Search Results: Titles starting with V from Type Punch Matrix

(New York): (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 2011. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of Grafton's 22nd 'Alphabet' mystery starring private detective Kinsey Millhone. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter yellow cloth with red cloth boards. Spine and front board stamped in metallic red. [10], 437, [1] pages. Signed by Grafton on title page. Light edgewear to jacket; a few faint smudges to top edge of text block.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. Fine.. First edition, first printing, in which two pigs go on vacation and don't find what they expect. This copy was once in the inventory of Aleph-Bet Books, and the description uses their images; if you would like further photos of the book, please contact us. 8.25'' x 8.25''. Original boards. In original dust jacket. 31, [1] pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. First printing of this story of twins separated at birth, one raised as royalty and the other raised in the forest by bears - winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Nancy Ekholm Burkert's delicate colors and her masterful combination of texture and light makes her art perfect for picture books. Her work has earned various accolades including a Caldecott Honor and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. 9.25'' x 10.5''. Original cloth boards. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [48] pages. Folded color pictorial poster loosely laid in. Jacket with just a touch of edgewear. Tight.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Very good plus in very good minus dust jacket.. First edition, second printing of this mystery-thriller set in the French Riviera - uncommon in original dust jacket. A luxurious house party on the French Riviera leads to a rabbit hole of intrigue and false identities in VANDERLYN'S ADVENTURE. This attractive copy retains its uncommon dust jacket, which sports a very proto-JAMES BOND aesthetic. 7.5'' x 5''. Original blue cloth binding. Original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Black topstain. Fore-edge machine-deckle. 322 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, a bit of chipping to spine ends; long closed tears to flap joints, one smaller closed tear and light rubbing to rear, some sunning to spine. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends, slight toning to spine lettering. Overall sharp and clean.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999. Very good in fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of Frommer's fourth musical mystery featuring symphony manager Joan Spencer, set at the quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($23.95) pictorial dust jacket by Alan Dingman. 229, [1] pages. Inscribed by Frommer on title page. Small scuffed patches and transparent tape remnants to front and rear boards. Slight edgewear.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this English translation of a Russian Cinderella story, featuring a magical talking doll and Baba Yaga. Nonny Hogrogian, an Armenian-American from a family of artists, started her bibliographic career as a book designer for publisher Thomas Y. Crowell. She worked as an art director for several other publishers, until she earned her first Caldecott Medal for ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE in 1965 - the success inspired her to become a full-time illustrator. It was a good choice: she earned another Caldecott Medal in 1972, and a Caldecott Honor in 1977. Many of her works incorporate aesthetics and stories from her Armenian heritage. Uncommon signed. 9.5'' x 7.75''. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped ($4.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [16] leaves. Inscribed by Hogrogian to title page, dated 10/15/70. Jacket and binding with areas of dampstaining, primarily to… Read More

Frankfurt: Sauerlander, 1961. Very good.. First German edition, illustrated with charming color illustrations by Sendak. 8.5'' x 6''. Original pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. 62 pages. Some rubbing to boards, slight bumping to corners. Light offsetting to first and last leaves, else interior clean. Hinges tight.

Leningrad: Guiz, 1928. Very good.. Third printing of this avant-garde celebration of technological innovation by the celebrated pair of modernist children's book collaborators, Marshak and Lebedev. Children are taught about modernism and scientific progress through a comparison of tools of "yesterday" next to the tools of "today": the plume beside the typewriter, buckets for gathering well-water beside indoor plumbing, candles beside lightbulbs. Lebedev, ever experimenting, depicts the old methods with sketch-like drawings and the new methods with stencil-like designs. Scarce in any early printing, this is the same printing featured in Lévèque and Plantureux's Dictionnaire des illustrateurs de livres d'enfants Russes. 11.25'' x 8.75''. Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers printed in black, red, and blue. Illustrated by Lebedev in color throughout. [12] pages. Spine carefully repaired, light soiling and edgewear to wrappers.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1947. First edition (stated). Very good in very good jacket.. First edition, first printing of this mid-century American noir novel in the style of Chandler, and the basis for the 1948 film LARCENY. 7.5'' x 5''. Original green cloth stamped in darker green. In original unclipped ($2.50) green pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. 224 pages. Some wear to spine ends and corners. Jacket with sunning to spine, shallow chipping to spine ends (affecting lettering at foot), moderate edgewear.

