Search Results: Authors starting with L from Camphor Bookstore

The Sunset of the Heroes: Last Adventures of the Takers of Troyby Winifred HutchinsonJ. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1926. Hardcover, second printing. Blue cloth with decoration and design in gilt and black. 8mo-over 6"-7" tall. 281 pp. A vintage retelling of the Trojan War legends with beautiful color plates and B&W illustrations by Herbert Cole. Illustrated endpapers. There's a Junior High School bookplate affixed in the front, and a little fading to the decoration on the spine. Otherwise in very good, unmarked condition.

Choix de Chansons compiled by Jean-Benjamin de Laborde

J. Lemonnyer Bookseller in Rouen, 1881, Quarto, 2 ff + 150 + (3) pages. Volumes 3 & 4 of the reprint on Vergé paper of the superb 1773 edition of a selection of songs with scores by Jean Benjamin de Laborde (1734-1794) familiar with Louis XV and the Du Barry. For Volume 1, De Laborde had begun the illustrations with Jean-Michel Moreau (1741-1814), but he collaborated with Le Bouteux, Le Barbier and Saint-Quentin for the other 3 volumes. In addition to the front cover and the title page, there is a frontispiece in this volume (bound after the title page), and 25 intaglio engravings by Le Bouteux, Le Barbier and Saint-Quentin.

Condition: The two books were clearly damaged in a fire. The boards are in poor condition, and the edges are singed. There is some staining around the margins of some of the pages- more in Vol. 3 than Vol. 4. - but many other pages show little or no damage. Please see the photos...

About the books: "One of the most… Read More

Niels Holgersens Maerkelige Rejse Gennem Sverrig/ Neils Holgersens Marvelous Adventures through Sweden by Selma Lagerlöf
Gyldendalske Boghandel, Copenhagen, 1926. Limited to 20,000 printed copies with illustrations in color and B&W by Louis Moe. Hardcover, paper covers boards with a cloth spine. Illustrated endpapers, and some photo illustrations. A scarce antiquarian edition in Danish. 153 pages. The cover is worn (see photos) but the binding is holding and the book is VG inside, clean and unmarked except for a prev owner's name neatly written in front and dated 1929.

Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary LambJohn C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1914. Blue cloth bound hardcover with color pastedown on front; 323 pp. with 20 beautiful color illustrations (the illustrator isn't identified) especially for this edition. A charming vintage book in very good condition. The frontis. plate is loose (see photos) the gilt titles are mostly faded on the spine and there's some age darkening to the cover. There's a neatly penned gift inscription dated "Christmas 1917" in front - otherwise unmarked. About the book: Brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb's classic re-telling of 20 of Shakespeare's best loved plays. Illustrated beautifully in this vintage edition.

Sons and Lovers by D. H. LawrenceDuckworth; London, Fourth impression, 1924.pp. vii, (i), 423, (i). Publisher's light blue cloth, no dust jacket, small tear at the top of the spine cloth- otherwise a very good, clean copy.About the book: Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical novel by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1913. His first mature novel, it is a psychological study of the familial and love relationships of a working-class English family.

The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1933. Second 'trade' Edition. Hardcover - orange cloth with the titles and design in black and green. 445 pp. "paulbowles - march 1945 - new york" is written in pen, very tiny, at the top corner of the front endpaper - this copy may have belonged to the writer (please see photos) Otherwise unmarked, some discoloration to the cover boards but in good condition without a jacket. Laid-in is a ticket for "Cercle Royal Laetitia" at an address in Anvers, with a 1957 date.

About the book:

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

Limericks by Lear by Edward LearThe World Publishing Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover in the original dust-jacket. Delightful color illustrations by the Caldecott Honor winning author and illustrator Lois Ehlert. The book is unmarked and in excellent condition. The jacket is a little toned but good w a little edgewear. Imaginative, funny and out of print.

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of MichelangeloTranslated by Creighton Gilbert, Edited by Robert N. LinscottNew York: Random House. 1963. 8vo - over 7Âľ" - 9Âľ". First Printing (stated.) Unmarked and in VG condition. About the book: This volume "brings together all of Michelangelo's poetry and a large selection of his letters - works which reveal the personality and genius of the artist as deeply and incisively as do his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and architecture."

Paper Sculpture by Tadeusz Lipski,
The Studio: London & New York, 1947. Hardcover. Dustjacket included. First Edition. Light blue cloth cover with gilt lettering front and spine.Illustrated with many B&W Photos demonstrating techniques and showing fine examples of the art. 64 Pages, 140g, 6 3/4" Tall. Book condition: Unmarked and VG+Dust-jacket: Good- with a chip or two and some soiling (see photos)

Doctor Doolittle's Garden by Hugh Lofting

Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Hardcover green cloth with paste down illustration borders and designs in black. First edition of the eighth book in the Doolittle series, illustrated by Lofting w a color frontis and endpapers, and numerous B&W drawings. Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favor of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages.

Condition: Very good. The pastedown is a little rubbed, and the titles on the spine are faded. There's a prev owner's name in pencil in front dated 1927.

Crime: Its Causes and Remedies by Cesare LombrosoGryphon Editions / Legal Classics Library, 1994. This special edition has been privately printed for the members of The Legal Classics Library. Full leather binding with gilt design at the front and back covers and gilt title, author and embellishments at the spine. Four raised bands at the spine. Gilding on all the edges. A booklet of "Notes from the Editors" on Lombroso and his place in the history of criminology is included and laid in. This volume is "as new" and in excellent condition.About the book and its Author: Cesare Lombroso, (1835 - 1909), was an Italian criminologist whose views, though now largely discredited, brought about a shift in criminology from a legalistic preoccupation with crime to a scientific study of criminals.His final book, Crime: Its Causes and Remedies, appeared in English in 1911. It is, in large part, a response to his critics who questioned his belief that inherited traits were a determining factor in the causes of… Read More

Chilton Books,, Philadelphia, PA, 1965. stated First Edition. 282pp/illus. Includes detailed examination of jewelry, samplers, painted tin, hooked and woven rugs, tavern signs, toys, cigar store Indians, hatboxes, bandboxes, lamps, candlesticks, sconces, etc. Profusely illustrated with more than 500 pictures in black and white.Near fine no marks or tears, in a near fine jacket protected in plastic.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1916. Windermere Series, First Edition. Milo Winter (illus.) [9.25x7in]; xiii, 258 pp., Color frontispiece and nine plates, and other black and white illustrations by Milo Winter; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, color illustration of sailor charging with a knife on front with gilt border, green ink wind swept landscape illustration on end papers. In excellent condition, nice bright gilt on the front and spine, unmarked without a jacket.