Search Results: Authors starting with L from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Association. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. 2nd Revised Edition. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book with plain paper covers and an illustrated cardstock dust jacket / cover. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in mostly clean and bright, but has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word Miwok means people in the Miwok languages. " (from Wikipedia) .

Washington, DC: NASA. Very Good+. 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a glued spine. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. .

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+. 1926. Early printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Originally published in Great Britain as Alice in Orchestra Land. This book is in Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light toning / darkening to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's notation on the front endpaper in pencil. This book includes an illustrated frontispiece and interior illustrations by Carrol C. Snell. German born, American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch has written the foreword. "Alice in Orchestralia is but another Alice in Wonderland, for the author takes us in delightful fashion into the heart of that most wondrous land of all - the land of music. Alice is to be envied, for there is hardly anything about a modern symphony orchestra - its make-up, its functions, its manner of speaking that universal language of human emotions -… Read More

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. 1st Edition; 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9997541219 . Cover Art; This edition limited to 1500 copies (actually 1559 according to the Arkham House Companion). This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are mostly clean and bright. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light wrinkling and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "Greye La Spina (July 10, 1880 – September 17, 1969) was an American writer who published more than one hundred short stories, serials, novelettes, and one-act plays. Her stories appeared in Metropolitan, Black Mask, Action Stories, Ten-Story Book, The Thrill Book, Weird Tales, Modern Marriage, Top-Notch Magazine, All-Story, Photoplay, and many other magazines. " (from Wikipedia) .

Battle Creek, MI: Sanborn Laboratories. Very Good. 1923. Non-Technical Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The half title page and last text page have toning and foxing. .

Amford, CT: Cook Laboratories. Very Good. 0. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Record. c1950's. This is a RECORD. The record appears to be in Very Good condition (not able to test this currently) and has a Very Good album cover. The cover has edge wear, rubbing and spots of ground-in dirt and several spots of foxing / discoloration. "In the late 1940's, convinced he could do better than what was on the market, Cook began experimenting with making his own audio equipment. Cook Laboratories was started in 1945 when he developed a new cutting head to be used in record production. Future development of equipment brought about the discovery that he could record frequencies as high as 20,000 hertz,which he demonstrated at the 1949 Audio Fair in New York. Shortly after, Sounds of Our Times, later called Cook Records, was born. Cook Records collected many different sounds and was mostly aimed at the devoted high-fidelity listener. In order to encourage listening, he put out many albums full… Read More

Moffett Field, CA: NACA / Ames Aeronautical Laboratory / Ames Research Center. Very Good+. 1952. Other. B&W Illustrations; Included are four booklets (2 each of 2 different booklets) , a program giving the itinerary for the two day inspection, two black and white photographs with descriptions attached, and three separate groups of stapled pages with press release information. (what Ames Laboratory is, Aerondynamic Heating, and, Boundary Laer Control Ready for Test on F-86 Sabre). All items in very good condition overall. There is some wrinkling / edge wear to the photographs. "NACA was established by the federal government through enabling legislation as an emergency measure during World War I to promote industry, academic, and government coordination on war-related projects. It was modeled on similar national agencies found in Europe: the French L'Etablissement Central de l'Aérostation Militaire in Meudon (now Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches… Read More

New York, NY: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.. Very Good. 1939. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a larger than trade sized paperback booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The edges of the book covers have some rubbing, bumping and wear to both front and rear covers. The top edge of the front cover has a sticker with previous owner's names (marked over by inked lines). Articles include: The crossbar system, Pedro and the Voder, "My God, it Talks! ", Telephone Alarm Fuses by Frank Hardy, Long Distance Conference System by H. E. Etheridge, , Cross Talk Balancing for the Type K carrier system, and more. "Bell Labs Record was a publication of the Bell System of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1925 to 1984 when it was transferred to AT&T Technologies. This house organ included descriptions of technologies created by Bell System including basic research, devices, technologies, systems, and operations relevant to telephone… Read More

