Search Results: Titles starting with L from Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse

Los Angeles: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931. Paperback. Good. Los Angeles: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931. FOURTH EDITION. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 208. Olive green boards with embossed titles on front board. In-blind illustration on front board. Olive green board is worn with some soiling. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. A history of Los Angeles. A volume originally published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the former Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles, February 11, 1889.

Chicago, IL: Arthur S. LaPine, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Chicago, IL: Arthur S. LaPine, 1948. 11 x 8 1/2 inches: pp. 792. Blue cloth binding with silver lettering to spine and front boards. This is a beautiful 1948 catalog with numerous laboratory supplies. Corners nudged, very minor wear to extremities, spine slightly shaken. Publisher's notification of incorrect prices taped inside on free facing end paper. Some toning. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. xi, 310. Edited by James Home. Green cloth with titles in gold gilt over decorated black background. Black rules to cover. Corners sharp, textblock square, top edge gilt. A few very small light stains to spine, cover bright. Some foxing inside front and back covers. Interior clean, bright, and unmarked. Binding tight. SELECTIONS FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF LADY LOUISA STUART printed on spine and front board. Stuart [1757-1851], wrote mainly letters and memoirs, and remained unpublished until the 1890's.

Cody, Wyoming: Stockade Publishing, 1979. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Cody, Wyoming: Stockade Publishing, 1979. First edition. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches: pp. 165. Brown boards with photo pastedown on front cover and wagon decoration and titles in black. Map endpapers of Central Wyoming. Illustrated throughout with historical (sepiatone) photographs. Corners sharp, textblock square, Nice bright cover. Interior fine. Story of sheep raising and herding in Wyoming. The authors credit the manuscript by Nell Morrison which told of her life in Wyoming in a sheep herding family, and her manuscript is included in the book.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. Third printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1951. Third Printing. 8 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. xiv, 133. Yellow paper dust jacket with brown type in green borders. Green cloth with spine titles in gold gilt. Dust jacket has some edge and corner wear, light chipping, toning. In Brodart wraps. Boards are lightly bumped at upper and lower edges, some scuffing on back board. Interior bright, clean and unmarked.

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Good. New York and Chicago: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1939. 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. x, 70. White paper dust jacket with sailboat design and blue type. Blue boards with silver gilt type. Illustrated with diagrams, charts and photos. Dust jacket chipped at corners and near spine, closed tear at top front of dj, with shelf wear to edges, some staining, and tape residue to front cover. Minor rubbing to edges with moisture staining, a few faint stains to endpapers, and minor creasing to front pastedown. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Slightly musty-smelling.

New York: Viking Press, 1957. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Good Dustjacket. Author. New York: Viking Press, 1957. FOURTH PRINTING.12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches: unpaginated. Red, black and white illustrated paper dust jacket with white type. Red lettering on spine of light blue cloth-covered boards. Red debossed oval with boy's face to upper right front cover. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Original price on front and rear flaps. Dust jacket has edge wear, two large tears, the one on back flap repaired by clear, plastic tape, and 1.5 x 1" chip. Light, miniscule nudge to front upper corner. Previous owner's name to front paste-down endpaper. Text is clean, unmarked, tight. The author reflects with complete unself-consciousness a way of living thoroughly our own. In its scenes, its characters, its story, and its entire conception this book is as American as any small boy you'd meet on the street.

Pasadena, California: Self-Published, 1932. Reprint. Staplebound Pamphlet. GOOD PLUS IN FINE DJ. Staplebound pamphlet. Gray card covers. (7.5" x 5", (64 pp.), self-published by Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, the famous expose of the Chicago Meat packing industry. "Why is there poverty in the richest country in the world? Why, throughout America, are the rich growing ricer and the poor poorer? Who gets the wealth that you produce, and how are the dice loaded against you? Here are the facts, also the reasons and the remedy, in simple, straight-forward language, appealing to everyday men and women. Thirty years' study of American problems has bone into this book; also thirty years of learning how to write." (front panel). 10 Cents price. "This book is written and published as an acdt of love for America. It is made out of faith in our country, and in you. Our fathers bequeathed to us a great democracy and a great ideal. We must preserve them.

