Search or seizure of American vessels on coast of Africa, &c., message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to seizures or search of American vessels, &c. March 3, 1841 [drop title]
by Van Buren, Martin
Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1841. Doc. no. 115, 26th Congress, 2nd Session. Ho. of Reps. Executive. 766 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. removed. Doc. no. 115, 26th Congress, 2nd Session. Ho. of Reps. Executive. 766 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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Portrait of Bathless Goggins from "Abbie an' Slats", inscribed "Hi John!! Your ole friend Bathless Goggins.
by Van Buren, Raeburn (1891-1987)
nd. Signed under portrait "R. Van Buren.". 1 vols. 9-3/4 x 8 inches. Signed under portrait "R. Van Buren.". 1 vols. 9-3/4 x 8 inches. Inscribed in lower right to John Fitzgerald Jr by J. Pierpont "Bathless" Groggins Van Buren started Abbie an' Slats in 1937. The strip followed the experiences of a rural spinster raising her young cousin,... Read More
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Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
New York: Avalon Books, 1957. First edition. 223 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in near fine pictorial dust jacket. First edition. 223 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A remarkable early interplanetary novel by Jack Vance. Signed by Jack Vance on both half title and tile page. Hewett and Mallett A5
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Autograph letter signed to Philadelphia bookseller William Bell
by Vancouver, Charles
George Inn, Huntingdonshire [England], 1796. [1] p. folded sheet. Written on folded sheet, addressed on verso. Quarto. Bit tanned. Very good. [1] p. folded sheet. Vancouver was a noted agriculturist. An American by birth, he spent 1786 to 1793 in England, where he wrote reports on the state of agriculture in various British counties. The DNB speculates that... Read More
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Portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper
by (Vanderbilt, Gloria) Van Vechten, Carl
New York, 1964. Gelatin silver print. Half-length frontal portrait of the couple. 1 vols. Approximately 13-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches). Atelier stamp on rear, and docketed in ink with date of the session, subject of the photo, and Van Vechten's id number ("XV • vv • 4"). Gelatin silver print. Half-length frontal portrait of the couple. 1 vols. Approximately... Read More
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![Fine head and shoulders black and white photographic portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt as a young woman, inscribed in the margin “For Isabel [Leighton] with love Gloria”](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/899/754/248754899.0.m.jpg)
Fine head and shoulders black and white photographic portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt as a young woman, inscribed in the margin “For Isabel [Leighton] with love Gloria”
by Vanderbilt, Gloria
n.p., 1940. 1 vols. Image 9 x 7-1/2 inches, matted and framed to 15 x 13-1/4 inches overall. Fine. 1 vols. Image 9 x 7-1/2 inches, matted and framed to 15 x 13-1/4 inches overall. Inscribed to Gloria Vanderbilt's good friend and neighbor at New York's River House, Isabel Leighton, actress, writer, correspondent, and editor of the best-selling... Read More
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Large black and white photograph of Gloria Vanderbilt holding an infant
by (Vanderbilt, Gloria) Frissell, Toni (photographer)
New York, 1965. Inscribed “For Isabel [Leighton] with all my love--Gloria / June 1965 / with Carter”. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. minor rubbing. Inscribed “For Isabel [Leighton] with all my love--Gloria / June 1965 / with Carter”. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. Inscribed to her good friend Isabel Leighton, a neighbor at New York's exclusive... Read More
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Portrait Photograph of Gloria Vanderbilt
by (Vanderbilt, Gloria) Van Vechten, Carl
New York, 1958. Gelatin silver print. Half-length frontal portrait. 1 vols. 35.5 x 23 cm (approximately 13 x 9 inches). Atelier stamp on rear, and docketed on rear in ink with date of the session, subject of the photo, and Van Vechten's id number ("M - XXXVI - 6'). Gelatin silver print. Half-length frontal portrait. 1 vols. 35.5... Read More
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VANDERBILT FOREVER! Victory Song of Vanderbilt University. Words by Grantland Rice. Music by Thornton W. Allen. (Ukele Arr. by May Singhi Breen)
by (Vanderbilt) Rice, Grantland
New York City: Thornton W. Allen Company/ Publisher of College Songs and Song Books, 1933. First edition; sheet music [issued with plate number "Vanderbilt Forever 3"]. 5 pp. Orange wrappers, front cover has a small abrasion (from price sticker); else a near fine copy. First edition; sheet music [issued with plate number "Vanderbilt Forever 3"]. 5 pp. A... Read More
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In a Province
by van der Post, Laurens
London: Hogarth Press, 1934. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First book by Laurens... Read More
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From Kitchen to Garret
by Van De Water, Virginia Terhune
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1910. Very Good, Fair. First edition. Introduction by Ernest Ingersoll. Small octavo. xiv, 262pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Pictorial cloth. Both hinges with a thin split (but sound), flyleaves and spine very lightly toned, tiny marginal stains on a few pages, very good or better in a fair dust jacket... Read More
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A collection of 12 typed letters signed ("Carl" and "CVD"), to World Publishing editor-in-chief William Targ
