Search Results: Authors starting with L from Fine Editions Ltd

Akron, Oh: Independent Labor League, 1943. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. Only edition of this full-throated left-wing program to advance labor interests, published in the midst of the Second World War and couched in strongly antifascist terms. Slim demy 8vo (207 x 151mm): 15,[1]pp, with two illustrations. Original blue staple-bound wrappers printed in black, wood- (or lino-) cut vignette to front cover. Virtually pristine example of this rare pamphlet, with only two copies noted by Worldcat (Ohio State University and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library). Perhaps the work of Burr McCloskey, labor organizer and later publicist, who in 1943 edited the Independent Labor League's newspaper, The Sentinel, and in 1956 ran as a third-party candidate for vice-president. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine… Read More

Victor, Colo: Copyrighted . . . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Langdon, folding plate of United States Reduction and Refining Plant at Colorado City, and 48 further full- and partial-page plates (mostly views and portraits from photographs, including many union officers). Publisher's forest green pictorial cloth, upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt. A superb survival, binding fresh with bright gilt, pages and plates virtually pristine. Contemporary account of the Colorado Labor Wars, one of the bloodiest labor strikes that led to the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. Dedicated to the Western Federation of Miners, who "have made a lawful, law-abiding and manly fight against the lawless, corrupt and… Read More

London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fine. First Impression of this weird murder mystery novel, coauthored with James Clarence Harvey. Scarce British issue (FirstSearch lists only five copies worldwide), from sheets of New York publisher Lovell, Coryell & Company, with final leaf a cancel conjugate with final leaf of Cassell's advertisements at rear. Crown 8vo (184 x 116mm): 283,[15]pp, with erratum tipped to p. [5]. Publisher's terracotta pictorial cloth, spine titled in gold, front cover lettered in black and elaborately decorated in relief with two bejeweled scarab beetles in silver, gilt, and green; original green floral end papers. Book plate of author Henry N. Shore (1847-1926) to front paste-down, signed and dated "Aug. 1895." An exemplary example, tightly bound and clean and bright throughout. Locke, p. 133. Clareson 492. Bleiler (Fantastic Literature), p. 175. Wright III, 3211. An anomaly among Lanza's realist novels, which often… Read More

London: Fortune Press, 1965. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second (unauthorized) Edition, originally published by the Fortune Press in 1945. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],36pp. Publisher's smooth maroon buckram (some copies bound in brownish-orange buckram, no priority known), spine lettered in gilt, bottom edge untrimmed; beige dust jacket (Bloomfield calls it pale orange, but to my eye there is very little, if any, orange in it) printed in black, priced 21s. Possibly run off from the same plates as the first edition, with the copyright page still reading "First Published 1945," though this edition appeared in a larger format than the original (9 1/8'' x 5 5/8'' vs. 7 1/8" x 5"). A virtually pristine, unread copy, completely free of foxing and wear, in Fine jacket. Bloomfield A1(b). This pirated edition, limited to 500 copies, was issued in advance of the authorized Faber & Faber release (on Sepember 15,1966), but was swiftly withdrawn when Larkin discovered its existence. By 1972, according to… Read More

London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street [through 1718], 1717. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Three volumes in one: Fifth Edition of the first, Second of the second, First of the third. 8vo: [2, the frontispiece and title page may be cancels],vi (dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The fruit-garden kalendar transferred here, as usual, to The clergy-man's recreation [ESTC Citation No. T30847]),[8],84, with a copper-engraved frontispiece by Simon Gribelin and a letterpress illustration; [18],115,[1], with a frontispiece, four folding plates (including the plate showing a method of finding the meridian line, often missing) and a letterpress illustration (in this edition [ESTC Citation No. T142272], the last '7' of the date on the title page falls below the first 't' of 'Lintott', and on p.5 the "B" of the signature is below the "a" of "acquainted" in the final line); [4],v,[1],146 (wanting final 3pp of the appendix, but with 7 extra pages of Lintot's catalog), [10]pp,… Read More

