Titles starting with L from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

Claremont, CA. Sept/October 1960.. II:1. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Very good, with address label to New Directions. Edited by Myron Roberts, et al. A bimonthly of literature, political commentary, art and criticism. Highlighted by an unsigned Eliot pastiche, "The Love Song of Adlai Stevenson." ... more information

Burbank: New Regency/The Wolper Organization/Warner Bros., 12 February - 5 November 1996.. [1],130,[1] leaves. Quarto. Studio generated, photographically reproduced typescript, brad-bound in printed studio wrappers. Wrapper overlap edges and corners softly creased, but at least very good. A "revised draft" of Hanson and Helgeland's Oscar-winning adaptation of Ellroy's novel, including revises dated as late as 22 September. Directed by Hanson, with Kim Basinger, who also won an Academy Awar... more information

Burbank: New Regency/The Wolper Organization/Warner Bros., 12 February - 6 May 1996.. [1],130 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Studio generated, photographically reproduced typescript, Printed on rectos only of multi- colored papers. Brad-bound. Ink initials on title leaf, light use, else very good. An interim "revised draft" of Helgeland's adaptation of Ellroy's novel, predating the involvement of director Curtis Hanson as co- writer. Dated revises on six different colored stocks tra... more information

[Vence]: Pierre Chave / Kenneth Nahan, [1989].. Small folio (38.5 x 28 cm). Loose gatherings laid into pictorial wrappers, enclosed in folding cloth chemise and slipcase. Very fine. First English language edition. Illustrated with thirty- four original lithographs and two vignettes by Max Ernst. One of 199 numbered copies (of 217) on Arches, with the text in English, signed by the author and the artist. The lithographs for all the editions were printed at Atelier Chave in 1972, contemporary with the prepara... more information

Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre, 1923.. Printed wrappers. Frontis and decorations by Maurice de Becque. One of 1850 numbered sets on Rives, from a total edition of 1955. About fine, unopened. TALVART & PLACE (FARRE) 6d. ... more information

Paris: Nouvelle Editions Latines, [1952].. Printed wrappers. First edition in French. Small smudge to spine, else a near fine, unopened copy. ... more information

Paris: Maggs Bros., [1937].. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Frontis and plates. Preface by Pereire. Catalogue Nine from the Paris series, and one of the more lavish of the lot. 608 items. Wrappers dust soiled, foxing to corners of frontis, but a good copy. ... more information

Paris: A. Rouquette [and last] Techner, 1893- 1895.. Three volumes. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities a bit chipped, but quite sound, the fragile outer wrappers of the second and third volumes are chipped at the spine panels, offsetting from outer wrappers to free endsheets in the second and third volumes, but a very good set. First editions in book form of these essays on a variety of bibliophilic topics first published in the MONITEUR UNIVERSAL under the series title "Tablett... more information

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1855.. Contemporary half morocco and boards. First edition thus (including material for the first time in book form). Scattered foxing, edges of boards rubbed, but a good copy. CARTERET II:222. ... more information

[Paris]: PLON, [1976].. Printed wrappers. First edition, ordinary issue. One fore- corner bumped, else very good in dust jacket. ... more information

[Paris]: Gallimard, [1953].. Printed boards. First edition in French of BETTER THAN DYING, a volume in the Serie Noire, edited by Marcel Duhamel. Translated by Minnie Danzas. Laid in is the author's calling card with a brief note: "For Ruth Stephan - - Southern stuff - RF." Substantial crease to upper board, but a good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. ... more information

Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1928.. Two volumes. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Trace of minor foxing at edges and lower edge of one wrapper, else very fine, unopened. First edition of this translation into French by Auguste Monod (the first cited in NCBEL). One of 100 copies numbered in roman in large format on vergé, from a total 855 copies. ... more information

Paris: Editions du Seuil, [1961].. Printed wrappers. Slight tanning, rear wrapper a bit soiled. Very good. First edition of the author's second novel. Review perforation in rear wrapper. With the author's long presentation inscription to Wallace Fowlie on the half- title, and a few of Fowlie's markings in the text. ... more information

Paris: Chez Maret, [1795].. 111,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Title detached, scattered foxing, small natural paper flaw in one blank margin, a few pencil highlights, but a good copy. First edition of one of the central elements in the pamphlet exchange associated with Morellet's opposition to the confiscation of property and assets of émigrés. OCLC locates four copies (Cornell, Stanford, Harvard and Harvard Law); the NUC locates seven copies. SARICKS/MELVIN 4134. ... more information

Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1773.. viii,70pp. Octavo. Early paper boards, title in manuscript on upper board. Four pp. of music. A very good, crisp copy. First Paris printing of this centenary production, noted as performed by the Comédiens Francois Ordinaries du Roi in Paris on 18 February, and on 2 March at Versailles. Another edition, bearing an Avignon imprint, appeared the same year. ... more information

Paris: Editions Poesie & Cie., 1936.. Printed pictorial wrappers featuring a design by Marc Chagall. About fine in darkened glassine. First edition of the first installment of Goll's most widely known and translated poem-cycle. One of five hundred copies on vélin d'arches (of 506). ... more information

New York: George H. Richmond & Co., 1895.. Three volumes. Small octavo. Publisher's half gilt calf and gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Portraits and plates. Tips and crown of spine of volume one slightly worn, otherwise a very good set. First edition in English, deluxe issue. Translated from the French by E.P. Robins. Illustrated with etchings by Mercier after drawings by Foulquier. With a prefatory essay by A. Hayward. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed on handmade paper and special... more information

[Paris]: Editions Sagesse, 1937.. Small quarto. Gold foil paper over wrappers, with collage on upper wrapper (torn black paper screenprinted with title in gilt). Frontis. A few creases to foil, clean splits along spine fold at crown and toe (no loss), but a very good copy of this fragile book. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing by Yves Tanguy. From a total edition of one hundred copies, this is one of fifty numbered copies on Vergé Hollande with the original collage label created ... more information

Paris: Léon Vanier, 1891.. Printed wrappers. First edition (there were no fine paper copies). Somewhat tanned, spine chipped and discolored; just a complete copy, unopened. TALVART& PLACE (DUJARDIN) 6. ... more information

Paris: Éditions Surréalistes, [1935].. Small octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Color frontis and thirty-five black & white plates. Short splits to heads and toes of joints, text paper a bit tanned, small corner crease to title, else a very good copy. First (French language) edition, ordinary issue. One of 1200 copies in French, in addition to thirty-five deluxe copies and one thousand copies in English. With the ownership signature of Alan Pryce-Jones. ... more information