Search Results: Titles starting with V from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: DC Comics, 1990. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the first hardcover issue of Moore and Lloyd's influential graphic novel, published by the Book of the Month Club (the commercially published version was a paperback). This is one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s, written beginning in 1981 as a response to Thatcherism in the United Kingdom. Its inspiration, Guy Fawkes, allowed Moore to explore themes of political repression and anarchism, unusual topics for comics and graphic novels at the time. This is the only edition of V for Vendetta in hardcover format until the 2005 movie tie-in edition. 286 pages. First hardcover edition (stated "First Printing" on the copyright page with a paper label identifying the printer as Ronalds Printing; the name of the printer of the paperback edition is blacked out, as issued). A fine hardcover copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip missing from the rear flap fold. Very scarce.

New York: DC Comics, 1990. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the first hardcover issue of Moore and Lloyd's influential graphic novel, published by the Book of the Month Club (the commercially published version was a paperback). This is one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s, written beginning in 1981 as a response to Thatcherism in the United Kingdom. Its inspiration, Guy Fawkes, allowed Moore to explore themes of political repression and anarchism, unusual topics for comics and graphic novels at the time. This is the only edition of V for Vendetta in hardcover format until the 2005 movie tie-in edition. 286 pages. First hardcover edition (stated "First Printing" on the copyright page with a paper label identifying the printer as Ronalds Printing; the name of the printer of the paperback edition is blacked out, as issued). A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Harper Voyager, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A post-apocalyptic dark fantasy series. First editions (first printings of all three volumes, with a 1 on the copyright page). All three books are fine in fine dust jackets. All three volumes are also signed by the author. Vagrant is signed and dated with a quote from the book (signed and lined); Malice is copy 21 of 150 copies issued by Goldsboro Books with a blindstamped limitation on the title page; The Seven is copy 93 of 150 copies issued by Goldsboro Books with a blindstamped limitation on the title page.

Ypsilanti: Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, 1983. First edition, hardcover issue. Trade paperback. Very good. Hinojosa describes this un-illustrated book as "a re-creation in narrative prose of a portfolio of etchings, engravings, sketches, and silhouettes by various artists in various styles, plus a set of photographs from a familiy album." These short prose pieces build a portrait of life on the Texas-Mexican border. 112 pages. First edition (first printing, wrappers issue; there was also a simultaneous hardback). Wear to corners, thus very good. Inscribed by Hinojosa to a previous owner in 1992. Signed copies are uncommon.

London: Head of Zeus in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2021. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in the epic Dandelion Dynasty series, here in the signed, numbered UK edition limited to 200 copies. 988 pages. First UK edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 123 of 200 signed by Liu on a tipped-in limitation page.

Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2016. [10] pages, plus an audio DVD. About 8-1/2 inches square. An edition of 100 copies. Colección Andante. Lyrics for a song photocopied on brown recycled paper. Designed by Elizabeth Valero and bound in crumpled paper and fabric over cardboard. The DVD has one short musical track. OCLC: DEIAI FQG FXG HLS IQU NDD NOC STF VWM. Fine. Inscribed by Montalvo with a small drawing of a guitar.

New York: Philomel Books, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of the most beloved of children's picture books, Tenth printing of the revised (1987) edition. A fine copy (one corner bumped) in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Carle in ball-point pen on the title page.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book devoted to 19 women Lowbrow artists. 160 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by one of the contributors, Suzanne Chorna Williams, who is really more of an abstract and conceptual artist than a Lowbrow / pinup artist. Laid in to this copy is a postcard from Williams to the recipient of the book. She does suggest her appreciation of the grotesque in art. The postcard is an original photograph by Williams mounted on another postcard. The image is titled, "gopher" and shows a dead gopher on a paper plate. Her note also reads in part, "Was a pleasure to meat your family..." The postcard is signed "Suzanne and Bob," Bob being her husband, the artist Robert "Robt." Williams, one of the original Zap Comix artists.

