Search Results: Authors starting with L from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: New Directions, 1945. First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First edition. Yellow cloth, fine copy in slightly edge-worn first printing dust jacket. Small name stamp on endpaper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799. G. G. and J. Robinson Quarto Edition. 2 volumes, 4to, plus folio Atlas from the French edition containing frontispiece portrait, allegorical engraved title, and 69 plates, maps, and plans. Text volumes bound without half-titles in contemporary polished calf, double gilt fillets on the sides, narrow floral roll on dentelles, marbled edges, Portrait and engraved title with repair at lower corner;Small (3 mm) hole in margin..Fine condition. Atlas bound untrimmed in period style, half calf with marbled boards, flat spine gilt in compartments, edges lightly rubbed, very minor marginal spotting. "The best English edition and the first to contain the full text of the first French edition" (Forbes). "This edition by Robinson is usually considered to be the best one in English, and is now an extremely rare work," Hill. La Pérouse visited Alta California, the Aleutian Islands, Australia Easter Island, Formosa,Hawaii, Macao, Samoa and Tonga and carried out important… Read More

London: J. Johnson, 1799. Second English octavo edition. 3 volumes, 8vo. Vol. I, xii, 532 pp., portrait, 2 charts and 2 plates; Vol. II, 498 pp., frontispiece, 3 charts and 24 plates; Vol. III, 446 pp., frontispiece, 1 chart, 2 plans, and 7 plates. Contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, red and green lettering pieces. internally, mostly very clean. Forbes 310.

Paris: Gerard Oberlé, 1974. First separate edition. Nicole Carriére. [15] p. Wrappers, fine. One of 30 copies on Hollande paper containing two original signed and numbered etchings by Nicole Carriére, who also designed the cover. (Total edition of 330).

Paris: Editions Cosmopolites, 1937. First edition. Beckmann, Max. Original wrappers, glassine jacket, fine. Copy 90 of 100 copies on Van Gelder paper, numbered and signed by the author. 7 full-page lithographs by Max Beckmann.

Paris: Editions Cosmopolites, 1937. First edition. Beckmann, Max. Original wrappers, glassine jacket, fine. 7 full-page lithographs by Max Beckmann.

Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1947. First edition. Hugo, Valentine. Original wrappers, fine, in lightly worn chemise and slipcase; 192 pp; illus; 22 x 28 cm; One of 320 copies on Johannot paper, from a total edition of 378. 8 original lithographs by Hugo.

Paris, 1980. First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 100 copies, signed by artist and author.

Paris: Denoel, 1970. Cloth, fine, dust jacket with light wear and fading. 112 pp.

London: Anthony Blond, 1968. First edition. Blue boards, fine copy in slightly wrinkled, price-clipped dust jacket.

Los Angeles: The Waverly Company, 1923. First edition. Black boards, red lettering, fine in lightly worn, spine-faded dust jacket. An interesting volume of critical articles. The dust jacket claims it as "the first critical volume ever written on the silent drama". See Manchel, Film Study, an Analytical Bibliography, vol. 1, p. 725 for a discussion of it.

London: Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834. First edition. 8vo, vii, 256 pp. Modern calf binding, gilt top. Fine condition. Variant issue with a different form of the publisher's name from the copy described by Forbes, and with a three-line precis of the author's accomplishments, adding "Senior Minister of the Scots Church". The title-page verso with the printer's imprint only. Inscribed "To W. Jardine Esq with the Author's best respects". William Jardine was a surgeon, trader, and drug trafficker who co-founded the Hong Kong based conglomerate which still bears his name. Forbes 905 (variant).

New York: Knopf, 1933. First edition. Publisher's yellow cloth, fine in fresh, unworn dust jacket (small spot on back panel).

New York: Scribner's, 1930. First edition. Pink cloth, spine label; fine in dust jacket. Bruccoli and Layman A24.1.

Lausanne: Ami Guichard, 1966. First edition. 126 p. 62 photos. (incl. ports.) 24 x 30 cm.. Maroon boards, gilt, with inlaid photo. The captions and text were written by Jean Fondin from interviews with the photographer. Fine.

London: R. Randal, 1789. First edition. 8vo. 151 pp. Modern calf. A very rare, anonymously published narrative of the Portlock and Dixon voyage. The preface is signed "C.L." and its author states that he attended the captains on the voyage. W.H. Portlock's Collection of Voyages attributes the narrative to surgeon Colin Lauder, as does Lada-Mocarski. An important supplement to Portlock's and Dixon's accounts, Forbes remarks on Lauder's "considerable" observations on Hawaii, with comments on aspects of material culture that go well beyond what other writers describe. In 2017, a copy brought $87,500 at a Christie's auction. Forbes 172; Lada-Mocarski 44; Not in Hill [33022] $65,000.

Marseille: A. Dimanche : INA, 1997. (France)/ Dialogue avec Bernard Noël; 26 cm. + 4 sound discs (4 hr., 21 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Title from case and disc labels. [1] Souvenir de Perec. Dialogue avec Georges Perec / Bernard Noël. -- [2] Poésie ininterrompue. Inventaire / présentation de Bernard Magné. -- CD1. Dialogue avec Bernard Noél. Poésie ininterrompue [pt. 1] -- CD2. Poésie ininterrompue [pt. 2]. L'écriture des rêves. I remember = Je me souviens. -- CD3. Lieux, un projet. Tentative de description de chose vues au carrefour Mabillon le 19 mai 1978 [pt. 1] -- CD4. Tentative de description de chose vues au carrefour Mabillon le 19 mai 1978 [pt. 2]. Fine.

Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1925. 29 x 24 cm; Two folded leaves, pages numbered 49-62 [2] very good. Nine Marie Laurencin plates , and five by Henry de Waroquier. This is the Winter 1925 fascicle; but has the cover dated Printemps 1928.

New York: McBride, 1926. First edition. Russell, Charles M.. Original green cloth, spine a little faded.