Imageries (6 volumes)
by Lavater, Warja [Artist Book - Fairy Tales] [Leporello]; Original tales by Charles Perrault
Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur [printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris], 1982. French editions. Very Good. Six accordion-folding artist's books composed of cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior, each in the publisher's lucite slipcase showing moderate shelfwear (1" crack in the slipcase for Cendrillon). All housed in the illustrated paper covered... Read More
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La Belle au Bois Dormant
by Lavater, Warja
Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1982. First edition. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of brown cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior. Book is near fine. Top board sits slightly off-center (as is common). The accordion-folding text is pristine. A bright and colorful visual reinterpretation, using only symbols, of the Sleeping Beauty by the... Read More
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
by [Law] Maine, Sir Henry Sumner
London: John Murray, 1897. Seventh edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 412pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] In an elegant blue leather binding by J. Low, with decorative gilt stamping, and a gilt-tooled spine. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. The spine is sunned and has a handful of dark stains, and the spine ends are lightly rubbed. There is... Read More
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American Boy Scouts Plays and Pastimes
by Lawrence, C. H.
M. A. Donahue & Co, 1912. Illustrated edition. Paperback. Folio [30.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Good only. The front cover is detached but present. The back cover is almost completely detached. The gatherings are loose. The top fore edge margins of the pages have dark stains. There are small losses from the top right corners of the covers and pages.Extra... Read More
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The Escaped Cock
by Lawrence, D. H.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition, limited. Paperback. Good. 95pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan wraps printed in red and black. Large losses from the spine. Text block cracked here and there. No slipcase. With Decorations in Color by the Author. Privately published for subscribers only by Harry and Caresse Crosby at their Black Sun Press... Read More
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Rabbit Hill
by Lawson, Robert
New York: Viking Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. 127pp. Octavo [24cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Title stamped in teal ink on spine. Charming illustrated endpapers showing "The Hill." Spine ends and extremities lightly bumped; boards mildly soiled. Lacking dust jacket. Signed by the author in brown ink on on the half title. Robert... Read More
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The Side-Show of Life
by Lazarchuk, Michael-Sean
Ventura, CA: Temporary Eternity Books, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 26 unnumbered 8.5" x 11" sheets, side-stapled, printed only on the rectos. Contains a title page, a dedication page, 19 poems (in typewriter font), and a colophon. Blue paper wraps with graphic illustrations on front and rear covers. All elements very good with only minor fading to... Read More
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[Eagle Gate & Beehive House]
by [Cabinet Card] [Salt Lake City] [Utah] [Mormon] [LDS]
1880. Good +. Photograph [12.5 cm x 20.5 cm] on a thin plain card mount [17.5 cm x 25.5 cm]. Unknown photographer. Pencil inscription on reverse: "Bee Hive House Brigham Young's Residence at the Eagle Gate 1880 Salt Lake City." Light age toning to photograph and mount, especially around edges of the mount. The mount is bumped at... Read More
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Fossil Foot-Marks in the Red Sandstone of Pottsville, Pennsylvania
by Lea, Isaac
Philadelphia: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1855. Hardcover. Good. 16pp. Elephant folio [70 cm] Publisher's quarter leather over tan printed boards. Overall discoloring and age toning to boards. Rubbing to the extremities (more so to the backstrip and rear board). Some subtle dampstaining to the boards and the edges of the large plate, which is present at... Read More
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Over the Footlights [Dust jacket art by John Held Jr.] [Jazz Age]
by Leacock, Stephen; John Held
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 285pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards. Covers a little cocked. A bit of bumping to the extremities. With the dust jacket illustrated by John Held, with light rubbing, darkening to the spine, and sporadic small closed and open tears to the edges. No... Read More
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Manners Can Be Fun
by Leaf, Munro
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Good/good. SIGNED. 45pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The cloth on the boards is foxed, the boards are negligibly warped, and the hinges are weak. In the pictorial dust jacket, which is darkened in areas, has periodic tears to the edges, and has a partially perished... Read More
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What's the Big Idea? (A Harlin Quist Book)
by Leander, Ed
New York: A Harlin Quist Book, 1975. First trade paperback printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Unpaginated. Very slim, square octavo [19 cm]. Pictorial wrappers. The wraps are mildly rubbed and creased. Illustrations by Jean-Michel Nicollet, Marvin Mattelson, Andre Vial, Michel Benier, Tina Mercie, Patrick Couratin, Victoria Chess, Monique Gaudriault, Volker Theinhardt, Claude Lapointe, and Louis Bour. Book designed... Read More
