Search Results: Authors starting with L from Martin Hartzold

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." 304pp. Light gray cloth over boards. Silver title lettering to spine. In original photo-illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95). Jacket with a bit of wrinkling at spine ends. Previous penciled price to first endpage a bit messily erased. Else sound, clean, unmarked. Very good in a very good jacket. An uncommon first edition copy, in a stunningly designed dust jacket by SNCC photographer Bobby Fletcher, of Joyce Ladner's landmark work of Black feminist sociology centered on her extensive interviews with teenage girls residing in St. Louis' beleaguered Pruitt-Igoe housing project from 1964-1968. Born in rural Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi (outside Hattiesburg), Ladner joined the efforts of the SNCC in Mississippi in the early 1960's while a student at Jackson State University and was promptly expelled for participating in campus sit-in demonstrations. She enrolled at… Read More

[Chicago, Illinois]: Trial Lawyers Service Company, (1967). First Edition. 8 3/4" x 5 3/4.". 237pp. Slate gray cloth over boards. Gilt titles to front, spine. Gilt portrait illustration to front, scales of justice image to spine. No jacket (almost certainly as issued). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to first blank endpage: "TO JIM GRAMENOS: / I AM GRATEFUL / FOR YOUR INTEREST / IN ADVOCACY. MAY / IT CONTINUE / MOE LEVINE." Blind owners stamp below inscription. Trace edgewear to cloth, otherwise sharp and clean with bright gilt. Near fine. A long-out-of-print, scarce, and coveted text authored by arguably the most important and influential American trial attorney of the 20th Century, and one of the first to command massive financial awards in civil cases. According to prominent modern trial attorney Rick Friedman of Friedman-Rubin, architect of multiple 8-figure damage awards in the last 20 years (including a July 2021 judgement against the Monsanto in the amount of $185 million): "A trial lawyer who has not… Read More

[Lansing, Michigan], (1994-1996). 25 sample cards. Each approximately 12" x 7 3/4" with color print to rectos, black and white to versos. All about fine. An unusual and deeply appealing collection of 25 different oversize sample tickets promoting various "scratcher" games of the Michigan Lottery issued from about 1994-1996. Modern scratch off games have their roots in myriad gambling amusements of the 20th Century, inlcuding numbers games, punch cards, etc... but began in earnest in Boston in 1974. Since then they’ve become ubiquitious, particularly among the working class as point of sale fixtures in fuel stations, convenience stores, groceries, and more....

[St. Louis, Missouri], [ca. 1940's]. About 195 snapshot photographs. Mostly black and white, a few color, drugstore prints with dimenions ranging from approximately 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" to 5" x 3 1/2." Generous verso notations in ink. A few prints with residue from a previous album mounting, otherwise all well preserved and about very good. Acquired by us a collection of loose prints and now tidily stored in archival clear album pages any mylar sleeves in a dust-proof binder. An evocative archive of snapshot photography, nearly 200 prints by or of a Dorothy Matteson (1918-2007) in about the early 1940's. Prints are spread across a few North City locations seemingly all within a few blocks of Fairgrounds Park, including an apartment balcony overlooking Sportsman's Park, a house (likely at 3522 Sullivan Ave.), and workplace at Gasen's Drug Store. Dorothy was married to a Robert Patteson (1912-2001) a City police who was away serving in World War II. Most of these appear to be photos taken to send to him… Read More

New York: Die Synode von Buffalo, 1862. 5 7/8" x 4" ; 489pp. Full brown leather over boards, ornate gilt stamped and tooled presentation binding with name ("L. Schaumloeffel") to upper and year ("1863") to lower panels. Ornately hand-embellished endpapers with a red star and gold-leaf vine motif. All page edges gilt. Wood engraved frontispiece portrait of Luther. Bold previous owner's inscription to first blank endpage. Some mild edgewear to leather, page edges lightly spotted. Contents clean, binding sound. Solidly very good, attractive. Lovely presentation binding on a Lutheran Catechism published by the Buffalo Synod in 1862. With the ownership inscription of a Louisville business man named Charles F. Huhlein, who married a Louise Stege in 1889. We note an inscription in another book from the same collection to Stege (also a Louisville native) "from her teacher / Mrs. L. Schaumloeffel," who seems to have gifted this to her, providing a chain of ownership that suggests to us this was bound in… Read More