Journal-Itinéraire de mon voyage en Europe (1814-1817). Con il Carteggio relativo al viaggio
by VIEUSSEUX, Giovan Pietro; Lucia Tonini (ed)
N.p. [Firenze]: Leo Olschki, 1998. First Edition. First Olschki printing. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 375pp; illus; folding map. Bit of dusting to covers, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Editorial matter in Italian; Vieusseux's text printed in the original French.
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The Transkei--A South African Tragedy
by VIGNE, Randolph
London: Africa Bureau, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original tan staplebound wrappers; 27pp.; illus. Fine. Account of the Bantustan the Republic of Transkei, a region of South Africa set aside for the black population which was granted nominal autonomy in 1963.
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Marxismo e Historia. Polemica con Louis Althusser
by VILAR, Pierre
[Buenos Aires]: Ediciones Praxis, 1974. First Spanish-language edition. 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 76pp. Clean and unmarked; Very Good. Spanish translation of an essay originally published in the journal Annales in 1973.
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The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo
by VILLA, Alfonso R.
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (29cm); gray paper wrappers; [xiv],[2],3-182,[4]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones, illustrations, charts and maps throughout. Publication No. 559. Tanned with light shelf-wear and trace soil; Very Good. Report sections include historical background, ethnology, material culture, economics, labor, religion, diseases, and ceremonies. [87933].
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Le Thêâtre Montansier à Versailles: de la Montansier à Francis Perrin
by VILLARD, Jacques
Marly-le-Roi: Éditions Champflour, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm x 22cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover; pictorial dustjacket; 224pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extemities, else clean. A historical exploration of the Montansier Theater at the palace of Versailles, France. Hundreds of archival images. In French language... Read More
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Coleccion de Mendoza o Codice Mendocino: Documento Mexicano del Siglo XVI que se Conserva en la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, Inglaterra
by VILLA, Jesús Galindo y and Don Francisco del Paso y Troncoso
México: Editorial Innovación, 1980. Facsimile Reprint, softcover. Quarto (27.5cm); yellow pictorial wrappers; [n.p]; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Text in Spanish. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to half-title page. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with price sticker to lower rear wrapper; Very Good. Manuscript facsimile... Read More
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Poesia Completa
by VILLARRUTIA, Xavier (poetry); Alí Chumacero (prologue)
Mexico: Editorial Oasis, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (21cm); paper wrappers; [7],8-153,[7]pp. Text in Spanish. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial ownership stamp embossed to front endpaper. Slight peeling beginning to edges of lamination, with pencilled note to upper front endpaper; Very Good+. Collection of verse includes... Read More
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![Contribution a l'Étude des Doctrines en Médecine Mentale: Essai sur les courants actuels d'idées en psycho-pathologie. Freud, Bleuler, Janet [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/777/155/1249155777.0.m.jpg)
Contribution a l'Étude des Doctrines en Médecine Mentale: Essai sur les courants actuels d'idées en psycho-pathologie. Freud, Bleuler, Janet [Inscribed & Signed]
by VILLEY-DESMÉSERETS, G.
Paris: Jouve & Cie, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (26cm.); later blue library cloth, original printed wrappers bound in; [2],176pp.; illus. Ex-Library of the Institute for Psychoanalysis with their usual internal markings, wrappers rather toned and brittle due to poor paper quality, else Very Good, internally near fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to a fellow doctor on half... Read More
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![Je M Louvri / Open Eyes: Haitian Creole / English Literacy [Upper cover subtitle: Haitian Creole and English Literacy Manual]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/042/1017042056.0.m.jpg)
Je M Louvri / Open Eyes: Haitian Creole / English Literacy [Upper cover subtitle: Haitian Creole and English Literacy Manual]
by VILSAINT, Fequiere
[Temple Terrace, FL]: Educa Vision, [1998, but 2006]. Revised Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 163pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit soiled, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Copyright date 1998 but "Edited March 2006" is printed on rear cover.
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Voices: a Journal of Poetry. Number 148 (May - August 1952). "Southern Issue
by VINAL, Harold (ed); Carleton Drewry (guest editor)
Portland, ME: Progressive Printing, 1952. Single octavo issue in original laid-paper wrappers; 53,(3)pp. Some soiling to wrappers, with old wax-pencil price to front cover; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Issue devoted to Southern writers, guest-edited by Carleton Drewry. Contributors include Jesse Stuart, Josephine Jacobsen, Gilbert Maxwell, George Scarbrough, Julia Johnson Davis, Merrill Moore, many others.
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Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations
by VINCENT, Benjamin
London: Ward Lock & Co, 1910. Twenty-fifth edition, containing the history of the world to Midsummer, 1910." Thick octavo (24cm). Half brown leather, black and red cloth over boards, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; [xii],1614pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist and marine biologist James G. Mead. Binder's stamp of Hatchards, Piccadilly. A strudy volume, very lightly rubbed, slight discoloration to... Read More
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The Elements of Hypnotism: the Induction, the Phenomena, and the Physiology of Hypnosis. With Seventeen Illustrations (Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged)
by VINCENT, Ralph Harry
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1897. Second edition (revised and enlarged). 12mo (19cm). Publisher's red cloth hardcover, covers stamped in blind, titled in gilt on spine; viii,[1]-271pp; text illus; 4-pp publisher's catalog bound in before title page. Covers spotted, rubbed and slightly soiled, else a tight copy, internally complete, clean and unmarked. Just Very Good. ... Read More
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SHOCKS 3/4: Poetry & Criticism: The Bay Area and Northern California
by Vincent, Stephen (ed.)
