Authors starting with L from John Michael Lang Fine Books

New York: M. Barrows and Company, 1939. Hardcover 8" x 5.25". 319pp. Red cloth. Fine condition. A great cookery book, with chapters covering holidays, feasting days, spices and herbs, cakes, cereals, cookies, desserts, eggs, fish, meats, stuffing, salads, sauces, and much more. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Hardcover First edition 8" x 5.25". 244pp. Gray cloth. Near fine condition. With humorous illustrations from drawings. A comic cookery book with recipes and smarty - pants commentary. ... more information

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Hardback 7.5" x 5". 171pp. Orange cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The jacket has mild general wear and is price clipped. ... more information

San Francisco: Platypus Press, 1985. 5.75" x 5.25". 11pp. Ribbon - bound illustrated paper covered boards. Fine condition. Illustrated by Michele Lloyd. A really cute book describing the odd looking monotreme. ... more information

Sarasota, Florida: The bayside Press, 1994. Paperback 8.25" x 6". 392pp. Blue paperback with silver lettering. Near fine condition. This copy signed by the author. The author was a homemaker, a seamstress and a writer. This volume recounts her working and family life in the Seattle area and elsewhere. With many black & white photo illustrations. ... more information

[No place]: [Privately published], 1977. Hardcover 12" x 8.25". Black cloth hardback with silver spine lettering, in the original slipcase. Fine condition. One of only 250 copies, signed by LaVigne with initials on the colophon. With 36 illustrations in black and white and color. The Spokane, Washington artist's work has a distinctive psychedelic quality. A scarce book. ... more information

London: Bickers & Son, Circa 1870. 10.25" x 7". 504pp. Red illustrated cloth with gilt lettering and cover decoration. Mild edge wear, spine just a slight bit dull, else near fine condition. With the bookplate of legendary book collector Hiram Scofield. This beautiful book features 13 chromolithograph illustrations as well as many illustrations in the text. ... more information

Vicksburg, Mississippi: Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society, 2003. Paperback 7" x 4.25". 196pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. Mild soiling, else near fine condition. A first-hand accounting of life in the caves during the siege of Vicksburg during the American Civil War. ... more information

New York & Cincinnati: Eatons & Mains & Jennings & Pye, 1900. Hardcover 7" x 5". Red cloth with green bamboo illustrations and borders and gilt lettering. Very light rubbing, ownership stamp on the first leaf, else fine condition. Very bright. This scarce book contains chapters describing proper comportment, serving tea, praying for sick parents, making the bed, preparing food, reverence for elders, and more. ... more information

Weston, Ontario: United Mythologies Press, 1988. Paperback First edition thus 8.5" x 5.25". 31pp. Gray paper stapled wrappers. Fine condition. This copy signed by the author. Lafferty is an underappreciated writer who won a Hugo Award for "Eurema's Dam." He was also the recipient of the Phoenix Award, the Invisible Little Man Award, the Smith Award, and a nominee for many other writing awards. ... more information

[Various places]: [Various publishers]. All volumes first editions or signed limited reissues. All in dust wrappers where applicable. Twenty of these books are signed by Lafferty. Many are limited printings. The Flame is Green: The Coscuin Chronicles, 1845 - 1849; Half a Sky: The Coscuin Chronicles, 1849 - 1854; Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Knew Everything. (One of only 30 copies.); Golden Gate and Other Stories. (One of only 30 copies.); The Devil is Dead; Nine Hun... more information

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998. Hardback 9.75" x 6.75". 503pp. Blue paper covered boards, black cloth spine, in dustwrapper. Near fine condition; near fine jacket. Later printing. With details on over 7000 military engagements from around the world and through 3500 years of history. ... more information

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. 8.25" x 5.5". 198pp. White and white wrappers. Near fine condition. An advance reading copy of this collection of short stories. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1999 for this book. The author also won the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award for this title in 2000. ... more information

Dublin, etc.: Browne and Nolan, Limited, 1925. Hardcover 7.25" x 4.5". 173pp. Bound in full red calf with gilt lettering, rules and device on the front board, all edges gilt. This copy is an ex - seminary library copy, with the usual internal marks, but no markings on the very nice leather binding. This copy inscribed by the translator to Seattle Bishop Edward O'Dea on the second leaf. ... more information

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. Hardcover 6.5" x 5". 124pp. Brown cloth covered hardcover in dust wrapper. Some foxing on foredge, soiling on top edge, else fine condition. The dust jacket had fading on spine, 1.25 and 2" closed tears on rear panel, edge wear, VG condition. Pictorial edition, with thirty-two black and white photographs. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Hardcover Octavo. 180pp., plus ads. Red cloth with black lettering. Very mild edge soiling, else a nearly fine and very bright copy. This photoplay edition features seven balck & white photo illustrations after scenes from the MGM movie of this title. A classic of the prison movie genre, the film starred Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, and Robert Montgomery. It was directed by Geortge W. Hill. Beery, as murderous Butch, is unforgettable; his scene in which h... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Circa 1910. Hardback 9" x 6.25". 324pp. Purple cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate cover decoration, top edge gilt. Corners rubbed, spine tip chipped, else nice VG+ condition. This pretty edition features twenty beautiful color illustrations by Norman M. Price. ... more information

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Hardcover First edition Octavo. 415pp. Green cloth. A near fine copy in a poor dust wrapper. With a great section of black & white photo illustrations, as well as 13 maps. "For its revelation of sheer audacity and personal courage, imagination and ingenuity, this story of a 16000 mile cruise from San Diego to Panama is unequalled." ... more information

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Hardback First edition 9.25" x 5.75". 176pp., plus ads. Rust cloth with gilt lettering. Corners and spine tips a bit rubbed, else near fine condition. This copy signed and inscribed by the author on the first leaf. With illustrations from engravings. Lamb was an editor of The Magazine of American History and the author of a history of New York City. ... more information

Salem, Oregon: Privately Published, 1977. Hardback 8.5" x 5.25". 92pp. Illustrated paper covered boards. Gift inscription, else fine condition. Western poetry. ... more information