Search Results: Titles starting with L from Uncommon Works

Paris: Imbert de Bats, 1701. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A rare second edition. Volume I only. Held by only four national libraries worldwide, according to Worldcat. No auction listings in RBH. No others on the market. Text in French. Full French leather binding with five raised bands. Ornate gilt spine titling and decorations. Laid paper. Hand marbled end papers.. Defunct parochial library stamp on first free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page. Swells when laid flat, but no water damage. 551 pp.18mo. 4 x 6 1/2 tall. Very good. Leather bound (Hand bound) Grancolas, Jean, Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, August 1, 1732. Having received the degree of Doctor of Theology of the faculty of Paris in 1685, he became chaplain to the brother of Louis XIV. He pronounced the funeral oration of this prince, but his panegyric displeased the son of the deceased, the Duke of Orleans, future Regent of France, who… Read More

Chicago: Rand McNally, ca. 1972. Reprint. Pictorial cover. Near fine/none as issued. John R. Neill. Near fine white binding softcover reprint circa 1972. Full color John R. Neill illustration pictorial front and back covers. $1.95 price on cover. Binding is sturdy and square. Profusely illustrated throughout in black and white drawings. Pages evenly toned. No markings or nameplates. 281 pp. Octavo, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/none as issued. About fine, first edition, first printing. Brown, mustard and white cloth boards. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on top edge, otherwise as new. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with formulas, b/w photos, graphs, and drawings. 336 [2] pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall. This book will certainly be considered an important reference for astronomers and astrophysicists handling large amounts of data in observational and theoretical approaches to the large scale structures in the universe. The contributions are written with an emphasis on methods. The volume contains among many other topics recent observational results on redshift surveys of clusters and distributions of galaxies and quasars, together with articles on the importance of these findings for future standards and for theoretical predictions. A long historical chapter serves as an… Read More

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus presumed first edition. Scarce. Bottom left corner heavily bumped, otherwise fine. Brown cloth with deep brown title stamping on cover and spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is bumped and rubbed on bottom right corner, with shelfwear to crown and foot. 181 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. Quarto. Las Vegas usually is considered as synonymous with lavish gambling and unabashed night life. These have been emphasized in magazine articles and books, while the town's varied and colorful past have been overlooked. Here is the first general history of early Las Vegas ever to be published.During the last century Las Vegas has passed through a metamorphosis from a mere Spanish Trail waterhole in a vast and lonely desert to a religious mission and finally a thriving ranch. After contemporary Las Vegas was founded in May 1905, it developed into a typical Western… Read More

Mt. Pleasant, IA: J.B. Smith Enterprises, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. A fine presumed first edition. In a very good dust jacket, which shows a bit of shelf wear. Laid in is a series of correspondence between the author and an admirer. 359 pp. Quarto. The atomic bombs shook the world but they only lit the afterburner of a rebellion against the Emperor's Peace initiatives. The rebels failed by an eyelash!Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, has installed a memorial plaque at Northwest Field, Guam commemorating the 315th Bomb Wing which ended WWII almost a week after the atomic bombs!Emperor Hirohito was a "God" in Japan. His people had never lost a war until WWII. By 1941 Japan had expanded its presence throughout the Pacific. Japan became an ally of Germany who had been in the process of digesting Europe since 1939. Japan had their eye on the United States and struck Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 with an unexpected sucker punch. The US declared war on Japan and… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Bettina Steinke. A very good plus first edition, as stated, in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. Blue cloth pictorial boards with black and white title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Previous owner's name inked on first free end paper. Erasure on last free end paper. Dust jacket shows chipping and rubbing top and bottom edges. 3 maps, plus drawings. ix, 333 pp.. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket [Hand S1]. A School of American Research Book. Green cloth with white title stamping on spine. Collector's marginalia near front hinge. Green dust jacket with white Maya glyphs. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Copious references, plus maps and illustrations. 526 pp. including index. Octavo. Among other honors, Dr. Sabloff "is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology, a past Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past Editor of American Antiquity. He served as Chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission and currently is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, as well as a member of the Committee on Research and Exploration of the… Read More

Paris: Chez Elie Josset, Rue S. Jacques, Au Coin de la Rue de la Parcheminerie, a la Fleur de Lys D'Or, 1692. Nouvelle Edicion. Leather bound. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus New edition of 1692 in full leather with five raise bands and ornate gold tooling in each compartment. Binding is tight and sturdy, book opens a bit when lying flat but is without any water damage. 1/4 inch lx 1/4 inch leather loss at foot of spine (both corners of spine). Date of 1692 is not correctly done in the Roman (see photos), printer's error. All edges spattered red as issued. Previous owners' names and inscriptions on first free endpaper. Text is crisp, clean, and bright. Text in French. 498 pp. Trigesimo-secundo (32mo), 3 & 1/2 x 6 inches tall. Simon-Michel Treuvé, born in Noyers on August 8, 1651and died in Paris on February 22, 1730, was a French Catholic theologian. This book was a huge success with over a hundred editions including translations into English, German and Dutch. -… Read More

Berlin: Deutsch Buch-Geimenschaft, ca. 1929. 1/4 cloth. Very good. A very good printing with no date, believed to be around 1929. Complete in two volumes. Text in German. Brown quarter cloth over decorated paper boards. Gilt and red title stamping on spine. Corners rubbed. Binding is sturdy, though mildly cocked. No markings. 783 pp., continuously numbered. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches tall.

