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Paris: A. Lahure, 1898. Noted for his precision and realistic detail, French academic painter and military artist Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille was widely regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army."
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Detaille.
by Vachon, Marius. [Edouard Detaille; Edward VIII Duke of Windsor]
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The New Golf.
by Vaile, P. A
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916. First edition of P. A. Vaile's authoritative manual of the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece engraving of Jerome D. Travers with tissue guard, illustrated with forty engravings from photographs. In near fine condition. A nice example. American golf expert P. A. Vaile authored several books on professional golf featuring the finest players of the early 20th century. The New Golf features chapters on the practical aspects of golfing with photographs of Jerome D. Travers, Robert A. Gardner, and Harry Vardon demonstrating the ideal drive, stance and swing.
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Protect and Defend.
by Valenti, Jack. [William Safire]
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New York: Doubleday, 1992. Drawing on more than thirty years in Washington's inner circle, former White House Special Assistant Jack Valenti has written a sizzling election-year thriller about the price of virulent ambition in the high-stakes world of Washington politics, where heroes are flawed and the game is played for keeps. "Valenti blows the dome off the Capitol - as only an insider can" (Kirk Douglas).
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Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches.
by Valenti, Jack [William Safire]
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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1982. "A superb book on effective speechmaking. It is clear, concise, simple, informative and filled with humor. Every executive in America should read it" (Edward Bennet Williams).
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A Very Human President.
by Valenti, Jack. [William Safire]
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New York: W.W. Norton & Compan Inc, 1975. "[Jack Valenti] brings some new and fascinating illuminations on the President and how and why he made some of the vital decisions of the 1960s. Some of the inside glimpses come closer to the truth, I suspect, than anything yet written" (Hugh Sidey, Time Magazine).
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Modern Golf.
by Valie, P.A
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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition of this early work by Vaile. Octavo, finely bound in full green morocco by Asprey, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentilles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous full-page photographic plates and diagrams, including frontispiece photo with tissue-guard. In fine condition. Mr. Vaile's purpose was a good one, '...to produce a book from which a person who has never handled a club caught such an idea of the game and the underlying principles that govern the flight and run of the ball that he may soon become a confident and good player'" (Murdoch). Murdoch 808; D&M 38170; D&J V1240.
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Out of the Night.
by Valtin, Jan (aka Richard Julius Herman Krebs)
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New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. First edition of Valtin's bestselling autobiographical narrative. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Ben Mandel, who helped. Jan Valtin November 1940." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by George Salter. A bestseller in 1941, described as". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been." The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party,…
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Out of the Night.
by Valtin, Jan (aka Richard Julius Herman Krebs)
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New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. First edition of Valtin's bestselling autobiographical narrative. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Polly and June _____ with admiration and cordial fond wishes from Jan Valtin June 1, 1941." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by George Salter. A bestseller in 1941, described as". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been." The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a…
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
by van Bruggen, Coosje [Frank Gehry]
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New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1999. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on Gehry's masterpiece, The Guggenheim Museum in Balbao, Spain. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Frank Gehry at the preface. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Thomas Krens. Wonderfully Illustrated throughout- photographs and sketches of this architectural masterpiece and landmark of which Philip Johnson called, "the greatest building of our time.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
by van Bruggen, Coosje [Frank Gehry]
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New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1999. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on Gehry's masterpiece, The Guggenheim Museum in Balbao, Spain. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed and dated in 2002 by Frank Gehry. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Thomas Krens. Wonderfully Illustrated throughout- photographs and sketches of this architectural masterpiece and landmark of which Philip Johnson called, "the greatest building of our time.
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Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud.
by Van de Water, Frederic. [Rudyard Kipling]
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Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1937. First edition of Van de Water's account of Kipling's feud with his brother-in-law in Dummerston, which was made very public by local newspapers. Octavo, original buckram, illustrated with drawings by Bernadine custer. One of 700 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page, this is number 132. Fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition. Rudyard Kipling wrote the bulk of his best-known works in his now historic Shingle Style house, Naulahka, in Dummerston, Vermont. Here, Frederic Van de Water, a close friend of Kipling's brother-in-law Beatty Balestier, tells the story of the legendary family feud which flared up in a public trial and ultimately drove Kipling from Vermont.
