Search Results: Authors starting with V from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1991. Unknown, Veen/Reflex, 1991. 29 cm x 24 cm. 179 pagina's / pages. Met talrijke illustraties in kleur en zwart-wit / With many black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Afkomstig uit de bibliotheek van de modeontwerper Frans Molenaar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage. Zeldzaam! / From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare! Met o.a. de volgende hoofdstukken / Includes for example the following essays: Marjan Unger - Eén talen en een belofte / Ineke Werkman - Techniek en vorm / Ineke Werkman - De tulpenvazen / Herman Langmuur - De nerveuze trilling van een mensenziel / Unica en multipels 1947-1990 etc etc. Johannes Jacobus (Jan) van der Vaart (Den Haag, 17 oktober 1931 - Leiden, 8 november 2000) was een invloedrijke keramist uit de 20e eeuw. Eén van de belangrijke concepten binnen zijn werk was het herintroduceren van de tulpenvaas of tulpentoren uit… Read More

1911. Leipzig / Berlin / Halle etc., 1911 - 1930. Octavo. c. 2000 Seiten. Hardcover / Softcover. Die Sammlung generell in sehr gutem Zustand mit diesen Ausnahmen: Kleiner Wasserschaden an "Ist die Philosophie des Als Ob Skeptizismus ?" und "Pessimismus und Optimismus". Eine Ausgabe des "Atheismusstreits" Papier etwas brüchig. / Anstreichungen und Anmerkungen in der Erstausgabe der "Philosophie des Als Ob". Vorsatzblatt der Halbpergamentausgabe fehlt. Eine seltene Sammlung !! Hans Vaihinger (* 25. September 1852 in Nehren bei Tübingen; † 18. Dezember 1933 in Halle (Saale)) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Kant-Forscher. Im Ueberweg wird Vaihingers Philosophie als „Idealistisch-pragmatischer Positivismus“ unter einer eigenen, vom Neukantianismus abgegrenzten Rubrik behandelt. Nicht nur in seinem 1876 bis 1878 entstandenen, aber erst 1911 veröffentlichten eigenständigen Hauptwerk, der Philosophie des Als Ob, finden sich Tendenzen, die Lebenspraxis suchen. Gegen die vorherrschende Meinung sowohl… Read More

1950. Bombay, Vora & Co. Publishers, 1950. Gr.-8°. XV, 555 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent collector's condition with the rare dustjacket ! Some minor signs of foxing. Dustjacket in excellent condition. Early review slip from publishers attached to the titlepage. A magnificent copy of this rare book ! Includes for example the following chapters: Area and Population / The Refugee Problem / Housing, Food, Camp Populations / The Refugee Problem - Its Economic Significance / Agriculture / Minerals / Industries (Textiles) / Electricity / Industries (Non - Textiles) etc. Tobacco /Tea / Cane / Paper / Foreign Trade / Public Opinion in India regarding Refugee Problem / etc.

1996. Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A survey encompassing a rich array of genres, nations and time periods. Entries are organized alphabetically and include: Biographies / Literary Work Synopses / Themes, Topics and Literary Movement Essays / Terms and Genre Essays. There is also a Timeline of major events - a chronology covering the slavery era to Maya Angelou's reading of her poetry at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Entries include, for example: Afrocentrism / Apartheid / Jesse Jackson / Journalism / Jazz / Desmond Tutu / Underground Railroad / Segregation / etc. Writers included, for example: Chinua Achebe / James Baldwin / Langston Hughes / Toni Morrsion / Alice Walker / Richard Wright / etc.

1988. Cambridge, Alice James Books, No date (1988). 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 81 pages. Original softcover. Near fine. Inscribed by the author Jean Valentine to fellow poet Jane Cooper. Includes for example the following poems: Willi, Home / Awake, This Summer / Mandelstam / The Drinker's Wife Writes Back / Birthday Letter from South Carolina / The Counselor Retires, and Then He Dies / Little Song in Indian Summer / Firs Love / September 1963 / Sex / Orpheus and Eurydice / Photograph of Delmore Schwartz / 3 a.m. in New York etc. "Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine's work. Included are selections from her four previous books: "Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things," and "The Messenger." Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations." (Amazon)

