Authors starting with V from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First printing. Cloth. A very good+ copy, faint role. Sm. 8vo. Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946), born a Greek in Constantinople in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, became an American journalist and novelist, returned to Turkey and wrote this book on Harem life just as the institution was ending. ... more information

n.p. Tudor Publishing Company, (1973). First edition. Cloth. Boards foxed otherwise a very good+ tight crisp copy in a very good dust jacket with a few small tears. Obl. 4to. Illus. with color photos. ... more information

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elseviriana, [1897]. First edition thus. Cloth. Fore edges of boards discolored, scattered foxing on preliminaries, else contents very good. 4to. Jose Toribio Medina, bio. Illus. with 1 b/w reproduction. One of 300 copies. Original title page: Sermón en lengua de Chile por Luys de Valdivia. Valladolid, 1621. Medina's bibliography contains 101 items. Palau 347852. Jones 1648.... more information

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Lagunas & Quevedo, 1930. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy, small chips to spine ends. Sm. 4to. Thesis at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Chile. On the Civil Service and Public Law. Copies at Harvard Law & BN Chile. ... more information

New York: Published by the author, 1853. Later printing. Quarter morocco over marbled boards. Spine chipped and loosening, joints cracked, boards rubbed, endpapers stained and very toned, but text is quite clean and bright, about good. 8vo. Sabin 98338n.... more information

London: Phaidon Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Boards lightly rubbed else a very good+ crisp tight copy. 4to. Illus. with 247 b/w plates. Ten essays on such figures as Donatello, Late Gothic Sculpture, Ghiberti, Mino da Fiesole, Verrocchio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Alessandro Vittoria, and Cellini ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Later printing. Cloth. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo. Hurley, Andrew translator. Valladares was a Cuban poet and political prisoner for 22 years. ... more information

México: Editorial Jus., 1953. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy. 12mo. Color frontis tipped-in. 611 items listed. ... more information

Chicago: Henry Regnery, (1967). Second printing. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. 8vo. Illus. with b/w drawings. ... more information

México: Imprenta Universitaria, 1935. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers soiled, edgeworn, and repaired, otherwise contents very good. 4to. Illus. with b/w reproductions. No. 103 of 650 copies on Art paper (of a total run of 900). Jones 2558.... more information

México: Antigua Librería Robredo, 1947. First edition thus. Cloth. A fine copy with bookplate on front pastedown. 4to. No. 372 of 500 copies. Includes facsimile edition on pp. 113-130. Provenance: Bookplate from the library of Alberto Parreño and his initials on spine. ... more information

[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers. 1840. First edition. Removed. A very good copy, scattered foxing, small stain on fore edge of one leaf, not affecting text. 8vo. 26th Congress, 1st Session. [Senate] [451]. Contains: (1) Report on the defence of the Atlantic frontier, from Passamaquoddy to the Sabine; (2) Report on the northern frontier; (3) Report on the western frontier, from the Sabine Bay to Lake Superior; and (4) Report on the armories, arsenals, magazines, and foundries. "Connected wit... more information

Huntington: Robert E. Krieger, (1979). Paper wrappers. A fine copy. As new. Trade format. ... more information

Dayton: Wright State Univ., 1986. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good+ copy with slightly wrinkled front cover. Trade format. Revised and edited by Thomas H. Wetmore. Van Dore was a laborer and published poet who cared for Robert Frost's new Gulley farm in 1929, and remained his friend for forty years. ... more information

New York: Penguin, (1986). Reprint. Paper wrappers. Leaves darkening else a near fine copy. Trade format. Illus. ... more information

's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1933. Removed. A very good copy, owner's name, crease in one corner. Sm. 4to. Illus. with four b/w photos. Extracted from Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, dl 90. ... more information

Hanoi-Haiphong: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, n.d. [1925]. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy bound in wrong wrapper with faint dampstain, not affecting contents. Sm. 4to. Illus. with 9 photographic plates and 1 map. From Etudes Asiatiques, publiees a l'occasion du 25e anniversaire de l' Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient. (Publications, XX, 375-384. 1925). Photos of the Great Temple in East Java. ... more information

T'Amsterdam: Pieter Boeteman, 1712. First edition. Quarter modern calf over marbled boards. A very good copy, impressions quite sharp. Sm. 4to. NIne engraved plates, title pages, initial letters. Not so much an epic life story as an amalgram of biblical, non-biblical, historical, and contemporary moralizing and didactic elements ("Het is een samenraapsel van bijbelse en niet-bijbelse, historische en contemporaine, moraliserende en didactische elementen," G.P.M. Knuvelder, Handboek tot de geschiedenis de... more information

[Albany]: n.p. 1860. First edition. Stitched. Some wear and browning at the edges, owner's stamp, else about very good. 8vo. Van Horn, who would go on to the U.S. Congress in the next election and become a staunch supporter of Lincoln, in this speech (after an analysis of the poor finances of the State of New York due to canal building) defends the Republican party against Democratic attacks, declaring it the party of freedom, not abolition, while the Democrats, he declares, kowtow to the South and supp... more information

Washington, D. C.: A. &. G. Way, Printers, 1809. First edition. Removed. Numeral on top edge of leaves, trimmed, light damp stain on title page, good+. 8vo. Van Horn (Republican congressman from Maryland) proposed that only ships owned and navigated by Americans be allowed to carry goods grown, produced, and manufactured in the United States as well as placing tariffs on foreign goods. OCLC shows only a single copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 19016.... more information