Search Results: Titles starting with L from The Curiosity Book Shop

Princeton, New Jersey: The Pyne Press, 1971 Featuring Woodenware, Meat Safes, Toys, Refrigerators, Children's Carriages, and House Furnishing Goods. The American Historical Catalog Collection. Reprint, first edition thus. Very light cover wear.

Copenhagen: Scientology Publications Organization, 1974 Rust colored card covers; vinyl spine strip. Fourth printing. Prior copyrights 1956, 1973. Bound collection of bulletins followed by several pages of promotional advertisements and order forms for other Scientology publications. Billed as the "oldest continuous publication in Dianetics and Scientology," these weekly bulletins were issued "via the Hubbard Communications Office" in London, intended for followers of Hubbard's religious philosophy. Moderate diagonal crease to upper rear cover corner. Very light cover edgewear. Clean and tight.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921 In French. One of a collection of memoires and works "publiee par les soins de Maurice Solovine." Reprint of the 1729 classic work. List of other works in the series in the front of the volume. Short biography of Bouguer by Solovine. Exterior intact but with neat and sturdy clear tape repair to upper and lower spine. Covers moderately-to-heavily soiled, with two irregular 1" dark stains on rear cover. Tiny chips to edges of front blank endpaper. Interior otherwise intact and clean, but fragile due to age of paper.

Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1962 Red-orange cloth; black title and spine lettering. Le soixante-sixieme de la collection "Peintres et Sculpteurs d 'Hier et 'd"Aujourd'hui." Il en est le seizieme volume. With 500 black-and-white photogravure reproductions and 13 tipped-in color plates. With tables identifying details of all reproduced works in rear, along with an index of cited names. High-quality paper has resulted in heavy text block. Faint discoloration along edges of boards where there was incomplete coverage by dust jacket. Diagonal upper corner crease on page with last tipped-in illustration. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a moderately edgeworn, scuffed, and faintly soiled dust jacket.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1956 Black cloth; gilt spine lettering. Line drawings, including illustrated endpapers and within text, by the author. With black-and-white photographs, including frontispiece full-length portrait of the author in a Sevillian dress suit. "[T]he story of a North American girl who gave up most of the things a college girl expects from life to pursue an ideal foreign to most women anywhere and to all but a handful of non-Latin men." Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Small amount of loss to gilt spine lettering. Front board slightly warped. Small smudge to page fore edge block. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Vintage hardcover. Brown cloth; gilt spine lettering. Reprint; original copyright 1892. Illustrated with few diagrams. Irregular moderate staining to cover cloth, including spine label and tape scars; moderate rubbing to extremities. Hinge papers split; binding tight. Internal library marks as follows: bookplate scribbled with purple marker inside front cover; "withdrawn" inkstamps to inside front cover, front endpaper, and inside rear cover; small remnants pocket removal inside rear cover. Text clean, intact, and only faintly worn.

New York: The Century Co., 1894 Good+/No Jacket With black-and-white illustrations. Orange cloth; gilt title, cover illustration, and spine. Cover extremities moderately-to-heavily worn; cover otherwise lightly worn and discolored. Front hinge paper weakening, but intact. Intermittent foxing throughout. Otherwise clean and tight, solid.

Concord, New Hampshire: The Sugar Ball Press, 1945 Cloth. First Edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs; map endpapers. Dust jacket moderately edgeworn, with several short closed tears and 2" closed tear to edge of lower front panel and flap; very light dust jacket soil; now protected in mylar.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 Cloth. Language and language behavior in the therapeutic setting.

London: Travel Book Club, 1938 Textured cream-colored paper-covered boards; green cloth spine. First published 1937 by Constable & Co. LTD, London. Translated from the German by Vivian Ogilvie. With ninety black-and-white photograph plates and one map drawing. This book is the outcome of a 1934 expedition to Swedish Lapland by the author and his wife. Boards moderately soiled; corners bumped and worn. Spine cloth slightly faded. Free endpapers evenly darkened as though rectangular sheets of paper were previously laid-in. Interior clean and tight.

Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966 Originally published in 1953 by Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, Helsinki, Finland. Translated from the Finnish by Alan Blair. Introduction by Thomas Warburton. Pekkanen was a working class Finnish author without much formal education and is notable for being the first member of the working class to make a living from writing. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Library marks: small label to front cover; call letters and pocket with old computer punch card inside front cover; date due slip and bar code sticker to front endpaper; library inkstamps and marks to top and bottom page blocks. Main text clean, tight, and unworn.

Augusta, Maine: Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game, 1954 Very Good. Staple-bound; 92 pages. Fishery Research and Management Division Bulletin No. 1. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Few light cover stains. Interior clean and tight.

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1889 Original red cloth; gilt cover decoration, title, and spine. Reprint; first published 1855. Intended for young readers, a tale of the island of giants. With many engravings. Spine and its gilt lettering heavily sunned. Lower front cover corner rubbed through to boards, lightly frayed. Only faint rubbing to other corners and spine tips. Clean and tight.

New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1956 Very Good-/No Jacket. Vintage hospital humor, much of it very non-politically-correct! Jokes, cartoons, some puzzles and pencil games. One prior owner's name/address inside front cover; another prior owner's gift inscription front endaper. Part of one game filled out in pencil page 42. Some discoloration and light wear to book edges; spine sunned.

Eugene, Oregon: Castalia Publishing Company, 1990 Steel spiral binding; glossy card covers. Developed with consultation from Bonnie Grossen, Ph.D. Appendices and References in rear. Preliminary chapters provide background and overview, including research issues in conducting groups, assessment of depression etc. Detailed curriculum for sixteen course sessions, Adolescent and parent version provided for three sessions. Light-to-moderate cover edgewear. Small label-removal scar at upper half-title page. Otherwise clean, intact, and unworn.

Olmstedville, New York: The Author, 2007 Second edition; first published in 2003. Foreword by Alice Wolf Gilborn. The author's essays about life in the Adirondacks, full of irony and humor. Illustrated with simple drawings. Moderate diagonal crease to lower corner of rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1973 With 715 black-and-white photographs and 19 color plates. Light-to-moderate cover edgewear. Clean and tight.

Annville, Pennsylvania: Lebanon Valley College, 1966 Blue cloth; gilt title and spine lettering. With black-and-white photograph reproduction illustrations. Small, moderate brown stain to upper page block edges alongside head ofspine. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Paris: Hachette, 1899 Complete first year of this French periodical, bound into two separate volumes. Red cloth boards; red calf spine with raised bands and gold-tooled lettering and decoration. Spines are labeled "Lectures Pour Tous," "1," "2," and "1899" (both). Decorative endpapers. The first volume begins with "La Conquete du Mont-Blanc," continues with numerous interesting articles ("Chez les Fakirs de l'Inde," "Voyage d'un Anglais aux Regions Interdites," several on artists, one on opium dens in Asia, a serial novel, cartoons, poetry, etc.) for a total of 576 pages. The second volume, pp. 577-1152, includes "Ecoles d'Animaux Savants," "32,000 kilometres a Bicyclette," "Les Heros du 'Merrimac,'" and much, much more. At rear is "Table [Index] des Matieres at des Gravures"contenues dans les douze premiers numeros." Black-and-white illustrations throughout, many… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1858 Exterior Good-/Interior VG. Author's Preface to this edition dated 1853; this revised edition copyright 1854 (". . .introducing a mass of corrections in detail, and a considerable number of additions. . . [:]some pages on Christianity at the end of Lecture XVI, and the notes placed as an Appendix at the end of the volume, on various works of French masters. . .). This Appendix translated by N.E.S.A. Hamilton of the British Museum. Eight pages of advertisements for D. Appleton & Co. publications in rear. Cousin (1792-1867) was a prolific French philosopher and educator who promoted views on what he called "Eclecticism." For a time his ideas were embraced by the New England transcendentalists. Apparently this book was produced in 31 editions over 90 years. Heavy rubbing to cover corners, with boards exposed; cloth at upper and lower spine deteriorated and partially chipped away; 1"-2" split in cloth at upper and lower spine gutters.… Read More