Search Results: Authors starting with L from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1955. Tall 4to. xxv, [3], 481, [3] pp. Frontisp., 100s of photo & text illustrations, diagrams, tables. Illustrated cloth, w/ blue-tinted photos on covers, white lettering (some rubbing, edgewear, minor bumping to corners, slight fraying), still G copy First edition of this well-illustrated and informative reference on different types of merchant vessels, including descriptions of living and working aboard ship; types of merchant ships; ship structures; Handling and stowage of cargo; building and repairing the ships, and more.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1949. 8vo. xiii, [3], 320 pp. Illustrated map endpapers. Blue cloth, gold lettering & design on front cover, w/ d.j. (slight scuffing, minor shelfwear), NF/VG copy. First edition of this excellent history of the Military Air Transport which has produced the Berlin Airlift.

New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. xlvi, 356 pp., plus 12 pp. publ. ads. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettrng (vry minor dmpstn bk uppr crnr), still a nice copy. First edition, 2nd printing of this excellent translation, by noted poet Marianne Moore of the Fables choisies, first written in the 17th century.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. 8vo. ix, [3], 301, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates. Photo-illustrated pictorial cloth (minor edgewear, slight rubbing), w/ d.j. (slight chipping head of spine, edgewear, slight sunning), VG/VG- copy, w/ bookplate on ffep of Virgil Thompson, Beverly Hills, booksellers label on rear flyleaf for Marian Hunter, Beverly Hills. First edition, stated of this memoir of prospecting for treasure and adventure from the Yucatan to Patagonia, in Mayan and Incan ruins, over the Andes, up the Amazon, and more.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, [1970]. 4to. 269, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 440 photo illusts, photo-illust endpapers. Brown cloth, black lettering, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy, w/ former ownership bookplate on verso of ffep. Early printing of this wonderfully illustrated work on logging railroads in the Pacific Northwest.

Clifton, NJ: Tobin-Howe Paper Box Co., 211 Mt. Prospect Ave., [ca. 1948]. 4to. 9.5 x 9.75 in. [2], 56 colour-printed paper box top label samples, [2] pp. Printed tan softcovers, black lettering on front cover (minor chipping to lower fore-edge front cover repaired, minor tears back cover, minor creasing to covers), still a VG copy. First edition, thus, of this very scarce post-World War II handkerchief box top label catalogue, with multiple designs available in a variety of tinted papers, and coloured inks, including some metallic inks as well. The artwork motifs encompass such possibilities as a kitten on a ball of yarn; a polk-dot donkey pulling a cart; a drum majorette with stars & strips designs; Greenaway inspired girls in bonnets with umbrellas silhouettes; several bird & birdhouse designs, roses, and a leaping stag. Tobin (1894-1974) was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who began working in his parents wholesale grocery following his stint in the Army during World War I, and by 1925 was operating… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: Fenton Label Co., 120-122-124 Bread St., 228-230-232 Cherry St., [ca. 1910]. 8vo. 4 x 9 in. [36 pp (unpaginated).], printed in red & blue throughout. With over 150 assorted size label samples within. Colour-printed softcovers, Arts & Crafts cover art w/ fleur-de-lis and a stylized Staff of Caduceus in green & red on front cover, green & red lettering, borders (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG copy. First edition of this scarce Progressive Era label sample catalogue filled with varieties and motifs supplied by the Fenton Label Co. Fenton gummed labels touted that they had no curling of edges, tearing, or peeling off, and that the numberless Label and Seal designs made Fenton Labels & Seals famous. Some of the sample labels for such identifiable businesses as the Milwaukee Hotel in Whitefish, Montana with Cooney Huebschman as owner, O.P. Norman Barber Supplies in Bellingham, WA, along with the Chandler Phonograph Co. Talking Machine & Records label all date this catalogue… Read More

Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin, School of Commerce, Bureau of Business Research & Service, 1947. Thick 4to. [4], viii, [1], 201 leaves, including several large folding hand-coloured manuscript tables, charts, diagrams (old scotch tape at folds as originally prepared). Green cloth, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (minor edgewear, rubbing), VG exemplar. An intriguing unpublished typescript manuscript of the American labor movement, focusing on the forces that effected the labor movement’s growth, and analyzing those forces or factors. The author felt that not enough efforts had been made historically prior to World War II on applying the science of statistical analysis to labor unions, their membership, and the potential impacts on the economic life of the United States. In addition, he employs statistical analysis of the union membership by many different unions, trades, and occupations, in order to measure the strength of the labor movement, reducing dependence on the analysis of strike… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 549 & 551 Broadway, 1873. 8vo. xx, 284 pp., plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. Plum-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth, embossed borders front & back covers, gilt lettering on spine (minor chipping head & foot of spine, slight sunning, edgewear, w/o ffep.), still a VG- copy, from the libraries of H.M. Hosick (1845-1935), noted dealer in leathers, furs & hides in Chicago, IL, and Jean F. Carroll (1900-1973), former Kroger Executive, and son of Iowa Governor Beryl F. Carroll (1860-1939). First American edition of this significant French work on labor unions, labor organizing, originally published as L’ABC du travailleur in 1868, drawing from interviews by the author with Parisian workers, artisans, and laborers. Prepared against the backdrop of the attempted reforms by Napoleon III during the Second Empire, there had been passed an 1864 right to strike law, but workers could decide whether to participate independently, and still restricted from freedom, while many laws… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co., [1956]. 8vo. 318 pp. Maps on endpapers. Gray cloth, red lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Ben Feder (1 very small closed tear foot of spine, slight shelfwear, minor bumping 1 corner), VG/VG-. First edition, stated, of this history of the “Wobblies” the Western Federation of Miners and the revolts in the mines near Coeur d’Alene, and in Cripple Creek Colorado. The author has detailed the exploits of Harry Orchard and William Haywood before he escaped to the Soviet Union.

