Search Results: Authors starting with L from Walkabout Books

Salvador, Bahia: Edufba, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. 440 pp, illustrated. Trade paperback. Mild shelfwear. Binding tight, text unmarked. A collection of conference papers on drugs and culture. All text in Portuguese.

FAPESP, Mercado de Letras, 2002. Soft cover. Near Fine. Signed by Editor Trade paperback, 736 pp. Slight handling wear. Inscribed to a fellow anthropologist "with admiration" by Beatriz Labate on the title page. Binding tight, text unmarked. In Portuguese. Signed by Editor.

Hartford: Sheldon and Goodrich, 1816. Hardcover. Very good. Second American edition, from the second London Edition. Translated from the French. 365 pp, with two folding plans. Bound in contemporary full calf with red spine label. Edges scuffed,binding tight, text clean, with occasional light foxing.

Brooklyn, NY: Jordan Davies, 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Unpaginated, approximately 20 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Minimal handing wear; else fine. Number 4 of an edition of 200 signed and numbered by author printed by Ronald Fordon at the Oliphant Press.

London: John Dicks. Hardcover. Very good. A volume in the "Dicks' Celebrated Works" series. Undated, but OCLC gives a date of 1888 for a nearly identical edition (publisher listed as "J. Dicks"). 136 pp, printed in double columns, bound in paper-covered boards with a mounted sheet of light orange paper on the front board (appears to be the front wrapper of a softcover edition) printed with the title and an illustration. Spine label partially perished. Binding tight, text clean. An uncommon edition.

Cleveland, OH: Rowfant Club, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Number 188 of a limited edition of 400 numbered copies printed and bound at the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. Designed by Freeman Keith. ix, 64 pp, illustrated with facsimiles. Rust-colored cloth spine and paper boards. A fine copy in the original thin paper dust wrapper, which has several short tears.

Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Slight handling wear to wrappers, else fine. The first section describes Lawrence's summer travels in France while he was an undergraduate. This is followed by discussions of his role in French politics, literature, and culture. O'Brien E378.

Sanctuary Publications, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 11.25 x 8.75 inches, 198 pages, extensively illustrated in color. Minor rubbing to binding; near fine. Subtitled "Adventures in Cosmic Erotic Ecstasy and Androgyne Bodyconsciousness," this book has been described as one of the earliest expressions of "gay spirituality.

London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated from the French by James Hogarth. 187 pp, extensively illustrated with photographs, some color. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, else a fine copy in a clean, slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few ink marks on the rear panel. Account of an expedition in search of the elusive shell of the golden cowrie--the larges of the world's 250 known cowrie species--with much on the people and culture of the island's native villages.

London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First English edition. Translated from the French by John and Patricia Russell. 178 pp of text plus approximately 50 photographs, some color. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, else a fine copy in a clean, dust jacket with minimal wear. Reflections on two years' residence in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), with much on the people and culture of the island's native villages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 80 First printing. 101 pp, with illustrated endpapers by New Yorker cartoonist George Price. A very good copy with a small smudge to the lettering on the front board, light soiling to rear board. Binding tight, text clean. No dust jacket. Mary Lasswell, a Scottish-born resident of Brownsville, Texa2s, was primarily a writer of humorous fiction. Mrs. Rasmussen was a character in her well-received first novel, Suds in Your Eye, and several subsequent books. The premise of this cookbook is that the recipes may be made with a drink in one hand while the other is used to stir the pot. The Antique Trader guide to collectible cookbooks calls it "the definitive guide to cooking while intoxicted." 80.

New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxx, 271 pp + illustrations from photographs. Publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges, scuff mark and fading to spine, internals very clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on the national forests, the Pecos forests, the Painted Desert, the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest, Acoma Pueblo, the Governor's Palace of Santa Fe, Taos, San Antonio, Casa Grande and the Gila, and San Xaxier del Bac Mission.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 120 pp, in original tan cloth boards with printed titles. Internally sound and clean with the exception of some minor soiling on the front endpapers. Edges and spine show heavy wear, with some loss of the cloth.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine. Early reprint of the American trade edition (first published 1935). 672 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, appendices, indices. Publisher's red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; no dust jacket. Light rubbing to corners, tiny tear in cloth at head of spine, else fine.

London, 1915. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 28 pp. Original stapled wrappers show some wear and creasing to wraps, and there is a small indentation at the fore edge. Text clean. The second of only three issues published. Includes the second installment of "The Crown" by Lawrence, "The Little Governess" by Berry (Mansfield) and "There Was a Little Man" by Murray.

Columbus, O[hio]: John Geary & Son, 1861. Wraps. Good. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" sewn pamphlet in plain unprinted wraps, pp. 20; wraps chipped and stained, some foxing internally. A religious screed on certain fine points of theology that we regretfully concede remain opaque to our meager modern brains. Oman Lawrence (1830-1906) was a minister in the Northern Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than fifty years, and was an "earnest and forceful" preacher known for his "tremendous will power" and "determination" to get things done. In the self-published pamphlet here (unrecorded in OCLC), his passion is on full view, bringing, in his own words, "a cannon to shoot a mouse." In modern parlance, we might call it a tempest in a teapot, but we cannot deny the good Reverend's fervor.

Dallas: DeGolyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 1992. Softcover. Fine. DeGolyer Keepsake #6, limited to 750 copes. 10.75" x 7.5", [16] pp, including color frontispiece by Lea, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine copy. Text of a lecture delivered by Lea upon the opening of the Paul Horgan exhibition at the DeGolyer. According to the Preface, "Lea's remarks came straight from the heart, telling us not only the importance of the Southwest to his life and art, but also revealing his artistic credo.

Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 291 pp, with glossary and many b/w illustrations. Dust jacket is rubbed at the corners and has a few short closed tears. Barber was an early advocate of clean climbing and a prolific solo climber who claimed many first solo ascents, mostly in the 1970s. This book covers his climbing career from his teens through the controversy surrounding his attempt on Kilimanjaro, in which climbing partner Rob Taylor was seriously injured and accused Barber of abandoning him.

Little Rock, AR: Pioneer Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, 328 pp, with references, index. Fabricoid board. Prior owner's name on front free endpaper, very light wear to edges, split to cloth at front joint (superficial, not affecting integrity of binding); text clean. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, price clipped. A detailed history of one of the "real fighting outfits" of the Confederate Army, a regiment that fought in twenty-two battles and major engagements and included two future Governors of Arkansas.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers. Softcover. Very good. Later printing. 87 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled. Libertarian content. "Robert LeFevre was an American businessman, radio personality, and libertarian theorist. LeFevre was the founder of the Freedom School, an institution designed to educate people about libertarian philosophy and free market economics" (Libertarianism dot org).