Search Results: Titles starting with L from Roz Hulse

Longden. John Miles, LPs and Singles. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Back cover has printed an incorrect ISBN number. Pp112. In almost 'as new condition throughout. A scarce book.

Murat, Princesse Lucien : La Fayette. Illustrated by Alice Halicka. ca.1930. [Paris], France, Fontenay-Aux-Roses. Tall 4to size approx 350mm x 220mm. Stiff wrappers covered with illustrated paper by Alice Halicka. pp20 illustrated throughout by Alice Halicka, a contemporary of Picasso and more famous for her cubism work and that of her husband Louis Marcoussis. Cover papers a little bumped at end with 1cm square loss to edge, not touching illustrated area. Bright and clean throughout. Personal inscription from author across front free endpaper. Scarce.

Monin, Charles : La Gaule Divisee en dix sept provinces. ca.1844. Paris. Size approx 230mm x 300mm. Hand coloured map with decorative border and scales. Bright and clean.

Rostand, Edmond. L'aiglon. Paris, Libraire Charpentier and Fasquelle. 1916. Il a été tité 180 exemplaires numérotés à la presse sur pavier du japon. Trois cent sixieme mille 8vo. Limp morocco covers, top edge gilt, five raised bands, gilt titles to spine. Pp264. Pages age toned to edges. Tight and bright contemporary binding, light bumping to edges. Ownership stamp on front free end papers.

Davies. Harry,. The Lean Years. Extracts from a novel by Harry Davies. Pub. Andy Croft, Middlesbrough, Ca1984. 1st Edition. 8vo, Printed card covers. Pp 39. Covers and pages a little age toned. Handwritten copyright note inside back cover. Tight,. Bright and clean. A Scarce item.

LENIN, Vladimir Ilych. Lenin on Britain. A compilation, with an Introduction by Harry Pollitt. London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1941. 1st Edition in the Marxist-Leninist Library. 8vo. Soft cover. Pp316. Covers and page edges age toned. In clean, bright and tight condition.

Sharper Knowlson, T. Leo Tolstoy. A Biographical and Critical Study. Frederick Warne, 1904, 1st Edition. 8vo, 190mm x 130mm. Green cloth, blind decoration and gilt titles to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded portrait frontis, pp190. Bookplate and signature of previous owner. Some light foxing to preliminary pages, water stain lower edge of frontis just into plate area.Shelf wear to binding edges.

Wheeler, Eleanor: Lidice Warns the World. Prague: Orbis, 1952 For the Ministry of Information and Culture. Limited edition of 3300 copies. Soft cover illustrated by woman with babe in arms in front of war camp huts. 8vo 150mm x 210mm. PP24, i-xvi black and white photographs [i] text to photographs. Covers a little age toned to edges, otherwise very clean and bright throughout. A Scarce Limited First Edition.

Llanthony Abbey. Tinted Lithograph Ca 1840. Sheet and print size 335mm x 230mm. Founded in the 12th century, this was the first Augustinian priory in Wales. The lithograph shows visitors to the Abbey and also residents of the homestead which was established from the west range by Colonel Sir Mark Wood at the end of the 18th Century and sold in 1807 to the poet Walter Savage Landor. Cropped to edges. A bright and clean print from a scarce view point.

Grigsby, Joan. Longshore and Down Channel. Heath Cranton, London, 1932. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Pp145, 12 full page illustrations by Stanley Rogers. Neat ownership inscription of 1932 Tipped onto front pastedown is a handwritten letter from the author dated December 11 1932. In bright, clean excellent condition.

Lawrence, D.H. Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces, With a Reminiscence by David Garnett, Nonesuch Press, 1930. 1st limited edition, No 420 of 1600. 8vo. Yellow cloth on canvas spine, black label, gilt titles in excellent condition, with dustwrapper in very good condition. Top edge specked, others rough-trimmed edges. PP96, colophon. Scattered light spots, otherwise in tight and clean order throughout.

Olivier. Edith, The Love Child. The Richards Press, London. 1951. 8vo. Pp159. Blue cloth boards, silver titles to spine. Title and final leaf decorations by Rex Whistler. No dustwrapper. Spine sunned and bumped at edges. All pages and illustrations in tight and bright condition. Scarce Richards Press Edition.

Love-Tales from Tallemant. Rendered from the French. Printed at Golden Cockerel for Grafton and Co London. 1925. 4to. Limited edition 397 of 1000. one of 1000 copies. Cloth backed boards, edges untrimmed, paper label to spine. PP247 printed in red and black. Endpapers and page edges age toned, boards a little bumped, otherwise in clean and bright condition.

Stark, Freya. The Lycian Shore. London, John Murray. 1956. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine and front, faded, especially in spine area. Dust wrapper unclipped but chipped and torn at edges and two thirds of the dust wrapper spine missing. Pp 204. Title page vignette by Reynolds Stone and including 12 pages of black and white photographs, drawing in the text by the author and folded map of Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean area. All pages and illustrations tight, bright and clean. Booksellers label of L Simmons/Fleet Street on front pastedown. Neat ownership mark in pencil on front free endpaper "Izzard/Beirut/June 1956. This person could be Ralph or Molly Izzard. Ralph Izzard a journalist who spent many years in Beirut had also been involved in Naval Intelligence and acquainted with Ian Fleming. His wife Molly was a wartime FANY and later went on to use her inquisitive skills to study the works of Freya Stark completed a very interesting biography of Stark. A book with perhaps… Read More

Bullen, A.H., Lyrics From The Song-Books Of The Elizabethan Age. London, John C Nimmo, 1887. 8vo. Limited Large paper Edition. Number 40 of 250. Half calf over tan buckram. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative bookplate on front pastedown. Pp200. Flyleaves show a little discolouration from contact with boards. All pages bright and clean.