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. First American Edition of the title "universally considered by dealers and collectors alike Mr. Lawrence's scarcest book." (MacDonald) 8vo: [8],467,[1]pp. Publisher's original dark tan coarsely woven cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine or better (dust-soiled and spotted top edge, a touch shelf-worn). Neither Roberts nor MacDonald gives a separate entry for the New York edition, but both note its appearance under the entry for the London edition.) Roberts A7. MacDonald 7. ML 100, 48. The Observer's 100. Although the title page bears the date 1916, this edition was first published November 30, 1915, in order to establish the legitimacy of the American copyright date. "The Rainbow and Women in Love were originally intended to form one novel entitled The Sisters, which was begun in 1913 when Lawrence was living in Italy, but as the novel developed across 1913-14—whilst… Read More

London: Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, 1927. First Edition. Card Covers. Fine. A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Foolscap 8vo (144 x 110mm): 28pp, with 2 full-page photographs on coated paper (Eric Kennington's bust of Lawrence and Augustus John's portrait of "H. M. King Feysal of Irak"). Wire-stitched in original dark beige card wrappers. Trivial nick to leading edge of upper wrapper, else pristine. O'Brien A099. Catalogue of an exhibition of 81 items. The preface Lawrence contributed to the 1921 exhibition catalogue of Arab Portraits by Kennington, with the first three paragraphs omitted, was repurposed for this 1927 catalogue. George Bernard Shaw also contributed a preface "saying more about Lawrence than he did about the exhibition." (O'Brien)… Read More

New York / London: Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year under the title A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Jolly Roger: Slim Demy 8vo (218 x 147mm): [12]pp, with scarce erratum slip laid in. Publisher's speckled beige paper-covered boards, matching beige paper title label printed in black to upper cover, patterned end papers printed in rose and black. A Very Fine copy without noticeable flaw. A Propos: Slim crown 8vo (189 x 115mm): 62,[2]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's French blue cloth ruled and lettered in brown; salmon-pink illustrated dust jacket ruled and lettered in black and priced 3/6. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roberts A48 (Although the limitation statement states that 600 copies were… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition thus. Near Fine+. First Trade Edition (hand-numbered limited issue, no. 363 of 750 copies) of one of the indisputable classics of twentieth century English literature. Thick, square 8vo: 672pp, with 54 plates (many in color and including 3 not in in the 1926 subscriber's edition and a number not in the cheaper ordinary trade edition bound in cloth) by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts, and others and 4 folding maps. Publisher's original quarter tan pigskin over brown buckram boards, spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt with others uncut, Cockerell marbled endpapers; with gilt-stamped motto on upper board: "The sword also means cleanness & death." Without the card slipcase and the plain-paper dust jacket, usually discarded. An excellent copy, top grain rubbed at spine ends, light fading and occasional spotting to cloth, otherwise virtually pristine and apparently unread (many pages unopened). O'Brien A041. National Geographic 100, 24. Third (but second… Read More

London: Duckworth, 1916. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. First Issue (with 16-page publisher's catalog at the end) of Lawrence's second collection of poems. Crown 8vo: viii,140,16pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed (variant 1. Roberts speculates that advance copies were not trimmed on all edges). Near Fine or better (end sheets offset, few faint splash marks to cloth), square, tight, and clean throughout. Roberts A9a. MacDonald 9. Fabes & Foyle (second series), p. 49. According to Macdonald, "Copies with the catalogue would seem to be rare. . . . Copies without the catalogue are 'easy' . . . " "Because of its position in Lawrence's oeuvre, Amores (1916) has not received as much critical attention as the volume that followed, Look! We Have Come Through (1917). Grouped with the 'Rhyming Poems,' Amores predates the more experimental, Whitmanesque free verse through which Lawrence has exerted his enduring influence. But while… Read More