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Mrs. Roo and the Bunnies
by Learnard, Rachel; Illustrated by Tom Funk
Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co.; The Riverside Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 29pp. Slim square octavo [23 cm] Mustard yellow cloth over boards with a red ink stamped title and vignette on the front cover. Bright pictorial endpapers. Near fine, with only a contemporary gift inscription on the front pastedown. In a very good dust jacket, with a... Read More
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Timothy Leary's Greatest Hits Volume 1: Monographs 1980-1990
by Leary, Timothy; Vicki Marshall, Ron Lawrence
Studio City, CA: KnoWare, 1990. First edition. Spiral Bound. Very good. Debbie Mitchell. SIGNED. Quarto [28 cm] Spiral bound black and white printed wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled. With the publisher's form "Timothy Leary's Cyber Deli Collector's Menu" tucked in. Contents: How I Became An Amphibian; Criminalizing the Natural and Naturalizing the Criminal; Custom Sized... Read More
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The Obsidian Ape (Fantasy Classics-3)
by Leath, Robert Neal
North Hollywood, CA: Fantasy House, 1973. Paperback. 44pp. Slim quarto [28 cm] Colorful stapled pictorial wraps illustrated by Gerry Mooney. Very good. The wraps are gently rubbed and creased. A story with a pulp origin. Art by Gerry Mooney and David Weiss. From the rear cover- "First published thirty-five years ago in a long since vanished magazine called All-American... Read More
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A Place I've Never Been
by Leavitt, David
New York: Viking, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 194pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over brown boards. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author.
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The Marble Quilt
by Leavitt, David
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. 241pp. Octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Fine.
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North of Supernova
by Leavitt, Lindsey
New York: Henry Holt, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. SIGNED 267pp. Octavo [21.7cm] Purple paper over boards with title stamped in blue ink on back strip. Decorative blind stamping on front board. " When Stella's world is shaken up by her father's surprise engagement, she takes fate into her own hands with astrology, tarot, and crystals in this... Read More
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While England Sleeps
by Leavitt, David
New York: Viking, 1993. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Paperback. Fine. 300pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in printed wrappers. Very Good condition.
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The Page Turner
by Leavitt, David
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. 244pp. Octavo [21cm] White and blue wrappers. Near fine.
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Resemblances: Amazing Faces by Charles Le Brun (A Harlin Quist Book) [Physiognomy]
by Le Brun, Charles; Introduction by Edward Sorel
New York: A Harlin Quist Book (Dial / Delacorte), 1980. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Slim quarto [28 cm] Light wear and toning to wraps. From the Introduction- "Le Brun's physiognomy studies are an offshoot of man's continuing fascination with the congruities that can be found between human and animal 'faces' and our seemingly irresistible desire... Read More
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Along the Old Roads: A History of the Portion of Southern California that became Riverside County 1772-1893
by Lech, Steve
Published by the Author, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 902pp. Very thick octavo [23.5 cm] Dark red spine and boards with gilt lettering. Extremities a bit dinged. Small stain to foot of text block. Internally, clean and bright. Including a description of settlement patterns in the area, the development of towns and colonies within the county (including... Read More
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Thérèse and Isabelle
by Leduc, Violette; Sophie Lewis [Translater]
New York: The Feminist Press, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. New. 245pp. Duodecimo. [19 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Illustrated end papers. From the publisher: "Censored for half a century for its vivid depiction of female sexuality, this novella follows two young women in the obsessive and at times frightening throes of a first love affair. Thérèse and Isabelle must navigate their... Read More
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Iron County Centennial 1851-1951
by Lee, J. Bracken (Greetings)
Iron County Centennial Committee, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Very good +. 42pp. Small duodecimo [19 cm] Orange and black printed wraps, staple bound. Slight fading of covers at the spine. Some photos. Contents: Before the Pioneers Came; A Decade of Colonization; Economic and Cultural Development; The Present Century.
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My Year Abroad
by Lee, Chang-Rae
New York: Riverhead Books, 2021. Later printing. Hardcover. New/new. 477pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 white paper with orange paper over boards. Title gilt stamped on spine and front cover. From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure –... Read More
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