Search Results: Titles starting with L from Oshtemo Book Sellers

About this Item: Privately Printed, Florance Italy, 1928. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Privately printed ( Florence?) Book is in fair condition with a very weak binding and quite a bit of repair work. Book text is complete with a nice title page and a limitation page preceding the text. This rare limited edition # 321/500 is a wonderful candidate for rebinding and restoration. Book is bound in back faux leather with a discernible blind stamp on the front and a very faded but readable spine label. The former owner has stamped his name, address and phone # (very old Merritt 4354) on the front paste down. Someone must have cared a great deal for this book because they spent a great deal of time and tape repairing it. Book is very rare and with the right care, could be quite a serious collectible. Seller Inventory # 001606

About this Item: Harper and Brothers Publishing, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Thurber (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is in near fine condition. First edition. Thurber writes " don't you think things are getting better/" a woman ask me at a party not long ago. " madam" I replied, in my courtly, but slightly edged fashion, " things will take care of themselves, What i am interested in is people.".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Classic Anne Rice book about other worldly inhabitants including the beautiful and powerful with Rowen Mayfair and a not so nice ghost. Book is in Very fine condition as is priced($25.00) jacket. First edition stated. A wonderful collectible for Anne Rice fans. Perfect unopened copy..

New York, New York: Viking, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A play by Saul Bellow. " It would be rank pedantry not to be grateful to Saul Bellow for the flood of antic imagination, mad rhetoric, and comic fantasy that he has poured into this improbable, yet serious farce" So states Howard Taubman in a review for the NY Times. Book Mint, jacket has tiny spot at top front next to spine, tiny spot at top of front fold , light wear at front fold and three small spots at bottom of jacket front. An extremely fine jacket. Not price clipped ($3.50). Mylar protected.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slip Case . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur Szyk. The Last Days of Shylock by Ludwig Lewisshon (1892-1955) and wonderfully illustrated by the Great Arthur Szyk (1891-1951) is a limited edition of 125 signed copies by the author, of which this is 1.0.9. Book is very fine with a green binding over Florentine marbled boards. The custom slip case is very fine. This book is unmarked, very square and solid. Book would be as new except that the fact of being over 80 years old the text block has slightly darkened. The Szyk black and white illustrations book not only a fascinating read but a joy to look at. This is a rare and wonderful collectible for any fine library. Biographical note: When Lewisshon was told by his advisors and after he received his doctorate from Columbia University, that no university would hire a Jew ( Lewisohn had converted to Christianity) to teach English, (he… Read More

Prometheus Books, 2010. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING Book is near fine and would be as new except for a bump at the top of the spine. Jacket is near fine except for the bump at the top of the spine.In this unique oral history book, author and historic document specialist Stuart Lutz records the stories told to him personally by people who witnessed man of history's famous events. Fascinating book with hundreds of photographs of some of the most interesting and in many ways obscure people living or dead. This is a fine SIGNED collectible. Signed by Author

About this Item: Random House, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING book by one of America's greatest and iconic authors John Irving is in very fine condition with a very fine priced (28.00) dust jacket. In 1954, in the cook house of a logging and sawmills settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve year old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve year old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver who befriends them. The story which spans five decades is a story of hatreds that are permitted to run their course.The story is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's best seller, The World According to Garp. Book is as new and a great addition to any library.

London: Lindsay Drummand, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.5x 6 inches. Book in NF condition, bright and clean. Bottom of spine and bottom corners slightly bumped. Jacket, VG with wear to top and bottom extremities. UK booksellers sticker on lower right, inside front board. Nice Douglas collectible.

St. louis Missouri: Autolycus Press, 1973. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 10x7.75. A limited edition of 500 copies signed by author and Michael Murphy who wrote the introduction. The frontispiece is a portrait of Starrett by artist William Eubank. Thsi book was sold by direct sales only. not sold in bookstores.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1990. Unrevised and unpublished proofs . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Advance Uncorrected Proofs, Unopened as new.

About this Item: Societe litteraire de France, Paris, 1916. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This graphically superb folio dealing with the battles and heros of the First World War, is in very good condition.Internally the book is near flawless. All prints are vivid and protected by finely printed tissue which is also flawless. Binding is frayed on the spine and the corners are bumped. Cover is still bright and binding overall is quite good. This book is a pleasure to look through and if I spoke French better, I am sure it would be a remarkable read. Rare and collectible.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book in near fine condition, with small wrinkle and soil to bottom edge. Book is clean and square with a Very good to near fine jacket which is not clipped($2.50), but does have a 1/4" chip to top of spine which is very slightly faded. Stated first edition. Small book dealers sticker on lfp.

