Search Results: Authors starting with L from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Derrydale Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine faded, foxing to . endpapers.. 2000. Reprint; Later Printing. Softcover. Softcover with French flaps. vi, 218pp. A nice copy of this classic book on fly fishing with chapters relating to observation, the rise, natural insect imitation, and various fly patterns. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Gilt titles dulled on spine.. 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. vi, 218 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 1943. A lovely presentation copy of this angling classic.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: D. Van Nostrand Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Number stamp, owner name and bookplate on . front endpapers.. 1947. Later Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth. xv, 180pp. Black and white frontispiece photo, black and white illustrations, notes, figures, tables, fold out illustrations, appendix, and index. It will be the purpose of the authors to consider the subject wholly from the merchant officers' point of view, keeping in mind the fact that officers do not wish to wade through a morass of unnecessary technical terms. (preface) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and soiled.. 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with brown topstain and deckled page edges. viii, 303pp. Illustrated endpapers, foreword. A collection of stories that revolve around the life of an anthropologist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Garnier Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper . missing, light foxing to endpapers.. N.D.. Hardcover. Quarterbound red leather with four raised bands and gilt stamped spine compartments on spine. Red marbled sides. Many engravings by J. J. Grandville. Text in French. Handsome illustrated copy of La Fontaine's fables with biography and literary commentary by Lemaistre. xliv, 416pp. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good; Covers lightly scuffed.. 1992. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0691015325 . xxii, 273pp, notes, bibliographical note. Bilingual edition in French and English. Inscribed by the illustrator, David Schorr, on the front free endpaper.; Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled.. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399131302 . Tan paper quarterbound in green cloth. A novel of Vietnam and the ordeal of a long-held POW. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages .

NY: M. Barrows & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, a few checkmarks.. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in yellow on front boards and spine. Lots of old-fashioned recipes, particularly for baked goods and European holiday treats. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. 0806132515 . Tan cloth. xii, 292pp. Acknowledgments, black and white photos, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Contrary Neighbors examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own. (from the front jacket flap) Volume 237 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rear panel worn.. 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. 0819540854 . Gray paper quarter-bound in blue cloth. vii, 263pp. Black and white frontispiece portrait photo, black and white illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Eight of Albion's colleagues and former students have contributed broadly based interpretive essays on aspects of Atlantic maritime history with a bibliography of Albion's writings by Joan Bentinck-Smith and ship drawings by William A. Baker. (from the jacket flaps) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: E. P. Dutton and Co.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, . spine cocked, jacket shelfworn.. 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. 0525237151 . Brown cloth. vi, 278pp. Map, many black and white photos. First of three memoirs by the late wildlife activist, writer and woodswoman, Anne LaBastille, about her life at her wilderness cabin in New York's Adirondack Mountains region. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and worn.. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393023885 . Halfbound cloth. Many black and white photos. Memoir by the late author of her life off the grid in the Adirondack wilderness. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages .

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards and edges worn, corners rounded.. 1923. Second Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. xv, 321pp. Black and white illustrations and photos, notes, and tables. A vintage analysis of the virtues of aging. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: The John Church Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, last song (a Geisha Dance Song . for Japan) has penciled notations, and pages are semi-detached. Vintage . bookseller's ticket on front pastedown endpaper (Werner's of NYC) .. 1908. Hardcover. A compilation of songs and dance steps for America, England, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary and Japan. Words by Margaret E. Lacey, musical scores by Eduardo Marzo and dancing directions by Oscar Duryea. Each country has a color illustration of a man and woman in national dress. Burgundy buckram binding with gilt lettering stamped on front boards. ; Large Octavo; 102 pages .

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and tattered, sticker . ghost on front endpapers.. 1966. First English Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Lovett F. Edwards. Index, bibliography, illustrations. The author examines the fifty days of Napoleon's life between June 18,1815, his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and August 9, 1815, the day he sailed out to exile in Saint Helena. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages .

London: Arms and Armour Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn.. 1972. Hardcover. 0853683409 . Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. Introduction by David G. Chandler. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 202 pages .

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. Very Good; Boards rubbed, owner bookplate on front free endpaper.. 1982. Hardcover. Bound in brown leather titled in gilt. All edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. Many illustrations and photos. Bibliography, biography of the life of artist Wassily Kandinsky. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 95 pages .

NY: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops soiled.. 1970. Hardcover. The author was "brought up in the rareified atmosphere of Negro society, private schools, and a studied imitation of the white world", but then became an activist who left the US for Nkrumah's Ghana and later returned to America. Black cloth sewn binding. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. Third Printing. Hardcover. 054762840 . Black cloth. Map, author's note. Third volume in this young adult historical fiction series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 444 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket rubbed, faint dampstain at heel of jacket.. 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0684141841 . Translated by Moura Budberg and Gordon Latta. Photos, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages .