Titles starting with V from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

(Paris): Minist�;re des Affaires Culturelles, R�;union des Mus�;es Nationaux,, (1966).. Sq. 8vo, 80pp, incl. 10 plates, 11 additional plates. Orig. pictorial wrappers, very good.. Useful exhibition catalogue. ... more information

Gravenhage - Djakarta: G. B. Van Goor, , 1951.. 12mo, viii, 96pp. Tan wrappers, title-label to upper panel black and red lettered, very good+.. First Edition of an English - Indonesian pocket dictionary. ... more information

Detroit: Singing Tree Press,, 1968.. 8vo, 219pp, dec. headpieces, b&w text illus. throughout. Brown cloth, gilt lettered, fine. . Facsimile reprint of the London, Ward & Downey first edition of 1894. ... more information

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co.,, 1893.. 8vo, xix, 338pp, 39 text illus, publisher's ads. Cloth, hinges shaken, light wear.. First Edition. ... more information

New York: Hyperion Press,, 1941.. 4to, 77pp including 42 plates, many in color. Orig. cloth, dustjacket, very good.. The color plates are of very high quality and were made from kodachromes photographed by Andr�; Kertesz. Poor spent his early years in California, graduating from Stanford in 1910 and teaching art there 1916-19. He left California for New York in 1921. ... more information

Paris: Au Cercle des Amateurs de Livres...,, 1962.. 8vo, L, 148pp. Unsewn signatures as issued, in wrappers & slipcase. Fine.. One of 500 numbered copies with lithographic illustrations by Edourd Georg. Monod, Manuel de l'Amateur de Livres Illustr�;s Modernes, 1277. ... more information

[London]: Philip Allan,, [1923]. 4to, xv, 212pp. Illustrated with numerous color plates. Very good in blue cloth. Advertisement for book pasted into front.. ... more information

Milan: Aldo Martello,, (1961).. Folio, 24pp, 32 mounted color plates, 2 tipped-in b/w illus. Tan cloth, lettered in red with mounted color plate vignette, mild soiling, top corner bumped throughout, otherwise a very good copy.. First Edition, inscribed by the author to the noted art historian Francis Watson. Following the brief monograph are 32 fine color reproductions of 18th century city views painted by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780). ... more information

[N.p.]: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo,, 2002.. Sq. 12mo, 78, (2)pp, full-page b/w and color plates throughout, text illus. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.. First Edition of this scarce catalogue issued for the exhibition at the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas in Seville. English versions of the opening essays appear at the rear. ... more information

Venice, CA: n.p.,, 1998.. Oblong 4to,184pp., b&w illus. throughout. Illus. wrappers, 1-inch tear at upper wrapper, very good.. Catalogue features over 50 artist biographies with illustrations. ... more information

London: Cassell,, 1931.. 4to, (6), 110pp, 12 pochoir color plates by Kauffer. Orig. grey cloth..Very good.. Limited to 350 copies signed by Kauffer. This was the last book Kauffer executed while in England. ... more information

New York: Rizzoli,, (1977).. 4to, 329pp, 100 color plates, 312 monotone text illus. Decorative cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy.. First Edition in English, translated by Geoffrey Watkins. ... more information

London: George Allen & Unwin,, (1964).. 8vo, color photo. frontis. & b&w plates. Orig. red cloth in color photo-illustrated dust jacket with orig. price-clipped & publisher's replacement price sticker, very good.. First Edition, jacket photography by Cecil Beaton. This is a study of Victorian colonial life in the Bahamas, Hong Kong, Labuan, and Barbados. Featured prominently is the author's grandfather, John Pope-Hennessy, who was essentially modern in outlook and controversial for his policy of empoweri... more information

Paris: Nizet, , 1956.. 8vo, 507pp. Orig. printed wrappers, lettered in red & black, foxing to covers & fore-edge, slightly wear to extremities, otherwise a very good unopened copy.. ... more information

Paris: Mercure de France,, 1932.. 8vo, 111, (1)pp. Orig. wrappers. Fine copy.. First Edition, one of 110 numbered large-paper copies. Latin verses first published in 1869 in the ÔBulletin Officiel de l'AcadÃ�;mie de Douai,' with their translations. Petitfils 28. ... more information

(V Praze: Druzstevni Prace),, (1937).. 8vo, 69, (2)pp, caricature vignettes throughout. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Some wear at spine tail, otherwise very nice. . Karel Capek, Otokar Fischer, Frantisek Halas, and the three-dozen other authors represented in this collection of satirical verse which appeared just prior to the outbreak of World War II direct their derision at Hitler and the Nazi Party. The caricature vignettes which accompany many of the verses includes the swatika as marching skeleton and H... more information

London: Richard Bentley, & Sleaford: W. Fawcett,, 1867.. Small 4to, 60pp, with a frontispiece & 3 plates. Orig. blue pebbled cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, a very fine copy.. First Edition of this sad story for children with typical illustrations of the period. The Marchioness of Queensbury was Lord Alfred Douglas's mother and a bitter enemy of Oscar Wilde. The book is quite rare; NUC records but one copy (CU). Not in Wolff. Sadleir 1765 (not noting that the title is a cancel). ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press,, 1968.. 4to, xix, 487pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, mild foxing to upper edge, otherwise fine in like dj.. First U.S. Edition. ... more information

(Santiago): Nascimento,, 1955.. 4to, 212, (3)pp, photo-portrait of the author, tailpieces. Illus. lap-edged wrappers, orig. glassine, some edgewear, otherwise near fine.. First Collected Edition. ... more information

London: Sammells & Ritchie,, 1792.. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, 215pp, 6 copper-plates after Stothard, engraved by J. Parker. Full brown polished calf, gilt spine, dentelles, glazed endpapers, t.e.g., spine ends chipped, otherwise a very good, uncut copy.. 'Before the end of the eighteenth century there was published an edition of ÔThe Vicar of Wakefield' with illustrations by Stothard, which is, undoubtedly, the handsomest edition issued in that century of this tale. Copies are not common, especially in go... more information