Search Results: Authors starting with A from James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)

Oxford: Oxford, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed at the edges and extremities.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1994. 1st American. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 1000 copies. Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 175 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. 1st. Hardcover.

New York: Privately printed by Ernest R. Gee at the Derrydale Press, 1928. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 375 numbered copies. Illustrated with three mounted engravings. Bound in publisher's original quarter green cloth and green boards with a paper label on the front cover and the spine. Unopened and uncut.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Volume One frontispiece illustration: "The Impressment of an American Seaman". Volume Two frontiispiece illustration: "The Chase of the Constitution". Both volumes contain illustrations, maps, and portraits. Rebound in black cloth with spine stamped in gilt and with grey endpapers. Label on cover from the original edition with ship under full sail stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Ex library with stamp only on title pages and no exterior markings. The first four pages following the front free endpaper of Volume II are loose, otherwise the page blocks of both volumes are tight.

Paris: Chez L'un des Auteurs et Chez Ledoyen Libraire, 1852. 1st. Very Good. 1st edition. Pamphlet in original wraps bound in limp paper covered boards. A beautiful copy.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1871. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Written by Annie Ketchum Dunning (1831-96): daughter of a New York City politician, wife of a Connecticut Reverend, and author of numerous works of inspirational fiction for the Presbyterian Board of Publication between 1860 and 1887. She often published under the psuedonym "Nellie Grahame." Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Neat presentation and signature by previous owner on front end papers. Minor wear to extremities. 4 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches. 374 pages.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 2012. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/fine. With essays by Aagesen, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Cecile Debray, Isabelle Duvernois, Jack Flam, Claudine Grammont, Remi Labrusse, Doina Lemny, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Kasper Monrad, Rebecca Rabinow, Samantha Rippner, Katherine Segal, Hilary Spurling and Alastair Wright. 203 illustrations, including 150 in ful color. Includes bibliiographical references and index.

Paris: Flammarion, [2008]. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white illustrations. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in blind and color illustrated endpapers. 14 x 10 3/4 inches. 352 pages.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Fine. This is Nigerian author Abani's fourth book of poetry. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2004. 1st. Paperback. Fine condition. Uncorrected proof of the author's first novel. Signed by Abani on the title page.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Signed by the author in ink on the title page.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, [2008]. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in silver.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in quarter leather and marbled boards with five raised bands on the spines. Spines and labels stamped in gilt. Cover ruled in gilt. With 58 woodcuts by A. Joliet, three plates of ancient Indian music, and a map showing the actual situation of the Indian tribes and the country described by the author. Ex-library with stamp on the title pages, else fine.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter red paper and blue boards with the spine stamped in gilt.

New York: Henry Holt, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and grey boards with the spine stamped in gilt.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in the publisher's original orange quarter cloth and tan paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt, front board stamped in blind. Dust jacket and boards rubbed at edges, one small closed tear to bottom edge.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. A Chanticleer Press Edition. Photos by David Muench and text by Edward Abbey. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth with the spine stamped in orange and in a beige cloth covered slipcase with the covers stamped in orange. Folio measures 17 by 10 5/8 inches. Slipcase measures 17 5/8 by 10 7/8 inches.

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter navy blue cloth and yellow boards with the spine stamped in gilt. First state dust jacket with "mist" for "myth" and "Mickey" for "Becky" on front and rear flaps.

Keene, NH: Sentinel Printing Company, 1890. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated with engraved and photographic portraits and wood engravings in the text. Minor wear to head and heel, and extremities. Text block in fine condition. 5 3/4 x 9 inches. 511 pages.