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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Koller, James  California Poems  Black Sparrow Press.  Los Angeles.  1971.  First Edition.  Cloth backed boards. In publisher's acetate dust wrapper. One of 200 copies (this no. 143) issued in the hardbound edition. There was also an edition of 800 copies in paper wrappers. Signed by the author. 55 pages, plus colophon and author's biographical page.   Condition: As New.  Modern California Poetry  (Book ID 7909)  $17.50 Kuttner, Henry  Ahead of Time. Ten Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Ballantine Books.  New York, New York.  1953.  177 pages; publisher's cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar. Folding and missing ship on the dust jacket, former owners stamp on the inside cover. Henry Kuttner also wrote under the name Lewis Padgett and was part of a writing team with his wife C.L. Moore. Among the short stories collected are: Or Else; Home is the Hunter; Camouflage; Ghost; Pile of Trouble; and Deadlock (ten stories in all).   Condition: Very Good.  Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing, California Writer. DK-34  (Book ID 10494)  $37.50 Kyne, Peter B.  The Three Godfathers  Lederer, Street & Zeus Company.  Berkeley, California.  1961.  Illustrated Wrappers.  Illustrated by (Kay, Wm. F. M.).  A story reprinted in this private edition. Illustrations. 41 pages. Three bank robbers on the run from just having robbed a bank in the Southwest meet up with a woman who is about to have a baby, her husband having left days before in search of water.   Fiction. Short Story. Old West. Bank Robbers. Newborn Baby.  (Book ID 4190)  $10.00 La Bruyere, Jean De  Les Caracteres De La Bruyere, Accompagnes Des Caracteres De Theophraste Du Discours a l'AScademie Francaise D'une Notice Sur La Bruyere. Edition Variorum Collationnee Sur Les Meilleurs Textes et Suivie D'un Index Par Charles Louandre.  G. Charpentier, Editeur..  Paris, France.  1883.  Quarter-bound tan leather with raised bands and gilt tooling & lettering on the spine. Author (red field) and title (green field) with marbled edges to pages. La Bruyere (1645-1696) was a French moralist who published 'Les Caracteres de Theophraste' in 1688, and it has been expanded in later editions by additional 'caracteres' and commentaries. This volume has an added index. Solid clean copy, tight binding.   Condition: Fine.  French, Literature, Morals. DK-15  (Book ID 9748)  $25.00 La Fontaine, Jean De  Oeuvres J. De La Fontaine. Fables et Comedies.  Laplace, Sanchez et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs.  Paris, France.  1878.  Illustrated by Bayard, M.E..  Printed across the bottom of title page 'Geo. R. Lockwood. - New-York'. bound in 1/4 red leather with cloth boards. Edges of pages gilted, Spine with raised bands pattern tooled with gilt and title 'Oeuvres de La Frontaine'. 589 pages; colored illustrations and frontis. Former owner's bookplate on inside cover 'Frances H. Catlin'. Solid clean copy with glue mark 2 inch long on back board. La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and friends with Racine, Boileau, and Moliere.   Condition: Fine.  French Literature, Poetry, Plays. DK-15  (Book ID 9754)  $47.50 La Morliere, Jacques-Rochette de  Angola: An Eastern Tale ... Translated by H. B. V.  Chapman & Hall Ltd. London. 1926.  Cloth Backed Patterned Boards.  No. 770 of 1000 copies printed by the Curwen Press. With an Introduction by Augustus John. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. From the Translator's Note: "Angola, by the Chevalier J.-R. de La Morliere, was first published in Paris under the rubric 'A Agra' in 1746. It was frequently reprinted in France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The present translation is made from the text of an edition of 1751. H. B. V." Contents include: One cannot please every one; Even evil has its uses; Payment of the Royal Dues -- The end of the noviciate; A pleasant remedy to employ against boredom; And high time, too!; A fortunate haven; The remedy is worse than the disease; etc.   French Literature. Literary Works. Satire. Boudoir Book. Novel.  (Book ID 238)  $47.50 Lagerlof, Selma  The Miracles of Antichrist. A Novel. Translated from the Swedish of Selma Lagerlof By Pauline Bancroft Flach.  Little, Brown & Company.  Boston.  1899.  First American Edition.  