Search Results: Authors starting with L from Voewood Rare Books

Zurich Scalo 1995, 1995. 1st ed, folio. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in B&W. Near-Fine in wine-red cloth with silver-stamped 'KL' to the upper board and silver-stamped titles in indigo panels to the spine. No DJ as issued - one small pale mark to the loward the lower edge of the upper board. A series of exquisite photographic essays in style by the enigmatic Mr. Lagerfeld

London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins at the Juvenile Library. 1807. First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 12mo. 165x100mm. Vol. I. ix [i.bl], [2], 235, [1 with T. Davison imprint]. 10 engravings. Vol. II. [4], 261, [3pp. adverts with the Hanway Street address]. 10 engravings. Contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and small round black labels numbered in gilt. At head of spine, in gilt, is the Pelican of Mercy and the motto, "Pandite Coelestes Fortae". This is the crest of James Gibson of Ingliston, Writer to the Signet whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedowns. Also with the label of Donald and Mary Hyde, who formed one of the great libraries of eighteenth-century literature and whose Samuel Johnson collection was donated to the Houghton Library at Harvard. Slight split to the head of joint with upper boards and corners a little bumped. Housed in a custom-made box. Internally very good but with some foxing, heavy to a few leaves in volume two. The illustrations… Read More

London: Printed and sold by J. Hodges, J. Robinson, J. Wilcox and J. Brindsley (Vol. II printed for T. Waller) 1741 and 1742, 1741. First edition in English. In two volumes (the second without the attribution to M de M***). 12mo (Vol I, 12mo in 6s). 164x91mm. pp. xii, iv, 276; x, 254. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary calf, double fillet in gilt to covers, rebacked with most original spines laid down., compartments decorated with double fillet in gilt, red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed. Internally very good with a little marking in places and a small hole to the title page of volume two, not affecting legibility. Edges sprinkled red. Of the four variants described by ESTC, this is the first, containing the misnumbered preliminary pages, vii and xii instead of viii and xi respectively. Front pastedowns have armorial bookplate of Henry Corbet A.M. and the label of Richard Corbet, Adderley. Sir Henry was the Rector of Adderley and the last of the Corbet Baronets of… Read More

New York: Rapoport Press, 1976. First edition. 330x260mm. Unpaginated. 94 leaves. 3pp preface by Maureen Lambray followed by 82 black and white photographs of American directors with a list of their films. Signed by over 800 actors and directors. Bound in black morocco for Herb Yellin of the Lord John Press (whose name is stamped in gilt to the foot of the spine). The title "Film Directors" is stamped on the upper cover and the business card of Herb Yellin is taped onto the front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. Hinges reinforced although a number of gutters are cracked. However, the condition is immaterial because this book is, essentially, a high-class, top of the range, premier league autograph album which Yellin carried with him for many years, pressing it on Hollywood A-listers and getting them to sign their names. And what names they are! We have counted 860. Here, as a taster, is a quick A-Z: Woody Allen, John Boorman, George Clooney, Judi Dench, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Jeff Goldblum,… Read More

London: Henry Colburn 1826, 1826. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvi, 512; xii, 632. + 4pp. publisher's adverts. One leaf torn, with no loss, small ink mark in margin, otherwise a very good clean copy. Original green morocco cloth, paper labels. Spines nicked at head, spine and covers dulled at edges, Vol. 1. scuffed on upper cover, paper labels discoloured and chipped with minor loss. A good copy. Book-plates of Herbert S. Leon. Book-plates of George Rylands. A good copy.SECOND EDITION; corrected and enlarged. The second edition of Vols. 1 & 2 of the original series, these first two volumes were first published in 1824. Vol. 3. was first published in 1828 and Vols. 4 & 5 in 1829.

n.d. n.d. [1815], 1815. Pencil on grey paper. 245x175mm. Mounted on cream card (425x335mm inside the frame), in a wooden frame. Two drawings on one sheet, the first is of the head of a horse (from the forehead to the muzzle) and the other, smaller one, is of the nostril and muzzle. Underneath this smaller drawing is written "E. Landseer from the Elgin Marbles". At the foot of the mount is written, in pencil "Sir Edwin Landseer early work". The inscription on the drawings paper conforms to Landseer's youthful signature and handwriting found on the few early drawings that he signed and external evidence points to these as early works. Although the drawings are not dated, we are of the view that they were done between 1815 and 1817. Prodigiously talented from childhood (it was said that he could paint with both hands simultaneously), Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) was producing beautiful drawings by the age of eight. He is best known as a painter of animals, particularly dogs and horses although his… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1843-1847, 1843. First collected edition. Seven volumes. 4to. 275x218mm. pp. Vol. I. [vi], xv [ibl], 420; Vol. 2. [iv], xvi, 440; Vol.3. [viii], xx, 381; Vol. 4. [iv], xl, 552, 1 folding plate; Vol. 5. [vi], vi, 540, 2pp errata. Vol. 6. [iv], vii [i bl], 479; Vol. 7. [vi], cxcv, 691. Volumes 1-5 contain the Traité de Mécanique Céleste, volume 6 is Exposition du Systeme du Monde, and volume 7 is Théorie analytique des Probabilités. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Small tear to the paper on the front board of volume 7 with some rubbing and scuffing. Some bumping to corners but overall this is an excellent set. Internally fine. Often referred to as the French Newton, Laplace (1749-1827) worked in the fields of astronomy, physics and mathematics. His main (and certainly his longest work), Traité de Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) refocused the study of classical mechanics… Read More

