Search Results: Titles starting with L from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang / Abrams., 2011. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface wear.. May, Jennifer (Photographs by).. 1 Illustrated Paper over boards. Color photos, Frontispiece. 9.25 in. square. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. Portraits and Interviews with 26 women. Introduction by author.

Boston.: Allyn and Bacon / Norwood Press., 1915. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Pencil notes inside front cover. Minor shelf wear.. Lemaire, Mme Madeleine (Grayscale artwork by).. 1 Dark red cloth over boards. Black printing cover with gilt on spine. 190 p. plus 50 p. Appendix. Set in France, this moral tale is about a family that pursues a life devoted to worthy aims. Ludovic Halevy (b.1834, Paris) was the son of a French poet and dramatist, and wrote tales in the style of easy conversation. He was well-known for his dramatic pieces, and comedies. Appendix of Irregular Verbs and Rules of Syntax and Orthography.

Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave. No date. Edition not stated. Ca 1920? Dixieme Mille (10, 000th). Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 345 p. Light green shiny paper covers w/black text; uneven trim; Ads on back for Petit Larive et Fleury Dictionnaire Francais. Entirely in French (bear with me) this appears to be an analysis in two parts: ancient and modern economies of France and, where relevant, examples in other countries. The author is a member of the Institute (don't know which one). His prior book was Précis d'Economie Politique.

Advertising pages: slick color studio photos 1990s. Numerous B&W archival news photos: wartime, event, life-style, arts, personalities, in feature categories w/ text, credited generally near front. This overview is artfully designed and inclusive of multiple images depicting America's 50 post-war years since 1945. Address label, cover.

New York.: Time Inc., 1971. Weekly periodical news and features magazine.. Wraps. Good. Contents very good; cover has top angle crease, 5 in. Top binding half-inch tear. Lower binding off-center, qtr-inch. Lower front address label residue. Interior clean.. Shearer, John (Cover story photos by). 1 72 p. Paper covers, color photo cover art; magazine quality. 34 cm. Stapled binding. Cole and B&W photos; advertising; varied features, letters. Wearing tuxedos on the cover, heavyweight boxing champion contestants pose for a pre-fight feature story about both, p. 40-48, with B&W training photos and text. Other features: Editorial: Sick medical system; 2-pg art photo by VT photographer-poet William Mundell, plus text, poems; Photography review: Walker Evans, by Walter McQuade; Movie Review: A Severed Head, by Richard Schickel; TV review: The First Churchills, by John Leonard; "Calley Takes the Stand": Mylai massacre military trial, paintings by Daniel Schwartz, Vietnam photos by Ronald… Read More

Paris.: Librarie Hachette.. Tome Second, Septieme Edition; no date. Text: old print.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 1 452 p. Includes: index, bibliography. Rebound wonderfully in brown and tan marbled leather; light green paper cover folded inside. Red woven marker ribbon. Religion: Circa late 19th century. The look and feel of this volume is of an earlier academic era. The binding is solid and newer, very sophiticated and durable. Gold spine titles appear hand-stamped and irregular. This volume was garnered from a collection that came to the U.S. from Cairo, Egypt. Many of the volumes in French, Arabic, and English are similarly rebound. An Arabic language small form is tucked inside. Ships right away from New Hampshire U.S.A.

Farrar Straus Giroux., 1984. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block darkened, stain from smoky fire. no odor. Near fine jacket. Fine interior, fine covers.. 1 Light gray cloth over boards. Black spine titles. Blind stamped crest w/ cross, front. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. Swiss Army: A militia of 650000 people who can be fully mobilized in less than 48 hours. Author John McPhee was paired with the irreverent Luc Massy for a "refresher" training course.

Nancy / Paris / Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault, 1926. First edition presumed. No other indicators.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Loose page. Aging to paper, Foxing to cover.. 1 290 p. Includes bibliography. Low cost paper; Ivory cloth-covered covers w/ balck leather spine labels, titles in gold. Blue marbled endpapers. Women's Studies In French, this appears to be a study, authored by a Doctor of Science, Politics, and Economics. The preface is by the Professeur de Droit Public de l'Universite de Nancy, France. Includes history during the French Revolution, and Laws and Regulations in detail. Table of Contents ( des Matieres) at back. Bibliography.

Province of Quebec Tourist Bureau.. No Date. Color cover art: car, 1930s (? ).. Trade paperback. Very good. Near fine.. E.S. (Wraparound cover art by). 1 16 p. Cover art: lithograph. Stapled binding. 8x9.25 inches. B&W photos. Tourism brochure describing in text and numerous photos: Montreal, Laurentian Mountains, Quebec City, goldfields area, history from 1700s, Gaspe Peninsula, fishing, hunting, skiing. At end, info for tourists, regulations.

Viking Books, 1986. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library.. 0 Cloth & paper over boards. 240 p. Historical novel, 1682: La Salle set out with 22 Frenchmen, 18 Indians, and "his always grumbling, epileptic cartographer, Pierre Goupil, " to chart the length of the Mississippi River. It ends 5 years later. Written in a diary format by the explorer La Salle.

