Authors starting with L from Quill & Brush

New York: Bantam Books (1990). First edition. Eight frontier stories published in book form here for the first time. Illustrations. Fine in dust jacket with one minute closed tear. ... more information

n-pl[New York]: Viking (1992). First edition. Advance reading copy in small, pictorial paperwraps; orange and white wrap-around cover sheet with Scott Turow quote on back. Fine. ... more information

New York: Tom Doherty Associates (1995). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Macmillan Publ. (1974). First edition. True account of Lacy's experiences teaching unwed mothers-to-be in a Bedford-Stuyvesant poverty program. Fine in dustwrapper with two small chips. ... more information

New York: Horace Liveright (1928). First edition. Edited and translated by Frances Newman. Edges of boards faded and spine slightly tanned, otherwise very good or better lacking dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Morrow, 1987. First edition. Fine uncorrected proof in paperwraps. ... more information

London: Seeley & Co., Limited, 1908. First edition. Passages selected and arranged by George Sampson. Small book (3 1/2" by 4 3/4") bound in gilt stamped green leathers boards, with gilt page edges. Light rubbing to edges, top of front hinge split and cracked at contents page, otherwise very good. A bright, attractive copy of a scarce book. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1956). First edition. Edges slightly faded, otherwise fine in bright, price-clipped dustwrapper with rear panel lightly soiled, some shallow edge chipping and a few closed edge tears. Part of the "Great Letters Series." Edited and with an introduction by T. S. Matthews. ... more information

New York/London: Scribners/J. M. Dent, 1919/1921. Assume first thus. Two volumes with an introduction by Augustine Birrell and illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Nice little books about 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; in red cloth with pictorial front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Ribbon place markers. Over 160 black-and-white illustrations, many full page. Spines a little worn on ends and a little faded, but still very good. ... more information

New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy (1956). First edition. Near fine with small mark on bottom page edges (remainder mark?); in a price-clipped dustwrapper with light rubbing, a few small nicks and a chip at the top of the spine. ... more information

London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. First edition, second issue, with Taylor & Hessey's two addresses. Bound without half title or ads. Cloth spine, with marbled boards and endpapers. Clean, with just the barest foxing. ... more information

New York: Pocket Books (1992). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Selected as an Oprah Book and had a relatively small first printing. Touch of soiling to page edges, otherwise fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

London: The Bodley Head (1987). First edition. Written largely by the late J.W. Lambert and completed after his death by Michael Ratcliffe. Includes photographs and illustrations. "...a complete history...replete with good stories and sketches of notable, if occasionally eccentric, literati." Fine in dustwrapper with slightly sunned spine and sticker shadow on front flap. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press (1963). First U. S. edition. Fine in dustwrapper with some rubbing, light soiling to rear panel and some fading to pink background on spine and front flap fold. The basis for the movie which starred Natalie Wood. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1986. First U.S. edition. Light crease in both front and rear pastedown (production error), otherwise fine in dustwrapper. Review copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1985. First U.S. edition. Uncorrected proof, fine in gold paperwraps with publisher's promotional letter laid in. States '1985' on title page, although probable publication date is listed as January 21, 1986 on front cover. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books (1997). First edition. SIGNED. Small stain on last two pages, otherwise fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1961). First edition. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Near fine with previous owner's name and date on front endpaper; in a very good dustwrapper with light soiling. ... more information

San Francisco: George Fields, 1936. First edition. Edited with a preface and postscript by Lampson. SIGNED on the second free endpaper by Lampson. Very good with faint offset and light foxing on endpapers; in a chipped tissue dustwrapper, which is price clipped. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1996). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Probable review copy with publisher's letters laid in but no review slip. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information