Almanach du Commerce du Havre
by Statistique Annuelle de l'Industrie
Havre: Alph. Lamale. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. nd (presumably 1838), small 8vo, original or contemporary binding of quarter cloth over brown marbleized boards, 320 pages. All records of commercial shipping of mercahndise and products through the port of Havre, France for the year 1837. Cloth over spine worn, boards worn and soiled, binding good, internals with... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE POWERS OF GENIUS, A POEM IN THREE PARTS
by Linn, John Blair (17771804)
Phildelphia: John Conrad & Co, 1802. 2nd Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, original binding, half red leather, gilt ruled wi/ titles, over marbleized boards, 191 pp, 3 full-page engraved illustrations. Boards soiled, leaves toned and spotted, firmly bound. OCLC lists one copy of this version of 1802 edition.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
TWELVE BRONZES BY JACQUES LIPCHITZ
by Lipchitz, Jacques (sculpture)
NY: Curt Valentin, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Stamped REVIEW COPY upper right corner title sheet. 16 collotype plates in hinged folder with uncommon wraparound title band with $2.50 price printed on handmade pink paper laid-in. Covers a bit sunned else near fine. Wraparound worn.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
American Primitive Painting
by Lipman, Jean
NY: Oxford University Press, 1942. First Edition. Pub Cloth. NF/VG+. An apparently unused copy in better than very good dw, with slight loss at spine head. THE collectible copy.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
FOR THE LONELY
by Litsey, Sarah
London: The Favil Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Litsey's first book, signed by her on the ffe in the year of publication: " . knowledge of love that through all time lights up the mortal heart, For Jim. Yours, Sarah" Dustjacket worn, book lightly foxed here and there." Litsey was the daughter of Edwin Carlile... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection
by Little, Nina Fletcher (catalogue by)
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket, as Issued. Near Fine copy, cloth over marblized boards in cardborad slipcase w/ pastedowns both sides. Light sun fading to spine and same to slipcase edges, else fine. Errata leaf laid-in. Christmas gift inscription 1957 ffe.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
La Maiolica Italiana: Sino Alla Comparsa Della Porcellana Europa
by Liverani, Giuseppe
Banca Nazioanle Del Lavoro, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine -/Near Fine -. True first edition, apparentlyunused copy, some spotting to faux white vellum covers in near fine dustwrapper in cloth-backed publishers slipcase that is worn, soiled and split at one side. 263 pages, including 86 tipped-in color plates.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Five Centuries of Italian Majolica
by Liverani, Giuseppe
New York: McGraw Hill, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine -. dw spine faded, small closed tear at top of front flap, else clean, in slightly worn cardboard slipcase.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
JOSH: MY UP AND DOWN, IN AND OUT LIFE
by Logan, Joshua
NY: Delacorte, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed by legendary playwright and director Logan: "NYC 1-3-80 For Jane Thank you for being so helpful & courteous. Sincerely, Joshua Logan." Jane Emerson, with her husband Bob, managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years, which for theatre professionals like Logan was the go-to bookstore.... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE WISTERIA TREES
by Logan, Joshua
NY: Random House, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. Revealing inscription thirty years after this play was produced by the legendary producer, playwright and director Logan (who struggled with bipolar disorder): "NYC 1-3-80 For Jane & Bob I was never happier than when I was writing this. Best wishes, Joshau Logan". Jane and Bob Emerson managed the... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Films of Merchant Ivory (Newly Updated Edition)
by Long, Robert Emmet. (Ivory, James). (Merchantg, Isamaail)
NY: Harry N Abrams, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Signed by James Ivory, producer and filmmaker, on the half title. As new all around.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
NEW SONGS FOR NEW VOICES
by Louis and Mannes, Clara and David (edited by). Bacon, Peggy (drawings by)
NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Uncommon juvenile music songbook, edited by Untermeyer and charmingly illustrated by Peggy Bacon who became best known for her cartoons in The New Yorker. Large 4to, publisher's ribbed blue cloth, titles pressed in green in pictorial dustjacket in yellow, green and black, Dustjacket is soiled, worn abot... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Corpus Vitreaum Medii Aevi: Les Vitraux De Paris De La Region Parisienne De La Picardie et Du Nord-pas-de-Calais (2 VOLUMES)
