The Return of The Soldier; A Play in Three Acts
by VAN DRUTEN, John
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928. First U.K. Edition. Small Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in black on a red background to spine. Dustjacket. 116pp. Bright and vibrant, in a clean, strong buff card dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel. A very good copy indeed. Internally clean, some offsetting to pastedowns and flyleaves. An emotive dramatic... Read More
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[Postcard]: “They had the Boston Bull before I was born…”
by Van Duyn, Mona
[New York]: Knopf, [1990s]. First Edition. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on the front. Fine. Van Duyn was an Iowa poet who won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the first female U.S. poet laureate.
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MATTERS OF POETRY [Inscribed]
by Van Duyn, Mona
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1993. First Edition. Stapled blue wrappers; 8vo; [15 pp.] Inscribed on title page: "Hope you enjoy this. Mona"; she has corrected the subtitle by eradicating "Based On" from "Based on a Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on May 7, 1993". Fine copy. Pamphlet published during Van Duyn's second and final year of... Read More
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NEAR CHANGES
by Van Duyn, Mona
New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Large octavo; red cloth; dustjacket; bright green topstain; 69pp. A Fine copy in like dustwrapper. Previously winner of the National Book Award, The Bollingen Prize as well as the Ruth Lilly Prize, this collection won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Van Dyck as Religious Artist
by [VAN DYCK, ANTHONY] MARTIN, John Rupert and Gail Feigenbaum
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 28cm). Dark blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 180pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremities, slight soiling to bottom textblock corner, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; fading/discoloration to spine; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and... Read More
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A Book of Princeton Verse II 1919
by VAN DYKE, Henry, Morris William Croll, Maxwell Struthersburt, James Creese, Jr. (editors)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1919. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; gilt topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; 179pp. Lacking dustjacket. Spine-tanned, with sunning and shelf-soil to covers; Very Good. Includes contributions by John Peale Bishop, T. Scott Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Francis Charles MacDonald, and Edmund Wilson, Jr.... Read More
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Agency
by VANGELISTI, Paul
Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2003. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 35pp. Fine. Nicely-produced chapbook of prose-poems by the noted Southern California poet.
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Mercury Retrograde [Limited Edition, Signed]
by VAN GIESON, Judith (text); SATTERTHWAIT, Walter (introduction); PARKS, Phil (cover)
Huntington Beach: James Cahill Publishing, 1994. First, Limited Edition. One of 124 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all three contributors, this being copy no.124. Octavo (23.75cm); glossy pictorial paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; [2],x,82,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Collection of short fiction and poems... Read More
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Van Gogh Museum
by [VAN GOGH] DE LEEUW, Ronald; Andrew McCormick, trans
Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1997. First Edition. Large Quarto (31.5cm x 25cm). Yellow cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in blue on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 312pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slightly bumped edge; sligtly soiled bottom text block, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shef wear to extemities. Ronald De Leeuw, former Director of Amsterdam's Van... Read More
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The Emperor's Pearl
by VAN GULIK, Robert
London: Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue paper covered boards titled in gilt on spine; illus.; map endpapers; dustjacket; 185pp. The rear board in slightly bowed; mild foxing to outer textblock; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 13s 6d net) with faint foxing some scattered soil and light edgewear; Very Good+. Dustjacket and illustrations by... Read More
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The Red Pavilion: A Chinese Detective Story
by VAN GULIK, Robert
London: Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue paper covered boards titled in gilt on spine; illustrated; map endpapers; dustjacket; 173pp. Crown gently nudged; former owner's personal library mark (red Chinese stamp) on front endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s net); rubbing/crease mostly to the upper edge of jacket; Very Good+. A locked room mystery.... Read More
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Broadside: Save The Constitution / Stop Wars - Stop Drafts - Stop NATO - Kill the U.N. We The People Must Use or Lose the Constitution
by VAN HYNING, Tom
[Chicago]: The Women's Voice, N.d. [ca 1954]. Broadside, 11" x 8-1/2" (28cm x 22cm), printed recto only on coated paper. Single horizontal fold (as issued); text printed in three columns. Anti income-tax appeal by Tom Van Hyning: "...the Internal Revenue Act is the key and door to dictatorship, and completely unconstitutional...you can refuse to pay another cent of... Read More
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A Yankee Spy in Richmond: the Civil War Diary of "Crazy Bet" Van Lew
by VAN LEW, Elizabeth; David B. Ryan, ed
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 166pp; includes bibliography. Fine, apparently unread copy in the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn. Appears new.
