Search Results: Authors starting with L from Church Street Books

London: English Universities Press, 1968. This comprehensive chronological record dating back to six billion years BC took six years research. In the Teach Yourself series. Blue covers with silver lettering on spine panel, 776pp inc index. Book has been neatly covered in blue, transparent plastic cover. Book has minor tape marks on endpapers (not damage), otherwise in very good condition, in excellent, spotless black and yellow DJ. A very nice copy. Ref:071134. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG++. 11.5cmx18cm.

Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 1893. In the Pitt Press Mathematical Series, dark-green covers with gilt lettering to spine, 304pp plus 8pp of adverts. No publishing history and 1892 preface, so presumed First Edition. Minor bumping, wear to extremities and yellowing endpapers. Neat previous owner's name on front pastedown, but overall a very sound copy. Ref:081800. First Edition (?). Cloth. VG-/N/a. 12x17.5cm.

Norwich: Jarrold, 1928. Brown covers with black lettering on white panels on front and spine, 180pp inc index with b/w illustrations. Paper-covered boards with buckram spine strip. Page edges are dusty and a little foxed, but covers show only very light use. Index and list of illustrations has closed 2cm tear at edge, which doesn't affect the text. Overall a nice copy. Ref:082242. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards/buckram. VG/N/a. 13x19cm.

London: Routledge, 1995. Nine essays, selected by the great French thinker and psychoanalyst, trans by Alan Sheridan. Card covers, 338pp inc index. Covers have just very lightest shelfwear, no spine creases. University of East Anglia bookshop price stamp inside rear cover, otherwise internallly very clean and tight. Ref:114944. Repint. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 15.5x23cm.

London: John Murray, 1963. True First edition consisted of 45 signed copies. Yellow covers with minor bumps and DJ showing minor wear at extremities. Generally a very sound copy, with previous owner's name and date on ffep. Ref: 06407. First Edition Thus. Cloth. G++/G++. Illus. by Osbert Lancaster. 15cmx22cm.

London: I. B. Tauris, 1992. Semi-academic attempt to unravel the history and social context of the holocaust. Card covers, 356pp inc index. Page edges a little discoloured and a couple of page corners turned down, spine slightly sunned, otherwise covers and text bloc very clean and tight. Ref:114666. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 14x21.5cm.

London: David Marlowe, 1948. Foreword by Christmas Humphreys. Blue covers with gilt, 146pp, advert and newspaper cutting slipped in. Covers have modest bumping to extrems, slightly dulled spine lettering. Foxing to prelims and dusty page edges. Unclipped DJ has light wear to edges and extrems, a couple of small nicks at head and foot of spine and a 1cm, closed (repaired) trear at fot of rear.But overall a very sound and internally clean copy. Ref:093585. Reprint. Cloth. VG/VG-. 13x19cm.

London: Seeley Service & Co, 1955. Experiences of angling in lochs and lakes of Britain. Blue covers with gilt, 256pp inc index, with b/w illustrations. Covers have very little wear, light bumping to head and foot of spine. Light foxing to dusty page edges and prelims with previous owner's name and address on front pastedown, otherwise book is internally very clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has light edge wear, particularly at head and foot of spine with a few small nicks and closed tears. Overall a VG copy. Ref:104561. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG-. 14.5x22cm.

London: Watts & Co., 1937. First edition. Khaki covers with black lettering and illustrations on spine and upper cover, 242pp plus 6pp of adverts. Covers have just very modest shelfwear and virtually no wear. Light foxing to dusty page edges and prelims, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has light general shelfwear, a couple of light marks and lightly-sunned spine. Overall a very decent copy. Ref:125049. First Edition. Buckram. VG/VG. 11x16.5cm.

