Alarms: A Novel of Psychic Suspense [Signed]
Alarms: A Novel of Psychic Suspense [Signed]

by Richard Laymon

Shingletown: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. Shingletown: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. First Trade Edition. Octavo (22cm); [vi],214pp. Illustrated dust jacket with both Trade and Deluxe Edition prices intact; boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is... Read More

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Guida di Venezia e delle Isole Circonvicine
Guida di Venezia e delle Isole Circonvicine

by P[ietro] Selvatico and V[incenzo] Lazari

Venezia: Stabilimento Nazionale di Carlo Bianchi, 1860. Very Good. Venezia: Stabilimento Nazionale di Carlo Bianchi, n.d., ca. 1860s. Later Edition. Octavo (21cm.); contemporary green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; viii,321pp.; illus. Leather a bit rubbed and dried along extremities, spine darkened, foxing to textblock, remnants of bookseller ticket to front free endpaper... Read More

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The Recreator: Second Year 1921
The Recreator: Second Year 1921

by Navy Yard Recreation League

Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1921. Very Good. Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1921. First Edition. Quarto. 124 pages plus advertisements. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Brown wraps printed in black and red. Original illustrated tan wrappers are chipped along edges with some light staining and soiling. Large but light dampstain to top edge... Read More

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The Recreator: Year Book Washington Navy Yard Nineteen-Twenty
The Recreator: Year Book Washington Navy Yard Nineteen-Twenty

by Navy Yard Recreation League

Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1920. Very Good. Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1920. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue pictorial string-bound wrappers, yapp edges; 140pp. + 84pp. advertisements; black and white illus. and photographs throughout. Edges chipped with some light staining to covers. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Very Good overall. Sections include descriptions of the Navy... Read More

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The World of Tennessee Williams [Signed by Williams and Leavitt]
The World of Tennessee Williams [Signed by Williams and Leavitt]

by Tennessee Williams; Richard F. Leavitt

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which this is #142. Signed by Williams and Leavitt on limitation page. Quarto. 168 pages. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations and 16 in color. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt. Light brown slipcase.... Read More

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Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

by Lothar Ledderose

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Very Good+/Very Good+. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],265pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good or better overall. The collected A.W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts for 1998, issued as the Bollingen Series Vol. XXXV.... Read More

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Late Summer and Other Verse
Late Summer and Other Verse

by Bertha Lee Broyles

Auburn, AL: Privately Printed, 1949. Very Good. Auburn, AL: Privately Printed, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 84 pages. Black and white photographs. Red boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Faint white staining to boards. Spine ends collapsed and corners bumped. Binding is sound. Pen marking to title page but interior otherwise clean. ... Read More

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Christianity in the Oriental Mind [Signed and Inscribed]
Christianity in the Oriental Mind [Signed and Inscribed]

by Dr. Su Jan Lee

Taipei, Taiwan: Published by Yen Hsung Printing Company, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Taipei, Taiwan: Published by Yen Hsung Printing Company, 1967. First Edition. Signed by Dr. Lee with gift inscription on full title, with Lee's business card laid in at front. Octavo. 204 pp. Printed dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt and red. Dust jacket worn along... Read More

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Negro Medal of Honor Men
Negro Medal of Honor Men

by Irvin H. Lee

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.00); xii,[6],139pp.; four plates of halftone photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, else a Very Good or better example. Uncommon group biography... Read More

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The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Problems in Deduction
The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Problems in Deduction

by Ellery Queen [pseud. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee]

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black; xii,[2],357pp. Light shelf wear, some scuffing to black stamping, yellow portion of cloth a bit dust-soiled, faint fingersoil to textblock fore-edge else Very Good and sound. The duo's first collection... Read More

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The New Adventures of Ellery Queen: Including an Amazing Short Novel "The Lamp of God
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen: Including an Amazing Short Novel "The Lamp of God

by Ellery Queen [pseud. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee]

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo; 307pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in maroon; lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with minor fraying and brief loss to base of spine; faded along edges and spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.

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Fotografos en la Sevilla del Siglo XIX
Fotografos en la Sevilla del Siglo XIX

by Lee Fontanella and Maria de los Santos Garcia Felguera [text]; Gerardo F. Kurtz [photo ed.]

Sevilla: Focus / Fundacion Fondo de Cultura de Sevilla, 1994. Very Good+/Very Good. Sevilla: Focus / Fundacion Fondo de Cultura de Sevilla, [1994]. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; 209pp.; photographic illus. throughout including folding views. Light shelf wear, corners softened, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.

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Material Collection of Japan's Policy Toward Dokdo and the Surrounding Ocean (Four Volumes)
Material Collection of Japan's Policy Toward Dokdo and the Surrounding Ocean (Four Volumes)

by Lee Jong-hak [compiler and content ed.]; Wi Taek-whan [publishing ed.]

