Search Results: Titles starting with V from Knickerbocker Books

New York; Orpington and London: Charles E. Merrill & Co./George Allen, 1891 Copyright 1891 and 1891 printed on title page. A VERY GOOD+ copy - clean, and crisp. The only marking is a custom bookplate on front pasted endpaper. Pages are clean and fine, including 13 tissue protected illustration plates. Bound in olive green cloth hardcover with gilt titling on spine. Cover is clean and very good, lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Binding and hinges tight - no splits or cracks; boards and spine straight. Ruskin gave these 10 lectures at the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1873. 5 x 7-1/2"; xv, 256 pages.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

New York: Valentine's Manual Inc., 1923 VERY GOOD. Clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound in half-leather hardcover. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Black leather spine and corners with olive green cloth over boards; spine is gilt titled and has 5 raised bands. A few leaves chipped at thumb edges due to a careless cutting apart of pages; edge gilt dulled, otherwise internally fine. Cover is moderately rubbed but clean and sturdy. Profusely illustrated with both sepia toned illustrations and plates: photos, drawings and reproductions, as well as six color plates - including frontispiece with view of Gracie Mansion and Carl Schurz Park, and a double-page view of lower Broadway. 5-1/4 x 7-5/8"; xix + 386 pages. Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Stated First Edition. FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy in beige cloth hardcover, titled in black on spine. Unclipped jacket is slightly toned along spine but otherwise bright and fresh and fine. 6-1/4 x9-1/2"; xiv + 337 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Metropolitan Museum/Harry N. Abrams, 1986 1986 - to accompany the Nov. 1986-March 1987 Metropolitan Museum exhibition. NEAR FINE in FINE dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound hardcover. Faint marginal toning, otherwise pages fine, bound in blue cloth hardcover which is clean and unworn. Dust jacket is clean, bright and unworn. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Yellow endpapers. Binding and hinges tight and intact. 304 illustrations, including 90 color plates. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. Chronology; four appendixes, List of Works in the Catalogue and Selected Bibliography. 9 x 11-1/4"; 325 pages. A heavy book which may require additional postage for priority or international mailing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008. 2008 Stated First U.S. Edition, First Printing with full number line. FINE softcover. A clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Pages and cover pristine. A remarkable collaboration of author and artist who in this short tale create a moving testament to the power of hope against bleakly overwhelming odds. A beautifully produced book. Extraordinary color illustrations will entrance adults as well as youngsters. Artist Marc Craste is an animator, writer and filmmaker. The short film "Varmints" can be found on the internet. He also created the 2004 BAFTA award-winning short animated film "JoJo in the Stars" and designed and directed many award-winning commercials including 'THE BIG WIN' spot for the National Lottery. 9-3/4 x 12-1/4". 46 pages. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Craste, Marc.

Východoceské Nakladatelstvi, 1963 1963, Východoceské Nakladatelstvi. 241 B/W photographs. VERY GOOD in dust jacket. Book is clean with no markings, pages clean and fine. Rear endpaper is wrinkled or wavy. Bound in white cloth hardcover - cloth lightly toned along spine and margins but still clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket is complete with moderate edgewear (small chiips and creases). 8 x 10-1/2"; 214 pages.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 1992 Softcover reissue of the 1934 study tracking the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. This is a VERY GOOD copy. Gift inscription neatly penned on half-title page, no other markings. Pages clean and supple, firmly bound in illustrated paper cover. Cover is clean, lightly shelf worn - no tears, chips or creases. Binding is tight, no cracks, no creasing to cover spine. 6 x 9-1/4"; x + 285 pages, including index. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Ryuko Tsushin, 1987. 1987 First Edition.. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket and in Good color-printed sleeve/slipcase. Text in Japanese and English. Voluptuous color photography of Venetian landscapes, waterscapes, exotic interiors and masquerades, with several large fold-outs, by the legendary Japanese photographer. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy - no writing, bookplates or stampings. Hardcover of deep pink cloth over boards is titled in white on front and spine. Cover is fresh and fine. Matching pink endpapers with flocking are fine. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Jacket has an unusual design of color printing over silver foil, giving a ghostly aura to the masked figure on the front. It is bright and clean with slight rubbing to surface and edges, light 3" c-shaped indent to front panel, small creases at head of spine. The jacket is in a clear archival protector. Sleeve, of light board, titled in color on front (English and Japanese), Japanese text on… Read More

