Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bookfare

London: John Murray , 1882 37 illustrations. 6 full-page; 16 pages of publisher's advertisements (dated May 1881) bound in at end; Hardback: red cloth decorated in gilt and blind, chocolate-brown laid end-papers; A well-used copy: spine creased and worn at head and foot, cloth rubbed especially at corners, some leaves working loose, lacks front free end-paper, previous owner's inscription and pencil annotations in text.

1st Edition, Hart-Davis, 1956 8 plates; Light grey cloth, red lettering-piece, decorated in gilt, top edge red; Corners rubbed, fine.

London: Black Swan, 2006 Signed by author on title-page; Paperback; Near fine.

London: Routledge, 1886 A volume in "Routledge's Pocket Library"; Hardback: series quarter red cloth decorated in black on marbled boards, black lettering-piece decorated in gilt, Bookseller's ticket (Robertson, Glasgow), 12mo; Cover wear, spine slightly darkened, boards rubbed, internally clean. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

1st Edition, Clarkson Potter, New York, 1992 Presentation Copy, inscribed on half-title: "To Mark - Best Wishes in the field - and elsewhere! / Laurence Sheehan / Carol Sheehan"; 363 colour illustrations from photographs by William Stites; 22 black & white illustrations; Co-authors: Carol Sama Sheehan and Kathryn George; Hardback: dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated end-papers, square quarto; Tiny nick to spine, previous owner's inscription to half-title, else near fine.

Paris: Comite Pour L'Histoire Economique Et Financiere De La France, 1999 Preface by Rene Girault; A volume in the series 'Histoire economique et financiere de la France'; Text in French; 598 pages; Paperback; Fine; If ordering from outside the UK, please be aware that this is a heavy book and may require extra postage charges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Hutchinson, 1979 16 illustrations by Elizabeth Haines; Hardback: blue cloth lettered in silver on spine; Previous owner's name to front free end-paper, near fine in vg Haines illustrated dustwrapper.

London: Faber, 1973 The first British edition; Hardback: black cloth decorated in white; Binding a little slanted, lower board bowed out a little, text clean, vg+ in rather worn dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: John Baker, 1969 47 illustrations; Memoirs and anecdotes by the Keeper of the Muniments and Librarian of Westminster Abbey; Hardback: purple cloth, green lettering-piece, lettered in gilt on spine, top edge green, orange end-papers; Tape-marks to end-papers, old price and previous owner's name to front free end-paper, vg+ in slightly used g dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Simpkin Marshall, London, 1889 Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 3 other plates; "Late 1st Royal Lancashire (The Duke of Lancaster's Own); now 3rd & 4th Battalions The King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, from 1642 to 1889, corrected to May 1st. 1889"; Hardback: royal blue cloth decorated in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt device to top board, yellow laid end-papers, prelims printed in black & red; Slight signs of use, head and foot of spine rubbed, near fine.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998 4 figures and tables; Paperback; Previous owner's name to half-title, near fine.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 32 illustrations; A volume in the 'Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology' edited by Mitchell G. Ash and William R. Woodward; Hardback: red cloth lettered in silver; Top board slightly splayed, else fine in dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Readers Union, 1961 12 illustrations; Green cloth lettered in gilt; Near fine.

1st Edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982 "Explores the reasons behind the current crisis in [American] puiblishing"; Quarter black cloth on blue boards lettered in gilt; Fine in slightly worn dust-wrapper.

London: Hutchinson, 1937 11 illustrations, 10 by Nicolas Bentley (McLean 23); Contributors include Hilaire Belloc, John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, J.B. Morton and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; Hardback: dark green cloth decorated in gilt on spine, top edge green; Small bruise to spine, spine gilt faded, light foxing, vg+ in tattered Nicolas Bentley dustwrapper.

London: HMSO, 1981 13 colour and 33 black & white illustrations; A volume in the Victoria and Albert Museum "The Arts and Living" series, edited by John Fleming and Hugh Honour; "Discusses writing implements - from the stylus, quill and steel nib to the ball-point pen and typewriter - and also the ink-wells, pen-cases, pounce pots and sand boxes as well as the desks, bureaux and secretaires created for writing"; Paperback; Near fine.

London: Leslie Frewin, 1973 43 illustrations; "Churchill Centenary Edition"; Hardback: white cloth decorated in gilt; Small area of damage to top board, brown spot to front pastedown, vg in torn dustjacket.

Countryside Books, Newbury, Berkshire, 1997 66 colour illustrations; Glazed illustrated boards, landscape format; Fine in near fine dustwrapper.

East Linton, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1998 6 illustrations; 'A Tribute to Maurice Lindsay on his 80th Birthday': 25 essays and contributions; Hardback: black cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Near fine in dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cherry Hill, New Jersey: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003 Presentation Copy, inscribed on half-title: "To the Macan family - with the highest respect and esteem from their friend Les Hyman August 2003"; 2 maps; Hardback: blue cloth-style binding lettered in gilt; Slight evidence of old damp, vg+ in dustwrapper.