Search Results: Authors starting with L from 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera

SpecPub, Inc, 2002. Softcover. Near Fine. 80 pp. 8 1/2" x 11." Glossy adult magazine with color photos and ads throughout. Photos of the publication are available on request.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First edition.

New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Doctorow's breakthrough book. Basis for both the film and later Broadway musical. A surprisingly scarce title in fine condition. Well known work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. "The political novel of our age . . . the best work of its kind" (New Republic). Listed by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Basis for the 1981 film directed by Milos Forman, featuring the final film appearances of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, and early appearances, in small parts, by Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Samuel L. Jackson, Ethan Phillips, and John Ratzenberger. The music score was composed by Randy Newman. The film was nominated for eight Oscars.

New York: Random House, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Random House: New York, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. 271 pp. Octavo. Doctorow's acclaimed work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Listed by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. TIME magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It was the basis for the 1981 film directed by Milos Forman, featuring the final film appearances of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, and early appearances, in small parts, by Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Samuel L. Jackson, Ethan Phillips, and John Ratzenberger. The music score was composed by Randy Newman. The film was nominated for eight Oscars.

Aiken: Kalmia Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The story of Aiken, South Carolina and the Winter Colony as well as the beginnings of its equine legacy as reflected in polo, fox hunting and steeple chasing.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine in near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo, Original book club edition - first thus. A special edition with 24 photographs from the 1939 MGM movie, and an introduction by Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow in the film. Chapter heading illustrations by Robert Leydenfrost.

Panama City: I.L. Maduro, ND. Softcover. Good with some creasing throughout.. 8" x 10" horizontal staple-bound travel booklet with color illustrated covers black and white photos throughout. Unpaginated. Rare. **OCLC** lists four copies, one each at: Princeton University, The New York Historical Society, SUNY Geneseo and the University of Arizona.

Peabody: Hendrickson, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition.

New York: Henry Holy & Co, 1944. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good/Very good.

Freeport: L.L. Bean, 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Approx. 12" x 18," 203 pp., Red wraps with title, author and pictorial of Maine stamped to front cover. Spine slightly faded. Map of Baxter State Park to front endpapers. Map of Maine showing regional deer kills from 1941 to rear endpapers.

New York: Scholastic, 1983. Softcover. Very Good in illustrated wrappers.. 12mo., 94 pp. David Febland, illustrator. Early R.L. Stine title, finished three [3] years before his first novel. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature." Twistaplot is a series of children's gamebooks that were published by Scholastic from 1982 to 1985. Books #1, #4, #9, and #14 were written by R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series, among many others.

New York: Celadon, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Short stories by the Pushcart Prize-nominated author.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with some light creasing.. 8vo. 348 pp. Maps. Index. An important reference resource.

Mineola: Dover, 1996. Softcover. Fine in color wraps.. 4to. 47 pp. Includes renderings of 44 Frank Lloyd Wright structures. For coloring book enthusiasts and students of modern American architecture. With introduction and biographical note.

New York: Tor, 1993. First Edition. Hardbound. Fine/Fine.

Cleveland: Metal Machine Workers of America, ND. Softcover. Near fine with some age toning. 24 pp. Approx. 6" x 4." Originally produced and published by the UAW in 1947 this later version was released by the National Labor Service which published general information that was pro-labor and anti-discrimination. Uncommon,. **OCLC** lists approximately 20 copies at major U.S. research university libraries.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1945. Softcover. Wraps slightly worn else very good. 31 pp. In stapled wraps. 5" x 7.25.

New York: Daw, 1989. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. 12mo. 318 pp. Vows and Honor Book 2.

New York: Daw, 1992. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. 12mo. The Mage Winds, Book 1. Larry Dixon [illustrator].