Search Results: Authors starting with L from Flamingo Books

Michael Fusco, 1937-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1937 first edition Michael Fusco (NY), 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in blue printed covers, 54 pp. Minor rubbing and edgewear, and slight fading at margins, to covers. Address and price corrections added on title page in blue ink, presumably by the self-published author. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Standard shipping orders upgraded free to First Class. ~SP10~ Eight chapters in this scarce 1937 pamphlet speculating about the genders in anthropology: The Problem, Man and Animal, Cannibalism and Cruelty, Totemism, The Rise and Fall of the Matriarchy, The Social Degredation of Woman, The Discovery of Fatherhood and the Patriarchy and The Testimony of the Greeks. OCLC (No. 9029441) locates only eight copies worldwide - at Oxford University, two Harvard libraries, American Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Southern Illinois University, University of New Mexico and Autry National Center in Los Angeles.

CBG Enterprises, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1988 signed and inscribed first edition, CBG Enterprises (Alexandria, Virginia), 5 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, red paper-covered boards over white cloth spine, red endpapers, illustrated with drawings by James L. Hopewell, 200 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author on the blank front free-endpaper. Slight foxing to pages edges. Slight tearing at gutter to verso of half title page and last page of volume where the book was stapled by the binder. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly soiled dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP22~ [1.5P] Based on an actual incident in World War II, a novel by former Marine Charles R. LaBerge (1921-2015).

Shumway Family History Services, 1994. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1994 Shumway Family History Services (Yorba Linda, California), 8 x 9 3/4 inches tall teal cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pale brown endpapers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps and facsimiles of family documents, index, ix, 223 pp. Very slight edgewear to covers.Tiny light stain to middle of half title page. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare genealogy. OCLC (No. 32255024) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide. ~SP34~ [2.5P] Traces the many descendants of Frederick and Caroline Palenske, born in Prussia near a town now called Lebock, by the Baltic Sea, who emigrated to America in 1854, settling in the area of Mill Creek, which runs through Washington and St. Francois counties of eastern Missouri. In addition to many entries for Palenske, other surnames which receive extensive coverage include (among many others):… Read More

Hall Printing / Boswell Ladies Club, 1986-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1986 first edition, Hall Printing / Boswell Ladies Club (Boswell, British Columbia, Canada), 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches tall wire spiral bound in pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, [4], 174 pp. Slight soiling and moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight staining to fore page edges. Otherwise, apart from a few pages with creased tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. ~AA~ [2.0P] A history of Boswell, a rural locality on the east shore of Kootenay Lake, approximately 35 km due east of the city of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. More than half the volume is dedicated to histories of families in Boswell, LaFrance, Lockhart, Sanca and Twin Bays, so this is an important reference for the history or genealogy researcher. Contents: Geography and Early Surveys; Indians; Pioneers; Population History; Fruit Growing and Ranching; Mining; Logging; Fishing,… Read More

NASW Press, 2004-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2005 NASW Press (Washington, DC), 7 x 10 inches tall trade paperback in color pictorial glossy covers, xi, 488 pp. plus unopened CD-ROM supplement in sleeve on verso of rear cover. Very slight rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP05~ [3.0P] provides an unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage of the theory and research that must surround psychosocial intervention for children and families following disasters. Examined from cognitive and behavioral, family systems, and ecological perspectives, When Their World Falls Apart is a thought-provoking text that combines the international, cross-cultural, empirical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary expertise of four distinguished international authors. Many special activities throughout the book bridge the gap between cognitive and affective learning.