1992. Cambridge, Alice James Books, 1992. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 60 pages. Original softcover. Near fine condition. Contains a dedication by the author Jean Valentine to Jane Cooper: "For Jane - with lifelong admiration & love from Jeanie - November 4th - Clinton Day ! 1992". Includes for example the following poems: Spring and Its Flowers / Still Life, for Matisse / Ikon / The Year of the Snake / Ironwood / To a Young Poet / Alfred and the Abortion / The Free Abandonment Blues / The Badlands Said / The River at Wolf / Fox Glacier / After Consciousness of This Big Form / In Fear / Come Akhmatova etc. "Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing."--Marie Howe "You have to keep listening to Jean Valentine's work, because every time some shape of sadness or recognition rises up in you as a familiar emotion, the poem veers off, leaves what you already know behind... Her work is so subtly not… Read More

1997. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 65 pages. Original softcover. Near fine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by the author Jean Valentine to Jane Cooper: "For Jane Cooper with much love over a lifetime of listening together - Jean - January 18th 1997". Includes for example the following poems: Rain / Sick, Away from Home / Friend / Bees / River Jordan / World-light / Snow Family / To the Black Madonna of Chartres / Tell Me, What Is the Soul / Mastectomy / Red for Blood / Black for the People / Long Irish Summer Day etc. "Between her first book of poems, Dream Barker, which was selected by the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1964, and 1992's The River at Wolf, Valentine has established herself as a commanding poet. "The taste of my own life is good to me," she writes in "New Life," one of the poems that finds the poet in a state of contentment. But in this collection of darkness and light, a peaceful, safe moment can be… Read More

1993. London, Hutchinson, 1993. Octavo. XII, 772 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print. Two related newspaper articles about De Valera from 1998 loosely inserted. Éamon de Valera (first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent politician and statesman in twentieth-century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served several terms as head of government and head of state. He also led the introduction of the Constitution of Ireland. De Valera was a leader in the War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War (1922–1923). After leaving Sinn Féin in 1926 due to its policy of abstentionism, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government (President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957… Read More

1946. Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1946. Small Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of de Valera, 102 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some fraying to the brochure.

1957. Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1957. 12 x 18,5 cm. 73 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. [Insel-Bücherei] Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (* 30. Oktober 1871 in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon; † 20. Juli 1945 in Paris) war ein französischer Lyriker, Philosoph und Essayist. (Wikipedia)

1986. Uncorrected Galley Proof. New York, Delacorte Press, 1986. 13.5 x 21cm. 252 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Hard-hitting Cincinnati-based detective Harry Stoner enters the sordid world of drugs and professional sports to track down a missing football star. This is the sixth novel featuring Harry Stoner. Once again, Stoner, as he grapples with the underbelly of the quintessential American city of Cincinnati, pursues a deeper understanding of his fellow man. [From jacket notes]

1993. München, R.Oldenbourg Verlag, 1993/1994. 8°. 262, (2) Seiten. Softcover. Neuwertig. Enthält u.a.: Othmar Pickl - Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen süddeutscher Reichsstädte zu Südosteuropa / Ilpo Tapani Piirainen - Das älteste Stadtprotokoll von Krompach / Krompachý aus den Jahren 1556-1581 / Günter Lipold - Gottschee - Schicksal einer Minderheit / Costin Fenesan - Die Banater Eisenwerke von Luncani und Bogschan (1734 - 1749) / Marta Fata - Überlegungen zur Geschichte der Gesellenwanderungen im 19.Jahrhundert anhand einder Fallstudie / Karl Schwarz - "Eine Fakultät für den Südosten" - Die Evangelisch-theologische Fakultät in Wien und der außendeutsche Protestantismus / Horst Fassel - Das Czernowitzer Deutsche Theater - Stationen einer Entwicklung / Dusan Necak - Einige grundlegende Angaben über das Schicksal der deutschen Volksgemeinschaft in Slowenien nach 1945 / Außerdem enthält der Band zahlreiche Mitteilungen und Besprechungen.

