Titles starting with V from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World. Wraps. Near Fine. N.d. (1924). Original printed wrappers; 32pp. Mild dusting to covers, else a very well-preserved copy, Near Fine. Swedish-language edition of "What Is The I.W.W.", first published 1919. Address on title page is 1001 West Madison St, Chicago. 8vo. cat8 ... more information

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1925. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 322pp; 27 illustrations from photographs; 30 text figures. Ownership markings; moderate wear/soil to covers; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. A publication of the Virginia Geologica Survey, prepared in Co-Operation with the United States Geological Survey and the Virginia Office of State Forests. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth (hardcover); 337pp. Map endpapers. Smal splash-stain to front board, bookplate, else clean, tight and unmarked. ... more information

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1948. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Blue cloth (hardcover); 340pp. Tight, unmarked copy, VG or better. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Toronto: Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 1963. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; 28pp. Pencil date and number stamp to cover with sunning across top, small crease to covers and pages, else near fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, 1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); xvi + 308pp; illus. Stamp and ink note to front cover; mild to moderate dusting & wear; brief creases to bottom page corners (first 20pp), else internally clean and unmarked. Very Good overall, and among the scarcer volumes in NASA's Historical Series. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Wynnewood: Livingston Publishing Company, 1973. Very Good Plus/Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth (hardcover); 112pp; illus. Mild fading to spine and board edges; internally fine. In mildly rubbed & edgeworn jacket. ... more information

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Cloth boards (hardcover); variously paginated. Single volume from the University Microfilms reprint series. Mild wear to corners and spine ends; internally Fine. Reproduction of very high quality; a major source document for the art, design, and literary movements of the 1930s. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937. Original Wraps. Very Good. Staple-bound pamphlet; 25pp. Pencil to cover sunned along edges, spine rubbed, else a clean and bright copy of this essay reprinted from Medieval and Historical Essays in Honor of James Westfall Thompson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Pisa: Edizioni Della Normale, 2007. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Brief pencil annotation to title page, else Fine and unmarked. 8vo. ... more information

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1995. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth (hardcover); 445pp. Unmarked and unworn; as-new in dustjacket. ... more information

New York: Baker and Taylor, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Pictorial cloth boards; 396pp. Text block edges foxed; mild wear to board edges; still a tight, Very Good copy free of fading and without the typical flaking to spine title and cover stamping. The third of Johnson's "Lawrenceville" books, set at Johnson's alma-mater and the source of the 1987 PBS mini-series. 8vo. ... more information

Copenhagen: Novus Forlag, 1965. Reprint. Wraps. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Wraps; 181pp. Faint sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, else clean and tight copy, VG+. Reprints the second instalment of Paper's edition of the Judeo-Persian Pentateuch originally apppearing in XXIX., 1-2 (1965) of "Acta Orientalia". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Copenhagen: Novus Forlag, 1966. Reprint. Wraps. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Wraps; 253-310pp. Faint sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, else clean and tight copy, VG+. Reprints the second instalment of Paper's edition of the Judeo-Persian Pentateuch originally apppearing in XXIX., 3-4 (1966) of "Acta Orientalia". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1966. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Quarter cloth (hardcover); 69pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine in lightly edgeworn jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1930. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Thick, large octavo. Cloth boards; 832p. Owner's bookplate, faint foxing to endpapers; text clean and unmarked. ... more information

New York: The Crusader Press, 1952. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth; 547pp. Paint speckle to front board, else Very Good. ... more information

Milan: A. Scrocchi, 1925. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers; 259p; illus; folding map at rear. Light wear; text slightly darkened; map fine. ... more information

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good +. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 398pp. Tight, near fine copy. In the very scarce pictorial dustjacket, unclipped, with a few short closed tears at extremities, small (1/4") loss at base of rear panel, still easily on the better side of Very Good. A novel loosely based on the life and career of Eastman's friend John Reed, concerning a young businessman who is converted to the IWW cause by the Paterson silk strike ... more information

Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, 1968. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); xv + 354pp; illus. Stamp and ink note to front cover and half-title; mild to moderate dusting & wear; mild creasing to spine, else clean and unmarked. Very Good overall. Uncommon. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information