ARTHAUD, 1991. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x0x11. In French. 1991 Arthaud (Paris), 11 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches black and orange faux leather hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with mostly color photographs, 157 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~E~ [4.0P] In great pageantry, here come the kings of Africa in all their dignity. Glorious or modest, they pose obligingly in front of Daniel Laine's lens, dressed in their attributes, aware of the intangibility of their powers. This extraordinary gallery of portraits is the fruit of three years of investigations, diplomatic steps, often implausible appointments, in search of the last survivors of the great… Read More

Courrier du Livre, 1996-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. FRENCH TEXT.1995 trade paperback, Le Courrier du Livre, with slight curling to the bottom tip, minor scuffing to front cover. Rear cover has residue from sticker. Slight edgewear with bumping to tips and spine. Small mark to title page. Three pages with minor dampstains. Otherwise, a clean, bright and unmarked book. ~M~

Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x7x1. 1930 first edition, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. (London), 5 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), a splendid signed Sangorski and Sutcliffe half leather binding (leather spine and tips over paper-covered boards, five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration to spine, gilt-lettered burgundy leather labels to spine, top page edges gilt, endpapers matching cover boards, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, 319 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight offset to outer margins of half title page. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a handsome binding giving a superb shelf appearance. ~V~ [2.0P] An engaging and well-considered work of popular history by Harold Lamb (1892-1962), whose fiction and nonfiction work gravitated toward subjects relating to Asia and Middle East. Sangorski and Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in… Read More

M. Doolady, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1867 M. Doolady (New York), 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches tall full leather bound, gilt ruling and gilt-lettered red leather labels to spine, recently rebound with refreshed endpapers, lacking two plates but otherwise complete, xi, [1], [5]-237, [1] pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Tiny edge chip to the fore edge of the title page and dedication page. Minor age toning to final page of text. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare issue. ~EB06~ [1.5P] First edition of the first published volume of poetry from poet and journalist Mary Lambert, then writing in her first husband's name of Tucker. The author, Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert (1838-1896) was born in Alabama and raised in Georgia before settling in Philadelphia after the Civil War. Of particular note are Lambert's poems describing the sorrows of the post-war South. Three years after this collection and Lowe's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl were… Read More

Pellion et Marchet. Good. In French. 1894 Pellion et Marchet (Dijon, France), 3 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches tall full brown leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, all page edges gilt, red and gold decorative endpapers, gilt dentelles framing the pastedowns, engraved frontispiece, full-page engraving preceding each of the four books, numerous engraved printer's devices, all pages ruled in red, 1894 Imprimatur (Catholic Church approval), 380 pp. Covers rubbed, mildly stained and slightly edgeworn. Staining and smearing to decorative endpapers. Cracking between pastedowns and free-endpapers, and a couple of signatures are slightly pulled, but the binding holds firm. Otherwise, apart from an occasional instance of light soiling or creased page tips, a very good copy of this scarce Lamennais edition. OCLC locates no copies worldwide. ~KM4~ The translator of this edition of the devotional classic, The Imitation of Christ, Hugues-Felicite Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854), was a French Catholic priest,… Read More

Felice Le Monnier, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Good. In Italian. 1948 reprint, Felice le Monnier, splendidly bound in gilt-tooled leather, four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to covers. Slight cracking between title page and front free-endpaper, but the binding is quite solid. Number to margin of front free-endpaper. Otherwise, very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - with a handsome shelf appearance. ~W~

Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1989. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x9x1. 1989 signed and inscribed first edition, Stewart, Tabori and Chang (New York), 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches tall red cloth hardc over in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, blind stamp lettering to front cover, blue lettering to spine, copiously illustrated with mostly full color photographs, 256 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely inscribed and signed by both auithors. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in an only slightly edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP38~ [5.0P] A tribute to 17 self-taught artists and craftsmen who live in the mountains between Virginia and Alabama. The book contains interviews with these people and examples of their art. They include… Read More

M.L. Wiesenberg, 1939-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1939 M.L. Wiesenberg (Lakewood, New Jersey), 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in brown printed covers, index, [5], 47 pp. Slight soiling and edegewear and moderate creasing to covers. Light dampstain to top edge and upper tip of title page and most pages within, not interfering with text. Light pencil number to top edge of title page. Despite these detractions, still a decent reading / reference copy of this scarce genealogy. ~SP40~ [1.0P] Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the descendants of, Jacob Lampert, born in 1814 in Flasch, Graubunden, Switzerland. He Married Anna Katharine in 1839. They immigrated to America and landed at the port of New Orleans in 1846. Jacob and Anna settled near West Bend, Wisconsin. They were the parents of three children. Descendants lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere. Also includes information on the Eberhardt, Stocker and Von Moos families.

