Search Results: Titles starting with V from Grampy's Bookcase

545 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Slight wear to the corners of the covers. DJ had several small chips and is generally worn along the outer edges. Previous owner's name label is attached to the front top corner of the free end paper.

422 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Some age-toning. A price has been written in on the inside back cover. DJ has wear and small chips along the outside edges but is intact. From the Publisher's note, "This volume contains some of the most important of V.I. Lenin's works relating to problems of the international labour and communist movement."

Appears new other than several underlined passages and light pencil notes in the margins.

160 pp. As new condition. Full color plates throughout. DJ in as new condition.

340 pp. As new condition. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Unclipped DJ in fine condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square binding with bright gilt lettering on the sine. Crack at margin at the front free end paper. Binding and sheets are firmly attached. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece. Previous owner's name on the top edge of a front free end paper. An attractive volume.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Lettering and scroll design on the spine is slightly faded. Pp. 157-206 have a very small whole present in the outer edges of the margins. Previous owner's name and address are on the top of the half title page.

Text is clean unmarked in tight and square covers. very slight wear to the top of the back cover. From the front cover, "A highly readable, authoritative report that reveals the Vatican as a nerve center of high finance - and penetrates the secrecy of Papal wealth." Three pages of ads at the back of text. Small stain on the top outside corners of the last three pages of text.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has a number of dark smudges on the front and back. Slight wear on the outside edges of the binding. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. From the Preface, "Surely, then, the nature, aims and workings of the Catholic Church deserve new scrutiny. The American citizens, perturbed by the past, bewildered by the present and made increasingly anxious about the future, would do well to ponder the exertions of the vatican in contemporary American and world politics. His destiny as well as the destiny of the United States, and indeed of mankind, has been and will continue to be profoundly affected by the activities of an institution which, although a church, is nonetheless as mighty a political power as the mightiest of the planet."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp is on the top of the text block. Price unclipped DJ has been protected by a plastic cover and has no chips, tears, or creases. From the front DJ flap "A great deal has been written about the Roman Catholic Church as a religious, charitable, and educational institution. But, until now, there has been very little information on the Church as a business organization. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and authoritative report that reveals the Vatican as a nerve center in high finance."

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Volume appears unused. Only defect is foxing on the top of the text block. Price unclipped glossy DJ is without creases, chips, or tears. Color illustrations throughout. From the front DJ flap, "This beautiful and authoritative book, written by the eminent art historians Hugh Honour and John Fleming, contains 130 exquisite watercolors, oil paintings, etchings, drawings, and black-and-white photographs of the period. It is a celebration not only of the lives and works of three major artists, but also of the wonderfully romantic city of Venice."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Front and back binding have stains. Price unclipped DJ is intact with very minor wear around the outer edges and some foxing. Stated first edition. A solid volume. From the front DJ flap, " ...Mr. Lancaster, who was five years American vice-consul at Kobe, Japan, has written a novel with an altogether different historical setting - 17th century Japan, when the Dutch East India Company had a rich but precarious foothold in that little-known land."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is loose with a crack at the margin opposite the title page. A small, closed tear is at the top of the title page. Six pages of ads at the back of the text. From the Author's Notes, "The invasion of Greece by Xerxes, with the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, forms one of the most dramatic events in history. Had Athens and Sparta succumbed to this attack of oriental superstition and despotism, the Parthenon, the Attic Theatre, the Dialogues of Plato, would have been almost as impossible as if Phidias, Sophocles, and the philosophers had never lived. "

338 pp. Clean, bright, and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Black and white illustrations included. Appears as an unread copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Covers are without creases, chips, or tears. Text is in German. Very slight wear around the edges of the spine. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the half title page.

433 pp. As new condition. Black and white glossy illustrations included.

210 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Covers have some smudging but are intact with minimal wear. Stated on the back cover, "James E. Jackson is the editor of 'The Worker' , the national newspaper which presents the Communist viewpoint on current events."

520 pp. Penciled bracketed passages on pp. 442-445. Foxing throughout. Binding is cocked with slight cracks at the hinges. Inscription dated "Christmas 1885" on the front free end paper. previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Frontispiece illustration included. This volume from "The Works of Charlotte Bronte An Illustrated Edition in Four Volumes".

120 pp. Underlined passages and notes in the margins throughout. Covers are intact and tight. Fifteen additional pages of photos included in the back. "And the epic of the virgin lands has once again shown the world the fine moral qualities of Soviet people. It has become a symbol of the selfless service to the Homeland, a great achievement of the socialist epoch." p.120.

183 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Fourteen pages of black and white photos. DJ has some smudging and fading at the spine.