Search Results: Authors starting with L from Quiet Friends

Hartford & Rochester, NY: Silas Andrus & E. Peck. FAIR book. Full sheep, gilt lettered black leather spine label.. 1817. Early reprint. Hardcover. FAIR book. 21x12cm, 356pp, followed by 2 fold out plans for Moskwa & Malo-J. Cover worn & stained. Moderate foxing thruout. . Front hinge only holding by the cords. GOOD-VG text block. Frontis, maps & all leaves moderately aged, foxed & type offsetting. P 250 with 2" chip in lower margin, and p266 with long tear up most of gutter margin, with old repair. Neither with loss of text. Binding very tight. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. "MOSKWA" map with closed tear most way up outer fold easily repaired with archival tissue. . .

NY, Toronto: Murray Hill Books. FINE book, GOOD DJ. 1st illus ed. 8.5"x5.5", xii,487pp.. (1944). 1st illus. ed.. Hardcover. FINE book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). 1st illus., 8.5"x5.5", 487pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. DJ p/c, clean but worn. .

Phila: Lea & Blanchard. GOOD book. FAE. Moderately foxed pre & postlims.. 1848. 1st Am ed.. Hardcover. GOOD book. Brown cloth. Paper author/title spine label. Tight, bok tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. 9x6",320,32pp. .

London: Colburn & Bentley. GOOD books. NEAR FINE text. 3/4 calf. Marbled boards. Tight.. 1830. 1st edition.. Hardcover. GOOD books. TEG. 8vo xiii,368pp. 5 raised ribs. MISSING all spine labels. Other panels w fleur de lis. Spines worn & cracked . Tight binding. Nice text, no aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Bkplt bearing motto "Spero Meliora". First English edition. .

Boston: Little Brown. VG book, VG DJ(in Mylar). ALs glued to dedication page.. 1942. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG D/J. "To Bill Deacon, To whose friendship and interest both book and author owe much, Bruce Lancaster, 1942". .

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Lib. "AS NEW", "MINT" wraps (paperback). 29X19(cm). 72pp.. (2009). proof copy. Softcover. AS NEW wraps, paperback. Published for the Fisher Rare Book Library of U of T in 2009. Exhibition ran from 9/28 to 12/18/09. . Neatly pencilled on fep "30.ix.09/set-up proof/1st copy bound/ (&rebound)/ with map folded". So: note is done Sept 30, 2009 and the exhibition started 2 days before. Richard Landon organized the exhibition and wrote this catalog. .

NY: Dodge. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Bright& tight. Gilt on maroon cloth.. 1910. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. 8vo, xxiii,556pp. Illus w 20 tipped in sepia photos. Book's corneres lightly rubbed. .

Toronto: Brownstone. AS NEW book, print, folder & slipcase. Bound in green morocco.. (1981). 1st ltd ed.. Hardcover. AS NEW book, AS NEW slipcase, with AS NEW print (which in turn in its own AS NEW folder. SIGNED LIMITED edition, #13 of 25. . Limitation page states a limited edition of 25 deluxe copies were numbered in Roman numerals, then 300 copies numbered in Arabic, all signed "George McLean". Nevertheless this book's number is 13, in Arabic, and the print itself is numbered "i/xxv". Which, I surmise, means one of 25. It is quite lightly pencilled on the print and won't show well in the photo. Print is of a red tailed hawk, enclosed in it's own folder. .

Rochester, NY: Rochester Alliance Press. VG book, no DJ. Edges lightly soiled.. 1931. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no D/J. BRIGHT & TIGHT. SIGNED & inscribed by author, in 1960, on fep. 8vo, 356pp. .

Toronto: Feheley. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ. 1st Canadian ed. 13"x11", 175pp.. (1976). 1st Cdn ed.. Hardcover. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). DJ w 1" closed tear, few @ 1/4". Pristine book. Lansdowne SIGNS & INSCRIBES tp. .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. FINE books, NEAR FINE DJs(in Brodarts). 1st Cdn13"x10",231,261pp. (1968) & (1970). 1st Canadians.. Hardcover. FINE books, NEAR FINE DJs. Both DJs with prices. Top rear of DJs with 1/4" chips & tears. Minor rubbing of other DJ edges. . Book tips & spine ends lightly scuffed. Flawless books otherwise. .

Boston & NY: HMCo. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Faded gilt lettered blue cloth.. (1921). Early printing. Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ. Laid in 1940s newspaper articals have browned the first couple of pages. Otherwise FINE inside. Tight binding. . The cream color DJ is lightly rubbed & soiled and with several 1/4" closed tears. Complete with $3 price. .

NY: Atheneum. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ. Bkplt inside.. 1973. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ. Thick 4to 509p. Book has minor edgewear, DJ with several 1/8" tears & 1/2" creases. .

L: Carey Press. VG book, VG D/J. SIGNED.. nd c 1937. 2nd impression. Hardcover. VG book, VG D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED & inscribed fep. Photos have foxed adjoining pp, ep's foxed slight bit. Bright book & DJ. .

NY: Scribner's. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ.. 1945. REPRINT. Hardcover. Book's flaws: dust stained top edge & deckled front, also spine ends w tiny wrinkles. DJ spine heavily sunned, extrems rubbed. .

NY: Appleton Century Crofts. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ. 1st edition. 9"x6". 570pp.. (1970). 1st edition.. Hardcover. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). FEP with author SIGNED 1971 4 line gift inscription. DJ with up to 1" closed tears. .

NY: Oxford U Press. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Tight, VG+ inside. Edgeworn, eps browned.. 1922. Hardcover.

NY: Cupples & Leon. Hardcover. FAIR to GOOD DJ (in brodart). From book 7 3/4" high, 5.5" wide, 1.5" thick. Clean but worn. Spine sunned a bit. .

Paris: Obelisk Press. VG wraps, (paperback). Clean, bright & tight; in & out. 8th ed.. (1936). 8th impression. Softcover. VG wraps. Stiff paper covers. Front flap states "unexpurgated authorised edition". Spine corners w 1/2" to 1" closed tears. . Several small light green stains on cover. Inked name & date on half title page. Composed in Baskerville type, paper by Moulin-Breda. Printing and binding by Protat brothers. DJ front flap price of 50 Francs. Seems extremely unlikely this is an 8th impression, as this is an obscure printing. Probably Obelisk meant 8th edition. .

London: Jonathan Cape. AS NEW book, s/c has minor wear. Ltd. 1990/2000.. (1955). Limited ed.. Hardcover. AS NEW book. TEG. Half dark blue morocco, dark blue cloth boards. Slipcase spine top, edges, extrems lightly worn. . Gilt TEG bright & shiny, other edges deckled with no trace of soiling or foxing. Pages uncut & unopened. PRISTINE in & out, top to bottom. No trace of any kind of imperfection. Spine top & tips like new, not even a trace of scuffing. Slipcase "upper spine" area outer paper cracked. Slipcase done its job in protecting the book. .