Search Results: Authors starting with L from Pages Past Books

VG-/G Crown NY (1956) 6th printing hardcover 4to, 272 pages, index, 350 illustrations including full color plates. Light foxing inside covers. Dustjacket worn at extremities with 1 1/4" x 1/2" chip upper front. Solid clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

VG+/VG condition Yale University Press New Haven 1956 1st edition hardcover Large 8vo, 61+ pages, 6 color plates. 27 letters reflecting the personality of the first American to achieve world fame, issued on the ocassion of the 250th anniversary of Franklin's birth. Letters were drawn from the papers of Benjamin Franklin under the sponsorship of the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. DJ price clipped with some light soiling to rear and some light edgewear, but nice in Brodart protective cover.

VG/G condition GP Putnam's Sons NY 1914 1st US ed hardcover 8vo, 224 pages + ads, gilt titling and design. Translated by Lady Theodora Davidson. Awarded the first Grand Prix de Litterature by the Academie Francaise. Name stamped front free endpaper. Bright gilt spine and cover titling and design on blue cloth. Dustjacket worn with chipping and closed tears at edges and 2 small internal chips, light soiling and faint dampstain evidence. No affect to book. Scarce title especially in dustjacket.

Good+ Maugeret et Beraud Paris 1814 3rd hardcover 8vo, 327 pages, half leather, sewn in bookmark. Text in French. Transcript of the trial of General Claude Francois de Malet who conspired against Napoleon and was shot in 1812. Leather spine with paper covered boards. Some extremity wear, light foxing and tender inside front hinge. Solid with strong gilt titling and spine decoration.

Good/no dustjacket Farrar & Rinehart NY 1937 1st hardcover 8vo, 436+ pages. Light general agewear with cover soiling. Solid.

Good+ condition Frank Godwin illustrations John C Winston Philadelphia (1924) hardcover 8vo, 323 pages, b+w and color plates by Godwin, color paste on cover, pictorial endpapers. Shakespeare's tales for young readers. Award inscription for excellence in the 8th grade on front free endpaper. Some light fraying to spine head. Light corner wear and light rubbing. Solid clean copy.

VG-condition Sir John Gilbert illus George Routledge & Sons London no date hardcover 8vo, 372 pages, 184 b+w illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, decorated binding. Undated, assumed turn of the century with decorated binding in brown, red, gilt and black. Nice gilt gramed pictorial on front of Puck. Frontis illustration with light chipping at right border. Corners lightly worn and bumped. Solid clean copy with bright color.

Good+ condition Alfred Martien Philadelphia 1871 hardcover 12mo, 138 pages, 2 b+w plates, embossed cloth with gilt and black spine titling and decoration. Story of a talented young wood carver and engraver. Some light foxing. Light general agewear with name and Sabbath School information written inside front cover and on front endpaper. Solid respectable copy.

VG-/G-condition F. Gardiner+M. Hatt illus Frederick A Stokes NY (1918) early printing hardcover 8vo, 291 pages, 4 color plates by Florence Gardiner, 12 b+w illustrations by Mabel Hatt, color paste on pictorial cover, color p Written for children 12 to 18 years. Stories of the children of apprentices, merchants and guild members when industry and decorative arts were at a simpler stage. Contents page with a triangular 2" closed tear at margin. Dustjacket worn with chipping, long closed tear near spine front, and tape repair at rear. Still a clean bright copy with dustjacket protected in Brodart.

VG+/VG+ condition Edgar Holloway illus Univ of California Press Berkeley 1978 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 224 pages, b+w illustrations by Holloway, index, bibliography. The engineering of the Greeks and Romans including military, water mills and pumps, fire engines, cranes and hoists, aquaducts.

Good+/Good D Appleton NY/London 1930 18th ptg hardcover 8vo, 385 pages. "A beautiful romance of the days of Robert Burns. " Text pages browned. Dustjacket chipped at extremities. Solid clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

Good+ Edward Arnold London 1925 hardcover 8vo, 156 pages, index, b+w illustrations. Name and date inked front endpaper. Rear inside hinge paper cracked but holding. Light general agewear. Solid clean copy with bright gilt spine titling.

Good+ condition/no dustjacket Viking Press NY 1927 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 382 pages. Titling faded. Owner's bookseal impressed front endpaper and half title page. Solid clean copy.

VG+/G Uri Shulevitz illus Scribner's NY 1969 3rd ptg hardcover 8vo, 93 pages, b+w illustrations by Shulevitz. Young hero sets out to find the lost silkspinners of China armed only with his wits and superb ability to play the Oriental flute. Dustjacket with light edgewear, soiling at right bottom front and a large brown stain at rear. Book unaffected. Nice copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

Good+ condition/no dustjacket Thomas Selzer NY 1922 3rd printing hardcover 8vo, 347 pages. Light general agewear and rubbing to binding. Solid clean copy.

Good+, no dj Military George Bell and Sons London 1888 Limited Ed. Leather 8vo, 623 pages, b+w illustrations, 3/4 leather binding, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers Presentation inscription inked on front endpaper: Presented to Major G.R. Macnab, Gordon Highlanders by David S. Miller as a souvenir of his son Captain D.S. Miller, Gordon Highlanders, 5th December 1909, Aberdeen Depot,Castlehill Barracks. G.R. Macnab took part in the relief of Chitral and received the India Medal with the Relief of Chitral clasp. David S. Miller was author of A Captain of the Gordons and saw action in the Boer War and Somaliland campaigns. Winston Churchill called the Gordon Highlanders "... the finest regiment that ever was!" Inked at the top of the title page is "7th April 1900 D.S. Miller 1st Batt.n Gordon Highlanders" The book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. There is extremity rubbing; the inside front hinge paper is cracked; 2 signatures protrude slightly from the fore edge;… Read More

VG, no dj Syracuse University Syracuse 1925 Softbound 8vo, 48 pages, b+w illustrations, ads Content includes poetry, fiction, humor, sports, book reviews etc. Light cover soiling; small chip to upper right corner of 1st page of ads; 1/2" closed tear at bottom middle front cover.

Good+/Good+ Heidi Palmer illus Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis (1973) 2nd ptg hardcover 8vo, 221 pages, b+w illustrations, index, bibliography. Covers slightly splayed. Price sticker glue remains front cover; otherwise clean and solid.

Very Good/Very Good- University Books New Hyde Park 1966 2nd printing hardcover 8vo, 565 pages, index, Contents include Studies in Erotic Bibliography, Rediscovery of Burns' Merry Muses of Caledonia, and Problems of Erotic Folklore. Some light soiling to top and fore-edge of book pages and some light dj edgewear with soiling to dj white.

Good/no dustjacket Henry Holt NY 1932 1st hardcover 8vo, 309 pages. Front endpaper trimmed at upper right 1 1/2" x 3" with light remains from bookplate removal. Spine darkened; otherwise solid, clean copy.