Search Results: Titles starting with L from Borg Antiquarian

Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. First Edition-: text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Near Fine/None. 7 Tables (1 being a map). Tall 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with 7 B&W engravings (e.g., 1 foldout printed both sides with diagrams [circles of the Inferno; stages of Purgatorio; orbits of Paradise]; 1 double-spread), 1 plate) & 1 map of N.. Central Italy ; xvii, [xviii-xx], 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's Italian facing German translations, finely printed on onionskin/India paper. Weight: 15.3 oz. An attractive leather-bound, lightly illustrated, scholarly edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in German with facing Italian poetry, plus learned commentaries. Slight wrinkling to the title page, else clean, bright, solid text throughout! Not Ex Library. No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Leonardo Olschki (1885-1961) was a literary scholar and expert in matters italian Romanist, Italianist,… Read More

Paris Londres: Bruxelles Les Éditions Robert Sand, 1922. First French Edition - Text in FRENCH. Cloth. Very Good +. Small quarto (9 3/4" x 6 1/2" x 2"), brown clooth with gold lettering on spine & front cover, endpapers with ads for Les Publications dela Foundation Universitaire de Belgique, 450 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 2 oz. Eugène Dupréel (1879 - 1967) was a Belgian philosopher. He was professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (1907 - 1950), teaching logic, metaphysics, Greek philosophy, moral philosophy and sociological theory.<br /> <br /> "L'approche sociologique de la connaissance lui a permis de renouveler l'histoire de la philosophie grecque, dans deux ouvrages aussi révolutionnaires que discutés : « La légende socratique et les sources de Platon » (1922) et « Les Sophistes » (1948)."--Notice Sur… Read More

Paris: Odyssey, 1935. First Authorized Edition: Seventh Printing. Limp leather. Good +. 12mo, pebbled leather wrappers with ribbon place marker, "An Open Letter to the Public of D.H. Lawrence from Frieda Lawrence," xxx-pages. Mrs. Lawrence wrote in her "Open Letter" that her husband had written three separate versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover, but that this was the first to be unexpurgated, carefully revised, and low priced in accordance with the author's wishes. The date of Frieda Lawrence's "Open Letter" is January 26, 1933. Also in 1933, Tauchnitz published a pirated European, supposedly "unexpurgated" edition of the infamous underground bestseller. Most of these unexpurgated copies were read to pieces or lost during the war. Somewhat rubbed with abraision to the spine caps, this is the seventh printing of this--then--scandalous novel.

New York: Crown, 1990. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good +. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the Author on the title page; 8vo, gray quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over black boards; light green endpapers, 295 pages. Robert T. Westbrook (born 1945) is an American writer. and son of NYC columnist Sheilah Graham. It has been alleged that his father was five years after the death of her lover F. Scott Fitzgerald. Graham claimed Robert's biological father was the Hollywood actor Robert Taylor. <br/><br/>In the 1980s, Westbrook began a handful of satirical Left-Handed mysteries set in the 1950s Los Angeles where he had grown up. This is third in the series of four mysteries.<br/><br/>He is well known for his Left Handed Police Man Mysteries, and Howard Moon Deer mysteries set in fictional San Geronimo (Taos, New Mexico).<br/><br/>SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean cloth. Pages unmaked. Dust Jacket (unclipped) with light darkening of edges… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Margaret K. McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster Children's Books, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. SIGNED by the Author on a special front endpaper; thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with irridescent violent lettering on spine over black boards, 668 pages + [2] Epilogue + [2] Notes on the Text + [2] Acknowedgements + [24] A Long Conversation. Weight: 1 lb. 15.9 oz. A Shadowhunters Novel. Lady Midnight is the first book in The Dark Artifices, which is fourth in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The book follows the events that occur in the Los Angeles area in 2012, focusing on the residents of the Los Angeles Institute. The title was based upon Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.<br/> <br/> The Shadowhunters must catch a killer in Edwardian London in this dangerous and romantic sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Chain of Gold. A book for ages 14 and up.<br/> <br/> NY Times… Read More

