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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvelous Works of Nature and Man (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kemp, Marint

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Hardvard University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards bound in maroon, gilt title on spine. Spine has some damage at bottom where label was pulled off, doesn't affect pages or text. Some foxing top edge. Clean inside, binding tight. Prior owner signature on front flyleaf.

Record # 31223


Price: $38.00 

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesque. Clayton, Martin
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesque.


Clayton, Martin

softcover. London, The Royal Collection, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. 149 illustrations, 92 in color. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 467975


Price: $25.00 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci


Vallentin, Antonina

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1stUS, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from German by E.W. Dickes. Color, black & white illust. 561 pages. Light chipping edgewear to dj

Record # 56622


Price: $25.00 

 

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man


Bramly, Serge

Softcover. London, England, Penguin Books, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. Softcover. Wrapper in good shape, no rips, not discolored. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have the slightest touch of tanning from age. Still clean copy, in very good condition. With the aid of Leonardo's own notebooks, together with accounts by contemporaries, Bramly has produced a comprehensive portrait of the life, work and times of the artist.

Record # 32234


Price: $15.00 

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man Bramly, Serge
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Leonardo: The Artist and the Man


Bramly, Serge

Softcover. US, Penguin Books, reprint , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466935


Price: $13.00 

 

Leonidas Polk: Bishop and General, Volume II


Polk, William M.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages, with pull out maps and tissue guarded illustrations throughout, volume II only. Small ex-library stamp on rear endpaper, and minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853700


Price: $50.00 

Let Me Entertain You Brown, David
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Let Me Entertain You


Brown, David

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, b&w photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451499


Price: $10.00 

 

Letter from Galileo, A


Dibner, Bern and Stllman Drake

Softcover. Norwalk CT, Burndy Library, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages, softcover with illustrations. Contains Dibner's essay Galileo the Innovator and Drake's A Long-Lost Letter from Galileo to Peiresc on a Magnetic Clock. Light wave to covers, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 406523


Price: $15.00 

 

Letter of Emerson, A


Reed, Willard

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The reply of Emerson to Solomon Corner of Baltimore in 1842. Analysis & notes by Reed

Record # 16102


Price: $18.00 

 

Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, The


Ray, Gordon N. (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 695 pages. Hardcover. Volume 3 of 4. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Boards bound in red, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover. Some age wear, light tanning. Inlaid: Map of the West End from Weale's "London Exhibited in 1852". Correspondence of British novelist, author and illustrator.

Record # 31221


Price: $38.00 

 

Letters from "somewhere...": A memoir from World War II


Granai, Cornelius

Hardcover. Barnes Bay Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 73 pages, INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on half-title page, with b&w photographs throughout. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456596


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters from "Somewhere...": A Memoir from World War II


Granai, Cornelius

Hardcover. US, Barnes Bay Press, 1st, 2000-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 73 pages. SIGNED BY EDITOR on half title page. B&w photography throughout. Related article laid in. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466480


Price: $15.00 

LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-1931 Dinesen, Isak
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LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-1931


Dinesen, Isak

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1984, #0. Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Small crease to bottom edge to page 378. Discoloration to page edges. . 516 pages. Record #:467153

Record # 467153


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-1654


Parry, Edward Abbott (Ed.)

New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., Rep., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages and index. Covers worn, spine frayed, chipped. Internally very good, clean.

Record # 302689


Price: $30.00 

 

Letters from North America and the Pacific 1898


Trevelyan, Charles Phillips

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages, with photographs a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tears, rubbing and price clipped, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 853307


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters from Prison - Personal Letters to his Wife and Son with Political Comments on Domestic and World Issues During the Eventful Years of 1951-1955


Dennis, Eugene

Hardcover. New York , International Publishers, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages. Hardcover. Dennis, a Communist, was imprisoned for challenging the HOAAC during the Red Scare era. Edited by his wife, Peggy Dennis. Dust jacket worn, chipped and now covered in brodart. Pages darkened, covers faded.

Record # 302804


Price: $20.00 

 

Letters Home From Sea: The Life and Letters of Solon J. Hanson Down East Sailor (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Webster, L.J., M.A. Noah

Softcover. Brookline, NH, Hobblebush, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In great. condition. The life of a fisherman in the 1850's is revealed through his letters home and diary entries. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 32030


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Frederic Lord Blachford: Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1860-1871


Marindin, George Eden

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Ex-lib copy with stickers on endpapers and on spine. Fraying at top and bottom of spine. Some rubbing, edgewear to cover.

Record # 851704


Price: $40.00 

 

Letters of Giuseppe Verdi


Osborne, Charles (Ed.), Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. B&W illustrations. Translated from Italian by Osborne.

Record # 302579


Price: $35.00 

 

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


James, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 493 pages. Sunfading 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


Price: $19.00 

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


James, Henry

Hardcover. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 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


Price: $38.00 

 

Letters of Horatio Greenough, American Sculptor


Wright, Nathalia

Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. A collection of 241 of Greenough's letters, 188 printed in their entirety for the first time. Purple cloth, dust jacket with minor wear. A very nice and well preserved copy.

Record # 605203


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00