1963. First Edition. Dublin, FÁS, 1963. Octavo. 99 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1770. Dublin, Thomas Ewing, 1770 - 1790. Octavo (13,5 cm wide x 21,5 cm high). Pagination: Volume I (contains Numbers I, II, III, IV): Frontispiece-Portrait, XIV, [6 unnumbered pages of "Contents"], 636 pages, [2] pages with the contents-page misbound [2], and 24 pages on "The Brehon Laws of Ireland" to the rear of the Volume. Volume I includes three illustrations (including the Large Folding-Map of Meath)/ Volume II (contains Numbers V, VI, VII, VIII, IX): 562 pages and 10 illustrations (including the Large Folding-Plan of the City of Kilkenny) / Volume III (contains Numbers X, XI, XII): LXX, 682 pages with one illustration (being the Large Fold-Out-Map of "Antient Ireland" by William Beauford) and VI Tables on two large sheets in the rear of the Volume (containing Orthography/Names of Numbers in different Languages, Names of Numbers of some of the Indians of America etc. etc. compared to the antient Irish) / Volume IV (contains Number XIII of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis and "A Vindication of… Read More

1878. Mexico, Imprenta de Gonzalo A . Esteva, 1878. Folio. XXVI, 197 pages / Indice I: 17 pages / Indice II: 35 pages / Indice III: 17 pages / Indice IV: 2 pages / Appendix / Anexi: 291 pages. Original Hardcover (half leather). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Cancelled from the University of London Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, this rare publication was bequeathed to the University from the library of Charles Henry Huberich. Includes chapters on: Reclamaciones Espanolas contra Mexico / Relaciones con Los Estados-Unidos de America / Servicios prestados por el buque de guerra Mexico a los pasajeros y tripulacion del vapor Americano City of San Francisco / Depredaciones en la frontera: queja del Gobiernode los Estados-Unidos de America por violacion de territorio americano etc. Los anexos I and II incluyen una relación de las reclamaciones entre México y Estados Unidos de América destacando por su amplitud y minuciosidad la información que se refiere a las reclamaciones… Read More

1979. Paris, Sté Nlle des Éditions de Chêne, 1979. 29,5 cm x 21,7 cm. 13 pages text.186 black-and-white illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

Frechen, Komet MA-Service Verlagsgesellschaft, 14 x 21,5 cm. 597 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. In Mylar. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Enthält unter anderem die folgenden Kapitel: Lumpenhund; Eines Seemanns Weg; Ich bahne mir einen Weg; Hast du jemals einen Menschen getötet?; Rotes Vagabundenleben; Angriff auf den Pazifik; Der Weg nach Leningrad etc.

2007. Reinbek, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007. 11,5 x 19cm. 362 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. [rororo, Band 24363]. Holland um 1630: Der Tulpenwahn steht vor seinem Höhepunkt. Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters bleibt Mareikje fast mittellos zurück. Die Hochzeit mit dem reichen Kaufmannssohn Antonius könnte ihr Sicherheit geben. Aber Mareikjes ganze Liebe gilt dem Maler Wim. Da finden sich im Nachlass ihres Vaters einige Tulpenzwiebeln. [Rowohlt]

1974. First Edition. 's-Gravenhage, Staatsuitgeverij, 1974. 20 cm x 28 cm. 95 pages. Illustrated with numerous photographies and drawings. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Slight discoloration on spine. Includes for example the following chapters: De oudste synagogen van de Sedardiem; De oudste synagogen van de Asjkenaziem; De Grote Sjoel; De Portugese Synagoge; Uitbreiding van het synagogencomplex van de Hoodduitse joden etc.

1945. Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1945. 20.2 cm x 27.5 cm. 132 pages. With sixty-eight black and white, and three colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Black cloth boards with original cloth gilt on spine and Vermeer's gilt 'signature' on front cover. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Minor discoloration to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor foxing to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator- Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following portraits: Hendrick ter Brugghen: Jakob und Laban / Michaelangelo da Carravaggio: Die Junger zu Emmaus / Christus und Martha / Carel Fabritius: Der Distelfink / Cornelius de Man: Der Gelehrte / Ansicht von Delft / Das Konzert / Mädchenkopf / Dame in Rotem Hut / Der Astronom / Der Geograph / Stehende Dame am Spinett / Allegorie des Glaubens / Frauenbildnis / Frau am Fenster / Dame und Magd / Allegorie der Malarei / Der Liebesbrief etc.