Search Results: Authors starting with L from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Munchen: Ernst Heimeran Verlag, 1954 Hard cover, oblong, 160pp + index. In publisher's decorative cloth binding and slipcase. Number 479/700. Condition: Very Good in Good slipcase which has tape repairs.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930 In Black Publisher's cloth with cover decoration in gilt and red type, 327 pp. No d/j. Condition: Good. Gilt a bit dulled and with minor rubbing at edges, and a few spots to exterior. Very small booksellers label to ffep. Generally very clean, if a bit age-toned, internally. One closed tear. Pulp fiction mystery detective novel from the author of the best-selling "Gray Phantom" series of the 1920's. The titular Three Brass Elephants are important clues in a locked room mystery at the wonderfully named Bronson's Spite, an architectural monstrosity along the Hudson. A young man and his sidekick, detective Napolean Brown, find danger and daring in their attempts to reclaim the former's inheritance. A stylish, breezy read for the fan of a good mystery. Hubin p. 239.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good .

Boston: The C.M.Clark Publishing Company, 1909 356pp + ads. Novel of rural America. In publisher's cloth binding with pictorial cover and eight full-page illustrations. Condition: Covers dust-soiled and with some shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885 Reprint. Hard cover, 16mo.( 4 x 6 ½ inches) in green cloth gilt, 112 pp., First Edition Thus. (A re-issue of the 1880 edition, with amendments.) Printed at the Chiswick Press. The front board with title blocked in gilt, and pictorial "Arbor Scienti Arbor Vitae" logo to lower right edge. Boards beveled, top edge gilt, with other text block edges untrimmed. The title page in blue ink, featuring an attractive chinoiserie decoration. CONDITION: Very Good.Minus. Showing some edge wear to boards, and both end of spine. There is bubbling to both boards. Some darkening of endpapers, however, remainder of contents are crisp and clean.**This collection of poetry by the prolific Scots writer Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was first published in 1880. Lang was a contemporary and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. He was educated in Edinburgh and St. Andrews before matriculating at Bailliol College, Oxford. He was later a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Although he published… Read More

New York: self-published, 1939 Soft cover, 16mo, 16pp. Slim volume (and scarce!) with introductory essay and poems titled "Cranberry Blood", "A Miser Made" and "Turtle and Wild Rice", the last annotated as having been "written in The Dutch Tavern on John St, New York." Condition: About Very Good, with light wear/creasing to edges of covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Boston, Mass./ Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin & Company/ Riverside Press, 1881 Electrotyped and Printed at H.O. Houghton & Company. Hard cover 12mo, (measuring 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches) in brown cloth with pictorial sprig of beach roses intertwined in gilt with title along front board and continuing to spine, 272 pp. Top edge gilt. The first nine poems in this collection are under the "Wild Roses of Cape Ann" heading; another 88 verses are included.**Author Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was a Massachusetts-born poet and teacher who spent a decade working in the Lowell mills. She was a friend of John Greenleaf Whittier and his sister. Whittier was a mentor to Larcom, helping the Beverly, Mass. native break into the Boston literary scene, and providing ongoing editorial advice. Much of their correspondence has been preserved, and is a testament to a truly warm friendship based on mutual interests. The Poem "J.G.W., (dated 1877)" on page 176 is about Whittier. Condition Very Good with only very minor wear to… Read More

