Search Results: Titles starting with V from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 192 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Spine lettering a bit rubbed, minor foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good or better in price-clipped dust jacket, browned at the spine & folds, moderately rubbed, with brief edge wear, still about very good.
The 25th of 29 titles featuring Upfield's biracial Aboriginal Australian detective.

Sammelband, bound pamphlets. Collection of separately published pamphlets, folding plates, & extracts from periodicals bound in a 4to half black morocco album. A manuscript note in ink on the ffep (translated from the French) describes the contents as "individual works collected as a souvenir of Buenos Aires for our friend Pierre Michel-Levy, 10/11/1904." Signed by Duclout. Binding worn: rubbed, upper cover hanging by a cord, contents generally very good, one plate with long closed tear.Contents include: Conferencia final del curso de Teoria de la elasticidad dictado en le Fac de Ciencias Fisico-Matemaáticas de le Universidad de la Capital Buenos Aires: G Kraft, 1888 8vo, original wraps; 33 pp. Republica Argentina: Deuda publica exterior y capitales Europeos empleados por sociedades anonimas Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane, 8vo, original wraps; 24 pp. Estudio sobre las hipotesis mecanicas que sirven de base a la teoria electro-magnetica de la luz [de] Maxwell Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni, 1892 8vo,… Read More

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1969. 4to, xxvii & 463 pp, plus illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth.Lightly soiled, brief wear at bottom corners, text modestly toned, otherwise very good.Originally published in 1891.

Burlington, [Vermont]: "Sold at wholesale by booksellers, and at retail by merchants generally throughout the state," [1857]. First edition thus. 24mo (5.25" x 3.25"), [7], 166 & 2 pages, with map & illustrations, plus 24 unnumbered pages for notes. Publisher's black diced limp roan, wallet style with fold-over flap.
Moderately rubbed & soiled, shallow loss at the base of the flap, occasional scuffs, light foxing & toning, previous owners name in pencil at the title page, otherwise Good or better.
In addition to text describing towns, railroads, business men, literary institutions, etc., as well as advertising, this directory provides a lengthy section for memoranda by day of the month, each month preceded by an illustrated page for moon phases, aspects, events & laconics. Previous owner W. Brigham has added brief annotations in pencil for 112 days generally regarding business affairs & travel.

Burlington, [Vermont]: "Sold by merchants generally throughout the state," [1855]. First edition thus. 24mo (5.25" x 3.25"), [8], 9 - 190 pages, with map & illustrations, plus 24 unnumbered pages for notes. Publisher's black limp diced roan, wallet style with fold-over flap.
Moderately rubbed & soiled, tear at the flap, occasional scuffs, light foxing & toning, previous owners name in pencil at the title page, otherwise Good or better.
In addition to text describing towns, railroads, business men, literary institutions, etc., as well as advertising, this directory provides a lengthy section for memoranda by day of the month, each month preceded by an illustrated page for moon phases, aspects, events & laconics. Previous owner W. Brigham has added brief annotations in pencil for 59 days generally regarding business affairs & travel.

[London]: Marcus Ward & Company, no date (circa 1890). Original tinted lithograph printed on thick card stock measuring 4.75 inches by 5.75 inches. "For Emma" in old ink on the verso.
Slightly toned & soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
A very cool card depicting, presumably, a fat cat banker bull peering through spectacles at a duck carrying a sign reading "Good Times Coming." Publisher Marcus Ward was based in London & the theme of the card almost certainly reflects the depression caused by the Baring Crisis of 1890.

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1859 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued).
Wraps moderately soiled, brief edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on the upper wrap (C.R. Buchinger ?), text browned, light foxing/ toning mostly evident on the versos of the plates, otherwise very good.
Four of the plates are identically annotated in ink on the verso, "Visited by our party in company with Mr., Mrs. & Miss Phelps, 6th August, 1860."
Quite uncommon, OCLC locates a single copy, albeit lacking a plate, at Columbia University (accession number 1122931409).

New York: Amphoto, (1971). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.75"), 151 & [5] pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding slightly spotted, small stain & minor foxing affecting front pastedown, ffep, & half title page, otherwise very good in corner clipped dust jacket (price intact), soiled, toned, rubbed, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, still good or better.
William "Bill" Jay, himself a photographer, presents a history of the nude as a subject for the camera from the earliest days of the genre through 1970. Profusely & delightfully illustrated, the models, with few exceptions, are beautiful young women in a variety of circumstances. Photographers represented include Sam Haskins, Wojciech Plewinski, Mario Giacomelli, Weegee, Wynn Bullock, Lucien Clergue, & numerous others.

Munich & New York: Art Lithographic Publishing Company, no date, ca 1890. First edition Oblong 24mo, unpaginated [8 pp & wraps], vignette illustrations throughout. Original die-cut pictorial stiff paper wraps, ribbon-tied, in the shape of a quaint church.
Lightly soiled & foxed, Very Good Poetical verse attesting to the virtues & comfort of the church, closing with a passage from Psalm 100, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with Praise." Unlocated via OCLC.

Woodstock, Virginia: Published by the N.F. McCann, Volume III, no. 11, Friday, July 7, 1882. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 26 inches by 39 inches folded once vertically & once horizontally forming 8 pages. Uncut.
Old folds, toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing, closed tears & tiny losses), stain in the top & bottom margin, small rubber-stamped mark at the lower margin of the front page, otherwise good or better.
Published weekly from 1880 to 1890, this paper merged with the Strasburg News later in 1882 & was renamed The Virginian and News. Features politics, local news, & splendid, often illustrated advertisements.

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1975. Complete in two volumes. First editions. Small folios, [10], 598, 57; [8], 630 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper covers decorated with the Seal of Virginia.
Brief wear at spine extremities (including a couple of nicks), lightly rubbed & spotted, otherwise very good.
Volume one provides holdings by author & title, volume two by subject.

Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Company, 1966. "Revised edition," originally published in 1930. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"), 255 pp. plus numerous illustrations mostly from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Gilt slightly dull, otherwise a near fine copy in very good lightly soiled & toned dust jacket with slight edge wear.
"Mrs. Lee published Virginia Ghosts in 1930, and in 1932, she published Virginia Ghosts and Others. In the present, revised edition, all of the Virginia and West Virginia ghosts from the two earlier volumes are put into one "closet" and all non-Virginia ghosts are excluded." ~Excerpted from the copyright page.

No place [New York?]: Attica Brigade, no date (ca. 1973). Folio broadsheet (16.5" by 11.25"), the recto featuring a photo offset illustration depicting a presumably Hispanic female striker with clenched fist raised, the verso with supporting text describing conditions at Farah, advocating the right to unionize, & providing suggestions as to "how students can help." Not found in OCLC as of 4/1/2020.
Folded once horizontally, lightly soiled & toned, about half an inch trimmed (or perhaps improperly cut when issued) off the bottom of the sheet (not affecting text), two inch tear at the lower right margin now repaired on the verso with archival tissue, certainly Good or better.
The Attica Brigade was one of the groups formed after the 1972 Students for a Democratic Society splinter. In 1974 the group changed their name to the Revolutionary Student Brigade.
Mediated by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Farah strike lasted for two years but ultimately ended in favor of the largely Latina… Read More

Tarzana, California: "Published semi-monthly" by the editor, issue number 105, [1970]. 4to, 80 pp., illustrated. Pictorial stiff paper wraps, stapled. Edge wear, rubbing & creasing, otherwise good or better.This issue features an endorsement for Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, who was apparently contemplating a run for Lieutenant Governor. "A local Los Angeles gay men's publication containing bar and entertainment news, gossip, articles, columns, drag queen news and events, photographs, male beefcake, and fabulous, fabulous vintage ads." ~Courtesy Tyler and Brad's Index to Early Gay Publications & Periodicals.

New York: Macmillan, 1913. Thomas Fogarty. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 First edition Octavo (775" x 55"), 5 preliminary leaves & 348 pages plus 5 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements, illustrated throughout Publisher's pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & in pale yellow on the upper cover Binding lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the textblock, couple of short tears in lower margin of two leaves, couple of page corners turned, otherwise good or better Although primarily an author in the true crime genre, Pearson here offers an engaging tale for a presumably male juvenile audience