Authors starting with L from Ars Libri Ltd

Los Angeles, n.d.. 34pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

London (Goupil & Co.), 1904.. (2), 302pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

Baden-Baden (Woldemar Klein), 1960.. 12pp., 13 color plates. Lrg. oblong 8vo. Cloth. ... more information

Lausanne (Éditions Clairefontaine), 1955.. 163, (3)pp. 122 heliogravure plates (9 color). 4to. Photo-illus. wraps. ... more information

Ostfildern (Edition Cantz), [1991].. 97, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Folio. Boards (corners slightly bumped). Edition limited to 1000 copies. ... more information

New York (D. Appleton and Company), 1862.. 359, (1)pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, 1 wood-engraved plate hors texte. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s red buckram (dull). Lanman’s own copy, inscribed to him “from the Publishers” on the front flyleaf, with holograph alterations and corrections by him to his introductory text, in pencil. Though mostly of an editorial nature, some of these-- such as his addition “near Bull Run” to identify the battle of July 1861, are of notable int... more information

New York (Harper & Brothers), 1852.. 205, (5)pp. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s embossed cloth (backstrip chipped). First edition. This copy lacks three of the five plates preliminary to the title; it contains the portrait of Webster, and, trimmed and mounted, the view of Webster’s birthplace, which is annotated “Lanman, from nature, 1851” in pencil at the edge of the image. The book is accompanied by a fair copy of an autograph letter of Daniel Webster to the Hon. Edward Everett (1 1/2 pp., ... more information

New York (Viking), 1980.. (14)pp., 96 plates. 1 text illus. Sq. 8vo. Buckram. D.j. ... more information

Chicago, 1984.. 40pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Including the text of an interview with the artist, by Kate Horsfield. ... more information

Amsterdam (De Spieghel), 1941.. (1), 10, (1)ff. Prof. illus. with elements in color. Sm. 4to. Orig. self-wraps., designed by the artist. Clamshell box (cloth with leather label). Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Entirely designed by Bart van der Leck, the work is set in his geometric typeface and illustrated with similarly broken illustrations and with bars and blocks of red, yellow and blue in varying sizes. This edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Flax,” is one of ... more information

[Paris], 2007.. Suite of 10 original color photographs, overpainted in the negative in white and/or black, all signed on the print (8 in brown ink, 2 in white). 301 x 202 mm. (ca. 11 7/8 x 8 inches). Loose in folder. No. 2 of an edition of 3 in all. Each is inscribed by Lemaître in brown ink on the verso: “Prise de vues: 1981. Enrichissement: 1989. Tirage: 2007. 2/3.” Hazily solarized studies of a nude model, with brush-painted Lettrist interventions in white or black, the images printed i... more information

Bayreuth (Gauverlag), n.d.. 72pp. 58 illus. 4to. Boards. Backstrip partly detached. ... more information

Boston (Ticknor and Fields), 1860.. lviii, (2), 363, (1)pp. Frontis. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s buckram (dull). Loosely inserted: autograph note, signed (1 f., sm. 4to.) from Leslie to Redgrave, dated Hotel Brighton, Nov. 8th 1855. “Many thanks for your kind attention in sending me the ticket. I trust we shall soon meet either in the Louvre, or among the modern pictures....” This is very probably the painter Richard Redgrave (1804-1876), and may well refer to the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855... more information

New York (Walker and Company), 1970.. 165pp., 4 color plates. 146 illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

London (The Egoist Press), [1921-1922].. No. 1: 12pp. 7 illus. (including 3 drawings by Lewis, of which 2 full-page). Tall folio. Dec. self-wraps. No. 2: 63, (3)pp., 17 plates. 1 drawing in text. 4to. Dec. wraps. No. 1: Tall folio. Dec. self-wraps. No. 2: 4to. Dec. wraps. Texts by Lewis, T.S. Eliot (“Notes on Current Letters,” “The Three Provincialities”), Robert McAlmon (poems), John Rodker, Herbert Read, Waldemar George and others; illustrations by Lewis, William Roberts, David Bomber... more information

London (The Arthur Press), [1930].. 62, (2)pp. 4to. Dec. self-wraps. A promotion and defense of Lewis’s recently published “The Apes of God,” printing the text of an admiring review by Roy Campbell which “The New Statesman” had declined to publish, as well as letters concerning the book from Richard Aldington, Augustus John, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats and others. Loosely inserted: 1. Small-scale promotional poster for “The Apes of God,” with sarcastic pseudocriticism by a ch... more information

London (The Ovid Press), n.d. [1919].. 15 plates (7 color) mounted on heavy grey wove mounts, each titled (in French as well as English) and stamped with a vignette design by Edward Wadsworth, the emblem of the Ovid Press. Folio. Portfolio (boards, with mounted color illustration by Lewis on front cover). Colophon statement on the interior of the front cover, written in ink in John Rodker’s hand: “250 Copies/ This is No. 16.”  The second of Lewis’s three portfolios (the last was pu... more information

San Francisco (Sierra Club), 1964.. 176pp. Prof. illus. with brilliant color plates printed on Champion Kromekote paper. Sm. folio. D.j. (slightly worn). ... more information

Paris (Editions de la Sirène), 1919.. (58)pp. 22 colored pochoir compositions and ornaments by Léger. Lrg. 4to. Orig. dec. wraps. Glassine d.j. New quarter-morocco clamshell box. One of 1200 copies on vélin Lafuma, of a limited edition of 1225 copies (many of which are thought to have been lost or destroyed due to difficulties with the pochoir printing). Léger’s most brilliant venture in book illustration, inspired by the anarchic, Americanized cosmology of Cendrars’ s... more information

Bern (Benteli), 1971.. 237, (3)pp. 20 illus. 4to. Wraps. ... more information