3 469 résultats
1995réf. 12076New York: Crown 1995. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. Pictorial boards in dustwrapper. Fine. Imaginative children's book by the author Tar Beach. Crown hardcover books
2000réf. 137229Salem Mass: Peabody Essex Museum 2000. Softcover. VG. May have slightly bowed corners. Blue & color illustrated wraps. 197 pp. Many BW & color illustraitons. Series: The Peabody Essex Museum Collections. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition featuring works by American impressionist Frank Weston Benson 1862-1951. With essays by Dan L. Monroe Faith Andrews Bedford Laurene Buckley Dean T. Lahikainen and Jane M. Winchell. A lovely collection. Peabody Essex Museum paperback books
1948réf. 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
1960réf. 31539New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1960. First Edition stated. Octavo 21cm; 223pp. Illustrated dust jacket; boards in rose pink cloth and gray cloth spine with green title banner and gilt lettering. Price-clipped jacket is crisp with a few tiny tears at folds nudging at spine ends and some general toning and smudging to surface. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the prolific author "With cordial regards" but without dedication on full title. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
1951réf. 64690NY: Dell 1951. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Slight spine lean wraps a bit rubbed esle very good. Dell unknown books
1950réf. 588715New York: Dover Publications 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Photographs by William F. Winter. Quarto. 133pp. Owner name on front fly wraps soiled and toned with delamination at corners very good. Dover Publications unknown books
1950réf. 100150NY:: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with one small chip age toning dust jacket. . Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover books
1954réf. 563605New York: Oxford University Press 1954. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Designed by John Begg. Illustrated after Shaker drawings by Gloria Granger. 16mo. Stapled wrappers. 32pp. Illustrated. Cover with a small sunned area a bit of spotting an small area of edge loss and a diagonal crease staples oxidized about very good. One of 360 copies printed issued as Typophiles Monograph 42. This copy compliments of Wilmot C. Gordon of the Oxford University Press with the slip laid in light spotting. Oxford University Press unknown books
1910réf. 534725New York: Moffat Yard and Company 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Rev. Samuel McComb. Octavo. 54pp. Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards. Some spotting and sunning on the boards a sound very good or better copy. Inscribed by the author: "With the compliments of the author Mary G. Heckle alias 'Faith Whitney.' September 1910." Woman's account of regaining her health and curing her nervous anxiety through wholesome outdoor tent living at a Brookline sanitarium. Moffat, Yard and Company hardcover books
1853réf. 61519Lyon: chez l'editeur des Annales 1853. 41 volumes 8vo containing 247 numbers spanning the years 1822-1869; contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; sone wear and rubbing and the occasional cracking of the cloth but on the whole a good set with sound bindings. This appears to be the first printing of this edition with additional material on the early missions that did not appear in the earlier editions. This edition not found in Streit. This trove of research material contains the Jesuit reports on their world-wide missionary activities in Asia China India Malabar Siam etc. Africa Abyssinia Algiers etc. the Middle East Aleppo Bagdad Constantinople Isfahan Smyrna etc. Oceania Gambier Marquise Tonga etc. including the American missions in Louisiana Texas Kentucky. Ohio Michigan Florida Alabama Missouri Tennessee Oregon California the Rocky Mountain regions and Hawaii. These relations cover the Native Americans the lives and privations of the missionaries themselves their hunting their travels etc. in hundreds of letters by missionaries bishops and priests. chez l'editeur des Annales unknown books
1987réf. 51298New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with Il Papiro 1987. First American edition oblong 4to pp. 168; illustrated in color throughout; original gray cloth lettered in silver on spine unclipped pictorial dust jacket; fine. Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with Il Papiro unknown books
1940réf. 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
1926réf. 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
1939réf. 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 books
1929réf. 96342Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co. Inc 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 71p Original dark cloth. 20 cm. Scuffing and other general wear. No jacket. Writen by Vilas on front free endpaper: "Author's Copy. Please return this book to Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas." Author has added a few clipped illustrations and some comments. Publisher's promotional sheet for book with an order form is laid in. Poetry. Dorrance & Co., Inc hardcover books
1928réf. 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
1926réf. 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
réf. 539100Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown 1995. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound proof and publisher's dummy. Proof consists of preliminary material photocopied on bifoliums followed by 326 unbound quarto sheets of text printed rectos only no illustrations wrapped in a folio sheet reproducing the book's cover. Folio sheet with some creasing on the bottom portion text with very light wear and a tiny bit of staining on the bottom edge affecting only the very corner of a few leaves overall very good or better. The publisher's dummy is a tall octavo bound in unprinted cloth and papercovered boards with 11 printed leaves bound in the front reproducing preliminary content a portion of the text and several color reproductions of Ringgold's artwork. Several of these leaves are composed of two sheets glued together and a few are printed on thicker stock; the remainder of the book is unprinted. Other than the spine and cover the dust jacket is printed a plain blue. The book is modestly worn with some splitting at the gutter where the first blank meets the first inserted leaf but sound very good or better. The dust jacket is about very good with several tiny chips and tears a couple of interior tape reinforcements and the plain lower panel of the dust jacket has three moderately sized chips one a bit dampstained about very good. Two very interesting and presumably very uncommon early formats of the noted African-American artist's autobiography. Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown unknown books
1992réf. 627024New York: Crown Publishers Inc 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition trade issue. Slim quarto. Name stamp on front fly and pictorial boards with vertical wrinkling in the lamination presumably a production error else fine in fine dust jacket with publisher's sticker on cover panel. Signed by Ringgold in gold ink on the half-title. Crown Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1926réf. 73772NY: Harold Vinal 1926. First edition. 59 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to top edge of the rear panel and light edgewear. NY: Harold Vinal, unknown books
1996réf. TB07144New York: Crown Publishing 1996. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 red cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The host of Public Radio's The Faith Middleton Show provides a collection of heartwarming true stories from many of her interviews. Crown Publishing hardcover books
1996réf. TB07341New York: Crown Publishing 1996. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 red cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The host of Public Radio's The Faith Middleton Show provides a collection of heartwarming true stories from many of her interviews. Crown Publishing hardcover books
1998réf. 33986New York / Berkeley: New Museum of Contemporary Art / University of California Press 1998. Very Good. New York / Berkeley: New Museum of Contemporary Art / University of California Press 1998. First Edition wrapper issue. Square quarto; pictorial card wrappers; 168pp.; illustrations including many color reproductions. Brochure to the Chicago Cultural Center leg of this exhibit laid in. Light wear and curling to corners; binding sound; pages unmarked. A Very Good copy. Signed by Faith Ringgold on half title dated 2/7/99. Important Ringgold exhibition catalog which featured twelve story quilts to tell the fictional story of a young Black woman in the 1920s as she leaves Harlem for Paris to pursue a career as an artist and model. Uncommon signed. New Museum of Contemporary Art / University of California Press unknown books
1995réf. 49782New York: Crown Publishers 1995. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers 1995. First Edition with full number line. Large slim quarto 31cm; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 32pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear corners quite bumped else Very Good internally clean and sound. Signed and dated on title page 2/7/99. Crown Publishers unknown books
1992réf. 49783New York: Crown Publishers 1992. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers 1992. Second Printing. Large slim quarto 31cm; publisher's pictorial boards in matching unclipped dust jacket; 32pp.; color illus. throughout. Corners bumped brief soil to upper jacket panel else Very Good and sound. Signed and dated by the author on title page 2/7/99. Crown Publishers unknown books