Search Results: Authors starting with L from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Featured theme: Concerns of "deeply successful marriage" with form of episodic autobiography of Thomas Cottrell, at first against marriage, then in love with Judith Carpenter, who has opposite view. Over 1st married 15 years, settings in Rhode Island, New York, Europe. Incidents include 30 characters in 75 episodes using 20 variants of metrical characters. Day-to-day themes include madness, the war, murder. The La Farge family includes several artists in painting, prose fiction and poetry, architecture. Earlier work by this author: "Hoxie Sells his Acres". Prior owner bookplate. Durably woven blue cloth over boards; jacket in red, gray, w/ white and gray titles. Silver book spine titles have minor sun fade. Moderate edge wear and sun fade to jacket jacket spine titles.

New York.: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company Inc., 1972. Special edition for young readers.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Pencilled notes, title page. Underlining, p.46. Corner and spine end wear.. 1 213 p. 29 cm. Color and B&W Illustrations. Index. Audience: Children/juvenile. "Based on A pictorial history of the American Indian, published...1956, Crown Publishers."--T.p. verso. End paper maps show North America and where tribal groups lived.

New York.: Coward-McCann, inc., 1939. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Inside boards: age-toning where glued. Minor page block foxing.. 1 Durable gray-blue linen cloth over boards. Silver spine titles. 4 p. l., 3-422 p. 22 cm. Red top page block. Fiction: A first person narrative in verse, set in the American Southwest, with a memoir theme. Author is brother to novelist Oliver La Farge.

Washington DC.: National Geographic Society., 1972. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor cover foxing age discoloration spots to boards at and near spine. Jacket has edge wear, w/ clear tape repairs.. Spiegel, Ted (Photographs by), and Glanzman, Louis S (Illustrations by).. 1 207 p. Includes illustrations. White cloth over boards. Black cover art, titles. Illustrated jacket, picture stone w/ bearded man. Color photos, artwork. Viking heritage, history, culture, explorations. Colorful and well-presented; part of National Geographic Special Publications Series.

New York: Random House, 1955. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight edge wear, slight spine sun-fade.. Schwartz, Daniel (Jacket illustration by).. 1 310 p. Red vinyl-type cloth over boards, yellow spine titles. Set in the first half of 19th century Europe. By age 20, Mendelssohn was a well-known composer and conductor. His 3 loves: Italian prima donna Maria Salla, his wife Cécile Jeanrenaud, and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his predecessor. Bach's music and its restoration to public prominance was the love that challenged Menselssohn health, marriage, and career.

New York.: A Signet Double Volume by arr. w/ Random House., 1957. First edition. 1st Signet printing. D1407.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Sun-fade to spine. Cover corner creasing (all 4). Edge wear moderate.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. Light purple covers, illustrated, man at piano in passionate embrace w/ bare-backed woman. 343 p. Historical novel based on life of musician Felix Mendelssohn who defied his family, conventional society, and the music world by first, marrying outside his faith, then having an affair with a fiery opera singer, and also by insisting he play the music that was his life. He was determined to restore Bach's compositions to prominence. La Mure had also authored 'Moulin Rouge'.

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press., 1987. First edition. 1st Cornell paperback.. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Light reading wear.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 250 p. Chapter notes; Index. Intellectual History / Philosophy. Contents; Early Theoretical Studies; Literature, Language, and Politics; "Nausea"; "Being and Nothingness" to "Critique"; Autobiography and Biography.

North Thetford VT.: North Thetford Church.. Circa 1960s.. Spiralbound. Very good. Light cover surface wear. Clean interior.. 1 40 p. Includes illustrations. Glossy B&W illustrated (symbolic pineapple) card covers; qtr-inch plastic coil binding. Typewriter font. Charts at back. Cooking: Recipes contributors are named with each: Buskey; Evans; Young; Morrison; Rose; Ackerson; Whitcomb; Hyde; Bond; Beede; Perry; Phipps; Palmer; Steinmetz; Colton; Granger; Eaton; Wilcox; Balch; Tilden; Mack; Clay; Wilson; Atkins; Beusman; Howard; Phelps; Evans; George; Eaton; Bonnett; Shepard; Drew; Godfrey; Waterman; Currier; Hazlett; Wing; Barr; Gulick; Dodge; Tripp; Esdon; Dean; Follansbee. The Ladies Aid Society of the North Thetford Church was formed in 1921, building on traditions of kindness and community ongoing since the church formed in 1860. Includes local ads and varied cooking info charts. Cooking for 100s at end.

Park Ridge IL.: Dorothy Products., 1977. First edition. Presumed 1st. No additional printings listed.. Trade paperback. Very good.. 1 Trade Paperback. Glued binding. 113 p. 23 cm. Line art and B&W photos. Index. Contents: Value of Pet Birds; Bird Nutrition; Cage, Furnishings; Mental Attitudes toward pet birds; Pet bird Environment; Pet bird Facts, Care; Dangers; Signs of Sickness, birds;

McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean interior. Tight binding, no spine creasing. Back corners: shoirt creasing. Top spine, short repair with clear tape.. 1 Trade paperback (US). 394 p. B&W photo illustrated cover: tearing down the Berlin Wall. 14 Pen&Ink maps. Audience: General/trade. Post World War II US and Soviet History by Cornell University Professor of History Walter LaFeber. His first edition of this history appeared in 1967. He has updated subsequent editions to reflect events and changes in policy. This 7th edition brings to focus the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism in Eastern Europe, symbolized by the tearing down in 1989 of the Berlin Wall that had divided that city and its families for decades. World stage collaborators Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev played critical roles.

