Search Results: Titles starting with L from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Paris, France: Chez Jacques LeCoffre, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Text in French. Sextodecimo, 5 3/4" tall, 144 pages; five-banded spine, brown Morrocan quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers, green ribbon. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with rubbing to the leather at the top and bottom of the backstrip, marbled cover paper worn through to the board at the corners, hinges and binding solid, paper supple and cream white with light to moderate foxing scattered throughout.

New York, New York: George H. Doran Co, [1925]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. A good reading copy. Duodecimo 7 1/2" tall, 109 pages, black cloth. A good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate wear; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, spine paper label faded, cover label chipped; front hinge cracked but sturdy, internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.

venetiis, apud ioan. Gryphium [ Gryphium, Venice, MDLXIII [1563]. Early printing. Hardcover. Good +. LAVRENTII VALLAE [Lorenzo Valla] VIRI DOCTISSIMI ELEGANTIARUM [elegantia] latinae linguae Libri Sex [De Elegantiis] eiusdem de reciprocatione sui, & suus, libellus Annotationes autem doctorum hominum, qux praeter rem antea refecatae fuerant iterum fuum in locum in studioforum omnium utilityatem restituimus. Index rerum & uerborum virtvte dvce comite fortuna, venetiis, apud ioan. Gryphium MDLXIIIText in Latin. 16mo, 6" tall, 624 pages + 40 page index, vellum. This original copy is in better than good condition overall. The vellum is moderately soiled; the hinges and binding are solid, rag paper is light to moderately yellowed with minor insect damage mostly to the first and last pages, with minor marginal foxing as well as some penned markings to the title page and a few margins leaving the titles and Gryphon symbol intact.

Paris, France: Rombaldi; Paris, 1942 . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. #4193 of limited printing, octavo, 8" tall, 234 pages, frontispiece and color illustrations, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 1/2 red leather with marbled paper covered boards, gilt title and banded spine. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Please note: overseas postage rates are currently prohibitive.

Beyrouth, Liban [Beirut, Lebanon]: Librarie Hamazkaine, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket. Text in Armenian. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 344 pages, light blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear and soiling; hinges and binding tight, paper white.

Paris, France: L. Curmer, n.d. [c. 1843]. First thus. Decorative Leather. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 10 1/4" tall, illustrated title page + 18 engraved plate illustrations + viii + 279 pages with intertextual illustration throughout; gilt fore-edges, gilt titles and cover decoration on embossed leather. A good (minus) copy overall; exterior spine leather significantly chipped, fore-corners through to boards; hinges broken, covers loose; internal binding fairly solid and text paper light to moderately yellowed but with foxing to the margins throughout and more heavily on plate paper; illustration pages moderately yellowed; BUT several plate pages are loose along with an attached text page. This copy would require binding restoration and is priced accordingly. Note: overseas shipping is prohibitively expensive at present.

Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 231 pages, white boards. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper white. In a very good, clean, moderately worn dust jacket with one 1/2" tear at top front panel, some darkening to the back strip, with original price.

Paris, France: L. Hebert: Edition Hetzel-Quantin, n.d., circa 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Text in French. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 352 pages + 22 black and white plates + 8 ad pages, gilt fore-edges and spine titles, decorative red leather. A good, clean sturdy hard cover over with general shelf wear and rubbing to leather, fore-corner tips through to boards, back strip leather darkened and chipped at the top edge; hinges cracked but secure, and internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with foxing primarily at the front-matter. Note: overseas postage is very expensive and likely more than the cost of the book.

Paris, France: Editions de "L'Illustration / Calmann-Levy, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Text in French. Private binding. 14 individual original issues bound in one volume. Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, approx 280 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, decorative brown boards. A good issue overall, interior very good, generally clean, textpaper moderately yellowed, cover sheets and cinema sections lightly yellowed; exterior moderately worn. Cinematographique : Le Joueur D'Echecs; De 'Charlot' a Charles Chaplin. Note: overseas shipping is currently prohibitively expensive.

