Search Results: Authors starting with V from Alba's Books

New York: Doubleday Anchor Book, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Sextodecimo. Robert L. Kelley. A groundbreaking book on chemistry, in a paperback original. Beautifully illustrated. A clean, unmarked copy in a Mylar paperback sleeve.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ernest H. Shepard. With the GHD monogram on the copyright page, the letter 'B,' and in the original orange cloth with red titles and design and illustrated endpapers. Beautiful combination of Lucas' child verses with the artwork of the famed Winnie the Pooh artist.

New York: Dover Publications, 1965. First American Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Diagrams and charts. The first English translation of this important work in mathematics. Fine and unmarked but for minor fading of spine color, with title remaining bright and clear. Out of print.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. With the [1] on the last text page. Original purple cloth with gilt skeleton design. Name inked out at bottom of endpaper; bookstore stamp on free endpaper; else a fine, clean and unmarked copy in a very good dust jacket with the original $2.00 price, two very tiny corner chips, a narrow light red ink stain along the edge of the rear panel. and two cellotape repairs to the edge of the same. Protected by an archival plastic jacket cover. Uncommon thirties mystery.

Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Engravings. Second impression, in the same format and issued four months later. The definitive history of this famous Western railroad. Excellent bibliography. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has very moderate edge rubbing and nicking, else is bright, clean and whole, and protected by a Mylar plastic cover.

London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. First Edition-early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Translated by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell. A scarce compendium of Roumanian folk-lore, especially in this fine condition. Inserted is a letter to Marjorie Kimball of Evanston, a scholar in Roumanian studies at Northwestern University, with comments on the text.

London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. Ltd.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Translated by Carmen Silva and Alma Strettell. Undated, but in the style of the 1880's, with decorative spine and rough cut foreedges. Extremely scarce

Boston: W.A. Wilde, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Frank T. Merrill. Illustrated cloth cover. Out of print and scarce. Superb Merrill plates. Binding is cloth.

Detroit: Visible Ink, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A pioneering work that includes important biographical details and photos on every major Black writer and is of indispensable value to students of Black literature. With chronology, bibliography and index. A clean, unmarked, bright copy.

Reynal & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A clean, tight, unmarked copy from the library of Columbia College author/scholar and Story Workshop creator John Schultz.

Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Charts & Diagrams. Very scarce work in nuclear physics by a noted Yugoslavian physicist from Rice University. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Has all the first edition points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected by the Mylar plastic dust jacket cover.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Contains bookplate. Out of print. Illustrated with photo frontispiece. Binding is cloth boards.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965. Early Issue Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Same format as first issue. Binding is cloth.

Paris: Societe des Bibliophiles, 1903. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Leather dried and chipped at edges, but text and hinges are in very good shape. Marbled boards and endpapers.

Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Small chip to rear bottom edge of jacket, else a fine, unmarked and unclipped copy, attractive in the Brodart cover.

South Bend, IN: Regnery/Gateway, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto. Plate illustrations. A seminal work on the subject by an authority at the Instituto Cajal, Madrid. A clean, unmarked copy with price clipped.

London: George Harrap, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Fine/Near fine (prcie clipped). In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.