Titles starting with V from Argosy Book Store

hardcover. Ed. by Sarah Winston. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1985. vg ... more information

New York City: Harper's Weekly, 1879. unbound. very good. Nast, Thomas. Uncolored cartoon. Page measures 16" x 11". Political cartoon satirizing conspiracies and conspirators. Minor wear and stain along right edge. Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist and illustrator; credited with devising elephant and donkey symbols of Republican and Democratic parties, and with creating American image of Santa Claus. Other Nast cartoons (including the Santa prints) are available upon request. We have a... more information

paperback. Un Chammeau et Moi. Map and photographs. 8vo, pict. wrs. Paris, (1952). ... more information

Illustrated with tables. 25pp (945-969) from Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 55, 1932. First edition. Very good. Sawyer, along with S.F. Kitchen and Wray Lloyd, devised an immune serum for prophylactic innoculation against yellow fever. GM 5465. ... more information

London, 1690. very good. View. Uncolored etching. Image measures 4 11/16" x 4 5/8". Two separate birds-eye views, one of Vacia and the other of Vicegrad (Visegrad) in Hungary, both cities along the Danube. John Seller (c. 1630-1697) was an English instrument maker and cartographer and in 1671 he was appointed Hydrographer to the King. Seller instigated the first English maritime atlas, in an effort to compete with the successful Dutch maps at the time. This print was published in "A New Sys... more information

Illus. 2pp. IN: J. of the Amer. Med. Assn., vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 188-9. Tall 4to, sewn. Chicago, 1911. First Edition. Whole number offered entire. Hulen devised a vacuum method of cataract extraction. GM 5959. ... more information

hardcover. Drawings by Clinton Balmer. 11pp., slim tall 8vo, flexible orange cloth (front cover slightly warped). Madison N.J.: Golden Hind Press, 1936. One of only 300 numbered copies signed by the artist and author. ... more information

First Edition. hardcover. Inscribed book by the AMerican singer and band leader. 262 pages, frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, tall 8vo, cloth-backed patterned boards (rubbed at corners), mylar sleeve. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1930). Limited Inscribed and signed twice in full on the limitation page. The first signature, in green ink, follows the limitation, #200 of 299. Below is an inscription in grey ink: "To...may you always be the same charming couple you wer... more information

hardcover. illus. 8vo, cloth. Chicago: Rand McNally, (1954). vg ... more information

hardcover. 344pp. + ads. 8vo, orig. cloth. N.Y.: Harper, 1856. First American Edition. vg Historical novel on Mexico. Author, who was French, spent seven years in Mexico. ... more information

hardcover. Illus. 191pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York, 1962. Very good. ... more information

1977. hardcover. b/w photo illus. 435pp. tall 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (first few pages are ripped, not affecting text). New York, (1977). Very good ... more information

hardcover. Frontis. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1966. ... more information

hardcover. illus. 12mo, cloth. Boston: Little Brown, 1938. vg ... more information

hardcover. 8vo, 3/4 black leather, spine elaborately gilt with floral devices; raised bands, t.e.g. London: Kegan Paul, 1884. First Edition. Fine. ... more information

First Edition. paperback. Illus., 4 pp. FROM: Amer. J. of the Med. Sci., n.s., vol. 59, pp. 387-90. 8vo., new wrs. Phila., 1870. First vaginal ovariotomy. GM 6061. ... more information

hardcover. Profusely illus. with color photographs, oblong folio, pictorial boards, d.w.; (corners of bds. lightly bumped). (Paris): Hermes, (2004). Very good+ ... more information

London: Methuen, 1895. First Edition. hardcover. very good(+). 3 Portraits. 8vo, tan cloth, uncut., g.t. London: Methuen, 1895. ... more information

hardcover. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Putnam, (1968). vg Presentation copy. ... more information

New York: Dutton, 1959. hardcover. very good/good. Valadon. Illustrated in b/w. 271pp. 8vo, black cloth, chipped d.w. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959. Very good copy in a good dust wrapper. ... more information