Search Results: Titles starting with L from Camphor Bookstore

JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2007. Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated yellow wrappers with black titles to front cover and spine. Text in French and English.

Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggiby Anna Piaggi & Karl Lagerfeld
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986, 1988. American first edition, first printing. Folio size. 224 pages. Illustrated in color and B&W (Karl Lagerfeld, illustrator.) The book and jacket are in near fine, nearly as new condition.
About the book: A true collaboration between two enormously talented people. This book is devoted to the watercolor, pencil and ink drawings which Karl Lagerfeld made over a period of thirteen years, all of the same model, Italian fashion editor Anna Piaggi.

The Land of Desolation: being a personal narrative of observation and adventure in Greenland
by Isaac I. Hayes, M.D.

Harper & Brothers: New York, 1872. First US Edition. Green bevel-edge pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, bordered in black, brown endpapers. pp 357. [1]. (2. ads), [2], including frontispiece with tissue guard and 39 other wood-engraved illustrations, many full-paged. Condition - in excellent condition all plates present, unmarked except for a prior owner's stamp on a blank endpaper, with a slight cant or lean forward to the binding.

"Narrative of a visit to Greenland in the steam yacht by the author (Royal Geographic Society) accompanied by the artist William Bradford, 1869. Giving an account of the trip along the coast, from Julianehaab to Melville Bay, with chapters on the Norse ruins, on the settlement of Julianehaab, glaciers, icebergs, fiords, polar bear hunting, Upernavik, Disko Island, Godhavn, etc. With numerous illustrations of local scenes and customs" - Arctic Bibliography 6792.

Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainersby Ricky JayFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Third printing. Many illustrations, some in color. 343 pages. 4to-over 9-12" tall pictorial wrappers. Wonderfully-illustrated account of "unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers: stone eaters, mind readers, poison resisters, daredevils, singing mice, etc., etc., etc., etc." Unmarked and in very good condition.

LEGACY OF LIGHT: (205 Polaroid Photographs by 58 Distinguished American Photographers). Edited by Constance Sullivan / Introduction by Peter Schjeldahl / Essays by Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Howard, Diane Johnson and Robert Stone.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Quarto [12 by 10 inches] 205 striking photographs (of which 105 are in full color) by 58 photographers including Ansel Adams, Joel Meyerowitz, Sally Mann, Robert Frank, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, David Hockney and others. Introduction by Peter Schjedahl with essays on Landscape, Portrait, The Nude, Object and Form by Diane Johnson, Robert Stone, Richard Howard, Gretel Ehrlich. A near fine book in a slightly worn, price clipped jacket (small tear on the bottom of the spine.)

Letters of Mozart and his Family: Chronologically arranged, translated and edited with an introduction, notes and indices by Emily Anderson.London: Macmillan, 1938. Hardcovers First edition thus. 3 vols 8vo xxxix, xix, xxvii, 1559 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Frontispiece to each volume, plates, fold out facsimile plates, and music examples. Includes long extracts from letters of his father, mother, sister and wife. Unmarked and in VG condition.
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Life of Henry Clay (American Statesmen. Two volume set)by Carl SchurzHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. Two volumes set. Blue cloth boards w/ gilt titles, design and top edge. Pp.: 383; 424 w/ index. Measures 7 x 5 inches. A little pencil on the front endpaper of Vol. 1 otherwise unmarked and in excellent condition. About Henry Clay: Henry Clay Sr. (1777 – 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections.Known as the "Great Compromiser," Clay drafted legislation to reduce the conflict between slave states of the South and the free states of the North; the Comprise of 1850 passed in September of 1850 and delayed secession and civil war for another 10 years. Henry Clay died in 1852, still serving his country and home state of Kentucky in the Senate and was the first person accorded… Read More

Limericks by Lear by Edward LearThe World Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover in the original dust-jacket. Delightful color illustrations by the Caldecott Honor winning author and illustrator Lois Ehlert. The book is unmarked and in excellent condition. The jacket is a little toned but good w a little edgewear. Imaginative, funny and out of print.

A Little Book of Rhymes New and OldCollected and Illustrated by Cicely Mary BarkerBlackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, n.d. circa 1930sDelightful collection of Nursery rhymes, beautifully illustrated by the "Flower Faries" artist, Cicely M.Barker. Lovely Full-Page color plates and many B&W In-Text illustrations. Authors include Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear & Lewis Carroll. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 5 1/2 inches tall. Beige cloth cover with color pastedown illus. on front within a border with chequered corners. Endpapers illustrated with children blowing bubbles. 96 pages. In very good condition, unmarked - the spine title strip (if there was one) is gone, but the binding is sound.

HarperCollins, New York, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. 416 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7Âľ" - 9Âľ" tall. A look at Hester Thrale, Alice Liddell, Elizabeth Siddal, Lou Andreas Salome, Gala Dali, Lee Miller, Charis Weston, Suzanne Farrell, and Yoko Ono.The book and jacket are both in VG condition. The book has a gift inscription on the front blank endpaper. About the Book: National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse.

Lost BodyPoems by Aimé Césaire. Illustrations by Pablo Picasso.George Braziller, New York, 1986. First printing (stated). Yellow orange cloth hardcover in the original jacket. Translated by Clayton Eshelman and Annette Smith. With numerous illustrations by Pablo Picasso. xxviii, 131 pp. The book is in excellent condition, unmarked. The jacket has light wear- with a taped small tear on the spine. About the collaboration: Picasso and poet Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) met in 1948 at the Communist-led World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, in Wroclaw, Poland. Césaire had been the figurehead of the 1930s Negritude movement in France, a group of writers who hoped to foster a sense of shared heritage throughout the African diaspora, reasserting their identities in opposition to Western colonial perspectives.

Love Respelt Again by Robert GravesLimited to 1000 copies only (#272), and signed by the AuthorSpottiswood, Ballantyne & Co Ltd London and Colchester. An edition of fifty poems in handwritten manuscript form by Graves, then reproduced with lithography along with the accompanying "illuminations" / drawings of Aemilia Laraçuen. The book is in excellent, near fine condition - the paper jacket is a little age-toned, and has a tape repair along the spine (the backside, not visible.)