Ulleungdo, South Korea: Dokdo Museum, 2006. Very Good. Ulleungdo: Dokdo Museum, 2006. First Editions. Octavo; Vol I 28 + xii pp in English, 1132pp in Japanese; Vol II 24 + xii pp in English, 1118pp in Japanese; Vol III 24 + xi pp in English, 1017pp in Japanese; Vol IV 40 + vi pp in English, 769pp in... Read More

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Norse Boat Building in North America [cover title: Norse Boatbuilding in North America]
Norse Boat Building in North America [cover title: Norse Boatbuilding in North America]

by Lance Lee

Bath, ME: Apprenticeshop of the Maine Maritime Museum, 1980. Very Good +. Bath, ME: Apprenticeshop of the Maine Maritime Museum, 1980. First Edition, stated. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's cream photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 34pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of dust-soil and wear from handling, else Very Good to Near Fine. Short but informative monograph primarily devoted to the... Read More

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Manuscript Guest Book, 1937-1955
Manuscript Guest Book, 1937-1955

by Ralph and Violette Lee

San Francisco, CA, 1937. Near Fine. San Francisco or San Mateo, CA: 1937-1955. Octavo (21.5cm); recent full crimson morocco wallet binding elaborately tooled in gilt, interior bound in diced turquoise morocco, housed in matching slipcase; each leaf pressure stamped with a small message in what appears to be Farsi; [190]pp. of which more than two-thirds are filled with... Read More

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The Dark Device
The Dark Device

by Hannah Lees

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. First Edition, stated, with publisher's I-W code (September 1947). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],261pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few chips and short closed tears, textblock a shade toned due to inferior post-war paper stock,... Read More

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Farewell to Model T.
Farewell to Model T.

by Lee Strout White; Alain [illus.]

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Slim 12mo; publisher's cloth in green and white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [40]pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket quite chipped and worn with small loss at spine crown, a few closed tears with subsequent creasing, exterior panels uniformly dust-soiled, corners bumped... Read More

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Christ the Hunter [Signed Limited Edition]
Christ the Hunter [Signed Limited Edition]

by John Lehmann

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Very Good. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and numbered 497 of 500 copies on limitation page. Octavo; 55pp. Blue buckram with silver lettering to spine, housed in gray paper-covered slipcase with paper title card to front. Boards are square with a couple spots of... Read More

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The Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories
The Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories

by Rosamond Lehmann

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 192pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small chip at spine crown slightly affecting text, purple spine lettering dulled, boards a bit faded along bottom edge, light toning to endpapers... Read More

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A Note in Music
A Note in Music

by Rosamond Lehmann

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black decorative dust jacket printed in silver and dark green, gray topstain; [8],319pp. Front jacket flap almost fully-separated along fold (just holding at top but destined to let go); moderate chips... Read More

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Swords Against Wizardry
Swords Against Wizardry

by Fritz Leiber

Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Very Good +/Very Good. Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. First Gregg Press Edition. Octavo (21 cm), [189]pp. Publisher's red illustrated dust jacket with author photo on back flap. Boards full bound in burnt sienna cloth with gilt stamping on spine and front. General creasing and bumping to dust jacket, with a short tear to front... Read More

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Our Lady of Darkness
Our Lady of Darkness

by Fritz Leiber

London: Millington Books, 1978. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Millington Books, 1978. First UK Edition. Octavo; 189pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £3.95 price intact; blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with faint shelfwear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Pages lightly and uniformly toned, with final gathering [161-189] noticeably... Read More

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A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 [Signed and Inscribed]
A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 [Signed and Inscribed]

by Annie Leibovitz

New York: Random House, 2006. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Random House, 2006. Later Printing. Folio; unpaginated. Publisher's photographic dust jacket with $75.00 price intact; navy boards; red endsheets. Chiefly photographic illustrations, some in color. Dust jacket bumped; spine cocked. Boards bumped. Binding sound. An overall Very Good or better copy. Inscribed "For Karen." Signed and dated... Read More

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Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1883
Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1883

by Brian Leigh Dunnigan

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Near Fine. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. First Edition. Oblong folio. 248 pp. Illustrations and photographs throughout, chiefly color. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and tan boards stamped in copper; decorative endpapers. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Boards with mild shelfwear and stray thread to front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.... Read More

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Planet Stories - Summer 1949
Planet Stories - Summer 1949

by Leigh Brackett; Stanley Mullen; Alfred Coppel; Margaret St. Clair [contribs.]; Allen Anderson [illus.]

New York: Love Romances Publishing Co, 1949. Very Good. New York: Love Romances Publishing Co., 1949. Octavo; 112 pp. Pulp magazine. Illustrated paper wraps. Shallow chips and tears to overhung bottom and fore-edge, with a closed 2" tear at bottom front adjacent to spine and another to back cleanly along it; some light creasing and a few smudges... Read More

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