Essays on Physiognomy. Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (in 5 vols.)
by Lavater, Johann Caspar; William Blake (illustrator); Henry Hunter (translator)
London: Printed for John Murray, 1798. First edition in English. Near Fine. Three folio volumes bound in five (12 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 327 x 260 mm). [ii, half-title, verso blank], [ii, vignette title-page, verso blank], [ii, translator's preface], [vi, advertisement], [iv, contents], [x, list of subscribers], [ii, dedication], [vi, author's preface], [ii, French translators' preface], [3]-280;... Read More
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Giustina: A Spanish Tale of Real Life
by [Law, Elizabeth Susan] E.S.L.
[London]: Not Published [Printed by I Botson and Palmer], 1833. First edition. Recent marbled wraps tied at spine. All edges gilt. Bookplate of J.O. Edwards to verso of front wrap. Ownership stamp of Lady Ulrica Thynne (d. 1916) to front endpaper. A Near Fine copy, with a bit of light scattered foxing throughout. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating... Read More
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![Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/825/1594825558.0.m.jpg)
Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy)
by [Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L.
London: Not Published, 1849. First editions. Three volumes bound in one and including a presentation inscription to the verso of front endpaper: "The Marchioness of Salisbury, with Lady Colchester's Love." Additional signature to title of second volume. Full straight grain morocco presentation binding by White of Pall Mall, with gilt title to spine. Boards and turn-downs stamped in gilt.... Read More
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Letters to a Lady Inclined to Enter in the Communion of the Church of Rome
by Law, William [Dodwell, Elizabeth]
London: Printed by J. Phillips...for H. Payne, 1779. First edition. Very Good +. Octavo. [iv], 98, [2] pp. Complete with the half-title and final leaf of advertisements. Contemporary brown paper wrappers, somewhat crinkled and chipped at edges. Clean and fresh throughout aside from some dustsoiling to first leaf and last couple leaves. Ink ownership signature ("Reigate Meeting 1801")... Read More
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Parian Bust of Shakespeare
by [Robinson & Leadbeater]
1880. 18 inch Parian bust atop 3 1/2 inch socle, previously joined by brass nut and bolt (now detached and in need of repair). Faint hairline fissure from upper button of shirt across shoulder and around to rear. Mild soiling typical of Parian, otherwise an exceptional example notable for its exquisite detail and translucence. This superb Parian bust... Read More
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Programme of the Mass Convention in the Interest of Woman Suffrage
by [New York City Suffrage League]
[New York]: John J. O'Brien & Son Printers, 1894. First edition. Near Fine. Original pamphlet promoting the Constitutional Amendment Campaign events hosted by the New York City Woman Suffrage League. 4 pages including self-wraps. Slight chipping to second page, and scattered light foxing at fold and margins. Overall an exceptional copy of this rare pamphlet. OCLC reports no... Read More
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Arsene Lupin
by Leblanc, Maurice
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. First American edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book. Bound in green cloth, spamped in black with onlay illustration to the front board. Complete with four illustrated plates (including the frontis). A few small dampstains to the illustrated front board, spine gently rolled, and small closed tear to... Read More
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
by Le Carre, John
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's blue cloth, a bit toned at top edge of boards. Some browning to edges and a contemporary ink ownership inscription to upper free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of dustsoiling to back panel and some... Read More
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The Lathe of Heaven (Inscribed first edition)
by Le Guin, Ursula
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First edition. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Alex Ursula Le Guin." A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with spine gilt a bit dulled (as often), otherwise fresh and unread. In a lovely, Fine dust jacket with a miniscule nick to the foot... Read More
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Tom Moody's Tales
by [Lemon, Mark, editor] [Hablot Knight Browne, illustrator]
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1864. First edition. Handsomely bound, ca. 1920s, by Rivière & Sons (stamp-signed to upper turn-in) in emerald green crushed morocco with original cloth bound in. French fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands, six elaborately gilt decorated compartments. Wide, gilt turn-ins. Double ruled edges. All edges gilt. [8], 173, [1, blank], [2, adverts] pages. Thirteen black... Read More
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Tales of the Imagination (in 3 vols.)
