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LEAVES OF GRASS. Including a Facsimile Autobiography Variorum Readings of the Poem and a Department of Gathered Leaves.by: Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS. Including a Facsimile Autobiography Variorum Readings of the Poem and a Department of Gathered Leaves.
by: Walt Whitman

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and black stamped detail to front board, gilt decorative detail/ lettering to spine, top edge gilt, portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and dedication to David McKay with tissue guard, 2 pull-out sections of facsimile handwritten autobiography notes by author. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 398093

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Leaving China : an artist paints his World War II childhoodby: McMullan, James

Leaving China : an artist paints his World War II childhood
by: McMullan, James

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 113 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by James McMullan throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352291

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Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desireby: Slusher, Katherine

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire
by: Slusher, Katherine

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

Record # 362716

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Lee Miller: Photographs by: Penrose, Antony

Lee Miller: Photographs
by: Penrose, Antony

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale rose boards with photo label on front cover. Over one hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model, and surrealist muse Lee Miller, Introduced to photography at an early age, Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the Surrealists and avant-garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Picasso. Together with Man Ray she accidentally discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York, where she became a prominent commercial photographer, she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue, a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs. This evocative book collects Lee Miller's most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller, all carefully compiled by her son the photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, Cllean copy.

Record # 385905

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Leni Riefenstahl-Five Lives: A Biography in Picturesby: Walk Ines; Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl-Five Lives: A Biography in Pictures
by: Walk Ines; Leni Riefenstahl

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most notably in her epochal film "Olympia" (1938). Critically acclaimed during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the famous "Tiefland" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan, publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an underwater photographer. Though she has attracted much attention throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles, and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many previously unpublished pictures from her private archives.

Record # 360923

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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahlby: Bach, Steven

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
by: Bach, Steven

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages. The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--Bach gives us an exceptional work of historical investigation that untangles the past and is also an objective but unsparing appraisal of a woman of spectacular gifts corrupted by ruthless personal ambition.

Record # 362412

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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahlby: Steven Bach

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
by: Steven Bach

Softcover. UK, Abacus, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations. Presents a revealing biography, based on primary sources, of the life and works of Riefenstahl and her role as photographer and filmmaker in Germany and during the Nazi regime. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 397997

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Lenya the Legend:  A Pictorial Autobiographyby: Farneth, David

Lenya the Legend: A Pictorial Autobiography
by: Farneth, David

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. Over 300 photographs (many in color), most never-before published, chronology, select recordings and videotapes, index. Text taken from Lenya's interviews, private conversations, letters, and other writings provide captivating glimpses into her on-stage and off-stage world. Married to Kurt Weill, the pair brought their talents to American theater when they left Nazi Germany in the 1930s. She gave unforgettable performances on stage and screen ('Threepenny Opera', 'Cabaret' etc) and established herself as one of the twentieth century's most enduring and talented performers. Clean copy.

Record # 382199

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Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoirby: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoir
by: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 805408

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Leonard Bernstein Letters, Theby: Simeone (Ed.), Nigel

Leonard Bernstein Letters, The
by: Simeone (Ed.), Nigel

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 606 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music. Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician--a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life--musical and personal--and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities.

Record # 411485

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Leonardo Da Vinciby: Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci
by: Isaacson, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & illustrated, sepia toned endpapers. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully presented to accompany text. Bright dust jacket with marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750729

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Leonardo da Vinciby: Zubov, V. P.

Leonardo da Vinci
by: Zubov, V. P.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751105

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Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style by: Pedretti, Carlo

Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style
by: Pedretti, Carlo

Hardcover. NY, Johnson Reprint Corporation, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated with 22 color plates and 177 in b&w. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Major events in Leonardo's life. 3). The river. 4). The fiction. 5). Hercules. 6). Leda. 7). Bacchus. 8). Epilogue. 9). Bibliography. 10). Index. Smaller ownership sticker on inside front cover otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 385934

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Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna by: Lyon, Hugh Lee

Leontyne Price: Highlights of a Prima Donna
by: Lyon, Hugh Lee

Softcover. Authors Choice Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, 216 pages. Originally published in 1973 and covers the early and essential years of her life and career. The story of a shy girl from Mississippi who became a world opra star told in a sympathetic light.

Record # 381596

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Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Designby: Remington, R. Roger

Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design
by: Remington, R. Roger

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design. In full color, this book documents the work of his pioneering 44-year career-advertising, corporate-identity programs, product styling, packaging, exhibits, murals, annual reports, posters, books, and magazines for a wide range of clients, including the U.S. government, the International Paper Company, Martin Marietta Corporation, and many others.

