Search Results: Authors starting with L from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Aperture, 2005. First edition, first printing. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine jacket (one small indentation on rear panel, otherwise unmarked). 8.75 x 11.75 inches. 128 pages. Duotone reproductions. Green cloth; printed dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the photographer to a curator.

Paris: Gustave Barba, [nd]. Pale foxing, first few leaves with some light damp staining.. 4to. 380 pages. Frontispiece with 25 engraved plates throughout. Marbled paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine. FIRST EDITION. Text in French.

London: Printed and sold by the Author, 1791. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Professionally rebacked, wear at corners and along edges. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Original marbled boards, untrimmed; brown cloth slipcase, brown morocco trimmed at front. First edition. Lackington owned the Temple of the Muses in Finsburg Square, London's largest bookstore. The popularity of this book was partly due to its material on John Wesley and the Methodists. A very good copy in original condition (except for the spine) and very uncommon thus. CBEL II 280. (BA).

Amsterdam: Printed for J. S. [John Starkey], 1687. A few dampstains and minor foxing. 12mo (143 x 82 mm). 167 pages. Modern calf antique, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this treatise of persecution by Lactantius, often referred to as the "Christian Cicero." This is apparently also the first appearance of any of Lactantius' works in English. In this issue, line 9 of title has "English'd" and the "A" of signature A2 is under the "ct" of "conjectures". The translator of De mortibus persecutorum was the noted British historian and prelate, Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), who wrote several influential histories of Great Britain. To this edition he has added a 52-page prefatory treatise of persecution. ESTC R11018; Wing L142.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Light shelfwear. 8vo. 291 pages. Original printed wrappers, the front cover die cut in shape of the leaves on the cover. Advance uncorrected proof, signed by Lahiri. With a circular TLS laid-in from Houghton Mifflin's marketing department "Enclosed please find an autographed special edition galley...

Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1960. A near fine copy. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 600 copies of volume IV of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.

New York: Jordan Davies, 1980. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 18 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 200 copies, designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.

Abbeville Press, 1984. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with the extremities just lightly touched. 11.75 x 10 inches. 261 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Traces the history of Cobra, an avant-garde art movement centered in Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, and examines the group's influence on modern art.

Bamberg: Johann Martin Schönwetter, 1677. Covers slightly bowed, spine label chipped, lacks final 2 leaves at end of the index, Hhhh3 with lower corner torn away and loss of text, some browning and occasional foxing. Neatly annotated in several places in ink by a contemporary reader. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). [36], 784, [40] pages. Text in double-columns. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, floral decorated endpapers. OCLC 633004507.

New York: Grove Press, 1959. 4to. [50] pp.; 39 ill. (2 color). Original pictorial wrappers. Rear wrapper slightly soiled, light wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION. Grossman was a member of the Photo League and founder of the Provincetown School of Photography.

New York: Dorset Press, 1982. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine lightly shelfworn jacket, short tear at bottom of front panel. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 364 pages. Boards; dust jacket. "Ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock print tradition was one of the highpoints of classical Japanese civilization. Written by one of the foremost experts on Japanese prints, Images from the Floating World provides the definitive history of this wonderfully graceful and evocative artistic tradition. Ukiyo-e gives an incomparable record of Japanese life during the heyday of the geisha and the samurai.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. A near-fine copy with minimum shelf wear. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 195 pages. Cloth; dust jacket.

New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1971. Folio. Original beige cloth boards. Spine slightly leaned, one pale stain along spine, cover gilt lightly faded, a one quarter inch marginal tear in the first c.50 leaves not affecting text. FIRST EDITION.

Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984. Softcover. Spine faded, otherwise fine. 11 x 9.25 inches. 159 pages. Wrappers. Contains 72 illustrations from artist Maurice Prendergast, including 52 in color.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Joints and spine bands rubbed, owner's name on frony flyleaf. 4to. 321pp. Color plates by N. C. Wyeth. Early 20th-century blue half morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A total of 12 pages, 8vo, in ink, both letters with a few minor horizontal fold separations, but in very good condition. With an apparently unrecorded photographic portrait of Lanier. ALS of 24 August 1878: 7 pages, blue ink on white paper, with numerous revisions. The letter is a lengthy proposal to Kirk for writing an introduction for the use of colleges and universities to a book of worthy English sonnet writers through Shakespeare. This would include many minor Elizabethans and would introduce Bartholomew Griffin, "a poet to our public of whom probably not a hundred persons in the United States have ever heard... though beyond question worthy of any man's acquaintance." This project plus a paper on "Old Sonnet-Makers" for the magazine were turned down by Lippincott's. ALS of 15 June 1880: 5 pages, dark brown ink on gray-tan paper, with revisions. Lanier begins: "With inexpressible delight I've got a signing-pen [for the writing of poetry] in my hand. [He… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1891. First. A near-fine copy with modest wear at extremities. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated green cloth.

Hessle: The Marvell Press / Listen Records: The Poet's Voice Series, 1965. Broadside (13 x 8 inches). A fine copy, with three manuscript corrections presumably by the publisher. Scarce advance subscription form, complete with blank entry form at bottom. "This new recording has benefited from being made away from the intimidating atmosphere of the studio in the privace of Larkin's library. In fact he felt so relaxed that he included an unsolicited commentary on the poem." Scarce ephemeral Larkiniana.

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1995. First edition. A near-fine copy. 11.5 x 9 inches. 254 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers.

Paris: Editions Seesam, 1979. A very good copy, the title lightly spotted, the wrappers somewhat toned and with several soft creases. 4to. [60] pages. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this very scarce photobook by Dominique Lauga, a relatively obscure photographer who documented Le Palace and the club's clientele. Includes stunning images of Karl Lagerfeld, Amanda Lear, Andy Warhol, Kenzo, Paloma Picasso, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, and many others.