Authors starting with L from Bauman Rare Books

1999. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LAHIRI, Jhumpa. The Interpreter of Maladies. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers. $485. First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, signed on the title page by Jhumpa Lahiri. Here, Lahiri "announces herself as a wonderfully distinctive new voice. Indeed, Ms. Lahiri's prose is so eloquent and assured that the reader easily forgets the Interpreter of Maladies is a young writer's first book&#... more information

1901. LAMB, Charles. [Works]. London: Macmillan, 1901-08. Seven volumes. Small octavo, 20th-century three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $1600. The works of Lamb, including his correspondence, essays, poems and plays. Includes a biography by Alfred Ainger. Bookplates. A beautiful set in fine condition, bound by Riviere. ... more information

1903. LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. London: J.M. Dent, 1903. Two volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three?quarter brown morocco, gilt?tooled spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt; uncut and partially unopened. $450. Lovely illustrated edition of Lamb's Essays of Elia, with over 150 full-page and in-text wood engravings after drawings by Charles E. Brock. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section among... more information

1870. LAMB, Charles. The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb. London: E. Moxon, Son, (1870). Four volumes. Octavo, early full olive polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, green and orange morocco spine labels, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $550. The works of Lamb, including his correspondence, essays, poems, plays, and an essay on his life by Thomas Purnell, handsomely bound by Bickers & Son. His correspondents include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth,... more information

1882. LAMB, Charles. The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb. Edited by Percy Fitzgerald. London: John Slark, 1882. Six volumes. Octavo, full contemporary tan polished calf, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $1600. Lovely set of the works of Lamb, including his correspondence with Coleridge, Wordsworth and Hazlitt. "No figure in literature is better known to us than Lamb. His writings, prose and verse, are full of personal revelations…... more information

1871. LAMB, Charles. Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb. [London?]: [1871]. 12mo, mid-20th century three-quarter tan morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $325. Early edition of Lamb's previously uncollected essays, letters, tales and verse, handsomely bound by Root. These pieces, first published in 1864, "contain some of [Lamb's] finest qualities and peculiarities of his g... more information

1853. LAMB, Charles. Essays of Elia. London: Edward Moxon, 1853. Small, thick octavo, late 19th-century full red straight-grain morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $300. Later edition of these popular Essays, handsomely bound by Bayntun of Bath. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works… They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conve... more information

1896. LANG, Andrew. Aucassin and Nicolette. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Slim octavo, original white parchment wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened. $200. Second Mosher edition of the anonymous 13th-century chante-fable, Andrew Lang's 1887 translation. The first printing of "this pirated edition . . . caused a long and heated exchange between Mosher and the author/translator through The Critic and other literary periodicals of the day. Mosher delighted in the controversy and the atte... more information

1977. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LARRICK, Nancy, editor. Crazy to be Alive in Such a Strange World. New York: M. Evans, (1977). Octavo, original yellow cloth boards, original dust jacket. $75. First edition of this collection of poems, inscribed by the editor "All best wishes, Nancy Larrick, Drexel, Mar. 23, 1977." "An album of poems about old people, married people, lonely people, and black people by authors such as Shel Silverstein, Walt Whitman and e.e. cummings" (Publishers Weekly). ... more information

1933. FIRST EDITION. LATHROP, Dorothy P. The Little White Goat. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Slim oblong quarto, original tan cloth, pictorial endpapers. $150. First edition, with color frontispiece and 15 black-and-white plates. Acclaimed children's book illustrator Dorothy P. Lathrop was the first Caldecott Medal recipient in 1938 and went on to illustrate nearly 50 children's books in her long career, 18 of which she also wrote. She was known for attention to detail: "pictures for her story... more information

1940. FIRST EDITION. LAWRENCE, T.E. Men in Print. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, (1940). Quarto, original half blue crushed morocco, raised bands, linen boards, top edge gilt, uncut; original slipcase. $650. First edition, number 195 of only 500 copies. "In 1927, by request of the editor, F. Yeats-Brown, Lawrence published five book reviews under the pseudonym of C. D. (Colin Dale) in the Spectator. Two of these are reprinted here: 'A Review of the Novels by D. H. Lawrence' and 'A Revi... more information

1989. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (LAWRENCE, Jacob). The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. The King James Version. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. Large folio, original full midnight blue Japanese cotton. In original suede-lined linen clamshell box with leather label. $10,500. A magnificent production, number 67 of only 400 copies, signed by Lawrence on the colophon, illustrated with eight superb original multi-colored silkscreen prints by Lawrence depicting a preacher and his congregation. One of La... more information

1930. FIRST EDITION. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Virgin and the Gipsy. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, original cream paper boards with orange phoenix device, uncut, original dust jacket. $1100. Limited first edition, number 49 of only 810 copies printed, in the scarce original dust jacket. The Virgin and the Gipsy is largely "preoccupied with themes of renewal and the need to break from inhibiting cultural and social environments. As in much of his work, this search is conducted through complex, ambiguou... more information

1726. FIRST EDITION. (MASSACHUSETTS ACTS AND LAWS). The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. WITH: Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Boston: B. Green, 1726-27. Folio, period-style full paneled calf, raised bands, black morocco spine label; pp. [2], 14, [2], 354, 17. $4000. First edition, scarce colonial printing of the Massachusetts charter and laws, with... more information

1742. FIRST EDITION. (MASSACHUSETTS ACTS AND LAWS). The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. WITH: Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Boston: Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green, 1742. Folio, modern full dark red calf, raised bands. $4800. Scarce colonial printing of the charter and laws within the Massachusetts Bay province, one of the earliest and subseque... more information

1960. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LAWTON, Harry. Willie Boy. A Desert Manhunt. (Balboa Island, California): Paisano, (1960). Octavo, original gray pictorial cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $850. First trade edition of Lawton's tale of the 1909 Western manhunt of a Paiute Indian, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed on dedication page to blacklisted screenwriter Alvah Bessie whose 1939 memoir about the Spanish Civil War is recalled in Lawton's warm note, "For ... more information

1822. LE SAGE, Alain Rene. The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. London: Hurst, Robinson, 1822. Four volumes. 12mo, contemporary full brown polished calf, raised bands, ornately gilt-decorated spines and dentelles, red and green morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. $800. Later edition in English of this classic of French literature, beautifully bound in morocco-gilt by Bedford. Gil Blas, first published in 1715, follows in the great tradition of Cervantes and presages works such as Tom Jones and Rod... more information

1885. LE SAGE, Alain Rene. Gil Blas de Santillane. Paris: Charavay et Martin, [circa 1885]. Large quarto, contemporary full dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, crimson morocco doublures with gilt tooling, patterned silk endpapers, silk flyleaves, top edge gilt. $2500. Deluxe limited illustrated edition of Lesage's renowned satire, number 5 of only 50 copies on Japan vellum, with 38 in-text engravings, 12 full-page color plates and an original signed Leloir watercolor. ... more information

1949. FIRST EDITION. LEA, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. Octavo, original pictorial pink cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $350. First edition of Lea's first novel about bullfighting, with illustrated color title page and numerous in-text illustrations, signed by him. "A good painter and a good writer… [Lea] loved his native Southwest, was steeped in its history and traditions. In his first novel The Brave Bulls, he was an artist writing exactly and movin... more information

1938. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LEAF, Munro. Wee Gillis. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. New York: Viking Press, 1938. Slim octavo, original burlap-covered boards, original paper labels. $600. Limited first edition, one of 525 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. This fable of the boy who plays the biggest bagpipes in Scotland was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1939. It was the second collaboration between Leaf and Lawson, coming three years after their classic Ferdinand. Without original slipcas... more information