Search Results: Authors starting with L from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Longmans, Green & Co, 1897. Eighth edition. Blue boards with gilt decoration & titles. Topedge gilt. A near fine copy with light edgewear to extremities. A few small marks & a line of tiny indentations to rear board. Very bright unrubbed gilt. Internally very clean indeed with no inscriptions. The endpapers are original and unsplit. A really lovely copy. The first of Andrew Lang's coloured fairy books.

Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles & elaborate decoration to front board & spine. All edges gilt. A near fine/fine copy. Very bright unrubbed gilt. A few, tiniest light spots to boards o/w very clean indeed. Light wear only to extremities. Internally very clean. Neat black ink name & date to black endpaper which is barely visible. Without the usual heavy foxing. Original & unsplit endpapers. A fantastic copy of this Andrew Lang story book. Sixty six tales from the noted Scottish author about creatures of land, sea and air.

Geoffrey Bles, 1953. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with silver titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Pauline Baynes. A near fine copy with very light wear. Internally clean with no inscriptions. Small old retailers ink stamp to rear endpaper. No marks to textblock edges. Very crisp and fresh. The priceclipped dustwrapper has benefitted from archival restoration to the head and tail of spine & to a tear at bottom half of front panel. Original dustwrapper now presents as clean and fresh. The fourth Narnia novel & generally recognised as the scarcest in first edition. Eustace and Jill escape the bullies at school through the strange door in the wall - it leads to an open moor in Narnia. Aslan has a task for the children and it ultimately leads them to confronting the Evil Witch if they are to save Prince Rillian.