Search Results: Titles starting with L from Lippincott Books

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Hardcover. Very Good. A collection of seven reports to the House of Representatives relating to the construction, maintenance, expenditure, location and other matters relating to lighthouses from March 19, 1842 to Jan 19, 1844. Bound in maroon pigskin, spine title gilt. 124, 111, 9, 25, 33, 67, 131 pp. Numerous tables including information on number of lamps lit up, tube glasses, wicks, buff-skins, number & names of floating lights, color of the lighthouse or "any peculiarity in its appearance by day", height of building, year erected, etc. Documents include an Act to Erect a Lighthouse at Flynn's Knoll, N.Y. and Rebuild a Lighthouse at Brandywine Shoal, Delaware Bay, which includes a large folding plate: "Sketch of a Screw Pile Lighthouse." Other reports include "Light-House Establishment in France," with 12 tables, including 3 folding, and "Condition of the Light-houses on the Eastern Coast."… Read More

Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux, 1976. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 242pp, index, bibliography, 13 color plates. Catalog of 255 works of the Romantic Era exhibited at the Orangerie des Tuileries in 1976-77. Light edge wear and bump to top of spine wrapper, else clean & tight throughout.

Montreal: Leméac, 1971. Soft cover. GVG. 232, [8] pp. With bibliography, appendices. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, tables, maps. Canada Council bookplate, light soiling, light edge wear. Text is in French.

New York: New York University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Translatee a la requeste de tres hault et puissant prince Iehan, duc de Berry. xxxvi,186 pp. Text is in FRENCH. Preface, introduction, description of copies, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index are in English. Illustrated, glossary. Red cloth with gilt titles on front & spine.

Syracuse: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1985. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 328pp. Small closed tear on dj top edge, else fine/fine.

London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, 216 pp, with notes, index. Black cloth, spine title gilt. Upper corners bumped else near fine. "Account of Labour's stance on the Scottish question, drawing on original Labour Party and trade union records to trace the labour attitude to nationalism, Home Rule and devolution from the origins of independent labour to the present.

Searsport, Maine: Penobscot Marine Museum, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. [vi], 50 pp. This catalog (which accompanied an exhibit at the Penobscot Marine Museum) represents a 2-year effort by the Museum to understand not only the daily life of Dolly Smith, but the world in which Searsport women lived during the Victorian period. Smith's works include landscapes and portraits. Text includes biographical notes and notes on her paintings. Many b&w illustrations, 9 color plates.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1881. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo. Pyle, Howard. Large 8vo Green cloth with gilt decorations and black lettering. Patterned endpapers. Un-numbered pages. Full color illustrations throughout. Gilt is rubbed, corners and lower spine edge rubbed, light soil from handling. Signatures are lightly shaken, but still soundly in binding. Plates are clean and bright, one crease in spine cloth. Gift presentation (Christmas 1891) to previous owner appears on recto of first blank page. A very early Pyle item - his second book and a noted example of early American color printing in Art Nouveau style.

Seattle: Salisbury Press, Superior Publishing, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 192 pp with Appendix: The Fleet, Index, Index of ships. Attractive blue covers with gilt title on front and spine. Slight curve to covers, faint musty odor; dustjacket is rubbed at edges.

Burlington, VT: Lane Press, 1959. Pictorial Paper Wraps. GVG. 82 pp. With Chronology of Important Dates, Bibliography. Foxed covers. SIGNED by the author.

New York: Frank Shay, 1921. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First hardcover edition, printed in the same year as the rare first edition in wrappers. Yost 8.3. Very Good in scarce dust jacket, chipped at spine and along top edge of front and back cover of the jacket. In custom red box In quarter brown morocco, gilt, brown cloth box. From the library of John S. Van E. Kohn of the Seven Gables Bookshop, New York City. Kohn was a pioneer in the cataloging of modern American first editions. He was the main contributor of bibliographical information to Yost's bibliography of Millay, and had one of the finest collections of Millay in the country.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1909. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. G. Patrick Nelson & Beulah Strong. 297 pp. Lavender cloth; color image of woman sitting in rocking chair quilting, surrounded by decorative border on front panel; image of bouquet of flowers on spine, spine title gilt. 8 plates, and illustrations at chapter heads. Decorative border in color on title page. Slight spine slant,, a little wear at spine edges.

New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871. First American Edition . Hardcover. Orange cloth, with crown and swords stamped in gold on front board, spine title gilt. 384 pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and his wife. With a scathing obituary of the author pasted to the recto of the rear flyleaf, and a newspaper portrait pasted to the rear paste-down, else VG.

Concord, NH: The Sugar Ball Press, 1946. 2nd Printing . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiles, Dan. 181pp, map endpapers, b/w photo plates. Priced dj with sunfaded spine & a few spots on rear panel; in mylar protector.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. First Edition . Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 112pp. Inscribed/signed on title page.

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 416pp. With message from then Mayor Edward Koch. Each entry illustrated with B&W photos. Includes maps of all New York City Historic Districts, List of Scenic and Interior Landmarks, List of sites proposed to landmarks Commission to date, and Index. Small stain on inside front hinge. Near Fine/Near Fine

New York: Macmillan, 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/GVG. 200 pp. The title story, The Landmark was the last story written by the author; the first appearance of all of these stories in book form. "The whole group of stories, in their variety of theme, charm of manner, and understanding of human motives, offers fresh testimony to the genius of one of the most widely read of American story-tellers." BAL 492. VG in lightly sunned dust jacket with a few small chips at the top of the spine.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1983. Limited . Stiff Wraps, with Dustjacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 24pp. 1/500 copies. Initialled by author on the title page, and with an additional note of presentation and author's signature on ffep.

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. xi, 624 pp. With appendices, bibliography, author index, subject index. Illustrated, 6 inserts in pocket. Maroon cloth, titles gilt. Inked p.o. name on ffep.

Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1976. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 274pp, color & b/w plates. Text in French.