Search Results: Authors starting with L from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Philadelphia: William T. Amies, [circa 1880s]. Quarto. lvi, 733 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with in-text and full-page woodcuts by Gustave Doré (all included in the pagination). Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Very good. Short tears to spine ends and head of rear joint; corners worn. The hinges are partially cracked and tender, and the text block has dropped, but both covers are holding fairly well for such a large and heavy volume. The leaves are a trifle age-toned but, aside from a few minor traces of marginal soiling, the volume is clean throughout. A bright and attractive copy. Later edition in a beautiful example of publisher's cloth.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936. 275 pages, plus frontispiece, two folding maps, and plates. Original red cloth. [23.5 cm.] About very good. Some light soiling and speckling to cloth, spine lettering a bit dull, margins of plates and facing pages foxed (not affecting maps.) FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It reads: "To Drs. Shamrock and Richard Pearse, with sincere regards, John Tate Lanning."

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1919]. [4], 123 pages. Numerous drawings in the text by Fontaine Fox, who also illustrated the covers. Original paper-covered boards printed in red and black. 19.5 x 13 cm. Slight loss to the paper covering the rear joint from insect nibbling, else very good. Light wear to the spine ends with one letter of publisher's name rubbed away, spine a little sunned, slight browning to ends of spine and edges of covers, tiny split to one corner. Early gift inscription on front free endpaper, faint foxing to endpapers. Text leaves are a little toned, as expected, but clean. An attractive copy overall.FIRST EDITION. A collection of stories told as letters by a Chicago policeman, Fred A. Gross, to his brother Charley. Fred's epistles deal little with his professional life and instead "focus on efforts to get along with his middle-class neighbors in a Chicago suburb and his attempts to move up in society" (ANB). The stories were originally printed in “Red… Read More

Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, [n.d., circa late 1840s or 1850s]. x, [2] pages; pp. [5]-396, plus engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and 26 full-page engraved plates by Phiz. Several woodcuts in the text. Later 19th century half blue calf over marbled boards with raised bands, handsomely gilt spine in six compartments, red leather spine label, marbled endpapers, and all edges marbled. Corners are slightly bumped and leather shows minor rubbing at extremities. Light, mostly marginal foxing to frontispiece; lacking the tissue guard; offsetting from the frontispiece to the title-page. Book is over opened between frontispiece and title, but binding is sound. Many plates with light to moderate foxing, with occasional dark spots. A half dozen leaves with scattered old stains, not affecting legibility (a bit of split tea, were we to guess). Many corners with light reader's creases. Text block is thus good only, however the binding is attractive and better than very good. Later printing.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 140 pages, plus frontispiece and one double-sided plate. Original maroon cloth. [21.8 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing to plates, facing pages, and endpapers. Some wear and rubbing to jacket with minor loss at ends of spine panel; small internal repair on verso; light soiling evident on rear panel. FIRST EDITION. "Joseph Blount Cheshire, for nearly forty years Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was known and loved throughout the state as a man of great personal charm, good sense, and the ability to get things done. Beyond his ecclesiastical career, he was lawyer and a writer, who made many contributions to the formal history of the state as well as to the church. This book is an account of his life with particular emphasis on his life in the church." --Books from Chapel Hill, pp. 159-160.

[Asheville?, circa 1920's]. 31 pages. One diagram in the text. Original printed tan wraps [23.5 cm], with illustrated ad on rear wrap. Bound into later black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library with small ink stamp on front wrap, several marginal stamps, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, and small remnant of a removed call number sticker on the front board. Cloth binding is otherwise fine; pamphlet is otherwise good only. Top half inch of front wrap excised and filled-in with paper of a near match in color. Upper corners damped throughout, in no way impacting text. FIRST OF THIS EDITION. An apparent reprint of a 1884 pamphlet issued under the same title, which listed the co-authors as E. L. and F. P. Love. The work includes advice on growing tobacco (pp. 11-21) as well as recipes and instructions for curing it. The present edition includes a form bound at the front which obliged the purchaser to pay the author fifty dollars unless the purchaser complied with these terms:… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1938]. [40] pages. Original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in red and green. [16.7 cm.] A good plus copy in like dust jacket. Moderate foxing to cloth, but internally clean. Early owner's inscription dated 1942 on front free endpaper. Jacket has several small tears and short repairs on verso with archival tape (minimal loss, not affecting lettering), a small abrasion to front panel, and some light soil. Early printing of the author's first book. [It is more commonly found under the imprint, "Gentry Press, New York," dated 1938, which appears to have priority. Comparison of the title page with a bookseller's photo of the Gentry issue suggests that only the imprint was reset.] Illustrated with wood engravings in the text by Willard Clark, most of which are printed in color. A charming children's book set in San Antonio, describing the traditional Christmas miracle play, "Los Pastores." Janette Sebring Lowrey (b. 1892) was a… Read More