Titles starting with L from American Worlds Books

New York: New York Medical Book Company. Very Good-. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, else nearly VG. Solid, clean; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 222 pages; By a German-born author who learned his "Socialist A-B-C" from Ferdinand Lassalle, his economics from Karl Marx, his politics in America, and his law, from the American Labor Movement, according to the preface, where Schlesinger speaks of his landing in New York in 1878, after fleeing Prussia. He was, he says... more information

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New York, Cincinnati: Hunt & Eaton/ Cranston & Curts. Very Good. N.D.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth covers, with lettering in brown and gold, illustration in brown, dark blue; 12mo; 217 pages; An English author writes of a religious family in England, its Methodist convictions, and of Marjorie, who goes to America in 1774, as the Battle of Lexington begins, but who then returns to England. Probably printed from the sheets of the London, 1892 ed. . ... more information

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New York & Troy: James Pott & Co. /Nims & Knight. Very Good-. 1891. Reprint. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, slightly sunned, else VG. Bright, solid, clean ; Light blue cloth covers, with lettering & illustrations in black and gold; BW Front., many Illustrations; 12mo; 334, 6 pages; Later edition of the scarce Wright II, 2654; from new plates, apparently, but with the original illustrations, as the author apparently revised one or more of the stories, here . ... more information

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Boston: James H. Earle. Very Good-. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers very slightly worn, very slightly shaken, but still VG. ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original brown cloth covers, with gold lettering, black illustrations; Small 8vo; 280 pages; Wright III 3612; temperance novel, and one which also promotes a kind of evangelical piety . ... more information

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New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Very Good-. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, else nearly VG. Basically a solid, bright, & clean copy ; Illustrated green cloth covers, with gold & black lettering, borders, & designs. Wright III, 2430: "Of lawless men in Colorado. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 466 + ads pages . ... more information

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New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Good. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, with damp-stains on back cover, else good plus. Basically a solid, clean copy; Illustrated green cloth covers, with gold and black lettering, borders, cover illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 466 + ads pages; Wright III, 2430: "Of lawless men in Coiorado" . ... more information

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good-. c. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, else VG. Bright, solid, clean; Red cloth covers, with white lettering; 8vo; 369 pages; Hanna 601: "A strike in a Washington lumber mill. " See Rideout, p. 296, also, plus listings in Coan, Blake, and Prestridge. With the publisher's colophon on the copyright pg. . ... more information

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New York: George H. Doran Company. Good+. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, with extremities of backstrip slightly frayed, else nearly VG, with an especially good photo of an Alaskan scene on the front cover; A solid, clean copy, in the original olive cloth binding, with black lettering on backstrip and on a label on the front cover. Owner's name on front endpaper, but otherwise free of all markings, inside ; 8vo; 240 pages . ... more information

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New York: Scott and Seltzer. Very Good. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Covers very slightly rubbed, else VG +; Ribbed dark green cloth binding, with gold lettering ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 287 pages; Smith J-41; BAL 10704; Edel & Lawrence A83a. First trade edition of this work . ... more information

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New York: Scott and Seltzer. Very Good-. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Covers slightly worn, with 5 light ink numbers on cop. Page, else VG. Solid, clean ; Ribbed dark green cloth binding, with gold lettering ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 287 pages; Smith J-41; BAL 10704; Edel & Lawrence A83a. First trade edition of this work. This was owned by a library, once, apparently, but obviously by a good non-circulating library that did not really mark its books except for ligh... more information

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Chapel Hill, NC & London: University of North Carolina Press. New. c. 1999. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; First Impression. 0807848131 . A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original illustrated stiff paper covers ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages . ... more information

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Ithaca And London: Cornell University Press. New in New dust jacket. c.1996. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. 0801426561 . A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages . ... more information

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New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c.1965. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth and board covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 118 pages . ... more information

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New York: Hearst's International Library Co.. Very Good-. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Covers very slightly worn, in a place or two, with small repaired tear, top of backstrip, otherwise VG or better; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original maroon/red cloth covers, with gold lettering; Color Illustration as Front.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 281 pages; Smith T-414; Hanna 3579. "Portait of a conservative fundamentalist minister in a waning New... more information

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Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good-. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Small worn spot on a cover edge, otherwise VG plus; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original ribbed olive cloth covers, with gold lettering; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 294, 1 pages; Bal 2203; a final, posthumous gathering of the author's essays, on Emerson, Thoreau, and other subjects . ... more information

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Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Bookplate dated 1922 on front paste-down, of a kind that might add interest to this copy, however ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original ribbed olive cloth covers, with gold lettering. Top edge gilt ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 294, 1 pages; Bal 2203; a final, posthumous gathering of the author's essays, on Emerson, Thoreau, and other subjects . ... more information

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New York: Herman W. Lefkowitz, Inc.. Good. c. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, with light damp-stains on the top margins of a few pages, else good plus. Basically solid, clean ; Green cloth covers, with black lettering; Small 8vo; 833, 1 pages; Fantasy novel, about a mid-20th century war, as viewed from the perspective of the late 24th century. Bleiler listing . ... more information

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Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.. Very Good. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Tan cloth covers, with gold lettering, maroon borders; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 108 pages; Hartford, CT poet . ... more information

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New York: Henry Holt & Company. Good. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers somewhat worn, with very light tanning of the text, and light ink notes, "Athenaeum, no. 3082 at top of the title-page, page [1], and front paste-down. Number faintly visible on the front cover, also, otherwise good plus, and free of other markings ; An intact copy of this novel, in the original pictorial olive cloth covers, with gold lettering, illustrations dark brown. ; Holt's "American Novel Series, No.... more information

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New York, Philadelphia, Etc.: Drexel Biddle. Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, with minor blemishes on a few inner pages, otherwise good plus ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original dark green cloth covers, with gold lettering, and borders, and a cover illustration in gold. an arctic white, and a darker green; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 329 pages; Wright III, 5703--variant form of the first edition. Noted in Clareson, SF IN AMERICA, as "a ... more information

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