Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bibliodditiques

O: Garden City Publishing, 1917. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. Front board bumped at top. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Maps on front endpapers. Green boards with black lettering. Light edgewear to board corners and spine is lightly sunned. Contains numerours photo illustrations by author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 338 pp.

New York: Adrian Van S, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. "Adrian Van Sinderen (1887-1963) was a successful banker, businessman and civic leader. After graduating from Yale in 1910, he taught at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The next year he left teaching to work at J. P. Morgan, and four years later became a partner in the brokerage firm of W.A. and A.M. White, remaining a partner until his death.Mr. Van Sinderen had a wide variety of interests, among them raising horses, collecting books, traveling and music. He bred and showed ponies, winning more than 2,500 ribbons at shows throughout the United States, and was president of the American Horse Shows Association for three decades. Besides collecting books, he was the author of more than 30, including 25 on Christmas themes, and others on travel. One of 550 copies published. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and paste-down… Read More

New York: Mc Loughlin Brothers. Sewn Reinforced Binding. Good +. Chapbook from the Victorian era with eight half-page hand-coloured woodcut engravings and story text below. One of the "Father's Series" published by Mc Loughlin at an original price of 6 cents. No date of publication indicated, but I would suspect it is from the 1860's given the hand-coloured drawings and stitched cloth spine. Series titles and other series and titles on back cover. Smudges and a little light creasing

Toronto: William Briggs. Hardcover. Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears to pages. No date of publication indicated, but a presentation plate on the front paste-down endpaper is dated 1897. Decorative endpapers. Brown cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Frontis is a woodcut illustration of a scene in the catacombs at the Martyr's Tomb. Other woodcut illustrations throughout the book. Pages have some foxing. 243 pp.

Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's HouseK, 1946. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Dolli Tingle. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is not clipped and is in a removable, archival Brodart sleeve. Jacket is missing a 1.5" x 0.5" piece on front at upper right corner. Light foxing to a few pages. Size: 8vo (8" to 9").

Philadelphia Toronto: John C. Winston Company. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Kurt Wiese. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's information on front free endpaper with some information whited-out. Pictorial endpapers. Full colour frontis. Dust jacket is price-clipped with some chipping and shelf-wear around edges. Some spotting on spine of jacket and top edge of text block. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 210 pp.

London: IPC Magazines Ltd. , 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Price sticker on back. Slight bumiping of corners. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London, Edinburgh and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good +. W. B. Wollen. Blue cloth-covered boards with embossed outline of cowboy on a horse on front. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name/date in pencil on half-title page. Black and white frontis illustration with tissue guard and four other illustrative plates. Small dampstain on several pages at front of book near top right corner - does not intrude onto text. Four pages of ads for other books at rear. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 412 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. A 1953 printing of Book No. 1 in the Judy Bolton Mystery series. Tight binding. No chipss/tears or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and has some small tears and creases around edges. Corners are lightly bumped. First couple of pages have small dog ears at bottom right corner. Dust jacket is in a clear, protective mylar cover. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 218 pp.

Toronto: The Musson Book Company Ltd., 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good. Clean, square and tight copy. No chips, tears or written inscriptions. FFEP is creased and has Book store stamp. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 308 pp.

Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Light edgewear to jacket. Pages are yellowed. Paper covering front hinge is partially cracked. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 252 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. A late 1950s printing of Book No. 1 in the Judy Bolton Mystery series. Tight binding. No chipss/tears or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and has some small tears and chips around edges. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 218 pp.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good. Bernadette. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Green boards. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a few small tears, chips around edges and a surface scratch on rear. Book tells the story of a Russian girl and how she survives the war. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1958. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. The autobiography of Hon. Herbert A. Bruce. Bruce was the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and a Member of Federal Parliament. He founded and owned the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto and was a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Some surface wear on front endpaper; likely from removal of a book plate. Some erasure marks on rear endpaper. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. The jacket has chips/tears and wear around edges. Illustrated with black and white photos. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 366 pp.

Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1958. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Signed and inscribed by author on page opposite title page. Red boards with gilt lettering. Black and white frontis shows the venous system from De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543. Well-illustrated throughout. The author served as the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada from 1932 to 1937. He subsequently served as a Member of Parliament. He founded Wellesley Hospital in Toronto and was a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 366 pp.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Eric Aldwinckle. A fictional account of university life at the University of Toronto, based on reality but featuring fictitious characters. Signed without inscriptions by both the author and illustrator on front free endpaper. Loose newspaper clippings about the book included. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Dust jacket has a few small tears. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 172 pp.

Penguin Random House, 2019. Hardcover. Fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Beautifully illlustrated with full colour photographs. Size:Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 255 pp.

New York: Signet, 1954. Paperback. Very Good +. "The guy was as dead has hell. He lay on the floor in his pajamas with his brains scattered all over the rug and my gun was in his hand". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name written on inside front cover and front free endpaper. Some wear; mainly at cover corners. Buffalo

London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1953. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. W. Spence. Tight binding. Full colour frontis. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is corner-clipped and has chips/tears around edges and a dampstain on tail of spine. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5"). 256 pp.

United Kingdom: Canongate Pub Ltd, 2003. First edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/very good +. Second printing. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Signed by author on title page. Winner of 2003 Booker prize. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 277 pp.