The Fourth Dimension
by Vachell, Horace Annesley
New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good+. (c.1920). First American Edition Later Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light wear only at the extremities, but the front endpaper appears to have been removed, with consequent weakening of the front hinge; still quite a decent copy]. Although the title, to modern eyes, carries a science-fictional suggestion, in fact this novel is set in the London theatrical world, and deals with the tensions in the marriage ... Read More
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Fata Morgana (Mirage); a comedy in three acts
by Vajda, Ernest (translated by James L.A. Burrell and Philip Moeller)
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+. 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light handling wear, very faint soiling to covers, a bit of darkening to the spine; attractive custom bookplate and vintage bookseller's ticket on front pastedown (see notes)]. (The Theatre Guild Library) Series (frontispiece drawing, two B&W photographs) Per the title page, this is the "Theatre Guild version" of this play, as first presented in New York by... Read More
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Scarlet Street (Spring 1993 issue)
by Valley, Richard, ed.
Teaneck NJ: R.H. Enterprises, Inc.. Near Fine. 1993. (No. 10). Magazine. [light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "The Magazine of Mystery and Horror." This issue includes: a couple of articles about BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (including interviews with the actors who voiced Batman and Robin, Kevin Conroy and Loren Lester; an article about the 1934 film GIFT OF GAB, which featured both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; an in-depth article on THE ALLIGATOR... Read More
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Practicing People Skills on Ballard Street: The Comic Art of Jerry Van Amerongen
by Van Amerongen, Jerry
Minneapolis: Syren Book Company. Near Fine. (c.2007). First Edition. Softcover. [very slight bumping/soiling to lower corner of text block, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of inside back cover]. Trade PB (single-panel cartoons) A collection of cartoons from Van Amerongen's "Ballard Street" feature, which debuted in 1991 and ran until 2019. "Along with Gary Larson's The Far Side, it redefined the single-panel gag cartoon with... Read More
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White Fire
by Vance, Louis Joseph
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1926. 5th printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solidly-bound copy with relatively little wear, but some spotting and dust-soiling to the top edge, a light stain on the bottom edge of the text block, and some offsetting to both endpapers; the jacket is age-toned (especially at spine) and moderately soiled, with some shallow chipping along the top edge, and a few nicks in the bottom edge of... Read More
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Fathers are Funny
by Van de Water, Frederic F.
New York: The John Day Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, mild bumping to top corners, one-time owner's signature and date at top of ffep; jacket a little worn along top and bottom edges, one tiny chip at bottom of front panel]. The author, "a father of twenty years experience" offers his "genial but rueful report on a job which he says is a 'combination of adventure,... Read More
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Mangrove Mama, & Other Tropical Tales of Terror [*SIGNED*]
by Van de Wetering, Janwillem
Tucson AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. [book is flawless; the jacket has the teensiest bit of surface wear, noticeable if you squint]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Seventeen short stories by the Dutch mystery writer, expressing "a weird sense of joy, possibly instilled by the vast and subtle beauty of unlimited creation"; per the copyright page, six of these are published here... Read More
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Murder in Fiji; a case in the career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B.
by Vandercook, John W.
Garden City NY: The Sun Dial Press. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1936). Reprint. Hardcover. [good sound copy, some light dampstaining on the top of the text block but no bleed-through onto the interior, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along bottom edge of rear endpaper and pastedown; the jacket is worn, with extensive internal tape-reinforcement (top and bottom edges and all folds), and has been amateurishly "patched" in... Read More
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Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B.
by Vandercook, John W.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1933). Reprint. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light foxing on bottom edge of text block but no other significant wear, one-time owner's name on front endpaper, more recent owner's initials plus date & place of purchase along edge of rear pastedown (beneath jacket flap); the attractive skull-themed jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few small closed tears, slight fading at the spine] ... Read More
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Those First Affections
by Van Doren, Dorothy
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, slight bumping to upper corners, spine cloth slightly faded, vintage bookseller rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)]. Mid-career novel by this longtime editor at The Nation, the wife of poet/critic Mark Van Doren and the mother of notorious game-show cheater Charles Van Doren. It's a depiction of the subjective worldview... Read More
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Lola: A Love Story
by Van Doren Stern, Philip
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1949). Later Printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy with moderate shelfwear to lower edges and upper extremities; the jacket shows some wear and minor paper loss at both ends of spine, vertical crease in the lower 2/3 of the spine, still colorful and attractive]. Historical/biographical fiction about the famous Victorian-era dancer/actress/courtesan Lola Montez, who "went from one man to another until... Read More
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I've Got Sixpence; a play in two acts
by van Druten, John
New York: Dramatists Play Service. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [no significant wear to book, slight age-toning to page edges, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket lightly spotted/soiled and a bit yellowed, small chip at top of spine, another small chip at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Van Druten's play about some pretty big themes -- things like religious faith, and what makes life worth... Read More
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The City and County of San Diego, Illustrated; and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers
by Van Dyke, T.S.
