Search Results: Authors starting with L from Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

Philadelphia: The John Winston Co,, (1898). A captivating collection of information about a broad array of things Parisian, with a nice introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Well-illustrated and with folding map bound in at the back. While this is certainly a nice addition to the body of information available on Paris, one of the most compelling reasons to add it to your collection is the lovely example of a publisher's binding. Green cloth with an elaborate gilt cover motif, top edge gilt. This copy is particularly extraordinary in that it retains its original green oil cloth dust wrapper, with gilt titled spine. To find a book of this vintage in the dust wrapper is most unusual. The dust wrappers were, indeed, wrappers to protect the book from dust. There is no advertisement..no cover art..nothing. Just heavy oil cloth with a title to protect a beautiful book. Housed in original dark green slipcase.

New York: Delacorte Press, (1983). 8vo. UNCORRECTED PROOF. This copy bound in original blue printedwrappers with publication information on the cover. The book is fine with with no wear or marks. Uncorrected proofs of L'Engle's works are scarce

New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., (1951). First edition A small octavo bound in original gray cloth.In this book we meet the famiy of Mr. Small, one of the author's most beloved characters. A fine copy in lightly worn original dust wrapper.

Leipzig and Paris Bernhard Tauchnitz 1931 Early, possibly first, Tauchnitz edition Original buff colored wrappers with black printing. A very good copy with some slight darkening to spine. Back cover ads dated April 1931 Vol. 4989 Paperback

New York and London: Macmillan, 1907. An octavo, 242 pages, plus ads. First Edition, bound in original pictorial cloth. Adise from some offsetting from a small newspaper portrait of London tipped-on to the verso of the frontispiece and some browning to the free endpapers, this is a fine bright copy. Nicely illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull.

London: Caxton Publishing Company, (1907). A 12mo., 322 pages, including glossary and an index of first lines. Bound in original decorative brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Portrait frontispiece and pictorial title page by A. S. Hartrick. Eight full page color plates by Alan Wright. A bit of very light wear and endleaves browned, else a fine copy.

London: Walter Scott, (ca. 1900). An attractive gift book from the Arts and Crafts period of design. One of the highly esteemed Canterbury Poets series, edited by William Sharp. A 16mo., 304 pages, bound in quarter vellum over red cloth boards. Attractive leather spine label and ornaments consisting of two lilies executed in gilt and green onlay. Spine label showing some wear and a bit of foxing, else a lovely copy.

Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, Inc., (1976). 8vo. Neat ink inscription on endpaper, else a fine copy in original tan colored paper over boards in a lightly soiled, price-clipped dust wrapper. This is the first volume of his trilogy and is scarce due to the small first printing. The wrapper states this is a collection of narrative contemplations reminiscent of Carlos Casteneda but without the drugs.

Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, Inc., (1976). 8vo. A fine copy in original tan colored paper over boards in a lightly soiled dust wrapper. This is the first volume of his trilogy and is scarce due to the small first printing. The wrapper states this is a collection of narrative contemplations reminiscent of Carlos Casteneda but without the drugs.

Samson Low, Son and Marston. London, 1871 Nicely bound in half smooth dark green calf and cloth. Six panelled spine with red labels for title and author. Gilt ruling and decoration, blind ruling on covers. Early ,tasteful small bookplate on front pastedown as well as a Glasgow binders ticket (J. Carss & Co.) Soiling on front endpaper and pastedown otherwise a a near fine copy in a handsome binding.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925. Early edition. This is a small quarto volume bound in the original decorated maroon cloth with gilt titling. Nice bookplate on front paste down, small stationers sticker (from Santa Fe) but otherwise very clean with the cloth unworn and the cover decoration bright. A fine copy, well illustrated, a classic work of New Mexico and the Southwest