Search Results: Titles starting with V from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. Beautiful Clamshell first edition Bookcase. [Not with Book] Hand-Crafted by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed / 'sculpted V' upper cover designed after the famous DJ's graphics. Each box is finished inside & out in black & dark blue Nuba® - a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the first edition snugly . Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for dozens of generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.

New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1899. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Scribner's Edition. Sm 8vo., 392 + 6 pages of ads. Pirated versions were previously published in a ladies' magazine under the name of Dorothea & later in book form under the name Dolly]. Subsequently published by Osgood in Boston in 1884. Brown pebbled boards, printed paper label at the spine. A very good copy [a bit of wear at the spine extremities] showing light use. Internally clean & free of blemishes. Uncommon.

London: William Heinemann, (1952), 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Number 20 of 500 copies Signed by Maugham. A fine copy in beige over navy calf, morocco label titled and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., many pages uncut, in the original clear glassine dustwrapper. Housed in the publisher's black slipcase. 8vo. 241pp. Stott A74a. Exceptional copy.

London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse Ltd, 1981. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed on the fly leaf by the editors by Quintin Bell, Anne Olivier Bell, Nigel Nicolson, Deborah Gage and Angelica Garnett. First Edition. A near fine copy in black cloth, silver titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper portraying a stunning photograph of a seated Vanessa Bell. Small 4to. 144 pp. Introduction by Quentin Bell. With notes by Angelica Bell Garnett. Revealing and unique camera portraits of the Bloomsbury Group and private family photographs at Charleston and abroad, snapped by the very private Vanessa Bell. A truly stunning photographic memoir recalling Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Dora Carrington, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Brenan, E.M. Forster, David Garnett et al. A fascinating portrait.

London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in black cloth, silver titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper portraying a stunning photograph of a seated Vanessa Bell. Small 4to. 144 pp. Introduction by Quentin Bell. With notes by Angelica Garnett. Revealing and unique camera portraits of the Bloomsbury Group and private family photographs at Charleston and abroad, snapped by the very private Vanessa Bell. A truly stunning photographic memoir recalling Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Dora Carrington, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Brenan, E.M. Forster, David Garnett et al. A fascinating portrait. Size: Small 4to.

Toronto: The Musson Book Company, [1925], 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Grey, Zane. THE VANISHING AMERICAN. Toronto: Musson, (1925). 8vo., First Canadian edition. 8vo., 308pp + 4 pages of ads. Embossed dark brown cloth stamped in black at the spine & luxuriously on the upper board. Neat name on the ffe date 1925. A fine lovely copy in dustwrapper with one tiny chip at the bottom of the front panel. A very nice copy of this edition. 50 times scarcer than the American first. Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American & his deep concern for the future survival of that culture. It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending him to a prestigious Eastern college where he… Read More

New York, [1923, Book Date]: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Elegant Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the case is finished in black cloth & red Nuba® gilt stamped spine title piece, 'Sculpted' 'figures' design on the side after the DJ's comical illustration. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included.

London: Faber & Faber, (1980), 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Signed by the author on the previous owner's attractive bookplate affixed to the second free endpaper. A lovely copy in navy cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper. Small 4to. 192 pp. Black and white photographs, colour illustrations throughout. A masterful evocation of place.

New York: Payson & Clarke, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's first book and one of the earliest courtroom dramas in the genre. A just about fine copy in green cloth, navy titles to the spine and front board, in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with some minimal use (the design quite similar to the British first). 8vo. 307 pp. Barnes, Murder In Print. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime. A very nice copy in the uncommon original dustwrapper.

Paris: Verve, 1939. VERVE, VOLUME 1, NUMBERS 4 Revue Artistique et Litteraire Paris: 1939 First edition, quarterly modernist magazine presenting the cutting edge Art of its time. First English edition, wrappers over hardboard, front cover and back created by Rouault, 140pp, 4to (10 1/2" x 14"), with an Alfred Pellan stamp on the title page. Another finely curated snapshot of the Arts circa 1939 by Teriade. English version translated by Robert Sage with texts by Paul Valery, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jean-Paul Sartre among others. Color heliogravures by Rembrandt and Toulouse-Lautrec and numerous color lithographs by Matisse, Derain as well as the Fourteenth Century Book of Health from the Italian School. Also includes paintings or drawings by Seurat, Pascin, Rousseau, Masson, Degas, and Tintoretto etc and heliogravure reproductions of photos by Barna, Brassai a.o. This item shows some wear on the spine and slight yellowing, from the personal library of Alfred Pellan, good to very good condition.

