Soviet Culture Bulletin. No. 6-7 (October-November 1931)
by [VOKS]
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1931. Single issue in original staple-bound thick paper wrappers. Small quarto (16cm); 40pp. Mild ageing to text; hint of soil to wrapers; still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. English-language edition. Single issue of this scarce, short-lived Soviet propaganda monthly. Soviet Culture Bulletin appeared for only... Read More
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...I never saw another butterfly...": Children's Drawings and Poems - Terezín 1942-1944
by VOLAVKOVÁ, Hana (ed.); Jirí Weil, (intro.)
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Second Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); woven pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt, no dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; 80pp. Boards yawning, spine internally detached from textblock (preliminaries still intact); minor wear and soiling. Gift inscription on ffep (dated 1973); red ribbon marker intact. Overall Very Good. This book is a collection of drawings and poetry as done... Read More
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NEW FICTION
by Vollman, William; William Hjortsberg; Kathy Acker; Will Self; Dennis Cooper
New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1994. Advanced excerpts from the publisher's Fall 1994, Spring 1995 lists all with a certain sexual bent, including fiction from Will Self, William Vollman, Banana Yoshimoto, William Hjortsberg, Dagoberto Gilb, Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Jack Womack , Fiona Lewis (the actress) and Almudena Grandes (THE AGES OF LULU). With interviews, reviews, and an excerpt from Michael... Read More
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An Afghanistan Picture Show; Or, How I Saved The World
by VOLLMANN, William T.
New York: Farra, Straus Giroux, 1992. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's green linen spine, titled in gilt, over cream speckled paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 268pp. Slight disoloration to the cloth around the extremities, light bumping to spine ends; internally clean, signed by Vollmann to the half-title; in a clean, bright and attractive pictorial dustjacket. A near fine signed... Read More
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Poor People [Signed]
by VOLLMANN, William T.
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers / ecco, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); gray cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic red on spine and publisher's name blind embossed to front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 128pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. Signed by author on title page. Designed by Joseph Rutt. Light wear to spine ends, with... Read More
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Butterfly Stories [Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by VOLLMANN, William T.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1993. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Signed bookplate laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); blue pictorial wrappers with French flaps; 281pp. Fine copy with tiny crease to lower page edge. Second novel in the "Prostitution Trilogy". Precedes the US hardcover Edition.
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![You Bright and Risen Angels: A Cartoon [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/245/148/1716148245.0.m.jpg)
You Bright and Risen Angels: A Cartoon [Signed]
by VOLLMANN, William T.
New York: Atheneum, 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark blue-grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; xvi,[3]-635,[5]pp; illus. Signed by the author on the title page. Shallow bump to lower rear board edge, light surface wear, topstain a bit dulled, with foxing to endpapers and... Read More
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I Learned To Fly For Hitler
by VOLMAR, Joe
Dundee, MI: Kron Publications, 1999. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; [vi],231,[1]pp. Some very mild wear and handling to wrappers, a few faint creases, else Near Fine. Memoir of an American-reared youth, who returned with his parents to Germany in 1941, at age 14. "The book describes the transformation of a naive Boy Scout to a goose-stepping Hitler Youth... Read More
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Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
by VON GELDERN, James
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1993]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,316pp.; illus. Fine condition.
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Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner Von Heidenstam
by VON HEIDENSTAM, Verner (poems); STORK, Charles Wharton (translation)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); 3/4 blue paper over yellow cloth, with blue title label printed in black applied to spine; dustjacket; 159pp. Touch of dustiness to upper board edges and upper edge of text, with a hint of offset to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn, spine-sunned, with a few small nicks and... Read More
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We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against
by Von HOFFMAN, Nicholas
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over grey paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine and black to front board. Very light bumping and edgewear in a clean and bright dustjacket with some light wear. A very good, clean copy indeed. 279pp. Top edge stained yellow, yellow endpapers,... Read More
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The Limits of State Action
by von HUMBOLDT, Wilhelm; J. W. Burrow (ed.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Octavo (22cm). Brown cloth, titled in gilt on black spine label; [xliv],[146]pp. Former owner's name to front free endpaper. Clean and sound, lightly tapped at head and corners: Fine.
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Fates Worse Than Death
by VONNEGUT, Kurt Jr. (lecture); Ken Coates (foreword)
Nottingham: Spokesman / Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, [n.d.]. Softcover. Octavo (18cm); staple-bound wrapper; 16pp. Spokesman Pamphlet No.80, 50 pence. A Fine copy. Includes foreword by Ken Coates with letter addressed to him from Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Vonnegut's lecture on hydrogen bombs at St. John the Divine, NYC, on May 23, 1982. [84429].
