Authors starting with V from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1964. 25 cm. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase. About fine, although slipcase somewhat worn. ... more information

Zurich: Verlag der Zurcher Kunstgesellschaft, 1927. 23 p. and 16 plates. Later red cloth, original wraps bound in. Light marginal foxing affecting few plates. Early catalogue of the artist's graphic work. ... more information

Genova: Felice Repetto, 1776. 4to (27 cm); volume 1 only (of 2). [xviii], 180 pages. Copperplate vignette on title page. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Bound "alla rustica" in publisher's pasteboard. Untrimmed, uncut, unsophisticated copy. Condition: almost as new, but for few blemishes on covers. The Dominican cleric Antonino Valsecchi taught philosophy and theology at the University of Padova. Today we would call him a right-winger, as he dedicated his life and work to combating a... more information

New York, The Century Company, 1892.. 28 cm; xxix, 395 pages, including 154 drawings by Joseph Pennell. Bound in original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Extremities somewhat worn. Old cello tape on endpaper. Shoulders uneven, but still strong. Good condition overall. First trade edition. ... more information

Amsterdam: Everhard Cloppenburgh, 1642. First edition. Reference: Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books, 842; Praz, 522.. 4to (21 cm) ; [24], 523, [1] pages (with errors in pagination). Title engraving and 50 copperplate engraved emblems by Salomon Savery (1594-1678), each emblem with a two-line caption in Dutch above and two-line translation into French below, and an explanatory stanza in Dutch on the facing pag e. Plate XIV a cancel, as usual in the first edition. Bound in half calf over speckled paper-... more information

Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1925. Second Printing. 19 cm; 137 pages. Bound in green half cloth over marbled boards. Typography by Karel Teige. Spine slightly off square, and slight abrasion along upper joint. Second printing of Vancura's first (and perhaps greatest) novel, The Baker Jan Marhoul. Typography by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ... more information

Praha (Prague): Vydavatelstvo "Druzstevní Práce" v Praze, 1924. 23 cm; 118, [1] pages. Bound in later quarter calf over paper covered boards, with gilt device on upper board. Original wrap bound in. Typography by Karel Teige. Boards a bit warped. First printing of Vancura's first (and perhaps greatest) novel, The Baker Jan Marhoul. Typography by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in... more information

New Orleans: Privately printed, 1968. First edition. 28 cm; 50 pages, illustrated. Wraps. A "scrapbook" of Egyptian sites, with half-tone plates and typewritten text. ... more information

London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. 27cm; lxxxv, 121 pages, with color vignette on title page, a facsimile of the original title-page, one photograph, and five maps. One of 975 copies printed on Japon vellum (this copy numbered 285). Bound in 1/4 vellum over blue cloth with gilt vignette on top board. Due to a manufacturing defect, the edges of the vellum and cloth are not flush. Vellum spine somewhat darkened. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents unblemished. Particularly strong in descri... more information

[London]: Chatto and Windus, 1906. 24 cm; xii, 325 pages, ads, color wood-engraved frontispiece, and 36 plates, 12 of them in color. Title page in red and black. Bound in faux vellum over boards, stamped in gilt. Fore edge deckled, top edge gilt. Boards a little dusty and bowed. ... more information

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1969. lvi, 282 p. Wraps, unopened. ... more information

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1970. 269 p. Wraps. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. Cloth. Dust jacket edges worn. ... more information

Paris: Nizet, 1969. 186 p. and 7 plates. Wraps, unopened. Text with all-encompassing critical apparatus. Old price stamps on upper wrap. ... more information

Paris: Pierre Charron, 1972. 136 p. cloth in d.j. "Collection Les Geants ... more information

Milano: Tipografia Guglielmini (on cover: Giuseppe Marghieri), 1858. First edition. 22 cm; xxiii, 550 pages. Original printed wraps. Unopened. Two-inch (5 cm) fray at joint of upper wrap. Pages lightly toned. History of the turbulent end of the 18th century, published posthumously. ... more information

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1818. 17 cm; 375, [1] pages, and engraved portrait frontispiece. Half title present. Bound in original orange publisher's printed wraps. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy. Very occasional light foxing in otherwise fine copy. ... more information

Paris: E. Guilmoto, [1903]. 8vo; 462 p. Modern 1/4 cloth over marble boards, original wraps bound in. Comprehensive history of French America. Scarce. ... more information

Paris: Honore Champion, 1976. 4th edition. 186 p.: wraps, unopened. ... more information

Paris: Nizet, 1970. Wraps. 219 p. unopened. ... more information