Search Results: Authors starting with L from Little Sages Books, ABAA

London: Adam and Charles Black , 1907. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Hardcover in green cloth boards, stamped black, 254 p. including index, with ad for Kate Greenaway publication in rear. Copious illustrations/plates tipped in. Bookplate of R.J.A. Boreman.

New York: John Lane the Bodley Head , 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" ; Done into type by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press, Springfield Massachusetts. Rebound library cloth with paper label at back, stamped 'noncirculating' to pastedown.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley , 1908. First Edition. Boards. Good. 6-3/4" X 5-1/4 " Quarter cloth, paper over boards, label on spine. Hand moulded paper. 41p. 36 quatrains . Heavy foxing to exterior.

London: National Conference of the Socialist League, 1934. Pamphlet. Very good. Stapled pamphlet, pp16, in graphic red/cream wrappers. Lays out the policy of the Socialist League as defined at National Conference in Leeds. Ten at present in N. American OCLC. 

Staffordshire , 1857. Letter. Very good. Bifold sheet, three pages of writing. January 20, 1857 .Dear Sir: I fear that I cannot engage to attend the annual meeting of the Birmingham Church Extension Society, to be held on the 29th - but although I have just now many heavy calls upon me from places with which I am actually connected - having as you may, I think, be aware, no property in the town of Birmingham or -- in any part of the Diocese of Worcester - I shall perhaps be able to give a mall contribution towards the excellent object which you have in view. Perhaps therefore when your lsit of subscriptions has been well started I may hear from you again. In the meantime, I remain very faithfully yours, \Darthmouth. Paper residue from being affixed to album pages.

Amsterdam: Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 1981. Hardcover. Very good/good. Twenty-four quatrains, text in Dutch. Slim black cloth, gilt title to spine. Front endpapers lightly toned. Dustjacket shows toning, closed tears and general light wear.

Amsterdam : De Beuk, 1957. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 39p. + colophon in textured wraps printed red.

Utrecht : De Roos, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 54 quatrains in Dutch, essay reprinted from De Nederlandsche Spectator of 1906, 35 pages in cream boards with gilt title and device. Inscription at Colophon. Coumans 348.

Paris : Du Temps Present, 1948. Wraps. Good. 446p. in printed wraps, pencil writing in text.

Dublin: Browne and Nolan Limited , 1950. First Edition. Wraps. Good. With handwritten dedication to the President of Ireland and Phyllis O'Kelly from Shane Leslie. Cream paper wraps, printed black, 75 quatrains of hope. Bit shelf rubbed.

Ediciones Catedra S.A, 2/1/1994. Paperback. Good. Petite softcover in glossy orange wrappers, rustica en Espanol. Small marks to rear cover rim, arriving First Class.

Mainz: Verlag von Jos. Scholz, c1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Slim 4to, pp 16 with 8 full or half page chromolithographed illustrations, and full color illustrated boards. Containing music and lyrics to Schubert, Mozart, Goethe and many folk songs.

Hollywood: House-Warven , 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large hardcover, pictorial endpapers and gilt title to front boards. Twenty full page page black/white illustrations by Keye Luke. 106 quatrains, imitative of Khayyam, printed on 40 double-leaf pages uncut at the top, framed by illustrative border. Bookplate of noted book collector Leone Fulmer Nash.

Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, 2009. Paperback. Very good. Slim, bright softcover in glossy wraps. Tidy and as new, with flawless pages. Rustica/en Espanol. Topics include: Wittgenstein, Autodterminacion, Razon y Voluntad, etc.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. on Murray Hill , 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Norman Lindsay. Orange blue cloth, stamped with text and vignette. Plain endpapers, owners gift inscription 1937, with original pictorial dustjacket showing closed tears and bits of loss at spine. Illustrated by noted Australian artist, Norman Lindsay with line drawings throughout.

Montpelier: Printed by E.P. Walton, 1822. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 27p., removed. heavily darkened and worn, intact.

Islas Canarias/Canary Islands : Islas Canarias: Viceconsejeria de Cultura y Deportes Gobierno de Canarias, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. 204pp. Bright softcover in plum/black wrappers.

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company Passenger Department , 1908. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Featuring many pages of ads, literature, poetry. Here noted for the Jack London piece that was rejected many times before Sunset's inclusion. Covers show loss, interior complete and unmarred.

San Francisco: Wright Lorimer , 1909. First Edition. Letter. Very good. Walter M. S. [Myron Smith] Lowell, American stage actor and playwright, author of famous religious play The Shepherd King and star of the Broadway production (playing David). Lorimer, a Colgate College (Massachusetts) graduate, Oxford post-grad, Dearborn Stock Company of Chicago theatre member, then surprisingly: Pennsylvania baptist preacher, marriage and a gig as a poultry farmer ..then 15-year old Zelda ran away with him in Michigan, all that before the iconic role of King David. Six years plus, the nation loved him and his stardom rose. After wide notoriety, a vaudeville crestfall and the absence of a follow-up chapter of success, he committed suicide at the age of 38 years, by putting his head in the gas oven of a boarding house kitchen on 124 West Sixty-fifth Street .His personal letterhead reads: Grasp Thine Opportunities, showing a hand grasping three arrows. Three letters from what likely are hotels in Northern… Read More

Perrin, 1994. Paperback. Fair. Sturdy softcover, former library with small label, strengthened covers. Toning/subtle wear. The history of Louisiana to 1803-4, Louisiana Purchase, Treaty of Paris.