Search Results: Authors starting with L from Century Books

London: Quartet Books, 1986. 1st thus. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light scuffing on dust jacket, else fine. Seven remarkable yet largely unknown stories by four men writing in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The stories are Bad Company by Vladimir Korolenko; The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District by Nicholas Leskov; Abyss by Leonid Andreev; and four by Alexander Kuprin - The Bracelet of Garnets, Sasha, The Army Ensign, and The Jewess.

London: Sheed & Ward, 1959. Reprint. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Green cloth boards, one small corner bump. Some edgewear on dust jacket and ghost of a sticker on jacket cover. Translated into modern English by Henry W. Wells. Introduction by Nevill Coghill. A classic of medieval poetry.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1961. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. One corner of cover cut off, does not affect content.

New York: Henry Holt, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Second novel by the author of Silk Road. A fantasy set in medieval China. Young Pomegranate is forced by the ruin of her family's business to serve a degenerate wealthy family in 12th century Linan. Beyond time, the Yellow Emperor begins a storytelling competition between his wife and his favorite courtier, and the two tell the adventures of Pomegranate in a grand battle of wits.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Light edgewear, small mark on endpaper. Pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart. A John Putnam Thatcher mystery. The sentimental and irate parents at St. Bernadette's Parochial School in Queens are upset over plans to convert the property to an apartment house, and the result is murder.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Small mark on bottom edge. Small chip on dust jacket rear, else fine. The unflappable John Putnam Thatcher gets involved when a losing hockey team shoots to first place, and one of Sloan Guaranty Trust's best customers becomes a suspect in two tam-related murders. Pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart. A

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark, very light edgewear. Pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart. A John Putnam Thatcher mystery.

New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Lawrence's second mystery featuring Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist and licensed private eye.

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. Stiff wraps w/ flaps, remainder mark, some edgewear, light soiling, first page clipped on Sanders' side. Volume 1 of Capra Back-to-Back Series. Sanders' half is a short novel of artist John James Audubon's boyhood. LeGuin's story is excerpted (pre-publication) from the novel Always Coming Home.

New York: Basic Books, [1959]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. Black cloth. Dust jacket is sunned with some shelfwear. 452 pages. First of three volumes reporting the findings of the Stirling County Study of Psychiatric Disorder & Sociocultural Environment, an intensive, 10-year research project.

Doubleday Crime Club, 1987. 1st US edition.. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Travel writer Richard Clayburn discovers the shadow world of London, a place where life and death battle daily, and murder sets the pace.

Salt Lake City: Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey, 1973. Softcover. Good.. Special Studies 43. Large previous owner stamp on front cover and small, neat notations on one page, else fine. 16 pages.

Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1969. 1st. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Full blue cloth binding. DJ has some edgewear, one small tear.

New York: George Braziller, [1972]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. A few very small edgetears, else fine. Introduction by Margaret Mead. Biographical note by George L. Engel.

Forge, 1999. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Edgewear on dust jacket. When the reigning sex star of the soaps is the prime suspect in a murder case, she calls on her still-besotted ex-husband to clear her name. To expose the real killer, he must untangle the truth about the rumors of an affair between Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Debut novel of a Hollywood insider.

New York: Springer-Verlag, [1980]. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Previous owner name on first free endpaper, light shelfwear, else fine. 95 illustrations

New York: International Universities Press, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine condition. Blue cloth. Approximately 8 x 5 inches. 64 pages. Part of The Freud Anniversary Lecture Series of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

New York: Science House, [1967]. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Some soil on back of dust jacket, else fine. 18 papers, plus bibliography and index. 310 pages.

New York: Science House, [1967]. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Some soil on back of dust jacket, else fine. 16 papers on clinical psychiatry and social psychiatry, plus bibliography and index. 335 pages.

New York: Scientific American Library, 1982. 1st. Hardback. VG/VG. Water Damage on lower spine. 1 chip missing from dust jacket. Erratum slip included. Part of series.