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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 

 

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 

 

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 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 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 1


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages, b&w engraved portrait as frontispiece. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume one only of a six volume set.

Record # 404855


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 2


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Small chip to bottom of spine. French text. This is volume two only of a six volume set.

Record # 404856


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 3


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume three only of a six volume set.

Record # 404857


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 4


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Calf is separating from spine, clean and very repairable. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404858


Price: $31.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 6


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404859


Price: $38.00 

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Lichtenstein in New York: A Pop Art Life


Bernardo, Mark P.

Softcover. Albany, CA, Roaring Forties Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Gray spine with read lettering. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This book looks at Lichtenstein's life through the lens of New York City, taking the reader to the Manhattan that Lichtenstein knew, from the Prohibition era through the postwar era and countercultural revolution to the well-heeled iconoclasm of the 80s and 90s. It is a fascinating biography of a major but sometimes neglected trailblazer of 20th-century American art.

Record # 471464


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel


Horan, James D.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 62 pages with b&w images followed by 160 removable illustrations including 36 plates in full color. The first complete biography of Charles Schreyvogel, painter-historian of the indian-fighting army of the American West. Binding a little loose in the back. Dust jacket slightly torn. Otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605058


Price: $58.00 

 

Life and Art of Henry Fuseli, The


Tomory, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Edge wear, tears to dust jacket, faded patch and piece missing from bottom rear; protected by mylar cover. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Sticker residue inside front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850891


Price: $30.00 

 

LIfe and Epistles of St. Paul, The: Two Volumes in One


Conybeare, Rev. W. J., Rev. J. S. Howson

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, no date, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 556 pages, with pull-out map and illustrations, gilt title on spine. Corner and edge wear and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light soiling throughout. Overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854453


Price: $30.00 

 

Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley (2 Vols.)


Huxley, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1080 pages. Two volumes. Both hardcover with no dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Former library stamp on front fly leaf in both volumes. Both clean, unmarked copies. Sepia-toned illustrations throughout.

Record # 470787


Price: $31.00 

 

Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight, Lieut.-Col., Second Mass. Inf. Vols


Dwight, Wilder

Softcover. London, FB & c, Ltd., reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of original text dated 1868. Clean inside and out. Like new. Civil War officer's life and contributions are brought to light through his correspondence during the war.

Record # 30392


Price: $19.00 

 

Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour Together with a Complete and Authentic Life of Francis P. Blair, Jr.


McCabe, Jr., James D.

Hardcover. NY, U.S. Publishing Co., 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Black & white portrait engravings, 511 pages. Back cover has severe damage to board with curve to top and waterstain, but pages uneffected and nice internally.

Record # 200274


Price: $40.00 

 

Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour Together with a Complete and Authentic Life of Francis P. Blair, Jr.


McCabe, Jr., James D.

NY, U.S. Publishing Co., 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pgs, back cover has severe damage to board with curve to top & water stain but pages unaffected & nice internally.

Record # 75033


Price: $45.00 

 

Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan as Soldier and Statesman


Dawson, George Francis

Hardcover. Washington, D. C. , The National Tribune , 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Light shelf-wear to illustrated maroon cloth covers with slight fraying to edges of spine. Previous owner's signature on prelim page. Light tanning to title page from printed frontis, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857068


Price: $63.00 

 

Life and Speeches of Henry Clay - Vol. II


Clay, Henry

NY, Creeley & McElrath, Unknown, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. II only. Black & white frontis. 597 pages. Light foxing.

Record # 62064


Price: $35.00 

 

Life and Times of Jane Austen, The


Wilks, Brian

Hardcover. London, Chancellor Press, Rep., 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, A photographic history of the period. Black & white illust. 144 pages.

Record # 60516


Price: $30.00 

 

Life of Colonel Pownoll Phipps, The


Phipps, Pownoll W.

Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages with 9 family trees. Red boards with gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front. Hinges cracked. Previous owner signature. Soiling to edges.

Record # 850677


Price: $40.00 

 

Life of Georgio Vasari, The: A Study of the Later Renaissance in Italy


Carden, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Gilt top edge. Bright gilt decoration to front cover board. Faded gilt titles to spine. Crack to front half title page but the binding is very tight throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white with no markings. Faint toning to pages throughout. Maroon coloured boards with light wear to edges, light wear to crown & heel of spine. Clean pages, some uncut.

Record # 751576


Price: $75.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of Israel Putnam: Major-General in the War of the American Revolution


Cutter, William

Hardcover. New York, George F. Cooledge, 1st, 1847, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages, blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Black and white frontispiece portrait and other engravings. Cloth torn along edges of spine, covers edgeworn, moderate foxing to pages.

Record # 404103


Price: $50.00