Search Results: Authors starting with L from Grampy's Bookcase

336 pp. Some highlighting in the first half of the book. Previous owner's name is on the title page top outside corner. Square and tight binding with a smooth spine.

480 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Author has signed the title page. In "As new Condition". "My purpose in this book has been to reconstruct some of the long-forgotten events that occurred in the southern portion of the state of West Virginia during the early days of the Civil War.", from the Preface.

382 pp. Underlined passages and margin notes throughout. Covers are bright, tight and unmarred except for a very small ding at the top spine.

370 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Lettering is faded on the spine. Previous owner's name and address is stamped at the top of the front free end paper.

108 pp. In as new condition. Full page black and white plates included. Foreword by Dave Barry. "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same title held at the Southeast Museum of Photography, June 9 - September 29, 1998."

619 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Appears unused.

207 pp. Text in as new condition. DJ has a small chip at the top and bottom spine. DJ price clipped. Part of the Penny Parish series.

470 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in unread condition. DJ is bright and unmarred. From the front flap, "In Louis L'Amour's frontier stories, the American West is the crucible in which character is tested, reputations are won or lost, and life always hangs in the balance."

In "As New Condition". DJ is not price clipped. From the front DJ flap, "One of America's most beloved storytellers, Louis L'Amour's vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L'Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where the two often meet."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Front and back binding have stains. Price unclipped DJ is intact with very minor wear around the outer edges and some foxing. Stated first edition. A solid volume. From the front DJ flap, " ...Mr. Lancaster, who was five years American vice-consul at Kobe, Japan, has written a novel with an altogether different historical setting - 17th century Japan, when the Dutch East India Company had a rich but precarious foothold in that little-known land."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Text in German, Binding has minor wear around the outer edges.

286 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Black and white photos included. Excellent condition for a 45 year old book.

Text is clean and unmarked in square, intact, and bright covers. Volume appears unused. From the back cover, "This third edition...continues the well-developed purpose of providing students with carefully considered and sharply opposed viewpoints on a number of enduring historical issues."

201 pp. Eleven pages of ads in the back. Frontispiece illustration included. Text is unmarked with some smudges at the outside margins. Binding is square with dark smudges. Spine is faded.

103 pp. In "As new condition". Full page plates included. " 'Lay Flat 02: Meta' brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself".

Text is bright, clean, and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Full page color illustrations. DJ is unmarred other than a bookstore label on the front outside cover. From the front DJ cover flap, "When a supernatural killer stalks the townspeople of Boston, renowned silversmith and monster hunter Paul Revere is called in to fight the evil. While tracking down clues to the killer's identity, the first shots of the Revolution are fired, and Revere finds himself fighting a war on two fronts in a struggle to save his family."

Text is lean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name is on the front inside cover and front free end paper. Very light snudging on the back binding. Authors discussed include Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, Iben, Tolstoy, Proust, Dostoevsky.

662 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in near fine covers. Only defects are several indentations and a small scrape on the back cover. CD is not included. Glossy color illustrations throughout. From the back cover, " 'Culture and Values' tells the story of western and Non-Western cultures in an engaging and lively manner, making your learning experience with the material both easy and enjoyable."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Insides of binding are age-toned. Binding is smudged with faded lettering on the spine. Portrait drawings throughout. "Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat her ally Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arab-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method." p.7.

48 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Spine is not creased. "This pamphlet tells the story of the birth, rise, and swift triumph of one of the early opposition parties, the Republican. This party...represented a coalition of revolutionary forces embattled against one of the most powerful and ruthless of all ruling classes, the American slavocracy."