Search Results: Titles starting with V from The Book Closet

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913 Pale green boards with green lettering on front cover and spine; boards show signs of wear; back end paper is slightly torn; pages are yellowed with age; previous owner's name in pencil on ffep from 11/3/1915; A very nice reading copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Black boards with silver embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic 'Interview with the Vampire,' the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms." - from the dj.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999 Black boards with black tape spine; red lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is an angry, disillusioned Russian emigre bent on returning to his motherland after an unhappy seven-year sojourn in the United States. Before his departure, he wants to lash out at the adoptive nation that lured him with what he believes was the hoax of the American Dearm, only to deny him contentment, opportunity, and perosnal prosperity." -- from the dj

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953 Tan boards with lavender embossed title on spine; tight clean pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 First Trade Edition; black boards with black tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "In the grand manner of 'Interview with the Vampire,' Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival manion in present-day New Orleans to the dzzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 1985 Red boards with red tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj shows shelf wear and ha some chips, but is protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped. "This is the story of Cathy Collins, known at one time as Sister Mary Amabilis. Beautiful, sensual, impulsive, and impish, she is possessed by both a boundless affection and generosity and a deep religious fervor. Now the three men who knew her best confront the terrible report of her rape, torture, and death at the hands of a Latin American dictator ...Father Ed Carny, the charismatic priest who leads the mission in Costaguana where Cahty died -- and who claims her multimillion-dollar legacy for his radical cause...Nick curran, her old schoolmate, lawyer, and onetime lover...and Father Blackie Ryan, her confideant and cherished first cousin, the man who will not rest until he knows the answers to the heartbreaking questions: Who had Cathy Collins become, what was she seeking, and why did she die?" -- from the dj

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002 Black boards with gold foil lettering o spine; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear; stated First Edition with full number line. "It's four days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for fugitive apprehension agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There'snot a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment." -- from the dj

New York: Knopf, 1999 Black boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj has some sticker residue on the front, but is now protected with a Brodart cover; pages are clean and spine is tight. "With 'Pandora,' Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold." -- from the dj

New York: R. Worthington, 1885 Tan pictorial cover and spine, shows some wear; edges show shelf wear; pages are yellowed with age, but all are attached to the spine. Contents include: Prelude, Voices of the Night, Earlier Poems, Translations, Ballads and Other Poems, Miscellaneous, and Poems on Slavery. Photo available upon request

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000 Black boards with gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. "Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead andher life in a shambles. Now she's thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything -- even her darkest moments -- she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999 Black boards gold lettering on spine; torn spot on ffep; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. "Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she's thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshos. Through everything -- even her darkest moments -- she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself." -- from the dj

Smithmark Publishers, 1920 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Del Rey, 2000 Glossy pictorial cover with vellum-like dj; tight spine and clean pages. "When the mutilated body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil - brother to the current king - led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one ever returned..." from the dj flap.

New York: Del Rey, 2002 Book Three; blue boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; maps on end pages; First Edition September 2002. "Now in 'Morgawr' the quest at last draws to its climatic conclusion, as the forces of good and evil vying against each other to possess an ancient magic race towards an explosive clash -- and whatever fate awaits the victor ... and the vanquished. Harrowing confrontations with the merciless Ilse Witch and the monstrous Antrax have already taken their toll on the intrepid heroes of the Four Lands. But their darkest adversary now snaps at their heels, in the form of the Morgawr -- master of the Ilse Witch, feeder upon the soulds of his enemies, and centureis=pld sorcerer of unimaginable might." -- from the dj

New York: Del Rey, 2001 Blue boards with blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; maps on end papers; First Edition September 2001; dj protected with Brodart cover; Book Two. "Now in 'Antrax' as the crew aboard the airship 'Jerle Shannara' is attacked by evil forces, the Druid's protege, Bek Rowe, and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. Meanwhile, Walker is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy." -- from the dj

New York: Del Ray, 2000 Glossy pictorial cover with vellum-like dj; tight spine and clean pages. "When the mutilated body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil - brother to the current king - led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one ever returned..." from the dj flap.