London: Duckworth, 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine. First or Second Issue (bibliographers disagree, but note MacDonald: "A [third or] later issue], in somewhat lighter blue cloth, lettered in black, must not be confused with either [first or second issues]). Crown 8vo: 310,[2],20(publisher's catalog)pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt; attractive bespoke book plate to front paste-down. Roberts records three variants, of which this is the first issue (20pp publisher's catalog); MacDonald gives priority to the issue with 16-page catalog. We have both in Fine condition on offer, so the choice is yours, but, in the absence of corroborating evidence, we frankly believe that determining an edition's issue by undated publisher's catalogs alone is a dicey business, at best. Fine, square, tight, with undiminished gilt. MacDonald B16. Roberts A6. NCBEL IV, 482. Lawrence's first collection of stories, twelve pieces previously published in various literary magazines… Read More

Paris: Baschet et Cie, 13, Rue Saint-Georges, 1945. Quarter-Cloth. Fine-. First Edition of the most sought after and rarest of L'Illustration's great albums, a landmark work describing in exhaustive detail photography's early development. Text in French. Royal 8vo (375 x 280mm): [8],451,[5]pp, profusely illustrated with hundreds of monochrome and color plates (some with die-cut and decorative mounts and borders), using a variety of reproduction techniques and paper stocks, and an original full-page calotype (still life by Sougez, p. 189). Publisher's maroon cloth spine titled in silver, marbled paper-covered boards, and decorative endpapers, with original lorgnon bicolore (3-D glasses) housed in front past-down pocket for viewing in relief the anaglyphs on pp. 285-88. Corners lightly rubbed, few trivial nicks to boards, but an excellent example, securely bound and virtually pristine throughout. Frizot, p. 10. Successor to Beaumont Newhall's The History of Photography (1937), demonstrating "the… Read More

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Fine. First Edition in book form, No. 18 of 30 copies printed on Amalfi paper (total limitation: 150 copies, of which 130 for sale). With an introduction by W. J. Mc Cormack. Royal 8vo (256 x 167mm): pp. 35,[1]pp, with three engraved vignettes. Publisher's cream card covers, green and red marbled dust jacket, paper title label printed in black to front panel. An excellent example, virtually pristine. Sullivan, pp. 257-62 (Calling Le Fanu "the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century"). Clute & Grant, p. 571. First published anonymously in The Dublin University Magazine, in January, 1862, and never reprinted in any form until this Tragara Press edition. Mc Cormack set out the case for Le Fanu's authorship in 1980, in Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland, pp. 278-79. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories." Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle… Read More

A Rouen: chez Laurent Dumesnil, imprimeur-libraire, rue de l'Ecureuil, 1778. Paste Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. Second Edition, the definitive text (considerably enlarged and augmented), of this classic work on the hunting of hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, and otter, with a section on canine health, studies of hooves and footprints, and dictionary of hunting terms. Crown 8vo (196 x 114mm): xv,[i],526 pp, with 19 plates (many folding, some double-sided and on blue paper), 27 woodcuts, and 14 pages of engraved music ("Tons de chasse et fanfares"). Collated and complete, including the blank ("rarely found," according to Schwerdt), unprinted but paginated (pp. 447-48). Splendidly rebound to style by Fitterer in hand block printed paper-covered boards, preserving the original patterned end papers; brown morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges stained rose pink. A superb presentation, tightly bound and clean throughout. Schwerdt I: 313. Souhart 299-300. Thiébaud 589-590 ("bien supérieure comme… Read More

New York: Fredrick A. Stokes, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. Inscribed Fourth Printing (so stated) of this important collaboration of two beloved children's book artists, Ludwig Bemelmans and Munro Leaf. Oblong royal 8vo (198 x 253mm): [52], including numerous full- and partial page color illustrations. Publisher's mid-brown cloth lettered and decorated in yellow and black; illustrated dust jacket priced $1.50. Inscribed by Leaf (and with doodle) on fly-leaf: "To / Charles / with all the best wishes / Noodle and / Munro Leaf." Slight slant to spine, else tightly bound and clean and bright throughout, about Fine; Near Fine or better jacket (very light edge wear, closed tear skillfully repaired to back panel). Scarce in any edition, particularly signed, with First Search identifying only six copies of this fourth printing. Originally published in 1937. When Noodle, a dachshund, is granted a wish from the good dog fairy to be any size and shape, he decides to remain Noodle. N. B.… Read More

