Search Results: Authors starting with L from DuBois Rare Books

Paris: Société des beaux-arts, Editeurs. New York: John C. Yorston & Co., Importers, [between 1867 and 1878], nd. Wraps. English and French on opposite pages. 283 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Cream colored wraps, uncut fore-edge. with a highly decorative pressed cloth slip-on chemise featuring an elaborate floral pattern of Morning Glories in gilt, red and green, all backed in pale blue silk. Book Condition: Very good at least, with minor wear to wraps only. Binding very sound and interior immaculate and unmarred. Luxurious cream colored pages completely lacking any hint of foxing or soiling of any kind. Eight plates collated and perfect (some lacking tissue guards to no effect). Chemise is good only with spine lacking pressed cloth surface altogether and chipping with loss in other spots though blue silk backing is entirely intact and providing stalwart structural integrity to the whole enterprise. While this offering is lacking the called for "portfolio containing 15… Read more

New York: Walton H. Rawls, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking. xix, 292 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color, folded), maps, portrait, plans ; 32 cm. Folio. Errata laid-in. Hardcover. Publisher's original black raw silk over boards, silver lettering to leather spine label. Book Condition: Spine and approx. an inch of top edges of cover faded, spine label chipped. Interior pristine lacking the jacket. A nice association inscribed by author to Martin Gutzwiller, the famed physicist responsible for the Gutzwiller wavefunction among other things. Gutzwiller was a well known book collector whose collection was sold at auction in 2014. A lavish production of sound scholarship and bookcraft. [Not to be confused with the 1983 Abbeville reprint].

Jena: Diederichs, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. i-xv, 1-244. [list of illus., 3 pp advertisements]. Plates, portraits, double map ; 22 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original 1/4 vellum & paper over boards. Book Condition: Very good with continuous light chipping to perimeter of book, soiling to vellum and approx. 2" split at the front joint. Very sound binding and interior is bright and unmarred. List of errata laid in. The plates, especially those from photographs, are extremely well done and beautiful. This is Volume I only of a two volume set. Zeitalter der renaissance ; I. ser., bd. V-VI.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 368pp.

London: The Wallpaper* Group, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 234pp. illus. many color. 30cm. Tall 4to. Softcover. Perfectbound Magazine. The famous full lenticular cover. Book Condition: Very good. Torn at foot of spine, creasing to corner of lower cover, wear to extremities. Lenticular cover very bright and vibrant, interior unmarred. The Global Style Special. Content includes: Studio Lines, Andreas Gursky, The technocrafters, Hollin Hills, Neon accessories, Dining tables, and Hanoi.

New York: Jason Aronson, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 568pp. 23cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, rust colored topstain to upper edge. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities; top edge of lower panel has a little curl. A sharp copy.

Madrid: Galería Kreisler, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps. Very Good +. Unpaged [8 plates, essay, Premios, Exposiciones Individuales]. 24cm. Stiff wraps. Book Condition: Very Good+, with light wear to extremities. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by Jose Lapayese del Rio. "Para el buen amigo Marshall recordando siempre nuestro inolvidable encuentro en NEW YORK. !!Felize ano 1979!! Jose.

New York: William Morrow, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Paris: F. Hazan, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine/Very Good. 18 cm.; 16 mo. Unpaged [7pp] introductory essay by Jacques Lassaigne, followed by 20 full page, color plates, each printed on individual leaves with blank facing pages. End section of 3 pages individually listing the names of the owners of each painting. Softcover. French wraps of cardstock with red and black lettering and a color painting. Book Condition: near fine with the most tirivial of wear to extremities and pristine interior. In the original glassine jacket which shows some frazzling at the edges. Number 31 in the Bibliothèque aldine des arts series. Photographed without glassine jacket for better clarity.

London: A. Lawson, 1855. First Edition, First Printing. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 pp. [one sheet folded once]. 21" x 14". Back issue of The Yarmouth Herald. The entire front page is taken up with a very detailed and very clear description of what each side is doing when one side is laying seige to another; "Explanation of Siege Operations" which serves to prepare to reader for reporting on the current war in Crimea where the Russians are laying siege to the English and the French (if it's not the other way around). The paper, a broadsheet, has been folded twice with area's along the folds suffering, though never such that the text can't be parsed.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 352pp. 2005 Edgar Award winner for Best First Mystery. Brown and red paper over boards with red spine lettering and red stamped facsimle of author's signature on front board. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Both book and jacket are virtually as new.

