Search Results: Titles starting with L from TristanBooks

La Florida Antiquarian/Antique Hand-Colored Map displaying Southeast North America, what is now the South-Eastern United States with parts of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico. Map 6 x 9 inches on rag paper (aka laid paper) sheet 8.25 x 10.3 inches. This map is regarded as the first printed map to feature the Florida peninsula when the territory was owned by the Spanish Empire areas of the New World. It first appeared in the 1584 edition of "Theatrum orbis terrarum". (The first edition of "Theatrum" was 1570 but did not include this map.)This engraved map is based on a drawing by Geronimo de Chiaves (1523-1574), the royal cosmographer and cartographer to Philip II, king of Spain. and appeared in 'Theatrum orbis terrarum' published by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) in 1584. 'Cum Privilegio' in decorative cartouche on upper right. This map is probably based on accounts by members of the Hernando de Soto expedition (1539-1543) and is considered the first published map… Read More

The Last Unicorn the Lost Journey by Peter Beagle Hardcover First Edition Signed-Limited Issue
San Francisco: Tachyon Press, 2018. 1 of 250 copies signed by the
author (Beagle) and the artist Stephanie Law. Copy no. 43. Fine in silver boards without dust jacket as issued as NEW. (Tiny dirt mark to the front of copy 43) ALSO: The picture are of the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

One of the Best Copies I Have Ever Seen of a Book from the 1920's!
Lazarus Laughed by Eugene O'Neill (author of Long Day's Journey Into Night and the Iceman Cometh) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Boni and Liveright 1927. $2.50 cover price intact. FINE in Near Fine+ Dustjacket. An absolutely superior copy. The book itself appears like NEW, boards are very clean and crisp, corners straight, no reading wear at all, interior pages very clean and bright. Dust jacket is present and in just about as good a condition as you could ask for regarding a book from pre-1930. The dust jackert is very clean and bright, NO fraying or chips at all! Hint of a slit to top edge, very unnoticeable, and slight nicking to upper spine corners, else a very intact nearly perfect dust jacket! Just about as nice as you could ask for in a book which is 85 years old! I challenge anyone to find a better copy.NOTE: All modern books with dustjackets come with dustjacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale.… Read More

Le Petit Prince ("The
Little Prince") by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Hardcover Harcourt Brace
& World copyright 1943 but this copy probably printed circa 1965
with $4.95 cover price. (true first edition was published by Reynal
& Hitchcock in 1943). This could be the first Harcourt Brace &
World edition. An original copy in dust jacket of the Reynard &
Hitchcock edition would probably run you $2000+.Essentially
Fine in Very Good Dust jacket with a chip to the upper spine. A nice
example of an uncommon book with its original dust jacket.The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince
is a novella by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the US by Reynal
& Hitchcock in April 1943, and posthumously in France following the
liberation of France as Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the Vichy
Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets in space,
including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness,… Read More

Wynkyn de Worde Printed Leaf (i.e. a page with front and back) from "Legenda aurea/Legenda sanctorum ("The Golden Legend"), a popular series of biographies of the saints. Printed in Latin by Wynkyn de Worde in England (either Westminster or London), this leaf is about St. Columba. Nice black letter example in Latin.

Size, Date, Material and Region: Small Folio, measuring 11x7.5" (27.5x19.5cm) on rag paper (also called laid paper) dating from circa 1516 in England.

Condition: Overall a Near Fine example! Very bold and nice looking late renaissance example of a leaf (page) Some fraying to one edge but NO tearing to the text itself. The fraying is on the edge where the leaf had been bound into its book. Very bold and sharp.

A Little Hatred Book One of The Age of Madness by Joe Abercrombie (part of the Age of Madness series beginning with "A Little Hatred") First US Edition - First Printing New York: Orbit US, 2019. Signed by Abercrombie in his characteristic minimalist style on the front end-paper. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. (Fine
in Fine Dust Jacket, essentially a brand new unread copy, (Also
released in the UK by Gollancz and a signed-limited edition by
Subterranean Press.) The Trouble with Peace Book Two of The Age of Madness by Joe Abercrombie (part of the Age of Madness series beginning with "A Little Hatred") First US Edition - First Printing New York: Orbit US, 2020. Signed by Abercrombie in his characteristic minimalist style on the front end-paper. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Fine
in Fine Dust Jacket, essentially a brand new unread copy, (Also
released in the UK by Gollancz and a signed-limited edition by
Subterranean Press.) The Wisdom of Crowds Book Three of The Age of Madness by Joe Abercrombie (part of… Read More

Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers illustrated by Olive M. Long Hardcover First Edition Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company and the Riverside Press, 1902. An illustrated children's book from the very beginning of the 20th century.
Miss Muffet (Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey when along came a spider, etc.) has a Christmas party inviting many characters of children's literature: Alice of Alice in Wonderland, the Little Dutch girl Gretchen in her wooden shoes, Aladdin, Tom Sawyer, the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, even Baron Munchausen, Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels, and the Three Wise Men of the Bible! A nice snap shot into the sensibilities of children's literature at the turn of the last century, circa 1900.
Collation and Condition: Illustrated endpapers showing Miss Muffet as a spider within a web, frontispiece of Miss Muffet and her spider friend, title page, 9 chapters in 107 pages,… Read More

The Little Minister by J.M. Barrie (aka Sir James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, etc.) Hardcover Second US Edition (?) Thomas Y. Crowell circa 1905 (originally published in the UK by Cassell & Company, and in the US by H.M. Caldwell Company in 1898.)
This may be the second US edition, and the only early edition available
in an original dust jacket! Includes photos of a theater production as
Barrie had been primarily a playwright. Small book store sticker on back
paste-downFine
in Near Fine++ Dust Jacket. No cover price present, no indication of a
date on the copyright page but probably circa 1905. (One copy online had
a former owner signature dated 1909.) Possibly the best copy of this
edition available with an outstanding original dust jacket. Book itself
is clean, boards clean, pages nice, almost NO shelf-wear or noticeable
aging, to be expected. Former owner name on front end-paper. Dust Jacket is complete, NO Major… Read More

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Hardcover First UK Edition - First Printing London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1959. 21s original cover price. Modern Library ranked Lolita as the 4th most important novel of the 20th century.

Lolita has a strange publishing history. It was first published in two paperbacks by The Olympia Press in Paris in 1955, most near fine or better copies are priced at $5000+. It was then published later by G.P. Putnam's Sons in the US later the same year and finally in the UK in 1959. Even the US edition is often priced at $1000+. This is a less-expensive alternative.

Very Good+ in Fine- dust jacket. A beautiful copy with a particularly exceptional dust jacket. Boards are clean, hint of a bend to the front board, some spotting to the edges of the text block and end-papers (due to the quality of the paper and age) but the interior pages look much brighter. The dust jacket is beautiful NO chips or tears. Typical toning to the back. Otherwise an exceptionally nice copy of this book… Read More

Lord of Chaos Book Six of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (author of "The Eye of the World", "The Dragon Reborn", etc.) Hardcover First Edition- First Printing New York: TOR Tom Doherty & Associates, 1994. Features stunning wrap-around artwork by Darrel K. Sweet. Printing number-line going from "0" down to "1" on the copyright page which indicates a 1st printing. $29.95 cover price. NOTE: NOT x-lib and NOT book club.
Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. A nice copy with signs it had been read. Some light scuffing to the boards in places, but not really too bad. Some edge-wear and some tiny dings and nicks here and there to the jacket but NO tears. Priced to sell.
Note on Edition: The Wheel of Time series was begun in 1990 with "The Eye of the World" and "The Great Hunt". The series went on to be immensely popular and both "The Eye of the World" and "The Great Hunt" were reprinted numerous times in generally the same design throughout the 1990's. Jordan died before finishing the series.… Read More

Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith (author of Out of Space and Time, Genius Loci, The Abomination of Yondo, etc.) Hardcover First UK Edition - First Printing London: Neville Spearman UK, 1971. £1.75 cover price, brown boards inside photographic dust jacket. Contains stories contained in CAS' "worlds" such as Averoigne, Hyperborea, and Zothique.
Originally issued by Arkham House in 1944, a sought-after first edition, among which are "The Outsider and Others" by Lovecraft, "Out of Space and Time" by CAS, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by HP Lovecraft, "Skull-Face and Others" by Robert E. Howard, and "The House on the Borderland and Other Novels" by William Hodgson. Fine/Fine copies of the Arkham House edition of "Out of Space and Time" tend to fetch $400+. The texts of this edition are contained in two paperbacks issued by Panther UK during roughly the same period with each paperback often priced at $50+.
PLUS a unique after-market dust jacket created with artwork on the front and back by Bruce Pennington… Read More