Search Results: Authors starting with L from The Last Word

wellington, New Zealand: Brooker and Friend Ltd. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Owner name on front of book and on title page. Gift inscription on dedication page. 720 pp. Corners slightly bent

London: The Pilgrim Press, 1913. hardcover. Very Good. Fifth (revised) edition. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.4 inches). xvi/1-294pp. plus 6 pp book adverts at rear. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by various artists. Some pages at the front of the text affected by light foxing but overall a very good clean copy. Original blue cloth Art Nouveau decorated covers with some. rubbing to corners adn edges. Contemporary gift inscription to a front blank page

Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Not price clipped. DJ is chipped and has closed tears along the edges.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1934. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. sixth edition. A good copy in crisp red boards with black lettering; No foxing seen except to the top and fore page edges but nothing seen inside. Very slight nibbles to top of DJ at top of spine - protected in an archival Brodart clear cover now.

1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Description: First edition thus. 8vo/348 pp. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Bound in full olive cloth with gold lettering, dark green ribbons and drama masks, t.e.g. An unsigned binding by The Decorative Designers. This edition combines the contents of the 2-volume work issued earlier

London: Lutterworth Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. English Translation. 159 pages. Dustjacket has 1 inch loss to top of spine, small loss to bottem of spine1/4", please ask for scan if interested. Pinhole through front of dustjacket and part way into front board. Orang cloth boardfs with black picture and writing.

Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited., 1920. First printing. Paperback. Very Good/fair. printed at the Talbot Press. Blue cloth with applied white paper title.First Edition. Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall).,102 pages, original cast list at rear (The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 21 April 1919.), blue pictorial wraps Discreet owner stamp to front fixed endpaper under dustjacket flap. Dust jacket mostly there but small tears at top and bottom edges

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Has a General Assembly library NZ monogramme to front cover and to base of spine Withdrawn plate inside on FEPs. Fine Binding 9.5' by 6.5'. None. A beautiful full calf bound new edition of the works of Charles Lamb, gifted to a friend upon leaving Eton. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an essayist and poet, who along with his sister Mary Lamb (1764-1847) produced a number of works including tales from Shakespeare . He was good friends with a number of important and prolific literary figures, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, and corresponded with them. Both he and his sister suffered bouts of mental illness; in his sister's case, a mental breakdown resulted in her murdering their mother with a kitchen knife, and after this, she spent the majority of the remainder of her life in mental institutions. Containing letters written by Lamb to Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth, as well as his… Read More

Paris: Parliament , 1786. First edition thus. Leather_bound. Very Good. Full calfskin leather binding with gilt ruled lines around edge .All page edges gilt. Gilt title to spine. Biblotheque universelle Des Madames Huitieme Classe. Astronomie. Universal library for women class 8 Astronomy. Translation:"Every month two volumes are added to this library. They are bound in fine calfskin and decorrated with ,..." Published by the King and parliament. Small book approx. 60 mm x 120 mm

Dunedin, New Zealand: Mackay, Risk, Munro & Co,, 1885. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Adam Landels politician from Clutha. Grey cloth covered papered boards and Red cloth spine, pp vi 208. Sunned spine clean. Complete with "Errata" Rare. NZNB 3062. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Has a General Assembly library NZ Stamp to front cover and numbering a logo to spine Withdrawn plate inside on FEPs

Berlin: Buchverlag, 1925. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/good. Various. Cloth Fine with plain blue jacket Folio-over 12" tall. 120 Photographs of Various Nationalities selected by Dr Peter Landow. Printed in Germany. This is the First German edition. Royal blue cloth with gold lettering on front and decorative spine. Antiquarian. Rare Same book as Nature and Culture published later in English. Seperate list of plates in English is included. International tracked courier will be $50 for this book. Photos by Landrock & Lehnert, Drtikol, Hoppe and many others. Individual plates of nudes by these artists can fetch $100 to $200 each. (for example 120 x $150 = $18,000) All plates are single sided so there is no problem with framing. Books over $180 in value, 2 kilogrammes in weight , or very large books may require extra postage due to local postal regulations. Please contact me before paying for items in these catogories.