by [Lester, Elizabeth B.]; [Erroneously attributed to Mrs. Ross]
London: Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (6 13/16 x 4 in; 173 x 103 mm). [4. blank], [2], 227, [5, blank]; [4, blank], [2], 261, [5, blank]; [4, blank], [2], 252, [4, blank] pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines with four raised bands ruled and... Read More
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The Observator, in Dialogue. The First Volume (Nos. 1-470)
by L'Estrange, Roger
London: Printed by J. Bennett, for William Abington, 1684. First edition. Very Good +. Volume I (of 3) of the first collected edition of The Observator, Nos. 1 (Wednesday, April 13, 1681) to 470 (Wednesday, January 9, 1683). Folio (13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 333 x 207 mm). [2], [4, “To the Reader”], [8, “The Table”], [3,... Read More
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Elmer Gantry (Signed)
by Lewis, Sinclair
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1927. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second issue binding (showing the "G" in “Gantry” on the spine). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut.... Read More
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The Prairie Years (in 2 vols.) (Signed limited edition)
by [Lincoln, Abraham]; Carl Sandburg
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First edition. Near Fine. Number 22 of 260 copies, printed on Dutch Charcoal Rag Paper, numbered and signed "Carl Sandburg" by the author. Two octavo volumes (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 241 x 161 mm.). xvi, 480; vi, 482 pp. Bound in publishers cream buckram over blue boards, spines with... Read More
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Business and Protective Law for Women
by Lineman, Mab Copland
Los Angeles: Coast Printing Company, 1926. First edition. Near Fine. Second issue, with the Laws Becoming Effective July 29, 1927 tipped in behind the contents leaf. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. A touch of sunning to spine; front board slightly bowed. Contemporary ownership signature of Mabel Scudder to front endpaper else fresh... Read More
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The Abysmal Brute
by London, Jack
New York: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in the scarce dust jacket. [4], 169, [1, ads] pp. Complete with the frontispiece by Gordon Grant. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in yellow and stamped in black. Slight foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, with just a bit... Read More
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The Lady's Country Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (Presentation copy)
by Loudon, [Jane]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. First edition. Very Good. Presentation copy, inscribed "To Mrs. Norman with the kind regards of the author" on upper flyleaf. Rebound in modern half brown leather over marbled boards. Octavo. Dampstaining to frontispiece, but largely clean throughout. Octavo. xi, 396, 32 [publisher’s catalogue] pp. Complete with frontispiece and three full-page illustrations,... Read More
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The Outsider (Complete run, one inscribed by Bukowski to a poet)
by [Loujon Press] Bukowski, Charles
New Orleans [and] Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. First edition. The complete run of the important literary journal that published some of the most influential midcentury American writers, with Issue #3 inscribed by Charles Bukowski to Los Angeles poet Jack Grapes (whose poems appear in the joint Issue 4 & 5). Five volumes in four, as issued. Three softcover volumes... Read More
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Collected Poems
by Lovecraft, H.P.; August Derleth (editor)
Sauk House, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Unclipped dust jacket with a bit of toning to top edge and spine, otherwise pristine. Illustrated throughout by Frank Utpatel, who also designed the dust jacket and illustrated several other Lovecraft editions for Arkham House. "At their best, the poems of... Read More
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Unprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria, and on the Top of Mount Aetna
by Lowe, Emmeline
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher’s purple cloth with gilt spine. Cloth expertly repaired at hinges and head and tail of spine. Pale yellow endpapers. With the bookplate of author Larry McMurtry. Foxing to verso of first plate and some toning to leaves. A near fine copy, remarkably bright and attractive, of a... Read More
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Literary Collection of Published and Unpublished Work by the Renowned Suffragist & Author
by [Women's Authorship] [Literary Manuscripts] Sarah Dickson Lowrie
[Philadelphia], 1915. Collection of a total of 285 manuscript and typescript pages of prose, poetry, and dramatic material written and edited by suffragist Sarah Dickson Lowrie (1870-1957). Lowrie, a columnist and editor at the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was also an activist. Founder of the Philadelphia Women's Committee, later Chairperson of the Philadelphia League of Women Voters, she used her... Read More
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The Last of the Windjammers (in 2 vols)
by Lubbock, Basil
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1929. First American edition. First impression. Two octavo volumes in four (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 245 x 180 mm.). Publishers blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, map endpapers. Ink signature on front flyleaf of volume 1, part 1. A few small tape repairs to some folding maps otherwise a... Read More
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Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe par H. Lucas
by Lucas, H.
Paris: F. Sayy, 1864. Third edition. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale brown coated endpapers with advertisements printed in black, uncut. Partially unopened. Clean, mainly marginal tear to page 181/182 with no loss of text. Front free-endpaper not present. Minimal wear to corners, text spotted, the hand colored plates bright and... Read More
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Ten Days in Japan. For the Canadian Pacific
by Lum, Berll (Bertha Lum)
Canada: [Candian Pacific Railway], 1930. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's color-printed orange paper wrappers. Wrappers professionally strengthened at spine. Some chipping to edges. A clean, fresh copy. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Bertha Lum, including ten full-page illustrations (two in color) and lively color-printed pictorial endpapers. This Japanese travel itinerary aims to "give the most important and interesting... Read More
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David Elginbrod (in 3 vols.)
by Macdonald, George
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First edition. Near Fine. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 199 x 125 mm.). viii, 325, [1]; vi, 335, [1]; vi, 398. A few leaves in gathering N in Volume I poorly opened at top and a few leaves in gathering H in Volume III poorly opened at edge (not... Read More
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