Search Results: Authors starting with L from small volume

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 270 pp [1 ads]. Rust red cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine, decorative gilt borders to boards and top edge of text block. Deckled bottom and fore edges. Faint signs of shelfwear and handling to exterior and light soiling to endpapers, otherwise very clean. Several bolts remain uncut at fore edge.

Silverton, Colorado: Finn Hill Arts, 1988. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. Gray wraps. 383 pp. Edgewear to wraps with crease to upper left corner of rear panel & original price sticker present. Toning to text block edges. Telephone number for Fin Hill Arts handwritten on copyright page. Black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout. Ecology and philosophical wisdom from the former director of Way of the Mountain Learning Center in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. From rear cover- "Dissects where Western Culture went wrong and shows us how to get back to the old ways.

Ann Arbor, Mi: Louis Filler, 1952. Wraps. Near Fine. 24mo. Unpaginated. Staple-bound tan paper wraps. Clean and sound copy. Introduction and Biographical Sketch by Louis Filler. "With the compliments of Louis Filler" card laid in, dated Nov. 20, 1952. Lithoprinted by Edwards Brothers, Inc. One-act tragedy in blank verse about the death of Thomas Chatterton.

Steidl, Gottingen: Steidl Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo. [42 pp.] Beige cloth, off-white paste-down, black titling. Bump to boards at bottom edge, faintly bowed. Interior clean and sound. Black and white photographs taken in Biarritz on the grounds of Elhorria with short form essay by Lagerfeld.

Paris: J. -J. Dubochet, Le Chevalier et cie, 1846. 1/4 Leather. Good +. 12mo. 1595 pp. + 37 pp. index. 1/4 Burgundy leather under cloth, gilt titling. Marbled endpapers. Scuffing and edgewear to boards, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Pos signature to fep, dated 1849. Fold-out chart of chart of chemical equivalents, by Leon Lalanne in tact. Illustrated throughout. Reference tome to use as a universal memory aid for Sciences, Arts and Letters.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Numbered, Large Paper Edition. Boards. Very Good. 366 pp. 8vo. Gray & cream paper-covered boards. Large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, of which this is numbered 73. Illustrations by H. J. Ford. Toning to spine strip, soiling and chipping to boards, heaviest at spine ends. Bookplate of WIlliam Henry Radcliffe Saunders, booksellers label of "Garton Freestone, Bookseller, 4, The Poultry, Nottingham" to fpd. Inscribed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book at Lipton Bros., Brumley, England on 11/5/1915.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889. Numbered, Large Paper Edition. Boards. Very Good. 390 pp. 8vo. Gray & cream paper-covered boards. Large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, of which this is numbered 40. Illustrations by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. Toning to spine strip, soiling and chipping to boards, heaviest at spine ends. Discoloration and pencil marginalia to endpapers, otherwise interior clean. Signed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book on 8/1/18.

London: Henry and Co, 1891. Numbered edition. Cloth. Good. 4to. Cream colored cloth w/ gilt stamped titling. Soiling and chipping to cloth, with small [.5 cm x 1cm] loss at head of spine. Light foxing to end leaves. Inscribed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on verso of rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book at Antiquarian Book Co., Birmingham, Eng. on 11/30/1915. Large paper edition of 150 numbered copies, of which this is numbered 94. Literary essays discussing the work of Dumas, Stevenson, Homer, Thackeray, Bunyan, Kipling among others.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1920. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 31 pp + 24 pp illustrations. White paper wraps, printed in black and red. Large (13 cm) split at front hinge. Text in Swedish. Illustrated with watercolor paintings by artist Carl Larsson showing scenes of Swedish country life.

New York: R. Worthington, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Lathbury, Mary A.. 8vo. Unpaginated [32 pp]. Pictorial boards backed in salmon-colored cloth. Light soiling, sticker removal mark to front board, rubbing to edges and corners, joints and spine ends. Floral endpapers, ffep has small (appx 1 cm) closed tear to fore edge, rfep partially detached at hinge but holding. Short verses accompanied by bright chromolithographic illustrations. Ghosting opposite plates, small pencil marginalia to rear flyleaf, otherwise fine.

Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 1871. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 32 pp. Beige paper wraps. Discoloration to front and rear wrappers, chipping at corners and spine ends, faint foxing to title page. Fund Publication, No. 6. A recounting of stories Latrobe was told as a child from his eldest sister regarding her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, who in 1811, built and operated the "New Orleans," the earliest boat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in a fortnight. Latrobe himself an inventor, created the "Latrobe Stove", a coal-fired heater that could insert into an existing fireplace.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. 287 pp. Blue cloth w/ stamped gilt titling. Light rubbing to cloth, heaviest at spine ends. Faint scratching to boards. Interior clean, binding sound. Travellers' library edition. Signature of Windham County Connectiut Suffragist and Community Leader Rosamond Danielson to flyleaf.

Adyar: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1971. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 132 pp. Red cloth w/ black titling in magenta, navy and white dust jacket. Scuffing and discoloration to dj. Illustrated throughout w/ fold-out color frontispiece of the crown chakra, and 9 other full-color plates.

New York: Darcie & Corbyn, 1855. Wraps. Good. 4to. 79 pp + 4 pp ads. Light peach printed paper wraps, heavily chipped with loss to corners, soiling, and mending to spine. Large (appx 2 in) closed tear to title page, creasing to several leaves, but all text remains clean and readable. Dual language play script, with each page divided into two columns; the original French on the left and English translation on the right. Prepared expressly for M. Raphael Felix, manager of Mlle. Rachel's French Company in America.

Paris: A. Maloine Et Fils, Editeurs, 1925. Wraps. Good+. 8vo. 459 pp. Tan wraps with navy titling. Overall signed of handling, chipping at foot of spine. Pages lightly toned. Legrain was chief doctor of the asylums in the Seine & the first to specialize in the treatment of alcoholics.

Athens, OH: Athens Center for Film and Video of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts, 1984. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. [square] 90 pp. Purple illustrated wraps. Sunning and edgewear to spine and edges of wraps. Essays on Feminism and Film.

Paris: Societe D'Edition, Les Belles Lettres, 1957. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 186 pp. Tan printed paper wraps. Light discoloration and edgewear to wrappers. POs name in ink to front wrapper w/ notes taped into page 171. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres, De L'Universite de Strasbourg. Fasciule 134. Text in French. A study of Goethe and his relationship with Occultism.

London: Abacus, 1974. Wraps. Near Fine. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 160 pp. Pictorial paper wraps w/ Yellow titling. Light scuffing to front and rear wrapper, small (2c x 1cm) white price sticker at rear. Interior clean, binding sound. Results from research conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health. Discussing the invention of float tanks, early communication with dolphins, and investigations into the use of LSD for personal development.

New York: Ridge Press, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. Farrell, John (photographs). Large 8vo. 95 pp. First paperback edition. Pictorial wraps. Scuffing to exterior, creasing to joints. Small sticker removal mark to front wrapper. Text block very clean, with black and white photos throughout.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. Second Printing. Leather. Very Good. 8vo. xviii, 779 pp, 4 pp. Full brown calf with gilt-paneled spine and black label. Second printing (BAL 12078) with Collins imprint to copyright page. Boards moderately scuffed and soiled with heavier rubbing to joints and vertical crack to spine leather. Corners bumped with boards starting to push through, front hinge starting but holding firm. Bookplate and pencil signature of previous owner David Thaxter to fpd. Faint dampstaining to top edge and inner margin of text, affecting first 20-30 leaves. Some foxing to eps, rest of text is clean. Engraved frontis portrait and half title. Text block cracked at center but binding sturdy and sound.