Search Results: Authors starting with L from Mary Riversong Books

Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1929 Houghton Mifflin 1st. Edition) No date on title page. Green boards with maroon titling. Spine is sunned. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included.Summary: Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States to reconcile their culture with that of the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1934."

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Gary Larson. The PreHistory of the Dark Side, A 10th Anniversary Exhibit. Copyright 1989, Universal Press Features Syndicate. Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City, MO First Edition. HARD TO FIND. USED. 288 pages. VG/VG Unclipped $19.95 Dust Jacket. ISBN 0836218612 Large Volume. 8 3/4 X 11 1/4.

T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.

Laxness, Halldor Independent People: An Epic. Copyright 1946, Alfred A. Knopf.Translated from he Icelandic by J A Thompson. RARE/SCARCE. Very Good Condition/ Good original blue dust jacket. USED. BCE. 470 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.

Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear, undated, ca 1900. Frederick Warne. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. EXLIB. Good Condition/ Good – Condition original Brooke dust jacket is protected in mylar wrap. Poems/lyrics only, no sheet music if originally included. Red boards with owl drawing on front cover that matches the dust jacket illustration. Colour Frontis, all colour plates, and all black and white drawings are in nice shape. Rare/scarce.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Le Fevre, Edwin: AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Fraser Publishing, 1980 Reprint. Hardcover. Used. VG/ No DJ.

Leguizamo, John. Mambo Mouth: A Savage Comedy. 1991 ILLUSTRATED. Sorry, we can't decipher the artist name. 1 sheet of paper Double-sided. Original show letterhead stationary. Has been folded. A signed, inscribed letter to friends telling them about his June 4th reopening of the show with music by Jelly Bean Bennitez. UNIQUE EPHEMERA. About the show: In 1991, Leguizamo also wrote and performed in the Off-Broadway production Mambo Mouth, where he played seven different characters. Mambo Mouth won an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Award. He was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1991" in "John Willis' Screen Worlds Vol. 43". We take offers.

Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl. Copyright 1945, by Lois Lenski. Stated Fifteenth Printing. Published by J.B. Lippincott. Illustrated by the author. EXLIB. VG Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Green boards. Gold titling and ornamentation. Green and red strawberry motif endpapers. 194 pages. 6 5/8 X 8 3/4. CHILDRENS BOOK. Summary: "Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven′t even begun their planting. "Don′t count your biddies ′fore they′re hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy."

Somewhere in Red Gap. By Harry Leon Russell, the author of Ruggles of Red Gap. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint. Doubleday, Page copyright, 1916. WESTERN. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ included. By the author of "Ruggles of Red Gap". Illustrated by John R. Neill (illustrator of the Oz Series) , F.R. Gruger, and Henry Raleigh. 408 pages, 5 1/8 X 7 5/8.Please see our stock photo.

LeSeig, Theo: In A People House. 1972 Random House Book Club Edition. Bright And Early Books For Beginning Beginners. States Impression B 123 on the copyright page. No number appears on spine. Spine states Le Sieg. Written by Theodore Giesel (Dr. Seuss). Used. VG CONDITION/No DJ if originally issued with one. Unpaginated. 6 1/4 X 8 3/4. "This book belongs to" has been filled out. Please see our stock photo. RARE.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, BOOK THREE: THE HORSE AND HIS BOY. BY C.S. LEWIS. ILLUSTRATED BY PAULINE BAYNES. FIRST HARPERCOLLINS EDITION, 1994 FULL NUMBER LINE. ISBN006023489X (Lib. Binding) EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION UNCLIPPED $14.95 DUST JACKET. PROTECTED BY BRODART WRAP. States book 3 on the dust jacket spine. Pictorial castle wall dj Please see stock photo. Will ship from Oregon

Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith, 1945 Harbrace Reprint Edition. Used. Good-/Good- original unclipped $2.25 scarce/rare dust jacket. 5 ½ X 8. PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL. Summary: "A medical researcher has to decide priorities during a medical outbreak".

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Copyright 1925, Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc. Stated Second Printing [First Trade Edition] January, 1925. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ included. 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. 448 Pages 5 X 7 5/8. SUMMARY: A novel about medical research and epidemiology.

Lewis, Sinclair: Dodsworth. Harcourt Brace. Stated 1st Ed. 1st. Impression, March, 1929. Used. VG/ No DJ. A nice, solid copy Plot Summary: "Samuel ('Sam') Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite..."

BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.

Lightner, Robert Angels, Satan And Demons: Invisible Beings that Inhabit the Spiritual World. 1998, Word Publishing, Nashville. ISBN0849913713. USED. VG/VG DJ. THEOLOGY, BIBLICAL TEACHING, ANGELS, DEMONOLOGY. OCCULT, SPIRITUALISM. 6 1/4 X 9 5/8. 212 pages, Indexed.

Law West Of The Pecos: The Story of Judge Roy Bean. Text of the original manuscript. Copyright 1936,1967 Sixth Printing Thus, The Naylor Company, San Antonio. Texas. Used. Very Good/ Good unclipped original dust jacket. $2.00 price on front flap. A History of Texas. Summary: Biography. "Here for the first time all the Roy Bean stories, in addition to all the facts of his life and career have been brought together in permanent form. Every fact pertaining to the life of Roy Bean will be found in this volume". A nice find. Includes a bonus vintage linen postcard of a photo of "the Jersey Lilly" , rebuilt as a set for the Gary Cooper film.