Search Results: Titles starting with V from Joseph Valles - Books

Sofia, Bulgaria : Izdatel'stvo "Sviat", 1985., 1985. Good. 253 pp. ; 26 cm. ; similar to OCLC: 14026868 ; color illustrated boards ; tear to top of spine ; slight wear to covers ; wonderful illustrations by Liuben Zidarov ; Bulgarian folktales of Georgi Rusafov translated into Russian by various authors ; G

London : W. Heinemann ; [Guildford : Billings & Sons, Limited], 1914., 1914. Good. [1st edition, probable first state] ; 2, pp., 1 leaf, 363 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LC: PR5042 ; OCLC: 17486175 ; Forms v. 3 of a trilogy; v. 1 has title: Ave; v. 2, Salve.; black cloth with stamped designs and gold lettering ; bookplate of Green's Library, Dublin on front ep ; name on front ep ; much foxing ; hinges shaken ; the third -- and H L Mencken called it the best -- of the trilogy of recollections and gossip concerning Dublin and its giants of the Celtic Revival, the writing of which provided much amusement to readers, but soured Moore's relationships with his friends. ; "Dear naughty George Moore - sad, bad, mad - has reformed. He tells us why in his book, Vale, the English edition of which I was lucky enough to read; for, the American edition is expurgated, nay, fumigated ... George calls a spade a spade, and he delights on stirring up rank malodorous soil with his war-worn agricultural implement. When he returned… Read More

[London, New York] Oxford University Press, 1962, 1963., 1963. Very Good. 2d ed., reprinted with corrections ; 404 p. illus. 23 cm. ; LCCN: 62-4725 ; OCLC: 543149 ; LC: QD469; Dewey: 541.396 ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; tiny spot to spine ; slight crease to flyleaf and title page ; store stamp on front ep ; slight foxing ; Contents: Theories of valence -- Atomic orbitals -- Wave mechanical principles -- Diatomic molecules, molecular orbital theory -- Diatomic molecules, valence bond theory -- Preliminary comparison of molecular-orbital and valence-bond theories -- Polyatomic molecules -- Hybridization -- Conjugated and aromatic molecules -- Ligand-Field theory -- Non-metallic solids -- Metals -- The hydrogen bond and other miscellaneous topics -- Author index -- Index of substances -- In dex of subjects. ; underlining in chapters 1 and 2 ; "Coulson was very influential in promoting the use of quantum mechanics in chemistry, particularly the use of molecular orbital theory. He… Read More

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 19-4519 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 3877039 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : A Remembered dream -- Antwerp road -- A City of refuge -- A Sanctuary of trees -- The King's high way -- The Traitor in the house -- Justice of the elements -- Ashes of vengeance -- The Broken soldier and the maid of France -- The Hearing ear -- Sketches of Quebec -- A Classic instance -- The New era and carry on -- The Primitive and his sandals -- Diana and the lions -- The Hero and tin soldiers -- Salvage point -- The Boy of Nazareth dreams. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the… Read More

Detroit ; Washington ; London : Visible Ink Press, a Division of Gale Research, Inc., 1994., 1994. Very Good. 9th printing ; xxxviii, 852 pp. : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0810322951 ; OCLC: 31159823 ; LC: GR830.V3; Dewey: 398.45 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; crease to back cover ; "...[E]xplores the historical, literary, mythological, biographical and popular aspects of the world's most mesmerizing night owl. It goes beyond the contemporary depiction of blood-sucking, sensual creatures of the night to shed new light on vampire myth and fact. Endorsed by the Count Dracula Society and Vamp ire Studies,...includes 110 images..." ; VG

Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, 1994, 1994. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 16th edition ; 166 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm ; ISBN: 9066304928; 9789066304925; National Library: B9410358 LCCN: 95-101142 ; LC: N6953.G63; ND653.G7 ; OCLC: 31924732 ; color stiff paper wrappers; a catalogue in color of the Van Gogh works at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam ; FINE.

