Titles starting with L from Amanda Willis Rare Books

Les Presses de la Cite, 1971. First edition; 242pp; dark blue boards, gilt title to spine; dust wrapper; text in French; name to front endpaper; 8vo.... more information

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Bompiani, Milan, 1957. First edition. 416pp; book near fine, blue cloth, gilt title to spine, black lines, illustrated dust wrapper with tiny nick to lower edge; 8vo.... more information

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Les Presses de la Cite, 1971. First edition; 253pp; dark blue boards, gilt title to spine; dust wrapper; text in French; 8vo.... more information

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Les Presses de la Cite, 1968. First edition; 246pp; dark blue boards, gilt title to spine; dust wrapper; text in French; owner's name to front endpaper; 8vo.... more information

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Bompiani, Milan, 1941. First edition. Book near fine, paper wraps; 8vo.... more information

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Les Presses de la Cite, Paris, 1966. First edition; 251pp; cream boards, title in red lettering to spine; dust wrapper with photograph of the author; 8vo.... more information

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Printed by hand by the illustrator, Paris, nd. [c.1930] Limited edition of 100 copies of which this is no. 89 SIGNED by the artist; pale green card wraps with title label, housed within original slip-case; fifteen steel engraved plates; extra set of plates in sanguine; an original coloured drawing; two steel plates; decorated title; printed on velin; 4to.... more information

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Editions de la Couronne, Paris, 1945. Limited edition of 1100 copies, this one being 129/100 copies printed on "Crevecoeur" by le Maitre Imprimeur Aulard; viii; 100pp; half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt title, raised bands to spine, t.e.gilt; marbled endpapers; illustrated frontispiece, title; hand-coloured engravings throughout; small 4to.... more information

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Les Presses de la Cite, Paris, 1948. First edition;... more information

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Les Presses de la Cite, Paris, 1959. First edition; 247pp; dark red boards, gilt title to spine, dust wrapper illustrated by J. Jacquelin; 12mo.... more information

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One Horse Press, London, 1993. Limited edition of 2000 copies of which this is number 587; 34pp; buff coloured card wraps with illustration of a tin with a cat's face by Christopher Wormell; further illustrations throughout; SIGNED, dated and numbered by the author; a short story of a man obsessed with collecing tin labels; 12mo.... more information

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Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1950. Limited edition of 370, of which the first 70 were specially bound, this being no. 12; 271pp; full cream morocco with scarlet inlays with gilt illustrations, raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt others uncut; red and black title; frontispiece and over fifty further drawings in brown and black; printed in Caslon Old Face 14pt. type on mould-made paper; housed in original slip-case; 4to. "The Labyrinth" is an allegory, in which the world is depicted as a city ... more information

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The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is no. 334; 55pp; quarter publisher's vellum over patterned boards, gilt title, printed rust-coloured dust wrapper, pages uncut and some unopened; the text is taken from the edition published by Mr. H. Lacey of Liverpool; four full-page engravings; small 8vo. [Chanticleer 56].... more information

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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1980. First edition; unpaginated; book near fine, glossy illustrated boards, dust wrapper; full page colour illustrations to rectos, story on verso; enclosed is a post card made from the promotional card for the exhibition of Bawden's drawings at the Fine Art Society; addressed to the book designer and Bawden's pupil, Ian MacKenzie Kerr; landscape 4to.... more information

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Valentino Bompiani, Milan and Rome, 1953. First Italian edition of "Decline and Fall". 240 pp. Book near fine, brown boards, title on gold ground, dust wrapper designed by Bruno Munari; translated from the English by Giovanni Fletzer; 8vo.... more information

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Printed for the Institute of Jamaica by the West India Committee, London, 1939. Third edition with illustrations, maps and additional notes; civ; 404pp; folded maps; 2pp. adverts; black buckram, gilt title to spine, no dust wrapper; frontispiece portrait, sketches, plates, photographs, maps; "presented to the Earl of Athlone on the occasion of his visit to the Institute of Jamaica"; 8vo.... more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976. First edition; vii; 117pp; grey paper over grey linen spine, gilt title to upper cover and to spine, decorative dust wrapper has one very small tear to upper edge; photographs from the collection of Lady Ottoline's daughter, Julian; introduction by Lord David Cecil; edited by Carolyn G. Heilbrun; frontispiece phoograph and many black and white photographs throughout, a fascinating collection of photos of visitors to Garsington; 8vo.... more information

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The Pear Tree, Bognor, 1929. Limited edition of 90 copies, of which this is no. 36 signed by the author and inscribed to Cyril Edwards; iv; 31 leaves printed on recto only in brown, black, green or gray; linen-backed black paper over boards, title label to upper board, pages uncut; printed by hand in blue and black on F. J. Head's handmade paper; woodcut borders and decorations; provenance: inscribed by the author to Cyril Edwards and by Cyril Edwards to Sheila Rouse; bookplate of Sheila M. Thompson use... more information

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Calder and Boyars, London, 1966. First English pre-trial edition. Book near fine, grey boards, gilt title to spine, dust wrapper is rubbed at extremities and to edge of spine but is clean and not torn; 8vo.... more information

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Quartet Books, London, 1988. First edition. Book and dust wrapper near fine, endpapers illustrated with maps; 14pp. black and white photographs; 8vo.... more information

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