A Lion Is in the Streets
by Adria Locke Langley
[New York]: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945. Very Good +/Very Good. [New York.]: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 482 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price present. Illustrated boards. Dust jacket worn along edges with some toning and some slight chipping. Boards show light wear to edges. Binding is sound. Bookseller... Read More
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The First Book of Jazz
by Langston Hughes; Cliff Roberts [illus.]
New York: Franklin Watts, 1955. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Franklin Watts, 1955. First Edition; Stated Third Printing. Octavo (22cm); 66pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket; boards bound in gray cloth with black stamping to front panel and spine; illustrated endsheets. Cliff Roberts’ black-and-white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket bumped at edges, spine ends, and corners; tears forming along... Read More
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes; E. McKnight Kauffer [illus.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition stated. Black and white illustrations throughout by E. McKnight Kauffer. Octavo (24.4cm). Pictorial dust jacket with price clipped. Blue publisher's cloth binding. Faded light green topstain. 297 pp. Dust jacket heavily worn with chips along top edge and loss... Read More
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An African Treasury: Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems by Black Africans
by Langston Hughes [ed.]; Abioseh Nicol, Babs Fafunwa, Tennyson Makiwane et al. [contributors]
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 207pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.00 price present. Light brown boards stamped in black. Light wear to edges of dust jacket; rubbing to rear panel. Boards show mild shelfwear and corners bumped; binding sound; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown;... Read More
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Something Lumber This Way Comes [The Lost Lansdale Vol. 2] [Signed]
by Joe R. Lansdale
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. Near Fine/Near Fine. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. First Edition, stated. Octavo (23.5cm); 80pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with copper lettering to spine. Jacket clean and crisp with no significant signs of shelfwear. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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The Big Blow [Signed Limited Edition]
by Joe R. Lansdale
Burton: Subterranean Press, 2000. Near Fine/Near Fine. Burton: Subterranean Press, 2000. Limited First Edition, numbered 245 of 250 copies on limitation page at front. Octavo (22.3cm); 162pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $25.00 / $60.00 prices intact; boards in red cloth with silver lettering to spine; housed in black cloth slipcase. Jacket is clean and crisp with very faint... Read More
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Le Roman Merveilleux
by Pierre Coulevain [pseud. Jeanne Philomène Laperche]
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1913. Very Good. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, n.d. but 1913. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporay red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],vi,409pp. Spine a bit faded, textblock extremities very slightly soiled and darkened, else Very Good and sound. Theosophical novel, the author's last.
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Stop Me -- If You've Heard This One
by Ring W. Lardner
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1929. Very Good. [New York]: Cosmopolitan, 1929. First Edition. Slim 16mo; publisher's yellow printed paper-covered boards; 18pp.; illus. Rubbing to board extremities with brief exposure, margins toned and lightly soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. "An advance printing from the July, 1929, issue of Cosmopolitan" (title page). Contents also included a... Read More
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Regular Fellows I Have Met
by Ring Lardner
Chicago: Carbery & Reed, 1919. Very Good -. Chicago: [Carbery & Reed], 1919. First and Only Edition. Thick quarto (27.5cm); original cord-tied limp green reverse calf, upper cover lettered in gilt; [200]ll. printed on rectos only, interleaved with tissue guards; illus. throughout "by regular cartoonists." Binding quite worn and toned as usual with some stripping and brief loss... Read More
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History of Windham County, Connecticut - Volume II, 1760-1880
by Ellen D. Larned
Worchester, Mass, 1880. Very Good. Worcester, Mass.: Charles Hamilton, 1880. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 600 pp. Volume II only. Missing map and seven of the ten plates (frontis of Israel Putnam and portraits of Daniel Dow and Smith Wilkinson are present). Rebacked in newer brown leather with gilt lettering to spine; original leather retained over boards with new... Read More
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The Doctor in Oregon: A Medical History
by Olaf Larsell
Portland, OR: Published by Binfords & Mort for the Oregon Historical Society, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. Portland, OR: Published by Binfords & Mort for the Oregon Historical Society, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 671 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Two unrelated autograph letters signed dated 1876 laid in at front. Both housed in a Clarendon... Read More
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![Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue: The Family Album of the Gilded Age [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/511/558/1699558511.0.m.jpg)
Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue: The Family Album of the Gilded Age [Signed]
by J.-H. Lartigue
Lausanne, Switzerland: Ami Guichard, 1966. Very Good+. [Lausanne, Switzerland]: Ami Guichard, [1966]. First Edition. Thick oblong quarto; publisher's maroon gilt-embossed cloth with photographic paste-on to upper cover; 126pp.; mounted photographic plates throughout. Light wear to cloth margins, corners nudged, else Very Good or better. Signed by the photographer on half title page.
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Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences
by Marghanita Laski
London: Cresset Press, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. London: Cresset Press, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped printed dust jacket; xii,[2],544p. Light chipping and wear to jacket margins, upper jacket panel and spine unevenly toned, white paint residue to bottom cloth margins, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; Very Good and sound overall.
