Go Set a Watchman
by Lee, Harper
New York (2015): Harper. First Edition. Fine/Fine. A beautiful copy, with full number line. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Fighter Facts and Fallacies (United Aircraft Corporation)
by Lee, John G.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1942. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, 63 pages; illustrated in black and white by Beverley Hancock. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with $1.25 on front flap.
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THE LIMERICK. 1700 Examples, With Notes, Variants and Index
by [LEGMAN, Gershon, editor]
Paris: Les Hautes Etudes, 1953. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. 517 pages. Bound in original cream wrappers. Contains every 5 line dirty verse you have ever heard. Minor soiling and toning to wrappers. Marginal note on page 1. Very scarce.
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Captives Courageous. South African Prisoners of War. World War II
by Leigh, Maxwell
Johannesburg: Ashanti Publishing Limited, 1992. Fine/Fine. octavo, 333 pages; publisher's red cloth, spine printed in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on South African history and delivered numerous lectures before the United Nations. ... Read More
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The Cyberiad. Fables for the Cybernetic Age
by Lem, Stanislaw
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990. Fine. Daniel Mroz. octavo, 295 pages; publisher's brown full-leather binding, decorated in gilt. All edges gilt; silk bookmark. Publsiher's "Collector's Notes" laid in; Easton Press bookplate of ffep, with owner stamp thereon and on title page.
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Swag
by Leonard, Elmore
New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 229 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $7.95 on front flap. First printing, stated. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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Pagan Babies (Signed)
by Leonard, Elmore
New York: Delacorte Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 263 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $24.95 on front flap. SIGNED by the author, on the title page, without personalization. First printing with full number line on copyright page. A lovely copy.
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TWELVE DISCOURSES, DELIVERED CHIEFLY AT THE MEETING HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, in the Park,southwark
by Letchworth, Thomas
Salem [MA]: Thomas C. Cushing, 1794. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. 248pp. Bound in full tree-calf, red leather spine label gilt. A very good copy of this early American imprint and quite scarce as such. Some very minor wear to extremities and some browning and occasional off-setting to text; lacking one blank at rear.
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The Weight of Glory. And Other Addresses
by Lewis, C. S.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. 12mo, 66 pages; publisher's black cloth printed in gilt; original dust jacket, with price of $1.25 on front flap. "First Printing" stated on copyright page. A outstanding copy, dust jacket with some fading at spine. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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The Screwtape Letters
by Lewis, C. S.
Ohio: Barbour and Company, Inc, 1990. Fine. octavo, 160 pages; full maroon leather, printed in gilt. Bonded leather edition, complete and unabridged. A fine copy, as issued without dust jacket. Owner address label on front pastedown.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
by Lewis, C. S.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. 12mo, 64 pages; publisher's orange cloth, "First Published 1943" on copyright page. Original dust jacket, with price on lower front flap. Owner name in pencil on ffep. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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The Monk. A Romance
by Lewis, M. G.
London. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. No date, no publisher (c. 1860); TWO VOLUMES. Bound in beige cloth spines over blue boards.(iv,207; 215). "Unabridged Reprint of the First Edition" printed on both title pages. Internally, very clean.
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ELMER GANTRY
by Lewis, Sinclair
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. First issue with the spine lettered "Cantry" rather than "Gantry" 432pp Bound in blue cloth lettered, ruled and blocked in orange. In lightly worn dust jacket with a tiny circular piece cut away from front flap (price). A near fine... Read More
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Cass Timberlane. A Novel of Husbands and Wives
by Lewis, Sinclair
New York (1945): Random House. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo, top edges stained gray; dust jacket is black over green, with price of $2.75 on front flap. Neat owner name and date on FEP. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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The Firestone Story
by Lief, Alfred
New York: Whittlesey House, 1951. First Ediiton. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 437 pages; original blue cloth, spine printed in gilt, in a striking pictorial dust jacket, with $4.50 on front flap. A history of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. A fine copy in... Read More
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The Incredible Adventures of Rush Revere: Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims; Rush Revere and the First Patriots; Rush Revere and Theamerican Revolution; Rush Revere and the star-Spangled Banner; Rush Revere and the Presidency
by Limbaugh, Rush & Kathryn Adams Limbaugh
New York: Threshold Editions, 2017. Fine/Fine. ISBN 9781501179990. Octavo, 5 titles in publisher's slipcase, in dust jackets and sealed in the original shrink-wrap. The original issue price was $105. As new.
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CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY WITH CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY CO. AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 8TH 1902
by [Rock Island Line]
1902. Wrappers. Very Good. Agreement for single track grade crossing of maintrack of St. Paul Co's K.C. cut off over maintrack of Oscsloosa Branch of R. I. Co. in Block 3, M. M. Young's addition to the City of Washington, Wash. Co. Iowa. 9 pages typed one side. With an attached plat showing proposed crossing at grade of... Read More
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THE TINSMITHS' PATTERN MANUAL. Paterns for Tinsmiths' Work
by Little, Joe K.
Chicago: American Artisan Press, 1894. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. For Tinners, Coppersmiths, Plumbers, Zinc Workers, and Sheet Metal Workers Generally. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering spine and cover. A very good- copy with mild soil and stains coves, front hinge cracked, all pages intact. Many internal diagrams and illustrations. 248 pp. +... Read More
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Handbook of Military Institutions. Prepared By Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
by Little, Roger W. (ed.)
Beverly Hills (1972): Sage Publications. First Edition. Fine. octavo, 607 pages; original gray cloth, printed in gilt. As issued, without dust jacket. First printing stated. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, a scholar on international politics and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.
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MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA
by Livingstone, David and Charles
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Hard Cover. Fine. Thick Octavo. Early American Edition, Frontispiece, 755pp., 2pp., publisher's catalog, (1)pp. publisher's note, original cloth binding; includes a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the... Read More
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The Putney School. A Progressive Experiment
by Lloyd, Susan McIntosh
New Haven (1987): Yale University Press. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, 276 pages; internally clean and bright, dust jacket is very good, with some stress at front fold. First printing, with full number line.
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Voyage Into Violence. A Mr. And Mrs. North Mystery
by Lockridge, Frances & Richard
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1956. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 191 pages; first edition stated; top edges stained red; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.50 on front flap. Source for the 1950's TV series.
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BEFORE ADAM
by London, Jack
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 242pp., (4)pp. ads, with 8 full page color plates and with numerous other illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Bound in light brown pictorial cloth depicting animal tracks in brown and gray, lettering red outlined in white. Neat previous owner's name dated 1907. A... Read More
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THE GAME
by London, Jack
New York/London: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good++/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Second issue, color frontispiece and five other tipped in illustrations; with numerous illustrations within the text and decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence, pictorial title page, 182pp., (6)pp. ads at rear, bound in gray-green pictorial cloth depicting the ghost of death in... Read More
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THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (From the Library of Owen Wister)
Boston: Ticknor and Felds, 1859. Hard Cover. Very Good++/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. From the library of Owen Wister with his bookplate (Butler, Place) front paste-down. Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was author of "The Virginian," considered to be the first cowboy novel. Wister was fascinated with the culture and lore of the west. Forty-Fifth... Read More
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