Search Results: Titles starting with L from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Claremont: D & R Publishing, 1958-60. First edition of this influential little magazine. There were three other issues pubished (Vol. I. No. 12 and Vol. II, nos. 1-2) but in Number 11 the editors announced that it was their plan to become an ad-free publiscation. Hence it's demise. After the 14th issue it became part of the "Southern California Prompter" and then, in 1961, it became the magazine we know today - "Los Angeles Magazine". Each issue was separately paginated (36 pp. in the first issue and 30 pp. in the last). Illustrated throughout. Bound in red cloth with gilt cover lettering. Wrappers bound in. Excellent.L.A. was, at the time, the only magazine devoted to all things Los Angeles. Although founded by three partners, it was really the child of Myron Roberts (who penned many of the articles herein under a pseudonym). It was a lightly left of center magazine and was quite influential during it's short life and lured a number of famous writers to its pages. The Beat movement was in full… Read More

Tucson: Settlers West Galleries, 2003. First edition. One of 135 specially bound and numbered copies, signed by the author. Square quarto. 296 pp. with Huffman photographs on every page. Publisher's reverse calf with gilt spine lettering, burgundy endpapers, cloth slipcase with gilt lettering. An excellent copy.Included is a Huffman matted color print of Red Sleeve, Cheyenne Scout, dated 1879. Laton Alton Huffman arrived in Miles City, Montana Territory in December of 1879. He was 25 years old and had come to seek the recently vacated position of post photographer at nearby Fort Keogh. Laton Alton Huffman arrived in Miles City, Montana Territory in December of 1879. He was 25 years old and had come to seek the recently vacated position of post photographer at nearby Fort Keogh. By far his most extensive and complete body of work relates to the cattle industry and its associated activities. He photographed the beginning, heyday, and end of the open range days. In addition to his skill and… Read More

Adams, MA: L. L. Brown Paper Cp., 1887. Octavo (6 1/2 x 10 inches). [36] leaves of which all but five are actual paper specimens and identified at the top (i.e. "Super Royal 54 lb"). Publisher's faux morocco red cloth with silver lettering in front. Original hanging ribbon present and in good condition. At first glance this item appears to be in such fine condition that we worried it was a facsimile but it is not. A gorgeous copy.The L. L. Brown Paper Company was founded by Levi Lawrence Brown in 1849. He was born in Adams in 1826 (also the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony). After learning the paper trade at the Crane Mills in Dalton, Brown started his own business manufacturing high quality ledger paper which he sold in major cities from coast to coast. His fine linen paper was used also for the printing of several of Mark Twain’s books.

Paris: Berger-Levrault & Cie., 1907. First edition. Octavo. x, [2], 378 pp. plus 136 illustrations with the text. Blue cloth with gilt morocco lettering label. Original photographic front wrapper bound in. An excellent copy.

Paris: Editions Nilsson, [1926]. First editions. There was a large and small edtion published; these are all the small size (3 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). La Mode Feminine is complete is three volumes. Each volume in four parts and each part with 20 color card depicting French fashion of that date and each part in a printed paper portfolio. Each volume (i.e. four parts) housed in a floral slipcase with a printed paper spine label Slipcase for the third volume with some tape repair but overall a very clean and charming set of all 240 color plates.Together with a companion volume also published by Nilsson: Les Costumes du Pays de France. This volume only has three parts of 20 cards each (complete) and have paper portfolios and slipcases as in the above. Complete with 60 color cards. A very good set. For a total of 300 cards bearing charming color illustrations of French fashion through the ages, all in their proper printed paper portfolios and slipcases.

Ottowa: Departement de L'Agriculture, 1880. First edition. Octavo. Folding color map as frontispiece (short tear), 26, [1, table of contents], [9, ads, two full page woodcuts of Manitoba farms and single page governments announcements] pp. Publisher's pink printed wrappers. Split at spine but holding strong. A very good copy.

