Search Results: Titles starting with L from Aardvark Rare Books

France: Temps Actuels, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good Dustjackets. In French. Tome 1: De l'Algerie des origines a l'insurrection; LE TORRENT SOUTERRAIN par Henri Alleg; LES OCCASIONS PERDUES par Henri-J. Douzon. 602 pages; Tome 2: Des promesses de paix a la guerre ouverte; L'INCENDIE par Pierre Haudiquet; A LA RECHERCHE DU DERNIER QUART D'HEURE par Jacques de Bonis 597 pages; Tome 3: Des complots du 13 mai a l'independance; UN ETAT VIENT AU MONDE par Jean Freire. 613 pages. Association Copy inscribed by Henri Alleg to J.P. Morray, well known author, political theorist and supporter of revolutionary causes Association Copie inscrite par Henri Alleg à J.P. Morray, auteur bien connu, théoricien politique et partisan des causes progressistes et révolutionnaires. Just a bit of edgewear to dustjackets, and the top of Tome 1 is a bit chewed. Juste un peu de edgewear à dustjackets, et le sommet du Tome 1 est un peu mâché.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1952. Limited Edition. Flexible Boards. Very Good in Very Good Slipcase. One of 300 copies printed by the L-D Allen Press, at Villa Deveron, Cagnes-sur-mer, France. 68 pages. With the Book Club prospectus laid in. Four full page color illustrations by Ray Bethers. Small octavo. White flexible boards with titles in red on front and black on spine. In glassine wrapper. Housed in folded board portfolio with spine title in gilt, and then housed in a slipcase. Cover fine as has been proected by glassine and slipcase. Glssine is very good, portfolio and slipcase very good. Light foxing to endpapers and margins. Prospectus is fine. Prospectus states that this is "The first Club book to be produced outside the United States. Printed in two colors from Garamond type, hand-set, on Richard de Bas handmade paper"

New York: De Capo Press (Perseus Book Group), 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. Folio (9 3/4 in. x 9 3/8 in.). 250 illustrations. "...Offers the first full-color, comprehensive, global guide to the world's finest pathways, ancient as well as modern..."

San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1933. Limited Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 9.25" 6.25". This is number 246 out of 350 from this edition. Signed and inscribed by John Henry Nash to front endpaper. Staining to spine, previous owners name and date to front free endpaper. Lacks slipcase.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding "B", featuring a blue and silver city skyline repeating within grids across boards, is generally agreed to be the less common of the two bindings, and was issued in a run of only 1392 copies. Previous owner's bookplate -- graphic of what appears to be the Golden Gate Bridge -- to front pastedown. Following White's "Less Than Nothing, or The Life and Times of Sterling Finney", a solely in-house New Yorker publication issued in 1927 "to send to agents and customers as a good-will offering,", "The Lady is Cold" was published at age 30. Stated First Edition. pp. [2], xii, 95, [2]. Rubbing and nudging to corners.

London, England: Printed for G. Robinson, 1809. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo (8 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.). Black leather over red textured cloth over boards, half-bound with dark green leather. Rubbing to extremities. Front board gilt along boards, and elagorate gilt vignettes within (unhubbed) spine compartments. Pumpkin orange endpapers.A few stains to board, and some rubbing along joints. Rear hinge just started -- binding unaffected and tight. Bookplate of one F.A. Gilfillan. Contains the following issues: 1807: January, April, May, June, September. 1809: January, February, May, June, September. Ten color plates, 23 engravings, and 13 foldout engravings. At the end a portrait gallery of sorts, featuring full-page engravings of George, Prince of Wales; Anna Bullen (complete with broad axe at bottom of image); Catherine Howard, Queen of King Henry VIII; Earl of Derby; Wentworth, Earl of Strafford; Lord Balmerino; Lord Capel; Earl of Kilmarnock; Sr. Cha. Lucas; Sir Thomas More. 432 pp. plus ten… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Reprint by LeMar, Undated [196?]. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Small Quarto, 10 in. x 8 in., pp. xii, 148. Beige cardstock covers wth title and marijuana leaf design to front. Stapled spine, with green cloth tape wrapped around spine and over staples. Light rubbing and soiling to covers. Thumbing to corners. Clean interior. Foreward by F.H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (1934-46); originally published in Lancaster PA: Jaques Cattell Press (1944). This reprint of 196? lacks pages 149-220 of the original report. (OLCC Identifier: 17929500) This reprint is by "LeMar", the earliest marijuana legalization advocacy organization. It was founded in 1964 and called LeMar (for Legalize Marijuana). LeMar was started by beat poet Allen Ginsberg who with Jack Kerouac and William Burrows formed the core of what became known as the "beat generation", and later Fugs member Ed Sanders (frequently credited with providing a bridge between the beat and hippie generations).  LeMar was… Read More

