Search Results: Authors starting with L from Uncommon Works

Seattle: University of Washington, 1976. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/fine. A very good first American edition in a fine dust jacket. Book is very mildly cocked and has foxing on the fore edge only. Text and illustrations are clean and bright. Binding is tight. xx, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations throughout. Octavo. A brief survey of the history and development of seals and their application in Chinese life, art, culture, and calligraphy. Color images of Chinese seals on nearly every page.Two poemsOf seals and kingsSeal artistsThe aesthetics of sealsHsien Chang : 'leisure seals'Some seal scriptsPictographic seals.

Baltimore: CD Publications [Cemetery Dance], 1994. Limited Edition; First edition. Cloth. As new/as new. Mark Nelson. A Fine first limited edition in a fine dustjacket and slipcase. As New. SIGNED by the suthor and the illustrator on the limitation page. This is number 400 of 500 copies printed. Slipcased Limited Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies featuring a comic book script, the comic, and an essay not collected in the trade edition, with introductions by Joe R. Lansdale. Yellow cloth boards, red endpapers. 227 pp. plus unnumbered pages. Octavo. The weird. The terrible. The fantastic. The real. It's all here in Joe R. Lansdale's latest and best collection yet. Stories from the dark side, the light side, and all shades in between, this is a masterful collection by one of the short story's modern masters. It doesn't get any stranger, more original, or better than this.Sample these fantastic and horrible delights from the mind of Joe R. Lansdale:•… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Brown pictorial cloth boards. Orange endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages clean and bright. Sunning to dust jacket spine, no other flaws. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with black and white photos, drawings and tables. 194 pp. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. A black, winged, super-sexed demon also figured in ancient Maya mythology. He was the bat deity known in Nahuatl as Tlacatzinacantli—the source of the name Zinacantan. This bat was associated with blood and death and with other sacrificing creatures, the buzzard and the hummingbird.

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Alan M. Clark. A fine, signed limited edition in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Laymon on the limitation page, number 400 of 1000 numbered copies. Crease to inner flap of jacket. Buckram binding. Burgundy endpapers. 600 pp. Octavo. It is the summer of 1997. Many years have gone by since Janice Crogan's summer of horror. The town of Malcasa Point has changed a lot — and so has the Beast House tour. Due to several popular books and movies about the infamous house of death, the tour is bigger and better than ever.The self-guided daytime tour, safe for the whole family, gives the sanitized version of the attacks and murders. If you want the real story, however, you can get it.Just take the Midnight Tour.Every Saturday night, for a hundred dollars, you and twelve other guests can participate in the special picnic, private screening of The Horror, and the tour… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. First Edition; Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Vince Natale. A fine, signed limited edition true first edition, as stated, in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Laymon on the limitation page, one of 1250 signed copies. Appears unread. Burgundy cloth binding. Illustrated endpapers. 436 pp. Octavo. It's a hot, windy night in Los Angeles. The Santa Ana winds are blowing and the gusts carry the scent of smoke from distant brush fires.A bad night for running an errand...But the Speed-D-Mart probably carries what they need. Leaving Sherry alone in his apartment, Duane takes off for the store. It's only a couple blocks away. The trip should take him no more than ten minutes. Maybe fifteen.Now, he's been gone half an hour... now, an hour. Sherry, waiting in the candle-lit bedroom, grows more and more worried by the minute.Until she decides, I'm going out to find him...This Cemetery Dance… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1999. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Vince Natale. A fine, deluxe, signed, limited edition in a fine clamshell slipcase. Signed by Laymon on the limitation page, "O" of 52 lettered copies. Appears completely unread. Burgundy clamshell slipcase. Fine dust jacket. Burgundy cloth binding. Color illustration. 327 pp. Octavo. In a suburb of Chicago, Albert Prince parks on a dark, deserted street thinking he's about to get lucky with Betty -- only to find out she wants cash and not romance.And Albert is a few bucks short."Dig up the rest of the money tomorrow," says Betty, "and give me a call. We'll have a great time tomorrow night."But Albert won't be seeing Betty tomorrow night.He'll be having a great time without her... in a stranger's house... with a beautiful woman and a knife...And, after that, he'll be heading out of town on a cross-country killing… Read More

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus, first edition, first printing. Brown, mustard and white cloth boards. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on top edge, mildly cocked. Text clean and bright. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with formulas, b/w photos, graphs, and drawings. [xi], 438 [2] pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall. The galactic rotation curve at R > Ro from observations of the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen, G. R. Knapp; Groping for truth from the galaxy's outermost satellites, D. Lynden-Bell; Carbon stars at 2R0 and the rotation of the milky way, Paul L. Schechter, Marc Aaronson, Kem H. Cook, Victor M. Blanco; The velocity field of the outer galaxy, Jan Brand, Leo Blitz, Jan Wouterloot; The importance of stellar distances in determining the rotation curve of the outer galaxy, Anthony F. J. Moffat; Metal weak stars and the galactic circular velocity, K. C. Freeman; A wavy rotation… Read More

New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/very good. Alberto Beltrán. A very good plus first edition, first printing, as stated, in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. Red quarter cloth under black cloth boards with sun insignia on front cover and black and gold titling on spine. Previous owner's name stamped on pastedown. Binding is sturdy, tight and square. Smudge to bottom page edges, not affecting text. Text is clean and bright. Dust staining and a smudge to rear cover of dust jacket. lvii, 507 pp., illustrated. Octavo. Pedro Martínez is Oscar Lewis’ newest contribution to our knowledge of the culture of Mexican poverty. The book tries to do for the village scene what the earlier volume, The Children of Sanchez, did for the urban slum. In that both works are multi-biographical in nature, they are quite similar. However, this new one contains a number of features that make it distinctive from the first and, perhaps, more… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Frederick Catherwood. A near fine first edition thus, newly edited with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Illustrations by Catherwood. Rust colored cloth boards. . Small smudge on bottom edge of book, otherwise fine. Dust jacket is very good plus, showing mild shelf wear at head and tail, and is price-clipped. Maps, illustrations and index. 473 pp. Octavo. Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Poe, who found it ''written with a freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling.''Conversational and unpretentious, the book is a delightful narrative of the author's year-long journey through the Middle… Read More

Baltimore: University of Oklahoma, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good+. A fine first printing of this second edition reproducing the original Carnegie Institution edition of 1943 [HAND R235], In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Orange cloth boards, cream endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Interior pages clean and bright. Dust jacket is showing wear along head and sunning on spine edge of DJ with no tears or chipping. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and drawings. 244 pp. Octavo, 7 x 10 inches tall The book examines Yucatan Maya civilization at the time of the Spanish Conquest and places in perspective the role played by the native population in subsequent political and social development. In addition to a general depiction of the Maya society found by the Spaniards, it offers....an analytical description of the political… Read More

[np]: [Privately Printed], 1933. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good + / near fine. A very good plus / near fine first edition limited to 100 copies, as stated. 1/4 brown cloth over brown paper boards with gilt title-stamping on cover. One light short scuff to front cover with a few light scuffs on the back. Minor rubbing and miniscule loss at head and tail of spine. Wear to edge of front cover. Mild toning to pastedowns and page edges. 130 pp., including appendix. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall, octavo. A lovely and entertaining story and beautiful piece of prose about a salmon fishing trip on Anticosti.