Search Results: Titles starting with L from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 1995 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by Coach Edwards, et al. 191pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [bottom corners are lightly bumped; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A football memoir by the long serving coach of Brigham Young University. Other signatures include a couple of Coach Edwards’s (1930-2016) players with their uniform numbers. Several unused Utah and Brigham Young U. postcards are laid in.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1947 1st ed. 213pp. paperback: a complete & tight reading copy.

Novato, CA: Presidio, 1997. 178pp. illus. black cloth sm 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [ink name on pastedown; else F; dj = nick @ spine tail; else F] A cryptanalyst’s wartime memoir of service in New Guinea and the Philippines.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1960 1st ed. thus. 251pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; spine strip is foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Three stories w/cover device of a phoenix rising by Stephen Russ adapted from David Herbert Lawrence’s (1885-1930) own drawing.

London: Faber & Faber, 2000 1st ed. thus. 366pp. paperback: Very Good [some spine creases; text is age browned; else a nice crisp copy] An entertaining historical novel about the Boer War by the author of "The Last King of Scotland." Penelope Fitzgerald compared it favorably to J. G. Farrell’s Booker Prize winning "Siege of Krishnapur."

London: Chapman & Hall. 1948 1st ed. 240pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a worn but not tattered dj [bit of age browning; else VG] Over two dozen individual essays depicting various aspects of the English Lake Country.

New York: Leavitt & Allen Bros. [undated reissue of c1817 ed.] 346pp. illus. a.e.g. russet decorated cloth 12mo: Good/no dj [cover fading; interior foxing; else a clean and complete older copy w/all edges gilt, handsome in its day] Irish poet and musician Moore's (1779-1852) long work of poetry and prose.

New York: Garden City Publishing Co. 1939 reissue. 323pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj in poly cover [ink name; bookplate; else nrF] A follow-on to Major Yeats-Brown's (1886-1944) "Lives of a Bengal Lancer."

London: Readers International. 1987 1st ed. thus. 136pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [text is age browned owing to acidic paper; else nrF] The third novel by the Brazilian writer Torres (b. 1940), originally published in 1976.

Kennesaw, GA: Continental Book Co., 1959 reissue. 44pp. staple-bound paperback 8vo: Very Good+. A document copied from Court House records in Oglethorpe and Hancock Counties, Georgia, in 1928 and reissued here.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 264pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some age darkening of top and fore edges; else a nice crisp copy] Jacket praise for Charles McNair's imaginative first novel from fellow Alabamans Mark Childress, Winston Groom and Fannie Flagg (Patricia Neal).

New York: W. W. Norton, 1984 1st Am. ed. 248pp. illus. blue cloth sm 4to: Fine in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover. A nicely illustrated popular history of England's Lake District.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1917 reissue. 337pp. brown cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [pp. 67/68 have a piece of the bottom corner torn away; else a complete & tight copy] Wartime reportage by the American writer Curtin (1886-1963).

Richmond: Garrett & Massie. 1939. 112pp. illus. grey cloth sm 8vo: Very Good in a worn dj now stabilized in a Brodart poly cover. A classic historical guide by an old Charlestonian, Thomas Petigru Lesesne (1882-1942).

Amherst: U Mass Press, 2003 1st ed. thus. 240pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. A scholarly examination of the complex, multilingual history of Ireland.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014 advance readers' ed. 323pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2002 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 384pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj. Publisher’s Weekly: "The Big Chill meets Huckleberry Finn."

New York: Grove Press. 1994 uncorrected proof. 219pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [bump @ spine head; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 1st ed. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 236pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [couple of turned page corners; else F]

London: Sceptre, 1998 reprint. 231pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned with some edge foxing, British paperback style; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]