Search Results: Authors starting with L from Uncharted Books

Paris: Poussielgue, 1872. Quarter leather. Good. 8vo. 7"x5". In French. Quarter brown morocco with marbled boards, hubbed spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, and marbled endpapers. Ex-library. Spines of vols. 5-9 lightly scuffed. Each volume has some foxing present throughout. Each volume blind stamped twice with "St. Mary's College" embossment and stamped once with "Simon Deploige" ownership mark. Vol. 5 has library card and pocket inside back cover. Infrequent pencil notations. This is the complete Librairie Poussielgue Freres set of the works of French theologian Lacordaire. A very attractive set.

Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Oblong 8vo. Wraps. All pages unopened as issued. Unpaginated. Minor shelf wear to wrap edges. This is an uncommon first edition book of minimalist architectural photography by fashion designer and artist Lagerfeld. These are photographs of the Vitra Conference Pavilion, designed by architect Tadao Ando.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a social history of indigenous people in Chicago in the 20th century.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Excellent condition. This is a stated first printing collection of dark humor poetry and prose with illustrations by Gorey.

New York: Tor, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. This is a vintage hardcover science fiction anthology.

New York: Scribner's, 1960. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Wear to jacket edges. 1.5" strip missing from footer of jacket spine. This is a vintage hardcover copy of Lardner's classic baseball book.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1984. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback book by poet Larkin.

Philadelphia: Winston, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Shelf wear and several chips to jacket edges. Price clipped. Sticker on front free endpaper. One page is loose and laid in. This is a stated first edition vintage hardcover science fiction novel.

London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 8vo. Contemporary cloth with floral design in blind. Vol. I: xi, 321. Vol II: viii, 336. Binder's copy. Spine coverings removed, so boards detached. Scuffing to edges and corners. Interiors excellent, clean and complete. This is the first edition of a significant contribution to American ethnography. Latrobe (1801-1875; technically "La Trobe") was something of a Renaissance man, described by his friend Washington Irving as "a man of a thousand occupations; a botanist, a geologist, a hunter of beetles and butterflies, a musical amateur, sketcher of no mean pretensions. a very indefatigable, if not always a very successful, sportsman." Later, "beloved governor of the Australian territory Victoria" would be added to his list of accolades. This book was written during an 1834 trip to the American West and prairie territories with Irving, to whom the work is dedicated. The result is Latrobe's best-known book, a highly readable (and… Read More

New York: Baen, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Baen, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Tor, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Baen, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Baen, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Pocket, 1978. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Pocket, 1976. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Baen, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Tor, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Ballantine, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Pocket, 1978. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.