Authors starting with V from Savoy Books

London: Printed for the Joint Stock Book, 1826. 8vo, later marbled boards, gilt morocco label. Pp. 28. A translation of Les Oreilles du Compte de Chesterfield et le Chapelain Goudman, one of Voltaire's Contes Philosphiques, in which happiness comes down to healthy bowels and unfettered sexual gratification. Logically published by the radical free-love libertarian Robert Carlile and scarce. OCLC locates copies at Harvard, NYPL, UCLA, Huntington; NSTC adds LC and BL.. ... more information

New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1881. 12mo, orig pictorial gilt cloth. Pp. 299. Mild spotting to cover, one leaf lightly stained in margin; a very good copy. First edition, a thinly fictionalized account of a mixed-company hunting and fishing expedition in southern California. Wright II I, 5653.. ... more information

New York: Privately Printed, 1946 Lg. 8vo, cloth; pp. xx, 393. A near fine copy, one of 600 copies printed at the Yale University Press.. ... more information