Paris: Maloine, 1911. First French edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 232 x 155 mm). X, 171, [1, blank], [1, Table], [1, blank] pp. With five photographic plates and three folding tables. Original blue, green, and grey printed paper wrappers bound in. Modern full leather binding. Excelent.A fine copy of the first French edition of Ehrlich's account of the development of Salvarsan, the first chemical to be used as part of a chemotherapy treatment.Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) "made outstanding contributions to bacteriology, immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy. His researches in hematology led to the introduction of the differential white cell count as a diagnostic tool and to the establishment of methods for detecting leukemias and anemias, while his investigations into immunological processes resulted in his 'side-chain' theory that postulated the production of immunologically specific antibodies against invading organisms. Much honored during his lifetime, he shared the Nobel Prize for… Read More

New York: Continental Publishing Company, 1897. First edition of the first book illustrated by Dixon. Small octavo. 229, [1] pp. plus 12 inserted plates (of which seven are by Dixon). Inter-textual illustrations. Publisher's patterned ochre cloth with gilt spine lettering, cover with black lettering and an Indian figure in black and brown, top edge gilt. First inserted plate loose but present, horizontal tear to pp. 225-6 (not affecting text), chip at head of spine (but only half the spine's width). A pleasing copy.

Wallingford, CT: Judd Company, [ca. 1920}. Cast iron and painted. #9916. 6 x 6 inches, depth: 2 1/4 inches. Wonderful condition with felts still present. In the early 1910s, they began to produce a decorative art metal line of fine-quality sand castings in iron, brass and bronze. Among these items were bookends and book racks, which were produced between 1910 and the late 1930s. Judd identified their bookends with a 9000 series stock number. The prefix “0” was used in front of the 9000 series number on iron castings only when the same design was cast in both bronze and iron.

Brooklyn: Lain & Co., 1879. First edition. Octavo. [8, title and ads], 273, [13, ads] pp. Publisher’s blind stamped pebbled mauve cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Old darkly translucent stain on pp. 77-97 (result of a spill of some sort) but eminently legible. Aside from that issue this is a lovely copy in the original and very well preserved original cloth. Only two copies located by OCLC.An invaluable look into fin-de-siecle Brooklyn. There are 24 booksellers listed. The guide is both by street (individuals) and by profession. Many of the ads have large illustrations of either their product or their buildings. Lain began publishing his Brooklyn directories in 1857/8. None appear in the records of RBH.

[New York]: Privately printed fro Claire MacDonald, (1929). First edition. Octavo. 30, [2] pp. with 12 photographic illustration printed using the Aquatone Process of scenes around Tahoe. Publisher's photographically illustrated boards, gilt spine lettering. Minor paper lifting at front lower joint, some sunning. Overall, a very good copy of this early history of Lake Tahoe written by a resident.Inscribed by the author in color pencil on front endaper. Includes an original photograph (6 x 10 inches) of Brockway, Lake Tahoe, by Putnam & Valentine (with that information stamped on the verso of the photograph).

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880-1889. The first four volumes of a planned six-volume series: Eastward, Ho! Adventures at Rangeley Lakes. Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. Generally a bit worn with some loss to spine ends and repaired tear to cloth, slightly overopened, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Wild Woods Life; or, A Trip to Parmachenee. Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884. Slight lean to spine, shelfwear, some pale staining to covers, extremities frayed, rear hinge cracked, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Down the West Branch or Camps and Tramps around Katahdin... Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1886. Light wear to spine ends, evenly toned throughout; and Up the North Branch or A Summer's Outing... Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1889. Spine rubbed, minor foxing to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper.… Read More

