Search Results: Titles starting with L from Ainsworth Books

London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 335 pages; Red cloth boards have some light soiling, light shelfwear to edges, 1/4 inch tear head of spine. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Illustrated by B&W Drawings, hinges intact. A loving look at the people of Scotland. .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on FFEP.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 439 pages; DJ has very light scuffing, heavily chipped bottom front panel with creases and tape repaired tears, pages a little yellowed. Dust jacket in Mylar. A tight bright book. This is the fourth title in the Ballantyne saga. .

London: Headline. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0747213240 . Light creasing of DJ edges, first few pages lightly creased ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped, bright, solid book. Wraparound jacket art by Kevin Tweddell ; 410 pages; Through a misunderstanding Becky finds herself pregnant and alone when her artist husband abandons her in the Bristol slums of Lewin's Mead, and so must face the birth of her child with only a couple of friends to help her, but as she raises her daughter she never loses hope that one day her husband will return. Luck finds her in the form of a blind musician who cares for when she is deathly ill. This is a follow-up to Thompson's novel - 'Becky' .

Toronto, ON: William Briggs/Houghton Mifflin. Very Good-. 1908. Hardcover. 510 pages; Brown Cloth boards have some soiling, medium shelfwear, bumps to front corners of boards. Previous owner's name on back of frontispiece. A tight solid book. 4 color illustrations present with tissue guard on frontispiece. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. First Canadian Edition from the Houghton Mifflin plates. .

London: William Tegg. Very Good-. circa 1870. Later Printing. Hardcover. 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 408 pages; Purple cloth covered boards with gilt print on spine and black blind stamped design on front. Hinges intact. Colour frontispiece and 9 B&W engravings. First 35 pages of text is a biography of Southey dated 1867. The book is not dated but probably comes from 1870's or 80's. This is a solid little book. Corners are bumped, light edgewear. Some careless student has spilled black ink on the back board with small spots on spine & front, a latin notation on fore edges. Page 15 has bottom corner cut out, not extending into text. Very slight foxing. A few notations in book. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank. .

Saanichton, BC: Hancock House Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0919654681 . B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages; Light wear, short tear, crease base of spine, light scuffing. Dust jacket in Mylar, a tight bright book. "This book tells the story of a man's rise from the London slums, the adventures of a very young man entrusted with the difficult and dangerous task of building lighthouses in England, Africa, and all the along the coast of China. He predicted the fall of China to Communism. This book is also a book of amusing anecdotes about characters who flitted through his life. The author spent over 300 hours interviewing Bill Scott." .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 034065998X . Only slight wear to DJ, pages somewhat yellowed as is is common in British publications of this period. ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 342 pages; The murder of James I of Scotland in 1487 leaves a seven year old James II under the influence of a couple of unscrupulous lords, Crichton and Livingston. 'When young Alexander Lyon, son of the Thane of Glamis (and ancestor of the present-day Queen Mother, Elizabeth) , fell in love with and married Agnes, the daughter of William Crichton, little did he realise that his affair of the heart would drag him into the wider affairs of the nation. For Alec Lyon was to become a close attendant and friend of the young monarch at a time when James was in sore need of protection. '. .

Toronto, ON: Musson. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 140 pages; Dust jacket in Mylar. DJ scuffed chipped with short tears, heavy creasing, book has light wear to extremities, light soiling of page edges. Book and DJ still bright. Paste on decoration on front board bright but lightly soiled, DJ unclipped. .

Vancouver, BC: Centre for Continuing Education, U. B. C.. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1980. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0888431244 . Signed by Author; DJ in mylar. DJ is chipped, torn, soiled, rubbed with 1/2" x 1" piece missing from upper front corner. Glue remnant on front end paper. The reminiscences of the author on his years of prairie teaching and his dealings with various immigration groups over the years. .

Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Good. 1911. Hardcover. 84th Print? . Brown cloth cover with dark brown blind stamp design. Short tears top of spine. Front and back hinges cracked but still intact. Pages yellowed. Preface and introduction in english, french and german. Small store sticker on front pastedown. .

Ludlow UK: Ludlow Chimes Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; Dust jacket has a few short tears and chips, light fading to edges. ; Signed and dated by author on title page. A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 102 pages .

Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2011. Facsimile. Hardcover. 8484241912 . Boards show some shelf wear, light soiling. Small bump on top front board edge, small bumps to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name heavily inked out on FFEP, which has bled through to first few pages. ; A tight solid book. ; 9.53 X 6.10 X 0.79 inches; 221 pages; Facsimile copy of 'Chemistry of Air', originally published in 1795 with notes by Grau and Bonet. Martí i Franquès was a 18th C. scientist who studied the properties of air. Text is in Spanish, Catalan and English .

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Very Good. 1996. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0773518703 . Card covers show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name printed on front fly leaf. ; A bright, solid book. B&W photos and drawings ; Volume 3; B&W Illustrations; 8.4 X 8.3 X 0.7 inches; 231 pages; "A religious, well-educated Victorian, Curwen takes us into the heart of the colonial society he encountered. He reveals the pervasive sectarianism, the tawdry political world of St John's, the rudimentary conditions aboard the fishing schooners, and the poverty of the Labrador "livyers," the permanent white settlers who had intermarried with the Inuit. He provides fresh details of the lives of the Moravian Brethren, the first missionaries to the Native population, and comments on the wildlife, the natural environment, and the general disposition of the countryside. Curwen's candid remarks about Grenfell reveal facets of the young missionary… Read More

Victoria, BC: Privately Printed. Very Good. circa 1975. Second Edition. Softcover. Light soiling of blue card covers on back and spine ; Stapled wraps, tight solid book. B&W photographs and reproductions of a few letters addressed to the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 91 pages; "Fascinating account of Col. L. G. and Lady Constance Fawkes, beloved characters of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada." .

New York: Cassell & Company, Ltd.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear, with soiling, bumped corners and wear along edges. Gift inscription on FFEP. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. B&W plates of Lake Geneva and environs. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 347 pages .

Montreal: Eden Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550450026 . Dust jacket spine faded, some edge wear, tear base of spine, crease down front flap. Only light wear to book.; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 0.7 x 11.8 x 9 Inches; 128 pages; Artist, Altobello created this book to "record an historic era in shipbuilding; a time when fine craftmanship and aesthetic consideration of Great Lakes ships. ... With these 64 richly textured drawings, Altobello has managed to seize and record the essence of each of these Great Lakes freighters." The featured boats are the S.S. Elmglen built in 1909; the S.S. Outarde built in 1927 and the S.S. August Ziering built in 1917. .

Hertfordshire, UK: Harleyford Publications Limited. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 0900435100 . Price clipped DJ shows worn, with tears and chipping, light soiling. Previous owner's name stamped on inside front board and FFEP. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs, drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages; This shows the evolution of the Lancaster bomber from the pre WWII Manchester, through the war years and the important role the Mk IV and V played and into the post war years and its various incarnations. At the back is a log of the individual planes with one line histories. Many photographs and drawings of the planes, crews and others involved the Lancaster history. The colour frontispiece is a rendering of the Lancaster's most famous bombing run as a dam buster. .

Toronto: The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 1856480550 . DJ shows light edge wear, gift inscription on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; This is a reprint compilation of two previous books published by Ian Allen, ``Lancaster at War`` (1971) and ``Lancaster at War 2`` (1979). .

Bath, UK: Chalford Publishing. As New. 1994. First Edition; First Edition. Paperback. 0752400150 . This book with card covers shows only slight wear. ; Trade PB; The Old Photographs Series; B&W Photographs; 159 pages; This book is "compiled from personal photographs and a unique collection of photographic picture postcards .. portrayal of Lancaster and the Lune Valley in the first twenty-five years of this century .. fascinating and nostalgic insight into the life and changing landscape of the area." .

London: Conway. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 1844861538 . Boards show light shelf wear, sun fading, light soiling. ; A tight solid book. B&W illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages; A brief technical manual, design specifications, trials, pilot's and flight engineer's notes, etc. .