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

Scribner, 1997-01-06. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 231 pages, beige quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

US Government printing office; Washington D.C, 1893. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good minus. With ownership signature of astronomer Frank Washington Very on the cover and title pages. Text primarily in English. Quarto, 11 1/2" tall, vii + 529 pages (b&w illustrations) + 22 plates (including fold-out maps). A very good minus, generally clean, copy with moderate exterior wear and chipping at the spine cover (lightweight stiff wraps were not adequate for this thick and heavy volume), a few short edge tears, and previous owners' names inked on front cover; interior binding solid, paper light to moderately yellow with foxing the title page and fore-edges.

New York, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. complete. "illustrated with twenty-four portraits on steel, and many hundred wood engravings" Octavo, 10" tall, vol. 1: xii + 608 pages.; vol. 2: 609 to 1136 pages; blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles & cover vignette. A good original set overall; interior very good, hinges and binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed; but exterior worn, back strip cloth frayed at all edges, fore-corner tips through to boards. These larger and heavier volumes will require additional postage.

New York, New York: Viking India, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 405 pages, black cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.

Macmillan Company; NY, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Small quarto, 9 " tall, 213 pages, illustrated cloth. A very good, generally clean, sturdy original hardcover cover first edition with minor shelf wear, but some fading to the cloth color and soiling where the dust jacket chips are missing, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good only dust jacket chipped at the folds, moderately yellowed, with the original price present.

Little, Brown and Company, 2014-07-08. First edituon, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Note: apparently initialed by the author on the title page--not quite signed--but hard to confirm. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 393 pages, green boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 414 pages, black boards with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+ dust jacket with a one-inch chip at rear top edge, light sporadic soiling primarily on rear panel, with original price. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, xx + 462 pages, stiff wraps. A near fine, clean, likely unread soft cover with light shelf wear and slight soiling to the fore-edges, binding tight, paper white

Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 395 pages, black cloth with silver title on spine; publisher's review slip laid in. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white but with light yellowing to top fore-edge. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Signed by the author on the half title page (note this book has two half-title pages; signature on the second one). Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 283 pages, illustrated endpapers, 12 black & white plates plus frontispiece plate in color, decorative green cloth. A very good, clean harcover copy with light shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a fair only, edgeworn dust jacket with chipping at the folds AND a large 3" x 5" piece missing from the front panel which does not affect title and author name, with original price.

Nan A. Talese, 1994. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 208 pages, gray quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, gently read; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Houghton Mifflin, 2003-10-07. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 360 pages, black and beige boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white BUT a touch of foxing to the top fore-edge. In a near fine, clean, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.

New York, New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 211 pages, maroon quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear but slight color fading at the exterior edges, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

Harper & Brothers, 1928. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Duodecimo, 7 2/3” tall, 164 pages, paper titles and decorative beige cloth. A good, generally clean, original hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing to the fore-corner tips and back strip cloth, and with damp stain to about half the cover cloth not visible in the interior; binding solid, text paper lightly yellowed with foxing to the top fore-edge and a previous owner's bookplate and related inscription on the front end paper. Lacking the wonderful period dust jacket. A terrific reading copy.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Octavo, 8" tall, xxi + 199 pages, decorative blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat lightly worn hard cover (spine titles just slightly faded; hinges and binding tight, paper more cream than white, but a slight musty smell from basement storage and foxing to the top fore-edge. With a tattered dust jacket which is split into pieces at the folds (now enclosed in a mylar jacket.).

Oxford University Press, 1973-01-01. Reprint. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo, 7 1/2” tall, 416 pages + notes, gilt on red spine titles, brown cloth. A very good, clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear, binding tight, thin paper cream white. In a good, moderately dust jacket with chipping at the spine and flap fold edges top and bottom and a short edge tear.

Ecco, 2012-05-22. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 420 pages, yellow an brown boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with light shelf wear, but a quarter sized tape scuff from a sticker in the upper front corner, with the original price.

Thomas Y. Crowell, NY, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket (if issue. Sold as a good original reading copy only. Octavo, 7 3/4” tall, 88 pages, decorative green cloth with illustrated color vignette pastdown. A good, sturdy hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear, corners rubbed, but light exterior soiling or foxing primarily visible on the rear exterior; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, but with foxing to the fore-edges and a previous owner's inscription penned on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 378 pages, red quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, pages cream white, but with small coffee stain to the fore-edge. In a near fine dust jacket with some fading to the backstrip, with original price.

Houghton Mifflin; Boston, 1896. First thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issue. This is, in our estimation, the most beautiful edition of Cape Cod, with a gilt and blind stamped art-nouveau cover design and the delicate and completely appropriate color vignettes by Watson scattered throughout. This example is in very good condition only with its flaws. 2 volumes, octavo, 7 1/2" tall, vol. 1: color frontispiece + vii + 173 pages; vol. 2: color frontispiece + 208 pages with index, gilt top fore-edges, titles and decorations on olive-green cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat original hardcover edition with minor shelf wear but cloth color faded at the spines; binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket