Weeds of South Africa. WEED No. 3. The Upright Star-Bur
by Lansdell, K. A.
Pretoria: The Government Printing and Stationary Office, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Reprinted from the Journal of the Department of Agriculture, February 1923. Very Good in white side stapled wraps with black title to front wrap. Includes illustrations and one color plate. Africa. 8 pages. AFR/020818.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Weeds of South Africa. Part III. Weed No. 6
by Lansdell, K.A.
Union of South Africa, Department of Agriculture, The Government Printing and Stationary Office, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Kathleen Annie Lansdell (1888-1967), was a South African botanical and scientific artist who trained at the Government Art School in Durban and at the Royal College of Art in South Kensington. She worked at the Natal Herbarium at the Durban... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Weeds of South Africa. WEED No. 2. Dodder
by Lansdell, K. A.
Pretoria: The Government Printing and Stationary Office, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Reprinted from the Journal of the Department of Agriculture, June, 1922. Very Good in white side stapled wraps with black title to front wrap. Includes illustrations and one color plate. Africa. 8 pages. AFR/020818.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Fate of the Revolution: Interpretations of Soviet History
by Laqueur, Walter
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st American Edition. Vg/Vg Dj/owner inscription to front free endpaper/otherwise nf/8vo./216 pp. Russian History. RUS19/5082.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost
by Laqueur, Walter
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Walter Laqueur (1921-2018) was born in Germany to a Jewish family. He emigrated to the Palestinian Mandate in 1938, but his parents were killed in the Holocaust. He subsequently moved to London and founded Soviet Survey, a CIA-funded journal to counter Soviet propaganda. He was a member, and... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley
by Lasner, Mark Samuels
Boston: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardcover. A definitive bibliography by noted Beardsley scholar Mark Samuels Lasner. Based on examination of public and private collections, recent scholarship, and archival materials, this is the first bibliography to be published in half a century, resolves longstanding ambiguities, corrects oft-repeated errors, and provides a wealth of... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Miró: L'Oeuvre Graphique
by Lassaigne, Jacques, preface; Alexandre Cirici, lecture
Paris: Musée D'Art Moderne, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. A chronological catalogue in French of Miro's graphic work, including 599 pieces dating from 1933 to 1974. With numerous color and black and white illustrations of Miro's etchings and lithographs. Also included is a list of exhibition catalogues of Miro's graphic work. White softcover with color Miro illustrations on... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Geographical Review (October, 1937)
by [Lattimore, Owen], et. al
New York: American Geographical Society of New York, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in wraps/8vo./app. 150 pp./illus./maps/includes an article by Lattimore on the origins of the Great Wall of China Periodicals. PER/5152.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Etching of "The Drummer
by [Lawless, M.J. Artist]
1859. Very Good. A handsome small etching of a man drumming by the Victorian artist Matthew James Lawless (1837-1864).Frederick Smallfield (1825-1915). Smallfield was a Victorian artist best known as a watercolor painter. He was a member of the Junior Etching Club, whose members included Millais, Whistler, and Tenneil. They produced a number of anthologies with their works. This... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Ruth: A Biblical Drama in Three Acts
by Lawrence, Annabel
Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, 1916. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in beige paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Beautiful illustration to front wrapper. Interior is clean and bright. DRA612041.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
La Vierge et le Gitan et Autres Nouvelles
by Lawrence, D.H.; Marc Amfreville (introduction);
Le Bruit du Temps, 2014. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Paperback. A French language translation of D.H. Lawrence's short novel, The Virgin and the Gypsy. Cream stiff paper wrappers with dark red title to spine and front cover. In cream illustrated dust jacket with dark red title to spine and front panels. A few small spots of soiling to... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Missions in the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as Described in the Journals of Rev. Walter Lawry
by Lawry, Rev. Walter; Daniel P. Kidder, revisions
New York: Lane & Scott, 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Originally published in New Zealand in the Notices of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and later in two volumes titled "First and Second Missionary Visits" published two years apart. This American edition combines both volumes and presents the text in a more uniform manner. This edition... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Patrick White
by Lawson, Alan
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. First edition. Orange paper wrappers titled in black on spine and front cover. Lightly rubbed along edges and faded on spine. 131 pages. BOB/111716.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Across the Plains
