Search Results: Titles starting with V from Glenn Books

Made in Germany: No Publisher, 1930. Color illustration of little German or Dutch girl holding a black doll. "Please be my Valentine". Inscription on the back. See photo.. Nearly Fine. 3 1/2" x 2 3/4".

Providence, R. I.: E. Rosen Company, 1930. A little black girl sits inside a heart holding a lollipop. The caption refers to her as a "a little chocolate drop". Printed on one side only. Pencil inscription on rear. The candy is missing from the lollipop but the wrapper and candy stick are present. See photo.. Nearly Fine. 6" x 5".

Printed in Germany: No Publisher, 1930. The rajah's yellow turban folds open to reveal red waffle paper. Printed in Germany. Card does not open, printed on one side only with an attached flap for standing the card up. Measures approximately 6 1/2" by 4 1/2". Black rajah holding a valentine on a platter. Please see photo..

Providence, R. I.: E. Rosen Company nd (ca 1920) The caption refers to the girl as a "little chocolate drop who luvs ya all da time". Card does not open, printed on one side only in black, tan and red. Measures 6" by 5". The candy is missing from the lollipop, but the wrapper and stick are present. A black girl sits inside a heart holding a lollipop..

New York: Russell Brothers, 1868. Spine sunned to tan. Owner's ink signature at top of front flyleaf and title page. Chapters on a literary biography, Iowa journalism, western men. Written by the associate editor of the Iowa State Register. 336pp.. First Edition. Purple Cloth. Faded and Rubbed./No Jacket.

Minneapolis University of Minnesota (1961). Cloth-backed marbled boards. A fine copy. Limited to 750 copies..

St. Louis, Missouri: State Publishing Company, 1961. SIGNED by the author on title page. The saga of the entire western portion of the empire which began with the Louisiana Purchase and ended with the rush into Oklahoma in 1889. Eleven illustrations in black and white. 310pp.. First Edition. Red Leathertette. Nearly Fine/Lightly Worn Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. TWO VOMUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Volume Two is without the dust jacket. This is a limited edition, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JOHN AUSTEN, this being #733/1500 copies. Twenty full-page illustrations by Austen. Housed in elusive custom slipocase with paper label, with same designs as the covers. Box has one small area of old tape repair at top open edge. Total of 772pp. in the two volumes. First published in 1848, it is a novel following the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, their friends and families, during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The author (1811-1863) was a noted British author and illustrator. . Signed by Illustrator. Limited, Signed Edition. Tan Decorated Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Illus. by John Austern. Quarto.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Illustrated with 200 drawings made by the author. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in book form in 1848. William Thackeray (1811-1863) was a promint and prolific novelist and writer in the English Victorian era. 759pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Deep Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Cover and spine designs in blind-stamp. Finely rebacked with original spine laid-down. Spine gilt title bright. Several small pieces of old spine are missing.. Covers rubbed with several spots on rear cover. Yellow endpapers have been repaired at the hinges front and back. Green notice tipped-in at front advertising the new work by Thackeray, "Pendennis". The "Great Hoggarty Diamond" page is present preceding the engraved frontispiece and title-page. The date 1848 is on both title-pages. Some peripheral browning and foxing to plates, off-setting onto adjacent pages. Forty plates including the frontispiece. Numerous text illustrations, and chapter first-letter embellishments, done on steel and wood by the author. This copy is an early issue of the first edition. It does not have the rustic type on p.1 nor the suppressed plate at p.336. "Mr. Pitt" is present at p.453. See Van Duzer 231. 624pp.. First Edition, Early Issue. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thick Octavo.

