Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bookbarrow

Routledge, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New. reissued by Routledge as Volume XII in their "International Library of Psychology series" this study of character and personality as indicated by the shape & lines of the hand puts 'palmistry' on a firm and scientific basis. Laffan has accomplished this task in this original contribution to the subject which has been too long the victim of charlatans. careful examination of the shape and lines of the palm discloses the mental characteristics of a person and his life plan. Changes in these lines closely correspond with changes in the person's life. A skilled analysis can often reveal to an individual the true nature of his personality and help him to make the essential effort to the fulfillment of his life plan. Size: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 Inches. vii + 120. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. book is in archive acetate film protection. Black titles spine & front. illustrated by b/w. drawings &… Read More

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1911. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; tissue-guarded b/w. frontis illust. plus 15 further b/w. ills.; an erudite & useful book dealing with, not only every aspect of technique in the oil painting of landscapes, but also the history of this subject; the education, life & status of the artist together with the advantages & drawbacks incident to an artist's life & even a chapter of advice from proffessionals on 'things to be avoided'; school prize label inside front cover; a couple of marks to front cover (water splashes?) have caused fading to colour but the contents are clean & the book in sound condition; including index - 305 pages. A HEAVY BOOK WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Painting; Crafts & Hobbies. Inventory No: ART00122. .

E. Laurent, Brussels, Belgium, 1833. First Thus. Leather. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles spine with four raised bands; blind-stamped outer border line front & rear covers; brown ribbon bookmark; b/w. vignette engraving title page; French text; previous owner's names to f.e.p.; light rubbing to extremities; 552 pages. We also have for sale "Harmonies" in a matching volume. Size: 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; French Poetry; French Language; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00032. .

E. Laurent, Brussels, Belgium, 1833. First Thus. Leather. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles spine with four raised bands; blind-stamped outer border line front & rear covers; brown ribbon bookmark; b/w. vignette engraving title page; French text; previous owner's names to f.e.p.; light rubbing to extremities; 351 pages. We also have for sale "Meditations" in a matching volume. Size: 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; French Poetry; French Language; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00031. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. decorated end-papers; 'Poetry for Children', a series of rhymed fables, stories & moral precepts for children, was first published in 1809 but appears in this edition with the addition of the Lamb's 'Prince Dorus' and a few shorter poems by Charles. The editor's introduction gives in detail the full history of the work. Contents list to front.To the rear is a 36-page list of the books published by Chatto & Windus. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xxi, 224 + 36. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. some browning to edges of end-papers. binder's small label inside rearcover. Top edge blue. Gilt titles spine with gilt vignette. blue cloth. Includes notes. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Poems; English Poetry; Nineteenth Century Poetry; 19th century; Poetry.… Read More

J. T. Bigwood, Jersey, Channel Islands, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition. Illustrator: John H. L'amy. The first edition of this work. An interesting look at the fascinating folklore and myths of Jersey, an island near France. The work looks at prehistoric monuments, Christian missionaries, witchcraft, spells, prayers, ghosts, festivals, and more. Illustrated with drawings by the aithor John H. L'Amy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 184 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Previous owner's signature in ink inside front cover. Gilt titles spine & front. Bumping & light wear to corners, numerous small spots to covers. illustrated by frontis. photo.; six b/w. drawings & a b/w. map of Jersey. Includes appendices & index. Illustrator: John H. L'amy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore;… Read More

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A, 1974. First Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. Signed by Author. Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Books No. 14; illustrated throughout by 91 b/w. drawings & photo's.; signed by the author on the title page; list of the series of booklets inside front cover & list of illustrations inside rear cover; unpaginated but 32 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Archaeology; Athens; Ancient Graffiti; Excavations of the Athenian Agora; Greece; Ancient (BC); History. Signed by Author. Inventory No: HST00171. .

Little, Brown & Co, London, 1998. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine Condition/Mint. Illustrator: Larson, Gary. bound in luxurious textured cream boards bearing a gilt vignette (of the worm's dinner) on front & chocolate brown cloth spine extending 3.5cm over boards with gilt titles, foreword by Edward o. Wilson, all pages illustrated. in colour. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Larson, Gary. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Children. ISBN: 0316645192. ISBN/EAN: 9780316645195. Inventory No: CHD00040. . 9780316645195

Encounter Ltd, London, 1975. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; contents: an article on 'The Universalisation of Ethnicity' by Nathan Glazer; 'Wounded Knee & the New Tribalism' by George Feaver; 'The Case of Dr. Rose Dugdale' by Tom Mangold; Bernard Bergonzi on 'Auden & the Audenesque'; 'Inflation: The Witches' Sabbath' by Thomas Mann; plus further articles, reviews, poetry & stories.; previous owner's name on front cover; 96 pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: MAG00015. .

Encounter Ltd, London, 1978. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; stories; articles; reviews; letters & poems. Contributors to this issure include: Clive James / Michael Josselson / Douglas Cater / Jan Morris / L P Wilkinson / Robert cecil / Richard Pires / Leopold Labedz / Denis Mack Smith / D J Enright / Kenneth Minogue / John Kenneth Galbraith / Ted Hughes / Andrew Motion. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 96 pages. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Black titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Magazine; Journal; Periodical; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: 4798. .

Encounter Ltd, London, 1976. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; contents: an article on the 'English Sickness' giving tow views by Henry Fairlie & Peregrine Worsthorne; 'Sand Game' & 4 poems by Miroslav Holub; more poems by Edwin Brock & Robert Gittings; 'Dante Now' by George Steiner; plus further articles, reviews, poetry & stories.; previous owner's name on front cover; 96 pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: MAG00011. .

