Search Results: Titles starting with V from George S. MacManus Company

1849. PALMER, V. B. V. B. Palmer's Business-Men's Almanac, for the Year 1850: Containing, Besides the Astronomical Calculations, Much Useful Information for Merchants, Manufacturers, Mechanics, and Business-Men Generally. New York: V.B. Palmer, [1849]. 1st ed. 64pp. Orig. printed wrappers, sewn. Fine. Contains articles on banking, trade, coal, iron, railroads, and Cuba, among other things. Drake 8840.

1910. ANDERSON, Joseph R. The V.M.I.--Her Past. Address. [Lexington]: Virginia Military Institute, 1910. 1st ed. 12pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good.

COUPER, W[illia]m. The V.M.I. New Market Cadets: Biographical Sketches of All Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets who Fought in the Battle of New Market, May, 15, 1864. Charlottesville, VA: Michie, 1933. 1st ed. 272 pp. Frontis. illus., folding map. Orig. cloth. A nearly fine copy. A bit scarce in cloth; usually encountered in printed wraps. Dornbusch III, 1763.

1933. COUPER, Wm. The V.M.I. New Market Cadets: Biographical Sketches of All Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets Who Fought in the Battle of New Market May 15, 1864. Charlottesville, VA: The Michie Company, 1933. 1st ed. xi, 272 pp. Illus., folding map. Orig. printed wrappers. A near fine copy.

1933. COUPER, William. The V.M.I. New Market Cadets: Biographical Sketches of All Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets Who Fought in the Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864. Charlottesville, VA: The Michie Company, 1933. 1st ed. xi,272pp. Frontis., illus., portraits, folding map. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed, else very good. Dornbusch III, 176.

LURIE, Alison. V. R. Lang. A Memoir. Orig. pictorial wraps. Munich: [Privately printed], 1959. 8vo. First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. This memoir precedes her first novel by three years. Front wrap attractively illustrated by Edward Gorey. V. R. "Bunny" Lang (1924-56) was an American actress, playwright, poet, and a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Fine in orig. glassine dustjacket with light wear to spine ends and short tear to front panel.

WELD, Charles Richard. A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855. 1st ed. Folding map. xi, 394pp. A very good copy in original green cloth. Howes W-234.The author travelled as far south as Richmond and west as far as Ohio. In addition he visited most eastern cities, including Boston, New York and Philadelphia and into Canada, spending his time in Quebec and Ontario. Considerable attention is paid to blacks and the issue of slavery, as well as politics and other social themes.

GALTON, Francis, ed. Vacation Tourist and Notes of Travel in 1861. Cambridge, 1862. 1st ed. Maps. viii, 418pp. plus advts. Orig. cloth; rear outer hinges cracking and some pencil markings in text, else a very good copy. Travels in Europe, Brazil, Fiji, Africa, etc., by various authors.

[STEVENSON, Robert Louis.]. Vailima Letters. Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin. November 1890 - October 1894. Original cloth. London: Methuen, 1895. FIrst English edition. Very good.

1902. AGUILAR, Grace. The Vale of Cedars & Other Tales. With an Introduction by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson. Original pictorial cloth, t.e.g. London: Dent, and Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1902. Somewhat soiled, hinges cracked. Interior very good. Stories by the English daughter of Spanish Jews. Fine colored pictorial design on front cover and spine.

1858. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Valedictory Address, Delivered to the Medical Graduates of Harvard University, at the Annual commencement, Wednesday, March 10, 1858. Original printed wrappers. Boston: David Clapp, 1858. BAL 8780. Rare, Worldcat locates three copies. First edition. Light chipping to wrapper, wrappers starting, else very good.

1961. GALWEY, Thomas Francis. The Valiant Hours: Narrative of "Captain Brevet,"an Irish-American in the Army of the Potomac. Edited by W.S. Nye. Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, [1961]. 1st ed. 262pp. Maps. orig. cloth, priceclipped d/j. Fine. Dornbusch I: OH-123A. "A human and charming narrative by a teen-ager who campaigned in the East with the 8th Ohio." Nevins I, p.92.

1994. FRANKS, Norman L. R. Valiant Wings: The Battle and Blenheim Squadrons over France, 1940. [N.P.] Crecy Books, [1994]. 295pp. Portraits, plates. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine.

2016. PHILBRICK, Nathaniel. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution. New York: Viking, [2016]. 1st ed. xix,427pp. Portraits, maps, plates, map endpapers. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j, Fine. Study of the relationship between Washington and Arnold and the four years that led to the fall of one and the emergence of the other as Father of his country.

McKITTRICK, Myrtle M. Vallejo Son of California. Portland: Binfords & Mort, (1944).Illus. 377p. Fine in d/j.

McKITTRICK, Myrtle M. Vallejo, Son of California. Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, [1944]. 1st ed. 377 pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. cloth. Front inner hinge starting, else a very good copy. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper, "To Nancy, with the best wishes of Myrtle M. McKittrick." Biography of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the California military commander, politician, and rancher, and founder of Vallejo, California.

ASHBY, Thomas A. The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the War of the States. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 1st ed. 327pp. Orig. cloth. Faint scattered foxing to endpapers and foredge, else near fine. $850.00 Presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper. "A personal, eyewitness account of Valley operations and their impact upon the countryside and its people" Nevins I, p.22. "The valuable personal reminiscences are interlarded with considerable superficial summarization of events elsewhere in Virginia, but the first-person accounts of four years of war in the Valley are worth searching out" Krick 11.

ASHBY, Thomas A[lmond]. The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenadoah Valley During the War of the States. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 1st ed. 327 pp. Orig. cloth. A near fine copy. Although Thomas Ashby did not participate in the war, his allegiance and sentiments were tied to the South. "From his home in Front Royal, young Ashby witnessed Jackson's 1862 campaign, a succession of Federal occupations and life in and around a Confederate hospital in the town. He was caught up in the midst of the May 23, 1862, battle at Front Royal, which he aptly describes as 'more like a police riot than a fight between soldiers.' The valuable personal reminiscences are interlarded with considerable superficial summerization of events elsewhere in Virginia, but the first-person accounts of four years of war in the Valley are worth searching out." Krick 11. A near fine copy.

1914. ASHBY, Thomas A. The Valley Campaigns Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant while between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the War of the States. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 1st ed. 327pp. Orig. cloth. Light wear to spine ends, abrasion to upper corner of front pastedown, accession stamp on copyright page, else very good. Krick 11. "A personal, eyewitness account of Valley operations and their impact upon the countryside and its people" Nevins I, p.22.

2001. BENNINGHOFF, Herman O., II. Valley Forge: A Genesis for Command and Control, Continental Army Style. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, [2001]. 1st ed. xi,212pp. Illus. Orig. pictorial cloth. Fine.