Search Results: Titles starting with L from Supercalifabulistic Books

Simon and Schuster, 1982 First Edition. NF/VG+ Beautiful copy to collect. Tight, clean, no marks. Light brown linen boards with gilt titles. DJ has minimal shelf ware (small crease inside back flap)and a color glossy photo of a baseball stadium. This story of baseball covers the Spring of 1977 thru the Fall of 1981, including 7 long weeks of strike. The New York Times Book Revies states " it is a book for people who miss good writing. Who miss clarity,lucitdity, style and passion. 429 pgs.

NY, Toronto, London, Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2005 Book. Illus. by Whitney Martin. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First, also proper number line. NF/NF No marks. Clean ,tight, like new. Big George has five sons: George, George, George, George and George. And everyone knows that any time you need help, "Let George do it!" Two-time heavyweight boxing champ of the world George Foreman (who has five sons of his own named George) offers a very funny book about a unusual family..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. NF/ VG Price cut. "19th Large Printing" Tight, clean edition, hardback . DJ has slightly worn edges, small water stain on back side. Book does not have any water stains. Foreword by W. D. Currier, M.D., National Secretary, American Academy of Nutirtion. Adell Davis, new book is a simple, sound, and above all practical guide to the principles of nutrition. "Nutrition is a peronal matter ", says Miss Davis , as personal a your diary or income tax report.".

The Library of Beautiful ThingsRare in this edition. We A Collection of Poetry and ProseTwo volumes don't appear to have been opened, the third has been opened to a few places. Each book is compiled by someone different. Beautiful Collectors Edition!

New York: Viking Press, 1930 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Same date to title and copyright pages. Bownish/orange fine weave linen boards with silver gilt spear design on front cover. Spine is faded and bumped. Interior of book is in near fine condition. Autobiographical account of Frances Charles Yeates Bown's experiences in the Balleans and Middle East at the Pakistani and Afghan frontier from 1908-1918. Won the james Tait Black Award. Made into 1935 film starring Gary Cooper..

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1956 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. NF/ VG Near Fine hardcover, red boards stiff and unmarked with sharp corners, strong straight square spine. Yellow titles on spine, with very slight shelf wear at top. Pages are unmarked. This book opens like new and feels as though it has never been read, brand new besides vintage age! Dust Jacket in Very Good condition, beautiful yellow and grey illustration of a blooming lotus above a feminine face extending across the spine and bold red titles are unmarked. Back cover contains quotes from Great Writers on Reading. Sight shelf wear, with three chips at top of front cover as well as the top of the spine, and one small tear on the top of the back cover (1/2 inch). Welcome to Burmah, before WWII. Jenny escapes the fate of her Burmese mother and brother, drowned by invading Japanese troops, and her Father the English soldier, imprisoned. She is brought up by a Burmese family, who she marries into. The day her… Read More

Scarce Edition
1959
Crest Giant , Fawcett Publications

New York: Putnam, 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/VG++. Burgundy boards,gold gilt titles to spine. DJ is NOT price clipped. DJ is bright and hsiny with a few chips at corners and ends of spine. B & W photo of Bette on the back. She needs no introduction. She does not regret one enemy she made during her career. She finds them a prime requisite for success. Sh proved that you can have a career and remain honest - if you aree willing to pay th price of personal loneliness..

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, inc., 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/NJ First Edition 1964 This hardcover novel is in Fine condition, almost no noticable shelf wear, square book with sharp corners and crisp pages. No mark on the boards or spine. No marks, tears, or creases inside the book. This 1st American edition of this novel subtitled A Malayan Trilogy by the author of A Clockwork Orange, set in the post-war days of the twilight of colonialism is a compilation of the author's first three novels: Time for a Tiger (1956), The Enemy in the Blanket (1958), and Beds in the East (1959). This first edition, precedes the first U.K. edition (Penguin, London, 1972).

New York: Scribner's, 1929 Book. Near Fine, no dust jacket. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date, 1929, on title and copyright pages with Scribner's seal on copyright page. ("scarce"). Interior of book is in near fine condition. Clean, tight, no marks. Navy cloth with gilt titles.Tiny nicks along spine. No DJ. Pg 308, line 26 lower "g" in greek. Pg. 506, line 23 missing "t" in stationed. .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1950 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. VG+/none. 1950 copyright date, no other dates. Light brown boards with orange horse blind stamped on front cover, and orange titles to spine. Signed by author on lower corner of first page. Illustrated by Pers Crowell PO's signatures. Otherwise a clean, tight editon..

Little Brown and Company, 1948 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to copyright and title pages: 1948. Light blue boards faded at spine in spots and along edges also damp stains. Interior of the book is i very good condition, clean tight, no marks. The DJ shows some browning due to sun (?) but overall is in very good condtiion with minor chipping to edges. Made into a movie of the same name. By some readers The Loved One will be regarded as one of the most perfect short novels published in many years; squeamish readers, on the other hand, who dislike the gruesome are here by warned away from this fierce, passionate and haunting love story of a young British poet named Dennis Barlow and a young American crematorium cosmetician named Aimee Thanatogenos. .

New York: Doubleday, 1947 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Same Date, 1947. VG Black boards with gold titles. Slight fading to spine. No DJ. Maps on end papers. Pages 52 and 53 were stuck together at one point, effecting a 3 by 1 inch area but can still read copy.Tiny water stain effecting outer pages. Clean, no marks, medium tight copy. A story of Haiti..