![Butchers and Other Stories of Crime [Upper jacket title: Butchers & Other Stories of Crime] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/797/179/1362179797.0.m.jpg)
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime [Upper jacket title: Butchers & Other Stories of Crime] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Peter Lovesey
London: Macmillan, 1985. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: Macmillan, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in black and red; 207pp. Light shelf wear, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
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![Upon a Dark Night [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/180/1362180887.0.m.jpg)
Upon a Dark Night [Signed]
by Peter Lovesey
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],344pp. Light soil and wear to jacket extremities, spine very slightly cocked, minor uniform toning to text block, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on title page. "The... Read More
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British Cartoonists: Caricaturists and Comic Artists
by David Low
London: William Collins, 1932. Very Good. London: William Collins, 1932. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's black pictorial paper-covered boards; 47pp.; four leaves of color illus. printed on rectos and versos, half-tone illus. in text throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed, especially along spine, spine cracked and white lettering toned; still Very Good overall, better than usually encountered. Forms part... Read More
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The Art of Pitching
by Tom Seaver; Lee Lowenfish
New York: A Mountain Lion Book / Hearst Books, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: A Mountain Lion Book / Hearst Books, 1984. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Square octavo. 223 pp. Black and white illustrations. Photographic dust jacket with $15.95 price present. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket edgeworn with some slight creasing... Read More
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A Paraphrase and Notes on the Revelation of St. John
by Moses Lowman
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Edward Exshaw, 1740. Very Good. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Edward Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill, over-against the Old-Exchange, 1740. First Dublin Edition. Octavo; full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments; xxxvi,[2],[41]-352,[6]pp. (A3 B-2X4 [2]Y2 [2]Z2, collated complete despite error in pagination). Minor scuffing to leather extremities with a... Read More
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Very Good/Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; 375pp. Three-color contour map dust jacket, with First Printing signaled by "Advance critical acclaim" header and four blurbs (Kain, Warren, Aiken, Spender) on back. Light gray cloth with crimson lettering on front panel and spine. Unclipped dust... Read More
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The Wolf That Fed Us
by Robert Lowry
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 220pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; book in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with a 2.5" crease to back panel and some toning down and... Read More
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Regulae Societatis Iesu
by [Jesuits] Ignatius of Loyola
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Ioannem Fouet via Iacobaea, sub signo Rosarij, 1620. Very Good. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Ioannem Fouet via Iacobaea, sub signo Rosarij, 1620. Early reprint. 12mo. [5]; 2-359; [360] misprinted 36; [4]pp. Jesuit symbol to title page; initial engravings. Later (19th century?) quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards with spine stamped in gilt; edges sprayed; reading ribbon;... Read More
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![Around the World on a Cleveland Bicycle [Trade Catalog]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/518/026/1722026518.0.m.jpg)
Around the World on a Cleveland Bicycle [Trade Catalog]
by Cleveland Bicycles; H.A. Lozier
Toronto, ON: H.A. Lozier and Co, 1896. Very Good +. Toronto, ON: H.A. Lozier and Co., 1896. Canadian Edition. Thin octavo booklet (20cm); 31pp. Staple-bound paper wraps with green text and ornamentation. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Wraps bumped and toned; rear panel shows more significant soiling and dime-sized stain. Tears forming at spine; binding otherwise sound. Textblock and interior... Read More
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Cleveland Bicycles
by [Cleveland Bicycles] H.A. Lozier
New York: Bartlett & Company, 1899. Very Good+. New York: Bartlett & Company, 1899. Side-stapled octavo in illustrated card wrappers (20 cm); 24pp. Margins gently rubbed and bumped with light rusting to staples and tear down spine to both sides, stopping at first staple. Small creases to spine edge of covers and minor scuffing with small creases and... Read More
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Genius and Character
by Emil Ludwig
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 330 pages. Black boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. A series of biographical sketches on such figures as Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Machiavelli. Boards are lightly worn at edges with some general scuffing. Binding gives a little but is... Read More
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Notebooks, 1914-1916
by Ludwig Wittgenstein; G.H. von Wright and G.E.M. Anscombe [eds.]
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket printed in blue retaining original price (32s. 6d. net); vipp. & 131ll. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, some dustiness to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. Bilingual edition with German... Read More
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Zettel
by Ludwig Wittgenstein; G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright [eds.]
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (37s. 6d. net); v,124ll. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket spine panel toned, cloth sizing along top spine edge stripped; overall Very Good and sound. Bilingual edition with German and... Read More
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Aristotele e l'Idea della Filosofia
by [Aristotle] Leo Lugarini
Firenze: Nuova Italia Editrice, 1961. Very Good. Firenze: Nuova Italia Editrice, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pale grey wrappers printed in red and black; ix,[1],278pp. Moderate wear to extremities from handling, margins and textblock rather toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper with accompanying pencil note along bottom margin, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. At... Read More
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Ercole in Iberia / Hercules en Iberia
by Luigi Goffredo Zuccoli [attr.]
Barcelona: Imprenta de la Viuda e Hijos de Brusi, 1833. Very Good. Barcelona: Imprenta de la Viuda e Hijos de Brusi, 1833. First Edition. Slim octavo (17.5cm.); full elaborately gilt-tooled crimson morocco, all edges gilt, blue moiré silk endpapers; 61,[2]pp. Leather a bit rubbed at margins, notably at spine ends, hairline crack to front hinge, mid 20th-century gift... Read More
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![Il Veronelli: Enciclopedia Mondiale dei Vini e delle Acquaviti [Six volume set, with] 1: Italia Abbaia - Luparello; 2: Italia Madonna delle Vittorie - Tiferno; 3: Italia Tignanello - 8 Filari California & Francia Aloxe Corton - Hermitage Rouge les Bessards; 4: Francia Irouleguy - Vouvray Petillant; 5: Europa; 6: Gli altri paesi del mondo & Le acquaviti](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/133/822/1603822133.0.m.jpg)
Il Veronelli: Enciclopedia Mondiale dei Vini e delle Acquaviti [Six volume set, with] 1: Italia Abbaia - Luparello; 2: Italia Madonna delle Vittorie - Tiferno; 3: Italia Tignanello - 8 Filari California & Francia Aloxe Corton - Hermitage Rouge les Bessards; 4: Francia Irouleguy - Vouvray Petillant; 5: Europa; 6: Gli altri paesi del mondo & Le acquaviti
by Luigi Veronelli; Lorenzo Vincenti [ed.]
Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1981. First Editions. Six quarto volumes. Color photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Pale yellow boards stamped in maroon. Dust jackets show light edgewear with occasional tears and chips; spines sunned; mild soiling and spotting. Boards shelfworn; staining to base of volume 5; general smudging; interiors show light spotting... Read More
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![Series de los Mas Importantes Documentos del Archivo y Biblioteca del Exmo. Señor Duque de Medinaceli [1a. & 2a. Series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/830/089/1496089830.0.m.jpg)
Series de los Mas Importantes Documentos del Archivo y Biblioteca del Exmo. Señor Duque de Medinaceli [1a. & 2a. Series]
by [Luis Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Medinaceli] A. Paz y Mélia
Madrid: Imprenta Alemana, 1915. Very Good. Madrid: Imprenta Alemana, 1915, 1922. First Editions, Limited to an unspecified numbers of copies of which Serie 1 is no. 374 and Serie 2 is no. 216. Two volumes; large quartos; later brown library cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xxviii,482; 563pp.; plates throughout, including facsimiles in full color (tissue guarded). Cloth a bit scuffed... Read More
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![Joseph II. And His Court [Four Volumes in One]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/319/556/1687556319.0.m.jpg)
Joseph II. And His Court [Four Volumes in One]
by L[uise] Muhlbach [pseud. Clara Mundt]; Adelaide De V. Chaudron [trans.]
Mobile, AL: S.H. Goetzel / Farrow & Dennett, 1864. Good +. Mobile, AL: S.H. Goetzel / Farrow & Dennet, Printers, 1864. First American Edition. Four volumes bound in one; octavo (19cm); removed from old binding but retaining all eight of the publisher's wallpaper wrappers, housed in custom cloth clamshell box, green gilt spine label; 240; 240; 139,[1]; 152pp.... Read More
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A History of the Cold War
by John Lukacs
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Fine/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in mustard pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 288pp. Light edge wear, upper jacket panel a bit rubbed, spine panel a shade sunned, contemporary bookseller ticket (Sidney Kramer Books, Washington, DC) tipped... Read More
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Cross-Country Ski-ing
by Arnold Lunn
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company Publishers, 1920. Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company Publishers, [1920]. First American Edition. 12mo. 118pp. Photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth boards stamped in black; no dust jacket. Light wear and fading along edges; spine toned. Boards slightly bowed; binding sound; spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; Very Good.
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![Domestic Art A (Sewing) [WITH] Domestic Art B (Millinery) [Manuscript Notebook]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/655/1683655887.0.m.jpg)
Domestic Art A (Sewing) [WITH] Domestic Art B (Millinery) [Manuscript Notebook]
by Lydia Lussy
Pennsylvania, 1918. Very Good +. Pennsylvania? ca. 1918. Small quarto (21cm); original school notebook of cloth tape-backed brown card wrappers, Lydia Lussy's name in faint ink to upper cover; [120]pp. approximately half filled in ink manuscript with fifteen (15) needlework examples mounted in. Light wear, small damp spot to upper cover, occasional spotting to samples, else Very Good... Read More
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A Case to Answer
by Edgar Lustgarten
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear, general rubbing, a 1" closed tear at top of spine, and spotting to verso. Boards lightly worn along edges with some toning along bottom... Read More
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The Two Olive-Trees; or, Zerubbabel and Joshua. Religion the Leading Qualification of Civil Rulers and Christian Ministers, Illustrated in a Sermon Preached at Hatfield, Nov. 4, 1804. Being the Day Preceding the Choice of Electors in Massachusetts. Also God the Sure Foundation of Confidence and Joy; a Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered Nov. 29, 1804
by Joseph Lyman
Northampton, MA: Printed by William Butler, 1804. Very Good. Northampton, MA: Printed by William Butler, 1804. First Edition. Octavo. 29 pp. Printed wraps, removed. Light toning and rubbing to pages. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce pamphlet from the long-time Hatfield minister.
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Poems. By the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, Esq; of St. Johnsbury (Vermont) formerly of Providence and a tutor in Rhode-Island College
by Josias Lyndon Arnold
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. Good. Providence: Printed ... by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their Book-Store, opposite the Market, 1797. First Edition. 12mo; disbound; xii,[13]-141,[1]pp. ([A]6 B-M6, collated and complete with half title page); ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Lacking boards, paper spine remnants only, first two gatherings separated but present, else a Good, internally sound example.... Read More
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![Gypsy: A Musical (Suggested by the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee) [Bookplate Signed by Laurents laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/900/914/1673914900.0.m.jpg)
Gypsy: A Musical (Suggested by the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee) [Bookplate Signed by Laurents laid in]
by [Gypsy Rose Lee] Arthur Laurents [book]; Jule Styne [music]; Stephen Sondheim [lyrics]
New York: Random House, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, [1960]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, photo-illustrated paste-on to upper cover, in scarlet price-clipped dust jacket; [12],144pp.; photo-illustrated title page and frontispiece, two leaves of photographs from the original production. Light wear to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, scattered foxing to jacket... Read More
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