London: Albion Press 1809, 1809. First edition. 4to, 286x224mm. pp. 288, [4, index]. Engraved frontispiece, dedication leaf and thirteen engraved plates by John Scott after leading equestrian artists including Stubbs, Benjamin Marshall and Sartorius. Eleven wood-engravings in the text, in the manner of Bewick. Tan half calf, recently rebacked, corners worn and boards and edges rubbed. Some foxing, heavier towards the end. Staining to some of the plates. Loosely inserted is a single sheet manuscript "Memorandum" about trotting races. Frontispiece has the ownership inscription "E Landseer" and the original front free endpaper (retained when the book was rebacked) has Landseer's monogram - EL in a circle - and the date 1863. A handwritten note in pencil explains that this book was bought at the sale at Christie's of Landseer's drawings after his death. Sir Edwin Landseer (he was knighted in 1850) was one of the most popular and successful artists in Victorian England.… Read More

Santa Rosa, California Black Sparrow Press 1994, 1994. Limited edition, one of 750 paperback copies published for friends of Black Sparrow Press. 210x146mm. pp. 40. Original decorative wrappers, stapled. Very slight marking to lower cover but otherwise a near fine copy. Lawrence produced this work for the Daily Chronicle while waiting for Lady Chatterley's Lover to start selling. At a time when a bill giving women the vote was passing through Parliament, the British newspapers were very keen on this type of material. It was discovered by Roy Spencer in the files of the Daily Chronicle. The book reproduces in print the finished manuscript version, the variorum manuscript version and the newspaper version together with notes and short essays on the publishing history of the work. We are selling 14 copies of this paperback version of That Women know best. They are all in the same condition as described here.

Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat 1987, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 207x156mm. pp400. Inscribed to Paul Weitz. Original blue cloth, black spine, lettered in silver. The upper cover has a minimalist design with a small raised silver roundel about 1cm diameter shown floating above a curved dark blue line. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight rubbing to extremities of the dustjacket and a small tear to the bottom front corner. Overall in excellent condition and internally it is pristine. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Text in Russian. The book has been inscribed to Paul Weitz on his historic visit to Star City in 1990. It is signed, with a dedication, by Vladimir Kovalyonok. The half title bears Weitz's signature and states "from my library". Vladimir Kovalyonok flew one failed (Soyuz 25) and two successful missions with Salyut-6 (Soyuz 29 and Soyuz T-4) and logged over 5000 hours in space. Paul Weitz flew onboard Sylab-2 as pilot and on STS-6, the maiden flight of Challenger as Spacecraft Commander.

Göttingen: Steidl 2004, 2004. First edition. 300x295mm. pp.256. Original grey paper covered boards, title stamped in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Very slight bumping to the bottom corners. Otherwise, near fine; an excellent copy of a beautifully produced book. pp7-17: essays by Eugen Blume ("Conversation on the Beach too long") and Manfred Leve ("Photographing Block Beuys"), text in German and English. pp20-256, black and white photographs of Beuys's work.There are two short collections of photographs from exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach which form part of the "Ur-history" of the Block Beuys installation. The rest of the book (pp.40-256) is devoted to the seven-room installation that constitutes "Block Beuys". This is a vast collection of sculptures, works on paper and relics from 1949-72 exploring Beuys's own ideas of art and German history. Leve's stunning photographs make a work of art out of Beuys's art.

New York: The Viking Press 1965, 1965. First edition. 195x235mm. pp. [vi], 78. Publisher's black cloth with authors' names stamped in white on the upper cover and the title and publisher stamped in white on the spine. Dust jacket illustrated with black and white photograph by Levitt on the upper cover and spine and part of the lower cover. On the lower cover is an extract from Agee's essay. The jacket (protected in a mylar cover) has some minor wear to the head and foot of the spine and there is some very minor creasing and chipping to the bottom edge of the upper cover. But overall the jacket is in very good condition and the boards and contents are in fine condition. Near Fine Helen Levitt This celebrated book contains fifty black and white photographs by Helen Levitt, mostly taken in the 1940s in the streets of Spanish Harlem. James Agee's essay, split into two parts, bisected by the photographs, was written in the late 1940s. Agee describes Levitt's work as "an… Read More

London: Jupiter Books 1976, 1976. Limited edition, number 17 of 50 signed by Lowry on a label on the front pastedown. 286x231mm. pp. 31, [1]. 9 colour plates, 282 pages of monochrome drawings, with descriptive text, introduction and notes by Mervyn Levy. Specially bound in brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. In a protective paper wrapper. Slight rubbing to corners and to joint with upper cover but otherwise in excellent condition and internally particularly good throughout . Mervyn Levy was an artist and teacher - among his works are portraits of Dylan Thomas who had been at school with Levy, the two men later sharing a house in London. Levy is perhaps best known now as the author of numerous books on Lowry including the catalogue raisonnee of his works. He also drew a pencil portrait of Lowry.

