Search Results: Authors starting with L from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover with dust jacket; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 207 pages. Black paper boards backed in terracotta cloth, mild edge, pages lightly toned with age, binding sound, pictorial dust jacket with edge wear and chipping along extremities, two small tears at top front edge, small piece out at top rear edge, now in protective mylar cover. From the jacket flap: The characters in this powerful novel are chiefly adolescents, adult in their worldliness but painfully immature in experience, deficient in their perspective and lacking a set of values to apply to their new-found, near-adult world. They confuse wickedness with achievement, promiscuousness with sophistication; they are haunted by shadows of lies, homosexuality, drug addiction. At once sensitive and callow, their dominant characteristic is impatience, and this is a day of impatience and emotional crisis in the life of a young Italian in post-war Naples, his personal… Read More

Spring Valley, Minnesota: Ladies' Benevolent Society Congregational Church, 1915. Soft cover. Good. Paperback, green covers with black lettering, rules and decoration to front cover, photo of church on rear cover, ads printed inside covers, 9" x 6", typographic ads throughout, most recipes with contributor's name, 104 pp. Wear and soiling to covers, a few stains to pages. Good condition. Most likely printed in the early 1910s, with only about half the ads having phone numbers, and at least one promoting the fact that they do have a phone. The Waldorf Salad recipe has walnuts (the original recipe from 1896 did not include walnuts; they were added during the 1900s), but just adds "salad dressing" instead of mayonnaise specifically. There is also a recipe for Preacher's Pie. Modern preacher's pie, better known as possum pie in the South, usually has a layer of chocolate-this recipe does not.

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Miniature hardcover; one of 250 numbered copies, this being 188; 2.75 x 2 inches; [1], v-vii, 9-24, [1] pages; frontis illustration of Lamb at his desk. Red leather boards with gilt titles to spine, boards show faint wear with tiny nicks at edges and corners, silver Lilliput booksellers label in rear with old price in Japanese Yen. Collects letters from Charles Lamb to various literary figures relating to his love of books. Printed and with introduction by Wallace Nethery.

Books of Wonder / William Morrow and Company, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x1x10. Signed by Illustrator(s). Blue cloth spine over paper-covered boards under gold/blue pictorial dust jacket. Signed (name only) by Hague on title page. First printing with full number line. Fine in fine jacket.

Boston: G. Schirmer. The Boston Music Co, 1910. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Hallowell, R.C. Softcover, white covers with blue and yellow cover art, 12-1/2" tall, 70 pp., engraved and printed by White-Smith Music Pub.Co., Boston, the title page has "G. Shirmer. The Boston Music Co." at the foot as if they were the publisher or distributor. Front cover has chips at each spine end and one to fore edge, none affect the cover art, rear cover rubbed, spine replaced with black cloth at some point, general wear from usage, but still a VG copy. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box. Based purely on instinct, I believe the spine repair and clamshell were done at the same time, and probably in mid-twentieth century. Some discoloration to lower portion of front cover of clamshell box. John Reed's first separately published (i.e., not Harvard Lampoon) work.

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7. Keats, Ezra Jack. First edition. 179 pages, black and white illustrations throughout; red cloth boards with black titling, four pages have one inch stain at fore edge not affecting text block, dust jacket has some dust smudging and staining, spine is a bit faded, small chip out of head of spine, now in protective mylar sleeve.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated. Black cloth spine over charcoal cloth boards, lettered in red & gilt, map endpapers, octavo. Owner's name & stamp to front endpapers else near fine. Original price of $3.50 intact on DJ flap, tape stain and a few soil marks to rear panel of DJ; front cover & spine look great; designed by Philip Grushkin. A narrative of the Japanese fishing boat whose crew were the first victims of the "superbomb" exploded by the US at Bikini Atoll.

Peacock Press / Bantam Book, 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Nielsen, Kay. Trade paperback, 11-3/4" tall, 40 color plates by Kay Nielsen. Moderate soiling to fore edge of pages, plates are clean and bright, binding solid.

