Search Results: Authors starting with L from DeWitt Enterprises

Chicago IL: The Making of America Co., 1906. Wine color leather spines and corners. Gilt titles. Wine marbled covers and endpapers. Photogravure frontis LaFollette. Publication assembles the best thought of recognized authority on commerical industrial, political, and social development of the US. Plates with color diagrams, maps and fold-out charts with tissue. Formerly belonged to Colorado College Library with book plates. Covers tattered and rubbed through to boards on edges. Some spines sunned and chipped at spine ends. Vol II - backstrip detached but present. Vol III and VII - backstrip nearly detached. Vol IV - upper right page corners bumped. Some hinges starting. Interiors mostly crisp and clean with very little use. Usual library stamps, seals, markings, labels and pockets. Slight musty smell. Heavy item shipping.. Limited (1000). Half Leather. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library.

London/ New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Britain Before the Conquest: The Origins of Britain - Laing, 2nd Printing 0-7100-0431-1; Celtic Britain - Laing, 1979/1990 2nd Printing 0-7100-0131-2; The Coming of Rome - Wacher, 1979/? 2nd Printing?, 0-7100-0312-9; Later Roman Britain - Johnson, 1980/1990 2nd Printing 0-684-16529-25; Anglo-Saxon England - Laing, 1979/1990 2nd Printing 0-7100-0113-4 The Making of Britain: The Norman Heritage 1066-1200 - Rowley, 1983 1st 0-7100-9413-2; The High Middle Ages 1200-1550 - Rowley, 1986/1990 3rd Printing 0-7100-9815-4; The Age of Exuberance 1550-1700 - Reed, 1986/1990 2nd Printing 0-7100-9803-0; The Georgian Triumph 1700-1830 - Reed, 1983/1990 2nd Printing 0-7100-9414-0; The Transformation of Britain 1830-1939 - Mingay, 1986/1990 2nd Printing 0-7100-9762-X. Highly illustrated volumes, ranging from 192 to 306 pages each. Indexed. Appears they have never been previously opened or read. Very slight bend to upper DJ on "Age… Read More

Ligonier PA: Bethlen Freedom Press, 1970. 98 pages. Meditations in Hungarian. Minor wear to edges and corners. Upper right cover corner slightly creased.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Denver CO: The Denver Press Club, The Wahlgreen Publishing Co., 1923. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Biographies of notable persons of the Rocky Mountain States, mostly from Colorado. Front cover with embossed titles and Denver Press Club crest. Gilt pages edges.Pencil notation on title page, "issued to Milton Smith" Denver attorney (one of the subjects - formerly embossed name nearly rubbed out at lower edge of front cover). Usual library stamps, labels, markings and pocket. Shaken with broken interior hinges and loose signatures, with pages still attached.. Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Chicago IL: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1918. (1909). 191 pages. "A complete treatise on the construction and operation of the wireless telegraph and telephone, including the rules of naval stations, codes, abbreviations, etc." Red titles with pictorial telegraph machine on front cover. Illustrated/indexed. Frontispiece. Water damaged covers with slight bow to front cover. Mildew damage to endpapers. Hinges starting. Page 33 dog-eared. Else, interior crisp/clean.. Cloth. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Enid OK: Macfarlane, Inc., 1975. 65 pages. Author of "Wind-Blown Blossoms". True story of life in Western Kansas at the beginning of the twentieth century. Typewritten insert with identity of characters paperclipped to dedication page. Rectangle cutout in front cover so illustration of young girl shows through. Slight shelf wear.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Illus. by Bittle, Yvonne (Mason); Snodgrass, Kent. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Blair, NE: Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1917. 137 pages. Green cloth spine with tan boards. Boy and girl sketch (by E. Lance) on front cover. Lightly illustrated. Inscribed to previous owner on flyleaf. Stitched binding. Water stained covers and a few soiled pages, cloth spine has shelf wear.. Soft Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Denver CO: Sundance Publications Limited, 1989. First printing. 256 pages highly illustrated. Number 17. Tight clean copy. Mylar DJ. ffep slightly dog-eared. Very slight printer rippling.. Signed by Author. Numbered. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970. 489 Pages Illustrated 92 authors present a colorful history of Colorado that spans four hundred years. Contributors include: Juan de Ulibarri, Zebulon Pike, James Beckwourth, John Charles Fremont, George Frederick Ruxton, Horace Greeley, Mark Twain, Mari Sandoz, Dick Wooten, Isabella Bird, Helen Hunt Jackson, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, David Lavender, Lowell Thomas, Katherine Lee Bates, Jack Dempsey, Damon Runyon, Gene Fowler, Zane Grey, Marshall Sprague, Frank Waters and many more. Inscription on front flyleaf by previous owner. Bumped top corner of cover and first twenty pages.. Hard Cover. Good Interior VG. Illus. by Merrill, W. Ralph . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cripple Creek, CO: Historic Preservation Dept City of Cripple Creek, 1994. An Excursion into the Historic Heart of Colorado's Greatest Gold Camp. 150 pages highly illustrated. Corners very slightly bumped.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near New. Illus. by Vanderwalker, Joe. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lake Grove OR: The Depot, 1988. 110 pages. Highly illustrated history of Cripple Creek mining. Minor surface wear to edges and corners. Several spots of surface wear on front cover. Slight stain to upper right page edges. Interior crisp/clean.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

