Search Results: Authors starting with L from Abbey Bookshop

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original blue cloth, illustrated with sixteen plates. ex-library copy, as evidenced by a list of due dates pasted to the back endpapers

London: Cassell and Co, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. CRANE (Walter). Folio, original cream cloth spine, pictorial boards, richly illustrated by Walter Crane fore-edge of upper board quite worn

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. A new edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original pictorial olive cloth. Includes among other things the author's ascent of Adam's Peak in Ceylon, his time spent in Italy and Greece, involvement in politics in Canada, the attack of the British Legislation in Japan in 1861, experiences during the Polish insurrection in Warsaw, visits to convents in Moldova, etc. contemporary ownership inscription, some bumps and extremities lightly rubbed

London: Cadell and Davies, etc., 1819. First edition thus. Good. 8vo., disbound. Lovely edition of Sterne's works, illustrated with a number of vignettes. disbound but pages near fine, some of the original calf still present to spines and two boards preserved. Illustrated pages introducing sections of the book seemingly often bound in the wrong place. A perfect candidate for rebinding

London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo., original blue roan, blind stamped with the publisher's mark, titled in gilt, with 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. spine worn away, upper cover detached, neat gift inscription from 1911

Paris: Garnier Frères, [c. 1870]. Nouvelle edition, revue avec soin. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., contemporary red quarter morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spine. hinges worn towards head of spine, points bumped

London: Strahan and Company, 1882. First edition. Good. 8vo., original red cloth heavily decorated in black and gilt, with numerous illustrations. Scarce spine faded, bookplate to front pastedown, bookblock has come loose from binding

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939. First edition. Very Good. 8vo., original orange cloth, gilt ankh to upper board. spine faded with one small hole towards head, cloth marked in places

[Paris]: [Horizons de France], [c. 1930]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio, original red cloth spine, red boards, with a large photographic reproduction laid down on upper board, richly illustrated with sepia reproductions of photographs taken in the French colonies in Africa. a few marks to lower board, points bumped

Paris: Payot, 1926. First edition thus. Very Good +. DULAC (Ed.). 8vo., original pictorial wrappers, with plates illustrated by Dulac. spine lightly soiled and a little worn at edges

London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. Reprint. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth, frontispiece. From the Aldine edition of the British poets. ex-library copy with sticker to spine and stamps

London: Edward Moxon, 1859. Eighth edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to., original limp burgundy calf, all edges gilt. An unusually spacious edition of Tennyson's great poem, printed only on one side of every other page. spine faded, rubbed in places, interior fine

Boston, New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tall 8vo., original green pictorial cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author. A wide selection of recipes for salads, canapes, roasts, etc. Scarce spine faded