Record # 351270

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Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacyby: Horwitt, Sanford D.

Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
by: Horwitt, Sanford D.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 595 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies-from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists-in battles waged against opponents from slumlords to the Eastman Kodak corporation. The range of Alinsky's activities, the intensity of his beliefs, and his exhilarating mixture of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pages of this passionate and inspiring biography.

Record # 457144

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Letters from Prison by: Marquis De Sade (Author), Richard Seaver (Translator)

Letters from Prison
by: Marquis De Sade (Author), Richard Seaver (Translator)

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 401pages. The 1990s saw a resurgence of interest in the Marquis de Sade, with several biographies competing to put their version of his life story before the public. But Sadean scholar Richard Seaver takes us directly to the source, translating Sade's prison correspondence. Seaver's translations retain the aristocratic hauteur of Sade's prose, which still possesses a clarity that any reader can appreciate. "When will my horrible situation cease?" he wrote to his wife shortly after his incarceration began in 1777. "When in God's name will I be let out of the tomb where I have been buried alive? There is nothing to equal the horror of my fate!" But he was never reduced to pleading for long, and not always so solicitous of his wife's feelings; a few years later, he would write, "This morning I received a fat letter from you that seemed endless. Please, I beg of you, don't go on at such length: do you believe that I have nothing better to do than to read your endless repetitions?" For those interested in learning about the man responsible for some of the most infamous philosophical fiction in history, Letters from Prison is an indispensable collection. Clean copy.

Record # 374484

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Letters Home: Memoirs of One Army Nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Pullman, Sally Hitchcock

Letters Home: Memoirs of One Army Nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Pullman, Sally Hitchcock

Softcover. AuthorHouse, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper and pages clean. This book is the story of just one newly graduated nurse told in her own words in her letters home saved by her parents and friends. It is one of the few stories of nurses in the Pacific area.

Record # 99008

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Letters of Ayn Randby: Rand, Ayn (edited by Michael S. Berliner)

Letters of Ayn Rand
by: Rand, Ayn (edited by Michael S. Berliner)

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of the letters by the influential writer of Atlas Shrugged and other acclaimed works offers a unique view of her world, in both the personal and the professional spheres. 681 pages, clean copy.

Record # 379956

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Letters of Benjamin Jowettby: Jowett, Benjamin, M.A., master of Balliol College,University of Oxford /edited by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett
by: Jowett, Benjamin, M.A., master of Balliol College,University of Oxford /edited by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped with gilt lettering, 262 pages. Frotis. portrait. A supplemental volume to the two-volume set The Lif and Letters of Benjamin Jowett published in 1897. Name on inside front cover, clean copy.

Record # 386892

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Letters of Delmore Schwartz by: Phillips, Robert (Ed.)

Letters of Delmore Schwartz
by: Phillips, Robert (Ed.)

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence. Clean copy.

Record # 397594

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Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, Theby: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, The
by: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.

Record # 750717

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Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875, The by: James, Henry

Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875, The
by: James, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 493 pages. Sun-fading to dust jacket spine, two small closed tears to front cover. Faint foxing to edges, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458232

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Letters of Henry James, Volume II: 1875-1883, The by: James, Henry

Letters of Henry James, Volume II: 1875-1883, The
by: James, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Volume 2. 438 pages. Light sunning to dust jacket spine, previous owner's signature on front end paper, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458233

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Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn Volume 1: 1902-1925 by: John Cowper Powys

Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn Volume 1: 1902-1925
by: John Cowper Powys

Softcover. London, Village Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 367 pages. Volume 1 only. Selected and edited by Malcolm Elwin. With his younger brother Llewelyn, to whom he had been an impressive protective figure since childhood, he spoke almost without reserve, although the tow brothers were fundamentally so different, one from the other, as brothers can be. John's imaginative ability to put himself in another's place, together with his acute awareness of human suffering, made it impossible for him to wound. Llewelyn's vivid, spontaneous and sensual response to life was sometimes not so sensitive to the feelings of others.Had their understanding not been so deeply rooted he might have wounded John by his outspoken criticism of his brother's undisciplined and torrential writing power. But in literary criticism he did not surpass John, who could and did point out flaws in Llewelyn's own work. The Mutual criticism was only one aspect of the constant exchange, when they were apart, of their thoughts and feelings in an unending flow of letters. Spine faded, a clean copy.