378 pages, ads, decorated green cloth, 8 x 5", gilt top edge, other edges untrimmed. Nice copy, clean and bright   Literature. Swedish Author. Women Authors. Religion  (Book ID 6770)  $75.00 Lagerlof, Selma; W. Worster, Translator  The Outcast ... Translated form the Swedish  Doubleday, Page & Company. Garden City, New York. 1922..  First American Edition.  Cloth in Dust Wrapper.  Novel by first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). Illustrated dust wrapper, chipping to top and bottom of spine, tear at front corners. Front end papers split at spine. From the dust wrapper: "We see Sven Elversson, the outcast. But such an outcast! Through the story he moves, submerging self in his determination to bring happiness to others".   Swedish Literature. English Translation. Swedish Life. Literary Works. Novel. Fiction.  (Book ID 235)  $60.00 Lamartine, Alfred, Editor  Love Songs of France. From the Original of De Musset, Gautier, Hugo, Girardin, Baudelaire, De Beranger, Chenier, Lamartine, De La Vigne, Dufresny, Deguerle, Laucussade, saint-Beuve, Dupont, Nadaub, Parney and Segur.  A.L. Burt Company, Publishers.  New York, N.Y..  Light soiling, but a nice copy, inside and out. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and attractive tooling. Publisher's green border around every text page. An A.L. Burt original. 172 pages. French poetry anthology, with translations of the poems of Charles Baudelaire, P.J. De Beranger, Andre Chenier, Deguerle, De La Vigne, Dufresny, Pierre Dupont, Theophile Gautier, Emile De Girardin, Victor Hugo, Alphonse De Lamartine, Laucussade, Alfred De Musset, Gustave Nadaud, Parny, Sainte-Beuve, Segur. Eight black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrators include: A. Zoppi, C,. Schweninger, Francois Flameng, G. Londelle, A. Roseli.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, French Literature  (Book ID 8884)  $17.50 Lamb, Charles  A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret: by Charles Lamb with Introduction by R. Brimly Johnson.  Printed by the Golden Cockrel press for Frank Hollings. London. 1928..  Vellum backed boards.No. 281 of 500 copies.   LITERATURE, ENGLISH  (Book ID 240)  $50.00 Lamb, Charles  Lamb's Works (set Title from spine)  Macmillan and Co..  London, England.  1888.  Set of six volumes in full tan leather with gilt tooling on covers, raised bands on spine with gilt title and contents highlighted in green. Gilt top edges, unopened . Some volumes with sunning to front and back covers, but a very handsome and unworn set. I & II: 'The Letters of Charles Lamb' London: Macmillan, 1888 - 1st edition thus. xxviii, 343; xiv, 377 with index. III: 'Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays' London: Macmillan, 1888. xxiii, 408 with notes. IV: 'The Essays of Elia' London: Macmillan, 1889. xviii, 425 with notes. V: 'Charles Lamb' London: Macmillan, 1888. x, 226. VI: 'Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse. London: Macmillan, 1885. xiii, 411 with notes.Charles Lamb (1775-1834) an English author during the first part of the nineteenth century who with his sister, Mary Ann Lamb (1764-1847), adapted Shakespear for the young in 'Tales from Shakespear' and used autogiographical material for 'Mrs. Leicester's School'. In the 1820s he was a regular contributor to the 'London Magazine' out of which came his 'Essays of Elia'.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 9576)  $375.00 Landor, Walter Savage  Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor, Edited By George Stillman Hillard  Ticknor and Fields.  Boston.  1856.  First edition thus. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, page 1210. Shipped at top and bottom of spine. Corner wear. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.   Condition: Very Good.  British Literature.  (Book ID 5262)  $47.50 Latimer, Hugh; Edward Arber, Editor  Sermon on The Ploughers; 18 January, 1549  Alex. Murray & Son.  London.  1869.  Illustrated Paper Wrappers.  English Reprints. Large Paper Edition. Chipping to spine. Unopened pages. Contents include: Unpreaching prelates; Appeal to England to appoint laymen to secular offices; Let the priest preache, and the noblemen handle the temporal matters; The most diligent prelate and preacher in all England; etc". From page 17: 'He that soweth, the husbandman, the ploughman went furth to sowe his seede, so that a preacher is resembled to a ploughman, as it is in an other place".   English Literature. Literary Works. Olde English. Preacher. Sermon. Preach.  (Book ID 4449)  $25.00 Laver, James  Macrocosmos; A Poem  William Heinemann, Ltd. London. 1929..  First Edition.  Boards in Slip Case.  