New York: Prentice Hall Abrams, 1964. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 716 illustrations including 60 color plates plus map and charts. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 527pp. Bibliography. Index. Map. Chart. Burgundy cloth covered boards w/ silver gilt lettering. . Jacket in Mylar cover. Book Condition: Very Good +. Minimal tanning to leaf extremities, all else bright, tight, and square. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. This is the standard reference volume on Asian art. The author was Director at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes: chapters on China, Japan, and Korea, as well as India, Pakistan, and South-East Asia. Authoritative. Profusely illustrated.

Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound photo-illustrated French wraps. Book Condition: Near fine with mild wear to extremities. A sharp copy of lavishly produced exhibition catalog. Copiously illustrated. "This catalogue is published by the Singapore Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Lee Wen, lucid dreams in the reverie of the real, exhibition dates 20 April to 10 June 2012"--Preliminary page. Contents: "If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana." / Khairuddin Hori -- Lee Wen : variations on the exquisite body / Lee Weng Choy [and others] -- life as dream as art as life / Lee Wen -- Coffee with Lee Wen : an artist interview / Khairuddin Hori & Lee Wen -- Artworks -- The exhibition at Singapore Art Museum. Series Title: Singapore contemporary artists series.

Los Angeles: George Houle, 1987. Limited edition of 26 lettered copies and 300 numbered. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. 21 pp. illus. b & w photographic portrait. 8vo. Quarter bound black cloth & marbled paper boards, gilt spine lettering. Printed on handmade rough cut paper, with full title in red and text black. Nibbles to 3 of 4 tips else Fine. Signed on the limitation by William Everson, Anthony Lehman, amd Leigh Wiener. One of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter Q. Anthony Lehman's chance visit to the poet - transcends it's limits by staying within itself. With no point to make, the details of the visit, small but telling, become a poignant coda to Everson's amazing life and career. We can thank the Author also for importuning Everson to contribute an introduction, which is as charming and insightful a bit of prose about solitude as we've run across.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 39 unnumbered pages. 18cm. Duodecimo. Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards, green lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. A sharp copy. Catalog to accompany exhibition prepared by Columbia University Library for the twelfth annual Conference on printing education, June 26-28, 1933.

London & New York: Linden Press & Shulte Publishing Co, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp 127. 22cm. 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, red lettering to spine. Book Condition: Spine ends gently pushed, top edge a little dusty else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Hints of toning to the spine and edges else fine with one tiny nick to bottom edge. Warmly Inscribed to fellow poet Yvette Ripplinger on or near the date of publication. Laid in is a card with a photo of Lennon holding a baby, captioned by a 4 line typed poem and signed. From Worldcat: "A poet and author, she published four books of poetry, including 'Forty Years in the Wilderness', and a biography of Lewis Carroll, 'Victoria Through the Looking-Glass: The Life of Lewis Carroll' . Florence Becker Lennon served as a freelance writer for the New York Call, the Boulder Daily Camera, and Town & Country Review. She also hosted the radio program, "The Enjoyment of Poetry," on WEVD in New… Read more

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 182pp.

Helsinki: Kustamnusosakeybiö Otava, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. p 137 [5] illus. 4to. Spine backed with olive cloth over lighter shade green paper, gilt lettering. Book Condition: Very Good+. Owner's name neatly on ffep. Some offsetting to paste downs, bit musty, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Pretty much 100% there with minor chipping to spine ends and some tears not quite closed along the spine. Light toning to edges. A dignified, very sound copy with a text block that appears unread. In Finnish.

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good +. 671 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm. Small folio. Stiff Pictorial Wraps. Catalogue for a major quincentenary exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992. Book Condition: Very Good+. Very faint shelf wear to panels with a tiny nick to the edge of the front panel. Interior unmarked and unmarred. A sharp copy of a massive, lavishly appointed National Gallery survey of the last 500 years as reflected in the art of the times (most of which they own).

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Hovey St. Press, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Fine/Near Fine. [17] pages ; 23 cm. Softcover. Staplebound; stiff red cardstock wraps with identical stiff red cardstock dustjacket. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket condition: Near fine with faint signs of prior handling. A super sharp copy. It's a worthwhile exercise to check whether any copy one orders is complete with the dust jacket; we see more that do not than do. "Book designed by Judy Katz. Calligraphy by Peggy Johnstone." "Dedicated to the many people who in different ways have helped to make this poem be, and to be a book, and especially to Judy & Barry as a wedding gift"--Half title verso. "This book has been printed in a limited edition of one thousand. Two hundred have been numbered and signed by the author"--Colophon.