Search Results: Titles starting with L from Arches Bookhouse

Dilettante Paper, 2019. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Copy 18 of an edition limited to 250, hand numbered and signed by the author. 4to, Khaki cloth, red stamped lettering. Photo-illustrated artist book from an art installation showing 'the afterlife of a dinner.' Two small stains to front cover, bookseller's stamp from the 'Owl Bureau' / 'Chandelier Library' to FFEP verso. Crisp and fresh otherwise.

Arthaud, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Fine. Large 8vo, red-heathered black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Extensively illustrated with 224 Heliogravures, 8 color plates, 80 maps & charts. Pristine copy in like DJ.

Les Editions Du Cerf, 1995. Trade Paperback. FINE. A pristine copy.

Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale Du Caire, 1952. Hardcover. FINE. 68, 19 [1] pp. 8vo, bound in marbled paper over boards backed in black finished cloth, gilt spine lettering. Pristine copy. French study by Garden with Ibn Sina's text in Arabic. Scarce.

Adrien-Maisonnueve, 1962. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 103 pp. Toned, front cover creased, some rubbing. A solid, unmarked copy.

Zozobra, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 112 pp. Signed by author. Some very light rubbing to extremities, sound and unmarked otherwise.

Morel et Cie, Li, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. Vol. I: iv, 240, 8 + i-xxiv, clxxxix-ccliv plates; Vol. III: 187, 6 + lxxxix plates. Large quarto, navy cloth, gilt spine titling, vol. 1 frontispiece, B/W. plates . Thin muslin cloth is worn around the extremities with much fraying and recession, interior hinges remain strong with intact marbled endpapers. Interior contents are very clean and sharp with sound stitching. Bindings labeled as 'I' and 'II' thought they are, in fact, the first and third of eight total volumes. Comprised of the first and third volumes of the de Fleury father/son tractatus theologico-archaeologicus. Charles, the elder de Fleury, was an eminent French architect of the mid-1900's, noted for his advances in the design of wrought-iron and glass construction. For somewhat obscure reasons, he abandoned his firm and turned his immense learning to spiritual ends, spending the remaining years of his life compiling what became, under his son Georges's editorship, 8 volumes of… Read More

Editions de la Centrale des Publications du Club Alpin Suisse, 1963. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 141 pp. 28 leaves of plates, color and b/w. Owner name to half-title, toned, wrappers dampstained, a few small marks and splotches to wrappers, a bit of rubbing, sound otherwise. In French.

Burt Franklin, 1968. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. 525 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Very faint smudge to fore edge, pristine copy otherwise. High quality facsimile of the 1929 Paris edition with good paper, clear type, and sewn binding.

J. Vrin, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. [13] 14-251 [5] pp. 8vo, handsomely bound in heathered khaki cloth with gilt title on red morocco label. Label scuffed, pristine otherwise, entirely clean and sharp. Repr 1934 ed. McGrath 151.

Felix Alcan, 1905. First Edition. Leather. VERY GOOD. x, 444 pp. 8vo, quarter purple Morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt embossed title, marbled endpapers, untrimmed fore and tail edges. Very light rubbing to tips, scuffs to bands, spine just faintly toned, occasional faint penciling. Very attractive binding. Prudhomme was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Grove Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/NEAR FINE. [8] 9-212 pp. Yellow marbled paper over boards, backed in heather green cloth, two-tone green stamped spine lettering, yellow top edge. Two bookplates, otherwise entirely clean and fresh with no signs of handling; unclipped DJ shows the faintest shelf rubbing, date stamped to rear flap, crisp and bright otherwise, now wrapped in mylar.

Putnam, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 12mo, navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Small bookplate, spine leaning, clean and sharp otherwise; DJ tips worn, some loss to head and short tear to tail.

Lard & Lee, 1907. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 95 pp + 2 ads. Extensive B/W illustrations. Large 8vo, publisher's printed paper-over-boards, backed in burgundy cloth. Tips rubbed, very sound and clean otherwise.

Seongji-Sa Publishing Company, 1977. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. 12mo, burgundy cloth, gilt lettering, tan textured endpapers. Korean - English Diglot. Pristine copy, very clean and sharp. DJ torn and creased at front head, tape repaired, some light rubbing to extremities, very clean and bright otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. Scarce. First published in Korean in 1935 shortly after his untimely death at age 34, Jaihun Kim's translations were the first appearance in English. The first edition of this book was released in 1973 titled "AZALEAS: 90 Poems." The poetry of Sowol is characterized by "simplicity, vulnerability, and tenderness ... yet equally a fascinating amalgam of elements from Korean folk-song, Japanese prosody ... Yeatsian romanticism, and a highly personal and native sensitivity to the use of Korean sounds" (from the introduction).

Harper & Row, 1966. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. xvi, 317. Sound, unmarked copy; DJ spine sunned.

Imprimerie Catholique, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. [5], 2-343, [1] pp. Quarter Leather, large 8vo, bound in black pebbled coth backed in black leather, raised bands, gilt ruled and lettered. A crucial work on the religious history of Jews, Christians, and other non-Islamic cultus in Arabia, as well as the history of pre-Islamic Mecca.

Biblica, 1964. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 154 pp. Sunned, a short tear to front cover, sound otherwise.

Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. xvi, 214 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Tips just nudged, foxing, otherwise very solid. A few very short tears to DJ.

Collins, 1962. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 288 pp. Frontispiece. Owner name to FPEP, owner blind stamp to FFEP, hinges starting, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped.