Search Results: Authors starting with L from Aardvark Rare Books

New York: William Wood and Company, 1916. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Quarto. Textured maroon cloth-covered round-beveled boards (9 1/8 in. x 6 in.) with gilt lettering to spine. Book was specially bound by its former owner, the John Crerar Library at the University of Chicago. Early copy of a classic work by a (then-retired) twentieth-century colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps who was also past Commandant and Professor of Military Surgery at the U.S. Army Medical School, as well as serving in a similar capacity at New York University.

Wilmington, Delaware: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Explosives Department, 1928. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 6.8 in. x 4.3 in., pp. 215. Illustrated with many ink drawings, diagrams, and charts. Gray-green paper boards over dark brown cloth spine. Outlined title in orange and black and Dupont logo to cover. Dark brown title to spine. Light rubbing to edges. Printed on glossy paper. Previous owner's name and address to front free endpaper. Spine and hinges tight. Presentation page bound as front flyleaf indicates this book was a gift compliments of R.B. Ketchum, Dean at the University of Utah School of Mines and Engineering, to J. C. Connors. and is dated 1929.

Wilmington, Delaware: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Explosives Department, 1930. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 12mo, 6.8 in. x 4.3 in.,pp. 238. Illustrated with many ink drawings, diagrams, and charts. Gray paper boards over gray cloth spine. Outlined title in dark gray and orange and Dupont logo to front. Dark gray title to spine. Rubbing to edges and a couple small dents to boards. two corners a ouch nudged. LIght sunning to spine. Printed on glossy paper. Presentation page bound as front flyleaf indicates this book was a gift from the Dupont Corp to "Clair H. Cox."

Wilmington, Delaware: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Explosives Department, 1938. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 6.8 in. x 4.3 in., pp. 28. Illustrated with many ink drawings, diagrams, and charts. Light brown paper boards over dark brown cloth spine. Outlined title in dark brown and Dupont logo to cover. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing to edges; corners bumped and showing. Spine lean. Printed on glossy paper. Dim pencil notes to front free endpaper. Pages are bright.

Los Angeles, California: Western Lithograph Co, 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Slim duodecimo, 7 1/2" x 5." pp. 24. Brown leather covers, title blind stamped to front. Very minor rubbing to extremities. Interior pages very clean. One must "teach the bowel to move at a definite time..." "An authoritative study of bowel conditions and action written for the medical profession at the request of the Deshell Laboratories, Inc." (2). Habit Time encourages the view that patients must make bowel movements at the same time every day to avoid constipation, thus "habit time". The study discusses fecal consistency, medication, mode of life, physiology of the bowel, among other factors. Deshell Laboratories produced and sold Petrolagar, a medication used to induce bowel movements at regular intervals (See advert in The Modern Hospital, Jan 1926 for reference).

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Trade paperbacks; matching set: 9 in. x 6 in. Glossy cardpaper wraps. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown of all five volumes. Small crease to front bottom corner of Vol. I, No. 2; crease to rear top corner of Vol. 2 No. 2. Very light spotting to top edge. Unmarked interiors. Volume I: Two volumes entitled "The Century of Discovery." Volume II: Three volumes entitled "The Century of Wonder." Donald F. Lach, professor o f histry at University of CHcago, traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe, starting with the ancient Greek contacts with the Eastern worrld.

Paris, France: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 11 1/2" x 8." pp. viii, 520. Full red Morocco double ruled in gilt with beautiful, elaborate gilt decorations. Corners bumped with mild rubbing to joints and top and bottom of spine. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned and very clean, excepting occasional smudge. Title-page lettered in black and red. Lavishly illustrated with 55 plates total (21 of which are vibrantly colored chromolithograph), and 322 black and white in-text illustrations. Decorative headpieces, tailpieces, and historiated initials throughout. Very beautiful book. Profusely illustrated book that surveys the institutions, customs, and fashions of eighteenth-century France from 1700 until the French Revolution. By the French author and journalist Paul Lacroix. Includes chapters on the king and court, nobility,… Read More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot., 1871. Leather-bound. Good Plus. In French. Three-Quarter dark green and black morocco , ruled in gilt, Five raised bands to gilt-decorated spine with bright gilt lettering.Top edge gold. Deckled fore-edge and untrimmed bottom. Rubbing to extremities. Worn corners, Broken bottom headband, but all holding quite well; book is VERY usable. Lovely swirly marbled endpapers. Produced with all the elan and elegance of the finest French arts and letters, Occasional marginal foxing and browning. Wonderful chromolithographs, far better than the English editions, if that is possible. Exceptionally sharp wood engravings. Extraordinary illustrations depicting all aspects of French Renaissance culture and history. Note: Very Heavy Book.