No. 45 of 750 copies signed by the author. Illustrated front cover, uncut page sides and bottoms.   English Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Prose.  (Book ID 543)  $37.50 Lawrence, D.H.  The Lovely Lady  Martin Secker.  London.  First Edition.  (1932). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. Consists of the stories: The Lovely Lady; Rawdon's Roof; The Rocking-Horse Winner; Mother and Daughter; The Blue Moccasins; Things; The Overtone; The Man Who Loved Islands. 246 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  British Literature. Short Stories.  (Book ID 8272)  $25.00 Lazarus, Emma  The New Colossus: A Sonnet to the Statue of Liberty.  Ted Freedman.  Orinda, California.  1947.  "Best wishes for a merry Christmas and happy new year from Ted Freedman". [5] pages pamplet bound in stiff golden wrapper with 1 cent 'liberty' stamp on the cover. Contains an illustration and the poem which is fixed to an inner wall of the statue pedestal, with a note and greeting.   Condition: Fine.  Statue of Liberty, Christmas, New York City. DK-13  (Book ID 9648)  $17.50 Le Gallienne, Richard  Rudyard Kipling, A Criticism By Richard Le Gallienne; With a Bibliography by John Lane  John Lane. The Bodley Head. London. 1900..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Ink notation front end paper and title page. Contents include: The Poetry; The Stories; Mr. Kipling's General Significance and Influence; and, Bibliography.   LITERATURE, ENGLISH. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. POETRY. SHORT STORIES. NOVELS.  (Book ID 220)  $37.50 Le Gallienne, Richard  The Religion of a Literary Man (Religio Scriptoris)  G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York (and) Elkin Matthews and John Lane, London.  1893.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. The author writes on matters of religion in 1893: Professional Rivals -- The Churchman and the Scientist; Modern Advantages in Discussion of Religion; Polygamy and Monogamy; What is Truth? -- the Question of the Past; What is Sin? -- the Question of the Present; Original Sin; Schopenhaur and Spinoza; What have we to live for; Do we really care about immortality? Is Christianity played out? The True Christian; 'Natural' Religious Senses; Its Degradation in 'Decadent' Art; The Sanctity of Life; The cry for a 'Message'; etc. xi, 119 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. CHRISTIANITY. PHILOSOPHY. BELIEF SYSTEM. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 246)  $17.50 Lecky, William Edward Hartpole  Autograph Letter Signed  One page. 1900. Dublin, Ireland. To an unnamed correspondent, Lecky discusses possible times for a meeting. Lecky (1838-1903) was a historian and essayist. He was also a member of Parliament from Dublin University (1895-1902).   Condition: Fine.  British Historians. Autographs and Manuscript  (Book ID 8085)  $37.50 Lee, Laurie, with an Introductory Note By Lawrence Clark Powell  An Obstinate Exile  Los Angeles.  1951.  First Edition.  Wrappers. 5 1/2 by 3 3/4 inches. 14 pages plus colophon: "One hundred and one copies handset, printed & bound by W.M. Cheney for friends of Fay Ellen and Lawrence Clark Powell at or near Christmas 1951." An essay which originally appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Printed here in book form for the first time. Two page introductory note by Lawrence Clark Powell on his appreciation of Lee's writing.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press. British Literature. Limited Editions. Dk-72  (Book ID 7262)  $150.00 Lee, Laurie  City of the Sun  Los Angeles.  1952.  First Edition.  Yellow wrappers, printed in red and black. 14 pages. An essay which originally appeaed on the British Broadcasting Corporation. 150 copies printed by W.M. Cheney for Lawrence Clark Powell for presentation to the Roxburghe, Zamorano and Rounce & Coffin Clubs. An essay about Seville, published here in book form for the first time.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press & Printing. British Literature. Limited Edition  (Book ID 7263)  $150.00 Lessage, Alain-rene  The History and Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane.  Willison & Darling.  Edinburgh, Scotland.  1771.  