New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1947., 1947. Good. 2nd edition ; green, decorated cloth with gold lettering and red spine label ; frontispiece features photograph of atomic blast at Nagasaki (!) ; publisher's (?) bookplate on front ep ; 1,600 pp. thick volume, illustrations on almost every page ; includes photographs, charts, diagrams, maps, etc. ; foxing ; wear to outside, else G

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971., 1971. Very Good. 1st edition ; x, 636 p. illus. 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0030844924; LCCN: 74-102146 ; OCLC: 189005 ; red and blue cloth in faded dustjacket ; protective plastic on dustjacket starting ; 72 pages of photographs ; appendices of letters, documents and maps ; VG/G

New York : Carleton, MDCCLXIX (1869), 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 473 p. ; 19 cm. ; OCLC: 3233259 ; green decorated cloth ; Augusta Evans was born near Columbus. Georgia, but when a child removed with her father to San Antonio, Texas, which the family left after two years (1847-49) to settle in Mobile, Alabama. She was married to L. N. Wilson in 1868. ; "Human legislation is impotent to cancel the statutes of Almighty God, which declare that only death can free what Jehovah has joined together." ; crude repair to back hinge ; knocked ; G.

New York : Harper & Row, 1964., 1964. Very Good. xx, 620 p. illus. 25 cm. ; LCCN: 64-10113 ; LC: QC518; Dewey: 530.141 ; OCLC: 861646 ; "A revision of [the author's] Principles of electric and magnetic fields, second edition." ; blue cloth with orange lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, with stamp s, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Early history of electric phenomena -- Modern history of electric phenomena -- MKSA system of units -- Vectors and the analysis of vectors -- Coordinate systems and unit vectors -- Coulomb's Law -- Dielectric materials -- General relations in static electric fields -- Energy, force, pressure and capacitance in electric field systems -- Applications of electric-field theory of charges at rest to spherical geometries -- Application of electric-field theory to charges at rest to fine lines of charge -- Application of electric-field theory to charges at rest to cylindrical boundaries -- Application of electric-field theory to charges at rest to essentially plane… Read More

Garden City, NY. : Doubleday, 1976., 1976. Very Good. 1st ed. ; xxviii, 260 p. : illustrated ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0385031181; 9780385031189 ; OCLC: 1959278 ; LC: QB51; Dewey: 001.9/092/4 ; "The papers collected in this volume are drawn from issues in Pensée's series Immanuel Velikovsky reconsidered." ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date due, pocket ; no dustjacket grey and black cloth ; VG

New York : William Morrow, c1986., 1986. Fine. Gray cloth ; 1st edition, 1st printing ; 298 p. ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0688046444; 9780688046446 LCCN: 86-744 ; 'Lieutenant Jack Raines of the Los Angeles Police Tactical Division finds his investigation of a series of murders of leading porn stars compli cated by a war between a Mafia don and a Colombian gang lord" ; FINE/FINE

Detroit, Michigan : Sibylline Publishing Company, P.O.B. 1673.; [Detroit : P. J. Uridge Printing Company], 1946., 1946. Very Good. 5 pp. 1 leaf, 102 pp., 1 leaf ; plates ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 46-8559 ; OCLC: 1427760 ; LC: BF645; Dewey: 131.324 ; "At this time, when all the world has been touched in some way by the ravages of that hateful thing called War, it becomes more certain we must seek the Truth in channels other than those we have hitherto patronized. Truth can be perceived only in those calm and dispassionate moments wherein the eye is no longer dimmed by the moisture of emotion, and the ear no longer dulled by the strife and turmoil of the world....In this book, Mr. Zalante has assumed the unique position of permitting the soul to speak in answer to the many questions which must arise in conscious living..."--Jacket ; textured brown boards with gold lettering, i n blue pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED by author on flyleaf 27 years after publication, in 1973 ; sunned spine ; foxing ; much in the… Read More

Bronx, N.Y. : Albert Constantine and Son, Inc, 1975, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 126 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ; LC: TS870; Dewey: 674/.833 ; OCLC: 1323833 ; brown cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Veneering past, present and future -- What a few basic veneering skills can do for you -- How veneers are cut so thin -- Kinds of veneers you work with -- Tools, equipment and suggested uses -- Modern glues and easier gluing methods -- Selecting, preparing and cutting work veneers -- Clamps, presses and weights -- Simplified techniques for craftwork veneering -- Making veneered panels -- Edge treatments doe veneered panels -- Veneering curved panels -- Removing tape, trimming, sanding, finishing -- How to repair veneering defects -- Useful tricks of the trade -- Pictorial veneering ; cut across back of dustjacket ; else VG/G.

New York : Atria Books, 2002., 2002. Fine. 1st Atria Books hardcover printing ; xiii, 347 pp. ; map ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0671047299; 9780671047290 LCCN: 2002-510579 ; LC: DG675.6; Dewey: 945.3/093 ; OCLC: 49908262 ; scuffed white and gold cloth with metallic red lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; "We accompany Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, meets nobility and boatmen, artists and fish mongers. We learn how she makes peace with the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim, how her home is threatened, if briefly, by the Merchant Ivory crowd, and how she manages to survive both high water and high drama with her landlady, along with much more. Weideger's vision of Venice--wry, intelligent and love struck, if occasionally blurred by tears--is at once haunting and down-to-earth.:"-- dustjacket ; remainder mark on bottom, else FINE/FINE

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1984, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0804712131; 9780804712132 ; LCCN: 83-40093 ; LC: F2325; Dewey: 987/.063 ; OCLC: 11533332 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: On the brink of the twentieth century : the 1890s -- Failure of the generation of Reinaldo Solar and the triumph of the Tachirenses, 1899-1922 -- Oil and the fever of political freedom, 1923-1945 -- The Trienio and the New National Ideal, 1045-1958 -- Romulo Betancourt and the New Venezuela, 1958-1963 -- Political democracy and state capitalism, 1964-1973 -- The petrolization of the national problems, 1974-1983 -- Presidents of Venezuela since 1871 -- Statistical tables ; map ; VG.

New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971., 1971. Very Good. 287 pp. illus. (part col.), maps (part col.), plans, col. ports. 26 cm. ; OCLC: 153363 ; ISBN: 0030860105 ; LCCN: 76-138898 ; red cloth with gold lettering and ribbon, in color dustjacket ; tear to top spine of dustjacket ; 190 illustrations in color and black & white; VG/G

New York : Scribner's, 1914., 1914. Very Good. 5 pp., leaf., 3-215 pp., illustrations. ; 20 cm. ; LC: PS1522 ; OCLC: 30885904 ; red cloth with gold lettering and designs, in uniform series binding ; Miss Civilization originally appeared serially in Collier's Magazine, copyright 1904 ; wear to covers ; front hinge starting ; plate betwen pgs 16 and 17 starting ; 6 plates with classic "Gibson Girl" women illustrations ; top edge gilt ; G

Berlin : E. H. Schroeder, [gedruckt bei Brandes und Klewert in Berlin], 1839, 1839. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st ed.] viii, 292 pages ; OCLC: 14854876 ; blue boards with paper label ; repair to spine ; expanded from a prize-winning essay by this Berlin surgeon a graduate of the University of Berlin and also the author of a work on angina, "Paristhmitidis acutae seu anginae externae Ludwigii historia", who was brought to Germany from Russia at the invitiation of Prince Constantin Friedrich Peter of Oldenburg ; he often titled himself "Jacob Levin from Russia" ("Jacob Levin aus Russland") ; he was the translator of various English medical texts into German ; by 1891, he was Medicinalrat for the Kaiser and tended the prisoners in Berlin ; this volume details the recorded transference of diseases in domestic animals to humans, and therapies used to combat these ; may yet have some significance to researches involving ebola, AIDS, and other diseases linked… Read More

Rotterdam: Gedruikt bij J.J. Thompson, 1823., 1823. Good. xiv, 179 pp. ; 23 cm. ; OCLC: 63955011 ; Saakes 7 (1823), p. 417 ; OCLC: 63955011 ; old ex-lib., stamps ; text in Dutch ; 1/2 leather with marbled papers ; gold lettering and decorations with leather spine label ; old ex lib., stamps ; laid paper ; Essays by the well-known Dutch Schoolmaster ; G