Paris: Verve, 1937. Softcover 112pp, First English Edition of this large size, 4to (10 1/2 x 14"), quarterly modernist magazine presenting the cutting edge Art of its time. Includes a cover especially designed by Henri Matisse and 2 of 4 LITHOGRAPHS by Abraham Rattner and Francisco Bores (missing are the first 2 by Fernand Leger and Joan Miro) with heliogravure reproductions from many artists, as well as photos by Man Ray. This volume also includes some early letters and sketches from Cézanne to Émile Zola and the first photo of Picasso's Guernica by Dora Maar. This item has 2 large chips missing on the spine and a slight yellowing of the pages and still has the coronet esquire gold seal on the title page. Besides the 2 missing lithos all other pages are present, good condition.

Paris: Verve, 1938. VERVE, VOLUME 1, NUMBERS 3 Revue Artistique et Litteraire Paris: 1938 First edition, quarterly modernist magazine presenting the cutting edge Art of its time. Wrappers over hardboard, 132pp, 4to (10 1/2" x 14"), signed by noted Canadian, Quebecois artist ALFRED PELLAN with his stamp on the bottom right hand corner. Four original lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee well as the Indian Pantheon lithographs. This English Edition focuses on Eastern Art both Muslim and Indian with text by Rabindrinath Tagore and Andre Malraux a.o., Chinese poetry, and numerous examples of eastern paintings and illuminations [with gold stamping on pages] and their influence on modern European Artists such as Matisse, Bonnard, Chagall, Miro, Klee etc. Also present in this issue, and this being only one of several, is a photo set by Gaetan Fouquet on the Hindu portfolio. A multifaceted presentation of all a modern magazine could and should be from its variety, to its excellent… Read More

Paris: Verve, 1937. Softcover 112pp, First English Edition of this large size, 4to (10 1/2 x 14"), quarterly modernist magazine presenting the cutting edge Art of its time. Includes a cover especially designed by Henri Matisse and LITHOGRAPHS BY: Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Francisco Bores with heliogravure reproductions from many artists, as well as photos by Man Ray. This volume also includes some early letters and sketches from Cézanne to Émile Zola and the first photo of Picasso's Guernica by Dora Maar. This item has a very worn spine, some light stains and a general yellowing of the pages and still has the coronet-esquire gold seal on the title page. 4 pages are out of order in the end with no evidence of rebinding, good +.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, (1995), 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. The second collection of 'appreciations' of Canada by visiting international authors, Inscribed by Editor and founder of the annual Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, Greg Gatenby to a fellow Canadian author and his wife on the title-page. 'For.who have been a rich part of my past, Greg Gatenby', Toronto, Oct11/95'. Bright and fresh, (Canadian author's discreet bookplate to the front pastedown), in navy cloth, silver titles to the spine in a just about fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 498 pp. With keenly observed, idiosyncratic and sometimes humorous contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Raymond Chandler, Wallace Stegner, Aleister Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates et al.

London: Sampson Low, Son And Co., 1861. Early Reprint.. Hardcover. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. London: Sampson Low, Son And Co., 1861. Neat name on the ffe & title page dated Feb. 20th 1870. 8vo., 133pp. Embossed brown cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Small loss at the spine crown. A very good copy.

New York: Summit Books, (1980), 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Chatwin's second book. A fine copy in the publisher's 1/4 cinnamon cloth over olive paper covered boards, stamped green on the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 155 pp. Incorporating a mocking description of the political situation in the Marxist People's Republic of Benin in the 1970s, Chatwin metes out poetic revenge for his own rough interrogation and imprisonment by the Benin authorities during a research visit, described in his short story, A Coup. Adapted for the screen in 1988 as Cobra Verde.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo., 294pp., black cloth, lettered in light blue to spine, top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper, price-clipped, showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded at the spine, a couple of short closed tears. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Woolfian scholar Rosenbaum's acclaimed history of the Bloomsbury Group. A fine copy in purple cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 316 pp. Insightful essays elaborating upon the Group's diverse literary and intellectual world with sterling observations on their respective intellectual families and Cambridge backgrounds as they are reflected in their early and autobiographical works.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A lovely copy in decorated green cloth, (just a hint of use), gilt titles to the spine in a splendid pictorial dustwrapper. With an Introductory Essay by Lord David Cecil and Edited by Graham Ovenden. 4to. 252 pp. Revealing and unique camera portraits by Virginia Woolf's great-aunt and the inspiration for her book, Victorian Photographs Of Famous Men & Fair Women and play, Freshwater, including portraits of Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Robert Browning and Virginia Woolf 's mother, Julia Jackson. With an illustrated Family Tree placing Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1987], 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Speil, Hilde. VIENNA'S GOLDEN AUTUMN 1866-1938. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1987]. First Edition. 8vo., 248pp., four double-sided colour plates & numerous text illustrations, biblio. A fine copy in like dustwrapper.