Search Results: Authors starting with L from 20th Century Books

The book's front cover -- no dustjacket -- is nondescript, so I've provided scans of the title and copyright pages. Light, neat, short pencil notes and underling on some pages and inside the back cover. (jd)

1st printing hardcover with dust jacket, author's signature on title page, price tag removed from flyleaf

1st printing hardcover with dust jacket

1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. autographed by author on title page

dust jacket a bit worn at top and bottom of spine

'The Gates of Heaven' series; 428 page Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format, 'a fairy tale' (jc20711)

310 pages; Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format novel (jc42213)

180 page Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format fantasy novel for younger readers (hl)

416 pages; Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format romantic juvenile novel (jc71813)

Collection of letters written to Lang-Sims by that most eccentric of the Inklings, the group of writers and friends associated with J. R. R. Tolkien. Introduced and notes by Glen Cavaliero. 89 page trade paperback. "The short-lived but remarkable correspondence presented in Letters to Lalage took place toward the end of Charles Williams' life. Lois Lang-Sims was not the first young woman to seek his help or to fall beneath his spell. When she wrote to him in September 1943 Williams had already had numerous admirers, pupils, and disciples who looked to him for counsel, for advice, and most especially, for encouragement. His affinity with Lois Lang-Sims was not surprising. Some thirty years younger than he was, she was in due course herself to become a forceful and individual writer whose literary output, though relatively small, was almost as varied as Williams' own. In Lois Lang-Sims' writings, as in those of Charles Williams, a variety of literary forms embody a singleness of imaginative vision. But… Read More

64 pages (plus covers). contributos include Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Allen Steele, others.

64 pages (plus covers). contributors include Alan Dean Foster, Allen Steele, Chris Bunch, others.

Quirky mystery (the murder doesn't take place until well into the story!), literate, takes place in Italy. 276 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format (jc91613)

Signet 1261 Mass market paperback first printing

90 pages, trade paperback format Advance Readers' Copy. "It has been said that poetry can be a marker of where a poet has been, or a way for a poet to point to places where we, the reader, can go. Both types of poems appear in The School of Soft-Attention. Not corralled to any one poetic style, the heart-mind-river that forms this flowing collection has been shaped by the author's diverse cross-cultural experiences, spiritual tutelage with a New Mexican wisewoman and wilderness guide, and fueled by such practices as meditation in the Zen tradition, mountain pilgrimages, fasting in the deserts of New Mexico, and intensive dreamwork. At every point along the way, the poems in The School of Soft-Attention invite the reader to turn to a new way of seeing, a new way of paying attention to the life within and around us." jc70218

100 pages,. Advance Readers' Copy, trade paperback format Regular price $16.95"The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we're all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering The Temple of Warm Harmony. On the heels of his award-winning first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, poet Frank LaRue Owen invites "fellow travelers" to consider ways we can regain a sense of harmony even while navigating challenging terrain, personally and collectively." (jc5-19)

Second Edition, 236 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format historical novel (jc70113)

414 page trade paperback, historical murder mystery, marked as a review copy. (JC33013) Fascinating, complex narrative taking place during the transition from horse and buggy to automobile, candle and oil lantern to electric light, involving the British aristocracy, from the view point of a young yet worldly-wise American woman.

288 pages; trade paperback novel, marked as a review copy  (jc20312)

256 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format (jc32612)