Search Results: Authors starting with L from Johnson's Used Books

Privately printed, probably ca 1930, slate gray cloth with yellow paste-on titles on front cover and spine, good sound copy, moderate wear to cover extremities, 5-1/4""x7-3/4"", 128 pages, no dust jacket. Quite scarce. huxx

Petersburgh NY, Eagle Publishing, (1893) I could find no printed date, hardcover, full dark brown leather, embossed lettering and ruling, moderate wear/scuffs to cover extremities, inner and outer hinges sound and uncracked, all edges gilt, hinges just starting to split at top and bottom but covers still soundly attached and not in danger of worsening, beveled edges, all edges gilt, inner hinges reinforced with cloth-backed tape (apparently as issued by the publisher), black and white ills., nice quality, text clean and bright, 5-3/4""x8-1/2"", 528pp plus an extra illustrated chapter after that that is unpaginated (about 24 pp), Curfew Must Not Ring To Night by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe. Shipping weight 4 lbs

Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., copy. 1992, solid gray cloth hardcover, nice quality, fine square tight unmarked probably unread/unused copy, 8""x11-1/4"", ill., 458pp, fine dj, gift quality/condition, shipping weight 5 lbs

Salem MA, Higginson Book Company, reprint, NOT a print-on-demand copy, full blue buckram cloth hardcover, on non-acidic paper, about fine, previous owner small address sticker on free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, slight rubs/bumps to cover extremities, probably published ca 1990, 8-1/2""x11"", 701pp, ill., shipping weight about 6 lbs

6th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Leipzig, a 1965 hardcover facsimile of the 1926 printing by the same publisher, green cloth hardcover, very good except for sunning to spine and cover edges and even age-toning to the text, previous owner ink name plus a small address sticker on free front endpaper, 640 pages, no dust jacket, 5-1/2""x8-3/4"". A must for the student of classic German literature. fxx

NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st edition assumed (code 246897531 on copy. Page), light brown hardcover, near fine, very slight rubs/bumps to cover extremities, near fine slightly edge-rubbed dust jacket (crisp and bright, no tears of chips), 6""x9-1/2"", 414pp, shipping weight 3 lbs

NY, Benjamin Blom, 1967, a modern reprint of original 1874 printing, 1st ed by this publisher, clean sound little-used ex-library copy with usual marks, otherwise very good, no dust jacket, solid yellow cloth, 5""x8-1/8"", 398pp

NY, Graphic Society, copy. 1966, red cloth hardcovers, 529 + 534pp plus loads of color maps, color and black and white ills., 9-1/2""x10-1/2"", both volumes are in fine probably unread condition, each has a silk ribbon page marker, housed in a black slipcase that is moderately worn at edges and in good serviceable condition, shipping weight 14 lbs, a very attractive set

NY, Doubleday, 1916, early edition, translated from the Swedish by Howard, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decor, good sound copy, inner hinges sound and uncracked, slight slant to spine, wear to cover extremities, 5-3/8""x8"", no dust jacket. Rather scarce.

NY, St. Martin's, 1991 reprint (1st ed was 1990), dark blue hardcover, fine, fine dust jacket, ill., 6-1/4""x9=3/8"", 263pp, unread, no previous owner name or marks, shipping weight 3 lbs

NY, Longmans Green, 1951, stated 1st edition hardcover, solid gray cloth, very good to fine crisp bright unmarked copy, slight rubs to cover extremities, good sound crisp dust jacket with a few minor edge-nicks, 5-1/2""x8-1/4"".

Arcadia Pub., Charleston SC, 1st printing 2009, stiff original pictorial softcover wrappers, nice quality, loads of illustrations, 6-1/2""x9-1/4"", 128pp, mild ink gift inscription on half-title page, otherwise unmarked and fine

Atlanta GA, Byrd Printing Comp., 1914, edition de luxe, hardcover, 3/4 black leather with peach cloth boards, a rebinding copy, with most of the backstrip missing, but inner hinges are still attached and uncracked, floral endpapers, contents complete and in decent condition, with mild even age-toning to text, there is an old faint ink drip mark on outer edge of rear cover, a bit over the outer text-block edge and and small BB size dot on the front cover (in other words, the book was setting face down when the ink spill occurred a long time ago...quite unobtrusive), lots of ills., 1190pp, internally good to very good, solid and complete, shipping weight 5 lbs

Atlanta GA, Byrd Printing Comp., 1913, edition de luxe, hardcover, 3/4 black leather with peach cloth boards, a rebinding copy, with most of the backstrip missing, both covers detached, floral endpapers, contents complete and in decent condition, with mild even age-toning to text, lots of ills., 1190pp, internally good, solid and complete, shipping weight 5 lbs

pub. By E. H. Butler, Phila PA, 1866, elegantly ill. With steel engravings most of which are protected by facing tissue guards, cranberry cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and décor, beveled edges, moderate sunning to cover edges, the spine area is most noticeable, all edges gilt, good sound square tight copy, internally very good, some offsetting of the engravings onto the tissue guards, 5""x7-3/4"", moderate rubs/bumps to cover extremities, generally an attractive copy, no previous owner names or marks

NY, McLoughlin Bros. hardcover, tan pictorial cloth, ca 1890s, 6-1/4""x9-1/2"", good sound copy except the free front endpaper is detached but present and the rear inner hinge is tender and starting (endpapers are brittle, but the rest of the text is on different more durable unyellowed stock). internally very good, color frontispiece, other black and white full-page illustrations, 156 pages, mile rubs to extremities, an attractive book. cbxx

ill. Eldridge Hardie, NY, Winchester, 1973, 1st edition hardcover, blue cloth, 6-1/4""x9-1/2"", mild wear to cover extremities, light ink gift inscription on the free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, about good decent lightly worn and soiled dust jacket, 143 pages.

NY, Doubleday, 1948, stated 1st edition hardcover, solid red cloth, very good sound square tight unmarked copy except for a few very small light ink notes added to the last page of the index and very faint previous owner name on rear free endpaper, slight sunning to edges, slight rubs to corners, fair price-clipped but serviceable dust jacket, 5-3/4""x8-5/8"", 309pp, very slight age-toning to endpapers

NY, Doubleday, 1948, stated 1st edition hardcover, solid dark red cloth, very good sound square tight unmarked copy, mild rubs/bumps to cover extremities, no dust jacket, 5-5/8""x8-5/8"", 368pp

NY, Dutton, 1958, stated 1st edition hardcover, beige cloth, very good, slight rubs/bumps to cover extremities, no previous owner name or marks, scarce