Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bygone Books

London: Ernest Benn, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. 8th ed. (first published in 1924), 16mo, blue cloth, blue top page edge, 269 pages, [8] blank pages for notes, London underground railways map on rear eps, "Sights of London" with admission hours on fep, many maps throughout including the a pull-out iconic tube map, ribbon bookmark. Condition: VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, light scuffing to rear board, rear hinge just starting but book is clean and tight throughout. A nice copy.

NY: Everest House, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. Edward Gorey.. 1st edition (no additional printings), 8vo, white boards, 122 pages, b/w ilustrations by Gorey. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has an owner inscription on the front endpaper in black marker; jacket has very light edgewear (a few very tiny chips to spine extremities and top corner, 3 tiny chips to front top edge, light rubbing at folds).

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. Introduction by James C. Massey. 1st edition [stated], large 8vo, cloth, b/w photograph endpapers, 286 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has a small stain to top page edge and three remainder marks, tiny tear to spine head, clean and tight; jacket has light edgewear with chipping to spine head and three cornes, tiny hole on rear spine gutter, some tanning to white.

London: Robert Hale, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st published in 1984, 1st paperback ed. 1992, this is the 1997 reprint. 8vo, illustrated wraps, 276 pages, family genealogies, map, index. Condition: NEAR FINE: book is nearly new, just a tad of shelfwear, appears unread. The ever-interesting life of Jane Austen and her family.

Glasgow: H.B. Langman & Co. Hardcover. VG+. Legible" Series. No date, 48mo, [4" tall], flexible boards covered in tartan cloth, all edges gilt, unpaginated, zodiac illustration. VERY GOOD+ : owner name and date on front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. A calendar of dates on left-hand page with Scottish proverbs on facing page; 6-page glossary..

NY: Robert M. McBride, 1926. Hardcover. G+. 1st edition? [same date], 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, illustrated endpapers, 365 pages, b/w photographs, text illustrations. GOOD+ / no jacket: edgewear to spine extremities and corners with small tears, gilt on spine and front cover is rubbed and dulled, internally clean and tight with only a bookstore notation on first blank page.

Monkton, VT: Willlowell Foundation, 2009. First Edition . Soft cover. New. Exhibition catalogue, the exhibit of 38 artists in celebration of the 2009 Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. Foreword by Bill McGibben. Square 8vo, wraps, 87 pages, color illustrations. Condition is NEW: unread, fresh out of the box. [multiple copies available]. This was a fabulous exhibit, reflected beautifully in this catalogue.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1931. Soft cover. Very Good. Gertrude Alice Kay. No. 860. Oblong 4to, illustrated stapled stiff wraps, [16] pages, color illustrations throughout by Gertrude Alice Kay. Condition: VERY GOOD with slight edgewear, 1" closed tear to first page top edge, some spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean and tight and filled with Kay's delightful circus characters and scenes.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American ed. 8vo, hardcover164 pages, b/w illustrations, index. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light spotting to pages edges. A stimulating mix of personal and literary history.

Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1993. Limited . Soft cover. NF. Limited edition of 800 copies, printed at the Stinehour Press (Vermont), 8vo, unpaginated wraps. NEAR FINE

Preoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1925. Hardcover. G. McAfee, Ila.. No edition statement. 8vo, olive green cloth, 244 pp, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece, bibliography. Condition is GOOD / no jacket: a water stain to rear board, stain to fore edge that leaves a faint stain on margin throughout the book, a very sl. ripple to the pages, NO odor or any markings (excepting owner name on fep,) lt. sunning to covers.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, illustrated wraps, 128 pages, b/w photographs, map frontispiece, select bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE: very slight rubbing to rear cover edges, appears unread. Beginning with Samuel de Champlain's discovery of the lake bearing his name, this book offers nostalgic photographs of the four islands that served as the birthplace of Vermont.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover. NF/NF. 8vo, hardcover brown boards, 223 pages, illus section, 4th printing; INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Author is the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: owner name on fep; signed on title page.

New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 2001. Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st edition, 174p. NF/NF with lt. rubbing at rear fold of dust jacket.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. Soft cover. Collectible; VG. As per Senate Resolution No. 447, that this manuscript be printed as a Senate Document, and that an 10,000 additional copies be printed for the Senate Document Room. 65th Congress 3d Session. Small quarto, stapled wraps, 56 pages, in the original mailing envelope. Condition is VERY GOOD+ in a GOOD envelope: 1/4" closed tear to bottom edge of front cover, otherwise has been nicely protected in the envelope; the mailer has been opened along top edge, has a few closed tears and light soiling. The address of Senator Lodge on the death of Theodore Roosevelt...

Chicago: National Dairy Council, 1954,c1946., 1954. Soft cover. VG+. Lois Lenski.. 8th printing; unpaged, stapled pamphlet wraps, small (4 1/4 x 5 1/2"). An advertisement for milk, with Lenski's delightful illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with lt. cover wear.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Yale Publications in the History of Art, 38. 1st edition (number line]. Small 4to, olive green cloth, 337 pages, bibliographical notes, index, b/w illustrations throughout, 10 color plates. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: slight sunning to board edges, faint spotting to page edges, several small pencil notations in margins and the past few blank pages are filled with helpful penciled notes - perhaps the notes of a book reviewer. John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), designer of the first public park and inventor of the means to construct curvilinear glasshouses, was also the first eminent landscape architect to address the problems of the modern city - this book is the first comprehensive study of Loudon's social, political, environmental and artistic ideals.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College Library, 1982. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition of 1000 copies, designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press in North Hills, Pa. A facsimile reproduction of the artist's 1917 unpublished sketchbook. 8vo, unpaginated, color illus, burgundy cloth, paper label, gilt spine titles. FINE / no jacket (as issued) A lovely book, with the drawings of toys begging to be made into REAL toys.

Bristol, UK: Redcliffe Press, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, green boards, 96 pages, b/w and color illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket. The first book solely devoted to John Wood's Royal Cresent in Bath, England - an architectural and social history.