Search Results: Authors starting with L from Tannery Books

1984. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Eileen Lackey Sharpe, "Come A Fur Piece," author, September 1984. Tan paper covers with sketch of a weathervane on the front, super 8vo, 98 pp, many monochromatic photos, SIGNED by the author. Essays by the owner of Lucas Mansion, now the Hiddenite Center for folklife and cultural studies - including local history, "Diamond Jim," ghost stories, mining, trains, the Davis mill, and the White Davis Sulfur Springs Hotel. VG: light bumping, a few smudges on cover, crisp, no internal markings.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. E. A. G. Lamborn and G. B. Harrison, Shakespeare, The Man and his Stage, London, Oxford University Press, 1939 reprint. Rust-brown cloth with black lettering and heart-spade border design, 128 pp, bw photographs and facsimiles including Shakespeare's handwriting. Chapters include Shakespeare's life, social history of his age, the Theatre, and (evolution of and influences on) his Plays. Fair+/no DJ: gutters cracked and joints starting (tears in spine), ex-library with pocket and minor markings throughout, pages good. Erroneous po date in ink on title page probably comes from faint, earlier po stamps on title and last pages. Printed in Great Britain

Copenhagen: Danske Missionsselskab, 1917. Hardcover. Good. Missions-Bibliotheket (roughly translated: The Library Mission), Copenhagen, Danske Missionsselskab (Danish Mission Agency), 1917. Half black leather over textured black boards with gold lettering on spine, 12mo (19 cm), dark blue endpapers, marbled edges [iv] [1]-52,[1]-68, [1]-28, [1]-60 pp, Danish text, 1 bw portrait plate. Rare binding of 1917 publications: Fra Arunâchalam By (From Arunâchalam City), ed. by Knud Lange; Fra Persien og Missionen Blandt Perserne (from Persia and the mission among the Persians), by Frede Brondsted f. Stricker; Bâb: Lidt om Persiens Store Laegsel, by Agnes Clausen; Missionsbiskop Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder: Hans Liv og Virke (Mission Bishop Paludan Smith Schreuder: His Life and Work), by A. Olsen. G: spine and corners worn, light foxing on a few pages, vintage bookbinder's seal on front pastedown, pages crisp, no markings. Reduced

New York: Bramhall House, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Harold A. Larrabee, Decision at the Chesapeake, New York, Bramhall House, copyright 1964 (full number line but probably a reprint). Blue cloth hc, xviii, 318 pp with notes and index; illustrated dustjacket with ships in battle on front. Very Good/Good: corners wearing, spine starting, po bookplate on front pastedown, scuff marks on half-title, pages crisp, no internal markings; DJ bumped and corner-creased, small tear on front flap, foxing on edges.

New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. First American edition. Hardback. Very Good +/good. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, stated First United States Edition. Black cloth spine with silver lettering over gray boards, 8vo hc, 570 pp; silver metallic dustjacket with black and red lettering. Very Good+/Good: corners and spine bumped, crisp, no markings; DJ bumped and scuffed, light sticker residue on front corner and back, unclipped with price. Made in USA.

Mentor, Ohio: Amusement Park Books, Inc., 1979. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Lee O. Bush, Edward C. Chukayne, Russell Allon Hehr, Richard F. Hershey. Euclid Beach Park - A Second Look [volume 2]. Mentor, Ohio, Amusement Park Books, Inc., 1979, First Printing. White cloth hc with two-tone design on front, 4to (28 cm), sepia illustrated endpapers, [iii] i-viii, 1-229 [14]. Many bw photos, with indices for both volumes. Very Good/Good-to-fair DJ: covers lightly bumped with fading or staining on edges, no markings; DJ dampstained and bumped with small tears at top, unclipped.

Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Levi Coffin, abridged and edited by Ben Richmond, Richmond, Ind., Friends United Press, 2006. Trade pb, xxviii, 402 pp. Very Good: corner lightly bumped, crisp, no markings.

Old York Road Publishing Co., 1952. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Horace Mather Lippincott, Quaker Meeting Houses and a Little Humor, Old York Road Publishing Co., 1952, First Printing. Brown covered hc with white silhouettes on front, 8vo, [vi] 136 glossy pages. Historical vignettes and bw photos of select Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, Delaware and Washington, D.C. Good: corners bumped and worn, po name in ink on ffep, top edges and pastedowns tanning, no internal markings.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Sheila Livingstone, Scottish Customs, New York, Barnes & Noble, 1997. Gray paper boards and black cloth spinie with red lettering, small 8vo (20 cm), x, 150 pp with index; glossy illustrated dustjacket. Livingstone uses examples and quotes to explain "those enduring folkways, with special emphasis on Druiidic origins, Christian modifications, and survival into modern times." She shows "a world where poetry and ritual dignified all the major turning points of life and.... Magic resided in many everyday objects and actions." Organized into chapters on birth, marriage, death, lucky and unlucky, work, water, and plants and animals. Ex-library (VG)/Good: light bumping, ex-lib stamp and minor markings, pages crisp, tight; DJ has spine sticker and black mark down spine. Printed in USA

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1970. Later printing. Paperback. Good. Paper covers, 8vo, xvi, 208 pp with index. Good: front cover lightly warped with small tear at top edge, mark on top edges.

Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1982. Second Printing. Paperback. Ex-library. Jewell T. Clark and Elizabeth Terry Long, A Guide to Church Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va., Virginia State Library, 1982, Second Printing. Blue paper covers, black-tape spine over staples, 4to, x, 272 pp with index. Ex-library (Good): ex-library with stickers, stamps and blue marker, corners bumped and spine wearing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888, First American Edition. Red cloth hc with gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (19 cm), dark gray endpapers, xiv, 322 pp, 8 pp ads, 12 illustrated plates including frontispiece. Good/no DJ: covers wearing, spine torn and chipped, front hinge and joint cracked, po name on flyleaf, no internal markings.

New York: Hamlyn - Crown Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Good/fair. Ludmila Kybalova, Olga Herbenova, Milena Lamarova; translated by Claudia Rosoux; The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fashion; New York / Czechoslovakia, Hamlyn / Crown Publishers, 1968. Greenish-tan cloth with green pictorial design and lettering, heavy 8vo, 608 pp with indices, "over 1,000 photographs" - about 995 bw photos and 31 color plates. First part organized by era (Gothic, Empire), second part organized by topic (beards, shoes). G/Fair: spine bumped, small sticker on ffep, otherwise clean and unmarked; DJ torn near spine, large chip, small creases, corners worn, unclipped (no price, but has ISBN).

New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc.. Hardcover. Good. Ludwig Borchardt, Herbert Ricke, Egypt: Architecture, Landscape, Life of the People, New York, B. Westermann Co., Inc., ca. 1929 [probable second edition]. Red cloth hc with gold-stamped lettering and symbol on front, olive endpapers, xxviii with photo credits and place index [ii map], 272 pp bw photos. Early 20th-century photos of Egypt, from ancient monuments and details to contemporary village life (e.g. women churning butter). Index in English, captions in four languages. Good/no DJ: front cover starting to bow, edges bumped and lightly faded, cracking at rear fep, some minor spotting, no po markings. printed in Germany