Search Results: Titles starting with V from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976 One of about thirty copies hand-colored by Angelo, out of a total edition of 400 copies. This copy is signed by Angelo, and has his annotation: "This copy has been hand colored by the artist." . Red linen over yellow-gold boards, decorated in blue-gray. Printed paper spine label. . Folio. Numerous full- and partial-page illustrations from Angelo's books, Decorative initial letters and tail-pieces. Bottom corners lightly bumped, Near fine in acetate dust jacket, and plain paper dust jacket. Both jackets chipped.

[San Francisco:] The Book Club of California 2007 One of 350 copies. This is book number 222 of the Book Club of California.. Quarto. With eight photographs and illustrations from the author's collection. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Computer layout by Kina Sullivan. Set in Cycles type designed by Summer Stone. Printed by Hatcher Press on Finch Vellum #70 paper under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. Bound by the Roswell Book Bindery. Green cloth boards titled in gilt. Prospectus laid in. A fine copy in the plain white dustjacket.

[Ostfildern-Ruit:] Hatje Cantz Publishers, [2002] First edition in English. Cloth. Quarto. With 266 illustrations, 236 in color. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, [1983] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Top corners lightly bumped. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

Frankfurt: Andreae Wcheli Heredes, Joann. Aubrium & Claudium Marnium, 1587 Two of the separate volumes of the collected works of Aristotle in Greek, edited by Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), the noted German classics scholar who was a pupil of Henry Estienne. The complete set is in eleven volumes, printed between 1584 and 1587, and which is seldom found complete. Riley, Aristotle Texts and Commentaries states: "the volumes, each unnumbered and with special titles, were also issued separately. [Bound with:] Aristotle. De Animalium Historia Libri. X. Addita e Theophrasto Collectanea Quaedam de Animalibus…Frankfurt: Andreae Wecheli Herdes, Claudium Marnium & Joannem Aubrium, 1587. Quarto. [4], 484, [2] pp. Indexed. Woodcut device on tiktle. Title in Greek and Latin. Text in Greek, section of commentary in Latin. Quarto. With some woodcut illustrations. Woodcut device on title, repeated on last leaf but larger. Title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, section of commentary in Latin. Bound together in… Read More

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1961] One of 1,000 copies. First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 115 illustrations. Fine in dust jacket with some light edgewear.

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1990 One of fifty copies printed by Ward Ritchie. Bound by Joseph D'Ambrosio in quarter natural linen over pale yellow boards with geometric cutouts. Paper label with title printed in black. Blue endpapers. . Octavo. With eighteen color-printed geometric illustrations, each paired with a brief quotation, and a title-page vignette. Printed on an Albion handpress. Minor offsetting to a couple leaves. A fine copy of Ritchie's last major work. The quotations include "When the answers are simple you hear God thinking" (Albert Einstein), "Moment by moment the present becomes the past" (Thornton Wilder), and "Memory is hunger" (Ernest Hemingway). The final quotation is "It was a grand adventure, I am content" (William Addison Dwiggins).

Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1995 One of 350 copies. Wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Quarto. Fine.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 Cloth. Folio. With 326 illustrations in color and black and white. Small snag in cloth on front cover. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has a little light shelfwear.

[Cologne:] Taschen/Wildenstein Institute, [1999] Boards. Two volumes in one, quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Somelight offsetting to endpapers. Near fine in very good d.j. Jacket has faint dampstain, not extending at all to book.

New York: Arcade Publishing, [1989] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in fine d.j.

[New York:] Monacelli Press, [1999] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Some soiling on bottom edge. Near fine in fine d.j.

Berlin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1800 First edition. Contemporary half calf. Octavo. A few leaves slightly foxed, but a very good copy.

Princeton: Collector's Imprint Edition, The Pyne Press, [1973] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Forty full-page color illustrations. Very good+ in edgeworn dust jacket with 3/4" x 1 1/2" chip at bottom.

San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press,] 1935 One of only fifty copies . OCLC notes twenty copies libraries. This is one of the scarcest Grabhorn Press books on the market. Decorated blue boards with white spine lettered in red. . Small folio. Title page in black and red. Some light soiling to boards and spine. Offsetting to front flyleaf from front pastedown and from end pastedown to terminal blank. Inscribed by the author in ink on front pastedown: "For Mr. Leon Gelber / Dear Mr. Gelber: / Bob and Jane / Grabhorn told me that you would / like a copy of the little book / of verses. So, here it is. / With sincere regards, / T.J. Powers / San Francisco, Calif. / February 3d, 1936. A very good copy. Thomas J. Powers (1875-1940) was also the author of the novel In the Garden of the Sun (1911).

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1911] First edition. Red cloth. Twelvemo. Very good.

Leipzig: bey Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1781. First edition of this uncommon German philosophical grammar by Johann Werner Meiner, written in opposition to the more rationalist grammars, such as the Port Royal. Meiner stressed the communicative rather than the logical and cognitive side of grammar, and saw the study of language and grammar as a study of human development itself. . Contemporary half tan sheep over paste-paper boards. Gilt spine with tan morocco label. . Octavo. Engraved title-page vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces. Extremities lightly rubbed, foot of spine and label a bit chipped. Overall a very good copy. Meiner (1723-1789) was headmaster of the grammar school at Langensalza. His work was highly regarded in its day. Influential language scholar Johann Christoph Adelung (1732-1806) reviewed it favorably, and scholars continue to write articles about it. A reprint was issued in 1971.

Barcelona: Editorial "Orbis", [1936] First edition. In full tan cloth folding case, stamped in red. . Editorial "Orbis", . Hinges of case cracked, but sound. Text and illustrations in excellent condition. A comprehensive survey of Spanish native costume, from peasant dress to bullfighting attire. Includes sections on the costume of Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon, Andalusia, Navarra, Leon, etc. Spanish text.

London: J.M. Dent, 1904 In a full velucent binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath. Spine and front cover gilt-tooled in architectural design. Front cover features classical columns, with decoration at top and bottom, including flower ornaments and an urn with fruit, back cover gilt paneled. The front cover and spine are richly colored in shades of pink, purple, green, and yellow. Top edge gilt, pink patterned endpapers. . Octavo. Colored frontispiece and title-page and twenty-three colored plates. Edges lightly foxed. A near fine copy. Cedric Chivers (1853-1920) developed the technique of "vellucent binding," whereby an artist would paint on a thin surface, and a sheet of vellum, shaved to translucent thinness, was laid over it, with the result bound over boards. The significant achievement is that "for the first time in the history of the bibliopegistic art the actual work of the artist, undiluted by a translation through the hands of mechanics, is here visible in the decoration of the book" (Chivers… Read More

New York: Da Capo Press, 1975 First U.S. edition. Cloth. Folio. With 119 reproductions. Minor shelfwear. Else fine in fine d.j.