Bad Day at Riverbend
by Van Allsburg, Chris
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good +. SIGNED. Slim quarto [29 cm] 1/2 black cloth with orange paper over boards, with subtle warping to the boards. In a dust jacket with a slight crease to the top edge of the front panel. Signed by Van Allsburg on the title page.
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
by Van Allsburg, Chris
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. SIGNED. Slim quarto [28 cm] Orange cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. With only light bumping to the head and foot of the book's spine, and very minor edge wear to the jacket. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the... Read More
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Vandals of the Void
by Vance, Jack
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 213pp. Octavo [22cm]. Red cloth over boards with title stamped in black on spine. Extremeties are lightly rubbed, and tips are gently bumped. Illustrated endpapers, with a touch of darkening to hinges. In a clipped dust jacket with mild soiling, and a handful of losses... Read More
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Hrdelní pre anebo Prísloví
by Vancura, Vladislav; Adolf Born (Illustrator)
Odeon, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adolf Born. 185pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Gray cloth over boards. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped and rubbed and there is a very slight lean to the spine. In the dust jacket, illustrated by Adolf Born, with moderate rubbing and creasing to the edges.... Read More
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Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope
by Vander Meulen, David L.
Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of The University of Virginia; Distributed by Oak Knoll Books, 2014. First printing. Paperback. New. 18pp. Very slim octavo [23.5 cm] Stapled white and black pictorial wraps. From the Publisher- "David L. Vander Meulen's Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope has come to be regarded as a classic statement of... Read More
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Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel (Volume 4)
by VanderMeer, Jeff
New York: MCD, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 464 pp. Octavo [21.6 cm]. Blue paper over boards. Black lettering stamped on the front board and back strip. Green end papers. From the publisher: "The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series—and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of... Read More
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Hummingbird Salamander
by Vandermeer, Jeff
New York: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. SIGNED. 351pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Dark green paper over boards. Boards very lightly rubbed. Head of spine gently bumped. Back of dust jacket a touch rubbed as well. Signed by the author and included exclusive multimedia bonus content at the end of the book.... Read More
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A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man
by Vaneigem, Raoul; Liz Heron (Translator)
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. New. 144 pp. Octavo [22.7 cm]. Illustrative wraps. From the publisher: "“A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.” So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Over two centuries after the... Read More
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
by Van Gogh, Vincent; Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein et al.
New York, Amsterdam, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Gogh Museum, Yale University Press, 2005. Edition with the Yale University Press ISBN on the dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 380pp. Quarto [29 cm] Pale green cloth over boards. The boards are just a trifle cocked. In the illustrated dust jacket, with... Read More
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A Treatise on Metamorphism (Department of the Interior Monographs of the United States Geological Survey Volume XLVII)
by Van Hise, Charles Richard; Charles D. Walcott (Director)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. 1286pp. Very thick quarto [30 cm] Dark reddish brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good only. The extremities are rubbed, and the boards are mildly stained. The cloth along the edges is a little bit frayed, and the underlying boards are peeking through at the corners.... Read More
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Pulp Masters
by Van Hise, James (Editor)
Yucca Valley, CA: James Van Hise, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. New. 190pp. Quarto [28cm]. Illustrated wraps. A special expanded edition. Both a helpful reference for the pulp collector and an entertaining read.
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Beth Van Hoesen: Works on Paper
by Van Hoesen, Beth; Robert Flynn Johnson (Foreword) and Richard Lorenz (Essay)
San Francisco: Chronicle Books; John Berggruen Gallery, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 102pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] White illustrated wraps. The inside flap of the front wrap is price-clipped, and the rear wrap is soiled. Internally, very clean. Inscribed by the artist on the half title page. The artist writes, "For___, With warm regards, Beth Van Hoesen, 1999.... Read More
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The Gibson Super 400: Art of the Fine Guitar
by Van Hoose, Thomas A.
