Search Results: Titles starting with V from Voewood Rare Books

Prague Torst 2003, 2003. First edition of this selection of 83 photographs by Chochola's with an introductory essay by Ales Kunes. 160mmx180mm. Inscribed "To Mr John Morris, Blaha and Vaclav CHOCHOLA, Prague, 6.4.2004. Fine copy of this nicely produced volume.

London: Printed for John Wyat 1718 and 1719, 1718. A Volume of six tracts relating to the Bangorian Controversy. 8vo, 192x120mm. pp. [i], 56; 80; xxxii, 1-40, 41-96; 54, [i]; 46. Contemporary vellum, handwritten on the spine is "Pyle". Half title to the whole volume: "Mr Pyle's Answer to Mr. Law". From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, the front pastedown has the bookplate from the South Library. An attractive volume bringing together a series of letters by Thomas Pyle in support of Benjamin Hoadly's (Bishop of Bangor) Whiggish Low Church supinity. The final letter is a reply to Pyle. The whole controversy has an air of Big-endians versus Little-endians although it now appears to be little more than a minor crack in the great rift in English political life currently manifested in the tribal wars between Leave and Remain. 1. A Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Bangor wherein is considered the true Notion of Religious Sincerity, as available to the Salvation of… Read More

London C.Arthur Pearson & Co 1898, 1898. -A Tale of the Conquest of Peru. 1st ed, large 8vo. 306pp, text block VG with some light toning to edges. In dark green boards with gilt stamped titles and Inca portrait design. Boards bumped with expected shelfwear and some old watermarking to rear top corner. The first attempt at serious historical fiction by this unfairly-neglected British pioneer of speculative fiction.

New York: Visionaire 1997, 1997. Limited edition of 3000. Dark blue vinyl case with a pack of large playing cards inside. All inside a white card box. The images on the cards were each designed by individual art directors including Fabien Baron, Mario Testino (who photographed John Galliano as the King of Diamond while Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin photographed Iman as the Queen. The 3,000 issues of Visionaire 21 were packaged in individual jewellery boxes, each with its own lock and key, and offered a real diamond for one lucky subscriber. Sadly no diamond with this one. And this is missing the key but otherwise, this is is a very nice example of Visionaire's stylish and louche work.

New York: Hastings House 1961, 1961. First edition, first issue. 305x215mm. Unpaginated. Cream cloth decorated simply in red. Original black and white illustrated dust jacket protected by plastic cover. Some slight rubbing and chipping to the edges of the dust jacket but overall the binding and jacket are in excellent condition. Extensively illustrated throughout in black and white and colour design demonstrating the principles set out by Sutnar in his text. Accompanying the book is a collection of four A4 size original advertising and marketing leaflets showing Sutnar's work. Two are original examples of marketing material and are reproduced in the book; one is an advertisement for Sutnar's book "Catalogue Design Progress" and one is a simple folded card advertising Sweet's Catalog Service for which Sutnar worked. All are excellent examples of Sutnar's work. This is a very nice copy of an important and scarce book of twentieth century modernist design. Ladislav Sutnar… Read More

Lutetia [Paris] Ex officina Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1549. First edition. 4to. 214x145mm. pp. 199, [1bl]. Ten woodcut portraits making this one of only five illustrated books by Robert Estienne. Beautifully bound for Thomas Wotton in contemporary calf with elaborate gilt and dark brown strapwork with tendrils and leaf motifs in gilt and dark brown inlays. At the centre of both covers is a cartouche framing Thomas Wotton's coat of arms. Rebacked in the late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century with five raised bands, compartments with gilt flower motif, second compartment with morocco label lettered in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, front pastedown has the bookplate of Hagley Hall. Housed in a brick-red morocco slipcase. In excellent condition but with a couple of tiny holes and a small mark on the upper cover and a small worm track on the lower cover. Internally very good, a little soiled in places and with the upper margin trimmed. All bindings made for Thomas Wotton are rare (it… Read More

Moskva [Moscow] T. Ris 1868-1869. First edition. Six parts in three volumes. 8vo. 225x150mm. Vol 1. Part I. [4], 297 [1bl],146; Part II. [4], 186. Vol 2. Part III. [4], 284; Part IV. [4], 336; Vol 3. Part V. [4], 323; Part VI. [4], 290. First edition issue points are present: part III, p227 for p127 and p265 for p255 and part IV, p153 for p253. Map on p239 of part IV. Smartly bound in modern red half morocco, marbled paper covered boards, with the title in French (Guerre et Paix) to the spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to corners. Internally very good, this is an excellent copy in superb condition of one of the cornerstones of Russian, and indeed any, literature. Described by Turgenev as "the epic, the history novel and the vast picture of the whole nation's life", War and Peace began as a serialised work called 1805 which first appeared in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik (The Russian Messenger). Parts of the novel were published in 1867 but Tolstoy was unhappy with it and set… Read More