Search Results: Authors starting with L from finecopy ltd

Published by Pantheon, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition Second Printing 1960 A Near Fine copy in the original green cloth with a stab mark to head of spine. Jacket is nicked and chipped to top of spine and lightly frayed to corners. No ownership markings & not clipped.

Longmans, Green, London, 1892. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition First Printing1892 A Very Good copy with odd light spotting and one illustration crudely coloured in watercolour. Else very clean, square and fresh.

Jonathan Cape, London 1935. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Jonathan Cape, London 1935 - 4to. 1935. First trade edition. 672pp. Very Good or better one or two small stains to covers, neat owner's bookplate

Viking London Review Bookshop, London, 2010. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Our Kind of Traitor, number 19 of 75 copies signed by the author, original morocco-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, mint in Fine slip case, 2010 Signed by Author

Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition thus (published 21 years after the first). Signed by Le Carre to title. Trivial creasing to head of spine , else Fine in Fine Jacket Signed by Author

Viking London Review Bookshop, London, 2010. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Our Kind of Traitor, number 58 of 500 copies signed by the author, Bound in full black suede stamped in gold laid into balck suede box with golden cloth borders. An exclusive Hatchards Limited Edition, with their label on cellophane. Mint in original cellophane. Signed by Author

Sigmund Feyerabund, David Zephelium and Johann Rashen: Frankfurt, 1561. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. Palatine Bible (Lutheran text) ‘Joshua with soldiers’, single printed leaf with woodcut, folio, Sigmund Feyerabund, David Zephelium and Johann Rashen: Frankfurt, 1561

London, Vertue, 1723 for the Society of Antiquaries. First Edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Engraved plan on 2 sheets, London, Virtue, 1723. Both folded, and each measures: 67 x 55 cm. (i.e. 134 x 55) linen backed. Plan of the City of London with 7 inset views and elevations of buildings. Both in Fine condition. Not framed or mounted. Howgego 21a

Taschen 2009. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. A Fine loose leaf collection of 42 Fine Art prints, booklet and box. All in Fine condition - in the original shrinkwrap. Mint

London: Pioneer Publishing Company, Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1822, volumes 1-3 only (of 5), London: Pioneer Publishing Company, Ltd., 1923, numerous maps, plates and illustrations, some mounted photographs, original half morocco, gilt-blocked spines, occasional light wear to extremities, large 4to, Lacking the 4th (map and index) volume, and without the separately published later supplement (5th) volume - supplement. TOGETHER with the scarce Illustrated synopsis 50pp wrappers published April 1922. Monochrome maps, plates and illustrations including folding, mounted colour plates, original wrappers, side-sewn as issued, upper cover marked, wear to spine and wrapper edges, slim 4to

Paris, Samson, 1767.. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Second Edition 1767 Paris. Later half chestnut morocco over buckram, additional end blanks (retaining originals), title and 6 or so plates with light marginal spotting (see photos), textblock clean. Bound without half title else complete copy with 17 folding plates xxvii 308pp xxxvi 12 (ads dated 1827), and 17 folding plates bound at rear. Lepaute was one of the most important innovators in clockmaking in 18th century France, and was responsible for the pin-wheel escapement and one-wheel clock.

Edinburgh William Blackwood, Ballantyne 1813.. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1813 Leslie (John) - A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments engraved plate with explanatory text leaf, modern blue cloth, paper spine label. Edinburgh, 1813 8vo. iv 178pp [2]A description of Leslie's experiments in artificially freezing water, the first recorded instance of artificial congelation, and a plate of his invention of the differential thermometer.

Faber, 1954. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition Fine copy in the wrappers.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Babbitt, first edition, second issue, inscribed to the front end-paper "To Dr. & Mrs Ball, with the affection of Sinclair Lewis", original decorated cloth, pre-publication issue with Harcourt Brace red ink stamp "Sample Copy Publication Date September 14, 1922" to title page, preserved in cloth solander box, paper lettering label, 8vo., New York, 1922.Note second issue distinguished by "Lyte" rather than "Purdy" on p49 Signed by Author

Longman and co, 1822. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition 1822. A Fine copy, clean and bright without inscriptions or annotation. Bound in full modern brown calf, 5 raised bands and twin red and black morocco title labels, new endpapers. 8vo

London: W. H. Reid 1818.. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Second Edition 1818. Near Fine with a small stain to fore-edge of title (ghost of old tape (?) though it is not a repair), a small marginal circular tear affecting 4 early leaves but not their text, odd light intermittent spotting but generally a very clean and bright copy. Bound in full modern brown calf, 5 raised bands and twin red and black morocco title labels, new endpapers. 8vo xii, 337, 2 pp

Leybourn for Sawbridge, 1657. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Edition 1657 Bound in later half calf, marbled boards and extra endpapers. spine blind tooled with raised bands Frontis with partial contemporary hand colouring (one plate also part coloured) (xii), 1-92, 177-244, 247-308 (Pagination erratic but complete with text in four books). Illustrated throughout, much expanded from the 1st edition. Several contemporary notes and initials to preliminaries and title.Provenance R H Johnston’s bookplate (modern)

Leeds : Old Hall Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. No 55 of 425. Mint copy in the original mint slipcase

R.H. Porter. 1891 - 1897. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Thomas Littleton, Fourth Baron Lilford & illustrated by Archibald Thornburn, John Gerrard Keulemans, George Edward Lodge and WIlliam Foster. This copy with photogravure frontispiece and 422 chromolithograph or hand-coloured lithographed plates including "Extra Plate [of Turtle Dove], not issued by Lord Lilford". Silk markers and original plate guards present. The odd light spot to25/01/202425/01/202425/01/2024 margins, else a superb clean and bright set, much fresher than usually found with this work. Contemporary green three quarter morocco over marbled boards, the spines faded to brown. Note the 2nd edition was also issued in parts as per the 1st, but with parts 7 to 17 reprinted with some of the plates improved in various ways (see in particular Sea Eagle, Spoonbill, Avocet, Golden Plover) and for many is the preferred edition.

London, C Hitch et al, 1757. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition, 1757, 1st edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, xvi,450,[3]pp (including errata leaf), 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, armorial bookplate of Ellis Wade, Rector of Blaxhall, to front pastedown. "Edward Lisle's Observations in Husbandry, while making no pretense of being a complete guide to its subject, gave readers a huge amount of agricultural information. Despite its haphazard quality, the book contains a vast amount of practical detail and a number of agricultural observations. Lisle deserves credit for collecting traditional wisdom that had circulated orally among British farmers for generations, which new farmers could now put to good use." A Life in Books (2017).