Search Results: Titles starting with L from small volume

New York: Sign of St. Christopher, 1942. Limited Edition of 200 Copies. 1/4 Cloth. Very Good. 20 cm x 14.5 cm. [5 pp] Silver and white floral patterned paper over boards, backed in navy cloth, gray and white title label. Printer's copy, limited to two hundred copies, privately printed at the Sign of St. Christopher. Rubbing to boards, interior margins lightly toned, po name in green ink (Mildred Smallen) to ffep. Anti-labor satire written anonymously by conservative journalist Westbrook Pegler.

New York: Dutton, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 257 pp. Green paper-covered boards backed in cream cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Very light edgewear to dj. Scantly sunned along board edges. Friendly and personal inscription from the author to half title page: "For Jan- with love and many thanks for your friendship and quiet support all these years. Love, Phil" dated June 12, 1991. Collection of short stories focusing on the struggles of life as an openly gay person in 1980s & 1990s Boston.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover w/ dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 286 pp. Blue cloth backed boards with silver titling in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Faint edgewear to jacket. Light rubbing along edges of boards. Inscribed in ink by Jones on half-title, "To Joseph & Abigail, Big heartful of thanks and joy to you both! Love, Bill T. Jones, 06/2000". Part memoir, part meditation, part performance, Jones charts his origins and development.

Paris: Marcus, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Lorioux, Felix. Square 4to. Unpaginated [28 pp]. Illustrated boards. Boards bowed and lightly soiled, discolored from sunning and toning. Partial loss to spine and board exposure at corners. Binding tender with splitting to spine, text block very fragile but holding. Illustrated endpapers. Some soiling to title page, light foxing to prelims. Bright color illustrations by Felix Lorioux showing 11 different species of birds, with accompanying descriptions. Text in French.

Liege: Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, 1941. Wraps. Very Good. Small 4to. 210 pp. Printed grey paper wraps with black text and Universite de Liege Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres emblem to front wrapper. Light soiling to wraps, heaviest at spine, with small water stain and small chip to top of front joint. Slight yapping to fore edge of front wrapper. Corners gently bumped, with small crease to lower fore corner of last few leaves and rear wrapper. Small bookseller's label from Ideal Bookstore in New York City to verso rear wrapper. Text block toned but clean, with all but a few bolts remaining uncut. Thesis on the works of Pierre Janet.

[Paris]: Desclee de Brouwer, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 193 pp. Pale grey paper boards printed with black and red titling. Light toning to board edges, spine ends gently pushed, otherwise fine. Small bookseller's label tipped onto ffep. Interior uniformly toned but very clean. Publisher's slip advertising titles from the "Textes et Etudes Anthropologiques" series. Introduction and notes by Michel Foucault.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. Leather. Very Good. 8vo. [5] 480 [2] pp. Bound in mottled calf w/ red leather label and gilt titling. Scuffing to leather along edges of boards, heaviest at spine ends. Split along joints but holding. Scattered discoloration to end leaves. POs name in ink to ffep "Louisa R. Joho...?'. Early collection of Felicia Dorothea Hemans' poetry with advertisement foreword by Unitarian leader, Andrews Norton.

Paris: A. Maloine Et Fils, Editeurs, 1925. Wraps. Good+. 8vo. 459 pp. Tan wraps with navy titling. Overall signed of handling, chipping at foot of spine. Pages lightly toned. Legrain was chief doctor of the asylums in the Seine & the first to specialize in the treatment of alcoholics.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1985. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 144 pp. Illustrated wraps. Sunning to spine and wraps edges, knick to foot of spine. Warmly inscribed by Wittig on half-title. "Pour Diane Harmon, avec beaucoup du plaisir- s'il vous plait, corrigez mon livre. Monique Wittig." Bookmark from the now defunct, Sisterhood Bookstore in Los Angeles laid-in. Originally published in 1969, Les Guerilleres sees a tribe of warrior women overthrow patriarchal institutions to birth a new feminist order.

Montreal: C.-O. Beauchemin, & Fils, Libraires-Imprimeurs, 1897. Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. [xiv] 552 pp. Brown half-leather under burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped titling and design to spine. Rubbing to all edges, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Small ownership label of PO, "Librairie of J. A. Jacques, 112 Rue Front, Worcester, MA" to fpd, faint off-setting from frontis to title page. Illustrated throughout w/ 12 chromolithographic plates and numerous black & white figures within text.

