Search Results: Titles starting with V from The Book Shelf

Moscow: Soviet Russia Publishing House. Very Good+. 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Color illustrations and photographs of Lenin in various media: papier-mache paintings, embroidery, porcelain painting, bone, wood and stone carvings, postage stamps, memorable medals and metal chasing. Gilt image of Lenin on front board. Silk ribbon bookmark. In four languages: Russian, French, English, and German. Scarce. ; Color Illustrations; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 116 pages .

Norway: Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag. Very Good+. 1968. Paperback. Previous owner's identification on title page. ; Book is in excellent condition. Text in Norwegian. Making lace instructions, directions and illustrations; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 39 pages .

New York: Exposition Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Slight musty smell. ; Inscription to friend (long) , and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Erratum slip laid in. Tight binding, and clean, unmarked pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 106 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good+. 1929. Hardcover. Slightly rubbed corners - no fraying or wear. Penciled notes on rear endpaper - may be of interest to scholars? Faint trace of erased name on front free endpaper; Book is in excellent condition - tight binding and clean, unmarked interior. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 356 pages .

London: Studio Editions. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 1851703217 . Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - dustjacket protected in a mylar sleeve. The author "locates the artist's work within the context of tension between his longing for security and the ambition to escape the nest, an image which dominated his life." ; Color & B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 143 pages .

New York: Hafner Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0028509307 . Both book and dustjacket are in pristine condition. "Here is their history, natural and unnatural, the story of a primitive plant and its frail effort to survive in our industrial world." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages .

New York: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Minimum signs of being ex-library (spine label and date-due pocket in rear) . ; Both book and dustjacket are in pristine condition. Scarce copy in this condition. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine. 1922. Hardcover. ; 84 pages .

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st. Hardcover. 0811811409 . Both book and dustjacket are in pristine condition. "Sara Wolfe is about to fall backwards. The thick walls that separate the past from the present are crumbling, but she doesn't know it yet. She's just working at the museum, retouching yet another canvas, trying not to go out of her mind with boredom. Putting down her brush - just a short break, she thinks - she heads to the gallery to take another look at that new drawing, the one she can't stop thinking about, the one of the Hindu god Shiva, who dances ... That's when it all begins." [flap]; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 131 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Slight sunning due to placement on shelf? ; "Thirty years of poems . . . ," no, I can't make that rhyme - But he could do it in no time! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 522 pages .

Boston: Down East Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Five volumes sold as a set. Versus was the author's first collection of new verse to be published in 6 years. Many Long Years Ago contains chiefly poems from his first five books of verse. And, The Private Dining Room (1953) is the first completely new collection of poems since Versus published in 1949. Then there is the bonus of even more clever entertainment in the other two books of verse. All books are in excellent condition with only one library stamp on the front free endpaper - No spine label on either the book or dustjacket, no book pocket, etc. ; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall .

New York: Arco Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Revised Edition; 4th Printing. Hardcover. Dustjacket has a couple of closed tears, and sunning to spine and top edges. ; Book is in excellent condition. This work, in its 15th edition since 1877, "covers the whole field of disease in the horse and every subject dealt with is examined from all angles." Profusely illustrated with photographs and detailed drawings. Heavy book. Because of weight or size of some books, additional postage may be required. We will notify you if it is necessary to charge you an additional amount. You will then have the option of cancelling the order. ; B&W Illustrations & Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 655 pages .

London: MacMillan & Company. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. Slight fraying to top of spine. Corners rubbed. A few tiny chips to the paste on spine label. ; Book is very good condition - exceptions noted. Tight binding and clean, unmarked pages. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 305 pages .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. 1st. Hardcover. 0300103905 . Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. "In the . . . history of wolves in America - and of the humans who hated and loved them [the author] investigates a fraught relationship betwen two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding." ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 270 pages .

North Hollywood, CA: Renegade Press. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. First issue of this venture. Obviously a collector's item. In excellent shape considering the nature of comic book material. All pages and binding (staples, of course) are clean, intact and tight. ; Vol. 1; B&W Illustrations; Unpaginated pages .

Paris: Plon-Nourrit. Very Good+. 1920. Hardcover. Three tiny dots on rear panel. Very slight toning to the foredges of the covers - hardly noticeable, but mentioning it anyway. ; Book is in pristine condition - minor exceptions noted. Scarce copy in this condition and at this price. No date. French language. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 47 pages .

Kentucky: Plum Lick. Near Fine. 1992. 2nd. Paperback. 0963288601 . B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages; Signed by Author .

Vermont: Smith & Shute. Very Good+. 1825. Second Edition. Leather Bound. Pencilled name and date on front free endpaper. Lightly toned throughout, but does not affect the legibility of the text. ; Book is in excellent condition. "Mormon General Authority B. H. Roberts concluded that this book, originally published in Poultney, Vermont in 1823 (7 years prior to the Book of Mormon) was available to Joseph Smith and contained enough parallel material to the Book of Mormon so as to furnish a virtual "ground-plan" for it." [institute for religious research] Scarce copy in this condition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 285 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper - a poem has been pasted on the verso. Some soiling to the dust jackets, but protected and less noticeable with a mylar sleeve - no chips or tears to the dust jacket. ; "Here is a delightful story of a year with a schoolful of children . . . They live in the English village of Fairacre - a handful of thatch-roofed cotages, a church, the school - and their teacher is the remarkable Miss Read." Profusely illustrated by noted artist, John Goodall. ; Pen and Ink; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages .

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz. Very Good+. 1871. Hardcover. Spine sunned, but gilt lettering still bright. Gift inscription on half title page. ; Eldest daughter of William Makepeace. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. Top edge gilt. ; Tauchnitz Edition Series; Vol. 1157; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 343 pages .