Search Results: Titles starting with L from Arundel Books of Seattle

D & R Publishing Company, 1959. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); previous owner's typed addressed label on upper wrapper, plus few ink annotations on upper wrapper and to text; slight internal browning to edges. 29, [3] pages (including wrappers). Notable for editor Roberts' article 'The Power of Negative Thinking' (as advertised on upper wrapper), his 'Notes for Night School Intellectuals', and his editorial 'Elegy for the Big City'; plus the article 'Claremont: Culture in the Suburbs' by Pegasus Buchanan, art reviews by Jarvis Barlow and Paul Rivas, etc.Over 20 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter.

D & R Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); previous owner's label on upper wrapper; slight internal browning to edges. 31, [1] pages (including wrappers). 'Sample Copy' (rubberstamp on upper wrapper). Notable for the article 'On Revenge' by Caryl Chessman (abridged from the convicted murderer's manuscript by Irwin Moskowitz), plus Moskowitz's own article 'The Case for Caryl Chessman'; also includes Albert Camus' 'Reflections on the Guillotine' (in an uncredited English translation).Over 20 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter.

D & R Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); previous owner's typed addressed label on upper wrapper, plus few ink annotations to text; slight internal browning to edges. 31, [1] pages (including wrappers). Notable for the article 'On Revenge' by Caryl Chessman (abridged from the convicted murderer's manuscript by Irwin Moskowitz), plus Moskowitz's own article 'The Case for Caryl Chessman'; also includes Albert Camus' 'Reflections on the Guillotine' (in an uncredited English translation).Over 20 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter.

D & R Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); separating at spine; previous owner's label on upper wrapper; slight internal browning to edges. Cover articles: 'Idylls of the Rich'; :the Compleat Conventioneer', and '...Like a Good Girl Should.'Over 20 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter.

D & R Publishing Company, 1959. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG- Periodical. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at edges); previous owner's typed addressed label on upper wrapper, plus few ink annotations to text; slight internal browning to edges. 30, [2] pages (including wrappers). Notable for editor Roberts' article 'Here Come the Phonies' (as advertised on upper wrapper), his editorial ('Fauna and Flora of Our Literary Desert'), and his review of Lawrence Lipton's 'The Holy Barbarians' (pages 21 and 25); also for Part III of Margaret Romer's 'History of Los Angeles'.Over 20 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter.

Ward Ritchie Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG Slight rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly to edges); red pen mark on lower edges (remainder mark(?); midsection); slight internal browning to edges. 160 pages. Later issue; historical overview 'from the brush huts of Yangna to the skyscrapers of the modern megalopolis' (title page recto); with a 'Los Angeles Miscellany' and index at rear. Photographs chosen by Robert A. Weinstein; book designed by Joseph Simon; printed by Anderson, Ritchie and Simon. 'Third Printing, November 1974' (title page verso); originally published in 1973.Over 25 b/w Illustrations (chiefly b/w photographs, Including title page).

Caskey Lees & Olney, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Minor wear. Laid in are 2 additional photos of exhibited pieces (1 color, 1 b/w).Color & b&w Illustrations.

Simon & Schuster, 2015. Trade Paperback. New.

Apud Samuelem Crispinum, 1614. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good. A very good copy in dark brown 17th-century calf (tooling on the binding appears to be English, expertly rebacked in dark brown calf with new endpapers. The boards were rubbed (pre-rebacking), the title leaf has been trimmed and re-inserted on a stub, several leaves have paper restorations to margins, a number of leaves have browning, foxing, wear, and smudges to margins. PROVENANCE: Two ownership inscriptions on inserted leaf at rear by Thomas Camplin ('his book'), 1662 and 1697, with his faded signature and inscription to title page as well. That inserted leaf (a partial printed leaf from an older book, and an additional inserted blank at rear carry several period Latin inscriptions and notes. Description: 1276 pages. Other Titles: Philosophi Rhetoris.

MOCA GA, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (square). Near Fine condition, without dust jacket as issued. Clean interior. Little to no shelf or handling wear.

Arms & Armour Press, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket (light edgewear).

Editions Medicales Flammarion, 1950. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. En francais. Clean, no markings, age wear, wrappers rubbed and darkened, wear to spine. B&W Illustrations.

GEORG, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. French copy. Good copy with creasing and wear to spine and covers. Signed and inscribed Christmas card from the author. . From the library of poet/academic William H. Matchett with his inscription on front free endpaper. Text is clean and unmarked. First edition.

Quarter Books, 1951. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Vintage pulp digest. 128pp., with wraps, and GGA color cover art by George Gross. Light rubbing to the spine, front corner slighly creased, else a Very Good copy, spine is tight and not cracked or broken. No. 89.

Floating Bridge Press, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A very good first edition paperback.

Editions Lire, 1947. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (small). Slight stains, few small chips and nicks, slight rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly at edges and at foot of jacket spine); slight uniform browning to wrappers; few leaves or signatures either unopened or carelessly opened; slight internal browning to edges. 323, [4] pages + plates. Text in French. Illustrated issue of the pseudonymous author's romantic novel in 3 parts, originally published in France in 1929 (see BMC, volume 6, page 932, column 351; real name of author is Jules Charles Henri Petiot). One of 2025 numbered copies on Serraz 'bouffant blanc' paper (of a total edition of 2525; this is number 1551), printed at the Imprimeries Reunies de Chambery, March 1947.Ernotte, Jacques (illustrator); 16 b/w Illustrations / Plates (including frontispiece).

Veuve Eugene Belin et Fils, 1888. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in leather/cloth (slight rubbing to cloth covers). Small 8vo viii+656+plts Text in French. Overview of North and South America; notable for 9 color maps. Prize binding; bound in half dark red morocco over matching cloth; gilt-stamped spine with raised bands; tan marbled endpapers. Gilt stamped on upper cover: Lycee Lakanal.72 engr Illustrations (including maps).

Editions Albert Morance, 1920. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete set of 3 huge volumes (cloth-backed portfolios) of this landmark work, issued 1920; 1922; 1924. The huge volumes, measuring 20.5 x 14.5 inches, present introductory texts followed by superb large b/w gravure plates from photographs by V. de Mestral-Combremont. HouseD loose as issued in publisher's original red cloth over tan printed boards portfolios, original cloth ties (Art Academy ink stamps; wear to boards; some tears to cloth spines; one spine largely lacking; some stains to cloth; some discolorations to margins; images are uniformly crisp). Gustave Jéquier (1868 -1946) Swiss Egyptologist and pioneering archaeologist in Egypt, Persia, and elsewhere.B/w Photographs By V. de Mestral-Combremont.

Hachette, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 511, [1] pages + plates. Text in French. Coverage of regional furniture styles in France, with small sections on French faience and tinware. Photo-documentation by V. Gisors-Isabey. Slight stains, scratches and rubbing to covers (chiefly to upper cover); previous bookseller's printed paper label on front attached endpaper; slight internal browning to endpapers and edges. No Jacket. Gisors-Isabey, V.; Over 400 Color & b/w Photographs (including plates).

Grund, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good (sm nick to DJ spine). 4to with DJ 174pp+[1] Scarce monograph on Georgian metalwork, originally published in Czechoslovakia (in Russian), 1971.109 color photos.