Search Results: Authors starting with L from Great Expectations Rare Books

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1965. Cloth. Fifth Printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. With a foreward by William Maxwell. A collection of twelve short stories by this anthropoligist noted for his work in the Ame rican Southwest. Dustjacket is price clipped, spine very slightly cocked. Very good in like dustjacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952. Hardcover, no dust-jacket. 250 pages. Translated and adapted by Janet Hamilton. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. First American edition, no additional printings listed. Previous owner's small label inside front cover. Covers protected by clear acetate covers. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Near fine. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped white dust-jacket. 187 pages. Bibliography, Index. Edited by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose. Translated by Jacqueline Rose. First American edition, first printing with full number line. Articles on feminine sexuality based on the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy, as new. Dust-jacket is clean, with no tears or chips. As new in a near fine dust-jacket. .

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1986. Large, oversize trade paperback in glossy pictorial wrappers. 778pp., Bilbliography, Index. Illustrated. An as new copy, clean, square, tightly bound copy. No spine crease, no remainder marks, no previous owner's name, etc. An unread copy. Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1995. Hardcover in gold, pictorial non price-clipped dust-jacket. 550 pages, Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. Translated by Jeremy Leggatt. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, stated first printing. A history of the order founded by Ignatius of Loyola known as the Society of Jesus. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. No writing, underlining or marginalia. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sufflok, UK: The Boydell Press, 1988. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 649 pages. Select Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. First paperback edition. A scholarly compendium of all things related to King Arthur: characters, history, legend, archaeology, literature music, themes, motifs, and the list goes on, including even modern motifs and visual arts. Arranged alphabetically, this work of over 50 scholars is the definitive staring point for anyone interested in the Arthurian legend. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+. .

New York: Threshold Editions, 2017. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 301 pages. Glossary. Illustrated with eight pages of color photographs. First paperback edition, first printing with full number line. Includes an afterward on the making of the film American Sniper. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First edition. Blue cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Children's book inspired by the true story of a Greel naval lieutenant who rescued a seal cub named Panayoti from a village of angry fisherman and taught him to eat, and at last to swim. Illustrated in color and black and white by Marc Simont. Cloth lightly faded and dustjacket age soiled and mildly edgeworn. Very good in good dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Londion: Abelard-Schuman Inc., 1965. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 224pp., Index. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and 10 maps. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers. Mild toned spots inside boards where mylar had been affixed. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. The battle history of the New Zealand and Australian militaries from the Boer War through the Second World War. A clean, square, unmarked [but for inside covers] copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 238pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing thus. A history of the German army from Frederick the Great through World War II, with a sowahy sobering assessment of German militarism. No previous ownerahip marks. Book shows slight bow, else a clean, square, fresh copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.. First Thus. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York.: Arco Publishing Company Inc., 1971. Mass market paperback. 240pp., Index. Over 350 imaginative recipes ranging from salades to dessets. No previous ownership marks. Clean, tight , sound copy. Good.. Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Atlantic Montly Press, 1949. Cloth sans dustjacket. Indian wars on the Mississippi. A solid, clean used copy. Near very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Book. New. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format quarto bound in blue cloth and publisher's dust-jacket, still in original shrink-wrap. 1,218 pages. Foreword by Frank McCourt. Illustrations (some color), maps (some color). Edition unknown, presumed first (2003). Thousands of entries arranged alphabetically. over 700 illustrations and maps [most in color], numerous biographies and articles on variegated aspects of Irish life, culture and history, with extensive cross-referencing and full index. A brand new copy still in publisher's shrink wrap. New. A large, very heavy tome, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .

New York: Times Books / Random House, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket. 471 pages. Complete List of C-Span Booknotes (1989-1998), Index. Edited, with an introduction, by Brian Lamb. Illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs. First edition, first printing, utilizing the Random House practice of number line ending in "2" but words first edition printed directly underneath. Over 100 selected interviews from Booknotes with famous authors and biographers. No previous ownership marks. Bust for price-clipped dust-jacket a like new copy, clean, square and unmarked. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

United Kingdom: Wordsworth Editions, 1996. Trade paperback. 352pp., with a Dictionary of Characters, A brief Biography of Shakespeare, a Chronological List of Plays, and an Index. No previous ownership marks, No spine crease. A very clean, square, unread copy. Fine.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Hardcover, blue cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 244 pages. Illustrated with 4 full page color plates by Cathy Hill. Stated first edition; originally published in 1923 without illustrations. Limited to an edition of 2,000 copies, printed on shade Cafe Au Lait paper. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very mild wear to tips and extremities of dust-jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St. Paul , MN: MBI, 2003. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 192pp., Bibliography, Index. plus 62pp. of captioned photographs appended. First edition. A trenchant monograph culled from interviews with the last surviving witnesses of the attack and extensive research of all the evidence, focusing specifically on the question: Were Kimmel and Short guilty of dereliction of duty? Extensively illustrated with never-before-seen photographs. No previous ownership marks. no remainder marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. Large octavo hardcover, dark purple cloth in dust-jacket. 288pp., Illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and tables. First edition thus, containing issues 37 through 40 of Warship, the periodical. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. Contains articles by numerious contributors dealing with the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Contains 35 articles dealing with British, Japanese, Russsian, French, Spanish, Dutch, and American warships. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sqaure, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket... First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Hardcover, white cloth in original dust-jacket.. 186 pages. Bibliographic notes, Index. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very mild marking to white dust-jacket. A fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Conway Maritime Press / Naval Institute Press, 1985. Large octavo hardcover, dark yellow boards in dust-jacket. 288pp., Illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and tables. First edition thus, containing issues 33 through 36 of Warship, the periodical. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. Contains articles by numerious contributors dealing with the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Contains 33 articles dealing with German, British Japanese, Russsian, French and American warships. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sqaure, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.