Search Results: Authors starting with L from Sparrow's Bookshop

Chez A.D Mame et C.ie, Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1839. Hardcover. Very good/None. My Prisons, or Memoirs of Silvio Pellico. Second edition. Text in French. Illustrated. Full leather bound with gold gilt accents on spine. Bright marbled endpapers and all three page edges sprayed. Bookplate on front pastedown, else all other pages unmarked. Mild foxing to prelims. Binding and hinges secure. Light shelf wear and scuffing to boards & edges.

Librairie de Mme Ve Poussielgue-Rusand: Paris, 1863. Hardcover. Very good/None. History of Saint Chantal and the Origins of the Visitation. Complete in two volumes. Text in French. Quarter bound in leather over leatherette boards. Gold gilt accents, lettering and four raised bands on spines. Spines heavily sunned. Bright marbled endpapers and all three edges sprayed. All pages are clean and unmarked aside from binder's stamp on front pastedown. Binding and hinges secure. Very minor rubbing and shelf wear.

John Wiley & Sons, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition. Previous owner's name penned on first free endpaper. All other pages are unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Moderate rubbing and edge wear on jacket with a few small tears.

Codex Book Company, Inc, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition. No dust jacket. Slight inward bowing to front board. All pages are clean and unmarked. Vibrant colored graphs. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Rubbing on spine that somewhat affects legibility. Back hinge cracked with webbing visible and front hinge starting. Textblock remains firm.

L.B. Fischer, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Acceptable. First American edition. Translated by Alexandra Dick. Jacket is browned, brittle and heavily edgeworn, with several torn areas along spine edges and bottom front cover edge that are scotch-taped. Spine is chipped and deeply browned. Pages are lightly tanned and unmarked, aside from previous owner's stamp in blue ink on front endpaper. Text block fore-edge has a small stain. Boards are lightly frayed at corners with softened spine ends, but are otherwise clean, firm, and even. Red lettering on front and spine is bright and clear. Binding is secure.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Pages are clean and unmarked. Spine is square, with mildly faded gilt title lettering and design. Spine is tight and square. Front and back boards are clean. Very little shelf wear.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition. Pages are clean and unmarked, aside from previous owner's return address sticker affixed to front endpaper. Red topstain is sunned. Boards are mildly scuffed. Corner are bumped and slightly worn and spine ends are softened. Gilt lettering and deco on cover and spine is darkened but still fully legible. Binding is starting throughout and cracked in several places. Hinges are secure.

Philosophical Library, 1955. Hardcover. Very good/Fair/poor. Jacket is soiled and scuffed, with chips and tears along edges and at foldovers to inner flaps. Jacket spine is sunned. Pages are tanned and unmarked. Pages 401-410 are dog-eared at bottom corner. Boards are firm and even aside from softened spine ends. Binding is starting at center of book.

Whittlesey House, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/None. First edition, second printing. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding and hinges remain secure. Minor rubbing and shelf wear to boards, with more rubbing to spine. Corners remain sharp, but spine ends have started to soften. A nice copy.

Beekman House, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Ninth impression. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked aside from small previous owner's name written on front endpaper. Binding and hinges remain secure. Jacket is bright and free of any tears or scuffing. Has a bit of creasing along top edge, else fine.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition. With illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Embossed and gilted lettering and design on front board and spine. Water damage and wear to fore edge of rear board. Water damage and discoloration to last 1/3 of text block along fore edge. Otherwise, pages remain clean and unmarked. Spine is fairly straight and binding remains strong.

Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed. First edition, signed by author. Mild shelf wear and faint tanning to jacket around the edges and spine. Boards are straight and clean, binding is tight and spine is square. Besides Lapham's autograph, all pages are clean and unmarked.

Hawthorn Books, 1973. Paperback. Very good/N/A. No markings. Minor shelf wear.

The Modern Library, 1929. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Copyright stated 1929, but assumed printed circa 1940. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding and hinges secure. Jacket shows light rubbing and edge wear to spine ends. Faint soiling to bottom of spine under jacket.

Peacock Press / Bantam Books, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Good/N/A. First US edition. Edited by David Larkin & introduced by Leo John De Freitas. All pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Light shelf wear to covers. A large area of damp staining to top left corner of front cover also wrapping around to back cover and bleeding into the first page or two inside cover. Else clean.

Kestrel Books, 1980. Hardcover. Very good/None. Illustrated by Brian Froud and Alan Lee. Pages are clean and unmarked. All pop-up elements are present and functional, with some creasing and fraying at folds. Penultimate page is torn at join to pop-up fold. Boards are firm and even, with minor shelf wear. Binding is tight and square.

Dover Publications, 1959. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Pages are clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's signature stamp in blue ink on front flyleaf. Covers are tanned, with some reading wear. Gutters are creased and bottom corners are slightly frayed. Top front corner has light surface creases. Binding is starting between pages 6/7 and at inner front cover so glue is visible, but is otherwise secure.

Prentice-Hall, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/None. First edition. Boards are solid, the spine is square, and binding is firm. All pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked aside from black mark on pages 114/115, dog-earring on pages 293-314, and light pencil annotations throughout text.

The Macmillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition. With illustrations by the author. Fading and discoloration around the edges of boards with corners bumped and spine ends softened. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper, otherwise all pages remain clean and unmarked. Binding is strong and spine is straight.

Meredith Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition. Pages are unmarked and binding is firm. Boards are slightly discolored around edges. Jacket has one medium and two small rips. Some color transfer on back and sunning on spine.