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Annie Grayson; or, Life in Washington
by N.P. Lasselle
New York: Bunce & Brother, 1853. Very Good. New York: Bunce & Brother, 1853. First Edition. 12mo; 345pp. Recased in later blue cloth with original blue and gilt-decorated cloth panels retained to front and back. Gilt page edges. Original cloth moderately scuffed, but gilt decoration is still clear and generally bright. Clean tape repair to original front free... Read More
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Decade: The 1940s [Bookplate Signed by Aldis Laid in]
by Brian W. Aldiss [ed.]; Harry Harrison [ed.]; A.E. Van Vogt; Isaac Asimov; Fredric Brown; Hal Clement; Paul Carter; Clifford D. Simak; Eric Frank Russell; Philip Latham
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in. Octavo; [iv], 212pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in red buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square... Read More
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The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation [Signed]
by Harry Leon Wilson; O'Neill Latham
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1902. Near Fine. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1902. First Edition. Signed by Harry Leon Wilson without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 512 pp. Illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Red blind-stamped cloth decorated in gilt with illustration mounted to front; top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities; a couple scuffs and smudges... Read More
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A Discourse in Two Parts, Preached at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century
by John Lathrop
Boston: E. Lincoln / John West, 1801. Very Good. Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln, for John West, No. 75, Cornhill, 1801. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's plain blue stitched wrappers; 40pp. ([A]-E4, collated complete). Shallow loss at spine ends, textblock a bit dust-soiled and slightly ragged along margins, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title page of the "Revd.... Read More
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Follow the Brook
by Dorothy P. Lathrop
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First Edition. Quarto. 40 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in black and white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges and spine; general soiling and spotting, most heavily along spine. Boards show mild soiling along edges; scrape to... Read More
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A Study of Hawthorne
by George Parsons Lathrop
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Very Good. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo. 350 pages + 1 p. advertisement. Green boards stamped in black and gilt. Forest green endpapers. All edges stained red. Light wear to extremities. Slight lean to spine. Hinges with exposure but binding is holding. Some spotting and... Read More
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Kinfolks: A Novel [Signed]
by Kristin Hunter Lattany
New York: One World / Ballantine Books, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. New York: One World / Ballantine Books, 1996. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (21.6cm); illustrated dust jacket with $23.00 price intact; blue boards with red cloth spine and gilt lettering; [vi],276pp. Jacket rubbed along edges with bumping at head. Boards are square with bumping at... Read More
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![Confidential Report and Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Steve Chandler with Original Photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/012/380/1353380012.0.m.jpg)
Confidential Report and Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Steve Chandler with Original Photograph]
by James Laughlin
London: Gaberbocchus, 1959. Very Good/Very Good-. [London]: Gaberbocchus, [1959]. First Edition. Slim 12mo; publisher's simulated cloth in white price-clipped dust jacket printed in yellow and black; 38pp. Jacket rather soiled and a bit worn with short closed tear at bottom margin of upper panel not approaching text, spine cocked, else Good to Very Good, internally fresh and fine.... Read More
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Light and Movement: Incunabula of the Motion Picture 1420-1896 / Luce e movimento: Incunaboli dell'immagine animata 1420-1896 / Lumiere et mouvement: Incunables de l'image animee 1420-1896
by Laurent Mannoni, Donald Pesenti Campagnoni, and David Robinson
Gemona: Giornate del Cinema Muto / Cinematheque française-Musee du Cinema / Museo Nazionale del Cinema, 1995. Very Good. [Gemona]: Giornate del Cinema Muto / Cinematheque française-Musee du Cinema / Museo Nazionale del Cinema, [1995]. Large quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 470pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards a bit dust-soiled and scuffed, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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Stories from The Arabian Nights
by Laurence Housman; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Large octavo. 237 pp. 16 color plates. Printed dust jacket. Red cloth stamped in black. Brazier endpapers. Dust jacket shows some very shallow chipping at extremities with some general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound... Read More
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Autograph Grand Tour Diary with TransAtlantic Steamship Ephemera
by Louise Catherine Hartmann [Laurence]
Belleville, Illinois, 1903. Very Good. Unpublished autograph travel diary in a small notebook. May-June 1901. One commercially-produced octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 48 unlined pages, sewn gatherings, all pageblock edges gilt. Covered for preservation in black plasticized faux leather, with a stylized vintage label-Tagebuch [Journal]-painted in silver, by an amateur hand, on the front. The same party... Read More
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Supervivencias de un Mundo Magico: Imagenes de Cuatro Pueblos Mexicanos
by Laurette Sejourne; Leonora Carrington [illus.]
Mexico: Tezontle, 1953. Very Good. San Juan, Mexico: Tezontle, 1953. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; 116,[4]pp.; cover design and five black and white illustrations by novelist and surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Light wear and creasing to edges of wrappers. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good. First of two collaborations between Sejourne and Carrington, both... Read More
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