Paris, France: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Et Cie, Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56, 1880. Quarto, 11 1/2" x 8." pp. viii, 580. Full red Morocco double ruled in gilt with beautiful, elaborate gilt decorations. Corners bumped with moderate rubbing to joints. Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Front board starting on inner hinge. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned, occasional spotting on top margin. Title-page lettered in black and red. Lavishly illustrated with 36 plates total (16 of which are vibrantly colored chromolithographs), and 291 black and white in-text illustrations. Decorative headpieces, tailpieces, and historiated initials throughout. Pencil annotations pp. 337 and 391. Very beautiful book. Profusely illustrated book that surveys the institutions, customs, and fashions of seventeenth-century France from 1590 until 1700. By the French author and journalist Paul Lacroix. Includes chapters on the French… Read More

London: J.M. Dent, 1911. 8th. Hardcover. Near Fine. Charles E. Brock. Two Volume Set. xxii,291, xi,254 pages. Frontis drawing and numerous text illustrations by Charles Brock to each volume. Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Illustrated endpapers. Half leather over brown linen boards. Five raised bands with gilt deocrations and border rules. Title in gilt. Some light edgewear but overall bright and clean. Ink note on front free endpaper dated 1913, otherwise interior bright and clean. Very nice set. These essays made their first appearance in The London Magazine between 1820-1825, and are among the most popular of Lamb's writings. There are 52 essays in the set, including: The South-Sea House; Mrs. Battle's Opinions of Whist; A Chapter on Ears; A Quaker's Meeting; The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers; A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig; The Wedding; Old China; Confessions of A Drunkard; Popular Fallacies; etc, etc.

Carpenteria, California: Carpenteria Valley HIstorical Society, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Good Dustjacket. 8vo. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Some edgewear and chipping to dustjacket, which has done a creditable job protecting its book. Privately printed (Carpenteria Historical Society) account of the spiritualist community called Summerland. "We lived in a tent down on Lillie Avenue when I arrived in 1890 at the age of swixteen...Santa Barbaras were poking fun at our village, calling it 'Spookville' because it started out as a spiritualist colony..." Author May Croop Lambert "lived to be almost 101 and her kaleidoscopic memories have been set down in sharp focus..." She describes her tender romance with a future county road builder named Fred Lambert, and how they raised their eight children through good times and bad. She served oin the local school board...and tells of such things as the vile-smelling Summerland kelp factory of World War I days, and the… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1946. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 8.2 in x 5.5 in., pp.188. Light green cloth boards withteal decorative frame and title to both front and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing and creasing to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. "A 'Candy Cane Book ' .... A typically sparkiling Janet Lambert story, full of humor and gayety and the wholesome realism which girls love in their books today." (from the dustjacket) Janet Lambert (1893 - 1973) was an actress and the author of 54 young-adult fiction titles for girls.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus in Good Dustjacket. Autobiographical childhood account from young West Indian Negro of Barbados. 312 pp. Very light rubbing to corners, and some light spotting to edges. Shelfwear to dustjacket, edgewear (esp. to top and bottom of spine). Original $3.75 price to spine. Good reading copy of this now-classic. Faintly musty.

Spring Valley, California: Chinaberry, Inc, 2006. AudioCD. Very Good Plus. 5 CDs, for a listening total of 6 hours, 8 minutes. "Meet Craig and Jill, two children who mysteriously shrink and find themselves living under their family's back steps and immersed in the world of ants. This edge-of-your-seat tale, loved by several generations of children and now out-of-print, is part fantasy, part scientific fact, and by story's end, children just. might be captivated enough to find out more about the fascinating world of ants..." (from notes on back). Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907-1980) wrote a number of books for children and young adults, among which are this cataloguer's absolute favorite tales of George, a talking Stegosaurus who befriends two siblings visiting their relative's ranch in Eastern Oregon - The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, and The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs. This audio CD will be a definite winner when driving with children across the great highways of our country America. OR?… Read More

