Search Results: Authors starting with L from Alba's Books

El Paso: Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Jose Cisneros maps; photographs. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A landmark history of the Rio Grande country by one of America's outstanding historians in two volumes that were issued separately. Excellent bibliography and maps. A pristine set, clean and unmarked. Archival Mylar jacket covers included.

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Paul Davis. A play by the author of Ragtime. Stated first edition with the correct numbering sequence. A fine, unmarked and unclipped copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.

Portland: Binfords & Morts, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Original interviews with the forenamed and many others, by an Oregon journalist who incorporates the personalities' words in a continuous narrative, the index being the way to locate them. Book is fine and unmarked. Save for mild edge rubbing, so is the jacket. Mylar cover provided for jacket.

Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire, 1856. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Foldout diagrams. Original quarter cloth over marbled boards with foldout diagrams inserts, mounted on a professionally-made cloth and cardboard pamphlet binding. An important early work on Phrenology by a noted French authority. Fine, clean and unmarked. Extremely rare.

Wicked Windlass Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Kat Laurange. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST (who extra illustrated it on the bottom of the free endpaper). A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Thomas Bewick. Stated first edition of a later work by the author of Mary Poppins, illustrated with the wood-engravings of Thomas Bewick. A fine, clean and unmarked copy but for price clipping. Protected by a Mylar jacket cover.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has two straight gently closed tears at the flap edges, protected by the Brodart cover, and is otherwise whole, clean and bright, with price intact. Scarce in the dust jacket.

The Viking Press, 1979. First Ed.-8th Ptg... Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. J.J. Grandville. Small closed tear at top edge of jacket, protected by a Brodart jacket cover and hardly visible. A fine, unmarked copy of this new translation.

George Brazilier, 1957. First Calder Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Alexander Calder. Translated by Eunice Clark. Printed on heavy paper. Slight fading of spine color, otherwise fine and unclipped. Comes in a Brodart jacket cover.

London: The Harvill Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Duodecimo. Richard Shirley Smith. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar plastic jacket cover.

Popular Library, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sextodecimo. N.Y. Times Photographs. Dozens of rare photographs of the famed New York square accompanied by background stories by a noted New York magazine editor and writer for the New York World. A clean, unmarked, bright copy.

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Selected as Aviation Book of the Year. A clesn, unclipped, unmarked copy in a Mylar dj cover. Small spine nick on dj.

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Out of print. Profusely illustrated. Binding is cloth boards.

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photos and Illustrations. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart cover.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Out of print

G.P. Putnam, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photos. Unmarked and unclipped

Youngstown, PA: Pig Iron Press, 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart DJ cover.

New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1980. Early Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Ink line on bottom foreedge. Out of print. Illustrated with photogravure. Binding is cloth boards.

Basic Books, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A Twentieth Century Fund study by an authority on the subject. Clean, unmarked and bright.