Authors starting with V from Bartlebys Books

Jackson, MI:: Thomas Palmer,, 1847.. 12mo.; 304pp. Recent calf, leather spine label; title page somewhat soiled, a little damage to edges of the first few leaves (without text loss), a solid copy in an attractive new binding. First edition. HOWES V45: "A Whig editor's bitter criticism of the McNutt regime, its financial policy, and repudiation of the state's bond obligations. ... more information

London:: Hitch and Hawes [and others],, 1759.. 12mo. Two volumes: 12, 369, (1); 340, (4) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume one. Contemporary calf ( rubbed, joints cracked), leather labels and gilt rules between raised bands on spines; vertical creases to spines, but a good solid copy. Vanbrugh's plays were first published separately, 1697-1728. Volume one contains The Relapse; Or, Virtue in Dangr, The Provok'd Wife; With a New Scene, Aesop, in Two Parts, and The False Friend. Volume two ... more information

Folio 3-pages, approximately 600 words; docketed on verso. Ferguson had been awarded a land grant of one-third of a league as required by law, but could not produce adequate witnesses to confirm the time of his marriage which might have brought him the other two-thirds. Folded; some breaks at folds, a good copy. ... more information

Paris:: A. Morel,, 1864.. Reprint (first published in 1855). 4to. v, (2), 176; (4), 240 pp. 114 engraved plates. Study of medieval and renaissance architecture. Later black quarter-morocco (rubbed), marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g. Rather persistent light foxing, but a very good copy. (2587) ... more information

Philadelphia:: Hubbard Bros.,, nd [ca. 1880].. Salesman's sample. Tall 8vo. 150 sample pages (of more than 1000 for the published book). Illustrated, plates, including 8 chromolithographs, folding charts; three sample binding styles mounted to endpapers. Unused subscription sheets at rear. Not in Bennett. This imprint unrecorded on OCLC (which locates issues of the published book from other publishers in Guelph, Ontario, and St. Louis). Original gilt-stamped terra cotta cloth. Very good. ... more information

Chester, CT:: The author, W.D. Starr, print.,, 1840.. First edition. 12mo. 53 pp., including recommendation leaf. OCLC locates three copies (Connecticut Historical Soc., Trinity, Yale); the American Antiquarian Society also holds a copy. Orig. cloth-backed printed tan wrappers (rubbed, partly eroded around the edges). Lower half of cloth spine eroded, a good copy of a scarce farrier's guide. ... more information

New York:: Beadle and Co.,, (c1861).. First edition. 12mo. 118 pp. Double-page map. Cover title: Winfield Scott: Commander-in-Chief, U.S.A. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Scott was, indeed, commander-in-chief of the United Sates Army, but he retired in October, 1861, on account of age and infirmities. Original printed gold wrappers. Owner's signature, dated in the year of publication, at head of front wrapper, else very good. ... more information

London:: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot,, 1829.. Second edition in English. 12mo. 4 volumes: xxii, 237; xi, 266; xxi, 251; xii, 275 pp. Frontispiece portrait to volume four; general title page as half-title to each volume. Part of the series "Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructing and Amusing Lives, being volumes 25 to 28 of that set. Vidocq (1775-1857), a former French criminal, formed an investigative group in 1811 that became the precursor of the Surete, spending the next 15 years as a... more information

Providence, RI:: E.L. Freeman & Co., printers,, 1881.. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. An eloquent humanitarian argument for repeal and against the theoretical assumptions of racial inferiority, a plea for privacy and individual preference. OCLC locates six copies (Atlanta University, Newberry, Johns Hopkins, R.B. Hayes Presidential Center, Western Reserve, Brown). Original printed light green wrappers, stitched; stitching loose, else very good. ... more information

Roanoke, VA:: Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co.,, nd [1932].. First edition. 12mo. 28 pp. Excerpts from many letters written to Stone, praising the printing and illustration of the pamphlet and the philosophy of the outdoors reflected in the account of President Hoover's activities; several reviews are also included. Among the correspondents are typographers D.B. Updike, Bruce Rogers, and Frederic Warde. Scarce; OCLC locates but three copies (Library of Virginia, U. of Virginia, Virginia Historical ... more information

1938.. Black and white lithograph, 12 x 8 3/4 inches on linen-weave unwatermarked paper, approximately 14 x 11 inches. Signed in the stone “J.V.” and in pencil along the lower edge of the image “Joseph P. Vorst 1938” where it is also numbered in pencil “23–28”. Joseph Vorst was born in Essen, Germany, and studied art there before coming to the United States in 1930. Settling in the St. Louis area, he studied with, became a friend of, and was much influenced by Thomas Hart... more information

Washington, (DC):: Blair and Rives, printers,, 1839.. 8vo. 16 pp. Disbound pamphlet; some browning to text, but a very good copy. State of the Union address, reporting on the troubled economy, still reeling in the wake of the Panic of 1837. ... more information

(Washington, DC):: Blair and Rives, printers, 26th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Document 1,, 1840.. 8vo. 16 pp. Disbound pamphlet; some browning to text, but very good. Van Buren's final State of the Union address, reporting on the improving economy and the events of the Seminole War in Florida. ... more information

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1882.. First edition. 8vo.; x, (2), 502 pp., 8 folding maps, (6 pp. of ads). Frontis. portrait. Gilt stamped dark blue pebbled cloth. Spine ends rubbed; rear hinge cracked; upper outer corners of two leaves chipped, not affecting text. Small ownership stamp on front and rear pastedowns, and faintly on versos of each map. A good copy. A biography of Thomas (1816-1870) who served in both the Mexican War and the Civil War. He earned the nickname "Rock of Chickamau... more information

NY:: Neale Pub. Co.,, 1914.. First edition. 12mo.; 72pp. Blue cloth; black lettering on front board. Outer edge of front board faded. A very good copy otherwise. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. A record of the battle of Stone's River (also known as Murfreesboro, in the South), in Middle Tennessee at the end of 1862. ... more information

Cleveland, (OH):: Arthur H. Clark,, 1929.. 8vo. 316 pp. First edition. Illustrated; plates. Original green cloth, gilt title on spine; old small tideline to frontispiece, else very good and bright. ... more information

Padua:: Frambotti,, 1713.. First published in Venice, 1596, by Magini. Copper engraving, 5 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches, an oval projection of the world, with unknown land masses "Terra Incognita" and "Terra Australis nondum Cognita" at the poles and with three wind-heads above and below; Latin text on verso. Trimmed from a larger sheet. Very good. (1585) ... more information

NY:: Press of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine,, 1848.. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo.; 69pp. A review of the site & plans of the Federal city. Also, a notice of the Smithsonian Institution. Very good. ... more information

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1904.. 8vo; vii, 400 pp. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, top edge gilt, with the slightest touch of wear to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy of the historically important economics work. ... more information

Paris:: Del'impr. de J. Drisonnier,, an VII 1799.. 8vo. 4 volumes. Twenty-four plates. Full period leather with double gilt-stamped black leather labels. Joints starting and some wear to spine ends. ... more information