Wurzburg: Stuber's Buchhandlung, 1870. Rebacked with black cloth. Previous owner's names front pastedown. May be missing front free endpaper, but may not have had one. Text in German. Title translated is "Dressing and Transportation Teaching for Medical Troops". Illustrated copiously with strikingly vivid figures, 111 in all. Sections on bandaging, transport, splints. From the time of the Franco-Prussian War. 85pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. General Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. Panelled spine, gilt lettering and designs. Top edge gilt. Leather has sunned to tan in most places, uneven in some spots. Rear cover shows several dark spots. Internally crisp and clean throughout. Illustrated with sixteen full-page color plates by Edmund J. Sullivan, each with a tissue-guard. Forty-eight additional illustrations in black and white. Chapter headpieces. 345pp.. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Quarto.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company , 1929. Pictorial stamping and lettering in gilt. Twelve full-page color illustrations, 22 drawings in black and white, pictorial endpapers by ARTHUR RACKHAM. Covers only very gently worn. Small crease at head of spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. See Lattimor and Haskell p.65. 232pp.. First American Edition. Blue Cloth. Minor Edge Wear./No Jacket. Royal Octavo.

San Francisco: David Magee, 1969. Three volumes uniformly bound with red, black, and white cloth spines. Paper spine labels.First two volumes published in 1969, the third in 1970. Printed at the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. One of 125 copies hardbound out of a total run of 625. A tiotal of 2049 entries including books and ephemera from the Victorian period. The compilation took over five years to assemble and catalogue. Includes prices, bibliographical and historical notes. A most valuable reference source. 103, 103, 129pp, illustrated. . Limited Edition. 1/4 Cloth, Paper-Covered Board. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Thin Quarto.

Nrw York, Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Illustrated throughout, five color plates. Occasional pencil markings. 287pp.. First American Edition. Orange Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket.. Quarto.

London: Printed for T. Walkley and B. Fisher, 1635. Covers bordered with two gilt fillets, corner rosettes. Spine in six panels, floral gilt, red leather spine label, dated at foot of spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Silk marker. Bound by Eedy Binder, 37 Tavistock Sq. Two old auction catalogue notes glued to a front preliminary page. One additional portrait of Charles III placed before the engraved frontispiece. "By Tho. May" added to title-page in old hand along with "WC LIB", likely the initials from library of an early owner. Evidence of paper label removal from rear pastedown, no loss of marbled paper. Front cover detached.. Old chip has been repaired at top of spine with no loss of leather. Underlining and marginal lines intermittently through the text. Paper tear near botton at free edge of G3, an apparent paper defect without loss of letters. Minor hole in paper near free edge of I2-I3. Single pin-size worm hole at top of page beginning at D2 and ending a K4, where… Read More

New York: John B. Alden, 1888. Four volumes uniformly bound. Front cover lettered and decorated in black. Spine lettered in gilt. Volume 1- France; Volume 2- Italy, Spain, Germany, and Greece; Volume 3- England; and Volume 4- Ecclesiastical and Society. Frontispieces and text illustrations. Total of 1122pp. A bit of browning to some pages but quite a clean and crisp set. . First Edition. Brown Cloth. Minor Edge and Corner Wear Onl/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

(Kansas City) Kansas City Times 1901. Wrappers, modest soiling. 1" closed tear bottom 1/3 of spine. A musical supplement to the Kansas City Times, Sunday, August 18, 1901. A piece of sheet music with words and music by Raymon Moore. Front cover in color showing young lovers strolling through a garden hand-in-hand..

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859. Gilt spine titles remain bright. Hinges weak. Illustrated by the author with steel and wood engravings. Originally issued in 24 parts from 1857-59. Ink inscription on half-title page of Volume I, dated 1 Jan., 1860. Internally quite sound and clean. Van Duzer 232. 382-376pp.. First Book Edition.. Blue Blind-stamped Cloth.. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. Spine faded. This edition has Kegan Paul on title page, but with Chatto and Windus ads at back, Chatto and Windus on spine. This book was not a hot-seller at first. Remainders were transferred to Chatto and Windus in 1884. Our copy is from that issue. See Prideaux 5. 296pp + 32-page catalogue from Chatto and Windus.. First Edition, Later Issue. Orange Cloth. Minor Edge W/No Jacket. Octavo.