Search Results: Authors starting with L from Chanticleer Books

London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition thus. Hardcover. Recently expertly rebacked retaining all original materials, some toning to text and plates but a very good copy. 2 volumes, contemporary full tan calf by H. Faulkner; [20], cxc, 290; viii, 442, 119 pp, 51 engraved plates in the 2 volumes, including 3 folding maps in first volume. Printed label at upper corner of verso of front free enpaper: "Bound by H. Faulkner, George Court, Adelphi." The British Book Trade Directory finds a Henry Faulkner, Sr., succeded by Henry Faulkner, Jr. at a George Court, Adelphi, from 1790 to 1825. Originally published in French in 1797 this is one of three English-language translations published in 1798-99. This edition being the second of the three, preceded earlier in the year by the Johnson edition (which had only 41 plates). "The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated Pérouse, is full of interest in all portions, but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Early reprint. Hardcover. Contemporary owner name to front free endpaper, else very good in jacket with moderate soiling, dampstain to lower corner of rear jacket panel. Original orange cloth, small octavo, 171 pp., b/w illustrations, pictorial dustjacket An introduction to the orchestra for children borrowing Lewis Carroll's "Alice" as the main character in the fantasy adventure.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1924. First edition. Owner name to front free endpaper, else fine. Original blue cloth,octavo, xxiii, 555 pp. Catalogue at rear From the publisher's "History of Civilization" series

Paris: Librairie Des Arts Decoratifs, no date (circa 1910). First edition. Wear to spine and edges of portfolio, contents fine.. Folio (16 x 12 inches), original red cloth and boards portfolio with printed paper title label; (4) pp. + 52 photogravure plates. Superb photographic reproductions of the magnificent collection of lace and embrodery from the 16th - 18th centuries.

London: J.M. Dent, no date. Early reprint. Hardcover. Minor wear to edges of covers, but very good overall and internally fine. Square 8vo (7.5 x 8 inches), color pictorial boards; ix, 128 pp. Full-page color illustrations throughout. First published in 1809, this edition has illustrations in a style reminiscent of Kate Greenaway's.

London: Edward Moxon, 1835. New Edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to joints and edges, minor scuffing to boards, foxing to versos of endpapers and blank endsheets, old owner name to front blank leaves, overall very good. 2 volumes; [4], 340; xiii, [1], 295 pp.; full 19th-century calf by J. Clarke, spines gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, all edges marbled, marbled endpaper. Handsome edition of Lamb's essays, first published in 1823 (first series, as "Elia: Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine") and 1833 (second series, as "Last Essays of Elia") and considered among the greatest examples of the form. Lamb died in 1834.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in moderately worn jacket with chip to jacket spine head and at lower left corner of jacket rear panel. Quarto, original navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 158 pp., illustrated with black and white photos throughout, jacket. (Jacket rear panel with Voltaire quote). The compelling visual chronicle of America's great migrations of 1939: the exodus of Black day laborers and tenant farmers from the deep South and the flight of drought-stricken farming families from the mid-continental dust bowl.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1948). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in very good jacket. xvi, 197, illustrated with a map and 65 photographs by the author; octavo, original yellow cloth, pictorial dustjacket An account of a 12,000 mile automoblie journey through the islands of the West Indies

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966-1980. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. All very good to fine, though slight foxing to front blank leaf and half-title of "Northern Forests;" bookstore sticker (Brentanos SF) to upper corner of front free endpaper of "Eastern Forests" vol. 2; 2 jackets price-clipped; minor edgewear to jackets. Folios, all volumes in original cloth with dustjackets. Lovely collection of the primary bird books of Canadian artist J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008).

Chicago: P. F. Volland, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, slipcase moderately faded, leather spine label worn. [61] pp., full page color illustrations face each poem; octavo, original brown cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt and white, in custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine label. Ring Lardner's first book. This copy with autograph of writer and journalist Gene Fowler (1890-1960).

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., nd (circa 1925). Hardcover. Some darkening to endpapers from acidic jacket, else fine in about very good jacket. xi, (139) pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. Second printing. Hardcover. Top edge slightly spotted, else fine. xiv, [1], 349 pp.; maroon cloth with gilt title, small octavo, top edge gilt. A scholarly study of the oldest English epic and its historical and literary significance. Author was a Professor of English in Columbia University

[Washington, DC]: n.p., 1843. First edition. Partial ink stamp of the United States of America, House of Representatives Library to top edge. Very good.. Octavo, 424 pp. Modern green cloth. Contains the "Report of the Board of Officers Appointed to Select a Suitable Site for the Establishment of a National Armory on the Western Waters" and Surgeon General Thomas Lawson's the "Report of the Surgeon General on the Subject of the Proceedings of the Armory Board." Sites evaluated and considered include points upon the Ohio, Mississsippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois Rivers, et al.

New York: Appleton, 1892. Second edition, Revised. Hardcover. Light wear to covers, top edge dusty, else very good. xxii, 382 pp.,12-page publisher catalog at rear, illustrated; small octavo, original olive-green cloth Joseph Le Conte (1823-1901) the renowned Professor of Geology and Natural History in the University of California weighs in on the subject of evolution and the controversy between science and religion.

San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by W. Thomas Tayler, Austin, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 359/360 (misnumbered 380) from the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter XXIII. Limited edition of 395 copies

San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by W. Thomas Tayler, Austin, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 405/406 from the Book of Romans, Chapter XI. Limited edition of 395 copies

New York: Truth Seeker Co., nd [1915]. Early reprint. Hardcover. Covers moderately soiled, tear to upper margin of frontispiece, else about very good. 103, [5] pp., frontispiece illustration; octavo, original yellow cloth. An atheist's analysis of the Christian beliefs. Scarce.

NY: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited edition of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator, this #870. Hardcover. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in glassine jacket and slipcase. Original blue cloth with floral-patterned front board, octavo (7 x 10.75 inches), 294 pp. 12 color plates and several b/w illustrations by Lily Harmon, top edge gilt.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1964). First edition, limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Original gray cloth and printed paper over boards, quarto, xviii, (99) pp + (11) pages of facsimiles from the original journal. Frontispiece and several colored illustrations in the text. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. A charming account of two teenage girls' camping trip (in high style) to Yosemite and Big Trees in the summer of 1878. Published for the first time from the family papers in the Bancroft Library. "C" was Carrie LeConte herself, "D" her friend Winonah Dibble. In later years Carrie LeConte was noted for her contributions to Brother Cornelius' biography of William Keith. Carrie met and fell in love with Keith when she was 18 and he a married man in his 40's, and she maintained a lifelong, though unrequited relationship with the noted painter. Her "confessions" to Brother Cornelius provided "some life and literary… Read More

Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good in lightly edgeworn jacket. No previous owner markings. xv, 216 pp., illustrated with reproductions from photographs, octavo, original blue cloth, jacket.