Search Results: Authors starting with L from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The Pen/Hemingway Award. 198pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over paper covered boards. A fine bright copy in crisp fresh dust jacket.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 282pp., bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt, a fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. An historical novel which spans two continents-Colonial America and sixteenth century Europe and the high seas between them.

London: C. Keagan Paul & Co, 1880. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 80pp. Bound in original vellum wrappers printed and decorated in blue, printed at the Chiswick Press. Wrappers lightly browned, neat owner name on half title, bookplate. A very good copy.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1891. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. W. G. Burn-Murdoch. 12mo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY INDUSTRY GIANT WILLIAM E. DODGE (1832-1903), to fellow industry giant, John Stewart Kennedy (1830-1909), on the FEP, and dated Jan. 1892. Bound in original green cloth, with man fishing on front panel, stamped in gilt on front panel; beveled edges, black coated end papers. 176 pages, 4 pages of ads. With 3 etchings and numerous illustrations by W. G. Burn-Murdoch. Internally, very clean. William E. Dodge, Jr. (1832-1903), was one of two controlling partners in the Phelps Dodge Corporation; Phelps Dodge purchased the Detroit Copper Mining Co. of Arizona, which owned a copper mine in Warren Arizona. Dodge and his partners then purchased a minority interest in the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona. When the Copper Queen and Detroit Copper both struck the Atlanta Lode in 1884, Phelps Dodge bought out the remaining interest in the Copper Queen. In 1888, they formed a railroad,… Read More

Woolwich, 1853. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY OLIVER, LANG and with a manuscript note in the text by him. 30(7) pages. Bound in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. 12 color and black and white plates, some folding. Lang was Master Shipwright at the Royal Dock Yard in Woolwich. He describes here 112 improvements in the construction of ships. Internally clean and bright; a little fraying at spine ends. Bookplate.

Washington: The Churchill Center, 2000. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Fine. octavo, 140 pages, original printed wrappers. Illustrated with black and white photos. A fine unmarked copy.

New York and Cincinnati: Carl and Rifolaus Benziger, 1871. A handsome little prayer book, 16mo, 448 pages; full leather, trimmed in metal with working clasp. All edges gilt; internally clean and bright - a very good copy.

Indianapolis (1920): The Bobbs-Merrill Company. First Edition. 12mo, 86 pages; pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket. Book is near fine, dust jacket is good+ with a 1 inch loss at foot of spine and small loss at front fold and along edges. Internally clean and bright.

London: Martin Secker, 1931. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Quarto. LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 COPIES. 97pp. Bound in green cloth centrally stamped with the Lawrence phoenix in gilt, spine lettering and top edge gilt; a handsome clean bright copy. This is essentially THE ESCAPED COCK under a new title. The text of the two editions is substantially the same, although certain technical differences are to be noted. The First American edition was published from new plates [McDonald p. 68].

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1926. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 77(1)pp. Bound in original yellow printed wraps, lettered in black, small loss at foot of spine. A clean bright copy throughout. Very good indeed.

London: Martin Secker, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. First Issue in the variant lighter brown cloth, 238pp. Spine lettering gilt but dull; a very good+ clean bright copy mostly unopened and showing no wear. [McDonald p.23].

London: Martin Secker, 1930. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. A short novel of English life, fully characteristic of its author's genius, and the last work of fiction which he lived to complete. 191(10)pp. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt, a beautiful copy, binding bright, with small corner crease to first two leaves, internally fresh without foxing, in dust jacket with small archival mend to head of jacket. (Roberts-A54).

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. 180pp. Bound in salmon cloth, paper spine label a bit darkened, front endpapers darkened, a clean bright copy, nearly fine.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. 12mo, 103 pages. A fine copy, with no markings of any kind. Dust jacket with small loss at extremities and a few closed tears.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY LEA H.. LAWRENCE without personlization [Together with] The original corrected typescript of the Forward, hand-corrected and signed twice, by baseball icon Ted Williams; 2 pages, quarto. Mr. Williams has written his phone number and "OK / Good luck / Ted Williams" at top of page 1; with the original mailing envelope addressed by Mr. Williams and postmarked 14 May 1992.

London: Martin Secker, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 246pp. Bound in brown cloth, spine gilt, occasional spots of foxing to leaves and fore-edges, otherwise near fine, boards are bright with sharp corners, in unclipped dust jacket showing some soiling, small chips, and closed tear. The last collection of Lawrence's fiction including the first appearance of his story "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 78 pages. Publisher's yellow printed wrappers, lettered in black. Light wear at head of spine; internally clean and bright.

London: Martin Secker, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. First Issue in publisher's dark brown cloth, 238pp. Spine lettering gilt, minor wear to corners and spine tips; a very good clean copy. In lightly edge worn and chipped dust jacket with a few finger smudges and foxing to spine. [McDonald p. 23].

San Jose, Ca: Deadline Press, 1993. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED ON COLOPHON BY RICHARD LAYMON, ILLUSTRATOR LARRY MORI AND ED GORMAN WHO WROTE THE INTRODUCTION. ALSO SIGNED AND A LONG INSCRIPTION BY RICHARD LAYMON TO CLOSE FRIENDS DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION ON HALF TITLE PAGE. LIMITED EDITION OF 574 COPIES SIGNED. A collection of the author's earlier works containing 20 short stories which were first published in various magazines over the years, brought together into one book without making any changes to the original text. 231pp. Bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering silver. A fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Viking, 2010. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Quarto. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 305 pp.