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Life of Martin Luther, The


Rein, William/G. F. Behringer

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, First Edition, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with bright marbled paste down to front & rear boards. Black printed titles to spine. Decorative endpapers with small tear to front flyleaf. Light wear to edges. Previous owners' signature front flyleaf. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 751280


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The


Bulgakov, Mikhail

Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 259 pages. Light wear, rubbing, tanning to pictorial dust jacket. Small stains to for-edge, slight scratch and tear (possible pub. error) to lower edge not disturbing text. A neat, tight copy.

Record # 854608


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Mr. Fukuzawa, A


Miyamori, Asataro

Hardcover. Tokyo, Z.P. Maruya & Co., 1st Revised, 1902, Book: Good, 190 pages, red cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. Front hinges cracked with some light paper loss at gutter. Otherwise, clean internally. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1902 PRINTING, NOT A MODERN PRINT-ON-DEMAND REPRINT.

Record # 405980


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, The


Reich, Cary

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1996-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 875 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465801


Price: $15.00 

 

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)


MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell

Hardcover. Boston, Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1st, 1841, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, brown cloth binding worn, front covers detached, cloth covering on spines mostly gone. Interiors are good plus with bindings still solid. Makes a great set if rebound. Mackenzie was a officer in the US Navy and infamous for the execution of three sailors convicted of mutiny on board the USS Somers in 1842. He was also an author and historian publishing a number of books on naval war heroes.

Record # 412442


Price: $63.00 

 

Life of Picasso: Volume I, 1881-1906


Richardson, John

Softcover. Random House, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 548 pages, illustrated throughout, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457447


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Rev. John Murray, The: Preacher of Universal Salvation


Murray, Rev. John

Hardcover. Boston, Universalist Publishing House, 1st , 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners inscription and foxing on front fly leaf. Sun fading to spine and front cover. Back cloth cover slightly wrinkled. Black & white frontispiece of author.

Record # 470800


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of William Tecumseh Sherman


Johnson, W. Fletcher

hardcover. Unknown, Edgewood Publishing Co., 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white maps and illustrations. Tissue Guard over frontispiece. edgewear and soil to covers. Torn on both inside hinges.

Record # 201925


Price: $30.00 

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin LuksGambone, Robert L.
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Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks


Gambone, Robert L.

Hardcover. Jackson [Miss.], University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458926


Price: $50.00 

 

Life Torn by History, A: Franz Werfel 1890-1945


Jungk, Peter Stephan

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards and pages very clean, some light foxing on edges. Dust jacket has just a touch of age wear, but in great shape and completely intact. Gilt title on spine.

Record # 30632


Price: $19.00 

Life's Matrix: A Biography of WaterBall, Philip
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water


Ball, Philip

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 417 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460329


Price: $15.00 

 

Life, Speeches and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln


Barrett, J. H.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages. Missing frontis illustration. Brown cloth cover with embossed border, gilt lettering to spine, includes messages, proclamations, letters, etc. Rear interior hinge paper cracked. Worn, faded cover with chipping at top and bottom of spine, foxing evident, light signs of mildew evident to endpapers, previous owner's signature to blank preview page, small newspaper clipping with illustration of and poem about Abraham Lincoln to blank preview page; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 604790


Price: $96.00 

Like Angels from a Cloud - The English Metaphysical Preachers 1588 - 1645Davies, Horton
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Like Angels from a Cloud - The English Metaphysical Preachers 1588 - 1645


Davies, Horton

Hardcover. San Marino, Huntington Library, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear, clear plastic cover. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 614230


Price: $63.00 

 

Lincoln and the Tools of War


Bruce, Robert V.

Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs Merrill Co. Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Civil War Book Club Ed., SIGNED BY BRUCE on special tipped-in page.386 pages, b&w illustrations. An account of the arming of Union forces and Lincoln's part in it . Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 700139


Price: $35.00 

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861Holzer, Harold
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Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861


Holzer, Harold

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 640 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468925


Price: $19.00 

 

Lincoln's Last Months


Harris, William C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Teal cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Teal endpapers. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In beautiful condition. "Beginning with the electoral campaign of 1864 and ending with the assassination, Harris reveals that Lincoln's mastery of the daunting affairs of state during the last nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the Union."

Record # 31459


Price: $19.00 

 

Lincoln's Quest for Union


Strozier, Charles B.

New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages including index and black & white photos. Black pictorial dust jacket that shows little to no wear.

Record # 700659


Price: $15.00 

 

Lincoln: A Picture Story of his Life


Lorant, Stefan

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st revised, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout on b&w. Light edgewear, creasing and tearing to price clipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Faint foxing to edges.

Record # 856868


Price: $31.00 

Lincolns, The: portrait of a marriageEpstein, Daniel Mark
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Lincolns, The: portrait of a marriage


Epstein, Daniel Mark

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 559 pages. Hardcover. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some shelf and edge wear to price clipped dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468894


Price: $15.00 

LindberghBerg, A. Scott
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Lindbergh


Berg, A. Scott

Hardcover. US, Putnam Adult, 3rd, 1998-09-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466814


Price: $13.00 

 

Lion of the Forest - James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer


Cole, Jr., Charles C.

Hardcover. Lexington, Univ. of Kentucky, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 271 pages

Record # 55630


Price: $25.00 

 

Listen: Gerry Mulligan - An Aural Narrative in Jazz


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Schirmer, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 57618


Price: $35.00 

 

Little House Sampler, A


Wilder, Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder Lane

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Editor William T. Anderson chronologically arranged dozens of newspaper and magazine articles regarding Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Fading to dust jacket spine. Slight bowing to front and rear boards. Light age toning to top text block edge. Mild crease to top front flap. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 951787


Price: $19.00 

 

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century


Paston, George

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decor to spine and front. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 810076


Price: $15.00