Four volumes in two. I: viii, 268 pages. II: iv, 243 pages. III: vi, 276 pages. IV: 276 pages. Expertly rebound in full leather with gilt lettering on the spine (4 x 6 1/4 inch). English translation from the French of 1715-35. Alain-Rene Lessage (1668-1747) was a noted French tranlator, playwrite, and novelist whos most famous work is Gil Blas. The novel is about life in Spain and the Spanish court during the 17th century. It is the adventures of Oviedo as goes goes into the world to be an adult. Intended for college he becomes a valet for the rich and eventually ends up in the Spanish court and through hard work and intelligence he becomes the favorite of the King. In the end he retires to his castle to enjoy his hard earned fortune. Very good clean copy in fresh new leather.   Condition: Very Good.  French Novelist, Picaresque Novels. DK-98  (Book ID 12103)  $200.00 Lewis, Alfred Henry  The Boss and How he Came to Rule New York.  A. S. Barnes & Co..  New York.  1903.  First Edition.  First edition, BAL 11751. xiii, 409 pages, 10 plates, decorated cloth, 7.5 x 5". Nice copy, tight and bright.   Literature. Tammany Hall.  (Book ID 6732)  $25.00 Lewis, Alfred Henry  Wolfville Folks.  D. Appleton & Co..  New York.  1908.  Illustrated by Dunton, W. Herbert.  viii, 322 pages, frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton, pictorial cloth, 7.5 x 5". Light wear and soil, spine lettering flaked, corner of p.93/94 torn. Cowboys and a pretty girl.   Literature. Western Fiction  (Book ID 6532)  $25.00 Lewis, M. G.  Alfonso, King of Castile; A Tragedy, in Five Acts  Printed for J. Bell.  London.  1801.  First Edition.  Wrappers.  Disbound. Pages (i-iii) iv-vii (viii) and (1) - 110 (1). Uncut page bottoms. Light scattered foxing. In the Preface the author "confesses that the situation at the end of the Second Act was suggested by the well-known anecdote of Charlemagne and his daughter Emma. It seems more likely to have been suggested by the story of Sigismunda and Guiscardo -- only the fact happens to be otherside..." "...the siege of Algesiras took place, at which the first use of gunpowder is said to have been made..." Characters include: Alfonso XI; Orsino; Father Bazil; Henriquez; Ricardo; Amelrosa; Estella; etc. Last page contains advertising of other works by M. G. Lewis such as: The East Indian; Rolla, or the Peruvian Hero; The Love of Gain; etc.   Play. Performance. Theatrical Production. Stage. Theatre.  (Book ID 5026)  $250.00 Lewis, Sinclair  Elmer Gantry.  Harcourt, Brace and Company.  New York.  First Edition.  (1927). Orgiinal . navy and orange cloth. Very good, no jacket. First issue binding.   Literature  (Book ID 5576)  $37.50 Lewis, Sinclair  Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine. (Pony Edition)  Time Inc..  New York, New York.  1945.  Volume XVI #15 - Ocober 8, 1945. [34] pages; illustrations; color cover illustration (6 x 8 3/8 inch). The "Pony Edition' edition issued to members of the U.S. Armed Forces overseas. Sections include National Affairs; Army & Navy; International; Foreign News; People & Sports; The Press, Music; Business & Finance, and so on. First Edition of the Sinclair Lewis interview in "Books' section and portrait of him on the cover in color. Contains extracts from his books with illustrations.   Condition: Very Good.  Time Magazine, Weeklys, Post-War America. DK-90  (Book ID 11950)  $25.00 Lewisohn, Ludwig  Expression in America  Harper & Brothers, Publishers..  New York, New York.  1932.  First Edition.  xxxii, 624 pages; index; cloth binding with gilt lettering in dust jacket (lightly chipped) under mylar. A literary account of the use of expression by American writers from the colonial days to present (1932). Among other works by Lewisohn were UPSTREAM and THE ISLAND WITHIN. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Literary Expression of the United States. DK-26  (Book ID 10257)  $25.00 Lincoln, Joseph C.  Galusha the Magnificent: A Novel  D. Appleton & Co..  New York and London.  1921.  First Edition.  Publisher's red cloth. Dust wrapper with some wear and chipping, 407 pages.   Condition: Fine.  American Humorous Novels.  (Book ID 8047)  $25.00 Lincoln, Joseph C.  Queer Judson  D. Appleton and Company. New York. 1925..  First Edition.  Cloth in Dust Wrapper.  Book's front cover and spine gilt decorated. Illustrated dust wrapper, slight chipping to top and bottom of spine, two tears front cover edges. 362 pages. From the dust wrapper: "This 'Queer' Judson is a character lovable as they make them". "He returns to his home town under the cloud of the failure of the bank with which he has been connected. The people whom he must face every day are those who have lost money in the venture". The author shows "...what happened to Carey Judson, penniless, dependent on the charity of his brother, looked upon with dislike by the people about him, yet by the sheer force of his character coming through, like a hero". "...you will chuckle and laugh and smile at the humor that shines in every page".   