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La petite. The life of Louise de la Valliere
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, [1959]. 8vo. xvi, [2], 280 pp. Numerous plates. Half-gray cloth over gray boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (dustsoilng, rubbng to fore-edges), VG/VG-. Second printing of this excellent biography of the famed mistress of Louis XIV. ... (more information)
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La vie de Pythagore de . . . Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire par A. Delatte
Hildesheim:: Georg Olms Verlag,, 1988. 12mo. 270, [2] pp. Green cloth, gilt lettrng, F. First reprint edition of this critical biography of the Greek text of DiogenesÕ life of Greek philosopher, Pythagoras. This work was first printed in 1922 in the series Memoire couronne par la classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Prix Grantrelle, XIVe periode, 1919-1920). ... (more information)
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Lady Chatterly's lover. With an introduction by Mark Schorer
New York:: Grove Press,, [1959]. 8vo. 368 pp. Half-blue cloth over beige boards, gilt lettrng (mnr sunng to fore-edges), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng to uppr rt crnr frnt cvr, vry mnr scuffng), VG/G. First edition with preface by Archibald MacLeish, of the famed banned book, drawn from the third and most complete manuscript. ... (more information)
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Lady bullfighter. The autobiography of the North American Matador. Illustrated with photographs. Line drawings by the author
New York:: Henry Holt & Co.,, [1954]. 8vo. ix, [3], 209, [1] pp. Illust. title, numerous text illusts., many photo plates. Half-red cloth over illust. gold boards, gold & blue lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, rubbng to spine), VG/G. First edition of this scarce biography of the female Texas bullfighter. ... (more information)
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The Lady of La Garaye
London & Cambridge:: Macmillan and Co.,, 1862. 12mo. xiii, [14]-153, [1] pp., plus 16 pp. publ. ads. Engravd frntsp., title. Embssd & decrtd green cloth, celtic-knotwork motif on frnt cvr in gilt (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), still a VG copy. First edition of this poem written about Countess de la Garaye, wife of Guillaume Marot who governed the town and castle of Dinan, and best remembered for founding the Hospital of Incurables in Brittany after a hunting accident. Norton (1808-1887), grand... (more information)
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Lady on the beach
New York:: Prentice-Hall,, [1954]. 8vo. [4], 251, [1] pp. Half-cloth over boards (slght sunng & shlfwr to spine), w/ d.j. (chppng hd & ft of spine), VG/G copy, signed by the author on ffep. First edition, 3rd printing, signed by author, of this semi-autobiographical novel set on the Washington coast near Long Beach. ... (more information)
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Lafayette in the French Revolution. From the October Days through the Federation
Chicago:: Univ. of Chicago Press,, [1973]. 8vo. xi, [1], 586, [2] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, NF. First edition. ... (more information)
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Lakes of Washington. Water Supply Bulletin No. 14. Volume I. Western Washington; Volume II. Eastern Washington
Olympia, WA:: Dept. of Conservation,, 1961-1964. Two vols. Lg. 8vo. 619, [1]; 650 pp. With 100Õs of photo illust., 100s of diagrams, 2 large folding colour maps. Original green cloth, blk lettrng (minor rubbng, shlfwr), VG set. First edition of this excellent guide to recreational and sport water resources in Western and Eastern Washington State. ... (more information)
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Land and work in Mediaeval Europe. Selected papers by . . . Translated by J.E. Anderson
London:: Routledge and Kegan Paul,, [1967]. 8vo. xii, 260 pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (1 sml clsd tear, mnr shlfwr), VG/VG-. First edition in English of this anthology of papers by the famed French Medieavalist. ... (more information)
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Land of savagery, land of promise. The European image of the American frontier in the nineteenth century
New York:: W.W. Norton & Co.,, [1981]. 8vo. xv, [1], 364 pp. Numerous plates. Quarter-blk cloth over red boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (crnr clppd), NF/VG. First edition. ... (more information)
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Land of the Crested Lion. A journey through modern Burma
