Search Results: Authors starting with L from Neil Pearson Rare Books

Edinburgh: The Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1995. 8vo, pp. 17. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red to front panel. A fine copy. First edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. LATER HANDWRITTEN NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR LAID IN: 'Graham, A few for your collection -- + perhaps you may amuse yourself for 5 minutes with this pamphlet. Barry. 19 ii 96'. A fine copy of this affectionate reminiscence. Laid in is a later note from Bloomfield, written on the reverse of a flyer for the Wye Book Fair, held in October 1993 and organised by Bloomfield's wife Valerie. The note, written in 1996, seems to have accompanied a batch of the pamphlets Bloomfield sent to a collector.

New York: Gallery Books, N.d., stated first printing on verso of title page.. 4to, pp. 155. Original white boards, lettered in pink on spine. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs by the author throughout. First edition.

Philadelphia: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1921. 8vo, pp. 355. Original dark blue boards, lettered in light blie to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. 1921 gift inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a little loss to head of spine. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition of the same year. The author's second novel (of only three), in the scarce dust jacket. HUBIN, p. 255

Burbank: NBC TV, 1959. 41pp. in blue paper wrappers, secured with staple to top left corner. A little edgewear and toning consistent with age, but a very well preserved copy. Original script for Episode 328 of the US version of This Is Your Life, featuring the band leader Ted Lewis. T. LESLIE JACKSON'S COPY, WITH HIS PENCILLED SIGNATURE TO FRONT WRAPPER. T. Leslie Jackson [1910-1992] was the BBC TV producer responsible for many of the Corporation's early Light Entertainment successes. In 1951 he directed the first series of What's My Line?, which ran for 149 episodes. The show was hosted by Eamonn Andrews, and together they imported the hit US show This Is Your Life. The UK version was first broadcast in 1955, and ran for the next fifty years: Jackson was Executive Producer on more than 250 episodes. A rare survivor, and a wonderful association.

New York: Julian Mesner, 1959. 8vo, pp. 320. Original black boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine. Text block a little browned, a couple of small marks to preliminaries, otherwise a near fine copy with just a little rubbing to spine ends, in a very good photo-illustrated dustwrapper, with two very small chips to lower edge of front panel, one to foot of spine, and a couple of closed tears to the lower edge at rear. 8 pp. of black and white photographs at rear. First edition. A slightly sensationalist dustwrapper design hides a serious study of the Beat movement -- one of the first -- written by one of the elders of the movement. Lawrence Lipton was a novelist, essayist and critic, associate of the Chicago writers active during the 1920s, Ben Hecht and Sherwood Anderson among them. (He was also the father of Inside The Actors Studio host, James Lipton).

London: Faber, 1939. 8vo, pp. 179-413, 8pp. advertisements bound in at front, and printed cessation slip tipped in. Unopened. 8pp. index to Vol. XVIII laid in. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Leading and lower edges uncut. Edgewear to (oversized) wrappers, some sunning to spine and front panel. First edition, and the last issue, with the volume's printed index laid in, and the printed cessation slip tipped in. The contributors to this final issue of Eliot's influential literary magazine include Hugh MacDiarmid, Ezra Pound and Henry Miller. The cessation slip tipped in at the issue's first page directs the reader to a statement by Eliot entitled Last Words on pp.269 - 275, in which he writes: 'Sixteen years is a long time for one man to remain editor of a review; for this review, I have sometimes wondered whether it has not been too long. [...] I am convinced that The Criterion is not the kind of review which can be taken up and continued by one editor after another. [...] If a similar… Read More

London: Arthur Barker, 1939. 8vo, pp. 290. Original black boards, lettered in white on spine. Slight foxing to endpapers and text block, not affecting pages. Pictorial dustwrapper, the slightest chipping to head of spine, one very small chip to top edge of rear panel, mild edgewear. A near fine copy in an unclipped, near fine wrapper. First edition. Satirical romp through pre-war London nightlife. An unknown title by a forgotten author, in lovely condition. Perfect.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1963. 8vo, pp. 187. Original grey boards, lettered in blue to spine. Publisher's device in blue to front panel. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, two small pieces of tape strengthening to reverse, and a little general edgewear most noticeable at spine. First edition. A Captain Heimrich mystery. HUBIN, p. 259

London: Poet & Printer, 1966. 8vo, pp. 19. Original stapled buff stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine. A little wear and fading around staples, but a very well preserved copy. First edition, printed in June 1966 by Alan Tarling. The Establishment referred to here is the Soho club run by Peter Cook in the early 1960s, played by Lenny Bruce, Frankie Howerd and Barry Humphries, among many others.

London: The Times Publishing Company, N.d. [1930s]. Folding linen-backed map, 47 x 62.5cm when opened. Yellow wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers marked and scuffed, small pinhole-sized loss at some folding points, otherwise very well preserved. First edition.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, N.d.. Small 8vo, pp. 96. Original illustrated card wrappers. Slight scuff to head of spine, otherwise a near fine copy. Later, softbound edition. JOSEPH LOSEY'S COPY, SIGNED, AND MARKED UP BY HIM WHILST ON A LOCATION RECCE. Given the vintage of this little travel guide, it seems likely that Losey used it while scouting locations for his 1970 film Figures In A Landscape (which was eventually shot in Spain). The book has many underlinings, presumably by Losey, and a number of pages have been folded over at the corners.

London: Methuen, 1985. 8vo, pp. 436. Original laminated card wrappers. Wrappers a little age-toned, otherwise a near fine copy. Illustrated throughout. First edition, INSCRIBED BY LOSEY'S WIDOW, PATRICIA: 'January 1993, For David -- Wish you had met Joe -- but he is very much in this book -- Love Patricia.' The recipient was David Gothard, co-founder of the Riverside Studios, London. Laid in to the rear endpapers are a postcard and an invitation to a drinks party, both from Patricia Losey to Gothard.

London: Turret Books, 1986. Oblong 16mo, unpaginated. Stiff paper wrappers. A fine copy. Cover design by Heloise Wire. First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER BERNARD STONE: 'With best wishes for 1987, Bernard. One of 500 copies.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 8vo, pp. 202. Original dark blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, rust staple marks to front and rear free endpapers, a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just a little light edgewear. First US edition of Lustgarten's second book, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode the same year with the title A Case to Answer. Adrian Homer Goldstone's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Haycraft-Queen title. Bibliophile and book collector Adrian Homer Goldstone [1897-1977] wrote the bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.

London: Transgravity, 1972. 8vo, pp. 4. Original white stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels. Wrappers a little dulled and edgeworn, but a well preserved copy. First edition. An early collection from the Greek-born, British-based novelist, poet and translator.