Search Results: Authors starting with L from BookAddiction

New York, NY, USA: Coward-McCann, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 250pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, white titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends, cloth wearing . Slightly dusty top text block edge, fore-edge untrimmed. Internally neat, clean, bright. Dust jacket has loss due to silverfish (volume not affected), chipping to edges. Laid-in reprint of the Book-of-the-Month Club review.

New York, NY, USA: Academic Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. viii, 134pp. Burgundy cloth-covered boards, blind-embossed publisher's logo on front, gilt titles on front and spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge a little dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has 1cm tear and creasing top front corner, 2cm teat spine heel and rear joint, light soiling, mirrors book damage.

London, UK: MacDonald & Evans, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. viii, 112pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to spine. 12mo. Moderate sun-fading to spine, spine head lightly rounded. Light shelf wear. Some light foxing to text block edges and to endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. This book that was first published in 1948 and was devised as a guide for teachers and parents as a useful tool to assist in the teaching of modern dance.

17, Holborn Hill: John Duncombe & Co. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [1852]. 72pp. Originally issued in card wrappers, this copy has been subsequently rebound in strong cloth-covered boards (with the original wrappers bound in). Boards very slightly rubbed on corners. Some toning to edge worn pages, a few marks and small creases. Includes the colour printed, foldout frontispiece (showing Knuckledown Fair), so often missing. John Labern, himself a popular music hall performer, collected popular, bawdy songs of his day. The first indication of his prominence comes from the appearance of his works in contemporary periodicals,but collections of his songs were first published by John Duncombe, who was otherwise known for pornographic publications. An extremely rare survival.

London, UK: D C Heath & Co, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 126pp, composition exercises. Green cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine. Sun faded spine, lightly bumped ends. Text block edges starting to fox. Previous owner's name on front paste down. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 16mo. Edited with an introduction, notes, and exercises by Benj W Wells in English. Play in French.

London, UK: Hamlyn, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Bourre, Martine. 77pp. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards; illustrative 'map' endpapers; colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Lightly rubbed spine ends, some tanning. Previous owner's name on copyright page, R from 'Read' on title page coloured in. Otherwise, internally clean, neat, bright and tight.

London, UK: Collins, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First English Edition. 380pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Cocked. Pictorial endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has loss ar spine head, numerous small tears (some iernally repaired) wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. The true story of the trial of Gaston Dominici who was accused of the murder of the English family Drummond - who were brutally murdered during an overnight camping stay on a main road in Provence.

New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 336pp, in-text map and black and white photographs. Brown cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. 8vo. Compelling and important narrative in this first serious book about Madison written in many years. It will return this under-appreciated patriot to his rightful place among the Founding Fathers and shed new light on a key turning point in the nation's history.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 272pp. Decorated, stamped and giltwork front board and spine (rubbed at edges, rounded at corners and spine ends). Tissue-guarded frontispiece and a few further illustrations. Decorated endpapers (a little toned). Prize presentation plate on front paste-down endpaper, indicating the book was awarded by Kirby Stephen Sunday School as a prize for regular attendance in 1893. Occasional scattered spotting. A nice vintage copy of this temperance tale.

London, UK: Methuen, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 128pp, black and white frontispiece. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-fading to lower part of spine cover where there is jacket loss, tail end lightly rounded. Text block edges just starting to fox. Free endpapers lightly tanned with previous owners inscription. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket almost torn in two down rear joint, has heavy sun-fading to spine and edges, small tears and chipping to top edge, 4cm loss at spine heel; not price clipped. The author's aim in the Unresolved Conflict is not to press the claims of either Christianity or secular humanism, but to assess the theory of evolution in relation to both, in as fair and clear a manner as possible.

UK: T & A D Poyser, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 448pp. 4to Copiously and elegantly illustrated throughout with maps, line drawings & sketches, with some colour. Detailed atlas of locations for wintering birds in Britain and Ireland. Red cloth boards. Hint of shelf-dust to text block edges; some slight marks around spine of dust jacket, else fine. Endorsed by the British Trust for Ornithology and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy.

Tor Books, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 352pp. 8vo. 1st ed, 1st imp. Identified as 1st ed on copyright page with date "November 2010", as called for. Pictorial dust jacket over deep green cloth-covered boards, deckled edges. Dust jacket, unclipped, has mild, flat crease on front inner flap, else fine throughout. Dust jacket now protected in archival quality Mylar sleeve fitted without use of adhesive or tape.