Frank Cass, 1996-05-01. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. 1996 signed and inscribed copy, Frank Cass (London), 5 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches tall trade paperback in glossy pictorial covers, illustrated with black-and-white charts and maps, xiii, 158 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with creasing to the upper tip. Warmly inscribed by the editor on the half title page to the prior owner, Murdo J. MacLeod (b. 1935), a Scottish historian of Latin America, who published extensively on the history of colonial-era Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~R~ [1.5P] In the circum-Caribbean, nuclear and extended families played an important role in moving people out of slavery and in protecting them from legal and social discrimination. Some of the families studied in this volume were virtual representations of the colonial social order, including the free, the enslaved, white and black. The economic status of family members ranged from… Read More

School of Mineral Sciences, Stanford University, 1957-01-01. Spiral-bound. Good. 1957 School of Mineral Sciences Stanford University (Palo Alto, Ca.) 8 x 11 inches tall, 52 pp. Beige and green pictorial covers with dark brown lettering to front cover and dark brown spiral bound. Covers are creased, with erasures to front cover. Bumping to both tips, especially lower edges, with 'corner curl' throughout. Staining to bottom pages. 'Oil and Gas Wildcat Data', 'Uranium information', 'U.S. Geological Survey', 'National Organizations' and Bibliographies and Glossaries. Pages have age-toning. Otherwise, a good copy - clean and unmarked copy. [D1] ~XX~

Penobscot Press, 1999-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1999 first edition Penobscot Press (Rockport, Maine), 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall x 2 1/2 inches thick red cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, xi, 883 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Ink notation to upper margin of blank front free-endpaper indicating this was copy number 5 of a total of 245 printed. Very slight shadow to one page where an obituary was laid in. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce genealogy and family history. OCLC (No. 1029046001) locates only four copies at institutions worldwide - two at the Maine State Library and one each at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP46~ [4.5P] Looks at the ancestry… Read More

Springer, 2000-12-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, The Netherlands), 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), index, xix, 171 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to coverswith minor bumping to the lower tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP02~ [1.5P] This book presents a specific and unified approach to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, termed IFN for Information Fuzzy Network methodology. Data Mining (DM) is the science of modelling and generalizing common patterns from large sets of multi-type data. DM is a part of KDD, which is the overall process for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. The accessibility and abundance of information today makes this a topic of particular importance and need. The book has three main parts complemented by appendices. Part I (Chapters 1-4) starts with the topic of KDD and DM in general and makes reference to other works in the field, especially those related to the… Read More

Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1977-01-01. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good. 1977 second printing, Fitzhenry and Whiteside (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada), 8 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches tall red cloth hardbound in publisher's price-clipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 304 pp. Moderate soiling and slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of bumping to the tips (especially lower tips). Otherwise, apart from very slight marginal age toning, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~W~ Contents: The Photographers; Foreword; Confederation; Government Construction; Formation of the Company; The Prairies; Routes Via The Lakes; The Eastern Main Line; Rockies and Selkirks;… Read More

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-07-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 2007 facsimile reprint of 1893 edition, Kessinger Publishing, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall glossy hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), xii, 197 pp. plus five pages of plates.Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~WWW~ [2.0P] Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) was a French physician, pathologist, and parasitologist who discovered the parasite that causes human malaria. For this and later work on protozoal diseases he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907. This is the J.W. Martin English translation of Laveran's seminal work.

Hendershot-Davis Group, 1995-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1995 Hendershot-Davis Group (Roswell, Georgia), 6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches tall blue faux leather hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and genealogy charts, index, iv, 274 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this exceptionally rare genealogy and family history. OCLC has a listing (No. 37849575), but locates no copies at institutions worldwide. ~Y~ [2.0P] The majority of this work is a carefully researched and detailed genealogy, beginning with William Lawes/Laws/Law, born about 1690 in England as the first generation, extending through the tenth generation. In addition to hundreds with the surname Law, other surnames which receive prominent coverage, among many others, include: Barnes, Blasdel, Bridge, Dishinger, Guthrie, Hancock, Hill, Hornsby, Howell, Lemaster,… Read More