Philadelphia: Collins and Hannay, 1832. Leather_bound. Fair. Philadelphia: Collins and Hannay, 1832. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 531, 121. Full calf binding. Note condition: Boards scratched and worn with front corner of board chipped off, other corners worn and chafed. Bottom two inches of outer spine chipped off and spine worn and scuffed. Spine title dulled. Binding is strong. Interior heavily foxed. Name stamp of previous owner on inside board and also name of another owner in ink along with some calligraphic printing of "Book", and the same owner boldly inked his name on the front edge. Cornelis Schrevel [1608-1661] was a physician and scholar and head of the college faculty at Leiden University. His Latin-Greek lexicon was very popular and went through many editions and translations into the 19th century.

New York: Wm. M. Goldthwaite, 1890. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. New York: Wm. M. Goldthwaite, 1890. 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. [4], 488. Gilt debossed lettering and library catalog label to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Photograph of Henry Woodfin Grady to frontispiece. Illustrated with six black and white photographs. All edges gilt. Ex-library copy. Ex-libris sticker inside front cover. Perforated library stamp to title page and pp 487. Library pocket inside back cove. Ink smudge to edges of three pages. Corners bumped. Mild scuffing to boards. Small bubble near front lower corner and top edge. Moderate wear to spine with a frayed, 1" slit to rear center edge. Clean, bright, solid. "Grady's speeches are justly esteemed as models of the loftiest type of oratory. They will be handed down to future generations as masterpieces of rhetoric, equalling in grace and elegance and surpassing in fervor the sublimest efforts of Webster, Calhoun, Prentice and McDuffie," (preface).

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. Early Reprint. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. 11 1/2 x 10 inches. Glossy black photographic paper dust jacket with white type. Black boards with gold lettering, measuring 11.50" x 10". Light rubbing to extremities of book. Minor shelfwear to dustjacket. Text is unmarked. Binding sound. 234 photographs = "the dramatic summation of 69 years of photography. Photogravure images of "personalities, abstractions, still lilves, theater scenes, war pictures, nature..." Jacket design by Kathleen Haven, and photograph of Edward Steichen on back of dustjacket, by Joanna T. Steichen. NOTE: Earlier edition had color images. This is ONLY black-and-white. Published in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art.

London, England: The Studio Limited. Hardcover. Good/Good. London, England: The Studio Limited, ca. 1920's - 30's. 10 x 6 inches. Tan paper dust jacket with brown type. Beige linen (?) cloth-covered boards with gold gilt lettering. Fifty-three pages of text, and Thirty-six tipped-in color facsimiles of the paintings comprised in a manuscript of Indian Fables of the greatest period of Mughal art. Top edge gilt. Darkening to several edges of the book itself. Dustjacket shows moderate shelf-wear, a bit of staining, and with the exception of sunning to spine of dustjacket, is in very nice shape. Some toning to boards and pages. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1960. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Pamphlet. Good. New York: Totem Press/ Corinth Books, 1960. FIRST EDITION (NAP). 8 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 47.Gray card covers, with black type and cover drawing by Robert LaVigne. Light edge wear, rubbing and toning at spine on cover. Name written in pencil on upper corner of front cover. Two stains on bottom edge of cover and bleed through on to bottom edge of first 13 pages or so. No text is affected. Text is unmarked. Binding solid. Poetry by Zen Buddhist, instrumental in the flowering of the San Francisco Beat poetry scene, connected to Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac -- in fact he appeared thinly disguised in several of Kerouac's books.

Boston, Mass: Dana Estes & Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good Plus. Boston, MA: Dana Estes & Company, 1909. Illustrated Sterling edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 460 / 538. Grey cloth-covered boards, with contrasting black spine label, lettered in gold gilt. 4 illustrations. Light edge and corner wear. Top edge of pages gold gilt, fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Sunning to spine. Faint tape ghosts to pastedown endpapers. Light toning at page edges. Unmarked. Binding lightly shaken. Solid.