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La Floride, Suirvant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, etc. [17th Century Map of Florida and America].
by van der Aa, Pieter
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Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1713]. Rare 17th century hand-colored engraved map of Florida and 17th century America by Dutch cartographer Pieter van der Aa. One page, the engraved hand-colored map features Florida, part of Mexico, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and Illinois, Native American territories of Conchaques, Apalachicoli, and Apalache, Villages of the Chaktas Indians, and the Bahamas. Embellished cartouche. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. A very nice example. Dutch cartographer Pieter van der Aa was best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He also printed many maps that were often out of print, which he reissued. Some of his most popular maps were of the African continent, detailing locations such as Morocco and Madagascar. Many of his later works were printed for the general public in French and Dutch.
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Benjamin Franklin.
by Van Doren, Carl
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New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Benjamin Franklin contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that was never published before.
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The Dragon Masters.
by Vance, Jack
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London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. First British and first hardcover edition of the author's work which won the 1963 Hugo Award for best novella. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Jack Vance on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine jacket with light rubbing to the crown of the spine. Vance is the greatest living Science Fiction writer. His work continues to exhibit imagination, originality, and style, three things sadly lacking in 95% of the SF being published nowadays" (George R. R. Martin).
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Park Avenue.
by Vanderbilt, Jr, Cornelius
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New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1930. First edition of Vanderbilt's intimate portrait of the luxurious jazz era Park Avenue lifestyle. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. on a page bound in. In fine condition. Park Avenue is a high spirited novel that accurately pictures the extravagant hilarity where the round of pleasure whirls faster and faster. It is a story of action and drama, of sensational and startling scenes in night clubs, tower apartments, and studios. Only Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. could take you past the uniformed footmen, inside the marble facades, to show you how this smart life ticks amid the expensive gayety.
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Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924.
by Vanderbilt, William K
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New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1925. First edition of Vanderbilt's account of his 1924 three-month summer cruise aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To C. M. ... from W. K. Vanderbilt June 26th 1925." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed. A member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family, William "Willie" Kissam Vanderbilt II was a skilled sailor and yachtsman. Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the New York Central Railroad Company, on his father's death in 1920, "Willie" inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. In 1925, he traded his luxury yacht Eagle for ownership of Fisher Island, Florida, a place he used as a winter residence. The present volume recounts Vanderbilt's three-month 1924 summer cruise across the Atlantic on the 231-foot…
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Amerique Septentrionale. Florides et Iles Lucayes. No. 62. [Map of Florida and the Bahamas].
by Vandermaelen, Philippe Marie
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Brussels: Lithographed by H. Ode, 1825. Rare hand-colored lithograph map of South Florida, the Keys and the Bahamas from renowned 19th century Belgian cartographer Philippe Vandermaelen's Atlas Universel. One page, the map displays South Florida and the Bahamas including major cities as of 1825 with numerous Native American trails and roads recorded and an inset text regarding the flora and fauna of the Everglades. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 29 inches by 27 inches.
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My Golfing Life.
by Vardon, Harry
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1933. First edition of Vardon's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. From the library of golf architect A.W. Tillinghast with his handwritten library index card laid in. A.W. Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on more than 265 different courses and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Affixed to the front free endpaper is a three-page autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of Vardon to Tillinghast on Vardon's letterhead dated February 19th 1914 which reads in part, "Dear Mr. Tillinghast, I thank you very much for clipping & also letter. I fail to understand American people. They ask for my candid opinion of things...then they slate you for doing so..." During his career, Vardon made three visits to North America, 1900, 1913 and 1920. During all three trips he competed in the U.S. Open finishing 1st, 2nd and tie 2nd, becoming golf's first international celebrity in 1900 when…
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My Golfing Life.
by Vardon, Harry
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1933. First edition of Vardon's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable in the original dust jacket. In My Golfing Life Mr. Vardon reviews his golfing experiences and looks back over a career that stands out in golf history as one of the greatest" (Murdoch 818). Vardon was a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport in his day, along with John Henry Taylor and James Braid. He went on to win The British Open Championship a record six times and also won the U.S. Open.
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Progressive Golf.
by Vardon, Harry
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London: Hutchinson & Company, 1920. First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with several folding plates from action-shot photographs. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the spine. First editions in the original dust jackets are rare. Harry Vardon was the six time winner of the British Open who, "set the standard by which the golfing greats are measured." This work captures Vardon's style of play in six sequences of stop-action photographs displayed on six folding plates.
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