Search Results: Authors starting with L from Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse

New Hampshire: Edson C. Eastman Co, 1937. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. Just a bit of edgewear and spotting to paper covers. Hole punched in upper left corner, with chord through it. Occanional pencil notes on sides of pages. Classic month-by-month old favorite publication of rural Americans everywhere. Including predictions with notations indicating weather, ideal planting dates, sunrise/sunset, tides, saint's days, phases of the sun and moon, astronomical calculations, Post Office Regulations, advertising, household hints.

New Hampshire: Edson C. Eastman Co, 1926. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. Just a bit of edgewear and spotting to paper covers, top corner of cover heavily worn (Possibly from mouse nibbling). Occanional pencil notes on sides of pages. Hole punched in upper left corner, with chord through it. Classic month-by-month old favorite publication of rural Americans everywhere. Including predictions with notations indicating weather, ideal planting dates, sunrise/sunset, tides, saint's days, phases of the sun and moon, astronomical calculations, Post Office Regulations, advertising, articles on subjects as varied as Anatomy of Man's Body, Keep A Dairy Record, Good Things to Eat, Sunspots Diminishing etc. (NOTE: These articles NOT necessarily in this particular issue, but represent the TYPE of typical articles!).

New Hampshire: Edson C. Eastman Co, 1936. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. Just a bit of edgewear and spotting to paper covers. Hole punched in upper left corner, with chord through it. Occanional pencil notes on sides of pages. Classic month-by-month old favorite publication of rural Americans everywhere. Including predictions with notations indicating weather, ideal planting dates, sunrise/sunset, tides, saint's days, phases of the sun and moon, astronomical calculations, Post Office Regulations, advertising, articles on subjects as varied as Holidays, Preparing Soil for Rock Garden,Hurricanes, Hunting and Fishing Laws, Household Hints, etc. (NOTE: These articles NOT necessarily in this particular issue, but represent the TYPE of typical articles!).

New York: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp, 1963. Paperback. VERY GOOD. New York: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp., 1963. 11 x 8 1/2 inches: pp. 96. Photographic card stock cover with white, black and red type. Small (1/2-inch) closed tear along hinge near top of front spine, and a very small top edge-tear. Some very minor rubbing, bumping to edges. Some toning. Unmarked. Binding solid. "YOU DON'T SAY" was compiled by the late great Stan Lee, IT IS NOT A COMIC BOOK. It is a compilation of numerous black and white photographs of politicians and celebrities with humorous captions.

New York: Marvel Comics, 2005. Second edition, first printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Heck, Don; Kirby, Jack. New York: Marvel Comics, 2005. Second edition, first printing. 10 x 6 5/8 inches: unpaginated, 512 pages. Black illustrated stiff cardboard covers with white and yellow type. Light edge and corner wear, creasing. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: New Directions, 1971. Second Printing. Paperback. Good. New York: New Directions, 1971. Second printing. 8 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 86. Photographic white wraps with black type. With notes Inscribed and signed by Denise Levertov and dated April, 1974. Light stains to wraps, spine toned. Light damp stain to margin of first ten pages. Pencil circling on copyright dates and a few passages throughout book. Binding solid.

New York: R.H.M. Press, 1975. Trade Paperback. Good. New York: R. H. M. Press, 1975. 8 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 303, [2]. White photographic stiff cardboard cover with red and white type. Includes Indexes to openings and opponents. From a private chess club library, Chess Ways in Eugene, OR. Edge and corner wear, some light creasing. Creasing at spine. Homemade library sticker taped on to spine. Chess club stamp on upper edge of half title page. Text is unmarked. Binding solid.

San Jose, CA: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. San Jose, CA: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1975. 12th edition. 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 342, (26). Lime green paper dust jacket with dark green lettering and Rosicrucian symbol. Black boards with gold gilt type and borders on front cover and spine. With index and 24 page catalog of books available in the Rosicrucian Library. Dust jacket has toning, creasing, chipping, a few tears. Some titles listed on the back panel have red pen markings next to certain titles. Some rubbing at board edges and corners. Numerical notes inside front cover. Some pencil markings in first sixty pages and in the catalog pages in the back. Binding is solid, tight.