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1908 First Edition, September 1908. VERY GOOD+ in GOOD+ dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy - tightly bound in lovely hardcover of cream colored cloth titled in black on spine and with titling and decorative stamping, in black, green and gilt on front. Endpapers printed with light blue decoration. Pages printed in two colors - black text and blue decorations and headings in margins. 4 half-tone illustration plates. There is one repeated signature (pages 97-112 appear twice) but no signatures are missing. Binding and hinges firm and intact, though pages 56-57 were never sewn into the binding. As they have not been cut apart, they remain attached to the binding. Pages are otherwise fine, several leaves still uncut. Pictorial black and white dust jacket is lightly soiled, small chips along edges and the flaps (unprinted), though present, have detached. Jacket spine is darkened and lightly mottled - spine ends chipped and also a dime-sized hole in spine that… Read More

The Hague. Netherlands: KPN, Koninklijke PTT, 1995. 1995, First Hardcover Edition (limited to 2,500 hardcover, 2000 paperback). Text in Dutch and English. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy of this sumptuously produced book. KPN, a telecommunications provider in the Netherlands, amassed a major collection of contemporary works by Dutch artists. Approximately 200 color plates display the paintings, prints, photos, sculpture and other media collected from 1945 to 1995. Essays by Hein van Haaren, Wim Beeren and Robert -Jan Muller. Pages are fine. Black cloth hardcover, titled on front with printed paper label, has light color fade along edges, small bumps to bottom edges of boards. Binding and hinges are firm and intact; boards and spine straight. Yellow ribbon markers bound in. Jacket is clean, colorful and complete, with light shelf wear and some rumpling along bottom edge - no tears or chips. 12 x 12"; xxxix + 288 pages. A heavy volume,… Read More

Mexico: La Oficina de los Herederos del Lic. D. Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 1794. Original edition, published in Mexico. Two parts bound in this one volume. NEAR FINE. A clean, tight copy in lovely tree-calf binding. Pages are fresh and unmarked, the paper supple and bright. First 8 leaves, last ~20 leaves and endpapers have small book worm channels at top outside corner (affecting only folios in last few leaves), also a very short channel to top margin of about 6 leaves at center of book. Pages otherwise fine. Leather cover is gilt titled on blue leather spine label. Cover is lightly worn, a few short, shallow worm channels on front cover but overall near fine. Binding tight and straight. A collection of over 900 poems by the Spanish Jesuit, Francisco Xavier Lozano. Born in Spain, Lozano apparently lived in Mexico from about 1737 until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He also wrote "Los atributos de Dios y misterios del Dios hombre." 6 x 8-1/4". Part 1: xiv + 168 pages. Part 2: 173… Read More

Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Geene Press/Vermont Life Magazine & Vermont Historical Society, 1974. 1974 First Printing. NEAR FINE in GOOD+, unclipped, dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Hardcover of tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine is fresh and unworn. Dust jacket, flaps not clipped is clean with moderate edgewear - short tears and creases small chips at spine ends and corners folds and a chip from bottom edge of back panel. The jacket is in a clear archival protector. A fascinating collection of vintage photographs companioned by Hill's superb descriptive writing. 8-1/2 x 11-1/4".; 144 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 4to.

Privately Printed, 1928. 1928. Neatly penned owner name on front endpaper, otherwise an unmarked copy. Clean, crisp and tightly bound. Photographic frontis. Printed in 2-color on fine water-marked paper. Deckle edge. Bound in green paper boards with green cloth spine, silver title label on front board. Light soiling and darkening along edges, spine ends rubbed. 38 text pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Privately Printed.

