Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. Scholarly study of Montaigne's idea of judgment, its semantics, and role in self-reliance and self-discovery. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author to a fellow scholar, Alfred Glauser, with a typed letter, signed, also laid in. Paperback. Light wear, minor creasing, some wrinkling to spine, fading to covers. Text clean; [10]. 149 pages; index, bibliography.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6¼" by 9½".

Madison WI: Robert M. La Follette Co., 1913. Memoir of the founder of Wisconsin's progressive political dynasty, a radical reformer, written in part while he was fighting Taft for the Republican party nomination for President in the 1912 campaign. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, possibly as issued. Light wear to book, corners lightly bumped, minor scuffs to rear cover; light foxing within. Text clean; xii, 807 pages; index, b/w plates. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

New York: Avon, 1955. Satiric novel of infidelity edging the Parisian underworld, got up to look like a steamy pot-boiler for the American paperback market; La Fouchardiere was a journalist & novelist active from around 1908-1938. Pocket-sized paperback, as pictured, Avon 669. Tanned & foxed, light creasing to somewhat grubby covers. . First American Edition. Paperback. Good. 4¼" by 6½".

New York: Allerton Book Company, 1922 Volume one only, of two. Full brown cloth, gilt spine title. Jacket is split at the main creases and heavily chipped, but substantially present. 298 pages, text clean. Collects parts of several narratives relating to La Salle's explorations.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 5" by 7½".

Quantico, VA: Forensic Science Research and Training Center, FBI Academy, 1993. Set of five books comprising four volumes, complete. Highly technical statistical compilation of genetic data, for forensic science DNA work. Volume I-A: Study Overview and Hae III Histograms; I-B: Hae III Bin Tables; II: Study Overview and Hinf Histograms and Bin Tables; III: Hae III and Hinf Scatter Plots and Statistical Comparisons; IV: Hae III and Hinf I DNA Profile Frequency Estimates in Various Reference Populations. Mostly charts, figures and tables. Light wear, some creasing, name on front cover of volume I, a few pencil notes and marks within; over 1886 pages.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8½" by 11". Set.

Richmond, VA: W.J. Barrow Research Laboratory, 1969 28 pgs; bibliography; 4 tables, 1 color chart. Bound in white paper wraps. Cover shows only light wear & slight soil; small ink notation ("dupe") on front. Binding tight. Interior is clean & unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Octavo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Richmond, VA: W.J. Barrow Research Laboratory, 1965 66 pgs; bibliography; 25 tables, 1 b&w photo. Bound in white paper wraps. Cover shows only light wear & slight soil; small ink notation ("dupe") on front. Binding tight. Interior is clean & unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Octavo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Cambridge University Press, 1991. Seven essays looking at changing ideas of rights & their philosophical groundings in two periods of American thought, and comparing those ideas to British & European thought. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows some spine fading; name address label on free endsheet. Text clean; viii, 474 pages; index, appendix presenting the text of the US Constitution. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. Account of European knowledge of Asian civilization in the sixteenth century, their relations, and Asian influence on European art, literature, technology, & culture, focussing on the transmission of this knowledge mostly through concurrently printed accounts. Volume one only, complete in two books; hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to books & jackets, ink name (cartographer David Woodward) neatly rubberstamped in each volume. Texts clean; xxviii, 492; xii, 493 to 965 pages; index, bibliography, many maps & illustrations. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this set of books may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Account of the reaction within Europe to its increasing knowledge of Asian civilization in the sixteenth century, based on concurrently printed accounts. Volume two only, complete in three books; hardcover in jacket as pictured. Book Two is INSCRIBED by the author to cartographer David Woodward. Books two & three were published in 1977, ISBN 0226467511. Light wear to books & jackets, a few small chips & creases to jacket edges. Texts clean; xvii, blank, 257; xxiii, blank, 392; xii, [393] to 764 pages; index, bibliography, many maps & illustrations. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this set of books may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.

Kansas City, MO: Sheed Andrews & McMeel, Inc., 1978 Green paperback. General wear, one corner curled, sticker removal scar on rear cover. Text clean; xvii, 130 pages, index. Unaltered reprint of 1956 original, partially a synthesis of the works of Menger, Knight & Hayek.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9".

Paris: Jean Th. Herissant & les Freres Estienne, 1766 vi, 754pgs; + 20pg. Supplement. Rebound. New backing & boards covered in terracotta UICB handmade paper. Ex-University library (property & discard stamp on reverse of title page, catalog number stamped at top of pg. iii, otherwise unmarked). Text block is complete, & in very good condition: a few minor stains, a few short edge tears. Text in French.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. A critique of Ruskin, his times & attitudes, and possible application of his ideas in the then-present day. First edition. Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, jacket rubbed with minor chipping; ink name & place inside front cover, smudges & erasure evidence to free endsheet. Eight pages in chapter 1 highlighted in vivid yellow, text otherwise clean; xi, blank, 418 pages; index, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Small Octavo.

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1992 Full color shiny hardcover, no jacket. Light general wear, name/address sticker on first page, text clean. 191 pages, price list, bibliography, notes, appendices, color and b/w plates. "A complete history of the company and its products".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9" by 11¼".

Spring Grove, PA: Ladies' Aid Society of Mt. Zion Reformed Church Spring Grove, Pa., 1924. Third edition of this church cook book, originally published in 1903 to raise funds to build a parsonage, and here revised & reissued to satisfy demand. Small hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, corners bumped, pages a bit tanned, a few gutter gaps; no jacket, likely as issued. Text clean; 253 pages including about 40 pages of local ads, mostly from York, PA; b/w photo of the church, still standing, designed by J. A. Dempwolf. . Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5½" by 8".

Mattoon, IL: Gazette Printing Co., 1913. Collection of the recipes of the ladies of the church. Hardcover, full cream cloth, blue titling. Shows some wear, colors stained, corners frayed, pencil notes to free endsheet, a few pages dog-eared. Text clean; 154 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 6¼" by 9¼".

Cambridge, MA / Minneapolis, MN: South End Press / Honor the Earth, 2000. An "in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation", spotlighting many Native activists and their particular issues; by this important activist who rose to fame as Ralph Nader's running mate in the 1996 Presidential election. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Paperback, fourth printing, 2000. Light wea, near fine. Text clean; vii, [3], 241 pages + note on the author, her organization, & 3 pages publisher's ads; index, notes, maps, photos. . Inscribed by the Author. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 5½" by 8½".

Toulouse: C.R.E.O. de Tolosa, 1977 64 pages with glossary. Written in Occitan dialect. Light wear to the covers; otherwise fine.. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Fauche, Jacques. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. Second in the Nobel Prize-winning author's 'Ring' trilogy. Stated first [American] edition, translated by Velma Swanston Howard. Hardcover, full violet cloth, yellow labels, red titling, decorated endsheets. Light wear, one corner bumped; sine faded, spine label discolored; ink name & date scrawled on half-title; embossed name & address on half-title & title pages, page 1 & page 328; no jacket. Text clean; vi, [1], blank, 328 pages.. First American Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 5½" by 7¾".

Dushande: Adib, 1988. Uncommon Russian-language edition of Lagerlöf's classic tales of Nils, published in what was then part of the Soviet Union, the Tajik SSR; presumably to help teach Russian to young Tajiks. Hardcover. Shows some wear & rubbing, inner hinges mended, minor damage to title page from being stuck to the opposite page. Text clean; [224] pages; color plates. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by N. Kondukhova. Duodecimo.