Search Results: Titles starting with L from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Collins, 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. No marks to edges. Light offsetting &n toning to endpapers. No inscriptions - appears unread. The near fine/fine dustwrapper has the lightest wear with a couple of tiny closed tears and rubbing to bottom left foot of spine. A few tiny spots to rear panel. Unusually, absolutely none of the usual toning to white spine lettering. Original price of 15snet on front flap. A very attractive copy indeed. Maclean's fourth novel takes the action to behind the Iron Curtain to rescue a defected scientist - a classic Cold War thriller.

Herbert Jenkins, 1948. c1946. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. Publishers illustrated dustwrapper with same artwork as the original. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally complete & clean with no inscriptions. No marks to textblock edges. The very good+ dustwrapper has edgewear and light nicking to extremities & a hint of lightening to spine. Original price of 5/-net to spine. Uncommon in dustwrapper even as a reprint. McIlvaine A31a. Ronald Psmith is always willing to help a damsel in distress and offers Eve Halliday his umbrella. Eve works for Lord Emsworth and Psmith imitates a poet to follow her down to Blandings Castle to woo her and so the fun begins.

Oldbourne, 1961. Rare Publishers file copy with small publishers ink stamp to titlepage ("Jarrolds publisher" - Oldbourne press being a subdivision). First edition, first printing. 4to. Photo illustrated boards with red cloth spine. Dustwrapper mirrors the boards. A fine copy with fresh clean boards. No inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with wear & light nicking to extremities. Original price of 10s6dnet to front flap. An attractive copy of this most unusual book. Dare Wright moved to New York to pursue a career in photography and modelling and took her Lenci doll with her. Her first book "The Lonely Doll" featuring that doll was a smash hit and made the New York Bestselling Lists; she wrote a further 18 childrens books of which this the fourth.

Hodder & Stougton, 1902. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. Topedge gilt. Wonderful frontispiece map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine copy with very clean boards. No chipping or splitting to cloth & none of the usual fading to black spine. Internally very clean & crisp. Original booksellers blindstamp to rear endpaper. Partial crack to front endpaper. No inscriptions. A really lovely copy & seldom found in this condition. A series of short stories accounting the author's day to day activities in London with a fantastical bent set around Kensington Gardens including the very first appearance of Peter Pan.

Herbert Jenkins, 1939. Fifth printing. Orange boards with black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Abbey with same artwork as the first printing. A near fine copy. Clean boards with no marks. Some occasional light spotting to edges. Internally clean and complete. No inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper has edgewear & nicking to extremities. Original price of 5/-net to front flap. McIlvaine A54A. Monty Bodkin attempts to woo Gertrude Butterwick on the R.M.S. Atlantic but is hugely distracted by Miss Lotus Blossum - the brightest star in Hollywood.