Search Results: Authors starting with L from The Sensible Magpie

Seattle: Spankstra Press, 2005. Paperback. Good Plus. Altemus, Reed. STAPLEBOUND. Moderate splotching to covers. Clean, bright, solid binding. 40 pp followed by notes on the text. Solid black card covers. A selection of articles which ran in various publications such as Harness, Roar Shock and Slate.

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1985. Paperback. GOOD PLUS . Previous owners bookplate to inside front cover. Small shelf bump to top of spine. 174pp.

Atlanta: Turner, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Light scuffing to front bottom edge. Dustjacket very good plus. Very light shelfwear. Gilt debossed lettering to spine of black boards. Numerous illustrations. Clean, bright, tight. 170 pp. Foreword by James Redfield. Betty J. Eadie, author of Embraced by the Light writes, "Andy Lakey is essentially capturing the spiritual form of the angel . . . He's capturing an energy."

Portland, OR: Mteropolitan Press, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fair. Anecdotal history of itinerant pressmen. Gray boards with dark blue spine. Boards, extremities rubbed, stained, worn. Faintly musty. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Inside text very good, and on high-quality paper. Binding tight. Deckled edges to fore-edge and bottom (top trimmed). Reading copy of a very cool book! 58 pp.

Chicago: Star, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Previous owner's name to preliminary endpaper. Leather covered boards are very worn but book is tight. Gilt titles on loose black labels to the four-ribbed spine. Combed marbled endpapers and text edges. Portraits of contributing authors on frontispiece, with tissue guard. 774 pp with list of authors and index. Comprehensive look into various types of humor from authors such as Robt. J. Burdette, Josh Billings, Alex Sweet and Eli Perkins just to name a few. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

New York: Magico Magazine, 1985. Hardcover. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

London: Virgin Books, 2002. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE/ NO DJ. Hardcover; 542 pages. Clean, square, sharp, unmarked; light rubbing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Paperback. NEAR VERY GOOD . ADVANCE READER'S EDITION. Translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland. Originally published as "Man Som Hatar Kvinnor" in 2005. An international sensation, an immediate best-seller acorss Europe, this is the story of "Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius computer hacker with a vulnerable heart and a terrifying capacity -- if anyone tries to take advantage -- for sudden ruthlessness." 463 pp. Light edgewear, a bit of mild scuffing to covers, a little bit of creasing to front cover. Clean text, tight binding.

Chicago: Goldsmith, 1936. Hardcover. GOOD. Front hinges starting. Masking tape over inscription on front free endpaper. Moderate soiling and wear to boards. One corner with tiny bump, three corners nudged. Lightly age tanned. Shaken. Black lettering on red cloth-covered boards. 250 pp. Clean.

Chicago: Fleming H. Revel, 1902. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Small, thin volume. Acid transfer to endpapers. Light shelfwear to boards. Faint sunning to edges. Black lettering on tan label to front of grey boards. 73 pp Recollections and a look at coming of age.

Portland, OR: J. K. Gill, 1922. Paperback. Good. Moderately worn covers. Small closed tear to spine top and center. Lightly soiled. Glue repair showing to front endpapers. Black lettering and framing to dark olive-green covers. Clean, solid, bright. 147 pp. Written with humor this book tells of Oregon social life and customs, experiences of Officers Training Corps and the University of Oregon through the eyes of an Englishman.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Very fine volume. Dustjacket fine. Light sunning to spine and extremities of jacket. Eight pp section black and white photographs. Silver metallic lettering crisply debossed to black cloth spine of glossy red cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. 288 pp with appendix, bibliography and index. Originally published as Barefaced cheek. "Arrogant Aussie is an in-depth study of a phenomenon in the world of print," (front flap). Among his many purchases are the New York Post, the Village Voice, New York magazine, Chicago's Sun-Times. Written after hundreds of interviews and more than a year's research on three continents, Michael Leapman offers a lively, irreverent portrait of Mr. Murdoch.