Boston New York London: Little, Brown & Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo, light red quarter cloth with gold lettering over yellow boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with blurred effects depicting a seagull soaring before a beach, 376 pages. James Patterson (born 1947) is a best-selling American author, winner of an Edgar Award, and philanthropist. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard, and Private series. He written many stand-alone thrillers, mysteries, non-fiction, science fiction, and romance novels.<br/><br/>The Lake House is the sequel to When The Wind Blows. In it, six genetically engineered children have their DNA merged with that of birds. The result is they have to fight for their lives against scientists who try to kill them. Suspended FBI agent Thomas "Kit" Brennan and Dr.… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, light beige cloth and mottled beige boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicing a small Shakespeare portrait within a broken heart against a beige background, [viii] + 213-[214] deckled pages + [2] A Note About the Author / A Note About the Type. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed… Read More

New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, mauve cloth with gold lettering on spine, delineated map frontispiece, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting warrior riders fleeing a burning city by Gregory Manchess, maze motif on endpapers and scattered throughout text, 366 pages + [2] About the Author. Exceptional Condition! Parts of this superb debut novel originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, August, 2006.

London: Hamish Hamilton (in cooperation with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), 1990. First British Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black cloth, Mylar-protected black & white checkered dust jacket (unclipped) with author's name in red, [i-iv], [1-4], 5-339, [340-343] pages. Milorad Pavi (1929 - 2009) was a Serbian novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary historian. Born in Belgrade in 1929, he published many poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." LANDSCAPE PAINTED WITH TEA (Knopf, 1990) was his second novel. It has many themes, and characters who search for meaning and identities. According to literary critic Jasmina Mihailovic, "As a grandiose artistic synthesis of all the aspects of ecological problems, the novel speaks of survival and resistance to the apocalypse and can be taken as an appeal for equilibrium,… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, tall 8vo, blue vertically-ribbed cloth, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with silk floral motif, 276 pages. Gail Tsukiyama is the author of several bestselling books. She has won the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS continues the life of Pei, who worked in the silk industry "sweatshops" as a girl, and who was introduced In Tsukiyama's debut novel, Women of the Silk. Now in ...THREADS--a study of hardship and survival--Pei moves on to Hong Kong during the 30's, where she soon faces the horrible effects of the Japanese conquest, prison life, and black market gangs. INSCRIBED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in immaculate dust jacket (unclipped).

New York: Random House, 1956. First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. B&W photos. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), adapted by LILLIAN HELLMAN, gray buckram with black label and inset B&W photo of Julie Harris as Joan on front cover, illustrated with a few B&W stills from the production with Julie Harris & Christopher Plummer, photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of Joan with sword-as-cross, archival mylar-protected, 144 pages. Jean Anouilh [pron.: An-ouil or A-nouil & not "anwi"] (1910 - 1987) was a prominent French playwrite and screenwriter whose work ranged from sophisticated drama to absurdist farce. He is well known for Antigone (1944)--based on Sophocles' drama--which attacked the Nazified Vichy government. One of France's most prolific and important dramatists, his themes often dealt with renouncing reality for dreams, and maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Text from the production with JULIE HARRIS as JOAN, Christopher Plummer, and… Read More

New York: Greenwillow Books / Harper Collins Children's Books, 2008. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Patrick Arrasmith. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover (plus a blind-stamped cloven hoof), pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a clawed hand emerging from a swamp by Patrick Arrasmith with two ravening wolves on back panel, dj protected in an archival quality clear film sleeve, parchment-colored endpapers, [x] + 508 pages. Joseph Delaney (born 1945) is a British author of fantasy books. This novel continues the adventures of Tom, seventh son od a seventh son and Spook apprentice, who fights danger and death on a daily basis.--blurb EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Sharp bright unsullied dust jacket. No remainder markings.