San Jose CA: Talisman Press, 1959. 97 pages. Frontispiece. Pocket map; Facsimile of the Buell-Dillingham Map of the Colorado Gold Region. Gilt titles. Deckle pages. Usual library stamps, labels and markings. Smudged covers with 3 of 4 corners worn through. Interior crisp/clean. Map is in Very Good condition with minor fold wear and tears.. Limited (975). Stiff Boards. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Cassville MO: Litho Printers & Bindery, 1973. 1073 pages. Lightly illustrated. Includes histories of Missouri and St. Joseph. Map of county preceding title page. 3 pages (1071-1073) have been photocopied and stapled onto a rear endpaper. Slight rubbing and edge wear to covers. Minor stains and a small ink mark to page edges, marginalia. Pages crisp.. Brown Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia & New York: David McKay Publisher, 1908. 47 pages, Very minor shelf wear. James M. Lingle was an expert reporter and official stenographer for Pennsylvania House of Representatives.. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia & New York: Lea & Febiger, 1914. 476 pages. Illustrated with 205 engravings and 1 plate. Index. Gilt titles. Shelf wear and corner bumps. Front and rear hinges starting. Interior crisp/clean. POS front flyleaf. Previous owner notes on dedication page and back flyleaf. ½" tear top of spine.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia & New York: J B Lippincott Co, 1885. "Old series, Vol XXXVI - New Series, Vol X" 636 pages. Age yellowing and foxing.Tight. Minor shelf wear, corner bumps, a few dog-eared pages and minor staining on some pages.Half-Leather. Front cover just starting.. Leather. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Colorado Springs CO: JJ Lipsey Western Books, 1963. # 382/400. 20 pages. Four historical trifles reprinted from The Denver Westerner's Brand Book for 1962. Expeditions in Colorado - Colorado's No Man's Land; i.e. Unsinkable Molly Brown, Hon. Jerome Napoleon Tincher heavyweight boxer of Gunnison and Crested Butte. Minor rubbed cover corners and edges.. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Soft Cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Colo. Assn. Of County Commissioners, 1963. 141 pages. Illustrated/maps. Scenic, historical and recreational guide to Colorado county by county. Centerfold color coded Colorado map of counties. Spine broken/repaired. Some pages loose, minor edge wear, sticker removal tear on back cover.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Denver CO: Order of the Grand Lodge, 1903. 193 pages. Gilt titles. Floral endpapers. Indexed. POS ffep. Covers shelf worn and stained. ½" Water stain to top right outside page edges. Pages mostly crisp/clean.. Blue Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Winchester IN: Winchester Lodge, 1906. Padded leather covers with gilt Masonic insignia on front. Floral endpapers. Unpaginated. 13 pages of text interspersed with (12) b/w full page glossy photos of lodge interior and officers. Photos protected by attached decorative onion skin paper. By-laws and membership roster. POS in ink, "Harry K. Lewis 1912" (last photo page depicts a Harry Lewis). Last text page (Roster of Members) is affixed to rear endpaper and has several edge tears. Pencil marks by some members names, with "113 members - 1910" noted at bottom of page. Leather thong binding was replaced at one time with a black shoelace. Covers worn / rubbed and slightly torn inside front cover. Interior pages have some age spots with minor edge chips but clean overall.. Signed. Full-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.