Search Results: Titles starting with L from Abbey Bookshop

Paris: L'Art Culinaire, 1904. Second edition. Very Good +. 4to., original red cloth spine, printed boards, with numerous illustrations by Gérard Tantet and Froment. An extensive compendium of English and American recipes written for French chefs going to work in anglophone countries, who would be expected to tailor their cuisine to an English palette. The author states in the preface: "si l'Anglais ne sait pas manger, il sait du moins très bien se nourrir". head and tail of spine very lightly worn, bump to top edge of lower board

[Paris]: [Horizons de France], [c. 1930]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio, original red cloth spine, red boards, with a large photographic reproduction laid down on upper board, richly illustrated with sepia reproductions of photographs taken in the French colonies in Africa. a few marks to lower board, points bumped

Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot, 1875. First edition thus. Very Good +. 8vo., contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards, with frontispiece. Handsome edition of this French poem, originally written in 1325 by an eye witness, with notes on the text by F. Bonnardot. pages slightly warped

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original blue cloth, top edge gilt, with sixteen plates. Biographies of six eighteenth-century women: Fanny Murray, Kitty Fisher, Nancy Parsons, Kitty Kennedy, Grace Dalrymple Eliot, Gertrude Mahon. extremities very lightly rubbed, ownership inscription

London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. Fourth impression. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original patterned cloth, paper title-piece to spine, illustrated by with wood engravings by R.A.Garnett. Lovely copy of Garnett's beautifully illustrated novel which first appeared a year earlier. Fourth impression of the first edition. cloth very lightly but unevenly faded

London: J.M. Dent, 1946. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. Lovely copy of this narrative poem set in Fontainebleau during the German occupation. dust jacket spine a little faded and slightly worn at the head

n.p.: Canadian National Railways, [c. 1923]. First edition. Very Good +. 8vo., original brown wrappers with a picture of a Canadian view laid down, 8pp.., large folding map of the Canadian railroad system. Most scarce a few nicks to edges

Montreal: Bernard Valiquette, [c. 1941]. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo., original printed wrappers. A call to arms from the Prime Minister of Canada during the Second World War (in French). spine browned, etremities worn, wrappers spotted

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo., original purple cloth. A collection of Newman's eloquent lectures on Literature, Philosophy and Christianity given between 1854 and 1858. Scarce. spine faded, cloth a little soiled

Montreal: Presses de Garden City, 1939. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good +. Folio, original printed wrappers, with eight plates illustrated on both sides. With a card inscribed from the Hotel-Dieu de Quebec. One of 1060 copies. spine lightly worn at extremities

Montreal: Librairie Beauchemin, 1930. First edition. Very Good. Folio, original printed wrappers. One of 300 copies hors-commerce signed by the author. This one inscribed, "A Monsieur Meyer, avec mon salut amical, Gonzalve Desaulniers. some wear to extremities, lower joint split at head of spine

New York: Workman Publishing, 1996. First edition. Near Fine/very good +. Folio, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated throughout. A reproduction of a book made by Orson Welles for his daughter during a trip to St.-Tropez in 1956. With an afterword by Simon Callow. points bumped

Quebec: N.S. Hardy, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., near-contemporary red morocco, five raised bands to spine, marbled boards, original wrappers conserved. spine slightly faded, foxing to original wrappers

Paris and New York: Calmann Levy / Thompson et Moreau, 1885. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Large 8vo., original yellow printed wrappers. An argument for a rapprochement between the United States and France, with text in both French and English. Most scarce two long closed tears to wrappers, some loss to head and tail of spine on one corner of back cover

Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1927. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo., original printed wrappers. In French. extremities worn, pages unopened

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., later red cloth spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt, illustrated with 50 engravings. some light foxing

Les Perspectives, n.d.. First edition thus. Very Good. 8vo., original mottled grey-green wrappers. One of 300 copies printed on Vergé de Hollande paper, this one unnumbered. interior back joint cracked, page gatherings unopened

London: Ernest Nister, [c. 1890]. Fourth edition thus. Very Good +. 4to., original pictorial green cloth, 6 colour plates and richly illustrated in the text by J. Finnemore, G.H. Thompson, and Archibald Webb. Scarce early-twentieth century edition of this classic work of English literature extremities lightly rubbed, spine dulled

London: Methuen & Co., (1905). Reprint. Very Good +. 8vo., original roan, handsome gilt-decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Methuen's Standard Library edition of the Southey's life of Nelson, first published in 1813. head and tail of spine worn, extremities rubbed

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition. Very Good. Edited with an introduction by W. Graham Robertson and numerous reproductions from Blake's pictures, many hitherto unpublished. 8vo., original red cloth. spine faded, cloth lightly stained and scuffed, interior fine