Washington, D.C.: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1891. Tall thick 8vo. viii, [2], 742 pp. Frontisp., numerous plates. Publisher’s half-calf over plum-coloured cloth, gilt lozenge illustration on front cover, gilt lettering front cover & spine, marbled endpapers, marbled fore-edges (some chipping head & foot of spine, minor wear to corners, light uniform interior toning as usual), still G copy. First edition of this rare history tracing the Farmers Alliance which was a organized agrarian reform movement among American Farmers, including the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers’ Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and Plains with a heavy Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) influence, and the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African-American farmers in the South. Formed largely to combat the share-cropping system which basically reduced tenant farmers to virtual slaves,… Read More

San Francisco: Sailors Union of the Pacific, 1985. 4to. [4], 62, [2] pp. Numerous photos, illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs (slght shlfwr), VG copy. First edition.

London: Strahan & Co., 56, Ludgate Hill, 1872. 8vo. xx, 284 pp. Dark green-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth, embossed black ruling covers & spine gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, inner hinges a touch weakened slight lean), still a VG bright copy. First British edition of this significant French work on labor unions, labor organizing, originally published as L’ABC du travailleur in 1868, drawing from interviews by the author with Parisian workers, artisans, and laborers. Prepared against the backdrop of the attempted reforms by Napoleon III during the Second Empire, there had been passed an 1864 right to strike law, but workers could decide whether to participate independently, and still restricted from freedom, while many laws controlling what licenses and papers workers had to retain, whether they could change employers, and much more were still in place. Great Britain experienced a series of strikes from 1870 through 1872 including the Metropolitan Police Strike, Gas Stokers’… Read More

Seattle, WA: International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union 19, [1991]. 8vo. ix, [1], 292, [2] pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Photo-illustrated softcovers (minor shelfwear, rubbing), still VG copy, w/ embossed ownership stamp of Donald T. Patch, noted labor history collector. First edition, stated.

Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1932. 8vo. viii, [2], 273, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 7 plates. Green publisher’s cloth, Art Deco lettering & cover decoration in silver & red front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art repeated in silver, orange & black (very minor chipping head of spine, minor creasing), NF/VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition off this memoir by a Spokane lawyer writing about the silver mine strike, the crushing working conditions in the Coeur d’Alene mines, and finally the conflict between the mine owners, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, undercover operator Charlie Siringo, and the miners in and around Wallace, Idaho. Scarce in original dustjacket.

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, 1873. Folio. v, [1], 571, [1] pp. Title in red & blk. Colour chromolith frontisp., with 14 colour chromolith plates, 409 woodcut text engravings & plates. Full contemporary vellum, gilt ornamented spine, gilt & red morocco spine labels, gilt outer dentelles, marbled endpapers (very minor rubbing, slight bumping to couple corners, occasional interior foxing) still a VG bright copy, from the library of Thomas Coxhead Chisenhale Marsh (1811-1875) & William Swaine Chisenhale Marsh (1857-1929), of Gaynes Park, w/ bookplate containing both the horse head erased & Griffin passant & chained crests. First edition of this expansive and lavishly illustrated history of the religious and military orders in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Included are sections on feudalism, war, armies, navies, the crusades, chivalry, tourneys, military orders, the Papacy, religious orders, the Inquisition, and more.

[Portland, OR: Ladd & Tilton Bank, 1919]. 8vo. xi, [1], 64 pp. Numerous photo & text illusts. Half-beige over light blue illust. boards, Arts & Crafts cover art of milepost marker next to a tree (slight dutsoiling to fore-edges, shelfwear), still NF copy. First edition of this history of the Ladd & Tilton bank from founding by William Sargeant Ladd, through the Civil War, War of 1898, Lewis & Clark Exposition, and beyond. Of interest are a number of early photos of Oregon steamships, Portland, Northern Pacific Train, Morrison Bridge, and more.

Salem, OR: Ladd & Bush, Bankers, 1931. 8vo. 48 pp. Numerous photo text illusts. Photo-illust. softcvrs (slght shlfwr), NF copy. First edition of this scarce annual issued by the Ladd & Bush Bank. Founded in 1867 by William Ladd and Asahel Bush, Bush bought out his partner in 1877 and became the sole owner of the influential Salem, Oregon bank.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932. Tall 8vo. [8], 253, [1] pp. Colour frontisp., numerous plates, text illustrations, maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, red lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Hendrickson (minor tear head of spine, upper fore-edge), NF/VG- copy. First edition of this dramatic historical fiction of the Marquis de Lafayette and the American Revolution.

Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1973]. 8vo. xi, [1], 586, [2] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, NF. First edition.