Record # 385601

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Letters of Leonard Woolf by: Spotts, Frederic (editor)

Letters of Leonard Woolf
by: Spotts, Frederic (editor)

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dist jacket, 616 pages, b&w illustrations. These letters were written to his wife, Virginia Woolf, and to a number of friends and family members. They provide a fascinating look into the life and work of one of the most important British writers of the 20th century. Clean, like new.

Record # 381862

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Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)
by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Hardcover. Boston, Charles Little and James Brown, 2nd Ed., 1840, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes (199 and 278 pages) bound in brown polished calf with raised bands and gilt design on spine, covers with gilt rules. Minor wear to spine edges. Vol. 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece, Vol. 2 with facsimile of Abigail's handwriting. Library bookplate on first blank page (verso of front fly leaf). Some foxing to preliminary pages, otherwise a clean, bright set.

Record # 404101

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Letters to Horseface: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Journey to Italy 1769 1770 When He Was a Boy of Fourteenby: F. N. Monjo

Letters to Horseface: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Journey to Italy 1769 1770 When He Was a Boy of Fourteen
by: F. N. Monjo

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.

Record # 380255

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Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the Worldby: Downey, Lynn

Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
by: Downey, Lynn

Hardcover. Boston, University of Massauchusetts Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs in center. Little to no wear to edges.

Record # 369090

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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life by: Wilson, Robin

Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
by: Wilson, Robin

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 2008, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The writings of Lewis Carroll have inspired and entertained generations of readers and have influenced the work of everyone from James Joyce to John Lennon. But the extraordinary imagination that created Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, was not limited simply to fantasy, logic and word play. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was for many years lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and published works in the fields of geometry, logic and algebra. He also made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, and he created large numbers of imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. For the first time, Lewis Carroll in Numberland explores both his serious and his recreational work and places it in the context of his many other activities, mathematical and otherwise. Clean copy.

Record # 381769

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Lewis Carroll: A Celebration (Essays on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)by: Guiliano (Ed.), Edward

Lewis Carroll: A Celebration (Essays on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
by: Guiliano (Ed.), Edward

Hardcover. New York , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with slightly faded spine and small tear to uper edge of front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Clean, tight copy. "This collection of fifteen original essays, written especially for this occasion by distinguished Carrollian authorities from around the world, including Morton Cohen, Roger Henkle, Donald Rackin, Jean Gattegno, and Edward Guiliano, celebrates the many aspects of Carroll's life and art."

Record # 854717

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Lewis Carrollby: Hudson, Derek

Lewis Carroll
by: Hudson, Derek

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, blue cloth covers with silver titles. 354 pages. b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 387447

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Lewis Henry Morgan; American Scholar by: Resek, Carl

Lewis Henry Morgan; American Scholar
by: Resek, Carl

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. Biography of the 19th century intellectual who was the American pioneer in anthropology. 184 pages, Mild soil to rear dj, no markings.

Record # 380343

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Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-Captain in the Navy of the United Statesby: Waldo, S. Putnam

Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-Captain in the Navy of the United States
by: Waldo, S. Putnam

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.

Record # 403668

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Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Theby: Lewis, Roger

Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The
by: Lewis, Roger

Hardcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages, b&w photos. A no-holds-barred biography that exposes Peter Sellers few were privy to. Recognized as one of the greatest British comics, Sellers was the grand master in over 55 films. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of bizarre behavior involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with such people as Princess Margaret, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives. As fascinatingly revealing look at this enigmatic talent.

Record # 358414

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Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgeman - The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girlby: Lamson, Mary Swift

Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgeman - The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl
by: Lamson, Mary Swift

Hardcover. Boston, New England Publishing Company, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 373 pages. Illustrated with 2 black & white plates. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607368

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Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman: The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girlby: Lamson, Mary Swift

Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman: The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl
by: Lamson, Mary Swift

Hardcover. Boston, MA, New England Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece (b/w) is disconnected from binding and laid in. Ex library book with expected markings, labels, etc. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with black decoration. Fold out copy of original poem written by hand by author. Account of the life and education of Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), who was the first blind-deaf person to receive a formal education and whose longtime residence at the Perkins Institution for the Blind influenced a generation of students, including Anne Sullivan (who went on to fame as Helen Keller's teacher).

