Search Results: Titles starting with L from De Wolfe and Wood

London: Routledge & Keegan Paul LTD, 1950. 234 pp. Dictionary of slang terms used in 1950's era English Prisons. Some rubbing, staining, and cracking to the dust jacket.

Philadelphia: D. Landreth & Sons, 1898. 64 pp. Good condition with decorative color wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Some wear to the spine.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. 404 pp. Binding lightly soiled and worn. Some penciled check marks to the table of contents. A fairly scare edition of Whitman's poems.

Boston: Kneeland and Adams, 1768. 26 pp. Fair condition with wear to the edge of the pages and stains. William Livingston, a founding father, answers Landaff's sermon promoting the Church of England in America. Landaff argues for an American Bishopric. Evans, 10949.

1800. Second Edition. London: printed by W. Stratford, sold Cadell and Davies, [1800]. (4), 47 pp. Neatly bound in later marbled boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Surprisingly rare pamphlet (no first edition located), censorious of the enjoyment afforded the lower classes by the spectacle of torture inflicted on dumb animals, in this case the unspeakable cruelties of bull-baiting. The attempt to outlaw bull-baiting figured significantly in the contest in England between reform and reaction at the time of the French Revolution. Advocated by Wilberforce and others, the bill was defeated by conservative ideologies, such as Edmund Burke and acolyte, William Wyndham, who foresaw in the abolition of such brutality the erosion of the traditions which supposedly bound the lower classes to the existing social order. Put simply, better to torture a poor animal than guillotine an aristocrat-a familiar dynamic in class society then and now.

Boston: W.J. Reynolds, 1851. Letterhead dated Boston, Oct. 23rd, 1851. Good condition but likely had another leaf and was a stampless letter sheet. The left side of the letterhead lists 18 titles published by this company including music, poetry, schoolbooks and more. The letter to H.M. Vilar (?) is in regard to books Vilar wishes to sell to the publisher. Reynolds writes that they only sell current new books and that he would only by the copies of a speller for 8 cents each.

London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792. 239 pp. Very ggod in full calf. Binding sound. Minor stains and foxing. Has a bookplate of Lord Sinclair with an ink inscription to his daughter.

[London]: M. Cooper, 1771. Nicely rebound in recent leather with marbled covered board. New endpapers and the lower right corner of the title page and first 5 pages stained. Travel, Asia, women.

Laconia, N.H.: John J, Lane, 1891. Good with worn wraps and occasional stains Almy was rejected by a New Hampshire farmers' daughter and murdered her He was found guilty and sentenced to hang McDade 6 32 pp pp.

Mount Lebanon: A.G. Hollister, 1904. 86 pp. Fine condition. Leonard (1803-1877) joined the Harvard Shakers in 1829. He was an Elder in the Harvard Families for many year.

London: Harding and Lepard, 1827. Second edition. Very good with some loss to the marble paper on the boards.. 542 pp. Extra illustrated with 56 additional plates.

London: C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al., 1783. Third edition Spines replaced An attractive set Third edition in four volumes.

Atlanta: Evans Printing Co, 1902. 102 pages and in good condition. With a 3 pages letter from Mrs. E.M. Evans dated Atlanta, GA Aug 18th, 1909, to a Miss Hayden. Mrs. Evans was working as Travelers Aid in the Union Depot and talks about how she is busy.

Little Neck, L., 1889. 5 copies located American Antiquarian Society dates this to 1889 Cutter (1817-1906) was a well-known Long Island character and met Mark Twain aboard the Quaker City Twain immortalized him in Innocence Abroad as the "Poet Lariat" Good condition with minor creasing Broadside pp.

New York: Thomas Longworth, 1836. Rebound in paper covered boards. A very good copy of this New York City directory rebound in paper covered boards. The interior is bright and clean. Complete as issued. 36, [49]-764, 36 pp. pp.

London: Gibbings & Company, 1903. In a fine Zaehnsdorf binding. Minor rubbing to the binding. a lovely copy bound in full fine leather with gold embossing. 441 pp. pp.

New London: Samuel Green, 1816. 16 pp. with a crudely printed illustration of Babcock's hanging. Poor condition with the title page backed with brown paper, crude repairs and in recent wraps. This is an unusual case of a white man being hung for the murder of a black man. Babcock describes in detail his life as a poor farm worker travelling from job to job. He relates that he received word of his father's death from an African American man named London who was in a relationship with his mother and lived with her. Babcock lived with the couple between jobs. One morning London and Babcock's mother were fighting and Babcock entered the fray and stabbed London who later died. There is a long section on his imprisonment and last day leading up to his hanging.

Boston: J.G. Scobie, 1825. 16 pp. Second edition with three coffins on the title page. Edges worn pages soiled and minor stains. The Thayers murdered lodger John Love on hog slaughtering day to try to hide their crime. The body was discovered in the woods and reason for the murder was to take cash Love carried with him.