San Francisco: Momo Press, 1974. First Edition. Printed wrappers; 4to. 93 pp. Spine and covers toned, light wear and soiling; Very Good. This double issue of a long-running quarterly is primarily criticism with work from Lew Welch, Jack Spicer, Susan Griffin, Mary Korte, Lewis MacAdams Jr. and Andrei Codrescu and Keith Abbott. Given the evident strong distribution, quality... Read More
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![Cannibal Carnival: Poems 1986-1996 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/116/950/1312950116.0.m.jpg)
Cannibal Carnival: Poems 1986-1996 [Signed]
by VINOGRAD, Julia
Berkeley: Zeitgeist Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; [iv],90,[2]pp; with illustrations throughout by Deborah Vinograd. Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear to wrappers, else Near Fine. Late collection of verse by the well-known Berkeley street poet. From the collection of New York hipster impresario Israel "Izzy" Young, proprietor of the Folklore... Read More
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Performance Practice: A Bibliography
by VINQUIST, Mary and Neal Zaslaw
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [4],114pp. Some general wear to jacket extremities, ownership signature to front free endpaper, occasional pencil annotations throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. "A guide to the extensive literature on the proper performance of music from past centuries" - upper... Read More
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Loyalty and Piety; or, The Christian's Civil Obligations Defined. A Discourse Preached in Trinity Church, Newport, R.I....on Thursday, July 21, 1842, the Day of Public Thanksgiving
by VINTON, Francis
Providence: Burnett & King, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 23pp. A hint of dust-soil, else Very Good and fresh. Criticism of the 1841-2 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, during which members of the middle class sought to extend the state's democracy by broadening the right to vote. "Sedition" as defined in Scripture according to Vinton "ranks in the... Read More
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SONGS FOR A HOMETOWN BOY
by Vinz, Mark
San Luis Obispo: The Solo Press, 1977. First Edition. Chapbook of poems in photographic wrappers. 22 pp. Very good, prev. owner's name in ink on front flyleaf.
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Conington's Virgil (6 vols)
by VIRGIL [Publius Virgilius Maro]; John Conington, ed; Philip Hardie (et al), introd
Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007-8. Six-volume reissue of Conington's Works of Virgil (1883-1898), with a new General Introduction by Philp Hardie. Six octavo volumes (21.5cm) in publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine, apparently unread set in lightly worn slipcase. An accessible modern edition of Conington's landmark translation of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, originally published between 1858... Read More
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Historic Harrisonburg
by [VIRGINIA] WAYLAND, John W.
Harrisonburg: C.J. Carrier Company, 1990. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 419pp; illus; folding map. Fine copy, with text fresh and unmarked. Facsimile reprint of the 1949 edition.
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The Story of Bacon's Rebellion
by [VIRGINIANA] STANARD, Mary Newton
Nashville: Neale Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Sage green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; to edge gilt; 181,(1)pp. Spine cloth subtly faded, else tight, clean and unmarked with gilt still bright on spine and cover; Very Good+.
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Virgil: Critical Assessments of Classical Authors (4 vols). I: General Articles and the Eclogues; II: Georgics; III: Aeneid; IV: The Aeneid (continued)
by VIRGIL [Publius Virgilius Maro]; Philip Hardie (ed), various authors
London: Routledge, 1999. First Edition. Four octavo volumes. Publisher's red buckram with gilt spine and cover titles; xxiv,443; [4],353; xiii,399; viii,457pp. Mild bump to upper board corner on v.1, else a tight, fine, and unmarked set. Collection of articles, by a variety of 20th-century classical scholars, offering analysis, interpretation, and historical background of Virgil's four major works. An essential... Read More
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Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Regular Session, Held December Second, 1861at the City of Wheeling
by [WEST VIRGINIA]
Wheeling, [WV]: Daily Press Book and Job Office, 1862. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Modern orange buckram; 111pp. Very Good. Acts passed while West Virginia was in the process of separating from Virginia and forming a new state. Delegates met to write a state constitution from November 26, 1861, to February 18, 1862. The state was formally admitted... Read More
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Sex Education
by VISMAN, Janni
London: Bloomsbury, 2002. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [viii],212,[4]pp. A clean, Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Nathan Burton, is unclipped (priced £12.99); Fine. Visman's first novel, which focuses on female friends as they age. [82228].
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Memoria Digital
by VITERI, Alicia; Ángela de Picardi (text)
Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Quarto; post-bound, embossed silk boards with pictorial onlay; 127pp; illus. Issued without dustwrapper. Rear upper rivet missing, else a Fine, apparently unread copy; appears new. Presentation of the artist's digital pieces, composed on Macintosh computers using Zbrush and Photoshop. Text in Spanish. Uncommon.
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Poemas en Prosa (1923-1932)
by Vivanco, Luis Felipe
.n.p.: Santander, 1972. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the editor/publisher. Slightly discolored at spine. Interior fresh and crisp. Early avant garde work from the Spanish poet, in Spanish only.
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