New York: Daw. Near Fine. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0886772710 . This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the top front spine joint of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "erovingen Nights is a series of shared universe science fantasy books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. There are eight books in the series, a novel by Cherryh, Angel with the Sword, and seven short fiction anthologies which Cherryh edited. The books were published by DAW Books between 1985 and 1991. Angel with the Sword was originally published by Cherryh in 1985 as a free-standing novel. The Merovingen Nights series came into being two years later when Cherryh began editing seven anthologies that were set in the same universe as Angel with the Sword. Angel with the Sword was subsequently… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is generalized light toning to the pages. The dust jacket has some light edge wear, rubbing and some nicking, and a couple of tears to the spine ends and corners. "In 1968, she was appointed assistant professor of sociology and curriculum specialist at the Southern Illinois University at East St. Louis. In 1969, she became a senior research fellow at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. Other major research positions that followed include transracial adoption work funded by the Cummins Engine Foundation, and a visiting fellowship at the Metropolitan Applied Research… Read More

New York, NY: Dell Books. Very Good. 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Ace books H-56, with a price of .60cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. THere is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine and covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is some generalized light toning to the text pages. .

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co.. Very Good-. 1866. 1st English Language Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a First English Language Edition, originally published in French. This book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some fading to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean, but heavily toned and foxed. "Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte (2 June 1796 – 6 March 1879) was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, journalist and comedian. A pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre français, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, and the Théâtre des Variétés. " (from… Read More

New York: Viking Kestrel. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 067082657X . Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small black marker remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text pages. The dust jacket is clean and bright. .

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good. 1925. Early printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The covers have some light ground-in dirt. The gilt lettering on the spine has rubbed. The text pages are clean and bright with occasional patches of foxing. Included are 9 full page, full color illustrations - this copy is missing the plate on page 12 (it looks like the plate was never included). "This book, which is the latest work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer, was published in Stockholm, December, 1906. It became immediately the most popular book of the year in Scandinavia." (from Wikipedia) .

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a superficial spot to the foredge of the text block. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips along with some light ground-in dirt to the rear panel. "In presenting This Way for America, Alexander Laing falls back upon the deepest and most enduring ideas of democracy as Americans have known and enjoyed it." .

New York, NY: Signet. Very Good-. 1976. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 038508997X . This is a mass market paperback book and a first paperback edition. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some lightish rubbing, creasing and edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some light generalized toning. "Barbara Ovstedal is an author previously writing under the pseudonym Barbara Paul and Barbara Douglas. She wrote a few books under this pseudonym but later changed to Rosalind Laker when Barbara Paul gained recognition." (from FantasticFiction) .

New York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Comapny. Very Good-. 1965. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is a smaller than trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and spine joints have rubbing and wear. There is a smallish tear to the bottom front spine joint. The covers have faded a bit. The rear cover has noticeable ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. The first page after the contents page has a previous owner's math problem in ink. Stories included are: Bright Eyes by Harlan Ellison The Purpose of Merlin by Colin R. Fry, The Dreamer by Walter F. Moudy, The Trouble with Hyperspace by Jack Sharkey, The Silk of Shaitan by John Jakes, Predator by Robert Rohrer, and, The Other Side of Time (part one) by Keith Laumer. .

New York: Tor Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2017. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0765382075 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .

Boston, MA: A. W. Lovering. Very Good-. 1878. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have some ground-in dirt, several spots of discoloration and rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and light fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. "Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers; the essays "established Lamb in the title he now holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists." Lamb himself is the Elia of the… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good-. 1930. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This is a stated First Edition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine has some light fading. There are spots of ground-in dirt and and discoloration to the covers as well, including a two-inch spot of fading / water spotting to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (The Jean Witters) on the front pastedown page. "In a Lamb story, honor and loyalty to one's comrades-in-arms were more important than cultural identity, although often his protagonists ended up risking their lives to protect the cultures that had spurned them. Those holding positions of authority are almost universally depicted as being corrupted by their own power or consumed with greed, be they Russian… Read More