by [L-D Allen Press] Stevenson, Robert Louis; Oscar Lewis, introductory note; Mallette Dean, illustrator
Hillsborough, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good+. Hardcover. One of 200 copies from this press, also known as the Allen Press. Now scarce. Oscar Lewis provided an interesting history of Stevenson's trips to San Francisco in 1870s and 1880s. Bound in patterned paper boards with a cream paper spine label. Printed in Bulmer type on Oxbow... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Boy I Left Behind Me
by Leacock, Stephen
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 1st ed., small 8vo. VG brown boards, in VG illustrated dust jacket w protective plastic cover; pages browned but clean w/bright text; Humor. HUM/1293.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
An Actor Abroad or Gossip Dramatic, Narrative, and Descriptive from the Recollections of an Actor in Australia, New Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, California, Nevada, Central America, and New York
by Leathes, Edmund
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Theater owner and playwright, Augustin Daly's copy, auction number 2055. First edition, uncommon. Bound in three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards with red label "Stage Biography" and green title / author label beneath. This is part of a series of books Daly had bound in a... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Museum
by Leaver, Anne
United States: Dolphin Moon Press, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. CAIM, Volume 4, Number 1, Supplement 3. CAIM is the chief publication of Dolphin Moon, a nonprofit press. A 5-page poem. Light brown paper cover with brown title to front cover. Saddle-stitched. Approximately 6"x4". PRI/012523.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Art and Forbidden Fruit: Hidden Passion in the Life of William Morris
by Le Bourgeois, John Y.
Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2006. Softcover. Near Fine. Softcover. In this book the author posits that William Morris had a romantic attachment to his sister Emma and that it destroyed his marriage to Jane Burden. Softcover with a pictorial cover and title in white to spine. Slightest evidence of handling. Inserted is the publisher's prospectus and order form,... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Traité des Successions, Diviséen Quatre Livres Volume I only
by Le Brun, Denis
Paris: Chez la Veuve Savoye, 1776. Hardcover. Fair -. Hardcover. Volume I only of this voluminous multi-volume work titled Treatise on Successions in English. This first volume was titled "De Ceux A Qui L'On Succede et de Ceux Qui Succedent. The subject of this French work titled Traité des Successions is the law of inheritance and succession. It... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Mount Tom: An All Outdoors Magazine. Vol. I No. 7, December 1905
by Lee, Gerald Stanley, editor
Northampton, MA: Mount Tom Press, 1905. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good side-stapled beige paper wrappers with red title to front wrapper. Minor chipping an creasing to edges of wrappers. Pristine interior with many unopened pages. Periodical. PER6/1283.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Kathie Brande: A Fireside History of a Quiet Life
by Lee, Holme
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good in blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Embossing to exterior. Minor rubbing and bumping. Minor browning to spine. Sporadic light foxing throughout. Text is bright. 339 pages. Literature. LIT708301.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Sun My Monument
by Lee, Laurie
London, The Hogarth Press [1944], 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Laurence Edward Alan Lee (1914-1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter. His most notable work was the autobiographical Cider with Rosie (1959), a nostalgic view of his childhood. This is the first edition of the poet's first book. Bound in original cream cloth with title and... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
The Chateau of Langeais Described and Illustrated
by Lees, George Frederic
Tours: Imprimerie A. Mame et Fils, 1932. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in mustard yellow paper wrappers with red title and black illustration to front wrapper. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations throughout. French Travel. TRA11102.
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Beauty and the Beast
by [Lee, Stan]
New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1985. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. An uncommon full set of the four comic book volumes titled Beauty and the Beast from famed comic book writer and editor Stan Lee. As might be expected, the series was a quite free interpretation of the fairy tale. There are monsters, space travelers, romance, and much more. The... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop
Ex.Hi. Visionary Workbook Volume 3
by [The Printmakers Left]
Charlottesville, VA: The Printmakers Left, 2013. Fine. Number 184 of 500 copies. This evocative work is part of a three-volume project titled "Exquisite History" that was created by The Printmakers Left, a group of artists from participating organizations in Charlottesville and Grand Rapids. The book offers a combination of art and poetry centered around the words boundary, fire,... Read More
Offered by The Kelmscott Bookshop