A Paris: Chez Duponcent, Libraire, quai de la Grève, N. 34, 1803. Sheep. Fine. Rare First Edition of this map-maker's manual with brilliant hand-colored plates. 8vo (): xii,95,[1]pp, with title page vignette and 11 folding engraved plates (of surveyor's instruments and sample maps and plans), nine of which are hand-coloured, "enluminées avec soin et conformément aux principes." Publisher's signature of authentication to verso of title page. Contemporary sheep-backed brown marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments divided by ruled bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges, green silk marker. WorldCat Discovery identifies a single copy at libraries worldwide (Canadian Center for Architecture); Rare Book Hub lists only three copies of the second edition. An exemplary copy (occasional light foxing), tightly bound and general clean throughout, with richly colored plates. Attractively illustrated guide on topographical surveying and cartography by this French geographer, divided into… Read More

London: R. K. Burt & Co, 1878. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine+. Sole edition of this detailed survey of sightings of the white Beluga whale, beginning in the 1860s. Demy 8vo (215 x 139mm): 16 pp. Original pale yellow wrappers printed in black. Blind bookseller's stamp to lower cover (Willing & Co., 366 Gray's Inn Road), which is lightly dust-soiled and edge-nicked. A collectible survival. Lee was appointed a director of the Royal Aquarium, in Brighton, in 1872, where a female beluga whale, captured near Labrador, was exhibited for three days, before it died and was autopsied. His account includes a natural history of Beluga whales and references to historic sources going back to Guillaume Rondelet, the French sixteenth naturalist. Unsurprisingly, no mention is made of Moby Dick, since Melville's creation was, of course, an albino sperm whale, not a Beluga. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar… Read More

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. Near Fine+. A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Crown 8vo (191 x 127mm): [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 woodcuts (title-page vignettes, head- and tailpieces) by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. Bound by Orrock & Son in half-burgundy morocco, marbled sides and end papers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: Signature opposite title page of volume one and half titles of volumes two and three of Robert Pitcairn, dated Dec. 1823. Nineteenth century armorial book plate of Walter King (lion sejant erect ppr., holding between its paws an escallop arg.) and a second book plate (possibly Maurice Harlay's) with motto "Deo et regi." An excellent set (preliminaries lightly spotted), tightly bound and clean throughout with rich impressions of the cuts. Hugo 4279. Tattersfield TB2.167. Reprint of the first edition of… Read More

London: John Murray, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of Leigh Fermor's scarce second book (and first novel), with drawings by Robin Ironside. Tall, slim 8vo (215 x 132mm): 139,[1]pp. Publisher's moss-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, moss-green map end papers; superbly illustrated dust jacket, priced 9s/6d. A virtually pristine copy (apparently unread), the jacket minutely rubbed at the extremities. Preceded by The Traveller's Tree (1950), Leigh Fermor's best-selling travel book, considered a classics of the genre, and like that first book, set in the Caribbean. The romantic tale of an enigmatic Frenchwoman's youth amongst the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Basis for Malcolm Williamson's three-act opera, with libretto by William Chappell. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and… Read More

Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. Fine. First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian queen, one of papal medals, and 13 of the Council's participants) and two title-page vignettes. Separate title-pages in red and black, with superbly engraved vignette of the city of Pisa. Printed marginalia, bibliographical references, and index. Also includes "Declaration de Charles VI," declaring the Duke of Burgundy an enemy of the state. Contemporary full French calf, spine in seven compartments, very richly gilt, divided by raised bands; red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. Armorial engraved bookplate of John Orlebar of the Middle Temple (1697-1765) to verso of title-page. (Orlebar was member of parliament, from the constituency of Bedford, from 1727-1734.)… Read More