Search Results: Authors starting with L from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Geneva: International Labour Office, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, [4], xv, 503, [1] pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, cloth fraying at corners & spine ends, otherwise very good. All text, table headings, and footnotes are given in English, French, and Spanish. Annual statistics are updated through 1955, monthly & quarterly through June 1956. Contains statistics on total & economically active population, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages & labor income, consumer price indices & retail prices; family income & expenses; social security; industrial injuries & disputes; and migration for 69 countries (statistics available vary by country). Data for the USSR are presented separately in an appendix. Fits in flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 16th Ed. . G/No dj. 31 X 22½ cm.

Geneva: International Labour Office, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, [4], xvi, 627, [1] pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, cloth beginning to fray at corners & spine ends, otherwise very good. All text, table headings, and footnotes are given in English, French, and Spanish. Annual statistics are updated through 1957, monthly & quarterly through June 1958. Contains statistics on total & economically active population, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages & labor income, consumer price indices & retail prices; family income & expenses; social security; industrial injuries & disputes; and migration for 79 countries (statistics available vary by country). Fits in flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 31 X 22½ cm.

Geneva: International Labour Office, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, [4], xxiii, 533, [3] pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, cloth fraying at corners & spine ends, otherwise very good. All text, table headings, and footnotes are given in English, French, and Spanish. Annual statistics are updated through 1958, monthly & quarterly through June 1959. Contains statistics on total & economically active population, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages & labor income, consumer price indices & retail prices; family income & expenses; social security; industrial injuries & disputes; and migration for 86 countries (statistics available vary by country). Fits in flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . G/No dj. 31 X 22½ cm.

Mulhouse: Bueb & Reumaux, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial boards, 172, [1] pp, numerous color and b & w photos. Owner's name & address stamps on both paste-downs, else fine. This is the story of how the French National Automobile Museum in Mulhouse came into existence. Fritz Schlumpf's obsession with collecting cars and his diversion of company funds to pay for them brought down his textile company--and with it the entire Alsatian wool manufacturing industry. In French.. . Near Fine/No dj. 24½ X 20 cm.

Madison, WI & Dubuque: Brown & Benchmark, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated pictorial boards, white & red titles on black spine, IS-viii, IS-101, [1 f], xxxiii, 740 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Extemities moderately rubbed, ffep dog-eared. Includes the student edition (ISBN 0-697-14520-4) with added notes to the instructor in the margins, and a special instructor's section containing, for each chapter, learning objectives, an extended outline, lecture suggestions, class activity summaries, and suggested films. Contents: what is psychology; biological foundations of behavior; sensation & perception; states of consciousness; basic principles of learning; memory; cognition, language & intelligence; developmental psychology; motivation & emotion; gender & sexuality; personality theories & assessment; stress & health; abnormal behavior; therapies; social psychology; psychology applied to business… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full white linen, bronze titles on front board & spine, top edge dyed pink, xv, 394, [3] pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, index. DJ has tear to bottom of rear joint, a bit of edge wear, spine slighly faded; in Brodart archival cover. Biography of actor Bert Lahr by his son. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1948 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, reversed gilt titles on front board & spine, xx, 828 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, bibliography, index. Some marginal notes in colored pencil, boards moderately rubbed & soiled. Starts off with utopianism, then covers Marxism, Fabianism, social democracy, syndicalism, guild socialism, Russian communism, a geographic survey of socialist movements & governments including labor parties in democratic governments, consumer co-ops, and a summary. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 5th ptg. . VG-/No dj. 22 X 16 cm.

London & Boston: The Edinburgh Society WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date. Half red leather, marbled paper boards & endpapers, top edge gilt, xi, 293 pp, 5 plates including frontispiece, index. Spine missing, covers detached, leather chipped at corners, rear endpapers appear to have had glue spilled between them, rfep chipped with chips adhering to rpd. Internally very good, mostly unopened. Contains letters dated from May 1817 to late 1826. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Fair/No dj. 22 X 15½ cm.

Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1858 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ornately blocked red publisher's cloth with gilt titles & blind decorations, all edges gilt, 117 pp, 5 plates. Cloth worn & soiled, backstrip reattached, first few pages loose, gift inscription dated 1859 on flyleaf. The five illustrations are finely detailed engravings. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fair/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, xxiv, v-viii, 9-519, teg. No date, but around 1892, when the short-lived publisher (a subsidiary or Lovell's United States Book Company) was organized. Corners bumped, top and bottom edges of boards and spine rubbed, ownership sticker and doodles on front endpapers, half-title torn at bottom near gutter, pp 505-6 have a 1 X 2 cm hole that is apparently a manufacturing defect, and a few corners are creased. This edition has introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and is apparently part of a uniform edition. Device with the words "Century Edition" is stamped on bottom of spine. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G-/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1951, but Harper date code is B-B (February 1952). Tan boards, brown cloth spine with gilt titles, endpaper maps, xi, 340 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates. Head of spine slightly frayed, else VG, address label recto ffep, gift inscription on half-title. The Lambs, members of The Adventurers Club, strike out across the Sonoran Desert heading for blank areas of the map of Mexico looking forn the Lost City of the Maya. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles & decorations on spine, blind dec. on front board, dec. endpapers, [vii], 316, [3] pp. Bookplate & rubber stamp on endpapers. Historical novel based on the life of the medieval Persian poet. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth-textured paper-covered boards, black & white titles on spine, xx, 327, [1] pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contents: growth of municipal debt & investment; the municipal bond market; the rating agencies; general obligation bonds; revenue bonds (various specific types are analyzed); financing state and local infrastructure needs; municipal accounting; legal protection, disclosure, & liability; future perspectives on municipal bond analysis; tax reform act of 1986. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ed, 1st ptg. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Winona, MN: The Leicht Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gold & silver foil titles and decorations on front board (spine is blank), 76 pp, 1 color and 1 b & w photo, index. Some dog-eared leaves and a recipe marked with a marginal X show this book has been used, otherwise shows little wear. Published posthumously by the author's family, this book is a collection of her columns and recipes from the Midwest Review, the Winona Daily News, and the St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 28½ X 22½ cm.

New York: Bantam Books, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with black paper-covered boards, maps on endpapers, [v], 357, [1] pp. Ridge in cloth along rear joint due to manufacturing defect. DJ has slight edge wear, mainly at corners and spine ends, a 1 cm closed tear at top of rear joint, and a 1 sq. cm sticker scar on spine.. First Edition. . As New/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Bantam Books, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter light grey cloth, red paper-covered boards, red foil titles on spine, red endpapers, vii, 232 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, bibliography. Spine cocked, a bumped corner & slight rubbing, owner's name on recto of ffep, top edge a bit dusty. DJ lightly soiled, slight edge wear, top corner of front flap creased; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "In this, his most personal book ever, L'Amour writes for the first time of his growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, of his parents who instilled in him a love of the printed and spoken word, and of his decision to leave school at fifteen to make the world his classroom. While his contemporaries attended high school, L'Amour skinned cattle in Texas, worked as a circus roustabout and a mine caretaker, won small-town prize-fighting exhibitions, hoboed across Texas on the… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full off-white linen, black titles on spine, 224 pp, b & w photos and maps in text, bibliography, index. Bottom corners lightly bumped, else fine. DJ has some edge wear, a very faint sticker mark; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Until very recently, the entire Antarctic continent was closed to women. But through the efforts of a few pioneers, women have become equal partners in science there. The author has interviewed many of these pioneers and later explorers, and now tells their stories." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 23½ X 15½ cm.

1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White wraps with black titles & photo, stapled through fold, 38 pp, photos, maps. Covers somewhat rubbed & creased, some stains to covers. This survey is illustrated with small aerial photographs and large line-printer graphic maps. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. G+/No dj. 29 X 30½ cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Orange cloth, black titles on front board & spine, top edge dyed grey, x, 323 pp, 10 ff b & w plates, index. From the John Custer Kittleson Memorial Collection of books relating to World War 2 in the Minneapolis Public Library, whence it was de-accessioned. Moderate soil to edges of boards, spine ends beginning to fray, library bookplate on recto of ffep, "Withdrawn" stamps on verso of rfep, a few other library markings in pencil. DJ has a large chip at top of spine (with loss of "The"), somewhat soiled & faded, other small chips & tears, corners trimmed, library mylar taped to DJ, boards & paste-downs. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . VG-/VG-. 23 X 16½ cm.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Karin Franzén. Grey cloth, xvii, 372 pp, bibliography, index. New in shrink wrap. Tail of spine turned in, one corner lightly bumped. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). . New/New. 25½ X 18 cm.