Search Results: Titles starting with L from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: The Mysterious Press, [[1990]]. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed on half-title page: "To Toby and Bill --- Slash--out L.A. '51-'58. James Ellroy." Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Basis for the film.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine tight copy in a near fine dust jacket, a little sunned at spine panel, one small chip in upper corner of front panel. With wraparound band. A satirical novel involving an American visiting France who is accused of stealing a coat. Dust jacket, frontispiece and endpaper illustrations by Soglow.

[np,, nd]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. The full text of the poem beginning "little ladies more". Above the first line, printed entirely in capitals, is the title or heading "LA GUERRE." Proof printed on the recto only of a single galley measuring 6 by 24 inches (vertical). Paper browned, creased from folding, and partially split along two folds (but not affecting text). Juliar FIRST EDITION. A3b (the Archetype edition of Tulips and Chimneys) contains this poem (where it occupies 3 pages of text), with the first line: "little ladies more" under the sectional heading of "La Guerre." Also reprinted in A4, "And", A6 "Is 5," A17 "Collected Poems" and A25 "Poems 1923-1954." Almost certainly, however, a proof for the Archetype edition as the other editions have dropped the heading "La Guerre". The typeface of the poem in proof matches the finished book of A3b, although there are minor differences: the book lists this poem under "La Guerre, IV"(and the typeface of the heading has changed), the proof… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Cloth very slightly faded at spine else a near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket which has only very minor restoration at edges. A particularly attractive copy of the fourth Philip Marlowe novel.

New York: Random House, [1941]. FIRST EDITION. Some offsetting to front endpapers (presumably from a clipping once laid into this copy). Otherwise a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some fading to the red portions of the spine panel.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a very good dust jacket faded at spine with some minor restoration at edges.

New York: Edward J. Clode, [1914].. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Very good to near fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Comstock bookplate.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, slightly tanned at spine with a few minor closed tears.

New York: The Grove Press, [1964]. FIRST EDITION. Some minute spotting to page edges. Else a fine book in a fine bright, completely unfaed dust jacket with a couple miniscule nicks at top of spine panel and a short closed tear at top of rear panel. Particularly fresh copy of the author's first novel. Basis for the 1989 film with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, and Jerry Orbach.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a very good but bright dust jacket, slightly chipped and torn with a few internal tape repairs.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1932]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Cloth slightly faded at spine. Otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket with some very minor wear at spine ends and some creasing to upper portion of front panel. This rose-colored dust jacket is usually quite faded at spine. This copy, however, is unfaded. Sequel to Colette's popular novel, Cheri.

New York: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1908. FIRST EDITION. Some faint foxing to title page. Cloth slightly faded at spine. A solid, square copy. Very good to near fine copy of this early title.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine bright dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The author was attached to the Mexican embassy in Washington and also lectured at George Washington University in Political Science.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A fine book in a very good dust jacket with some soiling / fading to spine panel with some very shallow chipping at top of spine. McIlvaine A56b. The adventures of an English gentleman in California.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A fine book in a very good dust jacket which is price-clipped but is completely unfaded at the spine. McIlvaine A56b. The adventures of an English gentleman in California.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Clean near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket with a price-clipped front flap. Unfortunatly the jacket is a later state with a slight change to the text on the rear panel. Bears the scarce wraparound band which states "Pulitzer Prize Winner."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. FIRST EDITION. Fine in near fine dust jacket with short closed tear at bottom of front panel and some slight darkening to spine. Author's third novel under his own name and quite scarce.

[Paris]: Gallimard, [1967]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Paperback. A review copy with "S.P." perforation in rear cover. Rubber stamp on flyleaf. Near fine copy in wrappers. A translation of

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1944]. FIRST EDITION. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Unusually bright copy. These stories were later included in Porter's Collected Stories, which won the Pulitzer Prize.