Dublin: Andrew Milliken 1841, 1841. Presentation copy from author to the Earl of Rosse. First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. i-iv, 5-89 [1]; 83 [1]. Two folding engraved plates. Original green cloth, paper label to spine. Staining to covers, spine faded, corners bumped. Internally very good. A nice copy of an important book creating an interesting link between two leading Irish scientists of the nineteenth century. The first part is a reprint of the six lectures given by Lloyd on unpolarized light in 1836 while the second part (on polarized light) appears for the first time. Rare in commerce. Humphrey Lloyd (1800-1881) was the professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and was one of the leading proponents of the wave-theory of light - the idea that light is formed from vibrating waves rather than particles which was the Newtonian theory. This change was brought about in large part through a revolution in scientific methodology. William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse… Read More

Mallorca: En la Oficina de la Viuda Frau 1753, 1753. First vernacular edition. 4to. 195x140mm. pp.[viii], [2] plates, 252. Folding table of contents and folding woodcut illustration preceding A1, woodcut vignettes to text. Title-page trimmed and extended at lower margin (probably to erase inscription), a couple of pages lightly browned. Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, title in ink to spine, lacking ties. Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping. An excellent copy of a very rare book. First vernacular edition. The Catalan philosopher and missionary Llull (c.1232c.1316) is best known for his 'great art', a theory of logic which, he believed, united all strands of knowledge under one universal method. This elaborate, mystically inspired universal system of knowledge was intended to convert unbelievers. The present text is a pre?guration, written in 1304, of his grand theory elaborated a year later in the Ars magna. It proposes that there is a 'ladder of understanding' of eight… Read More

London: Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books October 1989, 1989. Printer's proof, limitation page marked "pp" and signed in pencil by Terry Frost. Eleven poems printed in Spanish and English on Velin Arches Blanc 270gsm paper folders (575x385mm). The title page is designed by Frost and printed by lithography. The colour etchings which are loosely inserted into the folders are printed on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper, some hand-coloured by Frost. All are signed in pencil by Frost and marked "pp". Housed in a black cloth covered Solander box designed by the artist. Issued in an edition of seventy-five. Printed in collaboration with Terry Frost at the Print Centre, London. Production and typography coordination by Gordon House and Hugh Stoneman. There was an hors de commerce edition of a further fifteen copies. A set of artist's proofs (4/10) is at the Tate. Some very slight marking to the box but otherwise this is a very good set in excellent condition. Terry Frost's… Read More

London Enitharmon 1972, 1972. Large 8vo, 19pp w/errata slip. Near-fine in near-fine quarter-bound red & cream cloth with protective wraps (some tears and loss to edges of wraps). A trilingual edition of Lorca's meditation on the corrida. English translations by Kathleen Raine & R.M. Nadal and French by Marcelle Auclair. With a facsimile of the original manuscript and two, previously unpublished, drawings by Lorca. This edition limted to 225 copies on Abbey Mills cream laid paper and signed by both Raine and Nadal (This copy number 141).

Leipzig and Berlin: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner 1922, 1922. Fourth trade edition. pp. [4], 159, [1 adverts]. Green paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Lettered in black to upper cover and spine. Protected with mylar wrapper. Corners a little bumped and worn, hinges slightly loose with the front free endpaper semi-detached but otherwise in very good condition throughout. A nice copy of this important collection of papers on the special and general theories of relativity.

Chicago: Michael J. Lotus and Vincent L. Michael 1989, 1989. 278x218mm. pp. 52 with illustrated paper covers. Stapled at spine. Literary and art magazine with a collection of pieces on themes of dark, wintry, melancholia.

Manchester: Ferranti Computer Department various [c1959], 1959. There are twelve separate documents in this collection. There is a fifty-page brochure giving a description of the Ferranti Pegasus Computer with Magnetic Tape Equipment, calling it a "medium-sized general-purpose digital computer for wide application in industry, science, commerce and administration". It also has a splendid double page photograph of the room-sized machine. The booklet itself "describes the principal features of the computer as they concern the user". It aims to give a general picture of the computer but is not a "text-book for programmers". Page 9 of the booklet mentions that Ferranti provides training courses for those wishing to write programmes for the Pegasus. Ten of the other items in this substantial collection of material about the Pegasus relate to this Ferranti programming course for the Pegasus. All are published by Ferranti Ltd. Finally, there are seventy four pages of handwritten notes taken by a student on… Read More