San Francisco: GPI Books, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 194pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth with black paper over boards. In a dust jacket, with light surface wear and moderate rubbing to the extremities. A book tracing the evolution of the Gibson Super 400, the first 18-inch deluxe-ornamented archtop guitar and "one of the... Read More
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King of Beaver Island: The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang
by Van Noord, Roger
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 335pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with a gilt stamped on the backstrip. In the dust jacket, with a very light dampstain to the lower third of the spine and the surrounding area of the rear panel. After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, a small... Read More
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Prisoner for Conscience' Sake: The Life of George Reynolds
by Van Orden, Bruce A.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1992. Hardcover. 261pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Near fine. There is a very small pen mark on the front free endsheet. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with general mild rubbing. George Reynolds gained nationwide notoriety in... Read More
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Prisoner for Conscience' Sake: The Life of George Reynolds
by Van Orden, Bruce A.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1992. Hardcover. 261pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Near fine. The edges of the spine and covers are very lightly rubbed. There is a small light stain on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket is in... Read More
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Joseph Smith and the Mormons: A Graphic Novel
by Van Sciver, Noah
New York: ABRAMS ComicArts, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New. 455pp. Octavo. [24cm] Illustrated paper covered boards with padded front board. Gilt decorations on cover and spine. Edges all sprayed yellow with publishers spray. Black pagemarker attached to spine.Slight bumping to ends of spine. Minor tears to fore-edge of cover paper. "In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and... Read More
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The Birds of East Africa: A collection of lithographs prepared from the originals drawn from nature by V. G. L. van Someren between the years 1909 and 1937. Volume 1. Ploceidae
by Van Someren, V. G. L. (Victor Gurney Logan)
Sarasota, FL: A. C. Allyn for the Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue bonded leather over boards with gilt stamping on the spine. Very light wear to the extremities. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. A volume of meticulously drawn, typically posed portraits in color of the bird species of... Read More
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Taboo Print Gumbo - New Orleans Southern Graphics Council Conference (Exhibition Hall of the Radisson Hotel New Orleans April 3, 2002 / Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, April 3-6, 2002)
by Van Suchtelen, A. [Postcard]
Signed exhibition card. Ephemera. 16.5 cm x 10 cm. Near fine condition. A Van Suchtelen, one of the contributors, has signed the back of the card.
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Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
by Van Wagoner, Richard S.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 493pp Octavo [23 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. In the late 1820s a fiery young minister in western Ohio converted nearly 1,000 proselytes to the Reformed Baptist Movement. As these schismatics organized themselves into the new Disciples of Christ church, the Reverend Sidney Rigdon was already aligning himself with another,... Read More
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Mormon Polygamy: A History
by Van Wagoner, Richard S.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1989. Second Edition. Paperback. As NEW. 255 pp. 23 cm. in cream-colored wrappers with a green spine and pictorial front cover. Includes bibliographical index. New.
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Natural Born Seer: Joseph Smith - American Prophet - 1805-1830
by Van Wagoner, Richard S.
Salt Lake City, UT: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 589pp. Octavo [24cm]. Black boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cover. “I treat the early years of the Mormon prophet as I would approach an archaeological dig. The deepest levels, those deposited first and least contaminated by subsequent accumulates, are of primary interest in... Read More
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La Sal Mountain Elegies: Pack Creek Fire, June 2021
by Van Wetter, Sam; Terry Tempest Williams; Andy Nettel
Moab, UT: Canyonlands Copy Center, 2021. Limited Edition. Paperback. New. Unpaginated. Sextodecimo [16.8cm]. Pictorial paper wraps with publisher's paper band. A collection of thoughts concerning the June 2021 Pack Creek Fire in the La Sal mountains, contributed by and compiled by those affected by this disaster.
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The Story of a Proletarian Life
by Vanzetti, Bartolomeo. Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons. Foreword by Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston, Massachusetts: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1923. Pamphlet. Good +. 20 pp. Octavo [23 cm]; in tan saddle-stapled wraps with red printed border and titling. Good, some damp staining and tidemarking and light sporadic foxing throughout. Staples (binding) rusting. This work was produced and published while Bartolomeo Vanzetti was still imprisoned and awaiting full due process in the in/famous... Read More
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The Immortal King Rao
by Vara, Vauhini
New York: W.W. Norton, 2022. Paperback. New. 374pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction • One of The New York Times 100 Notable books of 2022 • One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub Shortlisted for... Read More
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