Search Results: Authors starting with V from Pages Past Books

VG some light surface wear many photos color and b+w Art Lys Versailles 1994 softcover 4to, 80pp, A photographic trip to Giverny, where Monet painted many of his greatest works. Includes side-by-side photos and repr 's works and settings, including the grounds and furnishings of Giverny. Also includes information on the Claude Monet Foundation.

VG condition hardcover 12mo, 32 pages, photo frontis, gilt cover titling. Collection of poems published posthumously with a foreword dated 1916 from Greenville, New York. A little browning inside covers. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Frontis photo shows author in 1912 photo from the Vassarion. Poems are mostly of an inspirational, devotional and religious nature.

VG+/no Dustjackets as issued, no dj History University of State of NY Albany 1920 1st (scarce) Hardbound 8vo, 326 + 336 pp, indexed Important record of early Dutch New York inlcuding Indian negotiations, land settlements etc. Light extremity rubbing only; clean and solid with bright gilt spine titling.

VG/G+ illus by author Dodd, Mead & Co NY 1943 1st hardcover 8vo, 106 pages, color and b+w illustrations, review copy. Review copy with slip tipped on to front endpaper. Dustjacket with light extremity wear and shallow chipping at spine ends. Solid and clean with dj bright in protective cover.

VG/G condition Walter D. Osborne photos Grosset & Dunlap NY 1973 reprint hardcover 8vo, 125 pages, b+w photos by Osborne, index. Complete guide for the new or potential horse owner. Dustjacket with long closed tear at rear, 1" closed tear at top front and chip at spine head, but respectable in Brodart protective cover.

Good+ D Appleton & Co NY 1885 1st hardcover 8vo, 414 pages + ads, decorated cover and spine. Wright 5662, a novel of religion and business. Name pencilled on front endpaper. Light cover rubbing; otherwise clean and solid.

VG/VG photos by author JB Lippincott Philadelphia 1966 1st hardcover Large 8vo, 163 pages, many b+w photos, index, bibliography. Dustjacket price clipped with light extremity rubbing. Solid and clean.

Fine/Fine Longmeadow Press Stamford 1992 1st US hardcover 4to, 144 pages, color and b+w photos, index, foreword by George Strait.

X-Lib with minimal markings; o/w Good+, no dj's Various illustrators Exploration Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1892, 94, 95 Early editions Hardbound 8vo, 432 409 378 pp, many maps & illustrations, gilt spine titling & decoration Each bound in red cloth with black border decoration and titling, gilt spine titling and decoration. Illustrations by L. Bennett, P. Philippoteaux, Matthis, many facsimile drawings and maps. X-Lib with small stamp on one internal page of each book and faded stamp on front endpaper of Navigators. Inside rear covers have light paper remains at extremities. Explorers has faint old dampstaining at bottom page edge of some end pages and inside rear cover. The red cloth has bled onto the inside front cover' s edge and the outer edge of the endpapers of the Navigators book. The covers have light soiling, rubbing and extremity wear with cloth worn through at tips; the spines are worn at the heads with fraying and shallow chipping; the spine cloth is dulled. The… Read More

Good+ condition Harry Coultaus illus Frederick A Stokes NY (1920) 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 330 pages, b+w illustrations by Coultaus, color paste on pictorial cover. Peter's adventures from "the spider's parlor to the digger wasp's den. " Nice color paste on pictorial cover showing spider's web surrounded by flowers and bugs with boy and spider in middle. Light extremity wear with 3/16" closed tear to cloth at spine head, some fraying at upper right front corner. Spine and cover titling are rubbed but readable. Solid copy.

Near Fine/VG+ illus by author Harper & Row NY 1984 1st hardcover 8vo, 112 pages, b+w illustrations, signed. Story of a friendship between a young German girl and a Russian soldier trapped in Germany after World War I. Signed presentation copy from the author to illustrator Dirk Zimmer (in pencil on dedication page. ) Laid in is a handwritten note from the author to Zimmer and a photocopy of an autobiography and interview article on Vogel. Dustjacket price clipped with very light edgewear. Clean solid and bright.