Search Results: Authors starting with L from Robert Dagg Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Clean near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket with a price-clipped front flap. Unfortunatly the jacket is a later state with a slight change to the text on the rear panel. Bears the scarce wraparound band which states "Pulitzer Prize Winner."

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1936]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Small stain in margin of several early leaves, else a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and tears at spine ends. Jacket flap neatly price-clipped.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1928]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Purple cloth slightly faded at spine. Very good to near fine book in fine bright dust jacket.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1937.. FIRST EDITION.. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. Fully illustrated.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1919]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good to near fine in the rare dust jacket. The jacket shows some slight evidence of tape removal on the verso, but otherwise the jacket is bright and almost unworn.. The third volume of Busher's letters (the first was You Know Me Al), originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Some offsetting to free endpapers from reaction to pastedowns, else a tight, near fine copy, in what appears to be the original glassine dust jacket. The jacket is a little chipped at top of spine but is otherwise intact. Very uncommon thus.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1920]. FIRST EDITION. Some minor foxing to fore and bottom edges otherwise a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with only the lightest wear at edges. . An exceptional copy of this early title, published in an edition of only 6000 copies.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1921].. FIRST EDITION. Faint tape ghosts to front and rear free endpapers. Cloth particularly fresh. A near fine copy in the scarce dust jacket which has a couple small chips at edges. Widely regarded as one of Lardner's best collections of stories despite initial slow sales.

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1916]. FIRST EDITION. First issue binding with gilt stamping on covers (later, black stamping). A clean, nearly fine copy lacking the rare dust jacket. Laid in is a small (1 x 2 inches) photographic negative of the rare dust jacket, as well as a xerox copy of the publisher's review slip for, You Know Me.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1918]. FIRST EDITION. White spine lettering somewhat rubbed as often. Very good copy in dust jacket, somewhat soiled with a few edgetears, chipped at head of spine panel and along bottom edge of rear panel.A collection of travel essays about Lardner's trip to Europe during World War I as a reporter for the A very scarce book in jacket.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1917]. FIRST EDITION. Some rubbing to white spine lettering otherwise a fine copy in a very good dust jacket missing a handful of small chips at edges. Collects five short stories.

A Few Remarks about Wives. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Published back-to-back with Say It with Bricks by Nina Wilcox Putnam. Near fine in dust jacket with some light wear to head and tale of spine with a closed tear at bottom edge.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Some slight fading to light-sensitive green cloth (but less than often) otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket with only a few minor nicks at edges. Custom slipcase.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. From the library of Walter Chrysler with his bookplate on front pastedown. Some glue stains to front pastedown. Else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket missing chip at top of spine panel (just touching the ornamental border). Spine panel of jacket slightly faded.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Fine crisp copy in dust jacket missing one small chip from corner of rear panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Some very faint browning to front free endpaper. A fine book in a superb, as new example of the later state dust jacket with horizontal bands of red and beige. Includes 16 previously uncollected stories. This collection became Lardner's best-selling book.

London: The Marvel Press, [1958]. LATER PRINTING. Hardcover. Owner signature on flyleaf. Else a fine clean copy in a very nearly fine dust jacket but for one tiny chip in the lower corner of the front panel.

New York:: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. FIRST EDITION.. Hardcover. Near fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. Issued as part of the Berkeley Police Monograph Series. 249 pp plus index. Fully illustrated.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1933. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket complete with rare wraparound band. This volume was assembled from the Weil Lectures delivered by Laski at the University of North Carolina. Laski was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950 and was the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Some offsetting to free endpapers from reaction to pastedowns. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a couple closed tears at top edge. Crime Club. Nice copy of the fifth Bill Crane mystery,.