(New York): Avon, 1973. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of the most adorable of all the Avon Satanic Gothics. A neurotic novelist-in-mourning, too delicate for a soul-crushing 9-5, finds herself in a Situation caring for seven sacred Egyptian cats in a Victorian mansion off the coast of Maine in this exquisitely wish-fulfilling entry into Avon's highly collectible, now rare, "Satanic Gothic" line. The "Satanic" in Satanic Gothic was more of a guideline than a rule rigidly adhered to, but Avon's specialty Baphomet-headed logo reliably indicated some manner of occult menace above and beyond the simple earthly murder-husbands sufficient unto the gothic needs of a gentler era. In the case of VENGEANCE OF THE CAT GODDESS, that menace comes from the threat of human sacrifice to the ancient gods: a lesson to all readers who don't already know that the perfect house-sitting situation is always too good to be true. "Jennifer Stephens" was a pseudonym of Kathleen Jenks, who put her Ph.D. in… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this Halloween tale of a young witch who decides to see for herself why they say humans are so scary - and makes a friend along the way. Harry Bliss is known for his prodigious work for THE NEW YORKER, including over 24 cover illustrations and hundreds of comics. His artistic expansion into picture books has proven successful, with a slew of NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers. 9'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Bliss to title page. Clean.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First printing. About fine in near-fine jacket.. Rare first edition copy of this landmark picture book with an entirely intact dust jacket priced at $4.25 - i.e. not price clipped. Carle's legendary picture book has always been found price clipped in the first edition - including even the author's own copy (ref. Grolier 100) - until this copy was discovered. It likely escaped that fate because it was never offered for sale; for decades it lived in the personal collection of a former employee of the World Publishing Company. While contemporary publication notices in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY clearly state a list price of $4.25, first issue copies of the book are only seen with the corners of the front flap clipped, either with an additional sticker priced at $3.95, or without. The jacket on this copy carries the original printed price of $4.25 making it a tremendously rare complete, unaltered copy - and further confirming the theory that the entire… Read More

New York: Duffield, 1924. Very good plus.. Early printing of the original Duffield edition (more commonly found as the Dial reprint), illustrated with Smith's gorgeous aesthetic to accompany an anthology of nearly 100 stories and poems reflecting popular children's literature of the 1920s. 9.25'' x 7.5''. Original navy cloth, pictorial paste-on. Illustrated by Smith with 9 lovely color plates (including plate on front board). Scattered foxing, edge of frontispiece frayed.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2006. Near fine.. Signed later printing of this strange story of the goat-menacing GAPPERS, with delightfully odd illustrations by award-winning artist Lane Smith. Lane Smith's charmingly peculiar artistic style has graced publications from children's literature to periodicals, and even the covers of punk rock albums. His children's book illustrations have earned him numerous accolades, including two Caldecott Medals and five New York Times' Best Illustrated Book awards, as well as the adoration of numerous slightly off-center kids. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. 84 pages. Signed by Lane to half-title page, with original drawing of a goat on a cliff. Binding lower corners a bit bumped. Vibrant.

New York: Villard, 2000. Fine in fine glassine.. Signed first printing of this strange story of the goat-menacing GAPPERS, with delightfully odd illustrations by award-winning artist Lane Smith. Lane Smith's charmingly peculiar artistic style has graced publications from children's literature to periodicals, and even the covers of punk rock albums. His children's book illustrations have earned him numerous accolades, including two Caldecott Medals and five New York Times' Best Illustrated Book awards, as well as the adoration of numerous slightly off-center kids. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($23.95) pictorial glassine. Illustrated in color. 84 pages. Signed by Lane to half-title page, with original drawing of a goat on a cliff. Sharp.

New York: Ace Books, 1979. First printing. Fine.. First US edition of Watson's first short story collection, whose title story was nominated for a Hugo Award. 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers by Paul Alexander, cover price $1.95, 86190-3. 244, [4] pages. Minor edgewear.

New York: Atheneum, 1982. Fine in like, price clipped jacket.. First edition, in which Pete Pig's friends surprise him with a statue of himself on his birthday. 6'' x 8.75''. Sturdy cloth binding. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by the author on every page on a tan background.

New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1987. Fine.. First edition of this very readable biography of Lewis Carroll, with many excerpts of his letters to children. Quarto. Original quarter cloth, paper boards. In original dust jacket. Illustrated with photos and in black and white. 118 pages with index.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1929. First edition. Very good.. First printing of this calendar for 1930, featuring verses by A. A. Milne and illustrations by E. H. Shepard, and with charming appearances by Winnie the Pooh. Produced at the height of the first round of Pooh mania, this calendar showcases the winning team of A. A. Milne's charming words and Ernest H. Shepard's finely rendered figures, including a number of cameos by the Silly Old Bear himself. A scarce, ephemeral Milne item. 10'' x 8''. Original color pictorial wrappers, string-bound at the top. Illustrated in color. [12] leaves, printed one side only. Front wrapper with light soil, tiny tape repair to one binding hole, a few other spots of repair; both holes reinforced to verso. Occasional faint soil to leaves. Sound.

Praze [Prague]: Alois Hynek, 1890. Near fine.. Darling Czech children's book, with vibrant chromolithographs of well-to-do children engaging in various activities including going to the zoo, going sailing, and buying new toys. When this work was published, Prague was still situated within the Austro-Hungarian empire. Nevertheless, the Czechs maintained a strong cultural identity centered around Prague, which had a lively upper class - the perfect audience for a book about fancy little children having fun. 11'' x 5.5''. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in color and brown line. [12] pages. Wrapper with light rubbing, a bit of edgewear. Leaves with a touch of toning. Colors vibrant.