Search Results: Titles starting with L from Chilton Books

London: L.Davenport & Co., 1945.. Demon Series Tricks Jokes & Puzzles. Catalogue for 1945 listing magical tricks including American Tricks and publications. 18.5cms x 12cms. Unpaginated. Many advertisements with illustrations, pages to centre loose. Illustrated card cover rubbed with small ink stains to front, staples rusted. Scarce. Good.

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1911.. Pp.7/311. Ex libris, library stamp to title. Pages browned. Green cloth with gilt title and library registration to spine. G+

Dijon: Antoine Maitre, Editeur, M DCCCLXXXII [1882 ] .. A miniature French langauge book in a very good full leather binding. 4.0" x 2.75" x 0.75" [10.0cm x 7.0cm x 1.7cm.] pp.400 . Polished blue morocco. Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt titles: "Imiation De Jesus-Christ". All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Gold & blue decorated floral endpapers. Engraved frontis by "L. Turgis". Clean French text throughout. Each page within a red lined border. A lovely little book.

A Paris: Chez Cl. Morlot, dans la coutt S. Iulian, Et Chez Cl. Prevd'homme, pres S. Seuerin, M. DC. XLIII. [1693 ] .. The present volume published in France in 1693 is entitled: �The Instruction of Priests: Containing the essential teaching which illustrates the excellence of the priesthood and describes the means to worthily fulfill this ministry. Translated from Spanish into French by Rene Gaultier, A.G. A very good original vellum binding. Small 8vo. 6.5" x 4.0" x 2.0". [20pp.]/pp.770/[23pp. - "Table Des Matieres"] . Limp vellum covers. Soiled and rubbed. Clean French text throughout on lightly toned paper. VG. ** "Antonio De Molina was a Spanish Carthusian ascetical writer. A Spanish Carthusian and celebrated ascetical writer, born about 1560, at Villanueva de los infantes; died at Miraflores, 21 September, 1612 or 1619. In 1575 he entered the Order of Augustinian Hermits, was elected superior at one of their houses in Spain, and for some time taught theology. But wishing to join an order of… Read More

Paris: J.Bonhoure & Cie/London: James Nisbet, 1881.. French edition of "The Royal Invitation or Daily Thoughts of Coming to Christ". 14.5cms x 10cms. Pp.iv/117, black-ruled pages with references to side, browning to title page but otherwise clean and tight. Bright blue cloth, gilt title to front with original publisher's label(File Copy) to front. G+.

Paris: Les Editions Rieder, 1930 .. 8vo. Pp.80 . 60 b/w. Ex libris Royal Holloway College label to verso front board. Minor browning to page edges. Gilt title to front board. G+ .

Paris: Iris,1974.. Photo-guide to Corsica. 22cms x 17cms. Pp.86/map to rear, colour photo illustrations throughout with accompanying French text. Stiff card covers, spine scuffed. G+.

London: La Brita Kaj Alilanda Biblio Societo, 1947.. New Testament in Esperanto. 12cms x 8cms. Pp.358, text in two columns, owners name to inside front board. Blue leatherette covers, git title to front. VG.

A Paris : Chez Iacobus Langlois... Et Emanuel Langlois... M. DC. LIII. [1653 ] Avec Privilege Et Approbation.. Boards absent, tight text block. 8vo. [16pp]/pp.366/pp.185/[7pp. - Index]. Clean French text throughout, just light browning and a few small chips to the page edges. ** "Abelli, Louis Bishop of Rodez (South France), was born at Vez, 1604. He was made bishop in 1664, but resigned in three years, to become a monk in the convent of St. Lazare, at Paris. He was a violent opposer of the Jansenists, and author of a system of Dogmatic Theology, entitled Medulla Theologica (republished in Mayence, 1839), and also of Vie de St. Vincent de Paul, 4to. He was an ardent advocate of the worship of the Virgin Mary, and wrote, in its defense, La Tradition de l'eglise touchont le culte de la Vierge, 1652, 8vo. He died in his convent in 1691." - See McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia

Netherlands: Salamander Books Ltd., 1989.. Dutch ed. Guide to Labrador Retrievers. Pp. 117. Colour illustns. throughout, illustd. endpapers. Illustrated laminated boards. VG.