Sillery, PQ, CA: Septentrion, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 592pp. Laminated pictorial light card covers. Light soiling to out text block edge. Couple of top page corners creased towards end. internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A large and heavy volume which will require an additional charge for overseas delivery. 4to.

London, UK: Chapman & Hall, 1876. Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xvi, 490, with 21 chromolithograph and 351 wood engravings. Bookplate. Red cloth with elaborately gilt tooled spine and gilt embossed front board. Top and fore text block edges untrimmed. 4to. A large and heavy volume which will incur an additional charge for overseas delivery. Spine sun-faded, loss at head, bottom quarter of backstrip missing. Text block edges tanned. Bookplate on front pastedown, front hinge cracked. Volume loose. Some foxing throughout, heavier towards prelims. Overall still very presentable.

20, Paternoster Square, London: G Morrish, 1921. Reissue . Hardcover. Very Good. 252pp. Monochrome plate frontispiece (by L Parker) with further decorations and illustrations in text. Illustrated blue cloth boards with four colour printing and gilt finishes. Spine Illustration. Boards rubbed at edges and a little mottled. Spine sunned. Prize plate on front endpaper indicating the volume was awarded to Nancy Brown at Holyhead Hall for high marks at Sunday School in 1922. Endpapers a little tanned and mild spotting. An intriguing, if heavily moralised, fictional account of a child's experiences of the inquisition in Spain and Holland: the book opens with Mayken Karlzon birthday in May 1565. Hard to find title. Lovely decorative cloth binding.

Privately printed, 2000. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 40pp, with black and white illustrations. In card and perspex covers, linen spine binding (a few mild marks on back cover, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout). 4to. A collection of notes and short articles on various aspects of Westenhanger Castle in Kent, with extracts from earlier sources, notes on Westhanger, an inventory of the castle taken in 1653, the Dovecote at Westhanger, Customer Smythe, Report of Attempted Abduction of Lady Lettuce etc. Two additional sets of notes - on the historical data of Westenhanger and on the Dovecote, loosely laid in, together with a newspaper clipping from 2000 recording the opening of the Castle to the public.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 206pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Translated by Susan Burke. Results of research relating to a long period from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries which were obtained from the work of nearly a hundred historians in many countries.

London (313, Strand): Reynold's Newspaper, 1883. Reissue . No Binding. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. iv, 374pp. Disbound, for binding. First and last few leaves are significantly chipped at edges, and detached from text block. Outer leaves toned and lightly spotted. Backstrip cracked. Signatures loosening, with a couple of detached pages chipped and chapped at edges. A few manuscript marginal annotations in a contemporary hand, relevant to the text (such as naming characters alluded to in the text, or confirming dates of events etc). 12mo. A work first published in 1832, the title page of this reissue states "This is a faithful reprint of a work, which produced an extraordinary sensation on its first appearance fifty-one years ago, and was speedily suppressed. It is the same, too, for which the sum of a Thousand Pounds was offered in New York about nine years ago." In fact, the work is by Olivia Serres, a British painter and writer, also known as an imposter… Read More

London, UK: Macmillan & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Complete in 2 volumes. Vol1: x, 406p; 4 black and white plates (all tissue-guarded, inc. frontispiece); Vol.2 xii, 426pp; 7 black and white plates (all tissue-guarded, inc. frontispiece). Navy cloth-covered boards; illustration and gilt titles on front and spine. Bumped extremities; wear to covers. Decorative endpapers, some tanning. Rear hinge cracked at endpaper (Vol. 2). Previous owner's name in on verso of front free endpaper. Text block edges starting to fox. Prelims foxed. Both volumes quite loose. Internally neat, clean and bright. A large and heavy two volume set which will require an additional charge for overseas delivery. 8vo.

London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co, 1901. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition, first edition (a cheaper edition was issued simultaneously). xii, 362pp, plus numerous black and white, tissue-guarded plate illustrations, fold out genealogical tables. In pale green cloth-covered boards with gilt title from and spine, bevelled edges, all edges gilt. 4to. A large and heavy volume which may incur an additional charge for overseas delivery. Boards are a little soiled, and gently rubbed at edges. Armorial bookplate of Henry J R Clements, with the motto Patriis Virtuttibus, on the front paste down. Some mild tanning on free endpapers, else internally neat, clean and tight throughout. A handsome volume of substance. A history of Swallowfield House and Park, a stately home located in Berkshire, close to the village of Swallowfield and some four miles from Reading. Sir Henry Russell, of whom the author is a descendant, was Chief Justice… Read More