East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1901. Limited, Numbered, Edition. Hardcover. Good. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. LIMITED edition #927 out of 940 copies produced. 7 3/4 x 6 inches: pp. 59. Quarter-bound, grey boards over tan spine covered with woven cloth. Decorative paste-on design to front board, labeled simply "BEETHOVEN". Tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Beethoven by Florence (Pearl) England Nosworthy (1872-1936). Hand illumined. Untrimmed fore-edge and tail. Five-color hand-illumined drop caps at each section head, with ornate tailpiece from front board, repeated at ends of chapters. Minor rubbing to extremities, toning. It looks like the previous owner (elaborate and very professional-seeming) painstakingly painted his initials, one black and one red, (2.5" wide, and the other 1.5" high) within ornate gold-filled borders, one for each initial. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dorothy Hansaker. Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 1945. First edition. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches: pp. 15. Tan illustrated paper jacket with black type. White illustrated boards with black type. Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, creasing. several closed tears, some soiling. Sticker of a shepherd girl affixed on inside panel. Boards have some edge wear, light soiling. Gift inscription written on free facing end page. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Tale of a little girl and her little white pig and the game they play that she thinks is funny where she chases the pig around with a raised stick, but the little white pig doesn't think is very funny at all and when it's all over and the pig is relieved, the little girl, who hasn't a clue about animals or about her little white pig, mistakes the pig's relief to mean that the little white pig is saying: "Good game!, little… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1968. First edition. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. xii, 302. Illustrated paper dust jacket with white and orange type - original sketch for the scenery of FALL RIVER LEGEND by Oliver Smith. Red cloth boards with black gilt type and titles in pink box. With index, numerous photographs. Dust jacket has edge wear, several closed tears of various sizes, some chipping, creasing, and a small bit of abrasive damage at the bottom of spine area. Name written on inside flap of dust jacket and on upper edge of first white recto page. Boards have edge wear, some rubbing. Smll bit of soiling on foot of pages. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Choreographer Agnes de Mille's personal account of the creation of her ballet, FALL RIVER LEGEND, based on the grizzly Lizzie Borden hatchet murders in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Portland, OR: Press-22, 1970. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. Portland, OR: Press-22, 1970. Limited edition of 1,000 copies with this numbered #373. Consisting of eight sheets [7 by 7 inches] on fine weave arches type paper with poetry or drawings, a seven page story by Greg Keith [folded], folded ink drawing and a 33 1/3 vinyl record [small one] with three songs [Somebody Stole My Stash, Sinkin' Down, Changes] with Greg Keith on guitar and vocal and other musicians. Housed in black cardboard box with limitation number and information on label taped to inside of top cover of box. Upper box is cracked at two corners. Interior contents are very clean. Nicely produced collection of individual poems signed by Roger Weaver, Michael Parrish, James Phillips, Greg Keith and signed ink drawings by Frank Elliott.

West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION. Trade Paperback. Good. West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1993. This is one of 1250 copies from the first edition, it is however NOT one of the 26 copies lettered A-Z, signed and bound in cloth. 7 x 8 inches: pp. 111. White photographic wraps with black type. A few minor stains, crease and some wear along front edge of cover. Bottom corner of pages are bumped. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. The authors of this book made multiple trips to Kerouac's home town to visit specific sites connected with Kerouac's work, taking in these sites as a "memory protein" of their own work (Paraphrased from back cover).

Hull, Quebec: Canadian Government Publishing Center, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Government Publishing Center, 1981. 11 x 8 1/2 inches: pp. 25. Green wraps with white type. Drawings and photographs. Plus 5 plates. Previous owner's name stamped to front cover and inside. Light edge and corner wear, creasing. Text is unmarked. Binding sound ,