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Vermont Tradition - The Biography of an Outlook on Life


Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Title faded on spine. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608613


Price: $30.00 

 

Vermont: Wilderness to Statehood 1748-1791


Dexter, Warren W. ; Barbara C. Hanson

Softcover. Rutland, VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. cream colored paper wrappers with green print. light edge wear on bottom corner, black & white photographs throughout, clean, tight copy.

Record # 408634


Price: $15.00 

 

Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle


Ovendon, ed., Graham

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st US, 1975, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Introduction by Lord David Cecil. B/W photographs. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Pages very clean. Covers have some white spots.

Record # 802911


Price: $32.00 

 

Victorian Best-seller: The World of Charlotte M. Yonge


Mare, Margaret, Alicia C. Percival

Hardcover. London, GeorgeG. Harrap & Co, Ltd., Reprint, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Bound in tan with red title on spine. Former owner's address label on front endpaper. In very good condition. Binding still quite tight. Pages and edges a little age-yellow, otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30841


Price: $13.00 

Vineyard Voices: Words, Faces and Voices of Island People (SIGNED)Lee, Lindsey
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Vineyard Voices: Words, Faces and Voices of Island People (SIGNED)


Lee, Lindsey

Hardcover. Edgartown, MA, Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some creases and chipping along upper edge, and has an "autographed" sticker that is beginning to peel. Signed copy on title page. Slight foxing to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230876


Price: $38.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 124194


Price: $28.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 175141


Price: $28.00 

 

Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper


Ashton, Wendell J.

Hardcover. New York , Duell Sloane & Pearce, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 424 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of The Desert News Press in Salt Lake City. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 406087


Price: $15.00 

 

Volunteer's Adventures, A.: A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War


De Forest, John William, James. H. Croushore (Editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. No dust jacket. Cover boards yellowed somewhat, but in good shape considering age. Pages and edges yellowed with age, otherwise clean inside. Previous owner bookplate on front endpaper.

Record # 30553


Price: $15.00 

Von - The Life and Films of Erich Von Stroheim: Revised and Expanded EditionKoszarski, Richard
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Von - The Life and Films of Erich Von Stroheim: Revised and Expanded Edition


Koszarski, Richard

softcover. New York, Limelight Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Small corner crease on top fore edge. Publisher's review card laid in.

Record # 468799


Price: $19.00 

 

Von Stroheim


Curtiss, Thomas Quinn

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 357 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age tanning, a little chipping and a tear (1") with tape repair at spine. Cover boards bound with brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Other than a touch of age tanning pages and edges are in excellent shape. Some light (erasable) penciling. In very good condition for its age. Replacing legend with truth, Thomas Quinn Curtiss, drama critic of the Paris Herald Tribune and a long-time friend of Von Stroheim, tells the complete story of this great director's tragic career, life and work for the first time.

Record # 31554


Price: $15.00 

 

Voyages of Brian Seaworthy, The: An Historical Adventure on Lake Champlain


Hill, Ralph Nading , Illust. by: Robert A. Boyajian

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Life Magazine / Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Blue cloth covers, pale blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, illustrated by Robert A. Boyajian. Slight rubbing to covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 208043


Price: $20.00 

 

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, The


Goold, Nathan

Softcover. Portland, Maine Historical Society, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Wadsworth-Longfellow House was the childhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1963, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. 44 pages, black and white photographs of the home. Originally published in 1908. Included are 6 color postcards. Very good condition.

Record # 806130


Price: $25.00 

 

Wainewright the Poisoner


Motion, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Minor wear to dust jacket. An otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2230420


Price: $15.00 

 

Wang Kuo-wei: An Intellectual Biography


Bonner, Joey

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket with minor tear to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453671


Price: $20.00 

 

Wasn't that a Time? - Growing Up Radical and Red in America


Schrank, Robert

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, new-looking, beautiful condition. Hardbound, dust jacket, 452 pgs.

Record # 109451


Price: $30.00 

 

Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (Crown Journeys)


Lopate, Phillip

Hardcover. US, Crown, 1st, 2004-02-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465867


Price: $13.00 

 

Wedgewoods, The: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgewood; with Notices of his Worksand their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgewood and other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of Staffordshire


Jewitt, Llewellynn

Hardcover. London, Virtue Brothers, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages + several pages of ads. Green cloth, spine label with gilt lettering. Small paint spot to top edge of cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Tissue guarded frontispice of Wedgewood is heavily foxed. Numerous black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on page opposite cp.

Record # 804334


Price: $77.00 

 

When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport


Bodner, Allen

Hardcover. US, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1997-10-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462664


Price: $31.00 

 

When Hollywood Had A King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence


Bruck, Connie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the front flap: "In When Hollywood Had A King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry--businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.

Record # 30500


Price: $19.00 

 

When Montana and I Where Young: A Frontier Childhood


Bell, Margaret

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854790


Price: $12.00 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWSLIPS GONE?: WESSEX MEMORIESMURRAY, VENETIA (EDITOR)
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWSLIPS GONE?: WESSEX MEMORIES


MURRAY, VENETIA (EDITOR)

Hardcover. US, BISHOPSGATE PRESS LTD, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Light foxing on title page otherwise very good, dust jacket has small tear on front top fore edge otherwise good.

Record # 466521


Price: $15.00 

 

Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship


Walden, Sarah

Hardcover. US, Gibson Square Books Ltd, 1st, 2003-06-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464821


Price: $13.00 

 

Whitaker's Southold: Being a Substantial Reproduction of the History of Southold, L.I.: Its First Century


Whitaker, Rev. Epher

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 194 pages. Edited by the Rev. Charles E. Craven. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 508101


Price: $64.00