New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1903 Hard cover, 8vo, 46pp., First edition. In publisher's decorative cloth covers with numerous photographic illustrations. Condition: Very Good. Corners bumped, and some shelf wear to covers, pages lightly toned. *** The poet, New York native Lena Bogardus Lardner (1843-1918), was housebound for many years, and thus resorted to her friendships and to her poetry and short stories, many written when living in Niles, Michigan. (obit.) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Forgotten Books, 2012 527pp. Facsimile reprint of 1859 edition. As new.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Gomshall, Surrey: privately printed, 1909 Hard cover, 8vo, in black cloth with titles blocked in gold, 54pp., First Edition. Condition: Very Good with light marks to covers. Scarce collection of poetry by Emily Lawless (1845 - 1913),an Irish novelist whose works were included by W.B.Yeats in his list of best Irish novels. She was born into Irish aristocracy, and she was related to the Plunkett family to which the fantasy writer Lord Dunsany belonged. This collection includes the poem "The Light Occult" which H.P. Lovecraft fans would find of interest... "With all their gibbering shadowy train, The bat-winged progeny of Fright...". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Printed for the Trustees, 1877 Hard cover, folio, ( measuring 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches) in three quarter black morocco with stone colored paper-covered boards, and gilt rolled along edge of morocco. The spine is in six raised compartments, the titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. (24) (19) (20) pp. Now in mylar. Condition: Good. Losses to leather, boards scuffed. General wear but sound. Some pages are extensively ANNOTATED in pencil by either a prior collector, or possibly by a visitor to the Lenox Library. Moderate age-toning with chipping to fore edge of a few pp. Small closed tear to head of Jesuit's title page. "Binding stamp-signed "MacDonald, New York." This is a rare bibliographical catalogue ( in three parts,) forming a record of one Gilded Age man's remarkable collection of travel books. Part I (from 1877) details the collection of James Lenox's "HULSIANA " travelogues and other rare collected manuscripts chronicling Danish exploration of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, 1989 Hard cover, in red cloth with white title to spine, in dust jacket, 566pp.Condition: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. From the blurb: "...covers the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness, to articulation, and self-monitoring of speech." From the ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing. The Author, Willem J.M. Levelt (b. 1938), is the founding Director of the Max-Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, located in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986 Hardcover, with dust jacket in Brodart cover, 183 pp. Fictional antique bookseller Matthew Coll has a visit from a gaunt and haunting stranger one dark and stormy night...and must help clear the name of a famous friend. Author Lewis and his wife do, in fact, run an out -of-print book service, called Bookfinders, in their native England. Condition: Fine, with a Good dust jacket.. First edition, first printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984 Hard cover with dust jacket, 192 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the British author who, in real life, is an esteemed dealer in antiquarian books. Mild-mannered librarian Henry Franklin is a specialist in Arabic manuscripts, whose detection services are required to crack the case of the theft of priceless ancient materials stolen from British museums and libraries. International adventure ensues. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Front board has a couple of small dents and one front corner is minimally bumped. The pages and edges of text block remain clean and bright, and the binding is tight. The dust jacket has small edge wear at upper front and lower left corners, some pinpoints of wear on front, and at head of spine.. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989 Hardback with dust jacket, 188 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the author who does, indeed, run a British bookshop. In this, the critically-acclaimed fifth mystery of the series starring fictional book dealer Matthew Coll, our hero travels to Verona to research a manuscript he hopes will shed light on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Condition: Near Fine, with a Very Good+ dust jacket. . first U.S. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982 Hard cover, with dust jacket in mylar, 1982. Real-life antiquarian bookseller and author, Roy Harley Lewis, brings us another fine mystery set in the exciting world of high-stakes manuscripts at auction. Is the sixteenth-century diary, purportedly written by a hitherto-unknown paramour of Shakespeare, authentic? How many will die attempting to acquire the priceless artifact? Fictional secret agent-turned book dealer Matthew McColl is the man to solve the crime. Condition: Very Good Plus with a Fine dust jacket. Top edge of text block has splatter (coffee maybe?) and the pastedowns and endpapers have a few spots and offset marks. Otherwise, the book and jacket are of excellent appearance.. First American edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Fine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964 Hard cover, 12mo, in pictorial printed library binding with the similar dust jacket, (unclipped) Inscribed by the Author to ffep. This is not an ex-library book. Protected in mylar., 175pp, First Edition. New York Author Mina Lewiton (1904-1970) wrote a number of well-received novels for young readers including "Rachael" and " The Divided Heart," and was also a professional Spanish dancer. (New York Times 2/14/70). The Illustrator, Howard Simon was her husband. This book tells of a young boy's misadventures growing up in the Puerto Rican community of New York City. CONDITION: Near Fine (light foxing top edge text block) in a Near Fine d/j. (Light edge rubbing head & foot of spine on d/j.). Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Howard Simon.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903 317pp. Journal and letters on a tour of Scotland's Highlands and Western Isles undertaken in 1800 by John Leyden, a Scottish orientalist who worked with Sir Walter Scott in the documentation of folk songs and ballads for Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). The editor, James Sinton, also provided a comprehensive bibliography of the works of John Leyden at the back of this book, which was published after the author's death. Sinton inscribed and signed the book of the front free endpaper. Condition: In remarkably fresh condition, with some browning to the endpapers.. Signed by editor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Paris: Editions de Musees Nationaux, 1949 Soft cover, 8vo., pp XXXVII + 103 + XXIV. Paper wraps. Condition: Very Good. Covers worn at edges. Scarce Gauguin exhibition catalogue for the Orangerie des Tuileries. French text. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1994 Hard cover, folio, 208pp. Condition: Fine in like dust jacket. ** Lavishly photographed work on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2002 Hard cover, 593pp. In red cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. With original paper wraps bound in. Editorial text is in French, with documents in French, Italian and Latin. Condition: Near Fine. ** A collection of source materials (letters etc) on Jesuit missions in Egypt from 1591 to 1699. The Egyptian Coptic Christians are the largest Christian community in the Arab world. It is traditionally believed that the apostle Saint Mark founded the Coptic Church Egypt in the 1st century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.