Search Results: Authors starting with L from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

Fayetteville, NY: L. & J. G. Stickley, Inc, nd [c. 1930]. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Small one sheet, folded advertising piece with six advertising cards showing different displaces of Colonial Revival furniture the company produced. Also included is a tri-fold printed piece showing four vignettes of Stickley furniture at the Lake Placid Club Sales Rooms in Lake Placid, New York. All housed in the original mailing envelope.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by John Lahr on the first free endpaper. First Printing. 239 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, minor soiling, now in mylar cover. Gray cloth boards with author's name repeated in a blind embossed pattern that fills the front board. Clean within.

Washington DC: National Geographic/The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Laman, Tim. A lush and stunning book of color photographs of the New Guinea's elusive birds-of-paradise. Signed by author & photographer Tim Laman on the title in year of publication. Scarce! First Printing. 227 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Brand new.

London: J. Debrett, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chronicle of the trial of John Lambert (printer) and James Perry (editor) for libel against King George III. iv, 68 pp. 8vo. Burgundy cloth boards with brown cloth spine and gold embossed titling. Light wear and scuffing, bumping to corners. Slight darkening of page due to age and quality of paper, very clean for its age.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Landman and Mikkelsen on the title page. 232 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Santa Monica, CA: Arthur Secunda, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Odd, just odd. 28 pp. Minor scuffing to covers, clean within.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967/1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiii, 487, xii, 400 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips and tears at edges, price clipped, now in mylar covers. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine and covers, small black remainder mark at base of each text block. Clean within.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth Printing, 1934. Dark blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, slightly faded. Copious notes throughout indicates this was a working copy.

Paris: Chez Crochard, 1820. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Fine. Two papers by famous scientists describing theories of the cooling of the earth. Laplace's article, "Sur la Diminution de la durée du jour par le refroidissement de la terre" pp. 410-417, 1820; Fourier's article, "Extrait d'un Memoire sur le Refroidissement seculaire du globe terrestre" pp. 418-438. 448 pp., 8vo. Quarter leather binding with brown leather spine and marbled boards. Spine has four raised bands with black leather patch title with gold embossed titling. A very nicely executed later binding originally published in wraps. Light wear at edges. Ex-Library with small ink stamp on title page and at base of page 5. Very clean within.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 2009, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. An exceptional set of novels that took the publishing world, and the film world, by storm. First Printings. 465, 503, 563 pp. 8vo. All three volumes are First American Editions, First Printings. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers.

London: Hurst & Company, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. vii, 271 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Burlington, PA: Discover Press, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Printing. 317 pp. Clean, crisp copy.

Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Ward, Arthur. 463 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. Highly illustrated with many interactive reproduction postcards, letters, and other material.

Köln, Germany: Taschen, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Lautner, John. What has become a highly collectible, early book on the life and work of the legendary architect, John Lautner (1911-1994) who was known for his mid-century architecture that tested the boundaries of curves and reinforced concrete. Lautner was one of the few architects who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright that created their own, distinctive style, separate from Wright's influence. First Printing. 179 pp. Folio. Light scuffing to dust jacket, 3/4" closed tear at head and foot of rear panel parallel to spine, now in mylar cover. Gold cloth covers with white embossed titling to cover and spine. Clean within. Text in English, German, and French.

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lautner, John. What has become a highly collectible book on the life and work of the legendary architect, John Lautner (1911-1994) who was known for his mid-century architecture that tested the boundaries of curves and reinforced concrete. Lautner was one of the few architects who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright that created their own, distinctive style, separate from Wright's influence. First Printing. 234 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fascinating design of the book is that the front cover board has a very slightly raised embossed sketch by Lautner of one of his most iconic houses, the Chemoshphere. Thin line dimple across the front board from a binding anomaly, same to rear. Does not impact the book in any way.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. 327 pp. 8vo. Orange cloth boards with considerable wear and staining, bumping to corners, overall sunning. Endpapers darkened from age and possibly moisture at some point in its life. Light foxing throughout. Endpapers at rear have split along gutter, still tight to boards.

Stony Brook, NY: Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1992. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. viii, 77 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Libary, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lea, Tom. Catalog from an ehibition of the work of legendary artist, author, and illustrator Tom Lea (1907-2001) that was held at the El Paso Public Library December 1971-January 1972. First Printing. x, 54 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.

El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press/The University of Texas at El Paso, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Catalog from an ehibition of the work of legendary artist, author, and illustrator Tom Lea (1907-2001). x, 185 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Leipzig, Germany: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. Pyotr Lebedev (1866-1912) used a very sensitive experiment to confirm Maxwell's prediction of the radiation pressure of light, and announced the finding at the World Physics Congress in Paris. viii, 876 pp. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather binding with dark leather spine and corners, four raised bands at spine with gold tilting. Interior clean with the only indication of ex-library being the "Withdrawn" stamp on the title page. Text in German.