Titles starting with L from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine tight copy in a near fine dust jacket, a little sunned at spine panel, one small chip in upper corner of front panel. With wraparound band. A satirical novel involving an American visiting France who is accused of stealing a coat. Dust jacket, frontispiece and endpaper illustrations by Soglow. ... more information

[Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [1953]. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. The regular trade printing (there were also 50 copies done on special paper). Pages slightly browned as always. A tight, unopened, uncut copy in original wrappers with some faint tanning to spine. The final volume in Beckett's trilogy and easily the scarcest. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1919]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine in dust jacket missing a few small chips at extremities, including one thin inch-long piece at edge of spine (at bottom). Nonetheless, highly uncommon in any jacket. ... more information

[np,, nd]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. The full text of the poem beginning "little ladies more". Above the first line, printed entirely in capitals, is the title or heading "LA GUERRE." Proof printed on the recto only of a single galley measuring 6 by 24 inches (vertical). Paper browned, creased from folding, and partially split along two folds (but not affecting text). Juliar FIRST EDITION. A3b (the Archetype edition of Tulips and Chimneys) contains this poem (where it occupies 3 page... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1943]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine book in a bright, nearly fine dust jacket with a few minor nicks at edges. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Trace of Harper seal still present on rear endpaper. A clean near fine book in a superb fine dust jacket. NYC setting. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Minute fading to edges of rose-colored cloth. Else fine in a fine bright dust jacket with one shallow chip to upper right-hand corner of front panel. Author's only mystery. New York setting. ... more information

New York: House of Books, 1945. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Tarkington. A fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket (minor wear to jacket at top of spine). Issued as number Nine in the Crown Octavo series. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine in a bright dust jacket with some very shallow chipping at spine ends. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in a nearly fine dust jacket just a shade sunned at spine panel. ... more information

New York: Edward J. Clode, [1914].. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Very good to near fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Comstock bookplate. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1942]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a very nearly fine dust jacket (with artwork by Boris Artzybasheff). Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1341. ... more information

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [1942]. LATER PRINTING. Hardcover. A clean copy of the May, 1942, eighth printing, lacking the dust jacket. This copy, however, bears the author's presentation inscription on the first blank leaf: "For _____ with all best love from...-Eric Knight." Knight died in a plane crash in 1943, making inscribed copies of this, his most famous book, extremely scarce. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1933]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Stated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear along top edge. Uncommon title. The protagonist of this novel is a doctor living in a small town in Connecticut. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, slightly tanned at spine with a few minor closed tears. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket minutely faded at spine panel. Includes chapters on Schiller, Goethe, Nietzsche and Chekhov. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1966]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book (with virtually none of the usual fading to the edges of the paper boards) in a fine bright dust jacket, completely unfaded. Beautiful copy of the author's second book. ... more information

London: Robert Hale Limited, [1943]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Clean unfoxed copy, near fine in a bright very good dust jacket with some very shallow chipping at head of spine panel. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a very good but bright dust jacket, slightly chipped and torn with a few internal tape repairs. ... more information

London: John Lehmann, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Spine of book quite faded. Some faint foxing to page edges and to jacket flaps. Otherwise fine in an exceptionally fine bright dust jacket. ... more information