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1833. Second edition. Leather-bound. Good Plus. 3 volumes. 12mo. 6 1/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. Three-quarter bound over blue stone marbled boards. Mild wear to extremities. Recent leather touchup repair to top left of each volume's front board, and extremities. Rebacked with original spine Attractive red Morocco spine labels, ruled in gilt with gilt lettering "Family Library" and "Journal of the Niger." Double ruled gilt compartments with gilt scrollwork and floral motif on spine. Matching blue stone marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. Gilt-top edge. Bindings tight but sound. Vol 1: [4], lxiv, [2] 272. Includes half-title, frontispiece portrait of Richard Lander, 2 maps ("The Quorra, Sengal, and Gambia Rivers" and foldout map "The Course of the Quorra, The Joliba or Niger". In text illustrations pp. 227 and 228. Mispagination 173 as 17; Vol 2: [1] vii, [1], 321, [1]. No half-title. Includes frontispiece portrait of John Lander, 3 plates ("The Fetish at Patashie,"… Read More

London, England: Hurst and Blackett Ltd, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes: black cloth, thick octavos with titles in gilt to spines and covers. Corners bumped, some light spotting to covers and spines, textblocks square, bindings tight. Volume 1: xv, 396pp+4 page Hurst catalogue. Large foldout map at rear, 67 illustrations. Volume 2: xii, 511pp+1 page publisher advert. Index, 99 illustrations. NOTE: Lacks route map to volume 2. Inscribed and signed on endpaper to volume 1 by Landor: To "Dr. C.M. Sneed with kindest regards, Henry Savage Landor, London, Sept. 19th , 1913." The front pastedown to both volumes have the signature of C.M. Sneed in pencil. Two short handwritten letters in original postmarked stamped envelopes from Landor to C.M. Sneed written on Savoy Hotel stationary and posted from London on January and February 1924, laid in. Some browning to endpapers, light overall toning to pages, no marks, etc. The journey covered 8,500 miles. Arnold Henry Savage Landor [1865-1924] was a… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Original red cloth. Gilt spine and front cover lettering. Color Map. Many photo illustrations, plans, fold-out charts. Very light rubbing to extremities, and sunning to rear board. Tiny nick to rear joint.Top edge gilt; fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Clean, tight, bright copy. 567pp.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Green buckram-covered boards with gilt vignette of a cowpoke to front board, and gilt lettering as well, and to spine. Veryh light rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper and top of title page. 24 illustrations. Pages very lightly age-tanned. Handsome solid copy.

Dublin Ireland: J. Cumming. Simpkin and Marshall, and R. Cadell and Co, 1829. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Matching set of four: Octavos, 8.7 in. x 5.4 in. Volume I, pp. xi, [1], 496; Volume II, pp. 494; Volume III: pp. 493; Volume IV, pp. 506. Rebound in dark red three-quarter calf decoratively ruled in blind over marbled boards. Four raised bands with gilt band lines, to spine. Gilt title on black panel, Author's name & respective volume numbers in plain gilt to a lower compartment. Marbled edges. Recent endpapers. Unmarked interiors; bright, tight textblock. Lanigan, John (1758-1828), priest and ecclesiastical historian, was born at Cashel, Co. Tipperary, the eldest of sixteen children of Thomas Lanigan... Educated at his father's school, and at the Rev. Patrick Hare's (protestant) academy in Cashel, he decided at an early age to become a priest, and was encouraged by the archbishop of Cashel, Dr James Butler II, who in 1776 enabled him to go to the Irish College in Rome for… Read More

Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. John Rae. Color illustrated boards, Cover titles in black on orange background. Cover bright with titles in black on orange background. Very minor shelfwear with some sun darkening to spine. Binding very sound. Color illustrated endpapers, 94 unpaginated pages with numerous pages color illustrated. Interior clean and bright. IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S BOX which duplicates front cover illustration of tree-bound black crow dropping a piece of cheese from its perch on a branch, to salivating, tongue-lolling fox below, on its hind legs paws on trunk of tree, with pointing red-headed elf on other sideof tree. Box shows some closed tears and nicks, and a 1 1/2" inch section where blue cardboard has been rubbed away. Box very sturdy still! Retelling of La Fontaine's classic tales.