London and Bombay: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. First edition. Liii, [1], 87, [1] pp. Publisher's plain brown boards with remains of paper spine label. Some pinhole worming, front endpaper excised but a very good and clean copy.A convoluted legal matter among the Muslims of the Bengal area. "The Muslim peasantry of eastern Bengal appears to have in part hung on its strong embrace of a powerful association between Islam and the plough. The Faraizi slogan langal jar, jami tar (“the land belongs to the tiller”) implied that bringing land under cultivation constituted the basis for a claim to its ongoing possession, or even to property in it. This idea was, as we have seen, hardly peculiar to the nineteenth century or exclusive to Muslim Bengal. But it was nonetheless a claim whose appeal to religious authority was unlikely to have found much of a foundation in the currents of Hanafi jurisprudence that had been elaborated in the period from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries when Muslim… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1909. Second edition. Octavo. 347, [1] pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, cover with gilt design of a road in a forest and white lettering. Aside from very minor extremity rubbing a very attractive copy.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, three plates and numerous marginal sketches by T. Boyd Smith. Original olive green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Extremities a little rubbed. A very good copy. "These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically a classic". (Zamorano Eighty) Cowan, p. 24; Graff 114; Howes A-400; Zamorano Eighty 2.

Billings: Billings Gazette, [1936]. First edition of this "Scenic Grandeur Supplement of the Billings Gazette". Folio (10 x 16 inches). [56] pp. comprised almost entirely of photographic images of scenes around Montana (including quite a bit on Indians, cowboys, rodeos, fishing, etc). Publisher's stapled self wrappers with photographic images on front and back. Old horizontal fold-line. First page with a short tear long fold but overall in very good condition.

Los Angeles : Artemesia Bindery, 1909. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author/printer. Octavo. [viii], 133, [1, colophon], [4, blank], [8, publisher's ads, history and reviews, with photographic illustrations). Plus three full page plates by Maynard Dixon (along with vignettes and head-pieces by him as well). Publisher's gray printed wrappers with a Dixon illustration on the front. Some edge chipping and top inch of paper over spine perished but a very clean and good copy. Laid in are an invitation to the Artemesia Gallery and a how-to sheet for sending gif certificates for Strobridge's wares. Apparently the gallery stocked 'Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Monotypes, Etchings, Wood Carving, Pottery and Casts, Autograph Books, Bookbinding'.

San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1927. One of 260 numbered copies, signed by Russell and with a presentation by him to John Tufts, M.D. Octavo. xiv, 158 pp. plus folding map, two portraits and facsimiles of the original title pages. Publisher's quarter tan cloth over blue boards, printed paper spine label. Extra spine label bound in at rear. Small snag to spine and minor edge wear to label (which is easily remedied by using the extra label). Leo Wyatt engraved typographic bookplate (KEH). A very good copy.

[Spain]: [Illegible], [ca. 1890]. Sight size of 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches with the (original?) frame measuring 24 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches. Framed and glazed. Very good.The Gate of Justice is the largest of the entrances into the castle of Alhambra. The Arabic name for the gate was long believed to refer to Islamic justice or law - charia. But in fact this was a misinterpretation for a similar-sounding word, and it has been shown that the translation should be Gate of the Esplanade. Its multiple arches are decorated with the Hand of Fatima, Mohammed's daughter, and the key to the Islamic paradise, as well as a Virgin and Child placed there by the Catholic Monarchs to consecrate the gate for Christianity.

N.p.: N.p., [1880-1925]. This impressive and important archive consists of over 1,500 manuscript pages and more than 850 hand-drawn illustrations, by Rossi-Diehl between the 1880s and 1925. Included are complete manuscripts, drafts of manuscripts, lesson plans and notes, designs, teachers’ aids, and miscellaneous papers relating to art education, especially what Rossi-Diehl called Form – Language, along with geometric designs, the art of Nature (for instance, the Acanthus leaf), and other rather esoteric art-related subjects. Rossi-Diehl often quotes Goethe and other philosophers, and cites biblical references, as he attempts to explain his concept of art and its meaningfulness to mankind and his belief that Nature is art’s pure form. Also included in the collection are four writings by Rossi-Diehl regarding social issues, war and politics, and two interesting “letters” addressed to Samuel L. Clemens and the director of the Leopold Schepp Foundation (both listed below under… Read More