Search Results: Titles starting with L from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Milano, IT: Editore Ulrico Hoepli, 1947. Second Edition. Paperback. Good. Quarto, 13 pages - followed by 752 photogravure illustrations by 300 artists from 20 nations, wrappers worn, small rubber stamp on title-page from the Italian publisher's association. Introduction by Ugo Nebbia. Here are extensive pieces of design work by hundreds of creators for fine art, home decor, appliances, etc. for post-war living

Paris: Histoire & Collections, ( 2000 ). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without dj. Quarto,182 pages, prior owner's inked name This is an unnumbered copy of the original edition.

Alger: AlgerAlger: Editions P. & G. Soubiron, 1932, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, 391 pages, rebound in full vellum, leather label, with original rear wrapper bound in. This book was received by an American serviceman in April, 1944, who had it rebound there in the bookshop of Gaspar Cassella for $3.50. Illustrated by Photos.

Paris: Belin Le Prieur, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo, 249 pages, quarter sheep, tree calf, marbled endpapers, exta-gilt spine, short splits at joints; School reward label in 1839, awarding this volume to Valerie Goethals for achievement in Mythologie. Pointed advice, relayed in epistolary form, on etiquette and behaviour for youths of all ages. Three copperplate engravings.

Paris: Jardin Des Modes, 1930 circa. First Edition. Flexible covers. Very Good. Oblong quarto, [24] cloth pages, printed on linen, with serrated top and bottom edges, multi-colored cloth spine slightly worn; inked presentation in 1941 to Peter MacLeish With 27 charming, naif, blockprints, with French text, of the opening lines of the Book of GENESIS, describing the Creation of the World, with Adam & Eve. Bound in pictorial linen folded around cardboard insert and stitch-bound, batik print illustrations with hand-drawn lettering.

Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1811. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo, 108 pages, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, foxed. Ex John S. Walton, stamped on p.3. RARE. [Shaw & Shoemaker 22501]. This is either the first or second Spanish-language novel published in the U.S.A. ( Carey published two by this author in 1811). having appeared first in Spain in 1800. This copy apparently lacks the frontispiece [NUC NC 0268637].

Paris: Chez les Freres Debure, 1774. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo; [2]-XLIV, 558, [5] pages, contemporary full calf, marbled endpapers, extra-gilt spine, light tidal marks at top margin, top joint worn. With a woodcut Ex libris of L. J. Van Der Handele of Amons-Hoocte, a 20th century parasitologist. This posthumous edition has been revised, and with a Memoir of Schabol by Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville. Schabol had previously published the "Dictionnaire pur la Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage et d l'agriculture". The frontispiece portrait of Fr. Schabol is by J. Robert, and engraved on copper by Vincenzo Vangelisty. This is a companion volume to his PRATIQUE DU JARDINAGE. { Kress no. 16955 ]. The sections treat earth, air, plantes, grains. 

Paris: Librairie Octave Doin, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 16mo, 165 pages, printed wrappers, chipped spine, line of water stain on bottom edge Inscribed to Dr. Case by Dr. Becart in 1929. "Dr. Becart was a researcher in the field of medicine, specialising in two areas: digestive ailments and blood transfusions. He also applied his enquiring mind to gastronomy, developing and refining cooking methods and utensils. He became the first Vice-President of the Chaine." - La Chaine des Rotisseurs. Gaehlinger was a researcher in France and Belgium as a gastroenterologist.

Mexico City: I Escalante Y Co., 1870. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 390 pages + Index, quarter calf, extremities worn, inked name of Augustin M. Villanuevo across title-page. Scarce A study on the history of social progress through the ages and the religions.

Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 4to, 101+ pages, cream cloth (soiled) with a "snakeskin" style pattern front and rear. This is the second title in the French Book Illustrators series. This is copy 97 of 650 on white vellum mould-made Johannot paper. With 14 full-page plates, the frontispiece portrait, in-text illustrations, and a bibliography of the works Laboureur illustrated.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; xi, 262 pages, pictorial green cloth, some flaking of the white enamel; ex libris O. W. Smith of Oconomowoc, WI, with his bookplate and some rubber stamps, neatly Dr. Townsend was a renowned Boston obstetrician and pediatrician, but his serious hobby was ornithology. He was a member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Townsend sought to follow in Audubon's footsteps in Labrador. This title is his second book about traversing Labrador in the Spring of 1909. "...alll branches of natural history on this Labrador coast were a delight to the writer, and that human studies, both Indian and white, came in for a full share of his observations." Extensively illustrated with photogravures.

