Search Results: Authors starting with L from Collectible Books

1. Stated first edition. Published by Peregrine Smith Books, 1986 Layton, Utah. Book has lightly bumped corners and spine ends; otherwise clean, crisp, bright and tight. Pictorial dustjacket shows edgewear with a couple of small chips and tears. 248 pages. 82 black & white illustrations, 34 color plates. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index.

1. Stated first edtion. Dustjacket is clean with short closed tears along the top of spine and front edge, and a ding on the foredge. Cloth intact and book appears unread; pages clean , bright, square and tight, but has a bookplate on the fep.

1. Not a reprint. Scarce first edition. Title continues, ""By WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER to which is added PRESIDENT WILSON'S GREAT MESSAGE."" Published 1917 by The National Press, Philadelphia, Pa. 124 pages. Lovely pictorial red cloth with white stars and title letters; border, map and seal decorations in black. Begins with National illustrations and poems, continues with pages containing the state seal and poem for each state, adjacent full-page photo or drawing significant to that state, and portrait of Wilson and text of his message at the end. Two ex-lib marks: sticker on pastedown stating ""Presented to Chase Library"" and ""3164"" on fep. Corner and spine ends are rubbed with minor fraying. Paper cracking at rear hinge. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright, showing very occasional and very faint spots of foxing.

Inscribed and signed from an author to author Paul Wellman on the front end paper. Dorrance and Company. Copyright 1951. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Attractive dj with a few minor small edge tears and chips at top and bottom covers. 63 pages. 8 x 5 inches. "";Linsley was born in Colorado, son of a pioneer preacher...in 1882..lived most of his life in the Southwest...first published collection"";. Subjects include mining, El Segundo's Dunes, Mount Polamar Trail, the Grand Canyon, and various forces in nature and spirit.

1. Stated first edition. Pantheon Books. 1976. Translated and Edited by Moss Roberts. Hardcover. Clean, tight, square, unmarked and unread. Untorn and unclipped dustjacket has curl at top front edge. Includes maps, illustrations, and index.

1. Title continues, ""...portraying the wonderful operations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national government, including its historical, executive, administative, departmental, artistic, and social features, with sketches of the Presidents and their wives and of all the famous women who have reigned in the White House from Washington's to Roosevelt's Administration."" Edited by Mrs. John A. Logan. Superbly illustrated with 50 full-page photogravure plates from photographs made by special permission of the US Government expressly for this work. A. D. Worthington & Co. Publ. Hartford, Conn. 1901. 752 clean and tight pages. Decorative maroon cloth with pressed designs, bright gold lettering to spine and front cover. Very light rub at corner tips and spine ends. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Tissue covered frontispieces. Exceptional VG condition.