Search Results: Authors starting with L from Quaker Hill Books

East Point, GeorgiaEast Point, Georgia: , 1925 Color Pictorial Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The front board depicts a stage and busy circus scene and the back board shows a veil dancer in 7 poses.This is a fascinating history of the circus in prose and poetry exposing the seamier side of show business all in defense of the performers. Some minor staining otherwise a lovely, bright copy..

Boston:, 1890. Some minor wear at edges; hinges a little loose; bookplate on the front pastedowns. INSCRIBED BY MR. AND MRS. LANGFORD in both volumes to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Barker, a Civil War veteran, a Lt in the 5th New York Cavalry who saw action against the famous Col. Mosby. "One of the standard works on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents." - Adams, Six Guns 1280; Howes L78. By the Author. First Edition. Publisher's Pictorial Cloth.. Excellent. 8vo.. 2 Volumes..

Knopf. New York, 1930. First edition. Original. Very good. Spine slightly frayed. small 8vo., Original multi-colored paper with paper label..

Richmond:: West and Johnson, 1863. 251pp. Contents include: Observations on Military Law in general; The Origins of Military Courts; Courts Marital; Military Trials; Redress of Wrongs; The Law of Evidence, as applicable in military trials.. Original 1/2 calf over marbled boards. Spine worn, hinges loose but holding nicely. Contents aged toned but overall this is a nice copy of a very rare Confederate imprint on military law. (Parish & Willingham 4904). First Edition. 1/2 Leather. Good. 8vo..

Peake & Co. Washington, 1895. First Edition. Orig. wraps. Good. 24mo., Covers worn, reattached with tape, frontis reattached, minor stains and a few pages chipped slightly..

London:: George Allen & Unwin,, 1939. A beautiful fine copy of Wyndham's treatise on the Jewish question in a bright, unprice clipped near fine dust wrapper showing only very light soiling along the edges.. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

London:: Desmond Harmsworth,, 1932. 4to. [vi], 59[3]pp, tp vignette, text illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards with red spine lettered in gold. 59pp., Contents very clean, in the original pictorial dust wrapper that shows some light wear, a bit of spotting to the back panel and some light soiling around the edges. Overall a better than very good copy of Wyndham Lewis' powerful play.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. 4to..

New York:: Lavater-Dorette,, 1928. Edition De Luxe, limited to 375 copies this being No. 93. Magnificently bound in full forest green crushed levant, extensively designed in gilt, spine depicting cannons and poilus, in six compartments with gilt lettering. Inner dentelles gilt with doublures of curshed levant, crimson moire sating endleaves. SIGNED BY GEORGES LEWYS on the limitation page. Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis' (pen name Georges Lewys) was a noted and controversial French writer and poetess. President Coolidge was a notable fan of hers and she was decorated by the French government for this poginant and historical war poem on Verdun. Custom green cloth slipcase that shows some wear. A truly sumptuous book.. Fine. Large 4to..

New York:New York:: The Macmillan Co., 1923 Gray Boards. Very Good. Limited Edition Signed. By the Artist. 8vo. 1/400 large paper copies NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY LINDSEY. Top edge gilt, untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Boards show moderate soil and rubbing. Contents clean and fresh..

London, 1793. 19th edition. full calf. Excellent - bindings lightly rubbed, contents clean and bright. 8vo., 2 vol., Full marbled calf, black labels with gold lettering and trim, with the folded analysis table in volume I..

London:: J. Johnson, C.G. & J. Robinson Etc., 1801. Engraved frontis portrait, folding table. Locke's influence on philosophy and government, especially those principles espoused by America's founding fathers is immeasurable. This is a beautiful set of Locke's philosophical works in original boards and spine elaborately tooled in gold with red labels and gold lettering. Professionally rebacked. Contents very lightly toned. Ref. Printing and the Mind of Man 164.. The Tenth Edition. Very Good. 8vo.. 10 Volumes.

Cummings & Hillard. Londons 1813. Orig. leather. Boards scuffed,rubbed and moderately scuffed, small dampstain. 8vo., 2 vol., Original brown leather bboards rebound to brown morocco spine, red labels. A good early 19th century copy..

Brooklyn:: A.H. Rome,, 1864. Full title reads: "Our Campaign Around Gettysburg Being A Memorial of What Was Endured, Suffered, and Accomplished by the Twenty-Third Regiment (N.Y. S. N. G..) and Other Regiments Associated With Them In Their Pennsylvania And Maryland Campaign." PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the ffep. Original brown, embossed cloth with gold lettering. Paper label on spine partly missing. A very good, strong and clean copy with minimal shelf wear. New Jersey Historical Society bookplate on front pastedown and their blindstamp on the title page. Dornbusch 1, NY 268; Nicolson, p.477. Very Scarce.. First Edition. Original Brown Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston:: Dana Estes & Co.,, 1902. A magnificent copy of the Connoisseur Edition, No. 35 of 250 sets. Profusely illustrated with plates in two states. Elaborately bound soft mauve 3/4, gilt-tooled and lettered crushed levant morocco. Sir Edmund Lodge, KH (1756-1839) was a long-serving English officer of arms and a writer on heraldic subjects. He was born in London on 13 June 1756 and was the son of Edmund Lodge, rector of Carshalton, Surrey. A noted historian and writer, he contributed the literary matter to Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1814, &c.), an elaborate work of which a popular edition is included in Bohn's Illustrated Library. A handsome and elegant set.. Connoisseur Edition. Fine. 8vo.. 12 Volumes.

Boston, 1909 First edition. Olive cloth. Excellent - minor scuffing and soiling. 2 portrait plates. 8vo., Inscibed by Lodge and bound in olive green cloth with gold lettering..

New York:: Macmillan,, 1907. First Trade Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LONDON on the front free endpaper: " Dear Joe Wharton: In remembrance of all your patient kindness, which at last resulted in the two splendid deer-heads that now adorn my walls. Sincerely yours, Jack London, Glen Ellen, Calif. Feb. 28, 1913. Original pictorial woven tan cloth with red lettering, 242pp + ads. Small photo of London pasted to frontispiece recto. Small tear to leading edge of that page, some very light soiling. A wonderful book with a terrific London autograph.. By the Author.. First Edition Presentation Copy.. Original Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo..

New York:: The Macmillan Co.,, 1904. Original pictorial blue cloth. A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London's most memorable, fully realized character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner's brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. A beautiful copy.. First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by W.J. Aylward. 8vo..

London, 1791. Includes the errata leaf and the list of subscribers and contains a vocabulary of the Chippewa language. "The author engaged in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1768, and journeyed as a fur trader among the Indians of Canada for nineteen years. His knowledge of the character, customs, and domestic life of the Indians was therefore most thorough and intimate"- Field 946; Howes L 443; Sabin 41878. Professionally rebacked with the original backstrip; minor browning to the endpapers and the usual offsetting to the Armorial bookplate of Earl Fitzwilliam. A lovely wide-margined copy.. First Edition. Contemporary Calf. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York:: The War Memorial Assoc.,, 1912. Complete in 16 parts. Blue pictorial paper wraps. Illustrated with maps, plans some in full color and reproductions, of the great Mathew Brady photographs of the war. Housed in the original blue cloth, publisher's binder which shows some light rubbing and soiling. A lovely set of Lossing's 19th century Civil War History in the original parts. The title page has a diagonal crease in the lower right corner otherwise a near fine copy.. Near Fine. Illus. by Mathew Brady.. 4to..