Search Results: Authors starting with L from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good dust jacket, the third appearance of of any of Lagerkvist's books to appear in English (following "Barabbas" and "The Dwarf"), and being the first appearance of any collection of the author's short stories in English in book form. [The first American edition of this volume was not issued until 1973, a surprising delay given that Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.] The volume is bound in deep blue cloth and shows a thin line of sunning to top edge. The dust jacket shows general wear and a few tiny tears and chips, along with some differential toning to the rear wrapper, three small tape repairs to he verso, as well as a tide mark affecting the rear panel's spine edge and a small portion of the rear panel. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this copy is the nicest we ever have seen. No comparable Swedish edition was issued. SCARCE.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing with the binding mildly askew, in an about Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some slight rubbing to the front panel's upper left corner and tape repairs (to the verso) of some short edge tears.

No Publisher, No Date. No Edition. Wrappers. Very good. Confederate Manuscript Military Music -- Among the Rarest Type of Confederate Manuscript Material: A VERY GOOD ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC BOOK BELONGING TO CONFEDERATE DRUMMER J.J. LAWRENCE OF COMPANY G [OF THE FIFTH TEXAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY] DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The book measures approximately 6 and 5/16th inches by approximately 3 and 9/16ths inches. The outer sides of the wrappers are in marbled paper. Within are 40 pages with lines drawn to be used by the musician to add notes for songs to be played by him. Nine of the pages have been completed with song titles and notes. The remaining pages are blank, presumably because of Lawrence's untimely early death. The musician would add his own notes for songs to be played. The contemporary marbled wrappers show some wrinkling, rubbing, staining, and edge wear. Within, the contents are mildly foxed. A unique collection of songs, likely written down and carried by J.J. Lawrence, a Texas… Read More

London: Martin Secker, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A remarkably SCARCE copy of the hard-to-find first edition, first printing / first issue [or mixed first issue and second issue with pages 256 and 268 not tipped in as in the first issue but with the phrase "in the bed" dropped from the end of chapter III as in the second issue [see Roberts and Schwartz] -- also all of the pages appear to integral but the reading of the last line of Chapter III shows that "in the bed" has been dropped-- the presence of which phrase Schwartz states is required for the first state [but see NOTE below] of the English edition in a Very Good SCARCE TO RARE dust jacket dust jacket with evidence of tape still present on the jacket's verso and shadows of which can be seen on the jacket's recto, and two leaves, those hosting pp 141/142 and 143/144 having a tear with loss to their upper leading margins without affecting the text., and being an otherwise Near Fine copy of the first edition, first… Read More

Hartford: Printed by Lincoln and Gleason, 1806. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in book form by Chauncey Lee who was a Church Pastor and of whom McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia states: "Lee, Chauncey D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Salisbury, Conn., 1763; graduated at Yale College ill 1784; entered the ministry June 3, 1789; and was ordained pastor in Sunderland, Vt., March 18, 1790, where he remained a few years, and in Jan., 1800, became pastor in Colebrook, Conn. 'This connection he dissolved in 1827, to become pastor at Marlborough,Conn. Nov. 18,1828, which place he held until Jan. 11. 1837. He died in Hartwick, N. Y., Dec., 1842. Lee published the American Accomptant: an Arithmetic (1797): The Trial of Virtue: a metrical Version of the Book of Job (1807): Sermons especially designed for Revivals (12mo, 1824): Letters from Aristarchus to Philemon (1833); and two or three occasional sermons.… Read More

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1956. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Near Fine to Fine copy of the First English Edition, First Printing of this Chinese folk legend, a tale that originated in the East Tain Dynasty (A.D. 317-420) and which describes a young girl (Chu Ying-tai) who disguised herself as a boy so that she would be permitted to attend school. She there became close to one of her male classmates, Liang Shan-po, but she left school before completing her studies. The pair later met again and he discovered for the first time that his former fellow student was a girl. He then sought his parents' permission to propose marriage to her but, before he could proposed to her, her own father offered her in marriage to a member of the Ma family. Liang Shan-po, after becoming a Magistrate, died. Chu Ying-tai then visited his grave to make a sacrifice. His grave then opened up and engulfed her and the two became butterflies. This is a mildly askew, but Near Fine to Fine, copy of… Read More

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the First Edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt to the front board and spine and decorated in white and gold to the front board and in white to the spine. The front pastedown shows a presentation, date, and initials and the volume is mildly askew an shows some rubbing the spine edges and to the leadig corners. The text block hosts a frontispiece and nine additional illustrations. The book presents a tale of mob rule in New York.