San Diego: Leberthon & Taylor. Poor. 1888. First Edition. Softcover. [worn and externally stained, small tear in spine covering at base of spine, long diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, heavy wear and a bit of paper loss at corners of first few pages; one-time owner's name and address in ink on inside of both covers plus another one-time owner's name in pencil at top of inside front cover; some pencil lines in ... Read More
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Smash Picture!: Adventures of a News Camera Man
by Van Gelder, Robert
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but laid in are the original front and real flaps) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremties, very slight fraying to lower tips]. (Career Books) Series The author's second contribution to Dodd, Mead's "Career Books" series tells of the apprenticeship of enterprising young photographer Joe Spade as he learns the "tricks, trials and traditions" of being a New York... Read More
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Never Go Anywhere Without a Pencil [*SIGNED*]
by Van Horne, Harriet
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1972, 1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 0399110380 . [minor shelfwear, binding just slightly shaken; jacket has tiny nicks at several spine corners, minor crinkling at spine ends, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED "For Bob Lewine / a dear, kind friend" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Commentary by a widely syndicated journalist and columnist, "a commentator who is often morally indignant when relating... Read More
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The Story of Wilbur the Hat
by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
New York: Horace B. Liveright (Boni & Liveright). Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1925). First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, with just a touch of wear to the bottom edge; jacket has some minor spotting on the front panel, short closed tears at front hinges, another tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. (color illustrations) "A true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part... Read More
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Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death
by Van Peebles, Melvin
Toronto/New York/London: Bantam Books (R7678). Near Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. [about as nice a copy as you could hope to find, tight and clean with just a tiny bit of age-toning to the edges of the text block]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) Van Peebles's "most explosive, award-winning play . . . in a totally unique fiction form: a novel with lyrics, a gutsy, lusty narrative of black street life that explores every aspect... Read More
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That Vanderbilt Woman
by Van Rensselaer, Philip
Chicago: Playboy Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 0872235025 . [spine slightly turned, previous owner's florid signature and date/place of purchase on ffep, no other significant wear; jacket has a few small edge-tears, all repaired with small pieces of tape, with additional tape reinforcement provided at the spine ends]. "A Naughty & Notorious Story of the Roaring Twenties," somewhat of a novelized version of the romantic exploits of Gloria... Read More
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Mother Was Always in Love
by Van Rensselaer, Philip
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1960). First American Edition. Hardcover. [top corners bumped, some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket insect-nibbled at various points along edges, spine color-shifted, light dampstaining to rear panel]. "This is the story of Violet Amory, a New York society beauty of the twenties and thirties, who sought a carefree life in the playgrounds and pleasure resorts of the idle rich,... Read More
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The Wrong Body
by Van Sickle, V.A.
New York/London: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. (in Grosset & Dunlap reissue dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, top front corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear at edges and corners, faint staining at bottom corner of rear panel]. Mystery novel with a resurrectionist angle, involving a racketeer who's died in prison -- well, actually, he's basically... Read More
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Gold in the Streets
by Vardoulakis, Mary
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear, top rear corner bumped; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with very slight paper loss at both ends of spine, one tiny chip and one tiny closed tear at top edge of rear panel]. This novel "brings to life a colorful group of people, Greek peasants who came to America in the early 1900's to the mills of... Read More
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The Auction of the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Sotheby's
by Varney, Ronald (text)
New York: Sotheby's Books. Near Fine. (c.1996). First Edition. Softcover. [faint handling wear, slight bumping to upper corner of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) NOT the catalogue of the Sotheby's auction, which was held April 23-26, 1996 (and was preceded by a public exhibition that opened on April 19), but rather a post-facto album about the auction itself, "one of the most sucessful single-owner collection sales in history": how it came about, the extraordinary preparations... Read More
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Ultimo; an imaginative narration of life under the earth
by Vassos, John (projections) and Ruth Vassos (text)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. [some wear to cloth at ends of spine, very slight bump to bottom front corner; fragile jacket is quite presentable, worn along edges and hinges, hinges split along several lengths but still holding together, about 1" paper loss from top of spine (no loss of text), tiny chip at bottom left corner of rear panel, a few little nicks... Read More
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The Truman Administration's Legacy for Black America
by Vaughan, Philip H.
Reseda CA: Mojave Books. Good. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear at corners; an ex-library book, with pocket, "withdrawn" stamp and bar-code on front pastedown, additional stamping on all three edges of text block and on rear pastedown; no markings in text]. An examination of how President Harry S Truman "made civil rights a permanent part of his domestic program from 1945 until 1953." Includes bibliography. .
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All Through the Night
by Vaughan, Richard
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy with light shelfwear, pages browned due to cheap paper stock; jacket moderately edgeworn, with light surface wear and slight fading to spine]. Set in Wales, this is "the story of a man who seeks a reconciliation with his faithless wife [and of] a boy's maturing through his father's ordeal. It is the story of... Read More
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