Search Results: Titles starting with V from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Boston, Massachusetts: Ticknor and Company; Boston, 1889. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author with a six-line light verse, "Chas. Henry Webb, Nantucket, Feb. 1st, 1897." 16mo, 6 1/2" tall, 132 pages, binding sewn, red cover titles, paper vellum over stiff wraps. A very good, clean, soft cover original of this scarce title, likely unread (signatures uncut) but cover loosened from internal binding, some foxing to the endpapers, internal binding tight, paper light to moderately yellowed. Webb (1834 - 1905) went to sea for three years as a young man, was largely responsible for getting Mark Twain's first story published, and was a lifelong friend. As a journalist, he covered the Civil War, wrote for The New York Times and San Francisco Bulletin, and also edited the Californian. His verse was regularly published in Harper's Monthly.

Ballantine Books, 2014-12-30. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 348 pages, pale green quarter cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+, clean, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 226 pages, black boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: John Wiley & Son, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, x + 310 pages, olive green cloth. A fine, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear. This book is part of a larger group of several hundred science books from one collection, currently in the process of being catalogued. This special collection may be referenced with the word 'Wong' in the description field as new titles are added.

Paris, France: Delloye, Tresse, 1840. First Edition, early printing. Hardcover. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 8" tall, 247 pages, quarter-leather with paper over boards. Possible first printing, with both Balzac's dedication and the credit "Represente sur le Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, le 14 Mars, 1840," dated the same month and year. A list of characters and the actors who portrayed them is printed on the back of the half-title page. A good copy overall BUT the cover is quite worn with the black leather back strip torn off (five inches of the backstrip laid in) and boards worn through at all extremities, front hinge cracked, first signature loosened, binding solid, text paper lightly yellowed but with foxing scattered throughout. This would be a good copy for binding restoration despite the foxing and is priced accordingly. (note: overseas postage may be prohibitively expensive)

Garden City, New York: Harcourt Brace , 1935. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/3" tall, 462 pages, decorative (map) end papers, black cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear and slight soiling to cover cloth and top fore-edge; hinges and binding tight, paper just lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Boston, Massachusetts: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good minus. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 242 pages, tan quarter cloth. A very good, generally clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, slight yellowing to fore-edges, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good minus dust jacket with two small closed tears and with original price present.

Bloomsbury USA, 1997. First American edition, First pr. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 357 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first American edition with light shelf wear, gently read; binding tight, paper cream white, but with a blush of foxing to the top fore-edge. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.

New York, New York: David McKay; NY, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by the author. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 244 pages, blue cloth. With map endpapers and B&W illustrations. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, some fading to cloth color at the top edges; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed but small stain to top fore-edge tips. In a good, price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and chipping at the folds and back strip edges.

University of Rochester Press, 2011-09-01. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4” tall, xxi + 472 pages, black cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover over all with little shelf wear, binding tight, gently read, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.

New York, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/without dust jacket. Sold as a good original reading copy. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 204 pages, yellow titles on black cloth. A good only, sturdy hard cover first edition over all with general shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, spine cloth chipped and frayed and splitting at the hinge; interior hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Boston, Massachusetts: James R. Osgood, 1871. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus. Ex-college library with marking on the spine, endpapers nd title page. 16mo, 6" tall, 107 pages, green cloth, gilt titles, reddened efore-edges. A very good, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing but some fraying started at the top of the back strip; hinges and binding soid, paper lightly yellowed, with a previous owner's inscription on the frontflyleaf. This volume is worth professional restoration by the removal of the library markings.

St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. With reviewer's slips laid in. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 276 pages, green boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Kansas City, Missouri: Unity Press; Kansas City MO, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 397 pages, blue cloth. A Bleiler fantasy title. A good, clean hardcover first American edition with light shelf wear and rubbing to all the corners, hinges and binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed, with an inscription on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket

The Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8" tall, 308 pages, red cloth. A very good minus, clean hard cover with minor shelf wear; binding solid; paper is clean BUT moderately yellowed with light foxing to the end papers and the fore-edges. In a good, clean dust jacket with significant chipping at the flap fold edges and at ends of back strip, with original price.

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Signed by author on title page and with short inscription to previous owner. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 214 pages; black cloth. A fine, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In very good+, clean dust jacket with small chips at the fore-tips, with original price.

W W Norton & Co; NY, 1983. First American Edition, First Pr. Hardcover. Very good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 206 pages, brown cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, neat hard cover edition with light shelf wear; gently read, binding tight, paper cream white, BUT light, sporadic foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

Farrar & Rinehart ; NY, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 273 pages, dark green titles and decorations on green cloth. A very good, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; binding tight, paper light to moderately yellowed with a touch of foxing to the fore-edge In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, still bright, but with chipping at the top and bottom edges of the back strip and flap-folds, and with the original price present.

New York, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 364 pages, green cloth. With one color illustration by F. Hopkinson Smith; color illustrated end papers, pen drawings by author. A good, clean, sturdy copy with minor shelf wear overall, but rubbing and fraying to the back strip; front hinge cracked but secure, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed.

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1993 . First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 348 pages, black and beige boards. A very good+, clean, neat hard cover edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with slight soiling at top fore-edge. In a fine dust jacket with original price.