New York: W. R. Caldwell & Co., 1921. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Cage, C. W. . EARLY REPRINT OF FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH. Mild rubbing on boards and edges. Corners very softly nudged. Small stainings to occasional page. Gilt lettering on black rectangle to spine of carnelian-colored, cloth-covered boards. In-blind illustration of three owls on front board. Frontis illustration by C. W. Cage. 315 pp. Clean, tight, lightly age-tanned text. Leblanc wrote two notable science fiction novels : Les Trois Yeux (The Three Eyes) (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians and Le Formidable Evenement (1920), in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between Enland and France.

Blainville-sur-Mer, France: Amite par le Livre, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good +. Wide-ranging exploration of French literary, intellectual, and cultural history during the period 1610-1715 - a period which produced such luminaries as Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Fenelon, La Fontaine, and Saint-Simon. 425 pp. Protected with parchment paper wraps. Light speckling to endpapers. No marks inside

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good Plus. Light edgewear to spine and spinecaps. Pencilled notations. Dustjacket good. Sunning to spine and extremities. Edges chipped and torn. A 2.25" black mark to front cover. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of pine-green, cloth-covered boards. Bright, solid. 244 pp with index. "The texts Mr. Lee discusses include most of the better-known works in the canon -- Beowulf, Exodus, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood -- as well as such relatively neglected ones as Juliana, Resignation, The Order of the World, and The Grave," (front flap).

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Lee Valley Tools Ltd., 1987. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. FINE / VERY GOOD PLUS. Originally published by Morgan of Chicago in 1921 as Building with Assurance, HOMES AND INTERIORS OF THE 1920'S is a reprint of the second edition of this classic restoration design guide (1923). It comprises the complete catalogue of Morgan Woodwork Organization house plans, architectural elements and social advice. The publishers previously issued THE VICTORIAN DESIGN BOOK which included a range of 1900's designs drawn "from a culture experimenting with new woodworking machines, sales distribution systems, and social structures etc..." But World War I changed this and as each of the above-listed elements emerged from the war effort more technologically or socially advanced, and time-tested, demands and standards changed. "This catalogue of parts and taste was the catalogue of postwar America and as such, it, and others like it, greatly influenced a major portion of… Read More

Austin, Texas: Westlake Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. LIMITED EDITION, 250 copies. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Mild edgewear. Dustjacket good. A 1.75" tear to upper clear Mylar jacket. Black lettering to spine, green Celtic-style lettering on ivory label to front of rust-colored, cloth-covered boards. Bright grass-green endpapers. Clean, tight, bright. 51 pp. Hommage À Ruth Lehmann begins this volume. Ruth Lehmann is a noted Medievalist and an internationally respected translator of Old Irish and Anglo Saxon poetry. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.

Boulder, Colorado: Aspen Press, 1975. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. FINE IN VERY GOOD PLUS DUST JACKET. Punch. Limited to 250 handbound copies Cloth boards in price clipped DJ. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

Lello & Lello, 1962. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Good Plus Dustjacket. PORTUGUESE DICTIONARY. Heavy 4 lb. volume. Interesting notation of p. 262 by previous owner to RFEP (recto). Wonderfully aged white cloth boards w/ red illustration. Title in brown lettering. Corners bumbed. Water marks mainly to DJ spine. Moderate shelfwear to DJ. DJ flaps worn at folds. Less than 10 open tears and chips. Age tanned cream DJ with rust colored lettering. 1966 pp. Tight. New Encyclopedic Dictionary Portuguese-Brazilian. 6,000 engravings, 128 color plates, 115 maps, 16 prints of famous Portuguese and Brazilians. 60 magnificant illustrations of monuments. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN SUNNED AND TORN DJ. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. A fast-moving story of college life and a striking argument in favor of fraternal organizations at colleges and universities. 131 pp. Sunning to DJ. Open and closed tears to DJ, notably a one-inch open tear to spine. Rubber stamp mark along with author's inscription on FFEP. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title. Slight tanning to pages. No markings.