Authors starting with L from Margolis & Moss

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1859. 52 pages + ads. 8 1/2 x 7 inches. Printed wrappers; spine torn, rear cover loose. With the contemporary signature of Phiny H. White, Covntry, Vt. Issued in NORTON'S LITERARY LETTER. NUMBER 4, this is possibly the first published bibliography of the State of Maine. ... more information

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1915. With 118 plates of photographic reproductions of churches, convents, palaces and private homes. 12 1/2 x 9 inches. Pictorial gray cloth; covers soiled, spine torn and frontispiece loose. First edition. Not the best copy, but priced fairly. ... more information

Leige, et se trouve a Paris: Antoine Boudet, 1767. viii, 110, 191 pages. Twelvemo, 6 3/4 x 4 inches. Brown speckled boards with leather label. With the bookplate and signature of Horace White, dated Paris, 1875. Duchesse de la Valliere was the mistress of Louis XIV from 1661 through 1667. After being disgraced, she repented, and entered a Carmelite Convent in 1671. These letters have been called a corrupt version of her correspondence with the Marechal de Bellefonds. ... more information

Santa Barbara: Johnston Fruit Co., circa 1910. A large fruit crate label for Sunkist lemons. 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches; in excellent condition. Shown is a certificate issued by the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition for a grand prize won by the Johnson Fruit Co. for their lemons. ... more information

London: The Leadenhall Press, 1890-1. Introduction by Andrew W. Tuer. With nine color illustrations in facsimile. Twelvomo, 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Brown printed wrappers; some wear. A charming type facsimile of the original 1811 edition. "Charles [Lam ... more information

New York: The Players, 1939. 380 pages. Profusely illustrated. 4to, blue cloth; lightly rubbed First edition. A light and literary history of this New York club, founded in 1888 on the lines of the Garrick Club in London. Founding members were Lawrence Barrett, Augustin Daly, Albert M. Palmer and Edwin Booth, the last-named donating and endowing his house at 16 Gramercy Park for the purpose. The contents of this work include pieces by Otis Skinner, Frank Sulivan, Booth Tarkington, Don Marquis and Gelett Bu... more information

New York: The Players, 1930. 99 pages. Attractively illustrated from old engravings. 4to, cloth backed boards. One of 750 numbered copies, printed at the Marchbanks Press and signed by the author. "A collection of the known recorded facts about the coming of actresses to our stage with the restoration, and stories of their private lives." - BAKER p. 63. ... more information

Buenos Aires: Editorial Guillermo Kraft Limitada, (1949). 174 pages of text in Spanish and 280 photographic plates, some in color. Small folio, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. Pictorial boards; previous owners inscription of free end-paper. A fine bright copy. First edition. Still the predominant work on ancient and modern South American textiles. ... more information

Nowata, Oklahoma: (General Federation of Women's Clubs), 1926.. 42 pages. 9 x 7 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes. Roberta Campbell Lawson (1878-1940) was prominent in state and national women's clubs. From 1917 to 1919 she was president of the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs and in 1935 she was elected president of the two million member General Federation of Women's Clubs. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935. ... more information

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1989). 270 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Large quarto, 12 1/2 x 9 inches. Red cloth with dust jacket. As new. First edition. A legendary exhibition and an exquisite catalog. ... more information

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. 197 pages, of which the final 16 pages give a chronological list of Baron Cuvier's published works. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; leather backed marbled boards. A fine, bright copy. First American edition, published the same year as the English edition. Sarah Wallis Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) was an English naturalist, who wrote a well received book on fresh water fish, which she charmingly illustrated. She published her recollections and biographical details of... more information

New Vienna, Ohio: Peace Association of Friends in America, 1876. [64] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece. Octavo, 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Publishers pebbled cloth with title in gilt. Stain on rear cover. Winona Friends Church hand stamp on title-page. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 375 pages. Colored frontispiece + numerous illustrations. Quarto, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. An interesting decorative binding of light brown cloth with black and red pictorial design in the Etruscan manner; wear to head and tail of spine; frontispiece loose. With the bookplates of James J. Storrow, noted Boston lawyer and Judge. First American edition. Leland explores the ancient non-western culture of the Etruscans by investigating the popular tradi... more information

Mexico, 1901. 53 pages of text in Spanish and 53 pages in English. Accompanied by numerous photographic reproductions and charts, including numerous folding plates depicting panoramic views and the specific brickwork of the Mitla ruins. 10 x 6 1/2 inches. Pictorial beige cloth; a fine, bright copy, with a few smudged finger prints on the covers. This work was presented at "La Segunda Conferencia International Americana." and is an extensive guide to the ruins of Mitla, Oaxaca, both anthropo... more information

New York: Association Press, 1915. 159 pages. Octavo, green cloth; head and foot of spine with light wear; staining on rear cover. Second edition. Biographies of twenty, nineteenth century men who made their mark on physical training both here and abroad. ... more information

Washington: National Gallery of art, 1973.. 587 pages. Illustrating and annotating over 200 engravings. Thick quarto, 11 x 8 1/2 inches; pictorial wrappers. A fine, bright copy. ... more information

Stockholm: Norstedt, (1891). 107 pages, plus four folding plates (on three leaves as one is double sided). With 290 charming lithographed illustrations. Quarto, cloth backed boards (spine has been very cleanly repaired with tape). ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 390 pages. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches); cloth backed boards with paper labels; corners bumped and chipped, rear inner hinge starting; two book plates and an inscription from a previous owner. Number 101 of 400 numbered copies signed by the poet. ... more information

Boston: The American Peace Society, 1850. 310 pages. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Publishers brown embossed cloth. A fine, bright copy. "Seventh Thousand." Livermore was awarded the five hundred dollar prize by the American Peace Society for the best review of the Mexican war on the principles of Christianity, and an enlightened statesmanship. "The value of the book is in chapters 3 - 8, where is clearly presented, from extracts of writings and speeches, the desire of the South to acquire new terri... more information

New York: N.Y. Economical Printing Co., 1889. 22 pages. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Blue-gray pictorial wrappers. Small stain on cover, otherwise f fine, clean copy. Professor Livingston patented this new measuring system of dress making. ... more information