Search Results: Authors starting with L from Grinning Cat Books

The Orchid; The History of this Extraordinary Flower comes encased in a beautiful collector's box. Fine and complete. As new. Produced in association with The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, this wonderful book is enhanced with botanical illustrations by the great orchid artists, 40 of which have were selected as high quality prints. Presented in a beautiful collector's box, in fine condition. Captivating, beautiful, Incredibly diverse and often elusive, orchids can be found in nearly all environments, ranging from sea level to an elevation of almost 5,000 meters. Victorian plant hunters scoured the globe for new species to bring back for botanical gardens and private collectors; "orchidmania" among gardeners was born and persists to this day. Enhanced with notes and letters held in Kew's archives and illustrations by artists such as John Day and Sarah Drake, this is an exceptionally beautiful book on an extraordinary plant. Lauren Gardiner is Curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium and a member… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. An excellent rare and comprehensive history and reference source. Very good in burgundy cloth, some shelf and edge wear, spine heads chipped on both volumes above the book title. Pages slightly toned, but otherwise bright and clean, and all content complete. Overall, a very good set of this rare and important work. Covers Japan's geographical & historical, constitution & the law, the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. * The problems of the Pacific, administrative and social status, Christian-missions in Japan, status of women. Economic, financial and industrial position. Korea: triumph of barbarism, early days under Japanese control, passing under tutelage, inauguration of the protectorate, reform & reorganization, annexation and the last phase. Mistreatment of Koreans. Manchuria: development, growth of Japanese influence, South Manchuria Railway, policy of Russia before the war. China: awakening, constitutional movement, the dawn of revolution, Szechuan Rising,… Read More

First American Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Black cloth fine, with minor edge wear on spine tail. Signed by Le Carre on the front free endpaper. The title 'The Russia House' refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet Union. The motion picture based on the novel was released in 1990, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, and directed by Fred Schepisi. Octavo. 353 pages. A wonderful copy of this classic!

First Edition Library (1988); First Edition Thus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with very slight closed tear at top of the jacket spine. An exact facsimile of the original in every respect. Flap price $3.95 and Capote's blurb top of front flap. A wonderful copy in slipcase.

First Edition, First Printing. With 12 illustrations in color by Maxwell Armfield, and 87 additional illustrations in black and white, with a bi-fold map on the front endpapers showing the castles of Touraine. Fine in a fine binding (by Bumpus Ltd, London) in rich, brown leather with gilt text and raised bands. All edges gilt. Octavo, red cloth covers, top edge gilt, xv, 318 pages. A popular account of a motoring tour in the Touraine and along the Loire, including historical backgrounds about the castles, chateaus, churches, towns and other places visited. A lovely, near fine copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Leighton on the half-title page. Scarce thus. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of engravings by Clare Leighton. Very good plus in original cream cloth, slight soiling to back cover edge. Internally near fine, bright, clean and ummarred. In a very good patterned dust jacket, with toning to the head of spine and corners. Small quarto. 7.75 x 10.25 in. 202 pp. Overall, a lovely copy of this scarce work by Leighton of her beloved Cape Cod.

First Edition, First Printing. Just about fine in original brown boards and in like pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Signed by author Doris Lessing on half-title page. The 2007 Nobel Prize winner's best novel. According to BBC Radio 4, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." "Oh good, did they say that about me?' Lessing replied. "Oh goodness, well obviously they like me better now than they used to."

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine. White parchment boards in mylar protected dust-jacket, boards somewhat dull per age and color. Gilt titles and gilt embossed vignette of Alice on front board. Gilt topstain. First Edition illustrated by Newell (published October 1902). Illustrated with tissue-protected portrait frontispiece of Newell and 40 full-page beautiful plates by Peter Newell, all present. Interior pages and boards fine and unmarred. All pages surrounded with decorative borders in green by Robert Murray Wright. 211 pp. A wonderful first edition of the acclaimed Peter Newell edition.

First Revised Edition thus. A fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case. Published in 2015 as a large limited edition; reissued in this smaller format with new binding and slip-case, and with water color added by renowned children's artist, Charles van Sandwyk. Fine in a fine publisher's slipcase. As new. Color frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous color and monochrome illustrations, many full-page, and with illustrated endpapers; red cloth, upper board framed and blocked in gilt enclosing mounted illustration. A beautiful edition of Alice.