London, England: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Octavos. Handsome half-leather over lovely brick red, navy blue, mauve, and mustard stone marbled boards (and matching endpapers), and marbled edges. Stamped toothed pattern to leather spine and corners, where they meet boards. Five raised bands (six compartments, each double ruled in gilt), each with central gilt floriated design, bordered by filigree. Recent leather spine labels, in red and black ,the upper red labels with abbreviated titles, the lower black labels with author's name and volume numbers in Roman numerals. Volume I contains 6 (blue, black and brown tinted) chromoxylographs and 8 woodcuts; Ex-Libris label affixed to front pastedown endpaper of William Roy Smith and Marion Parris Smith. William Smith raised the ire of W.E.B. DuBois, who accused him of writing (in Smith's essay "Negro Suffrage in the South"), published in Studies in Southern History and Politics (1914), ... that the… Read More

Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelly and Sons), 1903. Hardcover. Good Plus to Near Fine. 110 volumes of the Lakeside Classics. Missing 7 early books in the series., but does include the very first title -- the rather scarce 1903 Franklin's autobiography. Missing Items : 1904 Inaugural Addresses; 1905 Inaugural Addresses; 1906 Fruits of Solitude by Penn; four volumes of Memorable American Speeches. "...Lakeside Classics is a series started in 1903 that reprinted neglected classic works. Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of the company, was impressed by a set of seven razors presented to him by one of the company's suppliers, and wanted to create a gift that would similarly represent his own company's product and could not be purchased on the open market. The company did not sell the books to the public, but gave each of the company employees a copy at Christmas, making the series valued collectors items. Thomas Donnelley wrote in the introduction to Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the… Read More

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. John R. Neill. Octavo, 6.75 x 9.25 in., pp. 287. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Gray cloth with paper paste-on to front board, in tri-tone color (midnight blue, yellow,green), with very small loss of paper to bottom right corner.Spine lettered in black. Some staining to spine. Rubbing to extremities, with corners nudged or bumped. Recent repair to front hinge. Previous owner's name and address in red ink to front free endpaper.

Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Roger W. Cooke. Octavo, 6.25 X 9.25 in., pp. 318. Illustrated with black ink drawings by Roger W. Cooke. Green-tan speckled cloth boards with red title on front and spine. Red endpapers. From the Foreword: "We have written this book to recapture experiences of those early Oregonians - not to provide a history of the Portland area, but to highlight people and events of earlier days. Some material was found in old newspapers, rare books, and family records; other stories are accounts of events which occurred not long ago in history but which depict a way of life already almost forgotten."

Dublin, Ireland: Alexander Thom, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 15 in. x 11 in., pp. 325. Modern blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and new endpapers bounds original dark blue front and back paper wraps. Original paper covers soiled with many chips to edges; thumbing to upper corner. Unmarked, bright interior. Spine and hinges tight. In 1873 the Local Government Board in Ireland set about to ascertain the number and names of owners of land of one acre and upwards in Ireland. Clerks of the various Poor Law Unions were called upon to draw up lists of such persons from the property valuation and rate books in their custody. The lists were returned to the Local Government Board by the end of 1875, arranged into counties, alphabetized, and finally published in 1876. Since the returns include the names of small landowners as well as large--owners of modest acres as well as great estates--they stand as a census of a significant proportion of the population of Ireland in 1876, and… Read More

New York: Ives Washburne, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Ernie Melchior. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 183. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Ernie Melchior. Spring green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light offset on endpapers.Rubbing to ductjacket edges, with tape scar to inside of dustjacket at top of spine. A couple small chips to top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. "When Wibberley's nine-year-old sone Kevin asked him why he was an Irishman, he decided th answer called for a demonstration on the spot. So off he flew to Ireland with Kevin and Patricia, aged seven, leaving the rest of the family home in California...They lived in a cottage in Galway..." (from the dustjacket).

