Search Results: Titles starting with L from Select Tomes

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 224 pages clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Not an ex-library version. Text has roughcut edge. Book and DJ are like new. First American edition, translated from French by Helen Weaver.

National Geographic Magazine, December 1956 folded lithographed map with five insert maps. Scale: 45 miles to the inch. Lithographed by A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore, Md. Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society showing descriptions and locations of historical events of the Holy Land. 29 x 40 inches, fully intact with no tears or chips. Rare version, excellent shape

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco,1964. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 221 pp. Rough cut edge text is clean and unmarked with no owner attribution. One-inch closed end tear from top edge of title page. Color Frontispiece and B/W line drawings throughout by Lilian Obligado. Illustration copyright date of 1964. First published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post with a copyright date of 1938. After being sold to a wealthy duke living in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey to Yorkshire in order to be reunited with her former master, the son of a poor farmer.

Ginn and Company, Boston, 1908. Hard cover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. An early book for teaching elementary classes in French. 130 pp plus advertising. Text tanned with reader notation throughout and on rear free endpaper and rear pastedown. Owner attributions on front free endpaper dated 1915 and 1918. A readable copy of an early French text book.

American Education Press. Columbus, Ohio Condition: Good. (Copyright 1939 by The Educational Printing House, Inc., but the inside rear cover lists this book as an American Education Press publication.) Unit Study Book No. 213. Softcover. 36 pages profusely illustrated (with photos & drawings). Ex-library copy with appropriate mark stamped on front cover and last text page. Contents are clean and bright. Early version is somewhat scarce.
(Prior to WWII, The Educational Printing House, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio printed short, small paperback pamphlet books in the Unit Study Book series. The originals were often reprinted by The American Education Press, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio through 1940. The authors of the Unit Study Book series books were elementary school educators and frequent contributors of the My Weekly Reader, a popular children's periodical also published by the American Education Press, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. After WWII, the Unit Study Book Series became the Little Wonder Series published… Read More

Princeton University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Book shows below average signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Corners lightly bumped. Owner attribution stamped on front pastedown. Text is very clean and unmarked. 500 pp.

HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1996. Hardcover. States first scholastic printing, September, 1996. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. 176 pp. Text white and clean. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Pages 35-50 have become detached from spine.

Grosset & Dunlap 1905, 1903, NY, 1905. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 20th Printing. B/w plates illustrated by Eliot Keen. Originally published by Henry Holt. Few soil spots and light spotting on rear cover. PO in pencil on front free endpaper. 344 pp + ads. Text clean and unmarked with roughcut fore edge. Leaves yellowed typical of age, no foxing noted. Not an ex-library copy.

First edition Funk & Wagnalls, NY 1931 hardcover atlas. Very good condition. Red leather binding with title and decoration of world on cover. Map endpapers, 256 pp. Color maps of the world, all countries and US states, along with aviation and railroad routes. Each country described with area and population, physical features, government, agriculture, forests, minerals and manufacturers. Former owner attribution on frontispiece and some pencil or pen marking on some maps. Overall, a quality book for its age.

The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. Publishers, New York, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 21 pp. Text white on high-grade paper. Leaves 6-7 have brown crayon circled text. Other pages have light pencil initials. Top one-and-a-half inches of spine is missing. Rear cover is lightly soiled and has a waterstain in lower outer edge. Overall, very good condition for a children's book from this age that has been used.

J. P. Skelly & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1871. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 85 pp. Last five pages and rear free endpapers scribbled in pencil. Front free endpapers and frontispiece is missing. Slight foxing typical of age. One steel engraved plate at page 72. Outer cover red cloth with medallion of publisher's initials on front and rear covers. Gold gilt on spine is mostly worn. The story was first published in England in 1867. The original 1867 version lists the other children's stories mentioned on the title page and identifies the author as Edis Serle. No other copy of this 1871 Philadelphia version has been found on the internet.

The story of orphan boys being sent to Plumfield to be raised. Front cover color illustration (by Frances Brundage) of a woman and two children sitting on a bough over a creek. Frontispiece color illustration of a small boy playing a fiddle. 405 pp. Text intact and readable. Slight foxing on front and rear endpages. All pages yellowed typical of age. Front and rear hinges broken. Spine torn along rear hinge. Owner attribution on front free-endpaper.

George Routledge & Sons, NY. Hard Cover. Condition: Good-. B/W engravings (illustrator). Undated, circa 1890, this Victorian children's book is one of the earliest of the CLOTH PAGE children's books known. This Indestructible Edition was designed to last through heavy wear, rounding corners, fraying boards and rubbed spine. 44 pp. Unpaginated. Several cloth pages showing minor fraying at top edge. Front pastedown has pencil notations around b/w drawing of children reading. Last page ends on rear pastedown. Interior text shows some foxing typical of age. All pages intact and readable. Remarkable condition for its age and usage.

Whitman Publishing Company, 1937. Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine.10 pp unpaginated, printed on faux linen paper. Pencil date (Dec. 25, 1938) on inside front cover. Otherwise, clean, unmarked, no owner attribution. Full color illustration on every page. Rare for a paperback volume to survive in near fine condition.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 152 pp; text is clean, bright and unmarked. Illustrated color endpapers are excellent. PO attribution in pencil on front free endpaper. No foxing. Not an ex-library copy. A nice, clean, tight and very attractive copy. No jacket.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. First Edition. 212 pp. Illustrations on front pastedown and front free endpapers and on frontispiece. Textblock clean & crisp. The Lone Ranger #12 as listed in front free endpaper. Owner attribution on front free endpapers, otherwise unmarked. Advertisement for The Lone Ranger West of Maverick Pass as the next upcoming volume on rear free endpaper.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1951. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 78 pages. Square and solid with light soiling on covers and spine tail bumped. Previous owner's name on inside front cover and "L.R. #1" in pencil on title page. Rest of interior is unmarked. A Sandpiper Book. 78pp. Color cartoon style illustrations on every page. An easy-reading chapter book based on the famous Lone Ranger and Tonto adventures created by Geo. W. Trendle.

Farmcourt Publishing, Inc., Cincinnati, OH 2001 Hardcover. Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 456 pp. Text very white, clean and unmarked. Author signed on front free enpaper. One original red cloth ribbon page marker attached to binding. B/W photos, drawings and maps throughout. Fine like new condition.

American Stove Co., St, Louis, MO, 1928. Hardcover. Condition: VG-. No dust jacket. Sixth Edition. 171 pp. Text sunned typical of age. Illustrated with full color drawings and two b/w photographs of the Research Kitchen and office. A cookbook promoting the use of gas stoves equipped with the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator. Later editions of this book credit Dorothy M. Shank as author.

American Stove Co., St, Louis, MO, 1931. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Ninth Edition. 186 pp. Text yellowed typical of age and free of markings. Pastedown and front and rear free endpapers depict b/w illustrations. Prior owner attribution on front free pastedown and front free endpaper. Drawings contained in earlier editions replaced with full color photographs. hinges cracked, but still intact. A cookbook promoting the use of gas stoves equipped with the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator. Earlier editions of this book did not credit Dorothy M. Shank as author/compiler.