Record # 99186

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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, The: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (In Two Volumes)
by: Darwin, Francis (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Both volumes: B/w frontispiece. Dark red cover boards, black design on front covers, gilt title on spines. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Spines straight. Binding good. Biography of Charles Darwin, including correspondence, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99172

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Life and Letters of John Hay, The: In Two Volumesby: Thayer, William Roscoe

Life and Letters of John Hay, The: In Two Volumes
by: Thayer, William Roscoe

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 8th Impression, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, half leather bound with gilt titles and top edge, frontispiece illustration with tissue guard on both volumes. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853982

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Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, Theby: Millais, John Guille

Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, The
by: Millais, John Guille

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Covers are 3/4 leather with marbled sections. Spine with raised bands, title and decoration in gilt. Marbled endpapers. This set Previously owned by Charles B. Woodcock Savage who achieved notoriety as the lover of King Karl of Wurttemberg and features his signature at the top of preliminary page in each volume. Gift inscription to Savage from Nellie on front endpapers of both volumes. Top edges gilt. Features 316 black & white illustrations. Volume 1 - Light wear. Clean, tight. Volume 2 - front cover hinge cracked, with loosening to spine strip up to 1" from top - hinge tender. Light wear otherwise. Overall, very good.

Record # 611998

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Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor

Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (Three Volumes Complete)
by: Campbell Thomas; Beattie William Editor

Hardcover. London, Edward Moxon, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcovers bound in polished calf, gilt rules to covers, black leather labels on spine with orate gilt decorations. Pages: xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index. Marbled endpapers and text edges. Aside from previous owner's bookplate on inside cover of each volume, a bright, clean set. Biography of the Scottish poet, incorporating many of his letters.

Record # 378495

Price: $300.00 
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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805226

Price: $15.00 
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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 372025

Price: $15.00 
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Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adamsby: Sweard, William H.

Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams
by: Sweard, William H.

Hardcover. Auburn, Derby, Miller and Company, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Adams and gilt title on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper and fly leaf, spine edge and corner wear, light foxing on some pages. Overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853905

Price: $80.00 
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Life and Times of Aaron Burr, Theby: Parton, J.

Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The
by: Parton, J.

Hardcover. New York, Mason Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 696 pages, with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, edge and corner wear, small crack along top spine edge, and light foxing on some pages. Overall, in clean and tight condition.

Record # 853906

Price: $100.00 
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Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton, Theby: Riethmuller, Christopher James

Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton, The
by: Riethmuller, Christopher James

Hardcover. London, Bell and Daldy, 1st, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages. Red cloth covers with embossed graphic border and gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to covers, slight wear to cover edges and corners, front cover and backstrip of spine separated from page block, though page block still attached to rear cover.

Record # 806244

Price: $100.00 
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Life and Times of R. Crumb - Comments From Contemporariesby: Beauchamp (Ed.), Monte

Life and Times of R. Crumb - Comments From Contemporaries
by: Beauchamp (Ed.), Monte

Softcover. NY, St. Martins Griffin, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color, black & white by Crumb, 182 pages. Accolades and Reflections on the Controversial R. Crumb: "Robert Crumb--lurid, pornographic, sexy, twisted, hilarious, and depraved. The greatest American satirist is also its finest draftsman." --Joe Coleman "God bless Crumb. I've always been happy that there was someone as sick and twisted as I am." --George Carlin "I can think of no one more unqualified to say anything about Robert Crumb's artwork than myself. In fact, it's useless for most cartoonists of my generation to do so; without him, there wouldn't "be" any cartoonists of my generation." --Chris Ware, "The Acme Novelty Library"

Record # 59915

Price: $25.00 
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Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, Theby: Bayley, Frank W.

Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, The
by: Bayley, Frank W.

Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806051

Price: $50.00 
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Life As I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good by: Col. Harland Sanders

Life As I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good
by: Col. Harland Sanders

Hardcover. Carol Stream IL, Creation House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that has edgewear, light soil. The book captures Col. Sanders tenacity and drive in his multi faceted career that had failures and discovery in his great success selling his chicken process door to door to restaurants. From railroad worker to insurance salesman to Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, this is an inspirational, most enjoyable read. The autobiography of the world famous `Colonel Sanders" who, at one time, was the most recognizable person in the world, and who didn't launch Kentucky Fried Chicken, now KFC, until he was 65 years of age, and sold it for $2,000,000 several years later.

Record # 382329

Price: $15.00 
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Life in Photography, Aby: McKenna, Rollie

Life in Photography, A
by: McKenna, Rollie

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs throughout. Light wear to dust jacket.

Record # 369079

Price: $30.00 
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