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Life, Love, Death & other such trifles
Amsterdam: Art Unlimited, 1991. With an introduction by Michel Tournier. Signed by Saudek to the title page. Original black illustrated dust wrapper. Black cloth hardback. Both in very good+ condition. Very slight handling to the wrapper only. Full of colour, sepia and black and white photographs. Primarily nudes / erotica. Text is in English. 160 pages. 32.5 x 24.5 cm Avec une introduction de Michel Tournier. Signé par Saudek sur la page de titre. Couverture anti-poussière originale illustrée en noir. Couverture cartonnée en toile noire. Les deux en très bon état+. Très légère manipulation à l'emballage uniquement. Plein de photographies couleur, sépia et noir et blanc. Principalement nus / érotisme. Le texte est en anglais. 160 pages. 32,5 x 24,5 cm
Book ID: 2737More details Price: £110.00 -
Life of the Rev. J. W. FLETCHER, Vicar of Madeley.
Abridged from the Narrative of Rev. J. Wesley; the Biographical Notes of Rev. W. Gilpin; and his Life by Rev. J. Benson. With Extracts from Rev. R. Cox.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1184More details Price: £40.00 -
Lilette Léveillé à Craboville
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1914. First edition. Colour illustrated hardback boards with red cloth spine. 64 colour illustrated pages. One corner a little rubbed, otherwise in good shape. 305 x 230 mm (12 x 9 inches).
. Première édition. Carton rigide illustré en couleur avec dos en tissu rouge. 64 pages illustrées en couleur. Un coin un peu frotté, sinon en bon état. 305 x 230 mm
Book ID: 4149More details Price: £30.00 -
Lincoln Cathedral, nine plates from
Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches, plus manuscript (in Dutch)
1838. First edition. Pages 1 - 24 on Lincoln (from Volume II of Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches) with coloured frontis plus nine b/w plates depicting Lincoln Cathedral from the same, bound together with 58 pages of handwritten Dutch manuscript about the cathedral. With red leather spine, and gilt titles to same. Marbled brown boards. Blue endpapers. Plates have the original protective tissue. Spine has some wear but is good, scuffing / rubbing to boards. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2289More details Price: £75.00 -
Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error".
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Large paper edition. On of a small (but unspecified) number of copies on superior quality paper. Half leather. The spine has cracking to the edge of this, and across the back. Has been lightly repaired with archival glue. Green buckram boards. End papers are somewhat darkened, but the rest of the book is in good clean condition. xii, 226, [ii]. pages.
Book ID: 3348More details Price: £70.00 -
Lithograph of a banquet for Daniel o'Connell
Book ID: 3814More details Price: £150.00
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Little Constructions
Book ID: 4223More details Price: £80.00
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Little Gidding
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. In original printed mauve card stock, with sewn binding. 16 pp. 230 mm x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). Covers show some fading / light bumping around the margins. Internally fine with only small previous owner's name in pencil to front blank.
Book ID: 2214More details Price: £50.00 -
Lloyd George.
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1940. First edition. Hardback in blue cloth. In original dust jacket. Fascinating biography of the famous Welsh Liberal Party politician, David Lloyd George - 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. Book and contents are clean. The dust jacket is somewhat rubbed and has been strengthened inside (imperceptibly from outside). 207 pages. Including several b/w photos. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3947More details Price: £25.00 -
Lobe.
London: Allison & Busby, 1977. First Edition. Black cloth hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Set in The Balkans and spanning a period of thirty-four years, this novel tells of the wanderings of a certain Lobe Obblemun. As World War II starts, and the Germans invade, Lobe experiences war, repression, revolution, love, politics and suffering. This is a story packed with incident, and unforgettable characters. Dust jacket has light soiling the back, and slight age toning to the edges. Inside the book is clean and tidy. 225 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
This was Tom Mallin's first book - his other published novels are: 'Dodecahedron', 'Knut', 'Erowina', and 'Bedrok'.
Book ID: 4007More details Price: £40.00 -
Local Government in Scotland: With Complete Statutory References
Edinburgh & Glasgow: William Hodge & Co, Limited, 1925. First Edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright inside with no marks. 692 pages. Text in English. 225 x 155 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Première édition. Planches de toilé bordeaux de l'éditeur avec titre doré au dos. Intérieur propre et lumineux sans traces. 692 pages. Texte en anglais. 225 × 155 mm
Book ID: 3456More details Price: £38.00 -
Loisirs de l'enfance et de la jeunesse: ou Historiettes amusantes et morales.
Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais par Bertin.
Book ID: 3360More details Price: £100.00
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London is London. A Selection of Prose and Verse. Illustrated by Edward Bawden.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition. Dust wrapper. The wrapper has a couple of closed tears, and a chip to the head of the spine (about 1 cm). Blue cloth is clean. The book itself is in very good condition, with fractional foxing to the end papers and closed page edge only. Gift inscription to end paper. 300 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2451More details Price: £60.00 -
London Lyrics.
London: Chiswick Press, 1881. Lovely copy of this reprint edition, with a gift inscription by the author. With engraved frontispiece and tailpiece by Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, respectively. Original buckram with gilt titles and edges. Darkening to end papers, otherwise in very good condition. 108 pages. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 2425More details Price: £80.00 -
London Types.
Quatorzains by W. E. Henley.
Book ID: 3881More details Price: £350.00
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Londres illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave DORÉ
Book ID: 4370More details Price: £375.00
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Londres Secret et ses Fantômes.
Paris: Editions Ergé, 1946. First edition, soft back illustrated with 95 drawings by the author. This is one of 4000 numbered copies on imitation Japan. In original glassine wrappers, in good condition. Some offsetting to inside pages from illustrations. Overall a good, clean example. Text in French. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm (11½ x 9 inches). Edition originale, dos souple illustré de 95 dessins de l'auteur. Il s'agit d'un des 4000 exemplaires numérotés sur faux Japon. Dans des emballages en verre d'origine, en bon état. Quelques décalages vers les pages intérieures des illustrations. Globalement, un bon exemple propre. Texte en français. 151 pages. 290 x 230 mm
Book ID: 2102More details Price: £30.00 -
Lotgevallen van den jongen Willem,
of Het spreekwoord bevestigd: met God en met eer.
Schoonhoven: S.E. van Nooten, 1848. First edition. Scarce. Original softback publisher's covers. Tinted frontispiece. Signs of handling - the spine has been reinforced at some point - but otherwise very good condition. 76 [2] pp. 190 x 120 mm (7½ x 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3645More details Price: £45.00 -
Louis-Philippe sur sa table de travail, plans des fortifications sur son bureau.
La Caricature, No.147, pl.307
Book ID: 3642More details Price: £50.00
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Love By Accident.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. First edition. Bound in rust / orange cloth, and in its original dust jacket. The book cloth is looking a little faded. The dust jacket is age-toned, and has some very minor chipping to top and bottom of spine. Internally, the book has virtually no foxing. A very good copy. 288 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Louis Marlow was the pseudonym for Louis Umfreville Wilkinson, a British author, lecturer and biographer.
At the time, The Observer's reviewer thought this story, turning on the protagonist's self-imposed celibacy, was an inadequate vehicle for the book's more serious injunctions against warmongers and literary censorship.
Book ID: 2323More details Price: £90.00