La Crosse, IN: La Crosse Centennial, Inc., ( 1963 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Quarto, 100 pages?, tan paper covers Photogravures, many local advertisements. WorldCat cites one copy, at the Indiana State Library.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. First Edition. Small octavo, 213 pages, black cloth, inked owner's name, endpapers spotted; dj chipped, worn, soiled. "Woman has not been able to organize her own nature, her simoons, her tornadoes, her obscurantisms, because she lacked the eye of consciousness, She was nature. Man did not help her in this because his interpretations, whether psychological , or intellectual, or artistic, did not seize her. And she could not speak for herself." - Prologue. Signed by Nin on the front endpaper.

New York: H. Dayton, Publisher, [ 1850 - 1860 ]. First Edition. Octavo; 14-218, [9] - 208, some foxing, publisher's blue pebbled cloth, extra-gilt covers and spine, a few newspaper burns from clipped poems laid in. Note: copies appear to have been issued without, as here, the first 8 pages of part 2 (the Contents listing begins at p.9). The first entry - followed by a handful of others - is by Josephine Pollard. Others by Claude Iris, Mary A. Denison (wife of Rev. Charles W. Denison - another contributor here - editor of 'Emanicpator', the first anti-slavery journal in NYC; she contributed wdely, including to 11 dime novels), With lyrics and music to H. Clay Preuss's "We'll all meet again in the Morning." Preuss was a noted hymnist. Includes 6 hand-colored floral plates, and 4 engravings (including Lake George ). Note: the few copies of this work which have survived vary in the names of and numbers of plates contained: this has more than any other copy located. An essay, "The Perfect Model of… Read More

New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1906. Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 306 pages, pictorial period cloth, with portrait, old price blacked-out on free endpaper Charles Norris Williamson & Alice Muriel Williamson wrote mulitple works about Lady Betty. Here Betty is "banished" by her mother to America. Here are colorful accounts of Betty's visits to New York City, West Point, Chicago (two chapters), Newport, a chapter on Sky-scrapers with another on the Twentieth-Century Limited train. "Chicago overawed me, and took my breath away," Six illustrations by Orson Lowell, an inductee in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. [Not in CHICAGO IN STORY].

No place: William Faro, Inc, 1930. "Samuel Roth". Hardcover. Good . 8vo, 313 pages, black cloth, untrimmed, a bit loose; no dj A variant of the first Faro edition. Modern Amatory Classics Number One. Expurgated text. [Gertzman, LADY CHATTERLEY, 7.2]

New York & London, & Pittsburgh: Authors And Newspapers Association / Joseph Horne Co., 1906. Special Edition. Hardcover. Good plus. Duodecimo, 317 pages, decorated khaki cloth; on the front pastedown is a gold sticker for Kirk's perfume, located above a printed notice that permits the purchase of this from the publisher's authorized agents - with conditions; inked name from August 1906. With four illuistrations from watercolors by Arthur William Brown. This variant copy, with the additional imprint of Joseph Horne Co. was sold exclusively in Pittsburgh, PA.

New York: Scribner's, 1886. New edition. Duodecimo. Good. 12mo, 201 pages, chipped printed wrappers, sewing loose, lacks rear wrapper Serialized in 1882, 1st in hardcover in 1884, this classic tale appears here with two ghost stories and some others. [ see BAL 18880, 18951; Queen's Quorum, 12 ].

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879-80. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo; xii, 296, [iv] pages, red-orange pictorial An Englishwoman's impressions of ranch life in Montana as told thru letters - HERD 263. With 7 illustrations. "I have found a dream of beauty of which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not loveable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North American beauty - snow splotched mountains, huge pines, red-woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline atmosphere, waves of the riches color; and a pine-hung lake which mirrors all beauty on its surface." - Letter I. [Soliday II: 94 ].

Lagrange, IN: Lagrange Publishing Co., [ 1929 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 120 pages, later blue library buckram; x-library with minimal markings, archival tape repars Judge Hanan was the President of the Old Settler's Association. Replete with photogravures of many persons, and buildings. Chapter 2 covers the final meeting for the centennial celebration by the Old Settlers, in 1929. Chapter 32, by Hanan, is "LaGrange County of 1929".