San Antonio: Wings Press, 2002. First edition. Trade paperback. Fine. The poetry of Alma Villanueva, like her prose, is drawn from the gut, her womb, and a vital point in an intelligent woman's mind."-Ana Castillo. Substantial. Small edition of 750 copies; this is one of 50 signed and numbered by the author. 203 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers. Numbered, and signed by the author on the colophon.

México [Mexico City]: En la officina de D. Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1806. First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of independent Haiti, who ordered the execution of most of the remaining white residents of the country after the war. The book was quickly translated into several European languages, including Spanish, as a warning to other colonial powers. Juan Lopez Cancelada, a Spaniard who at the time was editing the Mexican periodical, La Gazeta, financed this Mexican edition. Cancelada commissioned two Mexican artists, José Simón de Larrea (who signs his work "Rea" in this book) and Manuel Lopez Lopez, to produce the engravings for which this edition is known. The ten plates, including a frontispiece, are expressive and… Read More

1907. Ephemera. Very Good. Real photo postcard (RPPC). Panoramic view of Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington. Note in pencil at the bottom edge, small spot above image. Postally used, postmarked Juen 16, 1907. A nice image.

[N.-pl. but San Francisco?]: Clifford Burke [Cranium Press], 1969. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 9. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers. Signed and numbered by Enslin on the colophon page.

New York: Pratt, Woodford & Company, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's first book on microscopy. 146 pages plus [2] ads. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's original cloth.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Essays by the beat writer associated with the New Journalism movement, which was in its earliest stages with this publication. Forward by Norman Mailer. This is a revised and expanded edition, and the first hardcover edition (the original 1961 edition was a paperback original). 256 pages. First hardcover edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket (publisher's imprint on spine printed in red and fading). Review slip laid in along with an autograph letter, signed (ALS) from Krim to "Ralph", most likely the music writer Ralph Gleason. The letter is dated 4/11/68, about a month before the official publication date. "Here's reissue of Cannoneer with some new material from same period. Good to see your columns again. (Read last piece in book, expanded, for some jazzy writing which was fun to do & go closer to the truth even when it missed-which it does occasionally. Best to Jean. Seymour." Ralph… Read More

Buenos Aires: (the author), 1934. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 147 pages. First book by this Argentinean novelist. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Spanish scholar Ramon Martinez Lopez, with an autograph letter signed by Imbert to Martinez enclosing the book.

Portland, OR: S. K. Josefsberg Studio, 1979. First edition, hardcover issue. Hardcover. Fine. One of the better monographs devoted to the Czech-American surrealist photographer. Limited to 250 hardcover copies (out of an edition of 2,000). 65 pages; 26 duo-tone plates; introduction by Rod Slemmons; professional history of the photographer as an appendix. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue). Fine in gray cloth boards. No jacket, as issued.

New York: Bantam Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A novel. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine, slightly spine-faded jacket. Inscribed by the author, "To Laurie, Tom Robbins.

New York: Visionaire, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary artists reimagine the popup book, with paper engineering by Bruce Foster. "Many of these techniques had never been done before," said Foster. "So each one was challenging in its own way." Published in an edition of 4000 copies in a purple, cloth-covered case. First edition (now out of print). A fine copy, still sealed in the original shrinkwrap and preserved in the original cardboard boxes. This is copy 1275 of 4000. NB: The images of the interior are from the publisher since the book is still sealed.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. An autobiographical novel of Kerouac's childhood and the death of his older brother. First edition (states "First Printing, 1963"). A near fine hardcover copy, a bit faded along the top edge of the boards, in a very good dust jacket with some shelfwear along the edges and tape repairs on the back (verso) at the spine ends.

Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by film director Roger Corman, who helmed the production of a cycle of Poe films based on scripts written by Matheson. This volume reprints Matheson's scripts for the film House of User (originally titled The Fall of the House of Usher) and The Pit and the Pendulum. The screenplays are accompanied by essays on the making of the films by Richard French. This is one of 52 lettered copies signed by Matheson, Corman, and director Joe Dante, who contributes an afterword. Dante worked on the films with Corman at the beginning of his career. 420 pages. First edition (first printing). This is copy FF of 52 signed copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and near fine traycase that is slightly dented along the leading edge on the back.