Search Results: Titles starting with V from Aardvark Rare Books

London, England: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thomas Hart Benson. HALF OF MAP IS MISSING. 12mo, 5.5 x 8 in., pp. xi + [1] + 394 + 2 (advertising) + map. Later green binding with original cloth to boards and spine re-attached. Black frames with floral design to boards. Gilt title to spine, quite faded. Untimmed edges. Rubbing to extremities. New endpapers. Owner's signature in ink to top of title page. Rear endpaper map,originally a frontispiece foldout, tipped in at rear. (Entitled "Part of the United States and Canada Showing the Author's Route": WESTERN HALF OF MAP IS MISSING. Map remnant has half inch tape stain on long edge, and is mounted onto replacement endpaper. As the author describes his travels through America just before the civil war, he ruminates on slavery, intemperence, rattlesnakes, Niagra Falls, forest fires, duck shooting, and dozens of other topics.

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Good Plus. Trade Paperback, 8.9 in x 5.4 in., pp. 214. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed in felt tip by the author, with a purple heart, on the title page. Light sunning to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Crease to bottom front corner. Ed Buryn is an author and photographer who was one of the first to popularize the term "vagabonding" through the publication of his books Vagabonding In Europe and North America and Vagabonding in America. Buryn is also a bookseller.

Dublin: James Duffy, 1847. First single-volume edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Phiz. Octavo. Three-quarter brown morocco over plum-colored cloth (8 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in.). Five raised bands to spine (six compartments), each double ruled twice, in gilt, and decorated with a gilt triple berry design. Just a hint of rubbing to corners. Lovely marbling in aquamarine, tan, and white, to endpapers. Some spotting to rear of illustrations, and a bit to margins of the images themselves. [vi], 468 pp. Lovely! William Carleton, who authored this novel (compared to Dickens in style), was an Irish writer bestknown for his "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry". Originally published in three volumes, this, the first single volume, illustrated edition. "Phiz" was the pen-name used by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), an English artist and illustrator. He became quite well known for his illustrations of Charles Dickens's works.

La Jolla, CA: Value Communications, Inc, 1975. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Quarto, 11.3 in. x 8.8 in. Unpaginated. Inscribed and signed with a large smiley face by the author on the front flyleaf. Pictorial paper covers and spine. Very light rubbing to edges of boards. Very light rubbing to dustjacket. Protected in mylar. This is Book #3 in the ValueTales series.

Boston, Mass: Gregg Press (G.K. Hall & Co.), 1979. Stated First Printiing. Hardcover. Like New / Very Good. Mike Symes (Jacket). Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.5 in., pp. vii, [3], 213. Black cloth-covered boards with silver title to spine. Light rubbing and a few small creases to dustjacket edges. Very small chips to dustjacket corners. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good Plus. Quarto, 10 x 11.5 in., pp. vi + 161. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Dark green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Half inch closed tear to top of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. The Knight of Glin is Desmond FitzGerald, former Deputy Keeper of the Victoria and Albert Museum, past president of The Historic Irish Tourist Houses and Garden Society, and a renowned art historian.

Berkeley, Ca: Wilderness Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Quarto, 11.3 in. x 8.7 in., pp. 206. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the half title page. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs. Light blue cloth boards with gilt title to front and to spine. Very light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. A collection of 17 articles by such noted Yosemite climbers as Steck, Harding, Robbins, Chouinard, Robinson, Pratt, and others. This is Rowell's first book. "Galen Rowell (1940-2002), an outstanding landscape photographer, practiced what he termed ''participatory photography,'' seeking to infuse the pictures he took with his own feelings about the scene before him rather than settling for the role of observer with a camera. What drew him to photography, he said, was not a desire to see the world through a camera but an intense devotion to the wilderness, which also lead him to become an avid mountaineer. "Mr. Rowell made skillful use… Read More

NEW YORK: William Wood and Company, 1909. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. Reprint of fourth revised edition. Bound in limp black leather, finely-diced, with a wrap-around flap with a tongue which inserts into a strap. Gilt edges, moderately faded gilt lettering on spine. Binding with significant rubbing and some light fraying to extremities, moderate rubbing to boards and spine(s). Bookseller's sticker and former owner's name in pen to front pastedown. Front and rear hinges started. Clean and tight.