American Literature. Literary Works. Novel. Fiction. Story. Humor.  (Book ID 245)  $25.00 Lindbergh, Anne Morrow  Christmas in Mexico, 1927  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (1971). New York..  First Edition.  Cloth backed patterned boards. Published in a unnumbered limited edition for friends of the author and publisher as a New Year's greeting. From page 2: In December of 1927, Anne Lindbergh, then Anne Spencer Morrow, traveled to Mexico with her older sister, Elisabeth, to spend the Christmas vacation with her parents and her younger sister, Constance. Dw ig ht W. Morrow, her father, had recently been appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. She recalls that visit in this little book. 22 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  AVIATION. DIPLOMATIC CORPS. WRITINGS. Mexico and Latin America  (Book ID 2542)  $25.00 Lindbergh, Anne Morrow  Listen! The Wind.  Harcourt, Brace and Company.  New York.  First Edition.  (1938, first edition). xii, 275 pages, with foreword and map drawings by Charles A. Lindbergh, map end leaves, bright red cloth with gilt stamping, black and silver dust jacket protected by a mylar jacket, 8 x 5.5". Fine copy, clean and tight. "The story of the flight made by the Lindberghs across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to Brazil, in December, 1933, at the end of their survey of the North Atlantic air routes."   Condition: Fine.  Modern First Editions; Aviation; Women Authors  (Book ID 6109)  $100.00 Lindsay, Philip  Here Comes the King  Little, Brown and Company.  Boston.  1933.  First American Edition.  Very nice dust wrapper with a couple of short tears. A novel about Katharine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII. 342 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Australian Authors. British Literature. King Henry VIII  (Book ID 7845)  $37.50 Lloyd, John Uri  Warwick of the Knobs; A Story of Stringtown County, Kentucky  Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1901..  First Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  Inscribed by author to his friend and fellow author William H. Venable: "My dear Mr. Venable. Will you accept from me, with my utmost esteem and deepest respect this little study of old time people and emotionsl With love and regard, Sincerely yours, . John Uri Lloyd. Christmas 190l". Illustration of older gentlemen on front cover framed in gilt with red and black accent. With photographic illustrations of Knob County. Some unopened pages. From a publisher's advertisement: "A story of a strange people and a curious form of life in Northernmost Kentucky, the scene of which is laid during the War of Rebellion, when the Kentucky Knobs were on the border line between the contending factions, and the people were divided in their allegiance". "'Warwick' is a "hard-shell" Baptist preacher. He becomes the centre of strangely dramatic scenes, of deeply pathetic incidents, seemingly enough to drive one to agnosticism or infidelity, but Warwick remains till the end faithful to his religious creed, and his God".   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. HISTORICAL NOVEL. PREACHER. BAPTISTS. RELIGION. BELIEF SYSTEM.  (Book ID 251)  $50.00 London, Jack  Daughters of the Rich  The Holmes Book Company. 1971. Oakland..  First edition. A Play. Wrappers. Frontispiece. With a Chronological Bibliography of Jack London's plays compiled by James E. Sisson. Spoiled rich girl wants more from life than baubles.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. FICTION. PLAY. THEATRICAL.  (Book ID 3150)  $10.00 London, Jack  If Japan Wakens China  Modern Times. 1979. Tacoma, Washington..  Wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies Illustrations. The publisher describes Jack London's writings about Japan and China in December 1909 in which he warned of "..the first clashing of the Asiatic dream with ours", and "..an economic clash.. ( which) always precedes clashes at arms". His idea grew from experiences reporting the Russo-Japanese war for the Hearst Syndicate.   LITERATURE. AUTHORS. AMERICAN NOVELISTS. ESSAYS.  (Book ID 2063)  $25.00 London, Jack  Jack London: Five Poems. Commentary By James E. Sisson III  Quintessence Publications.  Amador City, California.  1984.  