Authors starting with L from Bartlebys Books

Mauch Chunk, PA:: [The author?],, 1867.. First edition. Small 8vo. 120 pp. Portrait plates. Service records for local soldiers by unit. Nevins II, p. 154: "Extolls the county's citizens and their contributions to war." Original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Very good. ... more information

Boston:: Etheridge and Bliss,, 1808.. First American edition. 12mo. 121, 54 pp. Separate title page for the second title (The French Artillerist, also by Lacroix). Ad leaf. American Imprints 15387 and 15386. Recent scarlet polished calf and cloth, marbled endpapers, gilt title on spine, by Brian Frost & Co., Bath, Eng.; old tideline through corner of rear leaves, but a good untrimmed copy in an attractive recent binding. ... more information

Sandpoint, ID:: Keokee Co.,, (c1994).. First edition, 1/225 copies signed by the author on the half-title. Additionally bound into this copy is a double-page pen-and-ink drawing by T.W. Hunter, picturing a fly fisherman on a trout stream. 8vo. 142, (3) pp. Illustrated. Hunting and fishing in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. Gilt-stamped illustrated gray cloth. Fine. ... more information

Richmond, VA, Printed, not published,:, nd [ca. 1895].. 8vo. 20, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers (a little soiled). Very good. . First edition. Cover title: An Editor for Twenty Years, 1874-1894. The author edited the Richmond Christian Advocate for the General conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Haynes 10288. Not in Cappon. OCLC locates four copies (California-Long Beach, Library of Virginia, Roanoke Public, Virginia) ... more information

NP:: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad,, nd [ca. 1900].. Viewbook. Oblong 8vo. 31 plates [rectos only], each with a simple caption; fishing, golf, steamboats, lodges, etc. OCLC locates four copies (New York Public, Maine, Wisconsin Historical Society, Stanford). Original printed gray wrappers, stapled. Very good. ... more information

Chicago:: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons,, 1905.. First edition. 12mo. 125 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Very good. ... more information

Baltimore, (MD):: Printed by J.C. O'Reilly,, 1814.. First edition. 12mo. (2), [5]-288, (2) pp. Final two leaves contain ads for local businesses. American Imprints 31884 (Peabody Institute). Spear, p. 36 (Library of Congress, Enoch Pratt Library). OCLC locates three copies (California-Berkeley, Library of Congress, Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Neither American Imprints nor Spear mention the ad leaves. The first Baltimore directory was issued in 1796. Joints and spine eroded, owners' stamp ... more information

Barre, MA:: Barre Publishers,, 1964.. First edition, 1/350 copies printed on rag paper and specially bound. 8vo. 111 pp. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Brown quarter-morocco and gilt-stamped decorated boards, publisher's slipcase. Very good. ... more information

Pittsburgh:: Printed by Myers, Shinkle & Co,, 1885.. First edition. 4to. 97 pp. Cover title: Register of Fort Duquesne. Original printed gray wrappers (some wear to spine). Very good. ... more information

New Orleans, (LA):: Published by the author,, 1882.. First edition. Tall 8vo. 208 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, portraits; 8-pages of ads for local businesses. Includes a 144-page section of descriptions of individual businesses in the city, some with vignette illustrations. Original gilt-stamped rust cloth (somewhat rubbed and soiled). Very good. ... more information

(40) pages of wove paper, 32 bearing sketches in graphite; tissue guards. Above the drawing on the first leaf is Henry Lanier's signed annotation, "When I was a boy I drew this" and "Kiddish"; two others he marked "Tres Malade" and "Foolish and Queer". Probably the work was done in the 1880s and after his father Sidney Lanier's death in 1881. The exercises comprise copied views of rural structures and landscape scenes of a European character as well as studie... more information

Philadelphia, (PA):: J.B. Lippincott,, 1876.. First edition. 8vo. 336 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, large folding map; 9-page section of transportation ads at rear. Howes L-86. Clark New South I, 127: "Lanier described the areas of Florida along the Oklawaha River, about Jacksonville, Gainesville, Lake City, St. Augustine, the St. Johns, and the Keys; he wrote with a sense of humor." BAL 11247. Servies 6023. Coated endpapers adhere to each other, else a fine bright copy. Original gilt-sta... more information

Raleigh, (NC):: The author,, (c1903, but circa 1915).. Revised edition. Thick 8vo. (8), [31]-600 pp. Illustrated, plates, frontispiece portrait of Frederick Douglass; 4-page addenda tipped in at front. Born a slave in North Carolina in 1853, the author eventually graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh and founded Latta University in that city. Originally published in 1903, this is the uncommon revised edition, still bearing the 1903 copyright date, but nearly twice as long and incorporating the author&#... more information

Hingham, MA:: The author,, c1946.. Original manuscript, a carbon typescript. 4to. (8), 309 pp. [rectos only]. With the author's penciled new address on the title page and numerous ink corrections through the text. Apparently unpublished, this work provides an alternate view of the "greatest generation," by a member, charging World War II GI's with an almost criminal parochialism, criticizing his compatriots for their lack of curiosity and interest in European culture and history and casti... more information

Savannah, (GA):: Pigeonhole Press,, 1956.. With decorations and remarks on Johnston's work by Ray Dilley. First edition. 8vo. 54 pp. Color linocuts, title-page facsimile. Publisher's printed note laid in. Zachert PB1. Decorated boards, illustrated dust jacket. Very good. ... more information

Philadelphia:: E.L. Carey and A. Hart,, 1832.. First American edition (first published London, 1831). 12mo.(2), 201 pp. With the half-title. American Imprints 13338. Contemporary sheep (joint cracking), leather spine label. Persistent foxing, owner's name dated in the year of publication, a good solid copy. (1611) ... more information

Charlotte, NC:: Observer Printing House,, 1903.. First edition thus, a reprint of the 1714 second edition. Small 4to. xv, 171 pp. Folding map (long tear). For the original edition, cf. Howes L-155 ("Lawson was unfortunate; burned alive by Tuscarora Indians in 1711"). Thornton 7544. Original green cloth, gilt spine title. Very good. (3400) ... more information

Philadelphia:: Robert DeSilver (T. Town, printer),, 1828.. 12mo. 72 pp. 4 folding plates illustrating the 32 styles. Original cloth-backed boards (rubbed); worn spot at base of spine, closed tear into one plate. Very good.  First American edition ("from the second London edition"); first published in Paris in 1828, the first edition in English followed in London the next year. OCLC locates eight copies of this edition (New York State Library, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Kansas State, Old Stur... more information

À Paris:: Chez Jombert, rue St. Jacques, à l'Image Nostre Dame,, [between 1691 & 1737].. Third edition. Folio. 2 parts in one volume. 38 (i.e., 36, page 36 being misnumbered 38) pages. 60 (i.e., 62, with two plates each numbered 30 & 31) engraved plates (38 of them double-page) including 3 title pages, portrait of the author, plans, elevations, and views. Early 18th century full cat's-paw calf, spine with raised bands, gilt-tooled with fleurons, stars, and rolls, brown morocco... more information

Mobile, (AL):: S.H. Goetzel,, 1857.. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 348; viii, 348 pp. Errata slip tipped into volume one. Madame Le Vert (1811-1877), a native of Georgia, the daughter of a prominent Augusta lawyer and granddaughter of signer George Walton, moved with her family to Pensacola, Florida, where her father was acting governor of the territory under Andrew Jackson, and then on to Mobile, Alabama, where she married a French emigré physician. "Le Vert's reputation as an autho... more information