Authors starting with V from Thorn Books

NY: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Purple cloth, the upper board blocked in a regal design in white, blue, pink and gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed in red and black, with many text illustrations. Endpapers in deep blue with a repeating design of rampant lions. Cloth on rear board replaced with similar, but brighter, cloth; general sunning; last 6 leaves stained from damp, with light offset of text. Still an acceptable copy.... more information

Boston: Alyson Wonderland, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Yes. First edition. Illustrated by Lynette Schmidt. Thin folio. Three new fairy tales, illustrated in glowing colors in a medieval style. A fine, bright copy in similar dustwrapper (not clipped). Contains stories about a boy who loved to feed the birds, a girl with a magic ring who discovered a kingdom beneath the sea, and a king wo complaioned that his throne was too lumpy. ... more information

Roma (Rome): Agostino Valentini, 1832, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. Large folio 13 by 19 inches. Two volumes in one. Separate engraved title pages to each volume. Complete with 56 full page engraved plates in volume 1 and 80 full page engraved plates in volume 2. Notable for its very large linear engravings which provide extensive coverage of the numerous sculptures and wall paintings in the interior of the building, as well as ground plans and perspective views. Gerardi’s text is bas... more information

Madrid: Victoriano Suarez, 1899. First edition. Wraps. Very good plus. Yes. 2 volumes. 4to. xxxiv,869;952,(1)pp. Publisher's printed paper wrappers. Frontispiece engraving in volume one, frontispiece illustration in volume two, plus a few other illustrations. Spine paper of volume two neatly mended, light wear, but an unopened set and very good plus. ... more information

Dublin: Thomas Ewing (& others), 1770-1784. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Yes. 4 volumes. 8vo. Numbers 1-13, complete (but see below). Profusely illustrated with 18 engraved plates (13 folding), 3 folding maps (1 quite large, of ancient Ireland), and 8 engraved tables. Contemporary calf spines, marbled paper boards, spines in six compartments, gilt rules, red leather lettering pieces, gilt. Volumes 1-3 are of uniform height (8-1/4'); Vol. 4 is taller at 9' and is uncut. Bindings are well wor... more information

San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthan, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Signed by Van Antwerp. Cloth spine, paper boards & labels. Near fine. ... more information

London: J. Moore, 1791. Hardcover. Good. Second edition, revised and corrected by P. Boyle. Folio. 88pp. plus 30 full page engravings and two letterpress illustrations. Finely bound to style in quarter calf, red lettering label, gilt, marbled paper boards. Text block totally untrimmed and so the edges are rough; in addition, first and last few pages are edgeworn from use. Light staining, foxing and soiling to the text, with the engravings generally offsetting to the letterpress facing pages. The title an... more information

Basle; Paris: Joh. Rud. Thurneisen; Petrum Simon, 1750; 1730. Very good. Hardcover. Two works bound in one. 12mo. (5),ix,320,(6);236,(4)pp. The first work illustrated with full page engravings. Contemporary full vellum; manuscript spine title. Boards yawning else a very good copy. ... more information

Madrid: Fortanet, 1914. First edition.. Wraps. Very good. Yes. 4to. 146,(2)pp. Illustrated with 52 plates: Maps, plans and tipped-in photographs. Original wrappers printed in black and red. Partially uncut. The wrappers are sunned on the spine and on the upper and foredge parts of the covers else a very good copy. In Spanish. Junta para Aimplicacion de Estudiuos e Investigaciones Cientificas.... more information

Paris: Pierre Beres, 1957. First edition.. Wraps. Fine. Yes. 4to. One of 600 copies. magnificent catalogue of the sale of Pillone bindings. 160 lots are described, with multiple tipped-in illustrations of the bindings, and may in color. Original hand-made paper wraps. Only a trace of sunning, and with the bookplate of Bertha Benedict designed by John Kibbey. This catalogue has become the standard reference for the Pillone collection.... more information

El Paso, Texas: Editorial Revista Catolica, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 8vo. 231pp. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Five full page plates. Lightly soiled and worn at edges, spine and fore edges, else a very good copy. Scarce first printing of the diary of the Archbishop of Puebla, recalling events of the religious persecution in Mexico in 1927. "...advertimos que al dar el nombre de mártires a algunos de los sacerdotes y fieles, sacrificados en la actual persecuci&oacut... more information

Madrid: Paytonato de la <Casa de Colon>, 1956. First edition.. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 8vo. 211,(3)pp. Red cloth, gilt spine title, patterned endpapers. A fine copy. Appendix. Illustrated, including a photograph of Galdos' piano and one of his harmonium. In Spanish.... more information

1813. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 31(i)pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards. Boards worn, especially a spine; text dampstained; else very good. Fairly scarce pamphlet treating of the boundary between France and Germany from a military standpoint. Presumably prepared in connection with the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the Euyropean boundaries after the defeat of Napoleonic France. In German.... more information

Madrid: P. Vindel, Lirero-Anicuario, 1914. First edition.. Wraps. Very good. 12mo. 36pp. Marbled paper wraps, Printed in red and black throughout. One full page illustration, a double page of a 1493 edition of Docrina Cristiana. "Nueva serie, n. 1" Light stain on upper marginal corner else a very good copy. In Spanish.... more information

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. Three volumes. 12mo. xxvii,(1),264;(2),274;(2),249(1),6pp. (Includes 6 page publisher's catalogue at end of Volume 3). Original drab paper boards, paper spine labels. Spines and labels worn and chipped, else a very good copy; the text pages are untrimmed. The first edition in English of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's edition of the Arabian Nights. He was an Austrian Orientalist who served in the Levant. One of his ear... more information

NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 4to. Original cloth, gilt. 192pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout in color with items mostly from the Forbes collection. With essays by Roy D. R. Betteley, Paul Schaffer, A. Kenneth Snowman, and Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey. Edited by Christopher Forbes. Chronology; Marks; Workshops and Workmasters; Bibliography. Upper and lower edges of the boards sunned else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped and it likewise fine. INSCRIBED on the front fre... more information