Search Results: Titles starting with L from Blacks Bookshop

Canada: Naxos, 1999. Plastic case. Near Mint. Playing time: 51:37. Andrew Watkinson, Violin. City of London Sinfonia. Nicholas Kraemer. See second photo for tracklist.

NY: Scribner's, 2000. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. New. Physical Info: 0.96" H x 9.32" L x 6.18" W (0.98 lbs) 400 pages. Features: Excerpt, Price on Product, Table of Contents. Extra retail covers secure shipping with tracking number. The closing arguments from ten noteworthy cases--"lawyers and nonlawyers will enjoy the passion and eloquence of these counselors; practitioners of law will find much to learn from them" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Until now, only the twelve jurors who sat in judgment were able to appreciate these virtuoso performances, where weeks of testimony were boiled down and presented with flair, wit, and high drama. For five years the authors researched every archive, and readers can now lose themselves in the summations of America's finest litigators. Clarence Darrow saves Leopold and Loeb from the gallows in the Roaring Twenties. Gerry Spence takes on the nuclear power industry for the death of Karen Silkwood in a modern-day David and Goliath struggle. Vincent Bugliosi… Read More

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library. Leatherette. Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 305 numbered pages. Hunter green leatherette boards w/gilt frame design on front, letters on spine. Green speckled paste downs. Faded green silk ribbon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Toned glue strips in gutters. Secure ship w/track #. Constance, the young Lady Chatterly, is married to a handsome, well-built man. Clifford, her husband, was wounded in the war, and is paralyzed from the waist down. His physical limitations lead him to emotionally neglect Constance, and for comfort, she turns to the gamekeeper, Oliver. In his arms, she finds the passion she needs, even as she struggles with the class differences between the intellectuals and the working class. She realizes that she cannot with the mind alone, but that she also needs her body to be alive. Told in a blunt style, with explicit descriptions of sex, Lady Chatterly's Lover used language largely… Read More

2008. Audio in cardboard box. Used - Near Fine. 5 CDs = 6 hours of listening. Abridged. Performed by Kate Burton. Executive producer: Rick Harris. Directed by John Runnette. Cover design by Mary Schuck. Cover Getty Imates. Author photo by Carrie Keagy. Dents in cardboard case but no damage to CDs. Mary DiNunzio is strong, smart, and she's got plenty of attitude. In recent years, she's become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates, but the last person she expects to walk into her office is Trish Gambone, her high school rival. Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She's terrified of her live-in boyfriend, who's an abusive, gun-toting drug dealer for the South Philly mob. There's only one problem—Mary remembers the guy, too, and had a major crush on him. Before Mary knows it, Trish vanishes. Then a dead body turns up in an alley, and Mary is plunged into a nightmare. She goes on a one-woman crusade to unmask the killer, and on the way, finds new love in a very unexpected place. But… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1972. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover textured. Near Fine/VeryGood. Mortalmans, Edward. 5.75"x8.5" 247 pgs. Bright blue textured boards. DJ design by Edward Mortelmans. Chip to back of DJ. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), date on ffep. Secure ship w/track #. Independent and spirited, Miss Annis Wychwood gives little thought to finding herself a suitable husband, thus dashing the dreams of many hopeful suitors. When she becomes embroiled in the affairs of the runaway heiress Lucilla, Annis's life becomes more complicated, as she soon encounters her fugitive's uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton. Befriending the wayward girl brings excitement and unexpected consequences, among them greater interaction with Lucilla's guardian, who is quite the rudest man Annis has ever met.

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. Physical Info: 1.4" H x 9.1" L x 6.2" W (1.55 lbs) 416 pages. Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product. First printing w/number line. Secure shipping in box w/tracking number. A delightful new western romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love. New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local… Read More

Mira, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 6"x8.5"; 366 pages + recipes; white boards & spine w/red letters; dark red paste downs.

Stamford: Longmeadow, 1990. Paperback. Used - LikeNew. Not ex-library. 5"x8"x.25";80 pgs. Clean copy with no markings, underlining, or highlighting. Light shelf wear with scuffs on cover and bumping to spine.

Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Used - VeryGood. 6"x8.5". 285 pages. X-library w/graphics. First printing. Spine has slight twist, binding tight. WE SHIP SAME DAY W/TRACKING #. Moments before she dies, a brothel resident persuades a doctor to adopt her baby. Two years later, Jessican Martin's sistern Jenny arrives, determined to gain custody of her niece. Set in 1895.

NY: Bantam, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. Physical Info: 1.3" H x 9.4" L x 6.1" W (1.15 lbs) 320 pages. Features: Price on Product. Secure ship w/track #. "Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian's studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes' grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It's an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating shade: an antique yet… Read More

NY: Pocket, 1971. Revised. MMPB 4.25"x7. Near Fine. 28TH PRINTING. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Edges painted yellow. Not x-library, unclipped (w/price), PON Signed by Country and Western singer Rob McNurlin of Ashland, KY. It has been designed expressly for the widest possible variety of interests and professions -- for students, teachers, travelers, hom and office libraries ... in it you will find well over 35,000 vocabulary entries (alphabetically arranged), keys to the proper pronunciation of both French and English, phrases and idioms most used in the common speech of both languages, American and Canadian expressions ... Newly edited by the foremost authorities in the field of French-language reference books, this dictionary is concise and authentic. It is an indispensible guide, and the user will appreciate its value each day.

