Search Results: Authors starting with L from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Light wear, else fine. JHN-189. Greye la Spina. Invaders from the Dark. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1960. First edition.  Octavo. 168pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket.

Light creasing and wear. Very good. JBS-329. Basilia Lafuente. Coca y Cocaina: Una Visión Distinta. Bolivia: Quipas. 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 129 pp. Publisher's wraps with black lettering to white spine, full-graphic front cover. Text in Spanish.  .

Extremities lightly rubbed, else fine. LMM-263. Seymour Lawrence, et al. Seymour Lawrence, Publisher. An Independent Imprint Dedicated to Excellence.  [Boston]: Seymour Lawrence, 1990. No stated edition.  Inscribed by Lawrence: To Larry McMurtry, a superb writer, a dedicated bookman, & a great leader of PEN / Best wishes / Seymour Lawrence.  Octavo. 95pp. Publisher's navy cloth over boards, stamped in gilt script to front, red end papers, no jacket (as issued). Laid-in, a bookmark explaining: "Houghton Mifflin Company celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seymour Lawrence, Publisher..." Contributors include J. P. Donleavy, Jim Harrison, Tim O'Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Kurt Vonnegut. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Binding rubbed, small cloth tears and bumps at spine ends, light scuffs, pages clean; dust jacket with edge and fold wear, small tears and paper chips larger at spine ends, creases and surface scuffs, soiling more apparent on rear panel. Very good. LMM-269. T. E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, [1938]. Deluxe edition. Octavo. 672 pages. Frontispiece of the author and numerous portrait plates. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering and designs to spine, top edge stained, unclipped dust jacket with listing price of $6.00. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Slight offsetting to endleaves, glassine toned, chipped, and torn, with slight loss. Very good. YLN-00084A. [Léon Lebègue]  Marc Leclerc  La Passion de Notre Frère le Poilu  1918    Marc Leclerc. Léon LebèGue, illustrator. La Passion de Notre Frère le Poilu (The Passion of our Brother the Soldier). Paris: A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, 1918. Limited edition, No. 213 of 500 copies. Signed by Marc Leclerc. Octavo. 19pp. Illustrated in color by Léon Lebègue. Publisher's card wraps, original illustrated paper dust wrapper and glassine. Text in French. .

A fine copy. JBS-151. [SIGNED/Limited Edition] Fritz Lemmermayer. Ronald K. Siegel, introduction. Hashish: The Lost Legend. The First English Translation of a Great Oriental Romance. Port Townsend, WA: Process Media, 2013. Limited edition, No. 14 of 418 deluxe slipcased copies.  Signed by Ronald K. Siegel.  Quarto. 118pp. Illustrated with drawings by Gottfied Sieben. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, illustrated pastedown to front cover, original cloth-covered slipcase. .

Lightly wear to boards; skight foxing to endleaves; jacket a bit rubbed, stained, and torn. Very good. LMM-364. Juliette de Bairacli Levy. Summer in Galilee. London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition.  Octavo.. 216pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in silver to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of 25s net. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate to each volume. .

Slightly rubbed and edgeworn to boards; front hinge a bit overopened; light toning throughout; ink ownership signature to first blank. Very good. JBS-143. John Uri Lloyd. J. Augustus Knapp, illustrator. Etidorhpa, or the End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey... Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1896. Fifth edition. Octavo. 386pp. Profusely illustrated by Knapp. Publisher's mottled brown pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in silver, endleaves in grey. Bleiler, 1028. Etidorhpa, an allegorical hollow-earth fantasy (Aphrodite in reverse), was written by a prominent Cincinnati Pharmacologist, who describes a journey led by a mysterious being known as I-Am-The-Man, in which the main character (Llewellyn Drury) is shown a world of wonders and horrors, fueled by sacred mushrooms and other ingestibles. Illustrated to unsettling effect by Augustus Knapp. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants… Read More

Wraps slightly sunned and soiled, else fine. LMM-00140A. William Logan. Diane Mayers, illustrator. Dream of Dying. Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1980. Limited edition, No. 88 of 290 numbered copies. Small quarto. Unpaginated.  Inscribed by William Logan to Larry McMurtry: For Larry McMurtry, / Who in Virginia provided house, dog, and landscape-the requirements of art. This fictive music, / with fond regards, / William Logan / September 17, 1980.  Softcover, paper wraps. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Gently rubbed and soiled to boards, ink ownership signature to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. SJK-42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Harrison Fisher, illustrator. The Song of Hiawatha. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. Reprint edition. Quarto. [189]pp. With illustrations by Henry Fisher and decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. Publisher's green decorative cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and white to spine and front cover, illustrated pastedown to front cover, illustrated endleaves. .

Rubbed to spine and boards; scattered foxing to endleaves. Very good. SJK-43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator. Evangeline. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1905. Reprint edition. Quarto. [132]pp. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Publisher's red decorative cloth, stamped in gilt and white to spine and front cover, illustrated endleaves. .

Light dampstaining to lower board edges; lower edge of jacket verso dampstained and discolored. Very good. JHN-337. H. P. Lovecraft. Dreams and Fancies. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962. First edition. Octavo. 174pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Richard Taylor. .

Light rubbing and wear to boards, with minor loss at lower front corner; light staining to fore edge. A very good copy. SJK-29/Jacket a bit foxed, creased, and chipped.. First Edition H. P. Lovecraft  Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos  Arkham House  1969  H. P. Lovecraft & Others. August Derleth, editor. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Lee Brown Coye and listing a retail price by $7.50.   Includes contributions by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, J. Ramsey Campbell, Colin Wilson, and others.  .

Minor wear to boards, light toning throughout, jacket a bit rubbed and chipped. Very good. LMM-361. D. M. Low. Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794. New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. Pencil signed by author Larry McMurtry and dated 1972. Octavo. 270pp (indexed). Portrait frontispiece by Sir Josua Reynolds. Publisher's maroon pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket . From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate to each volume. .

Spine cocked and front board bowed. Upper corners and spine ends bumped; dust jacket with edge and fold wear, small edge tears and paper chips at extremities, light smudges, some toning. Overall very good. LMM-268. T. A. Lowe. [Emilio] Coia, illustrator.  We All Go to the Pictures.  London: William Hodge & Company Ltd., 1937. First edition. Small octavo. 214 pages. Illustrated and caricatured by [Emilio] Coia. Frontispiece caricature of Myrna Loy to whom the volume is dedicated. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to spine. In illustrated unclipped dust jacket with list price of 6/- net. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Wraps damp stained, toned, 1/2" closed tear, closed chip to spine, ink ownership inscription of Frederick J. Hoffman to FFEP, very good. LMM-281. Mina Loy. Lunar Baedeker & Time-Tables Selected Poems. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. Small quarto. 82pp. Publisher's softcover paper wraps showing retail price of $3.50. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Light wear, price-clipped jacket. Very good. HFP-145. [SIGNED] Jason Lucas. Lucas on Bass Fishing with chapters on Muskellunge, Pike, Sunfish, Spinning, etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. New and enlarged edition. Signed, dedicated by Author. Octavo. 381pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. .