The Battle for Stock Market Profits
by Gerald M. Loeb
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. A solid, presentable copy of the 1971 stated 1st printing. Tight and VG (offsetting at the front pastedown and front free endpaper, where a newspaper clip had been laid-in) in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, wih miuld darkening along the spine. Octavo, one of the key titles... Read More
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Chinese Bronze Age Weapons: The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum, Peking
by Max Loehr
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1956. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A solid copy of the 1956 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (with light fading along the spine) in a bright, price-intact, VG example of the publisher's glassine dustjacket, with a 3" chip at the foot of the front panel and a long closed tear... Read More
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Nichtdestoweniger Plakate ("Nevertheless Posters")
by Uwe Loesch
Mainz, Germany: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1997. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. A near-pristine copy of the 1997 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, first-rate color reproductions thruout. Text in both German and English.
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Probility Theory: Foundations -- Random Sequences
by Michel Loeve
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1955. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, tight copy of the 1955 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine (a touch of light offsetting to the endsheets) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, part of Van Nostrand's formidable "University Series in Higher Mathematics
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Noisy Nora
by Hugh Lofting
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929. Pictorial cloth. Very Good -. Hugh Lofting. A serviceable copy of the 1929 1st American edition. Solid and Good+ to VG- in its pink cloth, with mounted pictorial to the front panel. Light wear at the spine ends and tips, mild soiling to the panels. Tender (but still sturdy) inner hinges, signs... Read More
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Doctor Dolittle's Birthday Book
by Hugh Lofting
New York: F.A. Stokes, 1935. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hugh Lofting. A lovely copy of the uncommon 1935 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($1.75), Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very light soiling to the panels. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind.... Read More
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Doctor Dolittle's Return
by Hugh Lofting
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. Hugh Lofting. A handsome copy of the 1933 1st American edition. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its orange pictorial boards, with very slight cocking to the binding, a bit of light soiling at the rear panel and one small bump to the front panel's upper... Read More
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The Story of Mrs. Tubbs
by Hugh Lofting
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. Pictorial boards. Very Good. Hugh Lofting. INSCRIBED BY HUGH LOFTING (not to anyone) ON THE HALF-TITLE. A Solid copy to boot of the June 1929 5th American printing. Tight and VG in its pictorial boards, with very light nicking and rubbing to the front panel. Mild staining as well to the... Read More
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Richard La Londe: Fused Glass Art and Technique
by Richard Parker La Londe
Freeland, Washington: Ozone Press, 2006. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY RICHARD LA LONDE along the half-title. An immaculate copy to boot of the 2006 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. "224 pages, 475 photographs, 412 in full color
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
by Jack London
New York: Arno Press, 1967. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. A sharp copy of the 1967 1st thus. Crisp and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with veryt light creasing at the spine ends. 12mo, 243 pgs. Part of the Abercrombie & Fitch Library, which was committed to re-publishing "rediscovered works by great sportsmen of the past... Read More
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The Road
by Jack London
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. A handsome copy of the 1907 1st edition, 1st issue (with the gilt-titling to the front panel and spine AND the 4 pages of ads at the rear). Solid and VG+ in its decorative light-gray cloth, with very light wear at the spine crown. Thick octavo, 48... Read More
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Whitehall and the Jews: British Immigration Policy and the Holocaust
by Louise London
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A crisp copy of this 2001 reprint. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 313 pgs.
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Prisoners of the Tower (2 Vols.)
by Arthur Henry Cook (Former Chief Warder H. M. Tower of London)
1959. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. 1959 photo-offset of the long-hand account of the former chief warder of the Tower of London, of all those imprisoned in the Tower, from Flamburd Runnald (Bishop of Durham) in 1101 to Rudolf Hess in 1941. ONLY 3 SETS OF THIS VALUABLE RECORD WERE MADE-- and all 3 were presented to American institutions.... Read More
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Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
by Andrea Loney
New York: Lee & Low Books Inc, 2017. Pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. Keith Mallett. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ANDREA LONEY on the Dedication page. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 2017 stated 1st edition (and with the appropriate number bar). Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, nicely illustrated throughout in rich color by... Read More
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luoghi di culto: architetture 1997-2007
by Andrea Longhi
Milan: Motta Architettura, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the 2008 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, 278 pgs. Text in Italian.
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Fair Winds in the Far Baltic (In Dustjacket)
by Alfred F. Loomis
New York: Ives Washburn, 1928. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The 1928 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Tight and VG (light soiling along the top-edges, mild offsetting to the front free endpaper) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with mild dust-dulling at the front panel and light chipping along the top-edges. Octavo, crisp black-and-white photos by the author... Read More
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Around the World with the Alphabet
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HENDRIK VAN LOON on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1935 1st edition of this charming alphabet book. Tight and VG (with minor loss at the spine crown) in a bright, price-intact ($1.00), VG dustjacket, with similar loss at... Read More
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In Another's House: A Play
by Basil Lopez
Jamaica: Self-published, 1973. Original wraps. Very Good +. The 1973 1st edition of this uncommon Jamaican play. Soid and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers, with very light rubbing and soiling along the panels, and small former owner name at the front free endpaper. Octavo, much of the dialogue in the regional patois.
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Close-Up Card Magic
by Harry Lorayne
New York: Lou Tannen, 1962. Cloth. Near Fine/Good +. Edward E. Mishell. SIGNED BY HARRY LORAYNE on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1962 correct 1st edition, the stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Good+ to VG- dustjacket, with light creasing and chipping along the edges, and mild rubbing... Read More
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Poema Del Cante Jondo: Llanto Por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1944. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1944 1st edition, IN ITS ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and VG+ (with mild darkening to the pages) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket. 12mo (pocketbook), 127 pgs.
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Man Meets Dog
by Konrad Z. Lorenz
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. Miss Annie Eisenmenger and Konrad Lorenz. A crisp, well-preserved copy of the 1955 1st American edition of this "loving study of the canine personality" by the 1973 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine. Solid and VG+ (light offsetting to the front inner hinge) in a bright, price-intact, VG+... Read More
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Spezielle Algebraische und Transscendente EBENE KURVEN: Theorie und Geschichte
by Dr. Gino Loria
Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1902. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1st German edition of this classic Italian text in mathematics. Solid and VG in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine. Light wear at the spine --and along its outer hinges-- but still perfectly sturdy. Thick octavo, 744 pgs. plus... Read More
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Commuter Widow
by Louis Lorraine
Universal Publishing, 1961. Original wraps. Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1964 1st printing. Bright, crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Small former owner stamp at the bottom of the title page. Pocketbook, Beacon Books B426F. "Suburbia, U.S.A. -- New houses, new Shopping Centers, and a new moral code for lonesome wives!'.
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The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by Lorraine Hansberry (Danny Lyon, Photographer)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Boards. Very Good +/Good. The 1964 stated 1st printing, in its less common hardback. Solid and VG to VG+, with light offsetting to the pastedowns and endsheets, one tiny blindstamped name and address at the front free endpaper and mild soiling along the spine. And in a bright, price-intact, Good only dustjacket,... Read More
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Ben Pepper
by Margaret Sidney (Pseudonym of Harriet M. Lothrop)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Arthur Becher. The 1937 1st thus (with its new Arthur Becher-illustrated frontispiece), following the 1905 original printing. THIS COPY BOASTS A WARM, FULL-PAGE INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER, REMINISCING OVER THE CREATION OF THE FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS, along the front free endpaper. A very presentable copy to boot. Tight and... Read More
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