in two parts: the first deals with fiction and the second one deals with politics and the world in general. Signed by Vidal on the half-title page. A beautiful copy!

First Edition, First Printing (precedes the American edition). Fine in a fine dust jacket. As new. Inscribed by Vollmann on the title page. His first novel. Octavo. A lovely copy.