London / New York.: Standard Book Company., 1922. Copyright: Orsamus Turner Harris.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light edge wear, darkened spine. Age-toning.. 1 Dark pebbled leather-like material over slightly flexible boards; blind-stamped borders and italic "M", front. Spine titles & fleur de lis. Fiction, a short novel and short stories by classic French author Guy de Maupassant, in English. Translators also included Henderson, A E, and Mme Quesada. La Vie Errante is in 4 sections: Weariness, Night, The Italian Coast, Sicily (81 pages). Others: One Evening; Marroca; Fear; Allouma; Fascination; Mohammed Fripouille; The Orient; Chali; Julie Romain; On the Journey; Checkmate; The Rondoli Sisters. Each numbers 33 pages or less.

Atheneum Books, 1988. First edition. 1st printing, English translation.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. DJ has upper rear corner wrinkling.. Vermeer, Johannes (17th c. cover artwork "The Lacemaker" by). 1 Text in English, French. 467 p. Audience: General/trade. Historical Fiction set in late 17th century Alençon, France, the lacemaking capital of Europe. A girl is apprenticed at age 5 to learn the trade that blinded her grandmother and virtually killed her mother. Tied to a chair, forbidden to speak, terrified of making a mistake, by 15 she is an exquisite lacemaker and a beautiful young woman. It's an era of persecution of Protestants, and this girl marries one; and he flees Louis XIV's oppressive rule. The story follows the lacemaker and her ability to survive and to find love.

Sports Illustrated Books, 1988. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor corner curl.. 0 255 p. B&W photo and game play illustrations. The Game; Fundamental Stick Skills; Individual Offense; Individual Defense; Team Offense; Extra-Man Offense; Team Defense; Man-down Defense; Team Defense; Man-Doen Defense; The Transition Game; Goalie Play; Face-Offs; Preactice: Planning & Organization; Glosaary.

Brattleboro, Vt: Stephen Greene Press, 1971. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Minor DJ edgewear and soiling. Top page edges discoloration, as from smoke. No odor.. Devaney, John (Illustrations by).. 0 v, 186 p. 24 cm. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Portrait: Author frontispiece B&W photo. Aqua cloth covered boards. Gold titles. DJ color photo: bake sale. A family cookbook with over 300 tested recipes; not about cooking for great quantities, but dedicated to those who do, over and over. Author of East Thetford, VT, and Mount Dora, FL.

Thorndike ME.: Thorndike Press., 1982. Trade paperback. Fine. Clean text pages.. Wing-Horton, Melinda (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback. 95 p. Audience: General/trade. Cover art in shades of brick, gray on white. 21 cm. 95 p. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Defying a legacy that said women don't have, or shouldn't demonstrate, a sense of humor, this anthology is a laugh a New England minute.

Thorndike ME.: Thorndyke Press., 1982. Large type / large print.. Hard cover. Good. Ex-library. Clean text pages; library markings, pocket.. Wing-Horton, Melinda (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback. Cover art in shades of brick, gray on white. 21 cm. 95 p. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Defying a legacy that said women don't have, or shouldn't demonstrate, a sense of humor, this anthology is a laugh a New England minute.

Ballantine Books, 1992. 4th printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Uniform sun-darkening right page edges, save from bottom inch., and minor spine sun-fade. Slight edge wear.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. Fiction, Ireland, horses and romance. Departing from the fantasy fiction series for which McCaffrey is so well-known, she here writes a tale of a fine old horse breeding and training family and the woman who rides in and changes their lives. It is dedicated to the memory of a promising amateur jockey who lost his life in 1986 at 22, killed by the driver of a stolen car. The first hardcover edition was published 15 months later in 1987.

Toronto.: McClelland & Stewart., 1976. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. Owner name corner page clipped, consumer inscription remains. Coffee colored spill right edge, qtr-inch wide. DJ chipped, edgeworn.. Bacon, Paul (Jacket Illustration by). 1 Red durable cotton cloth over boards. 345p. Our young heroine's sanity is threatened: the several lives she has lived separately and secretly are coming together and will be exposed.

Dutton Books., 2004. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket: Single dge to square die-cut is creased. Front end paper flap has long angled corner crease.. 1 Tapestry-facsimile illustrated paper over boards. Dust jacket: Blue covers w/ 2 square die-cuts open to images on book. 250 p. Audience: General/trade. Set in Paris 1490. An artist, the arrogant, charismatic Nicholas des Innocents is commissioned by a nobleman to design 6 tapestries. He brings his designs to a Brussels weaver, after creating havoc among the house women. The weaver risks everything to complete the work, and is ill-prepared for temptation and seduction, images to be found in the weaving if one knows where to look. Fact and fiction is here woven as well.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1973. '2' leads print line.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Age-toning to page edges. Slight edge wear. Ding, 1-inch down spine, qtr-inch angled cover tear.. Benedict, John (Cover photograph by).. 1 79 p. Wraparound B&W photo of water with light gradations and shore outline. Hugo's poetry is described as having a richness of language born from a backdrop of poverty of place. "...It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image, " Richard Howard cover notes. For those in the digital age alone, that is a 20th century photographic reference.