Search Results: Authors starting with L from Gilt Edge Books

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1986 A Bluejay International Edition. A passionate epic filled with perils and colorful adventure bursting with the life and vitality of a world we can only imagine but which might have been. A wrap-around scenic price-intact dust jacket. A bright book. A bright dust jacket.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Toronto: R Douglas Fraser, 1917. Booklet. Stapled card covers. L.A. Weigle Ph.D, D.D. Books of this course are based on the standard adopted by the Sunday School Council of Evangelical Denominations and approved by the International Sunday School Association. Ten chapters (lessons) supplied. The contents : Physical Activity, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Later Childhood, Early Adolescence, Later Adolescence, Instinct and Habit, The Will, The Development of Moratity, and The Development of Religion. This early book remains sound and most respectable.. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Politics and politicians come to life in the pages of Judy La Marsh's first novel. It is the story of politics and power by the author of "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage". Maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. Price intact jacket with photo of author to rear panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. 1979 First Edition. Book Fine in a Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. Politics and politicians come to life in the pages of Judy La Marsh's first novel, and the story rings with the authentic sounds of Parliament..... both from the floor of the House of Commons, and in the corridors and backrooms where the real decisions are made. It is a novel about politicians, their wives, husbands and lovers....of politics and power. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt title print to spine. No ownership markings. An immaculate copy in a clean, bright, price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Macmillan, 1994. Lieutenent Lorraine Page had everything - a devoted husband, two beautiful daughters and an impressive career with the Pasadena Homicide Squad. She and her partner, Lubrinski, made a formidable team. One unlawful killing was all it took to destroy Lorraine Page. Her career - Her life. Now she wants them back, no matter what the cost. A breathtaking thriller from Lynda La Plante; the brilliant creator of the successful TV series 'Widows'. Her original script for 'Prime Suspect' won a number of awards including the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writers Award. Price-intact dust jacket - photo by Paul Postle. A clean, bright copy.. ISBN: 0-333-61621-9. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pasadena Homicide Squad Fiction + Police Officers Fiction + Mystery And Detective Sleuths Fiction + Women Detectives. Catalogs: Mystery.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. "The Queens of the North Atlantic" traces with words, photographs and comtemporary drawings the stories of the two great Cunard liners (the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth) and their competitors on the North Atlantic run, evoking the atmosphere of the grand saloon and chronicling the social history of the lifestyle that is now just a nostalgic memory. Prologue by F. Scott Fitzgerald..... epilogue by John Malcolm Brinnin. Black leather-like boards, illustrated endpapers. Bookplate to fep, name to title page. Photo illustrated dust jacket with price intact. An immaculate copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. From the end of the First World War - the beginning of "modern" England - through the present day, Lacey provides a brilliant portrayal of a family and their kingdom: George V, Edward VIII, the King who forsook his crown 'for the woman he loved' and so plunged Great Britain into the gravest constitutional crisis of the century...., George VI, an accidental King but an excellent one... and Elizabeth II , the focal point of the book, the first reigning Queen since Victoria.... The contents provide chapters on Childhood.... abdication.... Heir.... Queen.... and Majesty. Four appendices follow chapter 28. Sources, notes and index follow appendicies. A list of illustrations present. (two sections of photographs on semi-gloss stock). A map will be found as well...'Royal Homes and Palaces by Nigel Holms. Border reproduced from the official programme to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, June 2, 1953, by kind permission of King George's… Read More

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1988. A gripping and moving novel based on the true story of William and Magdalene De Lancey. Two young people caught up in the triumph and the horror of the Battle of Waterloo. Price-clipped dust jacket painting from The Battle of Waterloo by Henri-Emmanuel-Felix Philippoteaux. A tight, bright book in a bright dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-7715-9208-6. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Waterloo Battle of 1815 + Lady Magdalene De Lancey + Sir William Howe De Lancey + Military. Catalogs: Military.

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1986. 237pp. 8 pages of photos. Lamb recalls the spirit of an age, the spirit of a fleet and a service that was uniquely Canadian. Author of "The Corvette Navy". " On The Triangle Run" takes us back to those terrible ,exiting, stand together years of the 2nd World War. Lamb, who commanded a minesweeper and a corvette, tells the story of our Navy's battles in the waters off Canada's coasts. Bruise to top edge front board. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Photographic dust jacket. A very nice copy.. ISBN: 0-7715-9746-0. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Military + Canadian Navy + World War II + History Naval + History Canada + Campaigns + Atlantic Ocean + Corvettes + Minesweepers. Catalogs: Military.

