Search Results: Titles starting with V from Alkahest Books

Chicago: Illinois Typesetters Inc., 1939. limited edition. softcover. Good. Paper covers with title printed on top cover in a calligraphic cartouche with a small red heart. Approx. 5 5/8" wide y 8 1/4" tall.One page poem plus a colophon, printed in black and red. Red-string-tied. Covers have slight soil; bottom outer corners have some abrasion, chips. From the colophon: "This keepsake, the first of a monthly series, has been printed for the friends of Illinois Typesetters...an edition of 250 copies has been printed, by hand, on a Vandercook proof press. Completed at Chicago, February, 1939./ Design and Typography by N.W. F." (Norman W. Forgue.) 092717B

Genova: Sagep Editrice, (c. 1972),, 1972. Hardcover. Good. 349 pages ,quarto, hardcover. Italian language text. Includes 20 color plates and 208 black and white plates; bibliography and index. Ex-library with pocket in rear and spine label. Small crack on front inner hinge, else Very Good. 051705A

Forestville: Eclipse Comics, 1988. softcover. near fine. Three issues titled: "Party Girl, The Eternal, and Your Cold, Cold Heart." 110504A

Forestville: Eclipse Comics, 1987. softcover. near fine. titled: "Exposure." Pencils: Paul Gulacy. Inks: Willie Blyberg. Letters: Mindy Eisman. Colors: Sam Parsons. Edits: Cat Yronwode. 110504A

New York: George H. Doran Co,, (c. 1914). first American edition. hardcover. Very good. Keller, Arthur I. Octavo, maroon cloth covers, with gilt titles on top cover and spine. 320 pages. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Covers have a touch of wear at corners and head and foot of spine, Very Good. No names or markings. No dust jacket. Supplied with a clear acetate wrapper."The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland." Green and Gibson A39c Studio

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. hardcover. Very good. Octavo, navy blue cloth covers with gilt titles, xxii [2] 343 [1] pages. Includes maps and frontis. portrait of the author. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Some pages nopened, and a couple of rough openings.No dust jacket. 092508E

McGraw-Hill, no date. softcover. Very good. Stapled booklet, (approx. 7" wide by 8 1/2") color illustrations and diagrams. 8 un-numbered leaves plus card covers.. Aimed at advertisers. No date, but appears to be 50s or 60s style art. Studio.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., Publisher, (c. 1910). first edition. hardcover. near very good. Stellmann, Louis J.. Quarto (approx. 8 1/8" wide by 10 7/8" tall). burlap spine over brown boards stamped in gilt and with sepia-toned gravure on top cover. 27 tipped in sepia-toned photogravures with verses on facing pages; both on heavy brown art paper. Photos.depict San Francisco buildings in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Some of the burlap on the spine and joints is frayed or missing. However the book is sound and the interior is fine. "...that modern Acropolis which the Fire God created, that ephemeral and vanished ruin era which in the weird, flame-wrought transformation made things of beauty out of hovels; which carved shapes of classic dignity out of structural atrocities which lent a touch of magical, if spurious, age-refinement to the fire-ravished areas, akin to the decadent and time-hallowed grandeur of Athens and of Rome." --from the introduction. Stellmann was a protege… Read More

Philip Allan & Co., no date (but circa 1923). hardcover. Very good. Quarto, (approx. 7 1/2" wide by 10" tall) blue cloth covers with gilt titles and decoration of a potted rose on top cover. xv [1] 212 pages. Eight color plates including the frontispiece. Decorated title page. Notes in rear, after text. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper; small bookstore label on front free endpaper. Browning on endpapers. Tear in bottom margin of one leaf in introduction--does not affect text. Spine faded, some light spotting along cover edges, still very good. 092715D

Chicago: Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago, 1968. First edition. softcover. Very Good. Chicago: Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago, 1968. First edition. softcover. Very Good. Stapled pamphlet, 24 papers, Includes black and white photo repros. Approx. 6" by 9". Includes appendices and bibliography. 061508B

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. authorized edition". hardcover. Very good. 16mo (approx. 4 3/4" wide by 6 3/8" tall). Bound in tan leather with gilt inner dentelles, gilt titles and decorations. Decorated endpapers; edges dyed dark maroon. "Authorized Edition" is printed on title page. Includes "Advertisement to the Second (American) edition -- a one page text by the author. 391 [1] pages. Former owner name, date and place on a preliminary blank.Small darkened spot on front cover fore edge, else very good. A lovely copy. Travel, Italy, Venice. Studio

Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, (1981). first editon, primera edicione. hardcover. Very good/very good. Text in Spanish. Quarto, 207 pages. Many color photographs. Book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition. This oversize book will incur additional charges for expedited or international shipping. 122615C

NY Harper and Row (c.1986), 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY Harper and Row (c.1986), 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first ed. Pages 4728vo hardcover, cloth and paper over boards first ed. Book and dust jacket very good/very good. #101499A

NY, Fromm International Pub. Corp. (1989),, 1989. Soft cover. near Fine. Pages xvi + 360, trade paperback, reprint. Includes black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. Near fine condition. 022904A ISBN: 0880641061. Opera

New York, Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1930,, 1930. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Pages ix [3],13-235,octavo, hardcover. Authorized translation by Margaret Mac Veagh. With seventeen illustrations and eight maps in half-tone. Jacket and endpapers by Karl S. Woerner. Navy cloth covers, one corner bumped, else Very Good. Dust jacket has several closed tears, small damp stain at foot of spine, Good. An attractive copy. 092508A

London, The Hyperion Press, ( 1940),, 1940. Hardcover. Very good. 168 pages, large quarto, hardcover. Includes 160 plates, black and white and color illustrations. Dark red cloth covers, top cover corners lightly bumped.Text in English, Very good condition. No dust jacket. 081006A

New York: Payson and Clarke Ltd, 1829. hardcover. near fine. Large octavo, orange buckram covers, 287 pages. Includes black and white photo reproductions. No dust jacket. 092508D

Chicago: The Board of the Human Ecology Study Group, (1980). revised edition. softcover. Very good. Kapner, Elizabeth. With illustrations by Elizabeth Kapner. Card covers, comb-bound book, 169 pages. Approximately 5 1/2" by 8 1/2". Very good condition. 010608A

NY, The Macmillan Co., (1964),, 1964. first edition, first printing. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 306 pages, octavo, black cloth cover with blue and gilt titles on spine. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. 091306A "The extent to which America's massive and pervasive economic blocs control our lives is examined in this broad study in revealing detail..."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919. First American Edition. hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo, tan buckram with paper (browned) label on spine. vi [2] 373 pages. Includes illustrations, maps and extensive index. No dust jacket 092508F World War I, The Great War