Search Results: Authors starting with L from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Sons, 1865. Wraps. extracted from a bound volume, else very good. Octavo; pp; 28; original printed cream paper wrappers;. In 1840 Rev. Benjamin Labaree (1801-1883) was called to the Presidency. Labaree was born at Charlestown, N. H., in 1801. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1831. From 1832 to 1836 he was connected with Jackson College, first as Professor of Languages and then as President. During this period he declined the Presidency of Western Reserve College. From 1837 to 1840 he was Secretary of the Central American Education Society.

Basle: Auerbach, 1947. Wraps. Near fine. 16mo; pp; 15, (i); illustrated with thirty-two full page color botanical plates; original printed stiff green wrappers in glassine; bilingual text in English and Italian;. A lovely little botanical.

Sandpoint: Keokee Co., Publishing, 1994. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Thomas Hunter. Limited collector's edition of 225 copies. This is number 76. Octavo, grey gilt-stamped cloth with grizzly bear motif. 142, (3)pp. Illustrated by Thomas Hunter. Very good or better. This copy has an original watercolor by Thomas Hunter on the front free endpapers. The image is titled as follows: "The train from Spokane ran through the tunnel in the Bitterroot Mountains". It is signed, dated and titled by the artist. The limitation statement on the half-title is also in the hand of the artist.BIBLIO-LIVE-3.

Sandpoint: Krokee Co., Publishing, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Thomas Hunter. Limited collector's edition of 225 copies. This is number 76. Octavo, grey gilt-stamped cloth with grizzly bear motif. 142, (3)pp. Illustrated by Thomas Hunter. Very good or better. This copy has an original watercolor by Thomas Hunter on the front free endpapers. The image is titled as follows: "The train from Spokane ran through the tunnel in the Bitterroot Mountains". It is signed, dated and titled by the author. The limitation statement is also in the hand of the artist.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (x), 241-288 xi-xviii); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

London: Harvill Press Ltd, 1948. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good/chipped on spine else a good or better jacket. Duodecimo; pp; xiii, (i), 131; beige cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. A nice printing.

(Far Hills N.J.): Meadow Run Press, 1996. First edition, thus. Limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover. Very good in a very good slipcase. Octavo; pp. 97 plus a colophon; Illustrated with a frontispiece and chapter head decorations; cream and green cloth in a slipcase with illustrated label;. 1000 copies of this edition were printed with added art work by Gordon Allen.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Second printing, Scribner "B" on the copyright page. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 344; black cloth with gilt title tiles lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. Epic of the California Gold Rush and subsequent settlement, written in "free hexameters" (see author's note). A beautiful copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo; pp. 40; Frontispiece; brown cloth and pictorial tan boards; Good, corners bumped and worn. Story about a Presidential pardon and TR.

(Middlebury Vt: Vermont Folklife Center, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Oblong octavo; pp; unpaginated, (32); beautifully illustrated with full page color plates by Bert Dodson; slick pictorial paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket;. This copy signed by both the author and the artist on the title page; Story of the bond between a Morgan horse and his logger-owner. When an accident befalls the logger it is the horse who saves the day.

New York: Boni And Liveright, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded, edge wear, internally complete with all plates, overall a very good copy. Quarto; pp; xv, (i), 242; a frontispiece and five colored Illustrations by Ty Mahon, and twenty-eight additional black and white plates; black cloth with a color paste-on title tile and illustration;. A similar format to the Scribner Classic Series;.

(Augusta Me.): New England History Press in collaboration with the Bethel Historical Society, 1981. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xxxi, (i), 738, index; fillustrated with forty-six portraits and fifteen views including Lot Plan; gilt lettered blue cloth, in a dust jacket;. Oxford County Maine Town History.

St. Louis, 1926. Only Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; (vi), 115-141, (iii), 31-54; frontispiece photograph of Lardner, with cartoons by Maynard Freeman; quarter black cloth and pictorial rose paper covered boards lettered in black, pictorial endpapers; issued without jacket;. The first appearance of Lardner's lecture to the ABA on "How to Sell Books," in which he speaks of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this volume marks the first separate appearance of two previously published Lardner short stories.

(New York): Andre Deutsch, 1973. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; 368, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; blue cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers;. The First Lady among First ladies.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/in a good or better unclipped. Octavo; pp; 653, index; black and green cloth lettered in gilt and blue in a dust jacket. An in-depth look at the rise of JFK!

Boston: J. W. Burditt and Co. and W. Wells, 1812. First Edition. Full leather. Good +. Duodecimo (7" x 4.25"), Full leather with gilt red label. 183pp. Illustrated with three folding copper plate engravings at the back of globes and a chart. Leather is worn with a chip at the top of the spine. Joints are tender, but with stong hinges. Moderate foxing throughout. A scarce book.

Paris: Editions Bossard, 1923. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good +. Two volumes; Octavo; pp; I; xvi, (5), 6-518, tables; II; (5), 6-597, tables; Illustrated, eighty-eight text illustrations, sixty-six photogravures, twenty-two maps, seven special designs, (dessinees); original publisher's printed paper wrappers; To avoid any confusion, this edition is in french; Some minor edge wear, overall a very good or better copy. Émile-Joseph Lauvrière was a French historian of Acadia. Emile Lauvrière started his studies in Paris and completed them in London. Upon studying Evangeline, Longfellow's poem which follows an Acadian girl during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Lauvrière discovered, on this occasion, the history of the Acadian people, and reoriented his scholarly interest. This new research subject led him to publish La Tragédie d'un peuple; histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: Bossard, 1922). Lauvrière was to spend the next three decades studying Acadian… Read More

Boston: Marshall Jones Co, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp. xiv, (ii), 139; Frontispiece map plus twenty-two photographs; Foreword by Anthony Fiala; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in brown; Very good. Adventure in British Guiana! An account of a river trip up the Mazaruni from Georgetown, British Guiana in search of diamonds. Quite scarce in the first edition. Very good. Former owner's inscription.

New York: Viking Press, 1944. Third printing, October 1944. Hardcover. Good/a good or better. Octavo; pp; (6), 7-127, (i), Illustrated by the author; decorated green cloth in an unclipped jacket with the $2.00 price and the remains of the Newbery Medal sticker; illustrated endpapers; Good, cloth faded. Life in rural Connecticut from the Rabbit's point of view. A delightful read and a classic.

London: Phaidon Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; 290, (i), index, map; tipped on color frontispiece, profusely illustrated in color and black and white; decorated terra-cotta cloth lettered in burgundy in a pictorial dust jacket;. A detailed study of Russian mosaics and frescoes from the 11th to the 16th century with over 250 illustrations including nine in color and a map.