New York: Washington Square Press Published By Pocket Books, 1996. 1996 Second Printing of the Washington Square Trade Paperback Printing. Illustrated card covers. " A remarkable novel....like John Irving, Lamb assembles a riotous and colorful cast of characters.... Dolores and her entourage stumble through the tumult and heartbreak of life as it is really lived. Theirs is a journey worth joining"....(praise by Bookpage). A book award finalist - Best First Novel of the Year. A clean, bright book - . A good read!. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989. A novel of adventure and self-discovery, of breathtaking sea battles and awakening maturity. It introduces Midshipman Alan Lewrie on his premier voyage..... and sees him off to a brilliant career at the height of the American Revolution. Map endpapers, untrimmed foredge. Name to ffep. Upper foredge shows rough cut and soil to a few leaf edges. Remainder mark to top edge. The book remains tight and bright. Price-clipped well- illustrated jacket. Jacket design painting by Richard Hess. A most respectable copy!. First Edition Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Afterword by Beau L'Amour. Long out of print and now published for the first time under the author's own name. Here is a Hopalong Cassidy novel. This crackling classic frontier novel is as authentically detailed as it is action-packed and features one of the most fondly remembered fictional cowboys. Previously published as " Hopalong Cassidy and The Rustlers of West Fork" by Louis L'Amour (writing as Tex Burns). Gift note to ffep. Price-intact illustrated dust jacket art by Steve Assel. Author photo to rear panel taken in 1987 at the L'Amour family Colorado ranch by Chad Slattery. A bright, lovely copy.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Don Mills, Ontario: Musson Book Company, 1980. Written by an author with an intimate knowledge of royal life. "Caroline R" is a powerfully authentic novel of love, conflict and intrigue behind the grandeur of the British monarchy. For Caroline - impulsive, attractive, a girl of spirited independence - is a Queen unlike any other, and her coronation spells serious trouble for the monarchy. Price-clipped photo dust jacket. A solid, clean copy.. Firts Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press, 1954. The background of 'Thunder On St. Paul's Day' is the murderous hysteria of London consequent upon the 'discovery' by an obscure villain named Titus Oates, of a Popish plot.The story is that of a gentle English family caught up in this reign of terror, a story which, in its richly human and romantic interest, relieves the grimness of the background. The real hero of the book is a vital and courageous schoolboy... Cherry red cloth boards. Name to ffep. A bright book. Illustrated price-intact dust jacket shows sunned spine... title remains bright.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992. "Inside the VC and the NVA" is not about how the Americans lost the war but how the communists won it. The authors, with their six-and-a-half years' combined experience on the ground in Vietnam, bring to this absorbing volume a personal observation, accuracy and honesty that is denied the academics. 332 pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. A very nice copy.. ISBN: 0-449-90716-3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. History Military + North Vietnam + VC + NVA + Vietnam War + Southeast Asia + Vietnam. Catalogs: Military.

Toronto: The MacMillian Company of Canada Ltd 1946 (c.1935) Later Print. This book is being offered as a READING COPY. Thorleif Larsen, M.A, F.R.Sc.... W.L. MacDonald M.A., Ph.D - Department of English, University of British Columbia. Twenty-two short stories with varied themes written by some of the best authors. The stories in the book were all published within the limits of a little more than a century. Some of the authors and their short stories found here are: Sir Walter Scott - ' Wandering Willie's Tale' (1824).... Edgar Allan Poe - 'The Pit and The Pendulum' (1843)..... Bret Harte - 'Tenessee's Partner' (1869).... Robert L. Stevenson - 'A Lodging For The Night' (1877).... Thomas Hardy - 'The Three Strangers' (1882).... Rudyard Kipling - 'His Private Honour' (1891), and others just as worthy. A complete, most serviceable copy.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Book Club Edition. A John Putnam Thacher Mystery. John Putnam Thacher makes his twenty-first appearence in this latest Emma Lathen mystery when the Wall Street banking whiz/amateur sleuth faces unscrutable business practices, mayhem, and murder, in the Land of the Rising Sun. Red boards and spine - gilt title print to spine. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor. No ownership markings. A very nice copy.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Alfred A Knopf. (c. 1969) Book Club Edition. Book Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The heroine is an ordinary woman of thirty-nine (house in a development, four children, salesman husband) fearful of - and struggling to shelter her family from - both a world she perceives as a world on fire and her own consuming emotions. Stacy MacAindra is unique and she is legion.... now riding high, with all her capacity for strength and sass, for joy in love making, for bursts of terrier courage in response to external threats; and now giving way under the psychic pressures of daily living, tearing herself down, childishly retreating to the comfort of daydreams and the solitary drink. A bright book in a bright dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul bacon.. Catalogs: Canadiana.

Clarke,Irwin & Company, 1964. This book describes one of the longest journeys ever made in Soviet Russia by a writer without political bias. Colonel Van der Post's story is of a journey into the hearts of the Russians and places visited from Moscow to Tackkent, Samarkand and Bukara, Baku and Tbilsi, Kiev and Moscow to Siberia and back. The author makes it possible for the reader to share in the fullest degree his own pleasure, shock, and discovery. A pull-out map in colour of the author's journey is attached to rear ep. Map in excellent condition. Name to ffep. Illustrated price intact dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: John Calder Publishers, 1958. Reata is a mining town in New Mexico with a long record of conflict between the different ethnic elements. The story begins when a local politician buys up the land on which LaCieneguita is built and attempts to collect rents from the poverty stricken miners... A reign of terror follows. Black cloth boards, gilt title print to spine. Spine of dust jacket sunned but title still bright. A sound, clean copy.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.