250 copies pirnted by Marlan Beilke for the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco. 25 pages; bound in gray wrapper with title on the cover (5 1/2 x 9 inch). Contains James E. Sisson's "Jack London, Poete Manque" along with five poems by Jack London, 1899-1901. Unusual field of research about Jack London. Clean copy with no marks.   Condition: Fine.  Jack London Poetry. DK-27  (Book ID 10297)  $17.50 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  Original Portrait Photograph  Sarony & Co..  New York.  Photograph 3/34 x 5 3/8 on photographer's backing. Photographer's name imprinted on back. Shows a dignified Longfellow wearing coat a vest, circa 1870. Photograph fine; backing slightly rubbed.   Condition: Very Good.  American Poets. Photography.  (Book ID 8667)  $47.50 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Cambridge Edition  Houghton Mifflin and Company.  Boston and New York.  (1893). Three quarter leather with raised bands and gilt decorations on spine. Engraved title page and frontispiece portrait of Longfellow. Edited and with a biographical sketch of Longfellow by Horace E.Scudder. A beautiful book.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Bindings. 19th Century American Poetry andLiterature  (Book ID 5150)  $50.00 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated. [Six volumes].  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston, Massachusetts.  1881.  Bound in six limp leather volumes, profusely illustrated in a large (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inch) format. Title 'Longfellow' with borders in gilt and numbered with raised bands on spine. Tissue sheets face full page engravings. Illustrated by L.S. Ipsen; J.D. Smillie; J. Appleton Brown; F.T. Merrill; T. Moran; F.B. Schell; W.L. Sheppard; A.R. Waud; R. Swain Gifford; F.O.C. Darley; C.S. Reinhart; W.H. Gibson; A. Hoppin; G.F. Barnes; A. Fredericks; E.A. Abbey; John R. Key; J.W. Ehninger; E.H. Garratt; Mary Hallock Foote; Granville Perkins; Samuel Colman; C.S. Reinhart; D.C. Hitchcock; J. Davidson; G. Gibson; Eastman Johnson; C.E.H. Bonwill; F.S. Church; C. Graham; Worthington Whittredge; J.E. Baker; Geo. H. Boughton; F.H. Shapleigh; Justin Winsor; E.H. Garrett; W.J. Hennessy; L.B. Humphrey; Homer D. Martin; J.W. Ehninger; W.H. Low; A.B. Frost; F. Dielman; S.G.W. Benjamin; Walter Shirlaw; T.W. Wood. I: xvi, 208 pages. II: 212-460. III: xvi, 461-669. IV: 676-928, index. V: viii, 932-1151. VI: 1156-1407. Some irregular sunning to bindings, but clean and unworn copies inside and out.   Condition: Very Good.  Longfellow, American Literature. DK-11  (Book ID 9582)  $475.00 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  David Bogue..  London, England.  1851.  Full green leather binding with tooled gilt design on the covers and raised bands and gilt design with 'Longfellow's Works - Prose' on the spine. Gilt edges. Size (4 x 6 1/2 inch). vii, 494 pages with ad in the back. Former owner's bookplate 'Frances H. Catlin' on the inside cover. Some cracking along the inside seam, front and back. A small hole (1/4 inch square) on the back flyleaf. The volume contains Longfellow's (1807-82) 'Hyperion', 'Outre-Mer', and 'Kavanagh'. BAL #12344. A nice looking copy in a contemporary gift binding.   Condition: Very Good.  American Literature. DK-11  (Book ID 9579)  $50.00 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Arthur Christy, Editor  The Leap of Roushan Beg; A Complete Facsimile Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Christy  William Edwin Rudge. New York. 1931..  Cloth.  500 copies printed by Wm. Edwin Rudge. Typography by Frederic Warde. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Slight sun fading to top front cover. Uncut page sides and bottoms. From an introductory page: "It is interesting to note that one of Longfellow's methods of composition was to write each stanza on a separate slip of paper and arrange these until they were in the order that best suited him. This was the method employed in the writing of the present poem".   LITERATURE, AMERICAN  (Book ID 263)  $25.00 Lopez, Barry  Crow and Weasel  North Point Press.  San Francisco.  1990.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Tom Pohrt.  Color illustrations. 11 5/6 x 9 1/6 inches. 63 pages, plus colophon.   Condition: As New.  Modern Children's Illustrated Books. San Francisco Fine Printing  (Book ID 8351)  $25.00 Lord Tennson, Alfred  Original Carte-De-visite Photograph. "Lord Tennyson"  M. Watkins.  St Paul, Minnesota.  circa.1870. Original Carte-de-Visite photograph (2 3/8 x 4 inch) with publisher's name printed on the backside. Image of Tennyson seated looking to his right with an overcoat. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a noted poet of England and served as poet Laureate for England under Queen Victoria. He was the first author to be raised to a member of the House of Lords. Very good clean copy with small chip missing (1/8 inch) from the lower right corner. Name acros the bottom.   Condition: Very Good.  English Poets, Poet Lauriete, Lord Tennyson. DK-101  (Book ID 12140)  $37.50 Loti, Pierre (Translated by Guy Endore)  An Iceland Fisherman  Printed for The Limited Editions Club by P. A. Norstedt & Soner. Stockholm. 1931..  Cloth Backed Boards.  Illustrated by Berg, Yngve.  No. 736 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated boards; slight fading to top edge front cover; corners are cloth tipped. Spine label. Gilt edged page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Measures 7 1/4 x 10 3/4. Having served in the French Navy the author writes about the sea from first hand experience.   Illustrated Books. French Literature. Literary Works. Fishing. The Sea. Ocean. Sailing. Working Vessels.  (Book ID 546)  $47.50 Lowell, James Russell  Last Poems  Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1895..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 13230. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover; gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. From an introductory page: "This little volume contains those of the poems which Mr. Lowell wrote in his last years which, I believe, he might have wished to preserve. Three of them were published before his death. Of the rest, two appear here for the first time". Some poems included are: The Oracle of the Goldfishes; St. Michael the Weigher; An April Birthday -- at Sea; Love and Thought; On Hearing a Sonata of Beethoven's Played in the Next Room; Verses; etc.   American Literature. Literary Work. Poetry. Verses. Rhymes. Writings.  (Book ID 269)  $25.00 Lowell, James Russell  Steel Engraving Portrait. "James Russell Lowell"  Illustrated by J.A.J. Wilcox.  Steel Engraving (6 x 9 inch) sheet of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), circa 1880. Mr Lowell was an American Romantic Poet, critic, abolitionist and editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Associated with Harvard as a student and teacher and later in his life a diplomat for the United States in Europe. Clean engraving.   Condition: Very Good.  American Poets, Atlantic Monthly, Abolitionist. DK-48  (Book ID 10922)  $25.00 Lowell, James Russell  The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell Including the Bigelow Papers...with Biographical Sketch By Henry Ketcham  A.L. Burt Company, Publishers.  New York.  (1900). 447 pages. Padded aligator like teather binding. The ten page biographical sketch by Ketcham is original to this A.L. Burt edition, and is a fact not noted by the Bibliography of American Literature. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine.   Condition: Fine.  American Poetry. Fine Bindings  (Book ID 5293)  $25.00 Lowell, James Russell  The Rose...with Illustrations  James R. Osgood and Company.  Boston.  1878.  First Separate Edition.  Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Binding fine. Some occasional light foxing / spotting. Front hinge slightly cracked. Illustrated with black and white engravings by: C.S. Reinhart, R. Swain Gifford, A.V.S. Anthony, A.R. Waud, Mary Hallock Foote and F.T. Merrill. Bibliography of American Literature number 13321. All edges gilt. A handsome book. The poems originally apppeared in Lowell's book "Poems" (1844). Unpaginated.   19th Century American Illustrated Books. American Poetry  (Book ID 8227)  $37.50 Lowell, James Russell  Under the Willows and Other Poems  Fields, Osgood & Co..  Boston.  1869.  First Edition, First State.  Cloth.  Green cloth. Erratum inserted in spine at last page. BAL 13129. (Binding A). Gilt decoration front cover, gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Book plate front end paper. 286 pages. Contents include: Under the Willows; The First Snow-Fall; The Singing Leaves; Godminster Chimes; The Parting of the Ways; Auf Wiedersehen!; Yussouf; Gold Egg -- A Dream-Fantasy; Poems of the War (The Washers of the Shroud; on Board the '76; etc.); etc.   American Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Verse. Rhyme. Writings.  (Book ID 4452)  $37.50 Go to page: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13 14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23

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