1900. Leather-bound. Very Good. NOTE: Several -- not many - cards have been removed. Black hardcover sewn binding. Appears to be faux (or non-faux?) alligator leather, with triple wavey line design in silver, along top and bottom of front board, with 1 1/2 in. to 2 in. raised laquer or metal letters, red painted, spelling out A-L-B-U-M., repeated in silver paint to spine. Rear board triple-ruled in blind. 26 thick, card leaves (52 pp.) most with 3 - 5 glue-mounted greeting cards to each page, and some larger cards are 1 or 2 to a page. 178 cards in all. Cards mounted to all four endpapers as well. Many chromolithographs. Christmas, New Years, Birthday, Pontifical, French, Biblical, Record-or-Reward-of-Merit (Teacher-to-Student), etc. Several show a wee bit of surface rubbing away of color, but most are intact. Rubbing to extremities of alligator leather covers The images are largely extraordinary, multicolored, bright and in wonderful condition. I would have liked to have met the person who put… Read More

Campden, UK: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.9 in., pp. 330. Illustrated with two fold-out ink drawings from Derrick's Image of Ireland (1581) and one fold-out map of Ireland. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Slight warp to boards. Ink notation to front pastedown; otherwise, unmarked interior. Light spotting to front and rear endpapers and title page. "A vewe of the present state of Ireland discoursed by way of a dialogue betwene Eudoxus and Irenus, 1596" (from introductory page).

Dublin: Laurence Flin, in Castle-Street, and Ann Watts, in Skinner-Row, 1763. Hardcover. 12mo. Later brown, pebbled cloth. Bookseller's stamp (Greene & Co. ...Dublin) to front pastedown endpaper. Small turquoise inked stamp to top of title page, and page following - "The Irish Literary Society London". Previous owner's signature to top of title page - "A. Foster". [2], xxii, 258, [18] pages. "Spencer's only prose work, 'a dialogue discussing the brutal measures needed to establish a stable colonial regime in the country' (DLB), where he spent most of the last 20 years of his life as a civil servant and landowner. The book was originally published in 1633, nearly a quarter century after his death." (from Auction Record 2162-161 - Quoted in RBH). Listed co-publisher Ann Watts was most likely Elizabeth Watts (1740-1794), "an Irish printer, stationer and bookseller to the courts of law who took over her husband's business after his death in 1762. After remarrying to the curate of St. Werburgh's, Dublin… Read More

London, England: C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1813. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.75 in., pp. viii, 399, [1] (advertising). Modern half calf with decorative rule over marbled boards. Gilt title, bars and fleurons to spine. Four raised bands to spine. Untrimmed fore- and bottom edges. New endpapers. Insignia of Coed Coch re-adhered to new pastedown. Occasional light foxing throughout. Tide mark to right margin of title page. Unmarked interior. Gift note laid in from the late booksellerJack Gamble (late of Emerald Isle Books, Belfast) to collector/previous owner. A VIEW OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND IN THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1812 is a large 19th-century mansion in the neoclassical style, designed by the architect Henry Hakewill.

London, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo. Half leather over yellow and black tartan-designed boards, ruled in gilt chain. Four raised bands to spine with elaborate filigree to each. Rubbing to extremities. Slight separation to front hinge and two inches of rear, but not affecting solid binding in the least. 34 letters. 423 pp. printed in London by Strahan and Spottiswoode on nice, supple, bright paper, with large type and wide margins. A wee bit of spotting to first and last few leaves. Previous owner's names to yellow front free endpapers. "...nor probably by the most elaborate dissertation, could I better describe my countrymen, than by an unreserved display of my own feelings, and by shewing myself as I am. On this subject let me remark, that these letters are, in many parts, transcripts of real ones written to a distant and very dear friend, and therefore that some interminglement of self was unavoidable..." (from author's… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Very Good Minus Dustjacket. Octavo. Brick red cloth-covered boards with rectangular vignette containing author's full name within, in gilt, and gilt lettering to spine. Very slight rubbing to extremities, and a wee bit of shelf rub to spine caps. Overall, tight, clean, and appears barely read. Publisher's red topstain. Fore-edge deckled. Dustjacket shows some general smudging, light edgewear, and several small chips along bottom of spine and front panel. Price Clipped. Entitled Terras do sem fim, this novel was translated from its original Portuguese by Samuel Putnam.

