Search Results: Titles starting with L from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Paris: Au sans pareil, 1925. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Chas Laborde. Chas Laborde. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Lacretelle, Jacques de. LA BELLE JOURNEE. Paris: Au sans pareil, 1925. Printed blue wrappers [broché.] illustrated with six engravings by Chas Laborde. 12 mo., 56 pp. one of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Lafuma. [of 1365 total copies] First Edition / Edition originale. A very nice fine example / Superbe état.

Montréal: EDITIONS De la Bibliotheque Canadienne Enrg. / Beauchemin, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Saint-Pierre, Arthur. LA CROCHE. Signed / Dédicacé. Montréal: EDITIONS De la Bibliotheque Canadienne Enrg. / Beauchemin, 1953. First edition / édition originale. 8vo., Red velvet style wrappers / Couverture souple. Very good / Très bon. 198pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper / Dédicacé par l'auteur: "Cordial hommage / Arthur Saint-Pierre / Montréal, 5 décembre 1958". Ex libris Collège Jean de Brébeuf with stamp on the title-page stricken through. Evidence of pocket removal at the rear.

Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1919. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Jacob, Max. LA DEFENSE DE TARTUFE. Extases, remords, visions, prières, poèmes et méditations d`un juif converti. Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1919. First Edition. 12 mo., 213 pp. One of 750 numbered copies [of 830 total run] printed on bulle. A very good example showing a bit of darkening throughout in the original black printed brown wrappers, in supplied glassine. One of Jacob's earliest & most important books - TALVART et PLACE no. 7.

Paris [Montpellier]: La Murene, 1964. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Durrell, Lawrence. LA DESCENT DU STYX. Signed. Paris [Montpellier]: La Murene, 1964. Text is in both French & English. Printed stiff white wrappers. First Edition. Sm 4to., A fine, fresh copy. One of only 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition].

Montreal: Les Editions de l'Arbre, 1945. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Leger, Fernand, LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L'ESPACE. Signed. Montreal, Les Editions de l'Arbre, 1945. Outstanding Association Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Leger on the half-title to Alfred Pellan. "A mon ami Pellan / votre confrere / F. leger." First edition. Squarish 8vo, decorated black and red wrappers, pp. 100. 38 pp. of dramatic black and white reproductions. Very uncommon thus. Poem by Francois Hertel, philosophical argument by Leger, critical text by Maurice Gagnon, M. A. Couturier, S. Giedion, S. M. Kootz and James Johnson Sweeney. Entire text In French. The international art community recognized a half century ago, the truly momentous contribution made by Alfred Pellan, to the arts and none more so than Leger himself, whom Pellan called both an inspirational colleague and a dear friend. During the war years, Leger spent time in North America, living for a brief period in Montreal, where… Read More

Paris: Gallimard, (1957), 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. One of 56 numbered copies (the only numbered edition) on Velin pur fil Lafuma Navarre, & of these. 1 of 6 copies not for sale "E" (hors commerce). Fine in the original wrappers & glassine wrapper.

Paris: NRF, 1923. First Edition.. Hardcover. Marie Laurencin. Marie Laurencin. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Lacretelle, Jacques de. [Marie Laurencin]. LA MORT D'HIPPOLYTE. Inscribed / avec envoi. Paris: NRF, 1923. Modern gilt-stamped red chevre, raised bands, suede quards, Montsé Buxò marbled papers for flyleaves, inlaid darker red stars. Matching custom rounded slipcase. Exemplaire No H. C. [1 of 35 copies] Original covers bound-in. Original title piece preserved & laid down. Signed by Marie Laurencin's under the title. Presentation copy / avec un envoi de Lacretelle / inscribed by the author: "à _____ / Amicale et sincère hommage, Jacques de Lacretelle". Edward Wasserman's copy with his famous Marie Laurencin bookplate [the only known ex-libris she ever designed] / Exemplaire enrichi exceptionnellement de l'ex-libris d'Edward Wasserman gravé par Marie Laurencin en 1932 à partir du quatrième état de l'une de ses eaux-fortes (seul ex-libris connu réalisé par l'artiste)… Read More

Mexico City: Albatros, 1946. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Helu, Antonio. LA OBLIGACION DE ASESINAR. [HE COMPULSION TO MURDER] Mexico City: Albatros, 1946. First edition. A nice near fine or better copy of this Queen Quorum # 102 title: " Antonio Helu was founded a south-of-the-border school of detection, & created the first great Mexican manhunter, Maximo Roldan. In the earliest tale to appear in the United States, Roldan solved an intricate and baffling murder to prove that crime does pay: for by solving the murder Roldan was able to pocket 10,000 pesos in jewels, thus combining (bloodhound) business with (pilfering) pleasure. The wages of sin, in Roldan's lexicon of larceny, is---detection." A very nice example. $350.

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1949. 1st Edition. Daragnès. Daragnès. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED DARAGNES, SIGNED KIEFFER. One of Kieffer's Greatest Bindings exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs / 35ème. 1949 (Societé des artistes décorateurs). A glorious copy of this illustrated LA PASSION DE N-S JESUS CHRIST [PASSION OF CHRIST], number 44 of 140 limited editions, 11" x 14", on vellum paper inside. Prussian blue cover with gold gilt lettering and design. A fine example of this book with only slight wear showing on the slip case. Comprises 112 pages, including over 57 prints sepia tinted by the French Impressionist Daragnès in an exquisite binding by Rene Kieffer featuring a bold and and dynamic navy blue and marbled frontispiece, Inside is a translation of the twenty-first psalm by the French Poet Paul Claudel. This unique art book was printed by Kieffer on his presses. Bindery tag and stamp shown. Certainly a labor of love for these three gentlemen with the book being dedicated to the memory of… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1984), 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this superbly intelligent, keenly observed look at Switzerland's Army. 8vo. 150 pp. A fine copy in gray cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. "McPhee, in showing us as many aspects of the Swiss Army as their famous knife has blades, has produced one of his best books". The Wall Street Journal.