San Diego: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 10x8x0. Signed by Author(s). Full letter line beginning with "A"; signed by Kathryn Lasky and inscribed to previous owner on half-title; 4to, unnumbered pages, black and white illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. It was only Cloud Eyes, the young dreamer, who could bring the bears, the bees, and the people together to share the earth's sweet gifts.

Morrow Bay, California: Tabula Rosa Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Tully, Ron. Signed by Author(s). Miniature hardcover in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering, 2 1/2 x 2 inches, 75 pages, black and white illustrations by Ron Tully throughout, blue marbled enpapers, no notable flaws. This book is set in 10 pt Egmont and printed on acid-free Ragston paper in an edition of 300 copies, of which this is no. 58. Initialed on the colophon page by the author. From the text, "Simply stated, printers and publishers of miniature books are possessed people whose every waking moment is spent trying to solve unsolvable problems." Humorous and personal memories of working in the miniature book world by John Lathourakis of Tabula Rasa.

London: Art and Technics Ltd, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated wraps, with orange dust jacket; 9-

New York: Modern Library, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint; full gray cloth, Toledano binding style 8, 12mo, 491 pages plus publisher's title list in rear, 334 titles listed on rear of dust jacket. Boards show light wear at extremities, tattered dust jacket with light soiling, spine a little faded, now in protective mylar cover.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Tan cloth with blue lettering, 8 x 5.5 inches, 322 pages; Slight edge wear, especially into respect to the head and tail of spine, one light smudge on spine, text is clean with no markings, blue top stain matches the dust jacket; dust jacket is creased along edges revealing the white of the paper, spine is sunned, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. A book of middle class America by a prolific female writer most noted for winning a Pulitzer for her book 'Now in November'.

San Francisco: Samuel Levinson, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, 8vo, 416 pages, illustrated with photos throughout; top of front cover has a faint smudged line, pages are unmarked and binding sound. A recounting of the printing industry from the Director of the United States Mint from 1906-1906.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First edition stated. 338 pages, black and white photographs throughout; black cloth boards with silver titling, dust jacket with a bit of dust smudging now in protective mylar sleeve.

No date or publisher, 6" tall, 13 pp. Stapled wraps with printed cover, very good condition.
A brief memoir of a young man's experiences working at a head shop in Bellingham, Washington. In the span of 13 pages, he takes marijuana, LSD, and heroin; befriends a Hell's Angel; takes a buying trip to Haight Ashbury; has sex with a woman who also had sex with Charles Manson; attends a Who concert; publishes a book and records a song (both fail commercially); talks his way out of being busted by the cops; goes through two relationships with women; avoids a homosexual encounter; and stops taking drugs. Presumably at least partly fictional—especially the part where they drive through Los Angeles on their way from Bellingham to San Francisco, unless the drugs were better than they realized.

Grove Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Brown cloth spine over black paper-covered boards. DJ price intact, minor toning to dust jacket, small closed tear to front panel. A complex figure, Piaget has survived as an author largely because of her supernatural stories (of which this is a collection). She has enjoyed a revival in the last decade, partly due to feminist criticism of her works.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Kinney, Troy & Margaret West. Full grey cloth binding with black & gilt design to front cover and spine, 7-5/8" tall, 394 pp., illustrated with frontispiece & plates by Troy Kinney & Margaret West Kinney (as The Kinneys). Toning to spine panel, light soil to front cover. Binding not signed, has more of an "illustrated" than "designed" feel. Edwin Lef

Orange Judd Company, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, beveled edges, full brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, brown clay-coated endpapers, 7-3/4" tall, 204 pp., illustrated. Light wear to spine ends, small light blemish to pages 44-45, foxing to page edges, small tear to rear endpapers at hinge. The binding shows many classic Victorian elements, from the title banner, to the intricate botanical decoration in black, and even has a hanging indoor plant on the spine.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. Signed by Author(s). Black paper backed in black cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 352 pages, signed plate adhered to half title page, in slipcase; no noted flaws; slipcase shows light wear to corners.