NY: ST. Martin's Press, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING WITH DJ IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.8" H x 9.4" L x 6.5" W (1.7 lbs) 560 pages. Features: Dust Cover, Bibliography, Index Price on Product, Table of Contents, Sewn binding. Secure ship w/track #. "A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country's pioneer traditions. It follows his astonishing career as bestselling novelist, Pulitzer-Prize winner, author of the beloved Lonesome Dove, Academy-Award winning screenwriter, public intellectual, and passionate bookseller. A sweeping… Read More

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1998. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 335 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. DJ design #1152952 by Jackie Seow. Author photo by Robert Clark. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in "Last Car to Elysian Fields" -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. Source: Publisher.

Los Angeles, CA: Paramount - DreamWorks, 2017. Soundsafe hardshell box. Used - Near Fine. Cast: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo. Target Audience: Rating: R; CHV rating: 14A. Description: 1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Details: DVD; Widescreen (16:9, 2.40:1) presentation; 5.1 surround (English), Dolby digital: 5.1 (English, French) and 2.0 surround (English); Region 1, NTSC. Closed caption for the hearing impaired. Credits: Music, Jerry Goldsmith ; editor, Michael Jablow ; director of photography, Shelly Johnson. Behind the scenes booklet included. No scraches. A wrongly court-martialed General is at odds with the corrupt Colonel acting as prison warden. Eventually, the General rallies the prisoners into an army to do battle with the Colonel and his troops for control of the prison, and their lives. Includes deleted scenes, commentary, featurettes, trailers, and more.

NY: Harlequin, 2011. MassMarketPaperBack. Near Fine. 320 pgs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. The Last Cowboy of Mustang Valley. The Powell Ranch is not the expansive spread it used to be. With a good part of its land sold off to developers, Gabe Powell is struggling to save his disappearing way of life. He has a legacy to leave his daughter, and starting a stud farm would give him financial stability. But first he must capture the wild horse he's spotted in nearby Mustang Valley. Sage Navarre is in Arizona on an urgent domestic matter that will secure her young child's future. And as a government field agent, she's been ordered to help Gabe track down an escaped mustang while she's here. Working with the cowboy is an incredible experience--and Sage finds herself wildly attracted to him. But what will Gabe say when she dashes his dreams for his ranch? Because he's not the only one who wants that mustang.

NY: Grove Press, 2002. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Near Fine-Collectible. SECOND PRINTING. 5.5"X8.25" 393 pgs. Reading group edition. Cover photo: The Storm by Edward S. Curtis. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped ($14.00), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Journey from Victorian England to the whiskey trading posts of the Old West in this epic award-winning bestseller from the author of The Englishman's Boy. In the late nineteenth century, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are sent by their father to find their brother Simon, a missionary who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. In the outreaches of the Montana frontier, the brothers hire a guide—a half Blackfoot, half Scot named Jerry Potts—to lead them further north into the area where Simon was last seen. As the party heads out, it grows to include a journalist, a saloonkeeper, a Civil War veteran in search of love, and a young woman bent on revenge. There's no telling what… Read More

Montclair: Levine Querido, 2021. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New/New. 7TH PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. Physical Info: 1.15" H x 8.65" L x 6.0" W (1.22 lbs) 336 pages. Features: Ikids, Price on Product. Target Age Group: 10 to 14. Secure ship w/track #. Accelerated Reader® Info Quiz # (Quiz Name): 515177(Last Cuentista) Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus Point Value: 11.0 There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Collectible. 5.5"x8.25"; 254 pages; Dark blue (or black) boards & spine, w/dark red lettering on spine, deckled edge; sketch map paste downs in back of book of west & central Berlin; Author's preface dated 25th October 1946; Foreword by Marshal of the R.A.F., Lord Tedder; Illustration list: Hitler and Himmler - frontispiece, Plan of Hitler's bunker - p.108, Hitler's will - p.180, Sketch map - endpaper; Seven chapters, epilogue, note on souces, appendix, & index; spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/toning. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Bug damage along cover in front board, tanning & foxing, edges dust stained; edge & corner wear minimal, fraying on both ends of spine, scratches on front and back boards; no writings or markings. Secure ship w/track #. The classic and seminal description and interpretation of the last days of Adolf Hitler; what really happened in the Bunker? Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction… Read More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Reprint. Hardcover_cloth. Used - Good. 5.13"x7.63" 394pp, 1-4 advertisements. Porter & Coates published reprints from 1867-1895. Tan cloth boards w/stamped letters and designs to front and spine. Illustrated. Chocolate paste downs. Light foxing to frontispiece: "Home scene in Pompeii". Preface to the Edition of 1834 & Preface to the Edition of 1850. Some pencil notations. Spine straight. Not x-library. Light soiling to boards. Bumps to corners. Edge wear with rubs and fraying. PON on ffep. The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Wikipedia.

NY: Random House, 1996. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 482 pgs. First ed./Second print. Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. Book design by Carole Lowenstein. DJ design by S. Neil Fujita. Author photo by Caorl Gino. Spine straight binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Few fox spots on edges. Secure ship w/track #. The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a ferocious old man who is determined to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion picture investments, and the threat of government informers. The Don is close to achieving his vision when secrets buried in his family's past threaten to undermine his plan and spark a war between two blood cousins. Only a two-time Academy Award winner with an insider's knowledge of Hollywood could write such a sizzling and scathing portrait of the movie business and show how a film really gets made. Only a writer who has gambled in the private rooms of the best casinos… Read More