Lausanne: La Cité, 1958. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Alleg, Henri & Sartre, Jean-Paul. LA QUESTION - UNE VICTOIRE. Signed. Lausanne: La Cité, 1958. First Edition and the First Collected Edition of these important texts exposing the methods of torture used by French troops in the Algerian War. Near fine or better in the publisher's printed wrappers, Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the half-title page to close friend Michelle Vian, (Boris Vian's wife). Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An Important Association Copies as Sartre began a life-long affair with writer & maverick creative force, Boris Vian's first wife, Michele L'Eglise in the late 40's, which lasted until Sartre's death in 1980. L'Eglise & Vian divorced in 1951. Sartre & de Beauvoir loved Boris & promoted him often. Sartre nominated Vian for a celebrated literary prize for the novel, L'Ecume. Vian's… Read More

New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Terrell, John Upton. LA SALLE: The Life and Times of An Explorer. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. 8vo., A fine fresh copy in a fine fresh dustwrapper. Quite nice.

Paris: François Bernouard, 1919. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Rare first edition. Thin 4to., unpaginated [24] + printed stiff card covers. 1 of only 104 numbered copies [4 on Japon & 100 on Arches]. This copy lettered "G" and signed by Derain although no lettered copies are indicated which might account for a possible 26 additional copies printed]. Designed with four full page black & white Derain illustrations. A bit of offsetting to the prelims, heavy cover stock mildly aged with light soiling. Very uncommon. Vlaminck's satirical 'poeme' about "life" has 4 chapter headings in French: Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter - Derain's "Fauve" sketches illustrate the chapters & are typical of his heavier lines - bold & thickly rendered. A fine example of Fauvism in spirit & illustration. A movement said to have begun in June 1909 when Vlaminck first met Andre Derain at Chatou resulting in the formation of the school of Chatou & ultimately the birth of Fauve art - joined formatively by the likes of; Matisse,… Read More

Paris: Librairie de l'art Independant, (1893), 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Claudel, Paul. LA VILLE. Published anonymously. Paris: Librairie de l'art Independant, (1893).First Edition. A rare example of the first version of the Author's second book. 1 of 200 hand numbered copies on Velin Blanc (of 225 copies, the entire edition) Talvart & Place #2. A fine copy showing a bit of age-darkening. Original wrappers in the publisher's glassine dj. $1350.

London: Bloomsbury, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Signed by Margaret Atwood on the title page. 12mo. 41pp. A fine copy of this story within a story, incorporating the doomed Labrador exploratory mission of Hubbard and Wallace, in the publisher's blue stiff card wrappers, as issued. A title in the Bloomsbury Quid series.

Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine unblemished bright copy of the First Edition [very minor rubs at the tips] in the publisher's embossed blue boards with white decorations & titling on the upper cover & spine; decorated endpapers [frontis + 3 plates by Herman PfeiferIn], in a very good or better example of the rare first issue dustwrapper showing light use, with "LADDIE A TRUE BLUE STORY" & the correct price of a dollar & thirty-five cents on the spine, the back panel blank & without reviews on the flaps. 8vo., pp. [xii], 602. Her most highly regarded fictionalized autobiography of her own childhood growing up in the Limberlost Swamp, Wabash, Indiana. Gene Stratton-Porter [1863 - 1924]. An American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, & one of the earliest women to form a movie studio & production company. She wrote some best-selling novels & well-received columns in national magazines, such as… Read More

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. "I claim, and shall prove, that Lady Byron's reputation has been the victim of a concerted attack, begun by her husband during her lifetime." Stowe, Harriet Beecher. LADY BYRON VINDICATED. A History Of The Byron Controversy, From Its Beginning In 1816 To The Present Time. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition preceded by Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1869 article in the Atlantic magazine, an exposé of George Gordon, Lord Byron, told to Harriet Beecher Stowe by Lady Byron prior to her death, including allusions to the poet's widely rumoured, unspeakable affair with his half- sister. 8vo. 482 pp. Original brown cloth, brown coated endpapers, gilt titles and decorations to the spine. Small neat previous collector's contemporary signature to the front free endpaper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Chandler, Raymond. THE LADY IN THE LAKE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team. The case is finished in black cloth & plum cloth, gilt stamped spine title piece, 'Sculpted' design on the side. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Benchmark Mystery. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stockton, Frank R. THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? And Other Stories. New York: charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. First Edition of these twelve short stories collecting the author's most famous, The Lady Or The Tiger presenting its unsolved "riddle". The Goldstone copy, with Adrian Homer Goldstone's neat bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A very good or better copy showing some use in 1/4 brown over gray decorated cloth, front hinge strengthened. 8vo. 201 pp. + 8 pp. of adverts. "The unsolved human dilemma therein described is classic in its drama". Merle Johnson, High Spots Of American Literature. Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Ellery Queen, Queen's Quorum. $425.

Paris: Paris: Gallimard, 1953, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition of this collection relating to the famous post-Indo-China war political scandal in France. Inscribed and Signed by Sartre on the half-title page to Françoise Adelson. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. A fine copy in the publisher's printed wrappers and original glassine. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An excellent copy.