Paris, France: Morris, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. French language text. 12 issues bound in one volume without original wraps or ads. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, about 24 pages each; 288 + 28 pages of sheet music total, three-quarter red leather over marbled boards. (NO DOLL PATTERNS PRESENT) A very good minus, clean, neat hard cover collection with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, fore-corner tips through to boards; hinges and binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with foxing. Without original individual printed color paper wrappers.

Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. French text. 2 vols. Quarto, 12” tall, vol. 1: xvi + 759 pages with intertextual black and white illustrations throughout; vol. 2: xvii + 907 pages with intertextual black and white illustrations throughout, decorative boards. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover first edition set with minor shelf wear, slight soiling to the fore-edges; binding tight, paper bright. In very good, edge worn dust jackets with minor tears and chipping at the back strip of vol. 1 top and bottom, and a 1 1/2" x 9" piece of the DJ on vol. 2 missing. These are larger and heavier volumes and will require additional postage. Note: shipping rates to France are exceptionally high.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002-01-04. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 196 pages, maroon quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+, clean dust jacket, roughed at bottom front fore-edge (does not affect book), and with original price present.

Editions de L'oeil/ George Wittenborn: New York, 1956. First Edition thus. Paperback. Very Good/wrapper. Originally published in 1929. Text in French. This later limited edition is'Exemplaire No. DXIII', 513 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. "Cette nouvelle edition de La Femme 100 Tetes, tiree a 1000 exemplaires et augmentee d'un collage original de l'auteur a ete achevee de' imprimerie Durand a Chartres." A small quarto, 9 3/4" tall, unpaginated (approx 300 pages? Front and back matter plus 145 single-sided illustrations plus 5-page introduction by Breton) with black and white collage illustration throughout, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good minus soft cover overall with minor shelf wear and light exterior soiling but front hinge cracked and cover pulled loose at that point--appears to be a binding error; internal binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed. With original glassine wrapper moderately soiled and chipped at the spine edge.

New York, New York: Arbor House, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author on title page, and also inscribed to previous owners with signature 'Verlin' on front free endpaper. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 275 pages, red quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, light yellowing to top fore-edge, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket with original price.

New York, New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 390 pages. A fine, clean hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.

Harper & Brothers: ny, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 2/3" tall, 291 pages, white titles on blue decorated cloth. A very good minus hard cover first edition over all with minor exterior shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with the previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket

Cincinnati, Ohio: L. Swormstedt and A. Poe, 1854. First Edition. Decorative Leather. Good -. This is an ex-library volume and has name stamping on the backs of each plate illustration (likely to discourage theft). 11 issues (missing March) bound in one volume without covers or advertisements. Most articles are short (a page or two). Quarto, 10 2/3" tall, viii + 563 pages (minus 48 pages of missing March issue) plus 17 steel plate engravings; black 3/4 leather over brown cloth. This is a good minus volume overall, exterior worn, hinges broken and covers loose, exterior corners rubbed and bumped, and a hole (like a small caliber bullet) in the front cover upper corner that is evident to the endpaper and fly leaf but not in the interior (this was likely another theft inhibitor as the volume was wired to the bookshelf; interior binding solid, text paper clean, but most margins are lightly foxed and foxing visible on blank reverse of most steel plates, paper lightly yellowed. This is the regular… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Timothy Bedlington, 1827. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. A single volume of what was originally a seven volume set of scot's works in this format, but complete as is. 32mo, 5 1/2" tall by 3 1/4", frontispiece and second endgraved title page 292 pages (191 pages + 101 notes), full leather over boards. A good, clean, internally sturdy hard cover BUT back cover loose, spine chipped and worn, and fore-corner tips worn through to boards, internal binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light scattered foxing, endpapers heavily foxed, and previous owner's name on front endpaper. Includes all six cantos, only one illustration (frontispiece).

New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Later printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 300 pages + 3 plates; gilt top fore-edge, gilt spine title on decorative green cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover edition, with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid with paper slightly yellowed, and with a previous owner's name stamped on the front, free end paper. Without dust jacket.

Marion Boyars: NY, 1986-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 144 pages; black boards. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket with original price present.