New York: The Imp Press, 1930. 1930 First Edition. GOOD hardcover; no jacket. A collection of short, ribald verses, each accompanied with a delightful 2-color drawing by cartoonist and painter Howard Baer (~1906-1986). Pages are very good - occasional marginal light soil markings. Previous owner name written on front pasted endpaper, no other markings. Bound in hardcover of yellow cloth titled in black on front and spine and with a red line illustration on front. Cover is soiled and toned with tears and old tape residue along bottom half of spine and hinges, bump to top edge of front board. Binding tender but intact. Definitely oddball! 6 x 9-1/4". 64 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Baer, Howard.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 1974. NEAR FINE. Large format paperback in Dover's strong, sewn binding. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Pages fresh and fine. Paper cover has price intact and is clean with no tears, chips or creases - slightly rubbed along edges. With 1000 B& W illustrations - reproductions of art from the 19th century fashion magazine 'Harper's Bazar' (correct spelling! not yet 'Bazaar') artwork that highlights clothing trends from natural form to the hour glass figure and details from corsets, bustles and puffs, to hats, shoes and other accessories. 9-1/4 x 12-1/4"; ix + 293 pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: B.T.Batsford Ltd., 1972. 1972 First Edition. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD, price intact, dust jacket. Inscription on front endpaper to David Schaffer from "Terry Jones" (possibly the author) dated August 1976. An otherwise unmarked, clean and tightly bound copy. Pages crisp and fine. Bound in green hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Light bumps to top edge of cover; otherwise cover is clean and fine. Unclipped dust jacket is clean and intact; there is a 2" closed tear at bottom front panel near spine, light edgewear. Binding tight and intact. 153 vintage photos dating from the 1850s through first decade of the 20th century. Text and captions in both English and Welsh. Evan David Jones was the Librarian of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth from 1958 to 1969. 7-1/2 x 10". 128 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Paris: C.P. Berton; La Veuve Herrissant, 1780. 1780. VERY GOOD. Pages clean and supple, firmly bound in full calf leather binding, with hand marbled endpapers, all page edges red stained. Ex-libris (Bibliotheca Minorum Harlemensium) with circular red stamp on title page, green stamping on facing blank page (Algemene Province Katalog.) Otherwise internally near fine. Leather binding is clean, moderately rubbed and a bit darkened. Spine, with five raised bands, is gilt tilted on red leather label; other compartments gilt decorated. Corners worn to board, shallow chip at head of spine and some cracking to leather along front hinge. Binding is tight and intact; hinges firm. 4 x 6-1/2". viii + 388 pages, inclusive of Approbation.. Leather. Very Good.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1967 Very Good softcover. A clean, unmarked and solidly bound copy. Bright yellow paper cover slightly rubbed with some light creasing but clean with no tears or chips - price intact on front cover. Binding firm, no creasing to spine. Zinn's argument against further American involvement in the war in Vietnam - dispelling "the fog of words, the shameless double-talk, and the myths that have beclouded American understanding of the issues, the alternatives and the real meaning of the war in Vietnam." A historically significant work. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4"; 131 pp. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1982. First 1982 facsimile Edition. Softcover in VERY GOOD condition. Reprint of the 1856 treatise on town and house planning, including materials and construction styles, gardening and landscaping, ventilation and more. Includes 100 illustrations: drawings, floor plans, initials and vignettes." The book was published with the intention of being a sequel to the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, the American landscape designer. Today the work will interest not only architectural and cultural historians, but those who seek attractive tiny or small house design alternatives. (Note chapters titled "Cottages of One Story," "Cottages of One Story and Attic," "Farm Houses," "Hill-side Cottages" and even "Double Cottages" for those interested in side-by-side two-family small homes!) Several larger homes are also represented. This soft cover is clean, totally unmarked, firmly bound. Page edges slightly toned but… Read More

20 fine black and white Engravings of works by the nineteenth century Swiss artist, Auguste Baud-Bovy. Each work is presented in duplicate (40 engravings in all). Each is stamped "B 92 BAU" on lower rear corner. Plates are loose in hardcover portfolio. No publisher or date information survives other than a small Ecole des Beaux Arts library label dated Dec.1914 affixed to the inside front board of the portfolio.  All engravings are clean and bright. Edges are rubbed and worn, but margins are generous and wear does not come at all close to image areas. There is a light crease to Plate 2 that touches the art, but should smooth out once framed. One plate has a soil mark about 2" below the image area.  About half of the identifying tissues are missing, most of the rest are edgeworn . Works, primarily beautifully detailed, dramatically lighted Alpine scenes, include ""L'Homme a la toque" (a portrait of the artist); "Bergers s'exercant a la lutte";  "Le soir"; "Lioba!"; "La cime"'; La… Read More