London: Walton and Maberley, 1856. Victorian view of the physial world, first of four companion volumes. Brown covers with gilt and gilt emblem on upper board, blind-stamped decoration on upper and lower boards, 403pp inc index plus 4pp adverts, with 357 engravings. Covers have moderate wear and rubbing, upper joint splitting, tiny losses at head and foot of spine. Binding weak at one point, but holding, lower hinge starting to crack. Damp marks on covers and prelims. Dusty, edges and foxed prelims. Name on first page of text (dated 1858) has been crossed out with the same pen. Otherwise internally reasonably clean. Ref:103928. Buckram. G-/n/a. 12x19cm.

South Australia: Wakefield Press, 1991. Hilarious accout of an Australian nurse working and travelling in Saudi Arabia. P/back first edition. Neat gift inscription on half-title, otherwise clean, tight copy with only minor wear to extremities. Ref:06645. First Edition. P/back. VG/N/a. Illus. by A f Kersting (photographs). 12.5cmx19.5cm.

London: William Heinemann, 1983. In Heinemann's Landmark series. Illustrated boards, 403pp, with grey endpapers. Covers have no noticeable wear. Dusty page edges lightly foxed and yellowed. Otherwise internally very clean and tight. No DJ. Ref:104603. Reprint. Laminated Boards. VG+/N/a. 14x22cm.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. Novel set in a desert state of south-western USA where the church's authority is undermined by a rattlesnake-obsessed settler. Blue covers with silver lettering to spine, 192pp. Mild spotting to page edges, otherwise book has no obvious faults. DJ (designed by margaret Gordon) is a little grubby on white rear, otherwise showing just minor wear with attractive blue/black/yellow front. A nice copy. Ref:071062. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14x20.5cm.

London: Viking, 1986. All the gen on the art and history of stencilling by expert and former art college lecturer Le Grice. Signed on Ffep "For Alice - Lyn Le Grice Oct. '86". Foreword by H.R.H. Princess Michael of Kent. Black covers with silver lettering, 160pp with numerous colour illustrations (by David Cripps) and illustrated 'how-to-do-it' section at rear. Pink marbled endpapers. Covers have minimal bumping and virtually no wear. Unclipped DJ has just modest shelfwear at extrems. Internally very clean and tight and overall a VG signed copy. May require extra postage outside UK. Ref:125040. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG-. Illus. by David Cripps. 22x28cm.

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910. Green covers with gilt lettering to spine and front with colour cartouche pasted on. First UK edition, 311pp with rough-cut lower page edges. Mild foxing, modest bumping at extremities and rubbing to head and foot of spine, page edges dusty. But still a veryt reasonable copy. Ref:071055. First UK Edition. Cloth. G++/N/a. 14x19.5cm.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1957. Biography of the 17th Century playwright. Publisher's uncorrected proof, card covers, 141pp. Title is hand-written on spine. Covers have very little wear, but tanned edges and sunned spine. Light biro scribble on lower cover. Page edges dusty and yellowed, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Ref:114696. Publisher's Proof. Card Covers. VG/N/a. 12.5x19.5cm.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1997. Card covers, 285pp inc index. Book has only the lightest signs of use and one spine crease. A VG copy indeed. Ref:093461. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 15.5x23.5cm.

David Leesley, 1988. A personal testimony of unshakeable Christian belief. Very scarce, self-published first edition. Blue leather-look buckram, with gilt emblem on upper board, 123pp with colour illustrations by Jepson and colour photographs by the author. Covers have virtually no wear and internally very clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has light general edge wear. Ref:104369. First Edition. Faux Leather. VG+/VG-. Illus. by Peter Jepson. 15x21.5cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Comic tale of American politician suffering from erectile disfunction. First edition, red paper-covered baords with black spine and silver lettering. Covers have light sunning to head of spine, but virtually no wear. Page edges very lightly yellowed. Unclipped DJ has just lightest shelfwear. Ref:125052. First Edition. Paper Cov'd Boards. VG316pp./VG. 16x24cm.

London: Hutchinson, 1983. In the University Library series, card covers, 290pp inc index. Apart from very light shelfwear, light foxing to top page edges and the lightest spine creaseing, book is in VG condition. Ref:082115. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG+/N/a. 15.5x23cm.