London: Hook, Theodore, 1837. First Edition. Very good. A Very Good copy of this first edition, first printing, composed of large sheets of paper printed on both sides, each with a vertical fold to form pages disbound from a larger volume and from each other and still in the Publisher's original self-wrappers. The publication contains information about commercial markets and prices, Financial, Ecclesiastical, Naval and Military, Court, Police, Literature, and International news, as well as Society information, notable Births, Marriages and Deaths, as well as other matters. This issue includes a notice of work by Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, and work by Mrs. Trollope. A larger notice makes particular notice of "The Vicar of Wrexhill" by Mrs. Trollope calling it "... beyond all question the best and most striking novel of the season. By it the author has laid another stone in the edifice of an enlarged reputation and an enduring fame...it will be read and run after, and admired, by all who care for a… Read More

London: H. Grevel and Co., 1906. Third Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. An essentially Fine copy of the third and best edition, and the first edition to have been translated into English (with foxing to the boards as is usual with this title and with the closed page block's top edge in gilt) in a Fine dust jacket (with some foxing to the front and rear panels as well as to the jacket's verso --- we do not know how common such foxing is to the dust jacket as this is the only jacket for this first edition that we ever have seen). Lippmann was a German art historian, served as the Director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums, and was noted for his work on Dürer, Holbein and Italian 15th-century woodcuts. The New York Evening Post described this book as: "...the best concise treatise ever written about the history of intanglio prints. There are 131 illustrations on the scale of the original engravings, and while these impressions from relief-blocks inevitably lack the quality of… Read More

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first appearance of Jack London's short story "The Strength of the Strong" (illustrated by Dan Sayre Groesbeck). The magazine is in excellent condition and is quite clean and bright within. The covers extend beyond the page block and consequently show small tears, and the spine panel shows only a touch of damage. London's "The Strength of the Strong" did not appear in book form until May, 1914, more than three years after this first appearance of this story (which became the title story of a 1914 collection of Jack London's short stories, a grouping of seven socialistic tales). The story is about cavemen who discover the benefits of group solidarity and reject the lies of their "Lip-King", thus… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/good +. A Fine copy of this early printing in the Publisher's original red cloth in a less than Very Good example of the RARE DUST JACKET, being [along with "Call of the Wild" (1903) and "White Fang" (1906)], one of London's famed Alaskan novels. The book wears the Publisher's original red cloth with the front board and spine lettered and decorated in pale yellow. The volume contains a frontispiece and seven addition illustrations. While the dust jacket shows some chips and tears and is missing approximately half of the spine panel, its very existence is remarkable. Macmillan published the first American edition of "Burning Daylight" in 1910. It became one of the best-selling books of that year and was the best-selling of all of London's works. Of the book, London stated: “I show a successful superman who at the end of his triumph and career throws his 30 million dollars to the winds in order to win a greater thing, namely, love.” We… Read More

1911. [Bound in Stiff Cardboard]. Very good. A Very Good copy of issues of Hampton's Magazine for 1911 in the stiff cardboard wrappers with the front cover of the June 11, 1911 issue laid down on the front wrapper, the front cover of the March, 1911 issue laid down on the rear wrapper, and the magazine name laid down on the spine. [We speculate that this arrangement mimics the annual publication issued by the Publisher. The Volume contains the issues for 1911 from and including the January,1911 through an including the issue for June, 1911 (without the original wrappers other than as noted above). A Very Good copy. [Informational Note: Hampton's Magazine was preceded by Broadway Magazine (1898-1907) and 'New Broadway Magazine' (1907-1908). That series became 'Hampton's Broadway Magazine' in 1908, which shortened to 'Hampton's Magazine' in 1909. Hampton's Magazine merged with Columbian magazine in 1911, published as the Hampton-Columbian magazine from October 1911 to January 1912, before being… Read More

London, New York, and multiple other locations, Multiple Publishers, Varied Bindings; Some Items staples, some never bound [WORLD WAR I - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/PROPAGANDA] LONERGAN, C. James. Archive Relating to the United States Speaking Tour of British Captain C. James Lonergan. London, New York, and others, 1918. Collection of thirty (30) items relating to the special duty speaking tour of British Captain C. James Lonergan. The archive consists of typed and mimeo documents detailing Lonergan's orders prior to embarking for New York from London; typed letters signed regarding the organization of the tour once Lonergan had arrived in New York; numerous memos from the American National Red Cross Atlantic Division regarding individual speaking engagements throughout the Northeast; and letters of gratitude from the organizers. Highlights of the archive (and Lonergan's speaking tour) include the program of an event organized by the Flatbush Motor Corps on December 9, 1918, at which Harry Houdini… Read More

Paris: No Publisher Named, 1894-1899. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good set of four small volumes (each measuring approximately 6 3/4 inches X 4 1/2 inches), each consisting of notes taken (presumably by a student) at lectures given by Auguste Honoré Longnon at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, one of France's Grands Etablissements, a set of schools considered to be among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. The notes are written in blue ink with some of the notes written over pencil notes previously taken, presumably from another class. The Volumes are in Very Good condition with some damage to the spines, are hand-numbered "I", "II", "IV", and "V" and hand-titled "Noms de Lieu" or "Noms de Lieux" (each title meaning "Place Names"). French Historian and Archivist Auguste Honoré Longnon was known for his research in France's… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket (with some mild toning), Robert Ludlum's ninth novel, a work centered around a student, Peter Chancellor, who meets an American Ambassador after his (Chancellor's) proposed thesis subject has been rejected. The Ambassador suggests that Chancellor write a novel based on his idea, Chancellor accepts the idea, writes the novel and, based on his novel, becomes a famous author. Thereafter, the ambassador is revealed to be part of an organization of intellectuals who intervene in political and economic matters when they think such things are going off track. The group, who believe that J. Edgar Hoover, as head of the FBI, holds files that contain damaging information on various political, military and other important figures which he uses this information to such figures. Chancellor then falls into a maelstrom, not knowing who he can trust. A Fine… Read More