The Other Man's Job
by E.P. Leigh-Bennett
London: George Allen & Unwon, 1937. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. A solid copy of the 1937 1st edition of this uncommon look at various pre-War, off-beat careers in Europe. Tight and VG+ (light bumping along the front panel's top-edge) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with some soiling (and light abrading) to the panels and mild creasing along... Read More
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East Coasting
by Dell Leigh
London: The Curwen Press, 1931. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. Lovely 1931 travel booklet, issued by The London and Northeastern Railway and wonderfully illustrated in rich color (and black-and-white) by the great graphic artist Edward Bawden. A clean, very well-preserved copy to boot: Crisp and Near Fine in its stapled orange wrappers, with just the slightest hint of... Read More
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Blind Spots
by Henry Smith Leiper
New York: Friendship Press, 1929. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1929 1st edition. Bright and VG in its duotone cloth, with very light tanning along the panel edges. Small former owner name at the front free endpaper, otherwise very clean. 12mo, 143 pgs.
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Mathematical Logic and Hilbert's E-Symbol
by A.C. Leisenring
London: Macdonald Technical & Scientific, 1969. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. The 1969 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch of light creasing along the panel edges. Octavo, part of Macdonald's "University Mathematical" series.
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The Puritan Conscience and Modern Sexuality
by Edmund Leites
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1986 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 196 pgs. Signed by Author.
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San Francisco World Trade Center (Prospectus)
by Leland W. Cutler, Chairman
San Francisco: World Trade Center Authority, 1945. Pictorial boards. Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LELAND CUTLER, CHAIRMAN OF THE SAN FRANCISCO WORLD TRADE CENTER AUTHORITY, on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1945 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-blue boards, with mild scuffing to the rear panel and light, closed splitting... Read More
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Sudanese Sculpture
by F.-H. Lem
Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1949 1st edition in cardboard wraps with a bright, VG+, pictorial brown paper dustjacket. Quarto, 110 pgs. With high-quality photogravure illustrations. Text in English.
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Weisweiller
by Maurice Segoura/Patricia Lemonnier
Paris: Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot, 1983. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the 1983 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, 200 pgs., crisp black-and-white photos thruout.
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The Art of Brazil
by Carlos Lemos
Harper & Row, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1983 stated 1st U.S. ed. Folio. A crisp, tight copy, Near Fine in a VG+, price-clipped dustjacket.
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Build It with Scissors: A Modern Put-Together Book
by Emily Lenartz
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co, 1929. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A well-preserved copy of the 1929 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its bright pictorial cloth. All 6 color plates completely intact. Oblong quarto, unpaginated. Small, neat former owner inscription--in light pencil--to upper corner of front pastedown.
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L' Art Gaulois dans les Medailles
by Lancelot Lengyel
Editions Corvina, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1954 1st edition. Fine in wraps with a Fine onion-skin dustjacket. #318 of 1000 copies, folio, 59 pgs. With 48 additional unbound plates which, together with the book, fit snugly into a Fine box with elaborate cover design. A handsome production.
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The Little Fire Engine (In Dustjacket)
by Lois Lenski
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good +. Lois Lenski. An impressive copy of the 1946 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($1.00), VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the bottom-edges and just a touch of mild chipping at the foot of the spine. Oblong... Read More
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We Live in the North
by Lois Lenski
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1965. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Lois Lenski. SIGNED BY LOIS LENSKI on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of the 1965 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact (and price-clipped) dustjacket, with light rubbing along the panels, light chipping at the spine ends and several very small... Read More
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Papa Small
by Lois Lenski
New York: Hnry Z. Walck, Inc, 1951. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Lois Lenski. Charming 1951 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light chipping at the foot of the spine and mild spotting to the rear panel and along the front panel's fore-edge. Square 12mo, nicely illustrated throughout in vivid... Read More
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A-Going to the Westward
by Lois Lenski
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. Lois Lenski. SIGNED BY LOIS LENSKI FROM HER HOMETOWN OF HARWINTON, CT on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of the 1937 1st edition. Tight and VG in its dark-brown cloth, with bright gilt-lettering and design along the front panel and spine. Very light rippling... Read More
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Baba Yaga (In Dustjacket)
by Ernest Small & Blair Lent
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Blair Lent. The handsome 1966 hardback, in its wild pictorial dustjacket. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with mild chipping and creasing along the panel edges. Small, old price tag at the front flap (just below the original price of $3.50). Quarto, wonderfully illustrated in... Read More
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The Waldorf-Astoria: A Brief Chronicle of a Unique Institution Now Entering Its Fifth Decade
by Henry B. Lent
Nw York: Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation, 1934. Boards. Very Good. INSCRIBED BY LUCIUS BOOMER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE WALDORF-ASTORIA AND THE MAN WHO RAN THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS, on the front free endpaper. A presentable copy to boot of the 1934 1st edition, privately printed for Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation. Solid and VG in its light-brown boards, with just a touch... Read More
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Hombre
by Elmore Leonard
New York: Ballantine Books, 1961. 1st. Original Wraps. Very Good +. A crisp, tight copy of the 1961 true 1st edition of this early Elmore Leonard Western. Bright and VG+ in its original pictorial wrappers, with very light, subtle creasing to the front panel and light offsetting at the rear panel's top-edge. Bantam Books pocketbook (BB 526K), 142... Read More
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Bloodhounds and How to Train Them
by Leon F. Whitney, D.V.M.
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, 1947. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LEON WHITNEY IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1947 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine example of the uncommon pictorial dustjacket, with just a touch of rubbing --and... Read More
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Modern Trends in Surgical Materials
by Leon Gillis, Ed
London: Butterworth & Co, 1958. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1958 1st edition. Tight and VG (with foxing at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 266 pgs. plus index.
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Egon Schiele: Paintings Watercolours Drawings
by Rudolf Leopold
London: Phaidon Press, 1973. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1973 1st English language edition (following the original 1972 German edition published out of Salzburg). The definitive monograph on Schiele and the catalogue raisonne of his paintings, watercolors and drawings. Tall, sqaure quarto, "282 plates, including 84 in color, and 612 text illustrations". A solid, VG+ copy in... Read More
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School Songs with College Flavor for High Schools and Upper-Grammar Grades
by Leo Rich Lewis, Ed
New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1904. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. The 1904 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in its dark-green cloth. And in a bright, VG example of the pictorial dustjacket, with light offsetting along the spine and very light chipping along the panel edges. Octavo, 124 pgs.
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Bonneville Salt Flats: Speed Limit 1,000 MPH
by George D. Lepp
Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, 1988. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A virtually pristine copy of the 1988 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of creasing along the foot of the spine. Quarto, first-rate color photography thruout.
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Camelot: A New Musical
by Alan Jay Lerner
New York: Random House, 1961. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A tight, very presentable copy of the 1961 stated 1st printing. Solid and VG in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with one very small chip at the front panel's bottom edge and mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 115 pgs. Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner,... Read More
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L'Enfant A Travers Les Ages
by Jeanne Leroy
H-E Martin, Editeur (Librairie D'Education de la Jeunesses). Hardcover. Very Good. Suzanne Minier. A crisp, well-preserved copy of the 1st edition, c. 1890. Clean and VG+ in its wonderful pictorial boards, with just a touch of wear along the rear panel. Tall quarto, lovely watercolors thruout by Suzanne Minier.
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