Search Results: Titles starting with L from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Slight offsetting to endleaves, glassine toned, chipped, and torn, with slight loss. Very good. YLN-00084A. [Léon Lebègue]  Marc Leclerc  La Passion de Notre Frère le Poilu  1918    Marc Leclerc. Léon LebèGue, illustrator. La Passion de Notre Frère le Poilu (The Passion of our Brother the Soldier). Paris: A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, 1918. Limited edition, No. 213 of 500 copies. Signed by Marc Leclerc. Octavo. 19pp. Illustrated in color by Léon Lebègue. Publisher's card wraps, original illustrated paper dust wrapper and glassine. Text in French. .

Minor shelfwear, else fine. AYW-237. William Goldman. La Princesa Prometida (The Princess Bride). Madrid: Mr. Ediciones Martinez Roca, 2013. Reprint edition. Octavo. 374pp. Publisher's hardcover paper boards, stamped in silver to spine, maps to endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket. Text in Spanish. From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman  (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). A copy from his own personal holdings of his works, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .

Minor shelfwear, jacket a bit rubbed and creased, else fine. AYW-240. William Goldman. La Princesa Prometida (The Princess Bride). Madrid: Mr. Ediciones, 2004. Seventh (Thirtieth Anniversary) edition. Octavo. 374pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, maps to endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket. Text in Spanish.  From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman  (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). A copy from his own personal holdings of his works, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .

Extremities gently rubbed and bumped; light uniform toning throughout; clipped jacket slightly rubbed and creased. Very good. LMM-. H. St. John Philby. The Land of Midian. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1957. First edition. Octavo. 286pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original pictorial dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Sunned to spine and upper board edges; extremities lightly rubbed and soiled; minor interior toning. Very good. LMM-224. Tom Clark. The Last Gas Station and Other Stories. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Limited edition, No. 230 of 250 numbered copies (from a total limitation of 500). Signed by Tom Clark. Octavo. 151pp. Publisher's red quarter cloth over pictorial hardcover paper boards, printed title to spine, endleaves in maroon, original acetate dust wrapper. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Extremities rubbed, corner bumped, text block toned and foxed, library stamps from Asile d'Aliénés de Villejuif Bibliothèque Médicale. Very good. JBS-244. Dr. G. Pichon. Le Morphinisme. Impulsions Délictueses Troubles Physiques et Mentaux des Morphiomanes... Paris: Octave Doin, 1889. First edition. 16mo. 489pp. Marbled paper hardcover boards, gilt-stamped red leather label pasted to spine. Text in French. .

Slight creasing to spine, light foxing and wear to wraps, with small tear to backstrip at spine head, else fine. JBS-124. Jean Cotard. Le Ventre du Grand Bouddha: Contes Extrordinaires et Coloniaux (The Belly of the Great Buddha: Extraordinary and Colonial Tales). Paris: L. Fournier (Collecion de L'Ancre), 1931. First edition.  Inscribed by Jean Cotard with additional four-page autograph letter signed laid-in. Small octavo. 300pp. Publisher's printed card wraps, lettered in red and black to spine and covers, deckled edges. Text in French. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Bumped and chipped, rubbed and soiled, toned throughout, foxed especially to end papers, still very good. LMM-270. Centre Culturel Américain. William Bird, preface. Sylvia Beach, introduction. Les Années Vingt: Les Écrivains Américains à Paris et Leurs Amis 1920 - 1930 (The Twenties: American Writers in Paris and Their Friends 1920 - 1930). Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, 1959. First edition. Octavo. 142pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Pencil signed by Larry McMurtry, dated 1969, to FFEP. Perfect bound in publisher's photo-illustrated softcover paper wraps. Text in French. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Cocked spine, loose binding, chips to cover, age browning to all pages. Good. JBS-303. Guy de Téramond. Les Drames de la Cocaïne. Paris: J. Ferenczi et Fils. 1929. Octodecimo. 237 pp. Wrappers with illustrated cover.  .

Boards lightly rubbed and soiled; corners gently bumped; light soiling and foxing to textblock edges; price-clipped dust jacket rubbed, soiled, and torn, with loss to spine ends. A very good copy in a good jacket. LMM-114. Bob Brown. Let There Be Beer! New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932. First edition. With ink inscription (partially erased) by the author to first blank. Octavo. 321pp. Publisher's yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine and beer mug design stamped on front cover, original dust jacket with cover art by Arthur Hawkins, listing price $2.00. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate..

Extremities bumped and lightly rubbed, lightly soiled to top edge, dust jacket clipped and chipped, with two small areas of loss, at the head of the spine affecting "Virginia", and on the front panel just touching "V", dust jacket toned, worn and lightly soiled especially to spine and folds. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. LMM-206. Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. Leonard Woolf, James Strachey and editors. Letters. London: The Hogarth Press, Chatto and Windus, 1956. First edition. Octavo. 118pp. Publisher's orange cloth over boards, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Very good. CDK-90. John Gardner. License Renewed. [London]: Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. First edition. Octavo. 270. Hardcover. Dust jacket..

A fine copy. CDK-96. John Gardner. License to Kill. [New York]; The Armchair Detective Library, 1989. Limited edition. No. 13 of 100 numbered copies. This copy remains unsigned. Octavo. 294pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, portrait pastedown to front cover, original cloth slipcase. .

Light staining and wear. Very good. CDK-73. James Blish. A Life for the Stars. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Cloth, dust jacket. .

Very good. CDK-93. John Pearson. The Life of Ian Fleming. New York; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 366pp. Cloth. .

Slightly darkened and creased to spine; lightly rubbed and chipped to covers. Very good. CDK-97. John Pearson. The Life of Ian Fleming. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Uncorrected proof copy. Octavo. 346pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Original card wraps. .

Rubbed and edgeworn to spine ends and board edges; front hinge gently cracked; price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed and chipped, with one inch closed tear to front cover panel. Very good. YLG-339. John Dickson Carr. The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. With Arthur Conan Doyle signature card tipped to front free endpaper.   Octavo. 304pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket. .

Spine and boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn; slipcase sunned, rubbed, and soiled, with slight loss to titles. A very good copy in a good case. TCM-17. Mark Twain. Thomas Hart Benton, illustrator. Edward Wagenknecht, introduction. Willis Wager, editor. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited edition, No. 951 of 1,200 numbered copies. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton. Octavo. 418pp. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Publisher's green quarter cloth over pictorial hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, housed in original titled slipcase in green cloth. .

Light wear, gently bumped to spine head; offsetting to endleaves; jacket somewhat creased, chipped, and torn, scattered staining, darkened to spine, Very good. LMM-256. George Sand. Translated by Hamish Miles. Little Fadette.  London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First edition, one of 1,300 copies. Octavo. 258pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original unclipped dust jacket, listing a retail price of 8/6 net on spine. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Boards gently rubbed, bumped and edgeworn; front hinge slightly overopened; jacket a bit rubbed, creased, and torn, with slight loss to corners and spine ends. Very good. LMM-250. Ed Van Der Elsken. Love on the Left Bank.  London: Andre Deutsch, [1956]. Second impression.  Pencil signed and dated by Larry McMurtry to front jacket flap.  Quarto. 112pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver to spine, original unclipped dust jacket, listing price 30s net. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .