Search Results: Authors starting with L from Adelaide Booksellers

USA: Trafford. 2006. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Illustrated with colour reproductions of the author's art. 106 pages. Poems and Colour Paintings by Australian born Artist/poet. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1931. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Copyright details show Houghton Mifflin first edition but is housed in a Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 322 pages. Author was Pulitzer Prize Winner for "Laughing Boy". . 1st Edition (Presumed). Hardback.

London: The Rodale Press. 1957. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in a Fair dustjacket [now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve]. The dustjacket is complete but with chips to upper corner and edge and spine ends, also is age-toned at edges. Translated from the French by David M. Glixon with a lengthy Introduction. Nine coloured lithographs by Ru Van Rossum. Includes Notes. 83 pages. La Fontaine's retelling of the story of Adonis in verse. First published in 1669. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Elsterwick, Vic: Ilura Press. 2008. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Mild rubbing to corners. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 306 pages. Bringing together a cast of celebrities - Charcot, Freud, Chanel, Colette, and Gilles de la Tourette, this is based on the account of Rose Kamper's shooting of Gilles de la Tourette at the dawn of psychoanalysis. . 1st Edition (Australia). Softcover.

London: Nicholas Kay. 1951. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Some offset to free endpapers. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 208pages. Translated and adapted by Janet Hamilton. Description of Florence including short history and a wealth of detail about the many beautiful buildings and art works. Considerable number of photos of both. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books. 1961. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 269 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Allen Lane. 1970. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 182 pages. A collection of letters, speeches and articles documenting Solzhenitsyn's fight for freedom and the antagonisms that divide the modern Soviet literary scene. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Penguin Books. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Bookplate to inside front cover and previous owner's name to half-title page. Translated by Milton Waldman. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 380 pages. The examination of the 1952 murder of Sir Jack Drummond, his wife and small daughter in Provence. Penguin True Crime Series. . 1st thus. Softcover.

London: Little, Brown and Company. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with black & white decorations. 230 pages. A vivid and surprising portrait of life in England in the year AD 1000. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Several black & white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 149 pages. Nine historians from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne examine the year 1919. After the worst war in history, there were hopes for a lasting peace and a better world. 1919 was to be the year for recovery, peace-making and the healing of wounds. Instead the world was afflicted by a terrible influenza pandemic that took more lives than the Great War itself. The huge death toll from the war and the pandemic excited fears of national decay. Soldiers returning home were often ill and restive, and sometimes radical and violent. Across the world there were race riots, prolonged industrial disputes, political protests, revolutions and counter-revolutions, and in Europe the first stirrings of fascism. At the Versailles Peace Conference, the victors' attempts to define… Read More

London: Harper Collins Publishers. 2020. Fine Condition. As new. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 344 pages. . Like New. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

London: Bracken Books. 1996. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 520 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

London: Robert Hale. 1986. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. New front endpaper. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 218 pages. The author describes the innovative and often dangerous techniques the the SAS have developed over the years. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Guild Publishing. 1988. Small Quarto Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Several black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 159 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

London: Arms and Armour Press. 1983. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations, maps and photographs. 283 pages. The History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the present. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Washington: US Government Printing Office. 1964. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in olive green boards with gilt to spine and face. Illustrated with Black and White Plates and drawings. Stamps of previous owner, Royal Society of South Australia, preliminary pages. Numbers inked to front pastedown. 291 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Doubleday Book Club. 2001. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 392 pages. A novel of romantic suspense . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 2012. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 125 pages. In 2007 the author walked the River Torrens from its source to the sea taking notes as he travelled. First appearing as a popular series of articles in the Adelaide Review accompanied by photographs by Cathy Brooks, Karrawirra Parri is a beguiling social and natural history of the river, and a delightful meditation on literature and walking. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Melbourne: Macmillan. 1989. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs & Maps. 214 pages. A forceful and probing analysis of the British generals' leadership. Dr Laffin maintains that such an analysis is well overdue. A controversial and uncompromising book. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing. 1985. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. DJ lightly age-toned at spine. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 277 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.