The City and County of San Diego, Illustrated; and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers
by Van Dyke, T.S.
San Diego: Leberthon & Taylor. Poor. 1888. First Edition. Softcover. [worn and externally stained, small tear in spine covering at base of spine, long diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, heavy wear and a bit of paper loss at corners of first few pages; one-time owner's name and address in ink on inside of both... Read More
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International Spy: Doctor Doom Faces Death at Dawn
by Vane, Conrad
Racine WI: Whitman Publishing Company. Good. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial boards) [wear to edges and corners all around, gift inscriptions on inside front cover (in ink, dated 1970) and ffep (in pencil, undated but certainly preceding the other); normal light age-toning but still solidly bound]. (The Big Little Book, no. 1148) Series (cartoon illustrations) Globe-hopping... Read More
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Smash Picture!: Adventures of a News Camera Man
by Van Gelder, Robert
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but laid in are the original front and real flaps) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremties, very slight fraying to lower tips]. (Career Books) Series The author's second contribution to Dodd, Mead's "Career Books" series tells of the apprenticeship of... Read More
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Never Go Anywhere Without a Pencil [*SIGNED*]
by Van Horne, Harriet
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1972, 1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 0399110380 . [minor shelfwear, binding just slightly shaken; jacket has tiny nicks at several spine corners, minor crinkling at spine ends, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED "For Bob Lewine / a dear, kind friend" and SIGNED by the author on the... Read More
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The Story of Wilbur the Hat
by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
New York: Horace B. Liveright (Boni & Liveright). Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1925). First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, with just a touch of wear to the bottom edge; jacket has some minor spotting on the front panel, short closed tears at front hinges, another tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel, light soiling ... Read More
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Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death
by Van Peebles, Melvin
Toronto/New York/London: Bantam Books (R7678). Near Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. [about as nice a copy as you could hope to find, tight and clean with just a tiny bit of age-toning to the edges of the text block]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) Van Peebles's "most explosive, award-winning play . . . in a totally... Read More
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That Vanderbilt Woman
by Van Rensselaer, Philip
Chicago: Playboy Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 0872235025 . [spine slightly turned, previous owner's florid signature and date/place of purchase on ffep, no other significant wear; jacket has a few small edge-tears, all repaired with small pieces of tape, with additional tape reinforcement provided at the spine ends]. "A Naughty... Read More
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Mother Was Always in Love
by Van Rensselaer, Philip
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1960). First American Edition. Hardcover. [top corners bumped, some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket insect-nibbled at various points along edges, spine color-shifted, light dampstaining to rear panel]. "This is the story of Violet Amory, a New York society beauty of the... Read More
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The Wrong Body
by Van Sickle, V.A.
New York/London: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. (in Grosset & Dunlap reissue dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, top front corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear at edges and corners, faint staining at bottom corner of rear panel].... Read More
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Spider Boy; a scenario for a moving picture
by Van Vechten, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [slight darkening to spine cloth, but otherwise a nice clean copy with no significant wear; pencil signature (see Notes) on front endpaper, vintage bookseller's... Read More
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Gold in the Streets
by Vardoulakis, Mary
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear, top rear corner bumped; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with very slight paper loss at both ends of spine, one tiny chip and one tiny closed tear at top edge of rear panel]. This novel "brings to life a... Read More
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The Auction of the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Sotheby's
by Varney, Ronald (text)
New York: Sotheby's Books. Near Fine. (c.1996). First Edition. Softcover. [faint handling wear, slight bumping to upper corner of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) NOT the catalogue of the Sotheby's auction, which was held April 23-26, 1996 (and was preceded by a public exhibition that opened on April 19), but rather a post-facto album about the auction... Read More
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Ultimo; an imaginative narration of life under the earth
by Vassos, John (projections) and Ruth Vassos (text)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. [some wear to cloth at ends of spine, very slight bump to bottom front corner; fragile jacket is quite presentable, worn along edges and hinges, hinges split along several lengths but still holding together, about 1" paper loss from top... Read More
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The Truman Administration's Legacy for Black America
by Vaughan, Philip H.