El Prado, NM: Bright LIght Publishing, LLC, 2004. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Folio paperback, 11.25 in. x 9.5 in., pp. 208. Very light rubbing to covers. Unmarked interior. "Sherrie McGraw is recognized as one of America's foremost artists and teachers. Her early education took her to the Art Students League of New York where she later was hired as a drawing and painting instructor. Her work has received many awards from prestigious New York art organizations, such as the Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club, and has been included in a number of shows in major museums throughout the country, including the Butler Institute of American Art where she had a major retrospective in 2014. Its Board of Trustees recently awarded her their highest award—the Medal of Honor for lifetime achievement in American Art. ... A gifted writer, she has made significant contributions to several books on Nicolai Fechin, written by Russia's leading expert, Galina Tuluzakova; she has authored her… Read More

London, England: George Routledge & Sons, 1923. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Dora Noyes. 16mo. Green cloth with embossed diagram of the hand to cover. Cover worn and stained, and book someone shaken (loosey-goosey) but all pages present. Article tipped in to final blanks.

San Francisco, CA: Underwood/Miller, 1980. First cloth edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus. Alicia Austin. Small folio, 12.25 in x 9.25 in., pp. 116, [1]. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 21 black and white ink drawings. SIgnature of illustrator laid in on card slip (8.25 in x 4 in.). Light plum boards with silver title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly nudged. Very light rubbing to top edge of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. First cloth edition limited to 1200 copies. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010… Read More

London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Matching set of two: Octavo, 9 in. x 6 in. Each illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispieces. Green cloth boards with black bands stamped to top and bottom of boards. Gilt title to front and spine. Blue topstain. Rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly nudged. Black endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate and name to front pastedowns. Volume I: pp. xix, [1], 335, 1-64 (advertising). Volume II; pp. xii, 361. Bookplate reads: "Society of Writers to her Majesty's Signet." As well, "Signet Library" written in pen on top of black front pastedowns. Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell (21 May 1745 - 9 July 1833) was the uncle of Daniel O'Connell "the Liberator." Because of the Penal Laws (Ireland) of the time, which forbade a Catholic to have any education or profession, he, like many other ambitious young Irishmen, went to the Continent for an education, and remained abroad. He entered the service of the… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, 2009. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Octavo. Grey and black boards. 25 photographs. 334 pp. Signed by author David Roberts on title page. "Washburn's remarkable achievements -- including nine first ascents of North American peaks -- would stamp him not only as one of a kind, but, as one of a Boston Brahmin family whose roots trace back to the Mayflower, this highly intelligent, impatient and stubborn iconoclast published books, made a monumental first ascent in the French Alps that would become a touchstone in mountaineering history, and lectured on his adventures -- including an address to the National Geographic Society -- while still in his teens. In 1935, at the age of twenty-four, while others were turning their attention to the Himalaya, the Harvard-educated Washburn led a three-month journey across what was then the largest remaining unexplored territory in North America -- the 6,400 square miles of glaciers and… Read More

Chicago, IL: The Bookfellows, 1922. Paperback. Very Good Minus in Good Envelope.. Marjorie Dixon. Stringbound, with lovely cover illustration by Marjorie Dixon. 8 1/2 in. x 5 5/8 in. One of 350 copies on Old Stratford paper. Lettering by Will Ransom. "Printing by Luther A. Brewer...All done in the month of April nineteen hundred twenty-two." Sixteen pages. In original publisher's envelope, flap torn along crease. Unopened. Second prizewinner Hazel Hall (1886-1924), Minnesota-born but was raised in Portland Oregon went on to write a number of poems, and win poetry prizes. Pearl Anderson, of Poetry Magazine, had this to say about her collection: "Comes Hazel Hall with her little book. every word and emotion of which is poignantly authentic."

Auston, TX: Ca.liente Press, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Trade Paperback, 8.4 in. x 5.5 in., pp. xxiv, 212. Very light rubbing to extremities. Mild spine crease. Clean interior. "Lavender Blue" is the definitive book on writing erotica. It is both encyclopedic and entertaining, but above all, it is eminently useful and readable.. This book is an absolute necessity for anyone who wants to write erotic fiction for gay men." (from the back cover).