Anatomie Comparée
by VAN BENEDEN, P[ierre] J[oseph]
Bruxelles [Brussels]: Société pour l'Émancipation Intellectuelle, [1853?]. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Three volumes in original paper wrappers, with ornate designs in blue and black to both covers; vol. I: 96pp, vol. II: [iv],[97]-196; vol. III: [iv], 197-348pp; frontispiece in each volume, numerous in-text wood engravings. House in modern archival cream clamshell case, with the bookplate of James... Read More
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Land Grant for Lewis Dunbar Secretarially Signed for Martin Van Buren
by VAN BUREN, Martin
Washington DC, 1838. 26x41cm. Vellum printed form completed in manuscript with affixed paper seal, with brief identification notes on verso. Secretarially signed for Martin Van Buren. Two old vertical folds, minor dust to verso, a few small age spots, but generally Very Good. A land grant for forty acres near Crawfordsville, Indiana, sold to Lewis Dunbar of... Read More
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Messages of the Presidents of the United States, from the formation of the general government, down to the close of the administration of President Van Buren; concluding with the inaugural address of President W.H. Harrison. Prefixed to the work are the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States
by [VAN BUREN, Martin, William Henry Harrison, et al.] PHILLIPS, Jonathan
Columbus, OH: Jonathan Phillips, 1841. Thick octavo (22cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt morocco spine label; 704pp. Light wear, foxing to textblock, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pencil notes to rear free endpapers, else Very Good and sound. SABIN 48148.
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Speech, of the Hon. M. Van Buren, of the Senate, on the Act to Carry into Effect, the Act of 13th April, 1819, for the Settlement of the Late Governor's Accounts
by VAN BUREN, M[artin]
Albany: Jesse Buel, 1820. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); disbound; 37pp. Some spotting and toning throughout else Very Good. Address concerning monies borrowed by Governor Daniel Tompkins on his personal credit for the defense of New York City in 1814. SABIN 98423; SHOEMAKER 4078.
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The Woman in the Shadow
by VANCE, Louis Joseph
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 317pp. Mild softening to spine ends, corners gently bumped (though still sharp); Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) with some shallow chipping and short tears to the extremities; Very Good. HUBIN, p.414. ... Read More
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Cynthia-of-the-Minute
by VANCE, Louis Joseph
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); dustjacket and illustrations by Arthur I. Keller; 349pp. light blue decorated boards titled in white on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 349pp. Former owner's name roughly erased on front free endpaper; spine ends pushed; mild foxing/offsetting inside covers; Very Good+. The dustjacket is price-clipped with small nicks to... Read More
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All These People: The Nation's Human Resources in the South
by VANCE, Rupert and Nadia Danilevsky
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1945. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto (25cm). Blue cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 503pp; illus, tables, maps. Boards and text-block edges slightly soiled, a tiny nick to cloth at crown of spine, VG; in original dustwrapper, foxed on lighter portions (especially on spine panel) but complete and unclipped... Read More
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Rural Relief and Recovery
by VANCE, Rupert B.
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Light wear from handling, old defaced price sticker to upper cover slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Works Progress Administration Social Problems pamphlet no. 3.
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Farmers Without Land
by VANCE, Rupert B.
[New York]: Public Affairs Committee, 1938. Revised Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's green staplebound wrappers; 32pp. Some wear to wrapper extremities, pencil underlining to first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. Summary of a group of recent studies on tenancy and land tenure conditions. Public Affairs Pamphlet no. 12.
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The Courageous and the Proud
by VANCE, Samuel
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1970]. Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 166pp. Tears and creasing to top edge of upper jacket panel; Fine in About Good jacket. "A black man in the white man's army" (upper jacket panel). African-American Sergeant's memoir of the Vietnam War.
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Mangrove Mama & Other Tropical Tales of Terror [Limited Edition, Signed]
by VAN DE WETERING, Janwillem
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1995. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.7. Octavo (23.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's matching red cloth slipcase; viii,289,[1]pp. Collection of 17 short stories by the Dutch mystery author, all set in tropical settings. ... Read More
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Dark Islands
by VANDERCOOK, John W.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth, blocked and titled in teal and gilt on spine and front cover; color pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],367,[1]pp, with frontispiece map and 16 plates of illustrations. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), with modest wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine,... Read More
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The Counterfeit Corpse [Signed by Author]
by VANDERPUIJE, Nii A(krampahene)
New York: Comet Press, 1956. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm); grey publisher's cloth in black pictorial dustwrapper; 138pp. Dampstaining to spine, with corresponding stains to dustwrapper and pastedowns; dustwrapper lightly chapped on extremities, soiled rear panel; spine chipped at crown and heel. Very Good. Signed by the author on ffep. Vanderpuije, a Liberian-born American author, weaves an... Read More
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Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612)
by VAN DEN BROECKE, Pieter; J. D. La Fleur (trans.)
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xvi],139pp; color frontispiece, black and white plates and maps. Straight and sound, with minor spotting to cloth and top edge: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, lightly spotted at spine and flap folds: Very Good.