Berkeley, California: The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. Staplebound Pamphlet. VERY GOOD. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 1979. 10 x 7 inches: pp. 15. Tan cardboard wraps with black type. Staplebound, Two faint stains to lower part of front cover. Tip of upper corner slightly dinged. Text is unmarked. Binding solid. Follow up report to the original pamplet which reported an investigation of the brass artifact purportedly left by Francis Drake at a site in California when he claimed the land for Queen Elizabeth on June 17, 1579.

London: Taylor, Walton & Maberly, 1851. 3rd Edition, much revised and enlarged. Hardcover. very good. London: Taylor, Walton & Maberly, 1851. 3rd Edition, much revised and enlarged. 7 x 4 1/2 inches: pp. xx, 536, [8]. Original embossed red cloth with spine titles in gold gilt. With catalog. Corners bumped, some soiling to cover. Bookplate inside front cover with ink stamp of name on upper right of free facing end page. Text clean and unmarked with some light toning. Binding tight. Von Liebig [1803-1873 was one of founders of organic chemistry.

Buenos Aires: Paul Link, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Buenos Aires, Paul Link, 1949. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 100. Color illustrated paper covered boards with black type. Bibliography. Illustrated throughout with photographs and text figures. Published by Paul Link - With the compliments of Nilssen, Olsen & Cia. Ltda. S. A., Wool Exporters, Buenos Aires. Edge wear, some slight bumping to boards. Text clean, unmarked. Binding tight. The author was Professor of Textile Industries of the National Industrial College of Buenos Aires. Economic and geographical look at sheep and wool production in South America and how it pertains to the United States.

Tel Aviv: Yavneh Publishing House, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tel Aviv: Yavneh Pulishing House, 1968. First edition. Publisher's cardboard folder: 14 3/4 x 8 3/4, Booklet and prints: 13 3/4 x 10 inches, Eight page folio booklet with eight separate color plates laid in. Text is in English with some Hebrew. Six drawings by the artist illustrate the booklet, along with photo of the artist ands explanatory text. Signed by the artist on front of booklet. Housed in publisher's stiff card folder which is color illustrated with a painting by the artist on the front and rear. Booklet, plates and folder are all very good.

Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1954. First edition. 8 3/4 x 6 inches: pp. xiv, 218. Brown and white pebbled cloth with black type. No dust jacket. Edge and corner wear, rubbing. Light toning inside front and back covers. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

Cleveland, Ohio (USA): Steel Founders' Society of America, 1938. Pamphlet. Good. Cleveland, OH: Steel Founders' Society of America, 1938. 9 x 6 inches: pp. 65. Paper wraps with black type. Diagrams throughout, and bibliography. Some tearing to spine surrounding staples. Some moisture staining on bottom edge of pages. Text is unmarked. Binding sound. Staplebound pamphlet divided into two sections: I: "An Engineering Approach to the Use of Steel Castings" and II: "Steel Casting Design for the Engineer"

Chicago, IL: Monarch Book Company, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Chicago, IL: Monarch Book Company, 1898. 9 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches: pp. 432. Robin's egg-blue cloth-covered boards with a star spangled and star-surrounded American flag motif flanking a gilt-bordered paste-on photograph of a young woman in a white dress delivering a recitation. Black and white with a few color photographs throughout. Edge wear, rubbing. Corners lightly bumped. A few scuffs, scratches on back board. Some light toning. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. and E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1921. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good. New York: E.P.Dutton, 1921. 7 x 5 inches: pp. (4), 123. Brown cloth, with black lettering. Rubbing to extremities, fraying to top corners. Pencil and colored pencil markings inside back cover. Otherwise, text is unmarked. Binding is a wee bit shaken, but overall, solid. Contains over 6600 commercial terms and over 360 abbreviations, to which have been added tables of money, weights and measures, and the thermometers. Some topics include: Accounts, articles of trade, banks and banking, bankruptcy, bills of exchange, cheapness of good, cheques, colours, correspondence, Execution of Orders, Invoicing, Mercantile Firms and Companies, Packing of Goods, etc.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1975. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975 First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. xiv, 242. White photographic dust jacket with orange, black and blue type. Black cloth over red boards with red type. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket shows smudging and a bit of edge wear, soiling, light creasing. Boards have a wee bit of shelf-rubbing to spine caps, spotting to edges, and endpapers. Foxing on edges. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Solid used copy in a smudged dustjacket which has faithfully performed its job of protecting the book itself. First-hand account of personnel, events and stories which made up the San Jose Bees, a Class A California Baseball League Team, and the farm system network in general.