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Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

 

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley 1916-33


Sutton, William A.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Illinois, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Note in pen concerning price on front endpaper. Cloth covers slighly bowed at foredge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609341


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters to Dorothy L. Sayers, The - 1899 to 1936: The Making of a Detective


Reynolds (Ed), Barbara

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pgs.

Record # 100934


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Lewis Carroll: A BiographyCohen, Morton N.
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Lewis Carroll: A Biography


Cohen, Morton N.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 577 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458722


Price: $19.00 

Lewis Carroll: A CelebrationGuiliano, Edward
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Lewis Carroll: A Celebration


Guiliano, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear to edges and spine. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 454362


Price: $15.00 

 

Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography


Hudson, Derek

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457226


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe


Fields, ed., Annie

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. B/W photograph of bust of Stowe opposite title page. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front. Very minor foxing on end papers. Excellent condition for age.

Record # 802580


Price: $26.00 

 

Life and Letters of John Keats, The


Richardson, Joanna

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, with portraits throughout, marbled covers with gilt title on spine and beige slipcase. Small crease on front cover, otherwise, neat and tight copy.

Record # 854467


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Times of Kin Hubbard, Creator of Abe Martin


Kelly, Fred C.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 179 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front paste down. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810140


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 2 Volumes


Stahr, Adolf and E.P. Evans (transl.)

Hardcover. Boston, William V. Spencer, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, brown cloth. Ex-lib copies with usual endpaper residue and stamping, marking to spine. Appears that each volume may have had a frontispiece, no longer there. Hinges cracked, light marking to vol. 1, good reading copies.

Record # 404082


Price: $50.00 

Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional ChildBerube, Michael
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Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child


Berube, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Signed by author on half title page. Dust jacket has fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855686


Price: $13.00 

Life in Letters, 1914-1982, A Scholem, Gershom
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Life in Letters, 1914-1982, A


Scholem, Gershom

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453067


Price: $40.00 

 

Life of Langston Hughes, The


Rampersad, Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Oxford, 3rd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 vols

Record # 1773


Price: $45.00 

 

Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The


Dowden, Edward

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages. Top edges of pages uncut. front hinge weak. Small closed tears at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607771


Price: $12.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889Bartley, Theodore D.
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889


Bartley, Theodore D.

softcover. Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470013


Price: $25.00 

 

Literary Biography


Edel, Leon

Hardcover. Bloomington, reprint, March 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457692


Price: $15.00 

 

Literature or Life


Semprun, Jorge

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Linda Coverdale. 310 pages.

Record # 65589


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, First US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750981


Price: $19.00 


  
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