Reseda CA: Mojave Books. Good. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear at corners; an ex-library book, with pocket, "withdrawn" stamp and bar-code on front pastedown, additional stamping on all three edges of text block and on rear pastedown; no markings in text]. An examination of how President Harry S Truman "made civil... Read More
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All Through the Night
by Vaughan, Richard
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy with light shelfwear, pages browned due to cheap paper stock; jacket moderately edgeworn, with light surface wear and slight fading to spine]. Set in Wales, this is "the story of a man who seeks a reconciliation... Read More
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Who Ever Heard of Kangaroo Eggs?
by Vaughan, Sam
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. (paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine; no dust jacket) [slight bumping to upper corners, no other significant wear]. (color illustrations) Cute story about a little girl who wins a kangaroo in a contest. .
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Marian Anderson: A Portrait
by Vehanen, Kosti
New York/London: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1941). 7th printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid book, modestly shelfworn, some discoloration to front endpapers (from laid-in newspaper clipping); jacket has a tiny chip at top right corner of front panel, a lightly larger shallow chip at top right corner of rear panel]. (B&W... Read More
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"Aw Hell"
by Venable, [Homer] Clarke
Chicago/New York: The Reilly & Lee Co.. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1927). 2nd printing (see note). Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid book, very slight deterioration to cloth at bottom edges of both covers, one teeny-tiny wormhole in front joint, one-time owner's name and place of purchase in ink at top of ffep; jacket has some minor chipping... Read More
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"Movies Were Always Magical": Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950s
by Verswijver, Leo
Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.2003). First Edition. Softcover. 0786411295 . [a little curling to the front cover, otherwise nice and clean with just minimal handling wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The interviewees: actors Pat Boone, Jeff Corey, Beverly Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Greer, Janet Leigh, Joan Leslie, Sheree North, Janis Paige, Luise Rainer,... Read More
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I Spit on Your Grave
by Vian, Boris (originally as "Vernon Sullivan")
New York: Audubon Books. Very Good. (c.1971, 1946). 1st U.S. paperback edition. Softcover. [good tight copy, modest edgewear to front cover, slight dog-earing to bottom right corner, small bookshop sticker (Doubleday) affixed to rear cover]. Mass Market PB Violent novel of interracial rape and murder, set in the American South, by the noted French writer and... Read More
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Heartsnatcher
by Vian, Boris (translated from the French by Stanley Chapman)
London: Rapp & Whiting. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1968. First British Edition. Hardcover. [book has a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners, no other significant wear; the jacket is very nice-looking, with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel]. The first publication in English of the controversial final novel by... Read More
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Maria Montez: Su Vida
by Vicens de Morales, Margarita
Santo Domingo: Editora Corripio, C. por A.. Near Fine. 2003. Third Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, essentially as-new with only very slight bumping at the leading corners]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Profusely illustrated "films of" treatment, in Spanish, of the life and career of the Dominican Republic-born actress, who had quite a decent run at... Read More
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The Old Vic in photographs by John Vickers
by Vickers, John; introduction by John Burrell
London: The Saturn Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, upper corners bumped, no other significant wear; jacket a little edgeworn, small tears at spine ends but only minimal paper loss]. (color plates, B&W photographs) "This splendid collection of photographs covers two years' work of the Old Vic Theatre Company and... Read More
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A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories
by Vidal, Gore
New York: The Zero Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. [book has only minor shelfwear; the jacket has a few vertical scrape lines and smudges on the front panel, and a tiny nick at the bottom edge of the rear panel]. Vidal's first (and only) published collection of his short fiction.... Read More
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The Judgment of Paris [*SIGNED*]
by Vidal, Gore
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, light spotting on top edge of text block, light staining to top edge of spine cloth; jacket edgeworn and lightly browned at edges, small stain at bottom corner of rear panel, very slight paper loss... Read More
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