Encounter Ltd, London, 1971. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; contents: an article on the merits of 'going into Europe' re-visited by a symposium of the Literary elite first consulted 10 years previously; film review of Warhol's 'Trash'; J. H. Plumb on 'The Meaning of History'; 'In Defence of English' by David Lodge; 'Marshalling McLuhan' by Martin Esslin; plus further articles, reviews, poetry & stories.; 96 pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: MAG00008. .

Encounter Ltd, London, 1971. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; contents: an article on the 'Oz' (magazine) obscenity trial at the Old Bailey; 3 stories by Kurt Kusenberg; Brian Aldiss on a S.F. Festival in Trieste; 'Has Futurology a Future?' by Robert Nisbet; 'Arthur Miller' by Robert Hayman; 'Gunter Grass' by Hellmut Jaesrich; plus further articles, reviews, poetry & stories.; 96 pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: MAG00010. .

Encounter Ltd, London, 1981. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; contents: an article - 'How (& Why) Britain Lost the Leadership of Europe' by Michael Charlton; Edward Heath on 'The Brandt Report'; 'A Reporter Looks Back at the Viet Nam War' by Robert Elwegant; 'Psychiatry' by Walter Reich; 'Travelling in Time' by Penelope Lively; plus further articles, reviews, poetry & stories.; 96 pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Poetry. Inventory No: MAG00013. .

Unwin Hyman Ltd, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/Near Fine. In this short anthology, selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary, passages are collected together by subject, providing a fresh look at some of the themes that run through the massive complete work. Robert and Linnet Latham's lively and skillful presentation allows the reader to become absorbed in a single topic without interruption, often providing new insight into Pepys's private and public life. We see Pepys the man of fashion, the booklover, the musician and theatre-goer, Pepys the husband and Pepys the public servant, at work and at leisure. From festivals such as Christmas and Twelfth Night, enjoyed with family and friends, to the great events such as the Fire and the Plague described so vividly in the Diary, Pepys's life and times are revealed in all their richness and variety. And for the first time, we can read as continuous narrative, some of the stories interwoven with daily… Read More

Gollancz, London, 1968. First Edition. Red Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author. gilt titles spine, signed presentation copy from the author to "Edward Bond" (the playwright) in an almost fine dust jacket (a minute tear at the bottom back corner)-price intact, a guide to the realities, race policies and worldwide propaganda campaigns of the Republic of South Africa, 333 pages incl. index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Politics; South Africa; Politics & Government. Signed by Author. Inventory No: SAF00007. .

Suffolk Books / Wheaton Publishers Ltd, Exeter, Devon, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Signed by Author. Titles, contents, list of illustrations & list of subscribers to front, signed & dated by the author to fep. Based entirely on original records, this book relates the story of a thriving community of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries The people of the Blyth Valley built their hopes around a revived coastal port and a newly created commercial waterway. Through the individual stories of landowners, merchants and professional men, the book examines the effects of the economic and social changes on the communities of Southwold, Halesworth and the surrounding area. As she tells the story of the river valley, Rachel Lawrence reveals much about the lives of its inhabitants and the qualities of character which shaped the course of their history - their achievements and failures and the significance of each event in the community at… Read More

Heinemann, London, 1934. Second Impression. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The first reprint published in the same month & year as the first edition; this volume contain the whole of Lawrence's shorter fiction from 'The Prussian Officer', 1914 to 'The Man who Died' posthumously published 1931. The stories are printed in chronological sequence. Reprint. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 1138 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. small 'Times Bookclub' label inside rear cover. Top edge brown. Gilt titles spine & front. brown cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Britain/UK; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3728. . This book is fairly heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Ure Smith, Sydney, Australia, 1974. First Thus. Orange Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Lindsay, Lionel. white titles spine; illustrated with b/w. woodcuts by Lionel Lindsay; "Henry Lawson was born in a tent on the goldfields near Grenfell, New South Wales, in 1867. He spurned city life and its wealth, most of his prose and verse extrolling the virtue of the Australian bush, the gold digger, the stockman, the drover and the shearer. These stories were written in England and the collection was made for its swagman interest, with a view to consistent illustration. Some of Lawson's poetry about swagmen has been included for interest. This book is reproduced from an original hardbound edition published in Australia in 1939 by the Australian Limited Editions Society, in a three hundred and fifty copy edition, with the full page woodcuts included as extra plates."; intact D/J. has light edge-wear & book has minimal wear tro corners; 61 pages. Size: 4to - over… Read More

The Cresset Press, London, 1927. First Thus. Hardcover (Paper Covered Boards with Vellum Spine). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A New Orchard & Garden: Or, The Best Way for Planting, Graffing and to make any Ground Good for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in the North, and Generally for the whole Common-wealth, as in Nature, Reason, Situation and all Probability, may and doth appear :With the Country House-wifes Garden for Herbs of Common use. Their Virtues, Seasons, Ornaments, Variety of Knots, Models for Trees, and Plots, for the best Ordering of Grounds and Walks : As Also the Husbandry of Bees, with their several Uses and Annoyances; All being the Experience of Forty Eight Years Labour, by William Lawson, reprinted from the Third Edition with a Preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. Whereunto is newly added the Art of Propagating Plants, with the true Ordering of all manner of Fruits, in their Gathering, Carrying home, and Preservation. No. 561 of an edition limited to 650 copies. The… Read More