Babel; Poems
by Leibow, Christopher Anthony
Salt Lake City, UT: Christopher Anthony Leibow, 2012. First edition. Paperback. NEW. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Saddle stitched zine style chapbook. New chapbook from the Salt Lake poet and showman.
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Riparia Suite
by Leibow, Christopher
Salt Lake City, UT: Laughing Rabbi Press, 2013. Second edition. Paperback. NEW. 38pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; paperback. New chapbook from the Salt Lake poet and showman.
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Country Matters
by Leighton, Clare
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Clare Leighton. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The book is in very good condition. A small square has been cut from the jacket's spine, and there is a corresponding faded patch on the book's spine. The spine ends and corners... Read More
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Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle
by Leighton, Clare (Author and Illustrator)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 166pp. Quarto [27 cm] Sea-green cloth over boards. The edges of the spine and covers are faded. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with darkening, and multiple closed and open tears to the edges. Several tears have been taped on the reverse. With 88 wood engravings... Read More
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Country Matters
by Leighton, Clare
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Clare Leighton. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. There are large splotchy areas of fading on the spine, and the top edge of the front cover has a strip of fading as well. There are small losses from the head... Read More
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Operation: Outer Space (Fantasy Press Science Fiction)
by Leinster, Murray
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1954. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. SIGNED. 208pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over baords. The covers are slightly cocked. In the dust jacket, illustrated by John Brooks. There are a couple of pieces of tape at the head and foot of the spine, however the jacket is still quite attractive. Number 159... Read More
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Opuscula Cypriani: Variations on the Book of Saint Cyprian and Related Literature
by Leitão, José (Collection, translation, organization, introduction and analysis)
West Yorkshire: Hadean Press, 2019. First Hadean Press paperback printing. Paperback. Very Good. 954pp. Large quarto [30 cm] Black wraps printed in white, brown and red. General light wear to wraps. Top fore-edge corners of wraps lightly creased. Pages bright and free of markings. May require extra postage due to size and weight. From the publisher- "Presented... Read More
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Etruscan Magic & Occult Remedies
by Leland, Charles Godfrey
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1963. First edition thus - review copy. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 385pp. Octavo [24cm]. 1/2 black cloth over red boards. Red topstain. The spine is a bit rolled and the boards a hair bowed. The dust jacket is a bit rubbed and chipped, and there is toning to the flaps. Laid in... Read More
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Genevieve
by Lemarchand, Jacques; Rosamond Lehmann (Translator)
London: John Lehmann, No date. First UK edition. Hardcover. 128pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Bright orange cloth over boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Very good. The extremities are just a little bumped and rubbed. The text block edges are foxed. The illustrated dust jacket, designed by Edward Bawden is in very good condition. Browned. The... Read More
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Rabies. Lemay, Utah. 1914
by [Lemay, Utah] [Lemay Island, UT] [Box Elder County] [Rabies] [Coyote] [Photograph]
N.p.: n.p., 1914. Photograph. Very Good +. Small photograph [3.5" x 5.75"]. Some minor light wear and paper residue to corners from having previously been mounted. Photograph of a dead rabies-infected coyote. The photograph is captioned with type in the lower margin, "Rabie's [sic] Lemay Ut 1914." "The Lemay Island quadrangle in northwest Utah comprises lowland... Read More
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
by Lemmey, Huw; Ben Milled
London: Verso, 2023. Paperback. New. 357 pp. Duodecimo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "An unconventional history of Homosexuality Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar... Read More
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Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
by Lennard, Natasha
Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 133 pp. Octavo [21.6 cm]. Blue paper over boards. Title stamped in silver foil on spine. Printed DJ. "Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization of political dissent, the myths of radical sex, and the ghosts... Read More
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Norman Mailer: Works and Days
by Lennon, J. Michael and Donna Pedro Lennon [Norman Mailer]
Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press, 2000. 1/26 lettered copies. Leather bound. Fine. 280pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green leather with gilt title and author on front board and backstrip. This is one of twenty-six lettered copies signed by the authors and Mailer on the half-title. This is copy 'S'. Preface by Norman Mailer. Mailer bibliography covering most of his printed... Read More
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King Buff
by Lenz, Ellis Christian
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1937. Paperback. Very thin folio [31.5 cm] Stapled illustrated wraps. Very good. The wraps are age-toned and lightly rubbed. There is a former owner's name in pen on the front cover. Tanned pages. Ellis Christian Lenz also wrote Rifleman's Progress.
