Search Results: Authors starting with L from Monkey House Books

Carlstadt, New Jersey: Labscope, Inc., 1953. Blue stapled card covers. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. General description, specs, theory of operation, circuit description, maintenance, voltage chart, schematic & figures. 6 pages, some dings and creases, staples rusty.

Paris: Editions Bordas, 1965, 1965. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good.. Printed in France. 576 pages. One good ding in front cover, some rubbing at top of spine. Binding loosening but not cracked or broken. Well illustrated with black & white photos and portraits and color plates, featuring paintings by French artists. Authors include Mme de Stael, Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Sand, Balzac, Stendhal, and Baudelaire.

Leipzig: Erschienen im Insel-Verlag., [no date]. Red cloth boards, black and gilt titling.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Text in German. Worn and soiled. Rfep missing, hinge cracked.

Philadelphia: Alfred Martien, No. 1214 Chestnut Street, 1870. Green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece with tissue. Textblock whole and complete. 251 pages. Backstrip split at front. Hinges hanging by a literal thread. Sunday school library pastedown on fep. Corners worn and frayed. Rounded spine. Ruth Buck, born 1829, was an English author of over 40 books.

Berlin: Berlegt bei Dr. P. Langenscheidt, 1924. Tan boards, green cloth spine, decorative stamped cover & spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Text in German Frakturschrift. Erstes bis funftes Tausend. 257 pages, scarce work. Well-worn, backstrip split, corners frayed, front cover splitting, hinge cracked, several pages loose but included.

New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1996. Hardcover pictorial boards. Fine.. Jean-Baptiste Corot.. First American edition, color printing, 59 pages, children's alphabet book illustrated with paintings by Jean-Baptiste Corot and accompanying text, from ""A deux pas du pont"" to ""aZur."" Translated from the French by Claudia Zoe Bedrick. Bright and colorful, tight binding, some crinkling of rear endpaper.

Washington, D.C.: Judicial Watch Inc., 1998. Softcover, large format.. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket, as issued. ""Crimes and Other Offenses Committed by President Bill Clinton Warranting His Impeachment and Removal from Elected Office."" September 28, 1998. 145 pages. Some staining to covers, text clean.

Morganville, New Jersey: Lavoie Laboratories, Inc., 1962. Softcover, stapled card covers. No Dust Jacket, as issued. Rusty staples. Foldout schematics. Description, preparation, operation, inspection & maintenance, troubleshooting, calibration.

Morganville, New Jersey: Lavoie Laboratories, Inc.. Gray card covers, black plastic comb binding. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket, as issued. Figures, multiple foldout schematic diagrams, description, operating instructions, inspection & lubrication, troubleshooting, calibration. Some wear.

Morganville, New Jersey: Lavoie Laboratories, Inc., [no date] c.1960. Softcover, card covers, comb binding. Very Good. Foldouts, some edgewear, slight musty odor.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1956. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. A young horse named Holly learns about different horse breeds and hopes to find out what he can do. A Rand McNally Elf Book. 25 cent cover price. Cover wear, small punched hole in top corner of first pages, text pages unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Powerful and disturbing landmark study of the place of antisemitism in German culture. 389 pages, index. Light staining inside jacket & slight crinkle to top of pages.

New York & Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. By the author of the Rev. Curtis Black novels. 181 pages, reading group guide & questions, light soil to cover.

New York: Kensington Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Story of two sisters, their relationships, jealousies, competition & struggles. 279 pages, by the author of Behind Closed Doors.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1923. Olive cloth boards, blind-stamped cover, gilt-stamped spine (faded).. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by A. H. Fish.. Humorous essays about daily experiences, observations of Paris, etc. Ex-library with stamps and card pocket, otherwise light wear. Title piece subtitled ""A Modern Problem Play."" 195 pages, clean and square.

Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers, 1896. Dark Blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Heath's Modern Language Series. Text in German, 185 pages, unmarked. Edited with notes and vocabulary by W. H. van der Smissen. Penciled names on endpapers, dated 1897. Front hinge starting, binding cracked at center. Ends & corners worn & bumped.

Esslingen b. Stuttgart: Verlag von J. F. Schreiber, [no date]. Decorated board cover. Poor-Fair./No Dust Jacket. Nro. 134. Mount Holyoke Archives Special Collection lists the volume as ""before 1899."" Other Lechler works range from 1890-1910. Cover decorated with a woman sewing and a girl with her doll. 8 x 10-1/4 board book, 12 pages. Full-page color illustrations, printed pages have nursery rhymes and smaller line drawings. Unhinged, old tape repairs have come loose, 1 color illustration has been torn in half and the bottom of the picture is missing from the board; the other color images are whole and bright. Else, edgewear, small tears, some darkening around the edges. Photos available upon request.

New York: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, 1871. Hardcover, brown cloth, blind & gilt-stamping. Good. Small handy volume. 191 pages. Some wear to spine ends, spotting to early pages. A prominent 19th century Presbyterian minister and religious writer, Cuyler (1822-1909) was pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn. This book contains his musings on The Christian Life. He is other religious books included Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home, and Heaven: From Poetic and Prose Literature of All Ages and All Lands (1879), Intellect: and How to Use it (1863), and Campaigning for Christ (1902).

New York: The Century Co., 1906. Blue cloth boards, black/tan/white decorative cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. DD' Decorative Designers hallmark on cover, illustration of an old man with a hat and white beard. Frontispiece by Steele (July 1905). 298 pages, brief pencil marginalia. Extremities worn & some fraying. Front hinge cracked, owner's information inked on ffep, dated 1906. Story of 'a genial character who has a talent for confounding landsharks and ending up owning most of the property in sight.' Jennett Lee, 1860-1951.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Being an Abridgement, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of A Life of William Shakespeare. Illustrated with several b/w plates. 231 pages, toned but unmarked, index. Ex-library stamps, card pocket, call # painted on backstrip. Frontispiece portrait. Light wear, endpapers darkened, backstrip ends worn.