Titles starting with V from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World. Octavo. 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." (MILES 4669), first published 1919. Address on title page is 1001 West Madison St, Chicago. ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 232pp. Slight fading to spine and top-stain, else Fine. In the pictorial jacket, clipped and faintly soiled on lighter portions. Asch's scarce fourth book, a series of fictional sketches of Asch's neighbors in the Berkshire foothills, where "...strangers from New York come to live...because they have been disgraced, or have never been wanted by the city." Asch was the son of Yiddish author Scholem Asch. Not in H... more information

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1925. First Edition.. 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 Geological Survey, prepared in Co-Operation with the United States Geological Survey and the Virginia Office of State Forests. ... more information

Dubuque, IA: Brown-ROA, 1993. First Edition.. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Clean, bright copy in very good condition with unmarked text. ... more information

Toronto: Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 1963. 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. ... more information

Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, 1970. First Edition.. 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. Quarto. ... more information

Pisa: Edizioni Della Normale, 2007. First Edition.. Octavo. Printed wrappers (softcover), 189pp. New. Editorial review copy, may have annotations to prelimiary pages. ... more information

Copenhagen: Novus Forlag, 1965. Reprint.. 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". ... more information

Copenhagen: Novus Forlag, 1966. Reprint.. 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". ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1966. First Edition.. Quarter cloth (hardcover); 69pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine in lightly edgeworn dustjacket. ... more information

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1930. First Edition.. 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. First Edition.. Blue cloth; 547pp. Paint speckle to front board, else Very Good. ... more information

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

Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, 1968. First Edition.. 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. ... more information

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First Edition.. Black cloth (hardcover); 360pp. Clean and unmarked; fine but for usual page tanning and adhesion between last index page and rear free endpaper (binding flaw)--repaired, with no loss to index. ... more information

London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First edition.. Octavo. Blue cloth (hardcover); 368pp. Clean and unmarked, with very mild rubbing to board edges; in price-clipped & sl. abraded dustjacket. A handsome copy. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. First Edition.. Octavo. Original green cloth boards, xxxii, 522pp, dustjacket. Signed by the author to front free endpaper. Minor coloring to dustjacket spine, original price intact. Text clean with no markings, a Near Fine copy. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn. ... more information

Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity, 1926. First edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 396pp. Light soil to text block edges, else Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket, unclipped. Presumed second issue jacket has review blurbs to front and rear panels. Technological thriller involving the invention of a television-like machine that can see into the future. Bleiler p. 105. Hanna 1842. ... more information

N.p, N.d. [N.p.; n.d.; no publisher; ca. 1890; dated from text]. Small octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed self-wraps; 24pp. Front cover soiled, with faint institutional hand-stamp; text clean and unmarked. An early work by the prominent Anarchist, utopian novelist, and eugenicist; a criticism of top-down social reform measures, encouraging would-be philanthropists to "repent of their crimes against the toilers...withdraw from corrupting alliances with caste and cultivation, and .. become Socialists, Anarc... more information

London: Methuen, 1961. First edition.. Octavo. Blue cloth (hardcover); 271pp; illus. Mild spotting to edges of textblock; ownership signature to ffep; text clean and unmarked--a Very Good copy, in mildly rubbed, soiled and price-clipped dustjacket. ... more information