London:: Adventurers Club,, [ca. 1955]. 8vo. 256 pp. Double-page map, 23 photos. Beige boards, brwn lettrng (dustsoilng to fore-edges), w/ d.j. (mnr fxng to fore-edges), VG/VG-. Reprint edition of this excellent travel account of life in Burma before the modern repressive regime of Myanmar. ... (more information)
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The Land that time forgot. A trilogy. . . The land that time forgot; The people that time forgot; Out of Time's abyss
Garden City, NY:: Nelson Doubleday,, [1975]. Three books in one. 8vo. 249, [1] pp. Numerous photo illusts. Mustard-coloured boards, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First photoplay edition of this lost-race fantasy adventure based on the Burroughs trilogy, starring Doug McClure, with the script written by Michael Moorcock. ... (more information)
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Landmarks in Western oratory. Edited by . . . University of Wyoming Publications. Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-10
Laramie, WY:: Univ. of Wyoming,, 1968. Tall 8vo. 203, [1] pp. Numerous plates. Tan cloth, brwn lettrng & illust., NF. First edition of this excellent work including essays on the Plains Indian as a public speaker, Lectures of Henry Harmon Spalding, Theocracy in Utah, Adolph Sutro, Hiram Johnson, Burton K. Wheeler, and Upton Sinclair. ... (more information)
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Landscape gardening. How to lay out a garden. Edited, revised and adapted to North America by F.A. Waugh
New York:: John Riley & Sons,, 1911. 8vo. xxii, 292 pp. Frntsp., 19 plates, 79 text illusts. & diagrams. Green cloth, gilt decrtd frnt cvr w/ rose bushes, gilt on spine (vry slght shlfwr, slght bmpng), VG copy from library of Carl and Rae Brodin, w/ bkplate on frnt pstdn. Fourth edition, 1st thousand, of this scarce landscape architecture handbook. ... (more information)
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Landscape gardening. Treatise on the general principles governing outdoor art; with sundry suggestions for their application in the commoner problems of gardening
New York:: Orange Judd Co.,, 1913. 8vo. 156 pp., plus 10 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp., numerous plates, diagrams. Green cloth, white lettrng (slgt shlfwr), Nf. Second edition, revised & expanded. ... (more information)
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Last days in paradise
London:: Travel Book Club,, [1964]. 8vo. 222, [2] pp. Blue boards, blk lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght rubbng), w/ d.j. (slght foxng to fore-edges), VG/VG. First edition of this travel account to Tahiti. ... (more information)
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The Latimer big three. In one volume: Three complete novels of crime. . . [The lady in the morgue; The dead dont care; Murder in the madhouse]
New York:: Sun Dial,, [1940]. Three vols. in one. Thick 8vo. [8], 296; [2], 261, [1]; [2], 313, [1] pp. Red cloth, blk lettrng & skeleton illust. on spine, w/ d.j. cover art of skeletons on brick wall surrounding cover art of 3 original dustjackets (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, edgewear, mnr creasng), VG+/G. First omnibus edition of these three famed Bill Crane mysteries. ... (more information)
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Laugh and life
New York:: Britton Publ. Co.,, [1917]. 12mo. 190 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous plates. Tan cloth, brwn lettrng (mnr rubbng, shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), still a G copy, w/ ownrshp mrkngs from Private Fred Striet, Company C., 348, Machine Gun Battery, Camp Lewis, Washington. First edition of this inspirational and self-help work by the famed silent movie star. ... (more information)
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Laura
Garden City, NY:: Sun Dial Press,, [1944]. 8vo. 237, [1] pp. Tan boards (lght uniform interior toning), w/ d.j. cover art of Laura set in Globe by smoldering cigarette (mnr edgewear), VG/VG. Early printing of this Noir mystery, made into the Otto Preminger film, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price. ... (more information)
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Le XVIII siecle. Premiere partie la France et le monde de 1715 a 1789; Deuxieme partie les forces internationales. CLIO. Introduction aux etudes historiques
Paris:: Presses Universitaires de France,, 1952. Two vols. 8vo. viii, 574, vi, [2]; [575]-996 pp. Printed softcvrs (vry mnr soilng), still a VG set mostly uncut & unopened. First edition of this excellent analysis. ... (more information)
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