Search Results: Titles starting with V from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Blu Bird Productions, 2000. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed and Inscribed. 116 pages of colored and black and white images by Oppedisano whose photographic work has evolved -- he now works almost exclusively in the world of gay erotica and has produced books such as Indecent Exposure and J/O. This copy is signed with a personal inscription from Joe Oppedisano. Small (about 4" square) book, in coated silver wrappers. Very Good binding.

Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1796. Hard Cover. Poor binding. Jan Wagenaar's highly influential history of the Netherlands, complete in 21 volumes. Each volume bound together with a separate volume of index and notes by other historians, Byvoegsels en Aanmerkingen or "additions and comments". With five folding maps, one folding plan, 112 portrait plates, and 44 folding illustrated plates. The series is considered one of the most important works in the Dutch literary canon, and this edition was likely published to accompany the continuation of this series by other historians about thirty years after publication of the First Edition. Scattered dampstaining to a few of the final volumes. Disbound, with many of the publisher's boards present, though lacking others. Most bindings held with tape; several bindings have textblocks separating, or are lacking a front or rear board. Poor binding.

[Washington, D.C.]: Vasa Order, 1938. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. An uncommon publication of the Vasa Order, the fraternal society for Swedish immigrants to the United States, Uncommon, with 1 copy found in OCLC. A substantial program; short tear to the front panel. Very Good binding.

London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. An Uncorrected Proof Copy of this collection of poems. In the publisher's tan wrappers; nearly a fresh copy with no marks of any kind. Fine binding.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. An uncommon juvenile book from the immediate post-Civil War years. In green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt decorations and titling to the spine. A bright and clean copy, with a small amount of loss to the bottom corner of the front endpaper. Mylar has been custom cut to protect the binding. We locate less than half a dozen copies in OCLC. Very Good+ binding.

Orpington and London: George Allen, 1894. Large Paper Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Large Paper Edition of John Ruskin's Verona and Other Lectures, limited to 250 unnumbered copies. Colored frontispiece and additional plates. Bookplate; toning to the endpapers; minor foxing to the plates. Some toning and wear to the spine. Half vellum with gilt lettering, over green cloth covered boards. Very Good. Very Good binding.

Self Published, 1969. Spiral Bound. Very Good+ binding. Inscribed. INSCRIBED BY FRED LANDIS; no other marks. Very Good+ binding.

Richmond: Library Board, Library of Virginia, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in brown publisher's cloth with title stamped in gold on the spine; very light shelfwear.on spine previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown.Contents clean and bright; folding map frontispiece is present and crisp. Very Good binding.

Venezia | Firenze: Alfieri Edizioni d'Arte | Marchi & Bertolli, 1967. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Signed. A pleasing collaboration by journalist Giorgio Soavi and photographer Gianni Berengo-Gardin. This copy is signed with a personal inscription by the author Giorgio Soavi.~~In the publisher's pictorial laminated boards, which are in much better than usual shape. Very Good binding.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co, 1890. 8vo.; stapled printed wrappers; [8] pages, not including the wrappers; printed in color or in sepia; no date, but clearly an early version of this oft-printed Donahue production, printed on Linen.~~The wrappers are a bit soiled, but nonetheless an attractive copy of this charming Victorian ABC book.

London: Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, 1856. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Two small quarto volumes (10" x 7 1/2"), in black half calf over marbled board; raised bands with decorations and titling in gilt; the first four volumes of The Illustrated London Magazine, each volume consisting of 6 issues, for one half a year--July 1853-December 1853 (282 pages); January 1854-June 1854 (264 pages); July 1854-December 1854 (260 pages); Janaury 1855-June 1855 9272 pages).~~The first 24 issues of the relatively short-lived Illustrated London Magazine. "Illustrated" is certainly the case, as in-text steel engravings are numerous. The articles range from seances to hunting to travel to a visit to Newgate Prison. Of particular interest are the chess columns and diagrams: "For the sake of those readers who are chess players we have engaged for the present and subsequent numbers of the Illustrated London Magazine, the valuable services of Mr. Williams, the celebrated chess player. In each month he will supply… Read More

London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. A First Edition copy of Ang Cheng Guan's The Vietnamese War from the Other Side. With no marks of any kind. Text in English. Red hardback with lettering in white. Fine binding.

England | Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. The Vietnam War, by James H. Willbanks. Part of the International Library of Essays on Military History. With no marks of any kind. Gray cloth, with lettering and illustration stamped in red on the front board and spine. Near Fine binding.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A First Edition copy of David Hunt's Vietnam's Southern Revolution, from Peasant Insurrection to Total War. With no marks of any kind. Black cloth with lettering and rules stamped in silver on the front board and spine. A Near Fine copy. Near Fine binding.

Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum, 2001. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine binding. A clean fresh copy with no ownership or other marks. Near Fine binding.

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two bound volumes of this periodical. published monthly beginning in 1870 throught 1881. With numerous in-text illustrations of fruits, flowers, vegetables, structures, implements and the like. In publisher's terra-cotta cloth, stamped in blind with titling and decorations blocked in gold on the spine; Volume II with some fade. A wealth of rather charmingly presented information on late Victorian gardening practice. Very Good binding.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. One of the scarcer Miss Read titles. A clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Albany, NY: Matthew Bender and Company, 1908. Fourth Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A few notations in pencil, and some toning to the text. Front hinge cracked but holding well. Mild scuffing to the leather labels. Tan buckram, generally in Very Good condition. Very Good binding.

Easton Press | Terrail, 1993. Full Leather. Fine binding. Bound in the publishers full maroon leather, with elaborate decorations in gold, a colorful pastedown, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, The previous owner Easton Press bookplate is attached to the half-title page. From Easton's "Glorious Art" series. Fine binding.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in a special binding of red leatherette, and housed in the publisher's slipcase; xxiii, [xxiv; xxiv], [1], 2-555 pages, including the Index; with map endpapers; illustrated throughout with black and white photographic images; signed by Louis Manarin on the title page; the slipcase has a stain.~~A special copy of the First Edition. Fine binding.