London, England: W. Reeves, 1910. Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. viii, 133, [3], [2] (publisher's advertising). Illustrated with fold-out frontis and two additional fold-out plates. Blue-green beveled cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities. Half-inch bubble to front board. Chip to spine and base of rear board. Light staining to rear board. A couple dents to bottom edge of front board. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Third fold-out showing types of violin structures detached but present.

Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good PLus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.6 in., pp. ix, [4], 443. Teal cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Light rubbing to dustjacket. 1/2 inch closed tear to front dustjacket upper corner; 1 inch closed tear to rear dustjacket upper corner. Small puncture to back of dustjacket near spine (cat claw?). An authoritative register of VIrginia's colonial soldiers generated from research based on county court minutes and orders, bounty land applications and warrants, records of court martial, county militia rosters, Henning's "Statutes at Large," the Draper manuscripts, and manuscripts of the Public Record Office in London.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1963. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. James Spanfeller. Stated First Printing. Black cloth spine over pink and white paper covered boards. Corners nudged, some fading to boards. In good dust jacket with original $3.95 price on inside flap, light soiling, edgewear and some light chipping at top. Jacket in a mylar protector. Illustrated by James Spanfeller, Interior clean, no marks. Textblock square, binding solid. VISIONS OF GERARD is "...the first volume in Kerouac's "Duluoz Legend". Uniquely among Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood as evidenced in the tragically short yet happy life of his older brother, Gerard. Kerouac paints a picture of the boy as a saint, who loves all creatures and teaches this doctrine to four-year-old Jack. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, it is a beautiful but unsettling exploration of the meaning and precariousness of… Read More

Groningen and Amsterdam: Johannes Purmerent, Gerardus Borstius, 1691. First Edition. Vellum. Good. Three thick folios in vellum [approx. 12x7 inches]. 1: New Testament. Corners worn, front hinge split but holds firm. Top half of rear hinge split, one inch chip to head of spine, covers soiled and smudged. Binding sound. 1036 pages. SIGNED by Abraham Trommius, Groningen on page preceeding dedication. Printed by Johannes Purmerent in Groningen, 1672. 2. Old Testament, Vol 1, [From Genesis to Esther]. Published by Gerardus Borstius, Amsterdam. 1685. Corners worn, wear along bottom edges. Chip to bottom of spine, top two inches of top of spine is flaked off but present. Covers soiled. Some wear to front pastdown, text clean, pages supple, binding solid. 1242, 88 pages. 3. Old Testament, Vol 2: [From Job to Malachi] Published by Gerardus Borstius, Amsterdam. 1691. Corners worn, wear to extremities. Boards smudged and front board has some warping. Binding solid. Text clean, pages supple. 984, 131,7… Read More

New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Quarto. Morocco (goatskin) in dark maroon (10 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in.) Double ruled in blind, with decorative embossed corner devices to both front and back. Beveled boards. Four raised bands (five compartments). Gilt lettering ("King County Washington" to second compartment down, and "Illustrated" to fourth). All edges gilt. Lovely floriated patterned endpapers (gold daisies to dark blue background). Handsome, bright, solidly bound, lovely on the shelf. Illustrated with photographs. This copy belonged to noteworthy Puyallup tribe member Henry Sicade's, a descendant of Chief Leschi copy with his signature and year to front free endpaper. Sicade (1866-1938) served on the Puyallup Tribal Council and the Fife City Council, and additionally, holding important positions with the tribal police and judicial systems, as well as the City of Tacoma. Henry Sicade's signature and year. (Note: The date after the handwritten signature is 1902, and… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 6 x 9.5 in., pp. xxi + 1 ("Maps") + 445. Signed by author on title page. Brown paper boards with light blue paper spine; gold title to spine. Colorful endpaper maps of the voyages of North American explorers. Seller's sticker to bottom of back of dustjacket.