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1948ref. 96413New York: Samuel French 1948. Paperback. Near Fine. 26p plus 6 unnumbered pages of advertisements for Christmas plays more plays including this one are listed inside front cover and on bother sides of back cover. Softcover. 19 cm. This play was first copyrighted by Vilas in 1920. Samuel French paperback books
1925ref. 94582New York: A Reader Publication 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Words only. Printed note on copyright page states that the music score could be obtained from the publisher 22 Thames Street NYC. INSCRIBED but not signed by Vilas on title-page "For Diana Vilas -- To be read by her Daddy with 'Moosick.'". A Reader Publication hardcover books
1925ref. 94583New York: E Reader Publication 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Page 4-7 present but never bound in. Words only. Printed note on copyright page states that the music score could be obtained from the publisher 22 Thames Street NYC. E Reader Publication hardcover books
1926ref. 96344New York: Readers Editors Inc 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xvi 95 1p Original gray boards with title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. Ttitle label on backstrip has some chipping and wear. A couple of brown spots on half-title. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on front free endpaper To my son Charles H. Vilas -- who has always been a help and inspiration --- and to his dear ten fingers the willingly played the ccompaniments for many of these little songs -- this book is lovingly inscribed by his Mother Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas "Southover" Bethesda Maryland 1941. Poetry. Laid in a publisher's promotional leaflet for this book. Also laid in a leaflet separately printing the title poem copyrighting it in 1925 -- a year prior to the publication of this book. Faith has added an "N. B." note inside front cover asking that it be remembered that she wrote this before 1926 and any found inversions or cliches would not happen now 1940. Readers Editors Inc hardcover books
1926ref. 96345New York: Readers Editors Inc 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xvi 95 1p Original gray boards with title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. Ttitle label on backstrip has some chipping and wear. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on front free endpaper To Charles Harrison Vilas -- 'My tallest poem' this little book is inscribed with the love of his Mother. Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas January 1927". Poetry. Laid in an undated publisher's promotional broadside for this book. Readers Editors Inc hardcover books
1928ref. 96346New York: Harold Vinal Ltd 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. 52p. Original boards. Title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. No jacket originally had a glassine jacket. INSCRIBED by Faith on the front free endpaper "For a 'Creator' . Walter Russell This little play which cam 'whole' in a flood of light -- is inscribed by its author Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas April 23d 1930". A play. Page one informs us that it was first presented by the Beechwood Poetry Society at Beechwood Playhouse both probably in the Scarborough neighborhood of Briarcliff Manor New York on May 11 and 12 1920. Grace Hyde Trine who directed the production shows up on her Wikipedia page as someone who wrote and produced plays and pagaents and was a co-organizer of the Beechwood Players before moving to California. Laid in this copy is a program for a Feb. 12 1928 production presented at The MacDowell Club of New York City which featured Seth Baldwin as The Wanderer Faith Vilas as Roxana an Arabian and Charles Vilnis as Cyrus a Persian King. Harold Vinal, Ltd hardcover books
1940ref. 96414n.p. 1940. Paperback. Near Fine. 8 25 5 unnumbered pages 26-33p Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Vilas "For Charles and Margaret with love November 2nd 1940 Faith Vilas". An inked note on the Permissions page indicates that the stated permissions were "not yet obtained." Pages 26-32 have notes by Vilas indicating that the poems and quotations on those pages were to be spread over pages 29-40 presumably in a final edition which does not seem to have been published. OCLC locates one copy of this book of poetry Brown University. paperback books
1925ref. 94575New York: Hogan-Paulus Corporation 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. illustrations 1 color 71 1p Original green cloth same color illustration mounted on front cover. dj. 25 cm. Soiling and spotting on jacket. Extensive cover spotting. SIGNED by Vias on front free endpaper "Faith Vilas 'Southover' Wilson Land Bethesda Maryland". Poetry. An obituary in Madison Wisconsin's "The Capitol Times" records that Faith's husband died at their home in Bethesda Md. in 1944. Hogan-Paulus Corporation hardcover books
1925ref. 94574New York: Hogan-Paulus Corporation 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. illustrations 1 color 71 1p Original green cloth same color illustration mounted on front cover. dj. 25 cm. Jacket soiled and edge-worn numerous chips and short tears. Poetry. An obituary in Madison Wisconsin's "The Capitol Times" records that Faith's husband died at their home in Bethesda Md. in 1944. Hogan-Paulus Corporation hardcover books
1942ref. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover books
