Search Results: Titles starting with V from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: Gollancz, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 180 pages. First British edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Small retail price sticker on rear dust-jacket panel. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Valentine's Manual Inc., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. By Editor. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth with the seal of New York City in gold on front board. Top edge gilt. 404 pages. Signed presentation copy by Henry Collins Brown [editor] to George Carroll, dated Jan. 12, 26 on front end-paper. Illustrated with over 150 drawings, engravings and photographs, including a color frontispiece and 5 full color double page plates. First edition. Gilt blocking and lettering on spine completely faded. Cloth covers show minor age wear and soiling and are slightly shaken. Else hinges are strong and not cracked. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. A nice presentation copy in good or better condition. .

New York: Gracie Mansion, 1924. Hardcover, rebound in full dark blue leather with raised spine lettered in gold and the great seal of NYC embossed in gold on front board. Presentation binding with original owner's name stamped on lower front board and his book-plate inside front cover. Containing numerous illustrations in color and black and white. Volume IX in the [new] annual series, signed by editior Brown on blank prelim. First edition. Some rubing to extremities, with front board detached. Still an attractive good or better copy. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hastings-On-Hudson, NY: Valentine's Manual Inc., 1926. Hardcover, blue cloth decorated and lettered in gold, no dust-jacket.. 392 pages. With 140 monochrome illustrations, some double page, and 4 full page color plates. Second printing, Nov., 1926. No previous ownership marks. A superior copy with bright spine lettering and sharp corners. Hinges are strong, book is square, clean and unmarked. A very good+ copy. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. Hardcover, green cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 318pp., Index. Illustrated with 16 full page color photographs and 2 maps [one fold-out]. First printing in the Uniform Edition of the Works of Frank S. Smythe. Rather lenghty inscription mostly erased on front free end paper. Dust-jacket age soiled, dulled, but complete. A sound, square, internally clean copy. Good+ in a fair to good dust-jacket.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth in publisher's dust-jacket. 189 pages. Introduction by Len Deighton. First American edition thus. Some penciled dated inside front cover, fore-edge and bottom edge of pages badly foxed. Dust-jacket poor, with rear panel tape repaired and edge-wear along top front and rear. A solid, internally clean and tight reading copy. Good in poor dust-jacket. .

New York: William Morrow, 1981. Small quarto hardcover, blue cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 293pp., Select Bibliography, Picture Credits, Index. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs and 20 pages of color plates. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sqaure, tightly bound copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 1995. Quarto sized hardcover in boldly colored pictorial laminated boards. 336pp., Illustrated with captioned color photographs which include price ranges. First edition. Contents include Patent dating, Globes, Pumps, Signs, containers and miscellaneous oil and gas memorabilia. Over 2000 values listed. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. As new. . First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Holland: Lannoo-Tielt-Bussum, 1982. Large trade paperback in white card covers, lettered in black, blue and red. Bi-lingual edition, printed in Middle Dutch and Modern Dutch. Translated by M. Ortmanns. Introduction by Dr. P. Mommaers. (1982) The verse-repeating or chorus form poems of the medieval low- country mystic and poet Hadewijch. Foreign language edition - text entirely in Dutch. No previous ownership marks. No underlining or highlighting to text. General wear commensurate with a used copy. A sound, tight, internally unmarked copy with light wear and soiling to covers. Good. . Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 1997. Trade paperback. 183 pages. Chapter Notes and Selected Bibliography. Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Minute touches of soiling to some page edges and a proto-crease to lower corner of first several leaves, but overall a clean, square, bright and unmarked copy in very good condition. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1916. Decorative publisher's cl;oth. Elaborately decorated green cloth stamped in gold, red and black. T.e.g. With colored title-page and 30 tipped-in plates, 22 of which are in color. The first trade edition of this work.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Black cloth sans dustjacket. A very good clean copy. . Reprint. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. Hardcover, dark blue cloth in clipped dust-jakcet, though retaining publisher's US price. 321pp., Brief Bibliography of Sources, Index. Illustrated with 25 photographs and sketches, map endpapers. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A square, clean, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket edge-worn and with old clear tape repair on verso of closed tear. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co Inc Publishers, 1982. Hardcover, brown cloth, no dust-jacket as issued. 215pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Minor finger soiling to one or two pages, else a clean, square, fresh copy.. A filmography of this small film studio, including the serials and feature films produced between 1927 and 1935. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Bibliographic References, Index. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Very mild rubbing to white dust-jacket, else a clean, sqiuare, unread copy. An as new copy in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Boards. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. Book. New. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in blue cloth and publisher's dust-jacket. Brand new copy still in original shrink wrap. 276 pages. Illustrated with color photographs and maps. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 19-August 21, 2016. "This book commemorates the gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects offer a material record of vanishing ways of life. Used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment, and in religious practice, they represent a broad spectrum of cultures. The majority comes from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The works include delicate… Read More

Leopard Books, 1993. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 403 pages. Index. Illustrated with 134 drawings. Re-issue, first edition by this publisher of the title originally published in 1910. A lament, in the days before the Great War, of disappearing cultural, architectural and social forms which the author feared were disappearing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . Re-issue. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E P Dutton/Everyman's Library, 1927. Hardcover, cloth in dust-jacket. No. 298 cloth. Reprinted 1927. Binding style 2. Red cloth, top edge colored, spine decorated in gold. Version 2 jacket, beige colored. [The Version 2 jacket was introduced when the binding style changed (Style 2) in 1928. A new lighthouse logo designed by Reginald Knowles appears on the spine, and the names of both Dent and Dutton are printed at the foot.] Cover device is of robed man looking upwards and to the left]. Dust-jacket shows light wear and two small tears at heel of spine, one at front gutter has been tape repaired on verso. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, bright copy in clean, complete dust-jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1914. No Jacket. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Decorative cloth embossed with different colored knot patterns on front board. Extensively illustrated with line drawings throughtout. A scarce title. M iss Walker was the head Mistress of Fleet Board School, Hampstead, England (Infant's Dept.) and is credited with introducing macrame knitting in 1887. Very good. Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 393 pages. Bibliographic References, Index. Second printing on the first Harvard University Press paperback edition. From the library of John M. Cooper, Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, with his name on top of front free end-paper. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine. .