Search Results: Authors starting with L from Brillig Books

NY: Vantage Press, (1959). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards. 128pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

Washington, D.C.: United States Bureau of Labor, 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, origiinal burgundy red cloth covered boards with blindstamp rules and gilt spine titles. 365pp. including index. The original complete official investigation of the causes and events transpiring in the silver, gold and coal mines of Colorado which consituted probably the most widespread and violent insurrections of workers (miners) against industrial owners (The Mine Owner's Association) in the history of the United States. A series of strikes and worker actions which brought you the Colorado Militia and involved a couple of infamous pitched battles and the Ludlow Massacre among others. Essential reading for Thomas Pynchon fans as the historical context of his novel "Against the Day". A very clean, tight, unmarked copy with fresh cloth and clear gilt. Fade marks and red stains to top corner edge of index and a few more pages from water, else fine. A very good plus to near fine… Read More

Washington, D.C: American Registry of Pathology, 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. Quarto, glossy coated paper covered boards in red and beige. 500 pp. including index. Very generously illustrated throughout with hundreds of full color photographs, diagrams and radiological plates in color. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, glossy, crisp, unmarked, unblemished and unread volume. Very Fine. AS NEW..

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. Book. Illus. by Stephen Alcorn. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated french wraps (self wraps) paperback. 141 pp. plus acknowledgments page. Illulstrated by Stephen Alcorn. By the author of Haussman Or The Distinction. Author's FIRST BOOK. A very tight, clean, fresh, crisp, square, bright, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, heavy brilliant color illustated stiff wraps (softcover). 280 pp. including index, bibliography and scholarly apparatues including chronology, notes, exhibition checklist and list of locations of La Farge's work. A detailed history in three sections of La Farges work as a designer, painter, stained glass artist and author on art and aesthetics. Very generously illustrated with full color and black and white reproductions and photographs of La Farge's sketch, designs, paintings and glass along with biographical details and photographs. A beautiful pristine volume. Tight, clean, sparkling, crisp, stiff, square, unmarked and unread with a flat uncreases spine. Very fine. Pristine. AS NEW..

Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Small square quarto, sepia illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). Unpaginated (approx. 100 pp.) Very generously illustrated throughout with 148 illustrations of which 5 are full color tipped-in plates. TEXT IN SPANISH. Catalogue of the "Ntaional Homage to Spilimbergo" exhibition of October 1965. A ery tight, clean, fresh, stiff square, unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. A bare suspicion of ttraces of dust/soil to white wraps barely perceptible. FINE. SCARCE..

New York: Murray Hill, 1944., 1944. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards. Endpapers illustrated with sketch maps of the routes of voyage by the author. Top edge stained yellow. 487pp. Sixteen illustrations by Gordon Grant with six full page full color plates. First illustrated edition. A remarkably well-preserved copy. A very tight, fresh, bright, clean, unmarked and apparently unread volume in a tight, sharp, crisp,exceptionally bright and clean dust jacket with two small millimeter thick scratches (one 1/4" and one 1"). Fine in near fine dust jacket. With the exception of the dust jacket scratches, virtually AS NEW..

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: BET Books, 2000 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, black cloth covered boards with silver titles and decoration. 101pp. plus colophon. Very generously illustrated throughout with a pantheon of African American stars of entertainment. Collector's Edition. A very tight, fresh, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, glossy, sparkling dust jacket with one tiny almost imperceptible compression mark. Fine in fine dust jacket. An excellent almost perfect copy..

Montreal: Canadian Center for Architecture/MIT Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. Quarto, white stiff self wraps with black and white photo-illustration on front cover. 119pp. Illustrated throughout with full page photographs of the works of Frederick Law Olmsted in color and black and white by photographers Lee Friedlander, Robert Burley and Geoffrey James. Includes Central Park, Parc du Mont Royal, Franklin Park, Prospect Park, arboreta and cemeteries as well as a couple of residences. A photographic meditation and memorial to the works of the great American urban architect. Includes interviews with the photographers by David Harris and essays by Paolo Costantini and John Szarkowski. A very tight, internally clean, fresh, bright, square, crisp, stiff and unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine and all images very fine. A very slight bump to the lower forecorner and a couple of very faint very minor touches of soil to the all white wraps, else fine. Very near fine. A… Read More

London: Longmans, Green 1905. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine title. 312pp. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard. A very tight, fresh volume with bright gilt. A tiny pencil lead thin bubble on lower board and offsetting to ffep and last page, else fine. With the minor flaws noted, this is still a very attractive, near fine volume and quite scarce in such excellent condition..

New York: Random House, (2004). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, red paper covered boards. 210pp. plus autobiographical note and colophon. A very tight, fresh, bright, clean and unread volume in a crisp, clean dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

Northside, CA: Windsor Publications, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Small folio, white cloth boards with silver titles. 232pp. with select bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Very bright, crisp, fresh and clean..

Chicago: F.C. Smedley & C0, 1893. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. Very thick octavo, brown cloth covered boarrds elaborately decorated in gilt and black on front cover with angel and trumpet and on spine titles. 570 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with full page plates and in-text engravings. A classic gathering of the addresses, essays and anecdotes of the "wise men" of America at the turn of the century. From celebrity preachers to writers and politicians. A very tight, clean, volume with bright gilt and decoration and unmarked interior. Neat copperplate signature at rear free endpaper, slight 1/8" split at top of spine edge, else fine. A great copy. Near fine..

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1977. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Small quarto, black cloth covered boards. 36pp. text and 122pp. designs and patterns. Over 100 designs in all. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1904. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto (9.5" x 12"), black library buckram with gilt spine title. 28 pages of text detailing the objectives and technological applications of the expedition for photographing the corona at the eclipse, followed by 18 full page photographic plates plus 2 diagrams of the Bolometric apparatus for photographing the eclipse. Photographs include the apparatus, the camp and installation of the expedition and 12 photographs of the solar eclipse at the inner corona and prominences. A tight sound copy with moderate dust soiling but excellent clean and unblemished photographic plates. Very striking examples of early astrophysical photographs. Ex-library but moderately so with no card pocket and only a couple of dime sized library stamps after the copyright page (a couple in margins of plates). Bookplate to pastedown and perforation to title page. Very good. Scarce..

New York: Kluwer/Plenum Academic Publishers, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black illustrated glossy coated paper covered boards. 308 pp. including index and references. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume with shining covers and bright, white crisp pages. FINE. Flawless and virtually AS NEW..

New York: Cameron and Kahn, (1954) Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards. 302pp. A tight, unmarked copy with the usual browning to pages from acid paper in a dust jacket with light sunning to spine and a hint of soil. Very good in very good dust jacket..

Newton, CT: Taunton Press, 2006. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, black cloth spine over yellow paper covered boards. Colored map endpapers. 266 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of residences from the immediate post-revolutionary half century. A documentary study of homes as people lived in them rather than historic architectural masterpieces. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. PRISTINE. BRAND NEW..

NY: Alfred Knopf, 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards. 171pp. Frontispiece photograph of Hamsun and three illustrations. Discreet prior owner signature and date else fine. A very attractive copy..

New York: The Swedenborg Foundation, (1988). Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First paperback edition. Thick quarto, illustrated stiff wraps. 558pp. including very extensive indices, references and bibliographies. Truly profusely illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs and reproductions exploring every phase of the life and times of this famous Swedish visionary. This pictorial biography is also replete with exhaustive scholarly detail and is clearly a labor of love by the author and the Swedenborg Foundation. A beautiful, fresh, crisp, unread and immaculate copy. Fine..