by Louis Grodecki, Francoise Perrot et Jean Taralon (survey directed by)
Paris: Editions Du Centre National De Recherche Scientique, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 2 Volumes, 1978 and 1983, uniiform. Unused copies, each in cardboard slipcase as issued by publisher, in dw, one with a tiny chip top of spine. 275p, illustrated; 333p, illustrated.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Ballads of Marko Kraljevic
by Low, D. H.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/No Dustjacket. paper label on spine beginning to peel, covers have white spotting, internally clean.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
UNDER THE WILLOWS
by Lowell, James Russell
Boston: Fields, Osgod, & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, State A, Binding A (BAL 13129), and scarce thus. One of 1000 copies printed in Nov 1868, with the erratum slip at page 286-287. On page 97 is the erroneously numbered 7 (instead of 5 corrected later) and on page 224, line 3 of the... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
ARCHIVE OF SKETCHES, NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR ORSON LOWELL
by Lowell, Orson
origiinal 0. No Binding. Very Good. Orson Byron Lowell (1871-1956) was an American artist and illustrator, best known for covers and interiors for magazines. Lowell studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and moved to New York City, settling in New Rochelle, NY, a fashionable artists community in the early 20thC. A contemporary of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson,... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
For the Union Dead
by Lowell, Robert
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Myographia Nova: or a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body.together, with an Accurate and Concise Discoruse of the Heart.written by Dr. Lower
by Lower, Dr, Richard
NY: Medicina Rara, 1970. First Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine, an apparently unused copy, in publisher's slipcase that is only slightly rubbed. Limited edition 2500 copies.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Horse, Its Action and Anatomy by an Artist
by Lowes D. Luard
NY: The Derrydale Press, 1931. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Very Good +. Pub green cloth, red label title to spine. 150 copies, this #135. Cloth faded, more so at spine. Clena internals. Solid copy. HORSES.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
OLD FASHIONED TALES and FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO
by Lucas, E. V. (selected by). Bedford, F. D. (illustrtations by)
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Uncommon pair of Lucas' companion volumes of stories of old: OLD FASHIONED TALES (1905) and its follow-up FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO (1906), both uniform in design and format with elaborate decorated covers by F.D. Bedford, who also illustrated both. The first volume is navy blue... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Maxfield Parrish
by Ludwig, Coy
NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. An apparently unused book in near fine dw. Later printing.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Maxfield Parrish
by Ludwig, Coy
NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. An apparently unused book in near fine dw w/ short closed tear head of spine.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
TOURING TOPICS May 1933 Vol 25 No 6 (ALVIN LUSTIG FIRST PUBLISHED WORK)
by Lustig, Alvin (cover art). Hanna, Phil Townsend (editor)
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1933. Soft cover. VG-. First published work for the young, fledgling commercial artist Lustig (1915 - 1955) who submitted this cover art when he was 18 years old. Lustig went in to become one of the leading dustjacket artists of the 1950s whose modern graphic design befit much of the avant... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea
by LYNCH, W. F.
Philadelphia: Lea And Blanchard, 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. 8vo. green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, xx, [13], 508. 2 folding lithographed maps (in original folds), 28 wood-engraved plates. Corners worn, and some incidental wear spine ends. Covers rubbed. Solid copy.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (book). Richard Rodhers (music). Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
NY: Random House, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Review copy with review slip laid-in. Orange cloth backed covers with b&w pastedown of Mary Martin. Dustjacket is price-clipped. The original Broadway musical about the Von Trapp family's escape from Nazi Austria, which became the beloved blockbuster movie musical with Julie Andrews. Book covers are a... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.