Search Results: Authors starting with L from Evening Star Books

Madison, Wis: The Robert M. La Follette Co, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 3-807, [1] pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with several plates of black and white photographs, and a frontispiece photograph of the author. Fighting Bob La Follette's memoir: La Follette was a champion for labor reforms and other progressive measures to help working people. He is a revered Wisconsinite and played an important role in shaping the politics of the state and of the nation in the twentieth century. Minor rubbing to the corners.

New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Liveright Publishing Corp, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [3], 3-340 pp. Orange cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine, an elephant stamped on the front board; orange topstain. Illustrated with two color plates and several black and white drawings done by Captain Vladimir Perfilieff. Foreword by Dr. James L. Clark, Vice-Director in Charge of Preparation and Exhibition, American Museum of Natural History. A book for children focusing on the destruction of several different species of mammals across the world. The American bison, the hippopotamus, the otter, the kangaroo, the porcupine, the elephant, the lion, the rhino, the wolf, the walrus, and several other species are discussed in this junior conservation book. A Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket with general edge wear, including each fold showing a split.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], 7-342, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with fifteen plates of black and white photographs. A very nice copy. Jacket is price-clipped, else Fine.

[London]: Thames and Hudson (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-342, [2] pp. Red cloth with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of 63s on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photograph plates of Greek artifacts. Part of the Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series, edited by Professor H.H. Scullard. Foxing to the top textblock and a name on the free front endpaper; jacket shows slight edge wear and a bit of foxing to the top edges of its flaps.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-343, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 35s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Lack's studies on bird populations. Minor foxing to the gutters and a name on the front flyleaf, light bumping to the boards' corners; jacket is Very Good with a small chip to the rear panel, and some toning.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-496 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a few silhouettes of a unicorn. A Near Fine book with a tiny bump to the front board and a miniscule separation between the backstrip and the textblock.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8, [4], 13-318, [2] pp. Blue cloth with red and white lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a few black and white photographs. Review slip from Dutton laid in. A Near Fine book with a spot or two of foxing to the textblock; dust jacket is Near Fine with moderate fading to the spine panel and a tiny abrasion to the front panel.

Paris: Richard, Libraire, 1796. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxii, [1], 2-507, [1]; [5], 6-535, [3] pp. Contemporary tree calf with a gilt border to each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges, spines in six compartments, a brown and a green morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine, floral gilt decorations on the spines; all edges decoratively stained green. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with two charts. Translated into French from the Greek of Diogène Laerce. With a life of the author, with the philosophies of Epictetus and Confucius added. Also with an abridged history of female philosophers of antiquity. Graesse 396. Moss 402. Oxford Classical Dictionary 474-475. Diogenes Laertius' Lives were likely composed around the middle of the third century A.C.E. His biographies celebrate the lives and memories of Greek and Roman thinkers (in this set, a section devoted to Confucius is added, a lovely nod to Eastern philosophy). This set in particular… Read More

Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 4to. [16], 672; 590, [56] pp. Contemporary full vellum, spines in seven compartments, each spine with a maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Fore-edge and bottom textblock decoratively speckled. Both volume's title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with twenty-five copper-engraved plates (portraits of select philosophers), and with an engraved title page. With the text in ancient Greek and Latin. Includes helpful annotations and notes from the Casaubonius brothers, and with notes from Aldobrandinius. The Latin corrected and completed by Marcus Meibomius. Volume two contains the Syntagma de Mulieribus Philosophis (a compendium of biographical notices of female philosophers and historical figures), volume two also has notes on the philosophers and notes on the life of Diogenes Laertius (including the notes of Kuhnius). With several indices. Brunet II 93. Dibdin 503-504. Graesse 396. Moss… Read More

Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 188, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £19.99 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and a few color plates. Includes an index and a bibliography.

London: Edward Moxon, 1848. First edition thus; Early Reprint; First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 7 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-335, [5]; [5], 2-338, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4]; [7], 4-356, [4]; [5], 2-340, [2]; [3], vi-xiii, [4], 2-295, [3]; [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-223, [5]; [5], 2-239, [5] pp. Half later nineteenth-century green morocco over marbled boards with the spines in six compartments, spines lettered and decorated in gold; top edges gilt. Each volume with a green ribbon bookmark. Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf. The Prose Works of Charles Lamb lacks their half-titles. Each volume of The Letters of Charles Lamb is illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Charles Lamb, volume two with a plate, another portrait of Charles Lamb, taken from a copper engraving. A gift inscription and letter on the free front endpaper of the first volume of the Prose Works, "To Pauline Babcock, from her loving Grandfather ... Dec. 1 1899". In his letter, Pauline's grandfather, Martin,… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1930], 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [6], 4-368, [2] pp. Black cloth with a decoration in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several double-sided plates of black and white images. Jacket design by Keith Henderson. Difficult to find in collectible condition, this is a sharp copy of Lamb's informative history of the Middle Ages' pivotal military conflict. Jacket with a few chips and some toning to its reverse.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-309, [1] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Slater 548. Introduction and editing done by Karel Lambert. Two small sticker ghosts on the free front endpaper; jacket has a bit of edge wear.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003), 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, 191, [5] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Slater 548. A Very Good book with a remainder mark on the bottom textblock and wear to the edges of the boards, stray mark on the verso of the table of contents; dust jacket is Very Good with minor foxing and rubbing to the reverse, small scratches to the front panel.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. LTD. [1970], 1970. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 12mo. [4], v-xv, [1], 1-192, [8] pp. Red paper boards with black lettering on the front board and spine. Publisher's price sticker of $1.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text black and white photographs. Part of The Observer's Book series. Describes over 230 breeds and varities with 149 illustrations. A charming pocket-book. Light edge wear and rubbing and the front flap's bottom corner clipped.

Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-224 pp. Quarter beige cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. A Near Fine book in a like dust jacket with a tiny spot of discoloration on the bottom of the front panel.

[London]: Frank Cass & Co. LTD, 1967. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-310, [2]; [7], iv-vi, [1], 2-293, [1] pp. Red cloth with a gold decoration on each front board, gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. With a few black and white illustrations. Part of Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives No. 21. Editorial adviser John Ralph Willis. A facsimile of Lander's 1830 publication. Lander was the only survivor of Clapperton's expedition to chart the Niger river. A call number obscured on each spine, a stamp on each title page, else no markings or wear.

Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], viii, [1], 10-202, [1], 2-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Blue blindstamped cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and several wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations. A children's book in a series focused on the sights (or "spectacles") and historical merits of different cities across the world. Each landmark (in this case Cambridge, the Boston Court House, a mental hospital in Boston, among others) is accompanied by a story with a lesson in nineteenth-century "morality", meant to educate children on societal mores. A Very Good book with some foxing to the boards and a small split to the front hinge, binding holding strong.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 1-307, [5] pp.; [2], iii-xi, [3], 1-255, [3] pp. Bound in green cloth with decorations in blue, black, and gilt on the front boards, spines are titled with black lettering and gilt, top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume (one frontispiece in color), seven colored plates, one photogravure, fifty-four plates, dozens of in-text illustrations, and a fold-out map. With the government enquiry and report and other official documents by J. Larkin Esq., deputed by the government of India. A nice set of Landor's recounting of his trip to Tibet, and his subsequent capture, torture, and escape from the forbidden land. Landor includes a sort-of ethnography of the people in Tibet that he encountered: his illustrations record traditional dress for female Tibetans, religious traditions of Tibet, food, and other scenes from Tibetan life. Each volume shows a small separation between… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. LTD. (1934), 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [2], 2-174, [4], 3-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 6/- net on the spine panel. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph portrait of Landor. Edited with explanatory comments by H.C. Minchin. A name on the front pastedown and a slight lean; jacket has a small scratch to its front panel.