Search Results: Titles starting with L from 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera

Washington, D.C.: Organizing for America/Democratic National Committee, 2012. Softcover. Fine. 8" x 16" four color sheet folded to create eight [8] 8" x 4" panels.

Paris: Editions de LaMartiniere, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near FineÊ lightly rubbed dust jacket.. Folio. 124 pp. Illustrated with color plates.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket has a few wrinkles on the front panel.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Lt. Col. J.F. Swain, USMCR/with a crisp Alpine salute/and all best/John McPhee/10/27/84." A nice association copy.

New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, 1946. Softcover. Very Good with slightly browned paper in wraps. 67 pp. Front., Illustrations. Anti-labor [unions] booklet. "No favoritism. Personal liberty for all. Fair laws, giving a square deal and equal justice.

New York: Belmont, 1968. Softcover. Very Good in illustrated wrappers.. 12mo., 159 pp. Belmont Double B60-080. "Ladies' Day" depicts a lesbian dystopia; "This Crowded Earth" is an overpopulation dystopia. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 159. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 269, 308.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine with owner's name on front endpaper in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 127 pp. Library of American Fiction. Two novellas.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Arno was among the original staff contributors to The New Yorker, which published his cartoons and covers for the next 40 years. His style was instantly recognizable, and usually seemed to be about challenging mores and accepted behavior.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good lightly soiled and worn dust jacket.. 8vo. 289 pp. Second printing.

New York: Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Corning: Corning Museum of Glass/Dover Publications, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine in color wraps.. Folio. In color wraps. 115 pp. 29 full page color plates. An important resource for glass scholars and collectors. Over 1,500 illustrations of vases, cups, glassware, paperweights, other objects in Art Nouveau, Art Deco motifs. Includes design numbers, measurement, original price list. From rare original at Corning Museum of Glass.

New York: St. Martins, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition.

Lancaster: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Square 8vo. 176 pp. with bibliography and many illustrations [black and white plates].

Raleigh: Sparks, 1986. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth printing. Color photographs. Near fine in very good gust jacket with some light edgewear.

New York: Delacorte, 1982. Hardcover. Fine in Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Thin 8vo. 146 pp. Jacket illustration by Jerry Pinkney. Play by actor Ossie Davis in which poet and author Langston Hughes visits a church basement where a drama group is rehearsing one of his plays, and uses the actors to recreate scenes from his early life.

New York: A.A. Grapevine, 1988. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Third printing. A collection of inspiring and illuminating articles written for Grapevine magazine, from Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill W. was AA Grapevine's most prolific contributor, having written more than 150 articles, from his first in June 1944 to his last in December 1970. An enthusiastic advocate, he also served for many years as a consulting editor of Grapevine, which started as an eight-page local newsletter and became the principal journal of the Fellowship. In more than 150 articles, written over a span of twenty-six years, Bill Wilson documented the painstaking process of trial and error that resulted in AA's spiritual principles of recovery, unity, and service, articulating along the way his vision of what the Fellowship could become. Near fine with some mild spotting along the top edge.

New York: A.A. Grapevine, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Second printing. A collection of inspiring and illuminating articles written for Grapevine magazine, from Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill W. was A.A. Grapevine's most prolific contributor, having written more than 150 articles, from his first in June 1944 to his last in December 1970. An enthusiastic advocate, he also served for many years as a consulting editor of Grapevine, which started as an eight-page local newsletter and became the principal journal of the Fellowship. In more than 150 articles, written over a span of twenty-six years, Bill Wilson documented the painstaking process of trial and error that resulted in AA's spiritual principles of recovery, unity, and service, articulating along the way his vision of what the Fellowship could become. Near fine with some mild spotting along the top edge.

New York: American Agora Foundation, 2013. Softcover. Very Good with some light handling and soiling.. 8vo. 219 pp. A rare volume of the renowned Quarterly covering history, literature, art and lore of the sea. An anthology of writings on The Sea by Simon Winchester, Maggie Shipstead, Jacques Cousteau, Rachel Carson, Joseph Conrad, Matsuo Basho, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, M.F.K. Fisher, John Donne, Jules Verne, Hernry Beston, John Steinbeck, Lewis Caroll and Millard Fillmore. Bountifully illustrated.

Bonnie Buick: Evanston, ND. Softcover. Near Fine.