Search Results: Titles starting with B from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Penn Publishing, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Without dust jacket. Quarto, 11" tall, 337 pages + 40 Illustrated plates ( all present ), gilt decorates, titles and top fore-edge, brown cloth. A good plus, clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear, back strip cloth over spine fraying at top and bottom edges; fore-corner tips rubbed; gilt decorations slightly fading on spine, cover decorations bright; hinges broken, internal binding sound, paper light to moderately yellowed

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 343 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with original price present.

Longmans, Green, and Co. London, 1890. Third edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket (if issue. Sold as a good reading copy only due to condition but also the scarcity of original editions. Octavo, 7 5/8" tall, 426 pages, illustrated brown cloth. A good, original hardcover edition with shelf wear and fraying to the back strip at top and bottom of the spine, fore-corner tips through to boards paper moderately yellowed, with foxing to margins BUT binding broken signatures separated. Without dust jacket if issued.

Karl Baedeker: Leipsic/London, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. 16mo, 6 1/4" tall, 230 pages, marbled fore-edges, decorative orange (perhaps once red) cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First thus. Hardcover. Good minus. French text. Sold as a good reading copy only because of the difficult condition. 6 1/3" tall, xl + 563 pages, plus a 22-page 'Plans de Berlin'. Fold-out maps, flexible cloth. A good minus copy overall, spine cloth loose, faded, and frayed at the rear hinge, both hinges cracked, internal binding solid, printed map endpapers yellowed and becoming fragile, paper moderately yellowed and still supple; the Frontispiece map is torn out, all others appear to be present but many are tattered at the edges.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 216 pages, cream quarter cloth over beige boards. A near fine. clean hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket, with original price.

American Book Company: New York, 1897. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good minus/Without dust jacket, as issued. Octavo, 7 1/2” tall, 240 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, red titles on decorative gray cloth. A very good minus, otherwise generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear BUT soiling to the cloth of the spine; binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed with a public school stamp on the front endpaper for 1902 and light foxing or soiling to the fore-edge. Without dust jacket as issued.

American Book Company: New York, 1897. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good/Without dust jacket, if issued. Octavo, 7 1/2” tall, 160 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, red titles on decorative gray cloth. A very good minus, otherwise generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear BUT soiling to the cloth of the spine; binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket as issued.

American Book Company: New York, 1897. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good minus/Without dust jacket (as issued). Octavo, 7 1/2” tall, 160 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, red titles on decorative gray cloth. A very good minus, otherwise generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear BUT soiling to the cloth of the spine; binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket as issued.

G.P. Putnam's Sons; NY, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. An uncommon title offered despite its external flaws. Octavo, 8 2/3" tall, viii + 85 pages, black quarter-cloth over pale orange board. A good copy overall, with moderate finger soiling primarily to the cover fore-edge margin, rubbing to the spine cloth edges top and bottom, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without a dust jacket.

New York, New York: Kamin Publishers, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 9 1/3" tall, 47 pages with intertextual illustration, illustrated endpapers, gilt title label on spine and cover, green cloth. A good plus, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition over all with moderate shelf wear, but the green of the cover cloth has faded at the margins, fraying started at the top and bottom edges of the spine, one fore-corner tip rubbed through to boards; binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket

Munchen: Carl Hanser, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Single volume. Text in German. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 855 pages, black cloth. A near fine hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white BUT a private ex-library stamp on the copyright page, rear free endpaper shows remnants of a pastdown, perhaps library pocket. In a near fine dust jacket. Articles on poetry, drama, and literature of Germany by various authors.Band 12. HANSERS SOZIALGESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR, VOM 16 Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart: Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1968.

Munchen, Germany: Carl Hanser, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Single volume. Text in German. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 776 pages, black cloth. A near fine hardcover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. Several small pieces of tape on the endpapers front and back remain from a formerly attached dustjacket protector. In a near-fine dust jacket. Articles on poetry, drama, and literature of Germany by various authors. Postage overseas may be prohibitive.

New York, New York: Pantheon: NY, 2004. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by the author (first name) on the title page and inscribed to the previous owner. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 305 pages, black and orange boards. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: Trident Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 160 pages, black quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+ dust jacket with some darkening along the back strip, slight soiling to rear panel, minor edge wear, with original price.

New York, New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 266 pages, brown and tan boards. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.

New York, New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover--paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 291 pages, blue boards with gilt titles; publisher's review slip laid in. A fine, clean, unread, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Aspen, Colorado: MacMurray & Beck, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 267 pages, review slip laid in. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, pages white. In a fine dust jacket with original price.

Boston, Massachusetts: Richard G. Badger, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 160 pages, red cloth with gilt titles. Four B&W plates by P.O. Palmstrom. A very good minus, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear and slight soiling to the cover cloth, gilt titles on front panel bright, fading at the back strip, bumping to one corner, hinges and binding solid with a minor separation between two signatures, paper moderately yellowed (the minus is for the degree of yellowing). Lacking dust jacket. Author a former Athletic Coach at Phillips Exeter Academy and U.S. Navy Olympic Team, author of 'The Boat of Gaeta.' A rare title.

Self Published, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 2 vols. Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 1: x + pages 1 to 151 + viii; 2: viii + pages 153 to 397 + x with intertextual color photographs throughout; stiff color photo-illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover pair with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white but two small penned numbers on the front endpapers. Because of the larger size and weight, these volumes will require some additional postage.