Search Results: Titles starting with L from Alba's Books

New York: R.H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Binding shows light edgewear and soiling.

Dover Publications, 1968. First American Edition. Paperback. Very Good. L.J.M. Daguerre Photographs. First American edition of a work first issued in England in 1956. Considered a classic in photography. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Extremely scarce.

Chelsea: Sleeping Bear Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen. Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

The Heritage Press, 1954. First HP Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. William Blake Full-page Halftone Plates. With the Heritage Club Sandglass laid in and in the original acetate jacket within the slipcase. A clean, unmarked, tight copy in a fine slipcase.

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Text and boards vg-; leather hinges tender but tight. Edges rubbed. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt spine. Still a beautiful set. Extremely scarce. Binding is quarter leather.

Doubleday, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Out of print.

Paris: Les Sentiers de la Creation/Flammarion, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Duodecimo. First French trade publication of this Barthes work, with the single date on the copyright page. As issued, in the original heavy yellow wraps with illustration of a Geisha scribe. An attractive, fine, clean and unmarked copy save for a minor 1/4""x1"" amber stain at the top corner of the front cover not extending into the text block.

Paris and London: Bookking International, 1996. First edition Facsimile. Hardcover. As New/As New. Engravings. A facsimile in the original French of the famous Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert, down to the wood engravings, in a one-volume quarto-sized format edited by Clara Schmidt. Pristine, clean and unmarked.

Paris: A.G. Nizet, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. In French. From the estate of La Verne Dalka, concert pianist, Harvard scholar and award-winning composer, with her signature. A tight, clean, unmarked copy.

Grand Street Press, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. As New. The first publication of this Proust work in GRAND STREET. A pristine copy, clean nd unmarked.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Very Good/VG- (minor spot & wrinkles on rear of jacket). In Mylar cover. First book by author of Indian in the Cupboard. Extremely scarce and out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photo of auctioned Stuart silver set tipped on endpaper. Out of print. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. Binding is cloth boards.

Madrid: Rafael Caro Raggio, 1920. Primera Edicion - First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. R. Baroja . Cubierta de cuero (leather binding) y hojas de guardia marmoladas (marbled endpapers) con titulo en oro sobre sello de cuero rojo (gilt title label). Condicion casi fina, sin oxidazion o marcas (near fine and free of foxing). Sumamaente raro (estremely rare).

Arnaud Editore Firenze, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Quarto. Plate illustrations. A magnificent album of wax sculptures depicting the human body and its organs of great value for anatomists, medical practitioners, and scientist. In Italian with an informative review letter from Samuel J. Hough of The Owl at the Bridge Bookshop laid in. Pristine and unmarked in an archival Mylar jacket cover.

Florence: Arnaud Editore. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Quarto. Plate illustrations. A beautifully illustrated compilation of pathologic anatomy for surgeons and anatomists. A fine, clean and unmarked copy with small edge chip to rear panel. Quarto, heavy cloth, 264 plates.

The Century Co., 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original grey cloth with gilt titles and red and silver floral and border decorations. From the library of renowned American Literature scholar and author Harrison Hayford, with his bookplate, and no other marks. A clean, tight copy in bright gilt.

Paris: Gallimard Livre of Poche, 1965. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. Sextodecimo. Revised and expanded edition. A fine, clean copy of this French classic as as first issued by Gallimard, with striking cover art.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. Original blue silk gilt cloth with gilt coat-of-arms on cover and monogram on title page. One of the best biographies of La Fayette. With an important general bibliography in the Appendix, and an index. Book is fine and unmarked, with bright gilt. Jacket has been repaired internally with archival grade tissue, has moderate edgewear, and is protected by the Mylar plastic cover. An attractive copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Graham Sutherland dust jacket art. A few pages have one or two lines in blue ink but book is mostly unmarked. Dust jacket shows minor light edgewear, but is mostly whole, clean and bright. Still an attractive copy.

George Braziller, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. A scholarly and readable account of the French fabulist, with an extensive bibliography. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.