Search Results: Titles starting with L from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 83x11x123. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. 224 pp. Renowned novelist James Brown's searing memoir is a wrenching yet often wry chronicle of loss and reaffirmation written in response to a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse; mental illness; economic hardship; and the suicides of his two siblings. Harrowing, brutally honest, and no-holds-barred, The L.A. Diaries unveils Brown's struggle for survival, mining his perilous past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written, moving, and lined with dark humour, these twelve interconnected confessional chapters address personal failure; heartbreak; the trials of writing for Hollywood; and the life-shattering events that finally convinced him he must 'change or die'.

New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Rear board soiled, hinges starting. 1901 Hard Cover. Includes photographs of cast from Maude Adams production at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York, October 1900. L'Aiglon is a play about Napoleon II of France, played by Maude Adams, most famous for her role as Peter Pan.

Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, 1926. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Helle, Andre. First edition. Boards rubbed. 1926 Large Hardcover. 64 pp. Publisher's advertisements bound in following first and last pages. Black cloth spine, color pictorial boards. An illustrated bestiary of various animals present on Noah's Ark, with French accompanying text. Andre Helle is a pseudonym that was used by French painter, illustrator, lithographer, and toy designer Andre Laclotre, who was inspired by the 'Incoherents' movement.

Paris: E. Plon et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1883. Fourth Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Wrappers appear to be new, and added over the original back cover, with the original front cover missing. Some wear to edges of first and last few pages, a few pages foxed. 1883 Trade Paperback. xii, 403 pp. Plain brown paper wrappers. French text. Appears to be a work on political economy, wealth, and free trade, with references to credit.

Chicago, Illinois: Time, Inc, 1946. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Wrappers intact, no chips, no tears, ink name on front wrapper. 1946 Stapled Binding. Cover art: actress Lucille Brenier, dancing partner of Fred Astaire in "Ziegfield Follies." Articles include: Russians Strip Manchurian Industry; Resurgent France: A Nation Whose Future, No Less Than Its Past, Is Linked with Our Own, Needs Support; Terror on the Bay: Weird Michigan Ice Mass Runs Amok; Monetary Parley: World Bank and Fund Delegates Mix Business and Pleasure in Savannah; The Town Bum: Glen Cove's Favorite Beggar is a Huge St. Bernard Named Butch; George W. Bellows: An American Master of Realistic Painting Comes Into His Own with Big Memorial Show; Atom Bomb Island: Navy Moves Natives from Bikini, Target of Operation Crossroads; The Modeling Business: New York's Agencies Gross Millions Yearly by Providing Gorgeous Girls, Men of Distinction and Cute Moppets for Artists and Photographers; and more.

Paris: Editions de la Bonne Etoile, 1930. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Saint-Andre, Berthomme. Limited edition, #2374 of 2500. Undated, circa 1930. Front joint repaired, spine faded, ink name stamp on title page. 143 pp. 4to. Navy blue leather spine & corners, navy blue cloth boards, gilt titles & rules, marbled endpapers, color plates (some rather risque) by Berthomme Saint-Andre throughout. French text. L'Ingenu, written after Voltaire's most well-known work Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France.

Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1962. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, from a printing of 39 copies, 25 numbered and 14 lettered. This set is #20 of volume 1, and #23 of volumes 2 and 3. Rebound in boards by G. Gauche of Paris. Boards lightly foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1962 Hard Cover. 364; 342; 326 p. 8vo. Beige cloth over boards, dark green morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, marbled endpapers. French text. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. A travelogue by the French writer and photographer who won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937, and contributed to the French magazine L'Amateur d'Art. The photographs and narrative focus on the architecture of the three regions covered (North, Center, South).

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1978. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. First American edition. Tear to jacket spine, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1978 Large Hardcover. 334 pp. A book of dissertations by a number of Italian scholars, La Belle Epoque should be read once one has gotten a good feel of the period from another book like "Paris in the Nineties" by Rudolph or "Edwardian England" by Pearson or one else might find themselves confused after finishing the first two chapters due to the remainder of the book focusing on the psychological aspects and arts of the period. The upside of this book is that while it focuses mainly on France, and then Edwardian England, it includes tidbits on fin de siecle Austria, Germany, Italy and even Romania, as well as a calendar of newsworthy events from the years 1900-1914 culled from newspapers of the era.

Boston: Joseph Knight, 1896. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Montegut. Reissue. No jacket. Spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, ink name on front free endpaper. 1896 Hard Cover. 92 pp. Five pages of publisher ads follow text. English text. Frontispiece and woodcut illustrations by Montegut. Translated by Robert Routledge. Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.--Wikipedia

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Photoplay. No jacket. Spine slightly cocked, rear board lightly soiled. 1926 Hard Cover. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay King Vidor's Production a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture starring Lilian Gish. ABOUT THE FILM: "La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the 1896 opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in a tragic romance in which a tubercular seamstress sacrifices her life so that her lover, a bohemian playwright, might pen his masterpiece. Gish, at the height of her influence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, asserted significant control over the production, determining the story, director, cast, cinematography and costume design[1] In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. [2] In… Read More

New York: G. Ricordi & Co, 1917. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wrappers lightly soiled. 1917 Stapled Binding. 51 pp. "La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini. Since then La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas internationally. According to Opera America, it is the second most frequently performed opera in the United States, just behind another Puccini opera, Madama Butterfly.

Paris: Charles Houel, 1798. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Rebound: pebbled cloth spine with gilt titles over marbled-paper-covered boards. 1798 Hard Cover. 484 pp. 8vo. Nine folding plates follow text. French text. A posthumously published work left incomplete upon Condillac's death, which constituted the final volume of his 'Oeuvres.' This and the work immediately preceding it (La logique) exercised considerable influence on the philosophers and scientists of the next generation, introducing algebra as a form of philosophical and scientific language, and shaping the way scientific explanation evolved within numerous disciplines.

Paris: S.N, 1789. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Rebound with new end sheets. Boards rubbed, light stain to top corner of last section of pages, one section of pages bumped on bottom corner. 1789 Hard Cover. vi, 228 pp. 12mo. French text. Paper over boards, morocco spine label with gilt titles and decorations. This and the work immediately following it (La Langue des Calculs) exercised considerable influence on the philosophers and scientists of the next generation, introducing algebra as a form of philosophical and scientific language, and shaping the way scientific explanation evolved within numerous disciplines.

London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus. Two of three volumes (lacks volume 3). Minor cosmetic wear, text clean and unmarked. 1865 Hard Cover. xliv, 305; xvi, 360 pp. Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tragic death. Thomas Wright's introduction details the printing history of the work from Caxton's printing in 1485 through 1816, and his footnotes are included throughout the text.

East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 7x0x10. First edition. Minor general wear. 2000 Soft Cover. xix, 340 pp. On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence—literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America— and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for… Read More

Geneve: Chez Claude Philibert & Barthelemi Chirol, 1770. Reprint. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 1770 reprint, originally published in 1769 in both Geneva and Amsterdam. Bindings appear to be original. Boards a bit rubbed with some loss along front joint of first volume, photographic owner bookplate and small dealer bookplate on front endpapers. xxvi, 431; ii, 448 pp. French text. Full calf, gilt titles on morocco spine labels, elaborate gilt spine decorations, red edges, marbled endpapers. Bonnet coined the term 'phyllotaxis,' and was among the first to use the term 'evolution' in reference to biology. This work explores the nature of living beings before and after death, positing that even plants and animals have souls, and that souls are reincarnated in successively improved bodies (an assertion similar to the concepts of reincarnation and karma in Hinduism).

Paris: Librairie Germer Bailliere, 1881. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed, corners slightly exposed, minor pencil marginalia. 1881 Half-Leather. 326, [1] pp. Brown leather spine over marbled boards, gilt titles. Egger taught Marcel Proust, and was a colleague of Henri Bergson, Ernest Renan, and Paul Janet.

Gallimard, 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Ink underlining on just a couple pages. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. 255 pp. Often translated as "The Plague", this French-language novel tells the story of a plague that sweeps through French Algiers.

New York: The Electric Publishing Co, 1904. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Former library copy - usual marks. 1904 Hard Cover. xvii, 180 pp. "Philosophy in America: From The Origins Until Our Days (1607-1900): Historical Essay." A French text study of American philosophy.

Paris: Germer Bailliere, Libraire-Editeur, 1869. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Third edition. Boards rubbed, corners exposed, lightly foxed throughout. 1869 Hard Cover. xlvii, [1], 620 pp. A French translation of Mill's critique of Sir William Hamilton, in which Mill characterizes matter as the permanent possibility of sensation. Mill was an influential thinker in the tradition of classical liberalism, and among the most important English philosophers, not least due to his characterization of freedom in his 1859 work On Liberty. Mill was also an outspoken advocate for gender equality.