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The Law at Randado
by Leonard, Elmore
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 240pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Rose-colored paper over boards. 1955 printed on the title page and 1954 printed on the copyright page. The spine slants forward a bit and the spine ends are just a tad rubbed. In the dust jacket illustrated by Irving Zussman, with several subtle... Read More
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Beowulf
by Leonard, William Ellery (Translator). Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1967. The Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Leather Bound. Near Fine. Lynd Ward. 119 pp. Quarto [27 cm]; full blue leather with raised bands, gilt stamped titles and designs. All edges gilt. Blue moire endsheets. A nice copy. Lynd Ward illustrated edition of the Old English epic.
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Game Survey of the North Central States
by Leopold, Aldo
Madison, WI: Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute, 1931. 1931 edition. Hardcover. Very good -. 299 pp. Quarto. [26 cm]. Green cloth over boards stamped with a black pattern imitating a 3/4 binding. Text block is cracked at title page. Corners bumped and extremities rubbed. Ex library markings from the Library of Congress, including a blank book plate... Read More
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Scavi Di Ostia. Marmi Di Cava Rinvenuti Ad Ostia E Considerazioni Sul Commercio Dei Marmi In Eta Romana. A Cura Di Paola Baccini Leotardi. Volume Decimo
by Leotardi, Paola Baccini
Roma (Rome): Instituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato, Libreria Della Stato, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 59pp. Slim folio [36 cm] Odd volume. Italian text. Natural beige cloth over boards with a dark red ink stamped title and vignette on the front cover, and two red leather title labels stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge trimmed. Title page... Read More
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Jews & Blacks: A Dialogue on Rance, Religion, and Culture in America
by Lerner, Michael; Cornel West
New York: Plume, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. New. 295pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Pictoral wraps. "Examining the issues that have united Blacks and Jews in the past and now separate them, two long-time friends and leading intellectuals try to restore the special relationship between the two groups in a hard-hitting and worthwhile exchange. Can Jews and Blacks be friends... Read More
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The Locked-Room Mysteries Trilogy: (The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Hollow Man, The Four Just Men)
by Leroux, Gaston; John Dickinson Carr; Edgar Wallace
The Folio Society, 2017. Hardcover. Fine. 130 pp, 133 pp, 255 pp. Octavo. [23 cm]. Set of three, all bound in cloth of varied colors. Grey slipcase with silver stamped gilt title. The Mystery of the Yellow Room is recognized as the first locked room mystery, in which a criminal inexplicably escapes out of a locked room. Continuing... Read More
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The Star Seekers
by Lesser, Milton
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. Hardcover. 212pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are very gently bumped and rubbed. The underlying boards are peeking through at the bottom right corner of the front cover. The edges of the text block... Read More
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Earthbound
by Lesser, Milton
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 208pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with a red ink stamped title on the spine. Good. The covers are very gently bumped, rubbed and discolored. Minor spine slant. There is a very small stain on the top right corner of the text block. There are also very small... Read More
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The Star Seekers
by Lesser, Milton
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 212pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. Illustrated endpapers. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the spine is slightly rolled. In the dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Jacket... Read More
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Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines
by Lesser, Robert; with contributions by Roger T. Reed; Fred Cook; Shirley Steeger; et al.
New York: Gramercy Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 182pp. Quarto [31cm]. Black boards with title stamped in metallic red on spine. In an illustrated dust jacket. 192 pages of full-color original paintings from the classic American pulp magazines! Authoritative text by Robert Lesser and 18 essays by assorted contributors.
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Stories
by Lessing, Doris
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 625pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the author's initials blind stamped on the front board. Publisher's red top stain. With light dust soiling to the spine and covers, a small stain on the rear... Read More
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