Titles starting with V from The Book Block

London Longman, Green et. al., 1865. Thick 8vo., publisher's blue and black marbled cloth with gilt titling on the spine, rebacked. FIRST EDITION with 9 maps (two fold-outs) and plates. A very nice copy in the unusual marbled cloth publisher's binding. Much useful information for immigrant settlers, with information on mining possibilities in the area. Sabin adds, "Includes many interesting details on the life and customs of the Northwest Indians. (43253)." See also: Smith 6334. 
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London F. Waller, 1831. Sm. folio (15 3/8 x 12 inches), full dark maroon roan, deeply impressed with an over all gothic cathedral design, featuring a large rose window above a vaulted arch, surrounded by rows of small arched windows; inside the arch on the upper cover is the gilt stamped title with the date M. DCCC. XXXI. (there is no date in the book, and the six U.S. copies reported to OCLC [LC, NYPL, Harvard, Yale, Duke and U. Texas] do not supply one). All edges gilt. Fine.The book contains a... more information

New York Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Oblong folio in blue paper wrappers with a two-color label on the upper cover; laid into a blue-paper-covered board folder with another label. A VERY FINE copy; just some sunning to the spine of the folder (which is generally found in disrepair or lacking altogether)One of 975 copies for sale SIGNED by Baskin at whose Gehenna Press it was printed for The Museum of Modern Art. The type is Perpetua and the six boxwood engravings and lone woodcut have been pulled... more information

Virginia City, M.T.: Montana Post Press, D.W. Tilton & Co., 1866. 16mo. (6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches), half red morocco over marbled paper boards, t.e.g. 228 pp. Minor notes and underlining in pencil on title page; two printer’s corrections to page 41. Lacking ads at end. One of three variations of the first edition of the first book published in Montana, it is exceedingly rare and unusually fresh. The author, editor of the Virginia City Montana Presss, wrote this work to record the history of Montana vigilantes ... more information

Berlin Bruno Cassirer, 1910. 4to., publisher's gilt decorated cloth over stiff beveled boards (the design signed AB Paris); the date stamped at the very bottom of the spine below the publisher's name reads: 1910. FRESH AND BRIGHT!One of the 600 (of a total of 650) of the Ordinary Issue printed on laid paper. See: Lasner, M. A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley 129B. The Turn of the Century 31. Another Copy ... more information

Berlin Bruno Cassirer, 1910. 4to., publisher's gilt-decorated vellum over stiff beveled boards, designed and signed by Beardsley. VERY BRIGHT! Of the German edition there were 650 copies, numbers 1-50 of which "in Pergament gebunden,"; (this is copy, although numbered 620, is bound in the DELUXE GILT VELLUM BINDING). The book’s small initials are engraved in wood. The full-page initial plates were printed in collotype on vellum finished paper. The publisher, Bruno Cassirer, always ahead ... more information