New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo, tan quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards with "M.P." stamped in gold, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a slightly frayed package with title as label, [viii] + 389 pages incl. "The Story Behind The Last Bookaneer" + [2] Acknowledgements. New York TImes Bestselling Matthew Pearl--a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School--is an American novelist and educator. His novels include The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, and The Last Bookaneer. This book follows late 19th century British "bookaneers"--notorious characters of the book trade who are interested in securing-or-stealing contemporary British authors' new book manuscripts to publish them without paying royalties, Such quests lead them to Robert Louis Stevenson's home Vailima on distant Samoa, where… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, white speckled buckram with scarlet and blue-green lettering on spine, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of three horses on a carousel, [xii] + 435 pages. Scarce collection by the noted Chicago author in a Fine dj, whose only defect is a small tear to free front endpaper. Nelson Algren is best known for his gritty and pathfinding novel about drug addiction, The Man With the Golden Arm, which won the first National Book Award and was made into a major film starring Frank Sinatra.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Photos. 8vo, maroon cloth with silver "label" on spine & Dutton blind-stamped delta on cover, photograph of Cochise miners as frontispiece, 6 glossy photos & 2 maps, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with Western montage, 260 pages. Excellent study of roaring Tombstone. Near Fine condition though with some wear and losses to extremities of the Rare dust jacket; internally clean, tight, and relatively bright.

Essex, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2023. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. SIGNED by the Author with "Best Wishes!" on the title page, 8vo, red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of TR,

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus. Maps. Ex Library: 8vo, green cloth, illustrated with 9 B&W maps, thick library grade mylar-protected color photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an early morning misty view of a northern forest-lake-&-mountain, xii + 309 pages of text + 311-416 pages of Notes, Bibliography, & Index. Melody Webb (b.1946) was a Park Service veteran and is a distinguished historian. She began this book on the Last American Frontier after serving in Alaska with the National Park Service and University of Alaska. Having lived and explored the region and studied an exhaustive number of sources, she traces the settlement and development of the enormous Yukon Basin with its varied Indian tribes and Eskimos through incursions by Russian traders, miners, explorers, soldiers, and missionaries. A Woman in the Great Outdoors is another noteworthy book by Melody, which recounts her 21 years in… Read More

Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. Alison Watt. INSCRIBED by the author-illustrator Alison Watt on the decorative half title, tall 8vo, green textured cloth with gold lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with watercolors by author-artist Watt, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with painting by Watt, 192 pages. Alison Watt (born 1957 & not to be confused with Alison Watt [born 1965], the Scottish painter) is a biologist, naturalist, and seabird researcher; also a poet and painter. Her non-fiction has appeared in Canadian Wildlife magazine and her poetry in many journals.<br/><br/>Author's First Book INSCRIBED to a good friend. VERY BEAUTIFUL and insightful illustrated nature study in a comparable copy with near fine dust jacket (unclipped) with top of dj's spine slightly crimped!

New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, light brown cloth with silver lettering over black boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket, [vi] + 355 pages + [2] Author's Note. Exceptional condition! Often called "King of the Legal Thriller," John Grisham (b.1955) is a former (and now occasionally) practicing attorney and enormously successful author. In addition, several of his bestsellers have been made into equally successful movies. A Time to Kill (filmed in 1996) was his first legal mystery.

New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: A Foundation Book / Doubleday, 1989. First Edition stated with code "FG" [unidentified]. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Thick 8vo, tourquoise quarter boards with gilt lettering on spine over beige boards, illustrated with a chronology and chart of solar systems, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with artwork by Shusei, green-gray endpapers, 481 pages + [1] Author's Postscript + [2] About the Author. Alfred Angelo Attanasio (born 1951) is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His science fiction novel Radix, winner of the French literary award, the Prix Cosmos 2000, was also nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Among related titles, he has written for the highly praised Radix series: In Other Worlds (1981); Arc of the Dream (1985) and The Last Legends of Earth (1989).<br /> <br /> SUPERB CONDITION in all respects! No previous owner or remainder marks.