Berlin: Buchverlag, 1925. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Various. Cloth Fine without jacket Folio-over 12" tall. 120 Photographs of Various Nationalities selected by Dr Peter Landow. Printed in Germany. This is the First German edition. Royal blue cloth with gold lettering on front and decorative spine. Antiquarian. Rare Same book as Nature and Culture published later in English. Seperate list of plates in English is included. International tracked courier will be $50 for this book. Photos by Landrock & Lehnert, Drtikol, Hoppe and many others. Individual plates of nudes by these artists can fetch $100 to $200 each. (for example 120 x $150 = $18,000) All plates are single sided so there is no problem with framing. Books over $180 in value, 2 kilogrammes in weight , or very large books may require extra postage due to local postal regulations. Please contact me before paying for items in these catogories.

Berlin: Buchverlag, 1925. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fair/Very Good. Various. Cloth Fine Folio-over 12" tall. 120 Photographs originally but 8 missing i.e.: 92, 93,100, 101, 104, 106, 114, and 116. - Spine also missing. Various Nationalities selected by Dr Peter Landow. Printed in Germany. This is the First German edition. Royal blue cloth with gold lettering on front - spine missing. Antiquarian. Rare Same book as Nature and Culture published five years later in English in 1930. Seperate list of plates in English is included. International tracked courier will be $50 toUSA, UK, Europe, $20 to Australia for this book. Photos by Landrock & Lehnert, Drtikol, Hoppe and many others. Individual plates of nudes by these artists can fetch $100 to $200 each. All plates are single sided so there is no problem with framing. Books over $180 in value, 2 kilogrammes in weight , or very large books may require extra postage due to local postal regulations. Please contact me before paying for items in… Read More

London: Collins, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. small tear to top of dustjacket near spine 1 inch closed, 256 pages, no foxing - possibly never read. 1350 grams

Auckland, New Zealand: Viking Penguin Group, 2005. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition Second Printing. Black cloth lettered in white in spine. 316pp. includes Index. Photos." The story of how the doctor's son from Otahuhu grew up to lead his country and confront the great issues of the day, and of how life after power as well as long battles with various illnesses have affected him, is also a personal and moving account of one man's life, told with all the author's characteristic wit, intelligence and compassion." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Has interesting owner name in front "David Bain 4.9.05" Possibly the David Bain whose whole family was murdered. He would have still been in Jail in 2005.

Nelson, New Zealand: Nikau Press, Nelson, 1992. Second edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/near fine. 223mm, 462pages, over 100 black and white photographic plates. Maps on eps. Brown cloth hardback with gold lettering to spine. Dustjacket protected in Brodart archival mylar cover. First published in 1984. Possibly unread - has erratum slip.

London: evans brothers limited, 1960. First printing. Card_book. Very Good. 26 pages.- 14x21 cms. Signed by author on title page. Some corners a bit dog - eared. Included is a programme for this play in Marlborough in 1906 with newspaper reviews.

New York: Grosset Dunlap, 1945. Hardcover. Good/good. Decie Merwin . Hard Cover Good in Good jacket A Story Parade Picture Book. Some wear at the extremities. Short tears to several pages. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears. The exterior has been laminated and there are internal tape repairs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾"-9¾" Tall.

Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, 1983. First edition thus. Leather_bound. Fine. Keulemans. no. 71 of 250 numbered copies, signed by Anthony A.T. Ellis. Leather Bound January 1, 1983 Pp. xxiii, 384, (4, extracts from reviews), (1, note on supplementary plates); tinted frontispiece plate of the moa of New Zealand, 35 fine colour printed plates after colour paintings by Keulemans, some text figures. Publisher's original full brown leather, elaborately gilt-decorated, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt bird of prey and floral decorations, front cover with centre motif of North Island Takahe with palm trees in the background and with elaborate border gilt decorations, all page edges in gilt, dark brown endpapers, lg 4to (12 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches). This fine facsimile was published by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this being copy no. 71. It is signed by Anthony A. T. Ellis, President of the Royal Forest and… Read More

Auckland, New Zealand: Oswald-Sealy, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. approx date - mentions 1945. 184 pp red cloth covers. Paper generally toned. Rear cloth a bit faded.