Search Results: Authors starting with L from Cat's Cradle Books

Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has sunning at spine, creasing on front flap, overall light edge rubbing. ; Short erotic fiction. Contributing authors: Daniel Defoe, John Cleland, Henry Fielding, Choderlos de Laclos, Marquis de Sade, Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Frank Harris, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy, Pauline Réage, Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Andrea Newman, Erica Jong, Stephen Vizinczey, Subniv Babuta. ; 9.25" tall; 256 pages.

Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf N.V.. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Rein Van Looy. Third Printing. Book is in the Dutch language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has edge wear, overall shelf wear, some soiling. Early printing of children's book by Dick Laan (1894-1973) originally published in 1955 and telling the story of Pinkeltje, a white-bearded man as big as a finger. 8.75" tall; 151 pages.

Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf N.V.. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Dokie van Amstel. Fifth Printing. Book is in the Dutch language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is very slightly edge rubbed. DJ edge rubbed with small amount of bio predation at outer edge near front flap and some tattering at top of spine area. ; Early printing of children's book by Dick Laan (1894-1973) originally published in 1939 and telling the story of Pinkeltje, a white-bearded man as big as a finger. 8.75" tall; 176 pages.

St. Paul: University of Minnesota, 1996. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear. Exhibit catalog for traveling exhibition of textile art from Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. Illustrated with color photographs of work on display. 8.25" (21 cm) tall; 64 pages.

Croton-on-Hudson, NY, U.S.A.: Van Cortlandt Press, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Reprint. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ is price clipped with faded spine ad overall shelf wear. ; Two books written by one of the founding fathers of American fly fishing. ; The Abercrombie and Fitch Library; 8.5" tall ; 252 pages.

São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional/MEC, 1978. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Biography and evaluation of the importance of Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician Rui Barbosa de Oliveira (1849-1923). Brasiliana; Vol. 365; 8.25" (20 cm) tall; 226 pages.

Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by author with additional inscription on title page. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have overall light shelf wear. Illustrated with color photographs. ; Information on gardening in USDA zones 7 and 8, which cover most of the Southeastern United States. ; 9.0" tall; 304 pages; Signed by Author.

New York: George Braziller, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has scuffing, edge wear, overall shelf wear. ; Social history of a bloody, violent Carnival night in Romans, France, in 1580. 0.9 x 9.3 x 6 Inches; 426 pages.

London, UK: Pavilion Books, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has light shelf wear with flaps glued to book. Illustrated with drawings. In this warm, humorous offering, Jane Down (alias Lady Muck) guides the reader through the history of composting and reveals her secrets on how to create and maintain a compost heap to suit every garden. Lists of perfect ingredients, do's and don'ts, troubleshooting, plus the formation of soils, the role of earthworms, types of compost and manures available to gardeners today. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 104 pages; Removed.

New York: Russell Robins, 1825. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Lightly circulated for in-library use only. Full leather over boards is heavily worn, scuffed. Front has separated at joint with spine but has been repaired with cloth tape. Pages tanned, some foxed, some dampstained. Decorative spine with gilt design and lettering. Frontispiece is engraving depicting Lafayette. Authorship of the book is unclear; it is evident that Lafayette himself did not write it. Likely the book consists of recollections by those who knew the Marquis. ; Frontispiece is engraving depicting Lafayette. Authorship of the book is unclear; it is evident that Lafayette himself did not write it. Likely the book consists mainly of recollections by those who knew the Marquis. ; Ex-Library; 7.25" tall; 455 pages.

Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Book is in the French language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Paper over boards is edge rugged with heavier wear at corner tips. DJ has heavy edge wear, fading at spine, overall shelf wear. ; Describes the cultivation and processing of cotton in the tropics. Fold-out map, black and white photographs. ; Techniques Agricoles et Productions Tropicales; 9.75" tall; 306 pages.

Bucaramanga, Colombia: (Sic) Editoral, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Spanish language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Illustrations in color and black & white. Pictorial paper over boards is clean with minor edge rubbing. ; Poetry, prose, and art about fruit with erotic themes. ; 10.0" tall; 158 pages.

New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Reprint. Originally published in 1937. Sound bining and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, overall shelf wear. ; Study of the two concepts of Sanskrit Almkara (Guna and Riti), which are intimately allied to each other, in the creative writers of the Sastra from Bharata to Jagannatha. ; 8.75" tall; 308 pages.

Toronto: Weller Publishing Company, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Hungarian language. Binding and hinges sound, pages clean and bright. Cloth over boards is clean. Personal reflections by Hungarian actor Lajos Bakay (1920-1999). 8.75" tall; 64 pages.

México: Grupo Oceano, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. ; Study of Mexican politican Andrés Manuel López Obrador. ; 8.75" tall.. 320 pages; Re#.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1936. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings throughout, most prevalent on spine and endpapers. Sound binding and hinges, although the book is slightly cocked. Pages age-darkened. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with bumped corners, lettering on spine faded. ; Fictionalized biography of medieval Persian philosopher. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 316 pages.

Los Angeles, California: Unpublished dissertation, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding (clear report cover). Clean, off-white pages with typescript font. Light shelf wear to exterior. A doctoral dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the Cambridge School of Psychology, Los Angeles, California. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of six different Twelve-Step programs in the lives of ten women, who were recovering from their addictions, in a methodologically sound manner. 11.0" tall; 119 pages.

Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1973. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Article is in the English language with sources quoted in Spanish. Pages clean. All pages are original. Articles are contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopy of volume's table of contents included for bibliographic context. ; Essay on the life and work of Spanish realist novelist Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920). ; 9.5" tall; 17 pages.

Milledgeville, GA: Georgia College & State University, 2008. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Contents: Muschell, "Ten Years of Arts & Letters"; Blair, "The Dogs of Grass" (Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry); Black, "The Thing Itself" (Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction); Cobb, "Why Are You On Wing? A Questionnaire"; Earley, "How to Drown a June Bug"; Miles, "Smoke"; Schwartz, "Telling the Truth That Matters"; Wiley, "The King of Rock." ; 10.0" tall; 165 pages.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. Thoughts on Christian faith by the author of "Traveling Mercies." ; 8.25" tall; 336 pages.