Search Results: Authors starting with L from Crow Hop Rare Books

Los Angeles: The Fred S. Lang Company, 1921. First Edition. Cover and Introductory Decorations by The Prettymans. Page Decorations are Engraver’s Drawings from Cover Detail. 58 pp. Quarto. VG+ (a bit of soiling and edgewear) in pictorial wraps. None in the trade and only five holdings per OCLC (UCLA, Newberry, NYPL, Mississippi, and Southern Mississippi).

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company/Bridgeway Press, 1959. First Edition. 54 [2] pp. Illustrations by G.M.E. Kimmer. Near Fine in an about VG+ unclipped dustjacket. INSCRIBED on verso of half-title, dated in the year of publication (from Germany). Poems about Japan, written at the end of the 1950s, by this Virginia native. Includes two typed poems (these do not appear in the book), entitled “The Angelus” and “Berlin,” dated 1959 and 1960, written in Germany and INSCRIBED to the same recipient of the book.

East Greenwich, RI: River’s Edge Studio, 1970. 47[5] pp. illustrated with 16 tipped-in US Postage stamps. 79x56 mm, stiff green wrappers, title stamped in gilt. Printed on handmade “Hayle” paper of the Hayle Mill, Maidstone, England; binding by Reliure du Centre, S.A. Limoges, France. Fine. No. 218 of 300 wrapper-bound copies from a total edition of 500 (200 leather bound). With two bookplates affixed inside front cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First Edition. VG+ (some minor soiling to page tips) in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictorial map boards of Chase County, Kansas, this copy also has a decorative stamp of Chase County on half title page. SIGNED “Heat Moon” on half title page. Includes the uncommon insert from October 19, 1991 (stamped with printed Heat-Moon signature) in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas: “This first edition copy of PrairyErth was signed by the author and stamped with the official PrairyErth Day Commemorative Seal depicting the Chase County Courthouse on October 19, 1991 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. One thousand, five hundred and four books were signed during festivities that day which also included music, dancing, exhibits of local history, hay rack rides, and ice cream social, and a buffalo barbecue attended by some three thousand sold.”

New York: Doubleday, 2003. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover, VG+ (a light curl to cover, stain to last half of page edges, toning). With a SIGNED (approximately 3" x 4.5") card laid in. A novel about a black boy and a white boy and their adventures in Brooklyn and Berkeley in the late 20th century.

[n.p.] : McSweeney’s, 2000. Fine in stapled pictorial wraps. SIGNED by Lethem on the title page. Part of a collaborative sequence of stories with Carter Scholz; the image on the cover, commissioned by Lethem, is by William Amato, a Los Angeles artist.

Brooklyn: McSweeney's Books, 2001. First Edition. SIGNED by Lethem on title page. Jacket design by Elizabeth Kairys and artwork by Chester Brown. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket

New York: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "To _ all best wishes Jonathan Lethem." Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. Nine stories, including "Super Goat Man," first published in The New Yorker, and "The Dystopianist," which appeared in Pushcart Prize Stories XXVIII.

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1983. Calligraphy by Douglas Strickler. 186 copies were printed in December 1983 for private distribution by the author and publisher; of these, 36 copies were numbered and signed by the author, this being #34 SIGNED by Levertov. Small (5.75” x 8.5”) broadside tipped in to red wrappers with gilt lettering. Fine.

Atlanta: Georgia Department of Public Health, 1930s. 14 page pamphlet. 8.5” x 5.5”. VG (ink inscription on front cover, horizontal fold, soiling). Sex-positive sex education pamphlet by Levine, an advocate for marriage counseling and birth control who later became director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau. With descriptions of sexual organs, sexual intercourse, and sexual conduct—sections on The Hymen, The Sex Act Proper, and After Play. This text was later reprinted by Planned Parenthood. No copies in commerce and only 3 copies of the 1930s edition in OCLC (Harvard, Emory, UC Davis).

New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. VG+ pictorial wraps (no hardcover edition). INSCRIBED by Levine to a former student on 10 May 1979: “Dear Patricia, These were the poems I was working on while I was supposed to be preparing for class at Bloomington. I hope they make up for some of my failures. Yours, Phil.”

Philadelphia: Group for Environmental Education, 1969. Revised Edition. 80 pp. Illustrated throughout. Oblong pictorial wraps, spiral bound. Laid in is a five-page stapled "Program for Secondary Schools" for The Man-Made Environment by Alan G. Levy, Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (includes funds to date and proposed funding with handwritten notation on rear of final page). "This book is about a very important part of the total human environment. It deals with that part of the world which we have made for ourselves--the places in which we live and learn and play. These places include our houses, schools, parks, streets, neighborhoods, and cities."

Chicago: DuSable Museum of African American History, 1975. [32 pp]. 16 poems. VG+ in faded lime green stapled wrappers with sunning near staples. Publisher’s slip laid in. Introduction by Hoyt W. Fuller, who writes of Long, “This sometime poet is among those blessed humans about whom there is nothing ordinary.”

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine unclopped dustjacket (touch of rubbing on rear, toning to front flap edge). Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Uncorrected Page Proofs. VG+ in yellow illustrated wrappers, with annotation on front cover striking out March and writing in April for publication date. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1977. VG+ in toned green stapled wraps. Printed by Edward L. Shunney. A facsimile reprint of a limited memorial edition published by W.H. Shepherd, The Rebel Press, Oakman, AL. A special limited edition was made from an original kept in the Lovecraft collection of the John Hay Library of Brown University, which provided the press with an original copy. A first edition was limited to a printing of 450 copies (50 of the original 500 were lost by the USPS). This edition, the second, consists of five hundred copes, this being number 402.

Kansas City, MO: Mike Lyon and Lyon Art/Gallery Ezoshi, 2004. An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the special exhibition, Mike Lyon : Kyoto Woodcuts, held at the Gallery Ezoshi, Kyoto Japan, October 18-October 31, 2004. [44] pp., the final eight of which are in Japanese. Lyon “marries Picasso’s innovation with his own digital photography, a skillful use of computers and the most up to date tools to produce supremely beautiful prints.” Reproduces 25 of his woodblock prints made between 2002-2004. Only one holding in OCLC (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City).

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1891]. Parchment Edition. #226 of 250 copies. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Decorative white boards with gilt lettering and top edges gilt. A striking set. VG+ (light soiling, edgewear).