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One Hundred Years of Physiology at West Virginia University, 1869-1969
by VAN LIERE, Edward J.
Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; map endpapers; xviii,124,[6]pp; illus. Fiune and unread.
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![Peace is Possible" an Address by Rev. Pierre van Paassen [...] before The Community Church of Boston [...] Sunday, December 23, 1951](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/192/831/641831192.0.m.jpg)
Peace is Possible" an Address by Rev. Pierre van Paassen [...] before The Community Church of Boston [...] Sunday, December 23, 1951
by Van PAASSEN, Pierre
Boston: The Community Church of Boston, 1951. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 24pp. Mild toning and soil; Very Good. Christmas address by the noted Unitarian minister and peace activist. Includes brief foreword and afterword by Donald G. Lothrop and Jerome Davis. Uncommon; OCLC gives one location only (Harvard Divinity); none others in commerce (2013).
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Don't Play Us Cheap: A Harlem Party
by VAN PEEBLES, Melvin
Toronto: Bantam Books, [1973]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original black pictorial wrappers; [4],124pp.; 8 leaves of photographic stills from the film. Fine. Lyrical novel based on Van Peebles's album/film/Broadway musical, in which two devil-bats take on human form to disrupt a party in Harlem.
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A Christmas Greeting!
by [VAN SINDEREN, Adrian]
[Washington, CT]: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1937. First, limited edition of 400 copies. Slim quarto (25.5cm); blue paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; [20pp]. Boards yawning slightly, also mildly scuffed and soiled; sunning to spine and margins. Textblock dampstained along preliminary gutters; pages toned, with gentle handling wear and soiling; front pastedown initialed, penciled notes on ffep. Overall Very Good. ... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Sovetskoe Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo: Zhivopis' / Grafika / Skul'ptura / Monumental'noe / Iskusstvo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/744/763/1292763744.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Sovetskoe Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo: Zhivopis' / Grafika / Skul'ptura / Monumental'noe / Iskusstvo
by VANSLOV, V.V. and M.T. Kuz'mina
Moskva: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1982. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 422pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Catalog of Socialist Realist works, text entirely in Russian.
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Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo's Country)
by VAN VALKENBURGH, Richard F. ADAMS, Lucy Wilcox and MCPHEE, John C. (editors); Charles Keetsie Shirley (maps)
Window Rock, AZ: United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Navajo Service, 1941. First Edition. Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear... Read More
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![Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/105/800/1423800105.0.m.jpg)
Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works [Inscribed]
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); rebound in hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [viii],247,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author in green ink on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Amos T. French Jr by Carl Van Vechten / December 28, 1937 / New York." Modest wear to extremities, faint dampstain... Read More
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![The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/886/837/880837886.0.m.jpg)
The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy]
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl; Paul Padgette, ed. & intro
New York: Schirmer Books / Macmillan Publishing Co, [1981]. First Edition. Folio (30.75cm.); two-toned cloth in gilt photo-illustrated dust jacket; vii,[3],212pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed with clear tape reinforcement to bottom edge and spine crown, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Review copy with two original promotional photographs and typed letter from the publisher laid... Read More
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![The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/203/800/1423800203.0.m.jpg)
The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending [Inscribed]
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First and second printings before publication. Octavo (19.5cm); rebound in hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [x],286pp. Inscribed by the author in green ink on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Amos T. French Jr by Carl Van Vechten / December 28, 1937 / New York." Modest wear to extremities,... Read More
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Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. Linen-backed, batik-decorated boards; paper spine label; black top-stain; dustwrapper; 247pp. Nice, tight copy, just lightly faded at board extremities, in the scarce original dustwrapper, unclipped but mildly eroded at spine ends and with gentle soil at flap-folds; still easily Very Good. Van Vechten's most enduring work, a satirical portrait of... Read More
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Excavations: A Book of Advocacies
by VAN VECHTEN, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 284pp, [2]. Topstain faded and slightly dusty, with a touch of subtle fading to spine panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket (orange variant) is well-preserved for this title, lightly edgeworn, and a little sunned at spine; a strong,... Read More
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My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture
by VAN VOOLEN, Edward
Munich: Prestel, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm); light blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 191,[1]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to spine ends, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Visual survey of 2000 years of Jewish contributions to the visual arts.
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