Paris, 1810. Later printing. Full calf. Near fine/none as issued. A near fine two-volume complete set in full calf. Red leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Gauffered book edges. Bumped corner on volume I. Blue marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Bookplate present. Previous owner's name in pencil. Fine fold out map of the empire in Volume II. Text in Spanish. 244 pp. 16mo. A lovely example of french bindings."This critical edition adds to a growing number of the philosophe’s works to be re-edited in accessible form. Pierino Gallo places the text firmly in its Enlightenment context and looks back to the publication of Bélisaire in 1767 as well as forward to the Essai sur les romans of 1787 and its definition of a ‘roman politique’. Marmontel dedicated the text to Gustav III, whom he had met while the future Swedish king was in Paris. Gallo traces the evolution of the text, from the earliest version in manuscript form held in the Kungliga Biblioteket… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus fifth impression (1911) of the biography of Cavour. Complete set in two volumes. Burgundy cloth with gilt title stamping on spine and gilt coat of arms on cover. Sunning to spines. Top edge gilt. Deckle page edges. Some pages uncut. Tasteful bookplate on first free end paper. Vol. 1 shows a mild snag at the top edge of the front cover. Volume 2 spine is lightly rubbed at base, with one rubbed corner. White end papers. Illustrated with maps & b/w plates, including a fine fold out map of Italy. 604 & 525 pp. including index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 9 inches tall. Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (August 10, 1810 – June 6, 1861), generally known as Cavour, was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was the founder of the original Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, a position he… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Green cloth boards with facsimile Dickens signature in gilt on cover. Black title stamping on spine. All edges painted black. Loss to bottom edge of dust jacket (see photo). 128 pp. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches tall, 16mo. The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus of Nazareth written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing David Copperfield. The Life of Our Lord was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death. -- wikipedia

London: John Murray, 1883. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. A very good, complete set in three volumes from the personal library of noted California poet Susan Suntree. Black pebbled leather with five raised bands and a red silk ribbon.Binding is sturdy and square. Gilt title stamping. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to bands, crown, and corners (see photos). Short notations on FFE. Moderate to heavy foxing to all endpapers. Text is clean and bright. Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 – July 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slave campaigner and philanthropist, who has been described as the ideal bishop of the Victorian era. He has also been described as one of the most gifted public speakers of his time. A staunch defender of orthodoxy against the new criticism, called 'higher criticism' that identified human authors and agendas within the Biblical text, he also opposed the ideas of Charles Darwin. His debate with Thomas Huxley is… Read More

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., ca. 1880. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/none as issued. A beautiful edition in very good condition. [n.d.] Burgundy cloth and gilt cover and title stamping. Roundbacked binding. Cloth on spine is bubbling. All edges bright gilt. Black endpapers. Mild foxing. Color map frontis, illustrated throughout. 778 pp. Frederic William Farrar, (born Aug. 7, 1831, Bombay, India—died March 22, 1903, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), popular English religious writer and author of a sentimental novel of school life, Eric; or, Little by Little (1858).In 1856 Farrar became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and later accepted an assistant mastership at Harrow School. Eric was followed by Julian Home (1859) and St. Winifred’s (1862). Farrar was also an expert philologist; his Essay on the Origin of Language (1860) earned him a fellowship of the Royal Society. His Life of Christ (1874) ran through 30 editions in as many years. In 1876 Farrar became… Read More

New York: Time Incorporated, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. Very good + first edition, no dust jacket or slipcase as issued. Red leather-like cover with paper title block pasted into the center of cover. Title block is peeling small section. One page has small, 3/4" inch tear. Some fingerprints to pages. One leaf for pages 185-188 was never sewn in and has been left as original. 368 pp. including index. Small folio, 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches tall. Composed of the finest work produced by photographers and painters during World War II, much of it published in Life" magazine Text editor: John Dos Passo. Photos by the best war photographers of the era.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. Very good + first edition, no dust jacket or slipcase as issued. Red leather-like cover with paper title block pasted into the center of cover. Title block is scraped. One page has small, 3/4" inch tear. Some fingerprints to pages. 368 pp. including index. Small folio, 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches tall. composed of the finest work produced by photographers and painters during World War II, much of it published in Life" magazine Text editor: John Dos Passo. Photos by the best war photographers of the era.

Mendocino, CA: by the author, 1977. First Edition. Paperback original. Near fine. A very near fine, first edition in softcover, signed by the poet on the title page. Dust stain to edge of cover.Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall.

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. New/new. Douglas Smith. A brand new, stated first edition with complete number line in a perfect, new dust jacket. Perfect. Glossy pictorial boards. Map endpapers. Laid in is a brochure for the Wizard of Oz Museum in fine condition. Price label from Wizard of Oz Museum on back cover. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 312 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. The third book in the Wicked Years series. "Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood… Read More

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Fine/missing. Douglas Smith. A stated first edition with complete number line. Missing dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards. Map endpapers. 312 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. The third book in the Wicked Years series. "Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba Thropp. The blockbuster Broadway musical Wicked, at its height running nine companies simultaneously around the world, was inspired by Maguire's first adult novel. The musical is the… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. An as new, first edition with complete number line in an as new dust jacket. xiii, 234 pages, 41 pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo. Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India, capturing the essence of what the Raj really meant both for the British and their Indian subjects. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed: the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi's revolutionary tactics to overthrow the Raj and restore India to the Indians, and Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgery of Partition' in 1947, creating the independent Commonwealth states of India and Pakistan."-- worldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.