Search Results: Titles starting with L from Keel Row Books

Newcastle Upon Tyne; W A Mitchell, 1823., 1823. Hardcover. Octavo. Xx, 155 pp. Vol I [All Published]. Lithographed frontispiece. Book Condition: Very Good. Later half calf gilt, rubbed to edge, over marbled paper-covered boards. Appendices & index to rear with errata to verso final leaf. Sporadic minor foxing and fingermarking; no annotation or inscriptions. Satirical work lampooning the local politicians and worthies of Newcastle upon Tyne, perhaps written by the publisher using a pseudonym. Scarce.

London; Curtis Warren Limited, [1950]., 1950. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Softcover pp 128. Pictorial card wraps. Stapled page block. Creasing and tearing to covers; lower cover repaired to reverse with clear adhesive tape. Spine is creased with minor loss at tail. Rusting around staples. Good condition. Science fiction novel by the author of the Azan the Apeman series, David Arthur Griffiths (writing as Marco Garron), under the nom de plume, David Shaw. Cover art by Terry Maloney.

London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1919., 1919. Hardcover. ASSOCIATION COPY. Undated c. 1919. Octavo. 14 illustrations including frontispiece photographic portrait of Grenfell. Original dark red cloth with gilt titles and line decoration; blind-stamped lines to upper board. Cover cloth lightly surface soiled and spine sunned; edges rubbed, corners and head/tail of spine worn and joints starting. Small damp marks to rear board. Light foxing, mainly to endpapers; rear pastedown slightly wrinkled. Undated, 1919. Pencilled signature of Emily Shackleton to ffep and following leaf together with the address Manor Heath, Eccles and date December 1921. Emily was the wife of celebrated explorer Ernest Shackleton and in December 1921 she was at the Shackleton family home, built in the 1890s near their engine-making firm in Eccles, reading about Grenfell's experiences whilst awaiting the return of her husband. Poignantly, Emily inscribed the book whilst Ernest was on his final fatal expedition to the Antarctic; he died… Read More

London; Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1834 - 1840., 1834. Hard Cover. Seven annual periodicals in a one volume. Octavo, each issue pp. 72 except for 1834 which is pp. 48. Pictorial title page to each issue (paginated with text) plus numerous diagrams and figures throughout. Contemporary half calf with gilt titles to red label to spine, and gilt decoration; marbled paper-covered boards. Calf corners removed; spine creased and rubbed with minor loss at tips. Scattered very minor foxing & price stamp to verso title page of 1834 issue otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. The final seven issue of this important Almanack, notable for its advancement of mathematics as a female pursuit.

Cambridge; W. Heffer and Sons Limited, [1920]., 1920. Hard Cover. Adelphi Edition, undated circa 1920.16 mo, pp. [4], 147. Royal blue half-calf by Harrods Ltd with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spine very lightly sunned. No annotation or inscriptions; contents clean and bright: a Near Fine copy.

London; W. Foulsham and Co. Ltd., [1925]., 1925. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. 190, [2]. Second British Edition. Although not explicitly stated in the text, this is the abridged 1925 edition following on from the 1911 first. With a final leaf of publishers' advertisements. Original indigo publishers' cloth with gilt titles to upper board and spine. With original publishers' pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips and corners slightly bumped and faded with overall vibrant cloth and bright gilt lettering. Some light scattered foxing to fore-edges, minor toning to endpapers. Pages are tight and free of any ownership marks or annotations. Dust-jacket is bright and unclipped with some rubbing at edges with some small tears and minor at extremities. Supernatural chiller loosley based on the County Durham legend of the Lambton Worm. Stoker's final novel includes mongooses, mesmerism, and prehistoric monsters, specifically monstrous White Worm of ancient Mercia, secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well and… Read More

London; Day & Son, [1859]., 1859. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Tall quarto, pp. vii with 25 tissue-guarded chromolithographed plates after T. Picken including title, each with unpaginated accompanying leaf of text. Two steel engraved views to Introduction. Skilfully recased in publishers' original blind-stamped maroon cloth; titles, decorative panel to spine and oval floral border to upper board all in gilt; a.e.g. Edges a little rubbed and bruised with minor wear at corners; contents clean and crisp. A Very Good copy. Exquisite views of the romantic Cumbrian scenery, including Buttermere, Rydal Water, Grasmere and "The Druidical Circle Near Keswick (Castlerigg). Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; John Lane The Bodley Head, 1910., 1910. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xix, [1], 334, [22] catalogue. 80 photographic illustrations to 47 plates, including frontispiece. Publishers' salmon pink cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine an upper board; top edge gilt. Cover cloth soiled; moderately sunned spine with wear at tips. Scattered foxing throughout, with printed pictorial prize plate for the Duke's School at Alnwick to front paste-down, inscribed in 1919. A Good copy. Big Game shooting in Africa with Introduction by Winston Churchill. Dickinson accompanied Churchill on shooting expeditions whilst Churchill was Under Secretary of State for the African Colonies, at Churchill's request due to Dickinson's formidable reputation as a hunter.

New York; Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 210. Publisher's black faux leather with white titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket. Very light bruising to spine tips and slight surface wear to jacket corner; overall a clean, bright copy. Near Fine book in like jacket. Crime Club Edition. Award winning crime writer, Ruth Rendell, weaves a story of intrigue involving a mild mannered accountant, who wins the Pools, and a psychopathic serial killer.

London; Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1839., 1839. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. 12 mo bound in sixes, pp. [6], 350. Engraved frontispiece and half title by T. H. Jones. Black half-calf with 4 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards and endpapers. Spine tips and corners rubbed with minor wear; boards a little scuffed. Scattered foxing, mainly to frontispiece and half title, some offsetting and toning to engravings. A few pages corner-creased. A Very Good copy. Novel set in Ireland by the Durham-born novelist and poet Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832), first published in 1804.

Edinburgh; Canongate Publishing, 1985., 1985. Hard Cover. Definitive Edition (reprint). Signed, numbered and dated by the author to the front free endpaper. Octavo, pp. [8], 561, [7]. No. 659 of 1000 copies. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and wrap around gilt quotation to upper and lower boards in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with rare, original glassine dust-jacket covering. Fine book in near fine dust-jacket. Very light edgewear to the glassine dust-jacket protector with very small area of loss and a little staining to rear panel but in very good condition. The 'definitive' edition of the Author's first book in an edition of 1,000 copies only. Hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century it was on the basis of Lanark that Anthony Burgess called Gray the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. This definitive edition was reprinted in 1985. Scarce signed, especially so in the original fragile glassine wrapper.

New York; Canaveral Press, 1963., 1963. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. 319, [1]. 7 plates by Roy G. Krenkel including frontispiece. Publishers' forest green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also by Krenkel. Contents clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. A hint of rubbing to spine tips & corners. Barely visible nicks & creases to dust-jacket, especially lower panel. head of spine. Very slightly surface soiled. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Fantasy adventure set in Pellucidar at the centre of the Earth during the Stone Age, and the modern-day subterranean prospector who accidentally ends up there. Sixth title in the Pellucidar series of novels.

London; Macmillan and Co, 1874, 1874. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. lxii, [2] List of Illustrations and errata, 360. Three mounted Woodbury type illustrations to plates including frontispiece portrait of Lessing, each with tissue guard. Publishers' umber cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt roundel to upper board and decorative black border to boards. Contemporary inscription with familial association to half title 'Mary Phillimore from R'. Cover cloth so iled and rubbed with bruised corners and minor wear to spine tips. Inner front hinge cracked but holding firmly. Scattered light foxing. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. A good copy. A series of theoretical essays by German philosopher and dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, translated by Phillimore.

San Francisco; Underwood/Miller, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 115, [1]. Printed with decorative border to leaves. Illustrated by Alicia Austin; 4 colour plates including frontispiece, plus numerous line drawings throughout text. Publishers' purple cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, and patterned endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also illustrated by Austin. Corners and spine tips a little rubbed; light foxing to plates otherwise clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly creased top edge, and lightly foxed to flaps. A very good copy in like jacket. Originally published in April 1966 by Galaxy, this is the first hardcover edition, with new illustrations. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Burns, Oates & Washbourne Lomited, circa [1880], 1880. Original Wrappers. Author's Edition. Softcover octavo, pp. [5], iv-vi, [7]-220. Publishers printed green card wraps with 2/6 price to upper cover. Wraps sunned and toned, especially to spine; creasing to spine and minor loss at tail. Inner hinge cracked but holding at pp. 28-9; leaves browned but otherwise clean. Ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1954. Irish history including the Famine and the trial of O'Brien.

New York; Grove Press, Inc, 1964., 1964. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 304. Publishers' quarter black cloth with red titles to spine and red paper-covered boards, in unclipped dust-jacket. Cloth lightly toned with very minor nick at central tail of spine. Inner hinge a little cracked at title page but firmly holding; boldly signed and dated (1997) by the Author in black ink to title page. A Very Good copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Critically acclaimed first novel by Selby (1928-2004) with themes of drug addiction, brutality and homosexuality leading to a prosecution for obscenity in the UK. The story was later adapted as a film of the same name and along with Requiem for a Dream it remains his best-known work.

United States; Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., 2000., 2000. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. xvi, 329. Numerous monochrome photographs and diagrams throughout. Publisher's black faux leather with silver titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial jacket. Previous owner's sticker and 2 dates in ink to pdep and light bruise to spine head. A clean, neat copy: Near Fine condition. Griffith Borgeson was an automative historian and former editor-in-chief of Motor Trend magazine. Here he writes in depth about the most successful four wheel drive produced by Miller, using over 100 of Miller's original letters detailing the car's development.

London; Putnam, 1957., 1957. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 405, [1]. Publishers' black cloth with cream titles in border to spine, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Owen Wood. Small puncture mark to spine and upper board bumped at lower corner; faint foxing to text-block edge. Jacket lightly surface soiled with toned spine, nicks & creases to edge and minor loss. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Twelve short stories all set in the hundred years before 1870, written by Blixen over a period of several years and published under her pen name of Isak Dineson.

London; Crime Club, Collins, 1982., 1982. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 199, [1]. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. With the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket sunned to spine, with spine title entirely faded. Small chips to spine-tips. A Near Fine book in a Very Good-dust-jacket. D.C.I. Kelsey returns to solve a mysterious murder in the idyllic rural village of Longmead.

Hartlepool; Tees Archaeology, 2012., 2007. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Tall quarto, pp. xv, [1], 189, [1]. Illustrated throughout. Softcover, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. A Fine copy. Volume 5 of the Tees Archaeology Monograph Series examining a group of 26 Iron Age sites in North East England, many which have been only recently excavated and some previously unpublished on. Supported with maps, plans, diagrams, and photographs.