Fine in a fine dust jacket. The beautiful Trade Edition, limited to 1,000 copies (although not stated). Second edition. New. Signed by the artist on title page; scarce thus. One of the most creatively rendered Alice's since Dali, with color illustrations throughout, including four (4) amazing fold-out illustrations. Includes both stories, bound back-to-back; beautifully bound back-to-back in a "mirror" image binding (so, when you finish reading Alice, you turn the book over and move onto Through the Looking-glass) In full black cloth stamped in gilt, filled with the exquisite, vivid and ornate artwork of Anne Bachelier. In a fine pictorial dust jacket. 4to, 216 pages total - 105 pp. numbered from the front and 111 pp. numbered from rear in mirror printing. An absolutely amazing edition for the Alice fan and collector!

The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature. Number 1 (January 1927); Number 2 (1927); Number 3 (1929). Three volumes, complete. Beautiful facsimile edition. Tall narrow quartos. With a few black and white illustrations. Near fine in original decorated boards. A few black and white illustrations. A wonderful set.

First Edition, First Impression, second state. One of only 500 copies thus. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, with foxing to the upper edges and spine. Otherwise a fine copy in excellent condition.
Blasting and Bombarding was the first of two autobiographical books written by Lewis (followed by Rude Assignment, 1950), and covers the period from 1914 to 1926, tracking Lewis's progress through the First World War and the literary and artistic upheavals of Modernism. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black, top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 13 plates from artwork by the author, 4 plates from photographs. Octavo. A wonderful copy in great condition.

First Edition, First Printing. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black-and-white drawings, and with 3 full-page color plates. Illustrated endpapers. Fine in original green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and in black on spine, and very good yellow dust jacket with large pictorial onlay affixed. Chipping to dust jacket. Duodecimo. 14.5 x 19.5 cm. ix; 144 pp.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original cord-tied printed wrappers. Inscribed by famous early 20th century publisher, A. Edward Newton on the front free endpaper.
Stevenson's earliest literary creation, recited at the age of six to his mother, who wrote it down, as part of a contest between him, his brothers and cousins, to write the best history of Moses. The frontispiece (The Israelites going out of Egypt) is from a watercolor by Stevenson done at the same time. Includes a facsimile of Mrs. Stevenson's manuscript, facsimile inscription signed by his uncle from the reward book he received for winning, and facsimile of RLS's early signature. Printed blue paper covers, pamphlet stitched with blue cord. Presented in a folded brown envelope, to which an A. Edward Newton bookplate and a Charles Dexter Allen bookplate are affixed. Thin duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in.10 pp. A wonderful copy of Stevenson's earliest know composition.

First Edition. Deluxe, in 2 volumes. Each volume fine, in a fine pictorial dustjacket, both housed in publishers original slipcase mirroring the beautiful covers. A fine set of this monumental work.
Profusely illustrated through with over 400 illustrations, photographs, designs, etc. Schwaller's masterwork is the culmination of his exhaustive 12-year study at the great temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor, which is revealed to be an architectural encyclopedia of humanity and the universe. The work represents the most important breakthrough in our understanding of Ancient Egypt since the discovery of the Rosetta stone. This exhaustive and authoritative study reveals the depths of the mathematical, medical, and metaphysical sophistication of Ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz's stone-by-stone survey of the temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor allows us to step into the mentality of Ancient Egypt and experience the Egyptian way of thinking within the context of their own worldview. Indeed, Schwaller… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. In September of 1845 Lyell returned to America, and after a trip to Maine and the mountains of New Hampshire, travelled extensively through the South. He stayed for two weeks on a Georgia plantation on the Altamaha River, crossed that state partly by handcar in order to collect rocks and fossils in the grade cuts along the way, went to Claiborne on the Alabama River where he collected more fossils, then to Montgomery and Mobile along the Alabama, Mobile, Tombigbee, and Black Warrior Rivers. From Mobile he went up the Tombigbee River to Tuscaloosa to visit the Alabama coal field, continuing by steamboat to New Orleans, where Lyell made an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River to study the growth of the delta. From there he went up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by steamboat, then overland to Philadelphia. After a quick trip to Richmond, Virginia to re-examine the coal deposits there, he sailed from Boston to Liverpool on June 1, 1846. "Lyell's description of… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original teal cloth, titles in gilt, and near fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Lytle on title page. Octavo. 15 x 21 cm. 373 pp. A rare and lovely copy.