1899. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 66 pp. Stapled pictorial wraps, with titling in pale orange and faintly colorized cover image of mother and daughter with embroidery. Rear wrapper advertisement for Corticelli Silk showing painting of a kitten with a spool of thread, available to order as a free calendar. Embroidery and crochet instructional booklet, with black and white diagrams and color plates of floral designs intended for use with Brainerd & Armstrong's or Corticelli Wash Silk. Light rubbing and soiling to wraps, mainly at spine. Interior toned but clean, with one very small mark to bottom edge of first plate.

London: John Murray, 1899. Second edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo. 221 pp. [2] Blue cloth, gilt titiling, yapped edges. Rubbing to cloth, heaviest at spine ends and corners, discoloration to end leaves, shaken but holding, po name in ink to title. Frontis engraving by Countess Feodora Gleichen. A collection of letters written by Swedish psychiatrist, Axel Munthe during his time in Naples. A Well loved copy owned by Caroline Sidney Sinkler. Sinkler's Bookplate and signature present on fpd and front flyleaf. Distant relative of Teddy Roosevelt, Sinkler was a philanthropist of the arts. Having a wide circle of friends, including Isabella Steward Gardner and Cecilia Beaux, she was also heavily involved in the bohemian art colony Dabsville, in Gloucester, MA. Association copy.

London: Horace Liveright. Sixth Edition. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 2 volumes. [13] 403 pp. + [7] 388 pp. Blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jackets. Jackets have moderate chipping and soiling to edges, heaviest at spine ends and corners of volume one. Soiling and sunning to spine ends and board edges. Light off-setting to endpapers, with light foxing scattered throughout. Illustrated. Fold-out map of Persia present with small

London: Grant Richards, 1899. Cloth. Good. 188 pp. [8] 12mo. Cream colored cloth over boards w/ gilt titling. Soiling to front and rear boards, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers toned with hinges cracked but holding, some small chips to ffep and rfep. Top edge gilt. Interior clean. Ghost writer William Stead claimed to serve as a transcript for the spirit of the late journalist and temperance reformer, Julia Ames, to communicate with her close friend Ellen.

London: John Murray, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 194 pp. [24] Green cloth w/ gilt titling in pictorial dust jacket. DJ clipped w/ chipping along edges. Spine slightly rolled, otherwise clean and sound. Illustrated with 24 black and white photographs by Miss Venetia Buddicom.

New York: David L. March, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. [16 pp]. Stapled wraps with cover photo of Liberace posing in front of a grand piano. Signed on verso of title page in blue ballpoint. Light soiling and sunning to wraps, rubbing to spine. Title page lightly toned from laid in items: concert advertisement for a performance at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence, RI, stapled to a news clipping from the Providence Journal about an appearance at the University of Rhode Island in May, 1963. Filled with black and white photos.

New York: Times Books, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 342 pp. Glossy grey and black pictorial wraps. Creasing and curling to front wrapper, small stain to text block fore edge, affecting last few leaves at outer margin. Interior otherwise clean, as new. Review copy, with publicist's promotional material laid in at front: 3 pp typed reviews and author interview, on Times Books letterhead with contact for Kent Holland, Senior Publicist, single leaf photocopy of article about the book, black and white 5x7 in. author photo. All items held with a paperclip, some faint rust marks to edges. A "well-researched and beautifully written account of life inside Louisiana's notorious Angola State Prison by two lifetime inmates" -Shana Alexander.

Providence, RI: J. Howard, 1824. 2nd edition. Quarter-leather. Good. 24mo. 11 cm x 16 cm. 108 pp. 1/4 leather backing blue paper-covered boards. Chipping and discoloration to all edges and throughout text block. 3 cm loss to center of title page. Frontis present. Life and remarkable adventures of Israel R. Potter, (a native of Cranston, Rhode-Island,) who was a soldier in the American Revolution, and took a distinguished part in the Battle of Bunker Hill (in which he received three wounds,) after which he was taken prisoner by the British, conveyed to England, where for 30 years he obtained a livelihood, by crying "Old chairs to mend," through the streets of London.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. Cloth Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 276 pp. Green cloth with blind-stamped illustration of prison bars, gilt titling. Rubbing to cloth along edges and spine ends, damp-stain to rear board. An account of rehabilitative services, and lack thereof, in one of the harshest prisons in the U.S.

Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 97 pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. General overall signs of handling to cloth, toning to endpapers, light foxing scattered throughout. Bookplate to fpd memorializing Sarah Lambert's perfect attendance record at the Oatlands Public School, Glasgow, 1886. Collection of four short stories illustrated w/ color frontis, two black and white plates. POs handmade silk bookmark embroidered w/ the name "Jane" laid in at rear.