New York.: William Morrow & Company., 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Slight jacket soiling.. Smale, Brian (Photography by).. 1 Black and red paper over boards. 288 p. B&W photos. Audience: General/trade. Cooking: Television food correspondent and restaurant owner Emeril Lagasse includes here a lot of favorites from his Fall River MA hometown to his New Orleans home base and his varied T.V. segments. More than 150 recipes; and likely as many B&W candid behind-the-scenes photos of a pretty young looking Emeril.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1973. First published in Sweden 1945;. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Reprint. Glued binding. 228 p. Audience: General/trade. Author: winner 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature. Considered to have moral and artistic intensity. This dwarf, 26 inches tall, refuses to act the buffoon. A narrative.

Mariner Books, 2004. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 291 p. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies". She writes of the immigrant experience (here a family from Calcutta) and the tangled ties among generations.

A Studio Book / The Viking Press., 1974. First edition. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light surface wear to jacket. Unmarked interior.. 1 Red Cloth over boards. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studio Book. Audience: General/trade. Large format book, well-illustrated in color and black & white by the versatile artist-author, Hugh Laidman. Explored is the interrelationship of drawing and painting by an artist and teacher. Chapters: Analyzing the Old Masters; Black-and-White Techniques; Hard Pastel; Traditional Pastel; Felt Pens and Markers; Working with Opaques, Casein, Gouache, Poster and Designer Colors; Watercolor; Oil Painting; Acrylics; Perspective; Drawing the Figure; Animal Drawing; Sketching. Many step-by-step demonstrations.

Boston.: Beacon Press., 1935. 2nd printing; 1st in 1930.. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket. Book volume fine w/ light top and side block soil. Jacket has light soiling and edge short tears.. 1 Bright green embossed cover, leafy pattern w/ boxed titles in gold, coat of arms: Laighton, semper fidelis and beacon, lighthouse. 154 p. B&W photo illustrations (18); a few Pen&Ink. 21 cm. Jacket: off-white w/ 5 front photos, green toned as is text. Small green foil stamp inside front cover: "The Religious Book Shop, Concord N.H." Oscar Laighton arrived at the Isles of Shoals in 1839 via a pilot boat, at age 3 months, with his parents and sister Celia, age 4, later known as Celia Thaxter, poet. Their father, Hon. Thomas B Laighton was appointed Keeper of the Isles of Shoals Light on White Island. He also possessed both Appledore and Smuttynose Islands. Inserts: Map-card locating (not to scale) The Religious Book Shop, 22-24 Warren St.; "The Fellowship of Prayer, Lenten Season 1935,… Read More

Loveland CO.: Lakin Enterprises., 1966. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 23 p. Includes illustrations. Black & white photo cover. Stapled binding. Hand Arts: Doll clothes patterns for knitters, crochet artists. Dress, Socks, Shoes, Booties, Soakers, Swimsuit, Skirt, Sweater, Gown, Nightie. Step-by-step instructions.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday, Doran., 1936. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 1 Black cloth over boards. Gold spine titles w/ Persian circular mosaics. End papers in green & cream Persian design. 319 p. 22 cm. Deckled side and lower page blocks. Narrative biography of Arab poet Omar Khayyam by Middle East specialty writer Harold Lamb. Author of "The Rubaiyat" and numerous other works, Khayyam's history begins with Part I, "The Street of the Booksellers in the old city of Nisapur", by the Christian calendar in 1069. By Part V, the reader is taken to the streets of Isfahan.

New York.: Fawcett Books by arr. w/ Donald I Fine, Inc., 1997. 3rd Ballantine printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Front cover minor angled crease. Light spine creasing.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 405 p. Audience: General/trade. In the seas of revolution, 1793. Interesting tomes with themes of humor and authentic historical detail.

New York.: Fawcett Crest / Ballantine by arr. w/ Donald I. Fine Inc., 1996. First edition. 1st Ballantine edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Single spine crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Seagoing series set in 18th century. Midshipman Lewrie (fictitious) passes exam for lieutenancy, commissioned 1st officer of brig o'war Shrike, then to patrol North American coast; attempt to bring Muskogees and Seminoles to British side against American rebels. Then to Caribbean.

Half-Moon Foundation Inc / Continuum Publishing., 1990. 7th edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine with light page block soiling. Great covers and spine, unmarked interior.. Ward, Lynd (Cover illustration from Woodcut by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 326p. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Audience: General/trade. Originally published by Humanism advocate Lamont in 1949, this re-issue was published while he was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. A leading proponant of the individual's rights under the U.S. Constitution, he had won court decisions over Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the CIA, and in a 1965 Supreme Court ruling against censorship of incoming mail by the U.S. Postmaster General. Lamont served as director of the American Civil Libertoes Union from 1932-1954.