1939ref. 96343New York: Loker Raley 1939. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 125p Original cloth. 21 cm. No jacket the book was published with a glassine jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on half-title "To the dearest of Cousins Mary and Henri Binet This little volume is lovingly inscribed by its author Faith Vilas P. S. Look on the Dediction page please -". Poetry. Loker Raley hardcover
1942ref. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover
1925ref. 94582New York: A Reader Publication 1925. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Words only. Printed note on copyright page states that the music score could be obtained from the publisher 22 Thames Street NYC. INSCRIBED but not signed by Vilas on title-page "For Diana Vilas -- To be read by her Daddy with 'Moosick.'". A Reader Publication hardcover
1989ref. Q-0816510857University of Arizona Press 1989-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Arizona Press hardcover
1926ref. 96344New York: Readers Editors Inc 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xvi 95 1p Original gray boards with title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. Ttitle label on backstrip has some chipping and wear. A couple of brown spots on half-title. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on front free endpaper To my son Charles H. Vilas -- who has always been a help and inspiration --- and to his dear ten fingers the willingly played the ccompaniments for many of these little songs -- this book is lovingly inscribed by his Mother Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas "Southover" Bethesda Maryland 1941. Poetry. Laid in a publisher's promotional leaflet for this book. Also laid in a leaflet separately printing the title poem copyrighting it in 1925 -- a year prior to the publication of this book. Faith has added an "N. B." note inside front cover asking that it be remembered that she wrote this before 1926 and any found inversions or cliches would not happen now 1940. Readers Editors Inc hardcover
1926ref. 96345New York: Readers Editors Inc 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xvi 95 1p Original gray boards with title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. Ttitle label on backstrip has some chipping and wear. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Vilas on front free endpaper To Charles Harrison Vilas -- 'My tallest poem' this little book is inscribed with the love of his Mother. Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas January 1927". Poetry. Laid in an undated publisher's promotional broadside for this book. Readers Editors Inc hardcover
1928ref. 96346New York: Harold Vinal Ltd 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. 52p. Original boards. Title labels on backstrip and front cover. 20 cm. No jacket originally had a glassine jacket. INSCRIBED by Faith on the front free endpaper "For a 'Creator' . Walter Russell This little play which cam 'whole' in a flood of light -- is inscribed by its author Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas April 23d 1930". A play. Page one informs us that it was first presented by the Beechwood Poetry Society at Beechwood Playhouse both probably in the Scarborough neighborhood of Briarcliff Manor New York on May 11 and 12 1920. Grace Hyde Trine who directed the production shows up on her Wikipedia page as someone who wrote and produced plays and pagaents and was a co-organizer of the Beechwood Players before moving to California. Laid in this copy is a program for a Feb. 12 1928 production presented at The MacDowell Club of New York City which featured Seth Baldwin as The Wanderer Faith Vilas as Roxana an Arabian and Charles Vilnis as Cyrus a Persian King. Harold Vinal, Ltd hardcover
1940ref. 96414n.p. 1940. Paperback. Near Fine. 8 25 5 unnumbered pages 26-33p Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Vilas "For Charles and Margaret with love November 2nd 1940 Faith Vilas". An inked note on the Permissions page indicates that the stated permissions were "not yet obtained." Pages 26-32 have notes by Vilas indicating that the poems and quotations on those pages were to be spread over pages 29-40 presumably in a final edition which does not seem to have been published. OCLC locates one copy of this book of poetry Brown University. paperback
2005ref. 14063Du Rocher éditions 2005 255 pages 13 4x2 6x19 2cm. 2005. Broché. 255 pages.
2008ref. 46811Marion CT: Hanover Press 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. Hanover Press unknown
1902ref. 3359Paris, Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1902 ; in-16, broché ; (2) ff., II pp., 263 pp., (2) ff. de table.
1866ref. 805691866 Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, éditeurs, Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse Chrétienne - MDCCCLXVI (1866) - In-8, demi chagrin rouge, 4 nerfs, caissons et titres dorés, toutes tranches dorées - 394 pages - Gravures sur acier
1966ref. 1168801966 Editions Charles Dessart, collection "Psychologie et sciences" - 1966 - Troisième édition - In-8, broché couverture à rabats illustrée - 338 pages
ref. 24964Paris, Editions du Pélican, 1931. 13 x 19, 187 pp., reliure dos toilé, bon état (cachets du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons).
1960ref. 925621960 Editions du Club du Livre - 1960 - 2 volumes in-4 (28 x 23 cm), pleine peau brune de l'éditeur avec décor mythologique à froid, toutes tranches dorées, 4 nerfs, dans emboîtage crème marbré - Exemplaire nominatif sur Vélin Antique des Papeteries Bellegarde - 225 + 290 pages - Illustrations en couleurs d'Edy-legrand à pleine page