New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. An address by Norman H. Strouse at an opening of an exhibition of modern fine printing at the Grolier Club. April 19, 1960. Book mint in a fine jacket that is tanned on front cover about 2" down from top edge, and 1" down from back cover top edge. Spine is darkened. one of 1250 copies.

Dutton Juvenile, New York, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED BOOK IS NEW. PRICED (15.99) jacket is near fine with minor shelf wear. Book is inscribed "To Cleo Rose Happy Hanukah 2002 Jane Breskin Zalbenby the author/illustrator the title page. The prayer of a Breton fisherman is just one of the many simple yet profound pieces collected in this volume designed to give readers sustenance, hope, and strength. The poems and prayers represent a broad spectrum of faiths from around the world, among them Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and African, Eskimo, and Native American traditions. Book is beautifully illustrated and a very fine SIGNED first edition/first printing suitable for any library and at any age. Signed by Author(

Los Angles : Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, 1982. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book and jacket are fine. Limited to 300 copies in wrappers nad 50 copies bound in cloth. In unmarked and unread condition.

New York: Carl H. Pforzheimer, 1926. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slip Case . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This limited edition 155 copies this is #119 are letterers written by a governess, Elizabeth Hitchener, who lived with Shelley his wife Harriet and his sister-in-law in 1812. The domicile relationship lasted a brief five months and Shelley is credited with destroying this friendship, and giving her a lifetime one hundred pound per year lifetime severance. What is that all about? There are twelve letters and a fine forward by Shelley biographer Walter Edwin Peck. The book was privately printed by Carl H. Pforzheimer and his friends. This very fine internally clean, unread book is printed on hand made paper and is finely bound in bright floral cloth over boards. There is a very fine near flawless slipcase and the book is wrapped in original tissue which has only minor chipping at extremities. There is a bookplate of a former owner on front paste down. This is a very… Read More

About this Item: Splattered Ink Press, Grand Haven, Michigan, 2011. Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW, unmarked and unread and signed by the author on the title page. Sally is a white miniature bull terrier and as any animal lover would know she is an important member of writer, teacher and pack leader Tricia McDonad's pack. This fun book is filled with great stories about dogs in general and Sally in particular. Book is filled with pictures of Sally's adorable weirdness. Signed by Author

About this Item: Writers Avenue LLC, Spring Lake, Michigan, 2009. Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition first printing book is AS NEW unmarked and unread and SIGNED by the author. This fun book was written by a writer, teacher and dog lover. Loving a dog with obsessive compulsive disorder has provided the author with an endless supply of writing material. And she captures the antics and eccentricities of this little white dog with humor, wit and style, Her chronicles of Sally a miniature bull terrier, have become the most popular part of Cats and Dogs Magazine. Everybody loves Sally. AS NEW. Signed by Author

Cincinnati, Ohio, 1992. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR FIRST EDITION. "Bill & Chall With all good wishes & best personal regards. Ed Hutton Cincinnati Ohio November 14, 1994" This is a very interesting autobiography written by a very special icon of the financial world. " My inspiration for this autobiography came at my father's funeral when I realized how little I knew about my ancestors, where he was reared, how and where he was educated, what he did in this world, who he was, what he thought and how his life fit in with great world events such as the Great Depression and the World WarII. In short, I seek to capture, as much as possible, the flavor of the years in which I lived so that my descendants might identify with me as a fellow human being. I think we all would like to know where we came from and like the author I also am feeling mortal and would like to know. Book is a pain- staking labor of love and very complete and well researched. Book has quite a… Read More

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Book is very fine. Limited to 200 hardcover trade copies & 100 signed and numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is copy 63/100 . Tom Clark grew up in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago (ala Mayor Daily) whose grand father was a cop ( a great start) and distinguished himself in school for his misconduct an d for also winning a city wide spelling bee. He began his literary career as sports editor of the Fenwick High School ( great football teams) newspaper and as an usher at baseball games ( probably the Sox), race tracks prize fights and political conventions ( lots of those). He graduated from The University of Michigan and went on to Cambridge on a Fulbright scholarship. he is known for his biographies of such diverse people as John Keats, L.F. Celine Robert Creeley and Mark ( the Bird) Fidrych ( Detroit Tigers), and his gritty , back of the yards poetry. i am a Chicago… Read More