London:Catholic Book Club,1964.. Henri Dominique Lacordaire is known principally in the English-speaking world as a brilliant pulpit orator who packed Notre-Dame in Paris for his Lenten and Advent conferences...Lacordaire was...one of the formative influences in what might well be called "the second spring"of Catholicism in Post-Revolutionary France." Pp.12/184,owners name to fep. Blue cloth, d/w. G+/G+.

Manchester: H.Rawson, 1950.. With a foreword by G.P.Seed [Captain, English XII, Olympic Games, 1928]. 19cms x 12.5cms. Pp.85, 6 diagrams and plans. Blue stiff card cover, slightly rubbed to spine. VG.

London: SPCK, 1931.. Meditations for Holy Week, including Addresses on the Seven Last Words. Pp.8/104, toning to endpapers, front free endpapers absent. Brown cloth, minor edge wear. G+.

1976.. A Brief Study of Swedenborg's Philosophical Contribution to the Intellectual World". Pp 16. P/b. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.. Man's search for God and his struggle to overcome the spiritual and material factors that impede his search is the most vital and rewarding of all human activities". Pp 256, toning to pages, owner's label to half-title page. Paperback. G+.

London: Printed for J. Walter, at Homer's-Head, Charing-Cross, M DCC LXXXVII. [1787] .. Sixth edition. Disbound. 8vo.[18pp.]/pp.484/[20pp. - index, ending with one page of adverts]. Boards detached, but text block is tightly bound, except for the last leaf of the index which has some loss to the edges (affecting a few words of text). Half title very soiled. Clean English text throughout on lightly toned paper. G. * Referenced by: ESTC N19313 ** Full title reads: "The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table : Being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen; with bills of fare for suppers, from five dishes to nineteen; and several deserts: including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, and full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, by which a continual change may be made, as wanted, from the several bills of fare.… Read More

London: Futura. 1991.. 1st ed. "In a world of Church Fetes, Bring and Buys and Amateur Dramatics, Irene and Vera swap their insults as freely as their recipes - and yet remain the firmest of penpals. Through their letters they provide a fascinating, hilarious insight into suburban friendships". Pp 147, toning to page edges, inscribed by both authors to fep. P/b, crease to corner, illustrated cover. G+.

London: W.H.Allen, 1953.. 1st edition. Contents include: Part One: For a Better Understanding of Sex Happiness: I. Sex Psychology for Women; II. Wife vs. Mistress; III. Sex and Sex Appeal; IV. "Musts" for Sex Appeal; V. Sex and Love; VI. Prelude to Intercourse; VII. The Sexual Act; VIII. Postlude to Sexual Union; IX. Time, Duration and Frequency of Intercourse; X. Signs and Causes of Sex Stimulation; XI. The "Frigid" Woman; XII. Sex in the Menopause and Later Years. Part Two: Feminine Health vs. Sex Desirability: Xiii. Menstruation - True and False; XIV. Discharges and Douching; XV. Pregnancy can be Normal; XVI. The Menopause and Common Sense. Pp.207, a few light spots to closed page edges. Red cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.**Lelord Kordel (1904 � 2001) was a Polish American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1985.. 1st ed. "This fascinating exploration of Lady Gregory's life, her transformation and development reveals a striking and important personality." Pp. 13/366, 16 b/w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w (by J.B. Yeats). VG/VG.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981.. 1st edition. "An absorbing look at the changing status of women in the detective story and the spy thriller....As they say, the idea of a woman detective is 'bound to appear progressive', even if she's only an elderly busybody and proceeds largely by 'feminine' intuition rather than by reason. Yet the advance in women's status was slow and timid. Even women authors who were strong feminists (e.g. Sayers0, or men authors with liberal-left views (e.g. Day Lewis), or husband-and-wife teams (e.g. the Coles) gave women a poor showing. As for women spies, for decades they were little more than Mata Hari figures..." Pp.252, frontispiece + 12 further illustrations. Maroon boards, dustwrapper has sunning to spine and minor wear to base of spine. VG/G+.