by Van Doren, Carl
New York, 1950. 12 pp. A few with holograph corrections. Receipt stamps to several. Square 12mo. On personal letterhead. Old folds, fine. 12 pp. A few with holograph corrections. Receipt stamps to several. Square 12mo. A nice group of letters by Van Doren full of literary business, written to William Targ, editor-in-chief at World Publishing, concerning titles for... Read More
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The Works of Henry Van Dyke
by Van Dyke, Henry
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. The Autograph edition, Copy #1 of 504 sets with the frontispiece and an inserted quote signed by the author. Printed on Old Stratford paper. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, etc. 18 vols. 8vo. Bound in Publisher's brown full brown gilt extra morocco, with gilt stamped shell motif on spines, covers and doublures t.e.g., by... Read More
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Historie van de oorlogen en geschiedenissen der Nederlanderen, en derzelver Nabuuren: beginnende met den Jaare 1315, en eindigende met den Jaare 1611
by van Meteren, Emanüel, of Antwerp
Gorinchem: N. Goetzee etc., 1763. 8vo. Three quarters orange morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Backwells. Fine. 8vo. see at large L. Brummel, Twee ballingen 's lands tijdens onze opstand tegen Spanje (1972)
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Van Morrison photograph
by (Van Morrison) Keen, Graham
U.K., 1974. 6" x 4.75. Fine. 6" x 4.75" Graham Keen (b.1937 - d.2019) was a British photographer who documented the counterculture of the 1960's in England. His subjects included major literary, art, and music figures such as William S. Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd, and Sir John Hurt.
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Original Art for Cover for "The Express Messenger" Magazine, a house organ of the American Railway Express (now American Express) for November 1926
by Van Ness, M.J.
Pen and watercolor. 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches (sight). Framed. Fine. Pen and watercolor. 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches (sight).
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Who's Who of the Chinese in New York
by Van Norden, Warner M.
New York: Warner M. Van Norden, 1918. First Edition. Illustrated. 148pp. Small handbill by Norden tipped to the rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth, lettered in red, staining, wear at board edges. Staining. First Edition. Illustrated. 148pp. Small handbill by Norden tipped to the rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. A very rare early twentieth-century illustrated directory... Read More
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![Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothéque du Roi [With:] Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin, qui se trouvent dans des Bibliothéques tant publiques que particulières](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/495/750/248750495.0.m.jpg)
Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothéque du Roi [With:] Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin, qui se trouvent dans des Bibliothéques tant publiques que particulières
by Van Praet, Joseph Basile Bernard
Paris: Crapelet for De Bure frères, 1828. First editions. 9 vols. 8vo (22.8 x 14.6 cm). Uniform 20th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, brown moroccco lettering pieces. A Fine set. First editions. 9 vols. 8vo (22.8 x 14.6 cm). First edition, PRINTED ON HEAVY LAID PAPER, OF THE FIRST AND MOST EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. The first... Read More
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Canter, Please! Random Memories of Glenholme Farm and of our Playmates and Playgrounds
by Van Sinderen, Adrian
[New York]: Privately Printed [by the Derrydale Press], 1935. First edition. Illustrated with photographs throughout (especially pp. 63-93). 93 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White japan vellum spine and red paper over boards upper cover titled in gilt. Fine copy (lacking the plain red slipcase). Custom red half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated with photographs throughout (especially... Read More
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The Confessions of a Newspaper. Published for the Information of Its Friends - and Enemies
by [Van Valkenberg, Edwin A.]
Philadelphia: The North American, 1909. 44 pp. 4to. Contemporary leather, gilt. Extremities worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown; contemporary presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt. 44 pp. 4to. Presentation copy of this series of letters reprinted from the Philadelphia NORTH AMERICAN, a newspaper edited by Edwin... Read More
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Bar Harbor, Maine
by Van Vechten, Carl
1936. 1 vols. 10-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 10-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches.
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Wharf, Bar Harbor, Maine
by Van Vechten, Carl
1936. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches.
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The Beach at Shoreham, New York
by Van Vechten, Carl
1939. 1 vols. 9 x 13-1/2 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 9 x 13-1/2 inches.
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Gardens of the Alcazar, Sevilla
by Van Vechten, Carl
1935. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches.
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Water Lilies in the Lagoon...Horticulture Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
by Van Vechten, Carl
1938. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches.
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