Titles starting with V from Austin's Antiquarian Books

New York: The Seabury Press, (1975). First edition. Octavo, orange and cream cloth in dust jacket. 177pp. Twenty seven black and white illustrations. Good or better in like jacket. Top board very slightly splayed. Faint wear to bottom extremities. Jacket lightly edgeworn. ... more information

New Haven: College Bookstore, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 1867. First edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. 40pp. Very good. ... more information

Ipswich: E. Shalders, 1827. First edition. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth and boards with a paper spine label. xv, [1], 262pp.; lithograph frontispiece and one hundred one lithographed plates drawn and engraved by Cobbold, plus two copper-engraved portraits; errata slip tipped in at the rear; 3pp. of index, apparently separately published, is laid in. Very good. Spine faded with some moderate wear at spine ends. Cobbold was a minor novelist and his wife, who apparently had a hand in t... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American edition. Octavo, aqua gilt-decorated cloth. xix, 344, xiv, (1) pp with index, chronology. Illustrated. Very good. Forces of nature, gold, and war are cited as reasons for ancient cities disappearing. ... more information

Cambridge: The MIT Press, (1980). First edition. Quarto, brown cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. 599pp. with index and bibliography. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Very good in very good jacket with a little scuffing and a nick in the top of the jacket spine. The first full-scale treatment of the subject since 1890. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (nd, ca. 1935). Octavo, red gilt-stamped cloth with cameo portraits on cover. 469, i pp. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Very good. Former owner's name. Spine very lightly faded. Bound from English sheets ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987). First edition. Octavo, black cloth and boards in pictorial jacket. 249pp. Very good in very good jacket. Judge from "The People's Court" shares his court adventures outside of television. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Company, (1956). First edition. Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover) in dust jacket. x, 173pp. Illustrated endpapers. Good in worn, chipped and faded jacket. ... more information

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, (1990). 1990 Reprint edition. Octavo, pictorial dust jacket. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket 481pp. Illustrated with photographs and drawings in the text. Very good in very good jacket. ... more information

Don Mills: The Ontario Publishing Company Limited, (1967). First edition Octavo, red cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 111pp. Illustrated. Very good in in very good jacket with a little edgewear, two tiny short tears. A gift inscription in watercolor. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1895. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth. Gilt spine lettering. 541pp. with index. Illustrated. Nine folding maps. Overall good. slightly shaken. Somewear to head and foot of spine. This volume. comprises volume two of the Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. ... more information

Ann Arbor: Arbor Libri Press, (1995). Reprint edition. Octavo, tan cloth. 85pp. Very good or better. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1945). First American edition. Duodecimo, grey cloth. 150pp. Good. Cover board, bottom corner bumped. Soil spot on front pastedown. Former owner's bookplate on back pastedown. ... more information

London: George Routledge and Sons, No date (1853). Duodecimo, terra cotta cloth, gilt with a colored pictorial inset. Unpaginated (126pp.). Illustrated with a frontispiece plus nineteen wood engravings of animals by Harrison Weir, engraved by W. Wright. Very good. Previous owner's prize presentation on front free endpaper dated 1873. A scarce and lovely Victorian children's book. ... more information

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950. First edition. Octavo, grey & red gilt-stamped cloth in dust jacket. 424pp. Illustrated with black and white frontis. Good or better in good jacket. Boards lighlty edgeworn with light fading. Jacket chipped and scuffed, with light soil. ... more information

Rochester: Inner Traditions, (1991). 1991 Quarto, pictorial wraps. Softcover. 412pp. plus colophon. Index, bibliography ans notes. Illustrated in color, black and white and sepia tone. Photographs by Baldwin Spencer, among the earliest done of the Aboriginal people. Good or better. Corners and bottom of spine slightly worn. ... more information

Taunus & Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1931. Octavo, black wraps in stiff pictorial jacket. 96pp. Illustrated in black and white. The majority of the 96 pages are plates. Very good. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, (1981). First edition. Octavo, black cloth and tan boards in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. with index. I Illustrated. Very good in very good jacket. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition. Octavo, navy cloth and patterned boards. 355, (1) pp with index and colophon. Some illustration. Very good or better in like jacket. ... more information