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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
by VONNEGUT, Kurt (novel); PARKER, Robert Andrew (illustrations)
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Limited Issue, printed privately for members of the First Edition Society. Octavo; tan leather, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt; all edges gilt, with orange silk moire endpapers and matching bookmark; 257pp. Fine and unread, with a special introduction by the author and illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. ... Read More
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Shortridge Annual - Collection of Three Volumes, 1938, 1939, & 1940 [Signed Bookplates Laid in]
by [VONNEGUT, Kurt] SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL
Indianapolis: [Shortridge High School Press], 1938-1940. First Edition. Three volumes; quarto (25.5 - 27.25cm.); original cloth, the two earliest Annuals with color pictorial plates mounted to upper covers, last issue pictorially blind-embossed; illus., mostly photographic, throughout. Light edge wear, tiny loss to cover plate of earliest volume not approaching image or text, the usual student signatures throughout, else a... Read More
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Dead-Eye Dick
by VONNEGUT, Kurt
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, light rubbing and wear to extremities and spine ends in an exceptionally clean, bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. 240pp. Internally clean. Top edge stained pink. A smart copy of Vonnegut's serpentine novel of... Read More
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Von Seelenkranken, Von Ansteckung, Von Geschlechtsnöten
by VORBERG, Gaston
Stuttgart: Julius Püttmann, 1928. First Edition. Large octavo (25.75cm.); publisher's decorative tan card wrappers; 158pp. Light wear, else a Very Good or better, unopened, copy. Publisher's prospectus laid in.
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Autobiography of an Elderly Woman
by [VORSE, Mary Heaton]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original terracotta cloth lettered in black and gilt; [6],269,[11](ads)pp. Spine ends a touch rubbed, some light foxing throughout, else Very Good or better. Anonymously published work by labor activist and Rideout novelist Mary Heaton Vorse. Better known for her political activism in favor of such diverse causes as women's suffrage,... Read More
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Murder on the Second Floor: A Play
by VOSPER, Frank
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1929]. First Edition. Small octavo (18.75cm.); publisher's cloth in red printed dust jacket; 125pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Play first produced on Broadway the same year (Laurence Olivier played the role of Hugh Bromilow), and adapted into a novel, two films, including the... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Srazhaiushcheesia Iskusstvo: Ordena Krasnoi Zvezdy Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/441/331/1253331441.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Srazhaiushcheesia Iskusstvo: Ordena Krasnoi Zvezdy Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova
by [VOSTOKOV, E. I.]
Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; unpaginated; illus. throughout, many in color. Corners bumped, light wear, else Very Good, internally fine. Text entirely in Russian.
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Program, Eighth Annual Convention
by PENNSYLVANIA LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
Williamsport: Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); single leaf folded into six-paneled pamphlet. Minor dustiness and light wear from handling, else Near Fine. Convention held November 14-16, 1927, at the Lycoming Hotel in Williamsport. The League was the "largest postsuffrage [National American Woman Suffrage Association] affiliate" (Anna L. Harvey, Votes Without Leverage (1998), p. 101n).... Read More
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The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea; containing Thrilling Narratives and Adventures of Ocean Life in All Countries, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
by [OCEAN VOYAGES]
Auburn & Buffalo: Alden, Beardsley & Co, 1854. Octavo (21cm). Two volumes in one. Green cloth, titled and decorated on spine in gilt; yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-336pp; frontispiece, 6 wood engravings on inserted leaves and additional in-text wood engravings. Straight and stable, but much rubbed, spine gilt dulled, spots to cloth, boards exposed at corners, foxed: Good. Uncommon (9... Read More
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![Poster: Vecht voor je recht / Maak zelf uit wat je zegt! Geen sensuur op schoolkrant / Vrijheid ophangen affiesjes / Vrije distributie pamfletten en kranten [Fight for your rights / Determine what you say yourself! No censorship in school newspapers / Freedom to put up posters / Free distribution of flyers and newspapers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/247/636/943636247.0.m.jpg)
Poster: Vecht voor je recht / Maak zelf uit wat je zegt! Geen sensuur op schoolkrant / Vrijheid ophangen affiesjes / Vrije distributie pamfletten en kranten [Fight for your rights / Determine what you say yourself! No censorship in school newspapers / Freedom to put up posters / Free distribution of flyers and newspapers]
by VRIJBRIEF, TEGENKRANT VAN AMSTERDAMSE JONGEREN
Amsterdam: VRIJBRIEF: Tegenkrant van Amsterdamse Jongeren, ca. 1980. Original photo-illustrated poster (43x61cm.) printed offset in purple and black on recto and verso; previous folds (as issued?), minor wrinkling and shallow creases to extremities, else Very Good. Poster issued by the anti-censorship students' rights organization, the photograph on the recto showing two male students peeling the tape from their mouths.... Read More
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Problemes Actuels du Mouvement Syndical International
by VUKMANOVIĆ-TEMPO, Svetozar
Belgrade: Syndicats Yougoslaves, 1962. 12mo. Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 87pp. Near Fine, with a hint of rubbing to wrappers. Yugoslavian Communist Party pamphlet. Text entirely in French.
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Flight of the Eagle: A Brief Study of the Life of Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, First President of the Republic of Zambia, Against the Background of the Struggle for Independence
by VYAS, Chiman L.
[Lusaka]: NECZAM, [1970]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (19cm.); original white pictorial wrappers printed in green and black; [6],58pp.; 8 leaves of plain photographic plates printed on rectos and versos. About Fine.
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