Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Pearl A Wanamaker. Famous Women. Noble & Noble, 1949.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early text book with stories of women from history. A nice copy.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Sawyer, Ruth.. ROLLER SKATES.. Viking Press:, 1949.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First published in 1936, this book is the tenth printing from March 1949, 198 pages, illustrated in b&w by Valenti Angelo. "A year on roller skates!" FINE- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: H.b. No Jacket. 8 1/4 x 11". 2nd. ed.; one of the distinguishing marks of a great book is the way it is illustrated; includes examples of the following, outstanding book illustrators, among others: Eleanor Estes; Louis Solbodkin; John Tenniel; Howard Pyle; Kurt Weise; Valenti Angelo; Walter de la Mare; Lyn Ward; Randolph Caldecott; Arthur Rackham, Wanda Gag; Helen Sewell. Normal shelf wear; interior tight & clean; good to very good. Size: 8 1/4 x 11"
Seller: Boxer Books, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Saroyan, William. THE FISCAL HOBOES. The Press of Valenti Angelo: NY, 1949.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorated by Valenti Angelo, 10 x 6.5", string-tied wraps, unpaginated, covers rubbed and unevenly sunned and lightly soiled, small chip out of rear cover at bottom of foredge, still a nice copy; with "Seasons Greetings, Chiswick Book Shop" card laid in loose. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #130), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WILLIAM SAROYAN, AND THE PRINTER/PUBLISHER, VALENTI ANGELO.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Saroyan, William. The Fiscal Hoboes. New York, Press of V. Angelo,, 1949.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: # 38 of 250 c0pies. First edition.8vo., [16] pp. illus. Blue-green paper covered boards, title printed in black on paper label. Decorations by Valenti Angelo, who also printed the book. SIGNED BY SAROYAN and ANGELO.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. (12.5 x 8.5 cm). Plain wrapper over boards, spine lettered in orange. Slight use at crown of spine and fore-tips, very good, internally fine. First printing in this format, with hand- executed color calligraphic initials and decorated title-page device. Copy #28 of two hundred copies handset in Goudy Tory, printed, illuminated, and signed by Valenti Angelo. An uncommon rendering of this popular text.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto; blue paper-covered boards backed in cream parchment with lettering in gilt to the spine; with two hand-colored illustrations in black with highlights picked out in gilt; with hand-painted initials in red and rubication in blue;[12] leaves; this is #9 of 150 numbered copies signed by Mr. Angelo.~~A lovely example of the work of Valenti Angelo's deft and sensitive hand. Near Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.