Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bagatelle Books, IOBA

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good in original yellow cloth, spots along the upper covers and fading to the spine, and a poor illustrated dust jacket that is missing portions of the spine and has significant chipping on the upper edges.. Duodecimo. 5.5 x 7.75 in. viii, 302 pp. Signed by the author's wife on the half-title page: "For Doris + Willard, with best love - Wanda La Farge December 8, 1929." This novel was the winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. 5 x 7.75 in. xvii, 84 pp. Good in original burgundy cloth boards that have a slight lean, rubbing along the hinges, and a few spots and rings on the covers. The interior has some foxing throughout, but otherwise remains crisp and bright. An American's take on the opium trade and trafficking in the "Far East" in the early 20th century.

New York: Norton, 1990. First US Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xxxi, 135 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards, faint foxing to head of text block, and near fine in original pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large quarto. 11.75 x 14 in. 167 pp. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards and fine pictorial paper-covered slipcase.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in. 94 pp. Very good in original blue-grey cloth boards and a good illustrated dust jacket that has a series of ring-like stains on the back, but otherwise is bright and unmarred. The interior pages have minor foxing. This copy comes from the library of David Madden, author of "Bijou," whose name appears on the front free endpaper. Translated from the Swedish by Naomi Walford. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951.

London: Firefly Publishing, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original paper-covered boards, and near fine pictorial dust jacket, scuffing to head of lower panel with light wear to corners.. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 288 pp. Illustrated with a suite of black & white reproductions of photographs.

San Francisco, CA: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Thin octavo. 6.25 x 8.5 in. Unpaginated. Very good in original pictorial wrappers, with two light stains on upper cover. Cover photographs are by Wallace Berman.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 275 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and near fine in original pictorial dust jacket, some bending to edge of covers.

Boston: Northeastern University, 2004. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xii, 415 pp. Near fine in original pictorial wrappers.

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in. 67 pp. Fine in original black cloth boards. Signed and dated by Lane on the title page.

New Haven: Yale, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xiv, 280 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Mershon Co. First Thus. Hardcover. Fair. Octodecimo. 4.5 x 6.5 in. xiv, 336 pp. Fair in original decorative yellow cloth boards, with bumps and rubbing to the boards and siginificant wear to the upper third of the spine that has resulted in the title being largely rubbed away. The hinges are loose, but remain intact and the pages remain largely clean except for a few isolated spots of foxing. A collection of children's fairy tales, largely comprised of storied by Hans Christian Anderson. The Mershon Publishing Co. operated under this name until 1905. The original Yellow Fairy Book was published by Longmans, Green and Co. in 1894.

Los Angeles: Artemis Books, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near fine. Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 143 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of erotic drawings. Near fine in original pictorial wrappers.

Arkville, NY: Arkville Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good in original wraps with some foxing and previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, in very good dust jacket with some foxing and chipping.. Small Octavo. 5.5 x 7.5 in. 93 pp. An epigrammatic novel by Lanier, "part of an on-going attempt to bring together her personal experiences in the form of a humanistic gospel.

Bath, England: Gunsmoke Western / Firecrest Publishing, 1988. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo. 5 x 8 in. 182 pp. Very good in original pictorial paper-covered boards, some sunning to spine. Inscribed by Lansdale on the title page with a "cameo by Billy Bob the Skeeter.

Chicago: Flood Edition, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Octavo. 6 x 7.5 in. 111 pp. Very good in original wrappers with small speck to foot of textblock and small creasing to one corner of pp 33-42. Inscribed by Meyer on translation page.

New York: Sky Hop Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine, otherwise fine in original textured cloth with lettering and design in silver.. Quarto. 8.5 x 11.75 in. 67 pp. Fully illustrated with 14 color reproductions of paintings by Josie Merck. Signed by Wendy Larsen (poet) and Josie Merck (illustrator) on the colophon page. From a limited edition of 150 copies, this being Number 128. Also inscribed by Merck on the title page. Bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Color illustrated endpapers by Josie Merck (monoprint). With laid in errata slip.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.. Octavo. 6.25 x 9 in. 392 pp. Fully illustrated. Signed by Larson on the title page.

London: Bloomsbury, 2013. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Octavo. 5.25 x 8 in. xix, 315 pp. Some highlighting in pencil to first 20 pages, thus very good in original boards and fine in original pictorial dust jacket.

San Francisco: City Lights, 1985. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Octavo. 5 x 8 in. 248 pp. Very good pictorial wrappers, foxing to edge of textblock and endpapers. Inscribed to Jargon Society publisher Jonathan Williams on half-title page.