Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

TASCHEN, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This is the large folio measuring approx. 12½" x 10½", not the smaller, compact edition. Text in German, English and French. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean, bright and intact with minor rubbing to spine tips and bottom corners. Red boards also clean and bright with minor bruising to spine tips and one corner. Contents clean and white without bookplates or inscriptions. Minor creasing/tearing to small area of a few bottom page edges. 576 pp. Profusely illustrated with colour plates throughout. "The long tradition of botanical illustration finds its tribute in this book, whose first issue coincided with the exhibition of botanical illustration at the National Library of Vienna. TASCHEN has chosen 100 works from the library's extensive archives to be reproduced in this masterpiece of botanical book illustration. Beginning with 6th-century Byzantine manuscripts, it traces… Read More

Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. Softcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover copy in very good condition. Red wrappers which are bright with minor scuffing and rubbing, and light creasing to bottom corners. Previous owner's blind stamp to bottom corner of title page and neat pencil annotations to a few pages but contents o/w clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. iv, 161 pp.; b/w drawings, photos, plans etc. in text. Papers presented at the first major international and multi-disciplinary conference to explore the archaeology of infancy and childhood, and adapted and brought up-to-date by the authors for this publication. The conference was organised by Mike Lally and held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in 2005. From this conference emerged a new society, The Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP), and a new journal, Childhood in the Past, back numbers of which may also be in stock. Enquiries welcome. 4to - over 9¾ - 12"… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Faux leather. Red pebbled cloth. Five raised bands to spine with gilt titling and decoration. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Bound without publisher's catalogue. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Binding is worn, particularly to corners, joints and spine tips, but still attractive. Front hinge cracked between front blanks but both sets of endpapers are still intact and this is a solidly bound copy. Foxing to front blanks, half-title page, last page of Notes, and rear blanks. Contents clean from title page onwards, without bookplates, inscriptions or foxing, and with light marking to just a few pages. 'Poetry for Children' is a series of rhymed fables, stories, and moral precepts written for children by siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. The first edition of two small volumes published in 1809 is exceedingly rare and the work was not printed… Read More

London: John Lamb Publications and Inventions Limited, 1954. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Smith, Douglas. Hardcover with dust jacket in three pieces. Blue cloth gilt: a few small marks; rubbing to corners; vertical crease to spine and slight fraying to tips. Toning and a few spots to page edges. Contents clean without inscriptions, bookplates, foxing or other markings. Firmly bound. 213 pp + 1 pp publisher's ad; b/w plates inc. portrait frontispiece; cartoons by Douglas Smith (cartoonist to Newcastle Evening Chronicle). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2003. First Paperback Edition First Printing. Softcover. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Aitchison, Craigie. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 9 October - 9 November, 2003. This book includes many of the key works from the distinguished career of Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009), and examines his oeuvre in a specially commissioned essay by Andrew Lambirth. 85 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Wrappers clean and bright with minor edge wear, and a few minor marks and scuffs, but without any creasing to spine. Contents clean, white and bright without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Folio Society. First Folio Edition . Fine Binding. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lupton, David. New and unread, as received directly from The Folio Society. Carefully removed from the FS protective wrappers only to check condition and photograph, the books are now safely back in their wrappers. Matching set of the five Earthsea books published by The Folio Society between 2015 and 2023. All titles are first printings except for 'Wizard' which is a third. All are 9" tall, illustrated in colour by David Lupton, and introduced by David Mitchell. Bound in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the artist. Set in Garamond and printed on Abbey Wove paper. Printed and bound in Italy. A beautiful collector's edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In mint condition as received directly from The Folio Society. Additional photos available on request or these may be viewed on my listing. Heavy/oversize set. U.K. postage at default charge… Read More

New York: Othello Books: A series published by The Olympia Press, 1962. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The scarce first edition of this erotic novel, published by The Olympia Press in their Othello Books Series and numbered 112. Original brown, thin card wrappers with black lettering. Light wear with some marking and rubbing. Creasing to spine and front cover, rubbing to spine tips and corners. Minor age-toning and spotting to page edges. Small stain to top page margins up to page 24. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Bath: David Beswick Lloyd, 2007. First Edition, First Impression . Softcover. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover in fine condition without defects. 158 pp. Illustrated. David Lloyd - himself a family doctor in Newbridge for 31 years - tells the story of health care, of general practitioners, of nurses and of pharmacists in Lower Weston during the 50 years before and after the beginning of the National Health Service. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Chicago: Argus Books at The Peacock Press, 1930. Limited Ed. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Austen, John. The Argus Books limited edition of 1930 (completed December 1929), limited to 2000 unnumbered copies. Designed, set-up and printed at The Peacock Press, Chicago. Hardcover in dust jacket and the scarce slipcase. Black cloth gilt with bevelled edges. All clean and bright with minor wear to spine tips and bottom edge. Top edges bright gilt. Untrimmed fore edge. A clean copy without bookplates, foxing or markings other than 2 small stains to the bottom edges of the back endpapers. The front free endpaper bears a pencil inscription to Simon [Relph], the film producer/director from whose estate this book was acquired. This is lightly done and could be erased. There are 16 erotic colour plates with tissue guards in a web design, plus a colour title page illustration and b/w chapter headings, all by John Austen. 293 pp. Firmly bound. The… Read More