Search Results: Titles starting with L from Brenner's Collectable Books

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo, 290pp. Beautiful First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($24.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A pretty collectable copy at a great price.

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo, 290pp. Beautiful First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($24.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A pretty collectable copy at a great price.

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo, 290pp. Beautiful First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive price-clipped dust-jacket, is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A pretty collectable copy at a great price.

Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 2000. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Square, 4to., 391(1). Beautiful Stated First Edition bound in red cloth with titles in gilt on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very well-preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($60.00), has some mild wear to spine ends and tips but still fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. A handsome collectable copy at a great price.

Paris: Henri Laurens. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Part of the "Petites Monographies Des Grande Edifices De La France" series. 12mo., 136pp. Original printed cloth wraps. No date but c.1920's. 44 photographs, floorplan. Text in French. Tight, solid and clean throughout. Minor edge-wear and soiling and a few foxing spots on page edges, but no creases, chipping or tears. From the library of George Howell, noted 40-year Architect of Rutgers University with his bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. A solid collectable copy at a great price.

Paris: Henri Laurens. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Part of the "Petites Monographies Des Grande Edifices De La France" series. 12mo., 100pp. Original printed cloth wraps. No date but c.1920's 38 photographs, floorplan. Text in French. Tight, solid and clean throughout. Minor edge-wear and soiling and a few foxing spots on page edges, but no creases, chipping or tears. From the library of George Howell, noted 40-year Architect of Rutgers University with his bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. A solid collectable copy at a great price.

New York: Linden Press/Simon snd Schuster, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 349pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth over gold paper-covered boards. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Top board edge cloth has a tiny sliver of toning. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($14.95), has some rubbing to spine ends and tips but still fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. Signed and dated by the author on the front end-paper. A very pretty collectable copy.

New York: Arbor House, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 283pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($14.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Signed & Inscribed by the author to Otto Penzler, legendary editor and publisher, founder of the Mysterious Press and proprietor of the famed Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. "For Otto Penzler, s good friend - always a pleasure - Elmore Leonard 10/83". Penzler and Leonard enjoyed a warm friendship for 30 plus years until Leonard's death in 2013. A gorgeous collectable copy and a very cool association.

Oxford: Printed at the Theater in Oxford, 1673. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., (26)141(3) 99(1) though with some errors in pagination. Sharp Second Impression, printed the same year as the first. Bound in contemporary polished brown calf with titles in gilt on leather spine label and decorations in compartments. Leather looks varnished with piece chipped from spine ends and wear to tips. Front joint cracked and rear hinge just starting to. Title page and early inscription torn and page repaired with partial loss of text stating the impression. Generally clean pages with a few early pages waterstained at the lower margins. Several pages with vertical streaks of blue ink though not affecting readability of text. Ownership signature on front end-paper. "By the author of the Whole Duty of Man...", who is presumed to be Allestree, (1619-81). Still a quite handsome collectable copy of a treatise on the proper conduct of women.

New York: Beacon Books, 1957. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine Minus. Vintage Paperback PBO Beacon Book BB146. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original. No Month, 1957. $.35 cover price. Tight and clean throughout with just a hint of a spline lean and a touch of edge-wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A simply gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon title.

New York: Penguin, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Beautiful Stated First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.

New York: Harpercollins, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 352pp.. Beautiful Unread Uncorrected Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.

New York: Ace, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine. Vintage Paperback. Beautiful Unread First Paperback with full number sequence. October, 2001. $6.99 Cover Price. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear at the crown. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

New York: Ace Hardcover, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 289pp. Beautiful Unread First Printing. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($23.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.

London: Hutchinson 7 Co. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo., 288pp. Sharp Reprint Edition, (50th thousand stated), undated but c.1930. Square, tight and clean throughout save a few scattered spots. Some off-setting to end-papers. Very mild edge-wear. gutters. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, 1/- on the front panel and "one shilling" on the spine, has a small chip the crown. A couple of short closed tears and creases. Still fresh and bright and scarce in any condition. A very pretty copy.

Boston: Crosby & Ainsworth. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 16mo., 313-472 pagination. Not dated but dated ownership signature of 1868. Uncommon early edition with cloth spine over printed paper-covered boards. Titles on spine in gilt as well as printed on front board. Solid and fairly clean throughout. Staining and soiling to boards with printing fading as is the spine gilt. wear to edges and tips. Front end-paper torn at the corners. Rear hinge starting but firm. Not perfect but still a pleasant and uncommon collectable copy.

New York: Library of America, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Slipcase. 8vo., 848pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive publisher's slipcase. LOA information pamphlet laid in. A simply gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 247pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little with little or no wear. Equally attractive dust-jacket, ($22.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, tears or creases. A gorgeous collectable copy of the author's first book.

Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Slipcase. Jeffrey Morgan. Slim 4to., 52(2)pp. Gorgeous First Limited Edition, #154 of only 275 copies published. Beautifully bound in 1/4 green cloth over speckled paper-covered boards. Titles in gilt on spine. Wood engravings throughout by Jeffrey Morgan. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Fine green cloth publisher's slipcase. Signed by both the poet and the artist on the limitation page, From the library of noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and literature, Tom Fox, with his unobtrusive blind-stamp on the title page. Fox was called by Nicholas Basbanes, ",,, a kindred spirit...assembler of an uncommonly distinctive collection of Irish history and literature". A stunning collectable copy of a quite uncommon item in the market.

New York: The Viking Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 337pp. Beautiful First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with mild wear to spine ends and a light vertical crease to the cloth on the spine panel. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($17.95), is lightly toned and has a couple of short closed edge-tears. Still bright and solid. Inscribed and signed by the author to an unknown recipient on the dedication page, "To the Mayor of Baseball, Garrison Keillor". A pretty collectable copy at a great price.