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![West Made East with the Loss of a Day. A Chronicle of the First Circumnavigation of the Globe Under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant, July 7, 1931 to March 4, 1932. An Account of Adventures in Navigation, Diversions, Picturesque Scenes, the Everyday Life of Remote Places, and the Taking of Specimens for the Vanderbilt Marine Museum [...] Motor Ship Alva](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/740/617/1454617740.0.m.jpg)
West Made East with the Loss of a Day. A Chronicle of the First Circumnavigation of the Globe Under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant, July 7, 1931 to March 4, 1932. An Account of Adventures in Navigation, Diversions, Picturesque Scenes, the Everyday Life of Remote Places, and the Taking of Specimens for the Vanderbilt Marine Museum [...] Motor Ship Alva
by VANDERBILT, William K.
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. First, Limited Edition. Regular issue" of 800 copies in buckram. Large quarto (34cm); blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; printed slipcase; xx,[1]-377pp; photographic text illus; seven tissue-guarded plates. A fine, fresh copy in the original slipcase, slightly toned and soiled but still Near Fine. From the library of noted zoologist... Read More
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Taking One's Own Ship Around the World. A Journal Descriptive of Scenes and Incidents, together with Observations from the Log Book. Recorded on the Voyage Around the World October 25, 1928 to May 16, 1929 of the Yacht Ara
by VANDERBILT, William K.
New York: Privately Printed, 1929. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 hand-numbered copies bound in buckram, from a total edition of 500. Large quarto (34cm); brown cloth spine over tan buckram boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; later board slipcase; xxii,264pp; photographic text illus; sixteen tissue-guarded plates. A fine, fresh copy. The supplied slipcase is slightly... Read More
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The Canary Murder Case
by VAN DINE, S. S.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in green; plain endpapers; [ii], [xii], 343, [3]pp; one-page publisher's ad at rear, list of titles at front. Straight, lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, paper mellowing, but sound: Very Good. The second Philo Vance novel, originally serialized in Scribner's. Basis for... Read More
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The Dragon Murder Case
by VAN DINE, S. S.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. First printing, with "A" to copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in red; endpapers with black and white map; [xiv],311,[7]pp; 6pp of publisher's ads at rear. 1934 gift inscription from "Edith" to "Mr. and Mrs. Murray." Straight, spine lightly sunned, minor pencil erasures to f.f.e.p., small patch of tape... Read More
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The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
by VAN DINE, S. S.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. First printing, with the "A" to spine. Octavo (19cm). Black publisher's cloth, stamped in yellow, with original dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xiv],328,[10]pp; 10pp of publisher's ads at rear; with folding map. Ink inscription to front pastedown, "Dot from Ed." Straight and bright, lightly rubbed at edges, paper mellowed: Near Fine. Jacket... Read More
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![The Canary Murder Case [With Clipped Signature Laid In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/768/1451768379.0.m.jpg)
The Canary Murder Case [With Clipped Signature Laid In]
by VAN DINE, S. S. (pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. First printing, in the second state jacket with "The Greene Murder Case" on rear flap. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in green, with jacket; plain endpapers; [ii],[xii],343,[3]pp; 1pp of publisher's ads at rear. With author's signature on separate paper, laid in. Straight, gently rubbed, light spotting to top edge, else Near Fine.... Read More
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![That Shining Place [Signed, Limited]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/960/611/1391611960.0.m.jpg)
That Shining Place [Signed, Limited]
by VAN DOREN, Mark
New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed #29 of 200. Octavo. (21.5 cm.); maroon cloth stamped in gilt on spine; gray slipcase; Light wear only; a Fine copy, slipcase Near Fine with light sunning/scuffing.
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Riverside Poetry 2: 48 New Poems by 27 Poets
by VAN DOREN, Mark; Moore, Marianne; Eberhart, Richard (eds.); Hopper, Stanley R. (intro.)
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1956]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.25cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [2],83pp. Rear jacket panel a bit dusted, closed chip to spine crown, else Very Good and sound. Collection of poems by students enrolled in colleges and universities in the New York metropolitan area. ABBOTT F4.
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![Collected Poems, 1922-1938 [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/476/880/1391880476.0.m.jpg)
Collected Poems, 1922-1938 [Limited Edition, Signed]
by VAN DOREN, Mark
New York: Henry Holt, 1939. First Edition. Limited issue # 191 of 200 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo. (24.5cm); tan buckram; blocked and titled in brown and gilt on spine and front cover; brown topstain; deckle edges; 384pp. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page; hint of sunning to spine, with a faint scratch to... Read More
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![The Seven Sleepers and Other Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/697/951/1399951697.0.m.jpg)
The Seven Sleepers and Other Poems [Signed]
by VAN DOREN, Mark
New York: Henry Holt, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Octavo (21.5 cm.); blue cloth-covered boards, titled in green on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; 123pp. Slightly faded topstain; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50); toning to spine with nicks and shallow loss to the crown; lightly rubbed rear panel; Very Good+. ... Read More
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Land Before Us, Poems Of The Sea
by VAN DRIESCHE, EMMET
Easthampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Adastra Pr, 2004. Lovely letterpress work, limited to 250 copies. Seagoing poems.
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