Search results for: 'the works'
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LACHAPELLE, David. Lost + Found Part I; [together with:] Good News Part II.
Cologne : 2017
First editions, first impressions. Signed by Lachapelle opposite the title page of Lost + Found and inscribed and signed opposite the copyright page of Good News with the phrase "Be Brave". A superb large-format Taschen publication, these works showcase the vibrant colour-saturated photography of LaChapelle. Once dubbed the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 123626
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LEHMANN, John. A Garden Revisited and Other Poems.
London : 1931
First edition, sole impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "Dadie, from John, 29.ix.31", accompanied by an autograph letter, on Hogarth Press headed paper, thanking Dadie "for endless encouragement, advice, and criticism. It doesn't seem much to show for it after all, I'm afraid". This is a lovely association copy.
The... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 145702
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LEAF, Munro. Robert Francis Weatherbee.
New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author "For Jimmie Peck, from Marie Louise and with the very best wishes of her friend Munro Leaf 1935" with two small drawings of Robert Francis Weatherbee next to the inscription. Leaf is best known for his 1936 work The Story of Ferdinand, which was published a few months before the outbreak of the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139617
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LEWIS, Wyndham. The Human Age:
London : 1955
First edition, first impression, inscribed on the half-title by both Lewis and Ayrton. This volume constituted the second and third parts of the Human Age tetralogy, begun with The Childermass (1928); the final part, The Trial of Man, was left unfinished at Lewis's death.
"Towards the end of his life he resumed the task of completing The Human... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 87778
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LONG, Frank Belknap. The Hounds of Tindalos.
Sauk City : 1946
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Richard Hughes, With great admiration for the high excellence and artistry of his stories in a related medium. Frank Belknap Long, New York, February 24, 1946".
The recipient of this work is believed to be American Comic Group writer and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119634
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LOWRY, L. S. Get Well card with an original drawing by Lowry, together with Three Portraits of the Lowrys.A "get well" card, featuring an original drawing by Lowry for his friend the sculptor Leopold "Leo" Solomon (19191976), also jokingly signed by their mutual friend and fellow artist Martin Levy as "L. S. Levy"; it is acccompanied by the Lowry Commemorative Portfolio, containing three offset lithographs, each signed by Lowry, and the bronze medallion... Learn More£8,750.00
Stock Code: 111652
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LOWRY, Malcolm. His manuscript corrections to the typescript of an unpublished biographical study
[Paris?, &] Brewster, MA : 1960
A remarkable self-commentary by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), the author of one of the great novels of the century, annotating an intended biographical study of him, together with a signed letter from his important literary influence and friend. Aiken's letter is apparently written in response to a request from the would-be biographer for information about... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132133
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LIVINGSTONE, David. A portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,
London : 1857
A remarkable fragment, the only portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels known to remain in private hands. We understand that all other manuscript material is held in the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Together with an autograph letter signed from Livingstone's sister, sending the manuscript fragment, and a... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 139047
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. Two books from Lovecraft's classical reference library,
New York : 1898-9 and 1896
H. P. Lovecraft's own classical reference copies from his library, each volume with his ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper: Greek Civilization with "H. P. Lovecraft, Providence, R.I.", and the Latin Literature volumes with his name and fastidious manuscript shelf marks "16:46 / 525:1" and "16:46 / 525:2". There is also an additional... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 139230
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LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return.
New York : 1933
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title, "Sincerely yours, Hugh Lofting, May 1934". Lofting's works are uncommon signed, with no other signed copies of this work traced at auction. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120118
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LAUNHARDT, Wilhelm. Die Steigungsverhältnisse der Strassen. Separat-Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereins zu Hannover, Band XXVI. Heft 3.
Hannover : 1880-1887
Presentation copies, inscribed to Professor Fischer by the author, the first work additionally with the ownership of Erich Schneider to the title. Like Dupuit, Launhardt began his professional life as a civil engineer, working for the public road administration. A professor of roads, railways and bridges at the Technische Hochschule (now the University)... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 93895
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LONGLEY, Michael. Love Poet, Carpenter.
London : 2009
Signed limited edition, number 115 of 195 copies signed by 59 contributors on inserted Fabriano Artistico rear endpapers. This copy is additionally signed by Longley himself.
Love Poet, Carpenter is an anthology containing work by Simon Armitage, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Eamon Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, and many others, celebrating the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 116326
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LEVY, D. A. Cleveland undercovers.
Cleveland : 1966
First edition, this one of 65 special copies "bound with freak covers by the author" (each being thus unique, this one incorporating old maps of Ohio, a striking photograph of two Native Americans, and newsprint collage), from a total edition of 500. This copy is inscribed on the title page, "many thanks, d. a. levy". Levy (1942-1968) was a leading... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138636
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LOWENFELS, Walter, & Anton Refregier. Song of Peace:
New York : 1959
First and limited edition, of 1,000 copies, signed by both author and illustrator, this copy additionally inscribed by Lowenfels on a preliminary blank, "For Sol Mandelblatt, these anecdotes of the service, Walter Lowenfels, Mays Landing his sometime New Jersey home 1962". A most attractive provenance that links Lowenfels (1897-1976), one of America's... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 79776
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LEWIS, C. S. Autograph letter signed to Gerald Brodribb.
Magdalen College, Oxford : 4 June 1942
A brief wartime autograph letter, unpublished, from C. S. Lewis to a former pupil Gerald Brodribb. Brodribb read classics and English at University College, Oxford, with Lewis as his tutor. He went on to teach at Canford School Wimborne, Dorest (where the letter is addressed to him), and wrote 30 books on the history of cricket, one of them, The English... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 144036
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LEE, Laurie. Cider with Rosie.
London : 1959
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "For Ronnie & Christina who give writers wings from the author, with affection", on the front free endpaper, and with an autograph letter from Lee laid in. This is a nice literary association: the recipients were Christina Foyle, owner of Foyle's bookshop, and her husband Ronald, with Foyle's... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 121195
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LE GUIN, Ursula K. Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; and City of Illusions.
New York : 1966, 1966, 1967
First editions, first printings, of Le Guins's first three book publications, each copy inscribed on the title page to the same family: "For Patrick Christopher also a first born and his parents Ursula K. Le Guin, 1987"; "For Celia, Greg, & Patrick Christopher with best wishes, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1987"; and "For Patrick Christopher, Celia, + Greg,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139753
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LEE, Harper. Go Set a Watchman.
London : 2015
First edition, signed limited issue, number 42 of 100 copies signed by the author and bound thus. Go Set a Watchman was Lee's highly anticipated second work, publicised as a sequel to Lee's seminal novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960. The text of Go Set a Watchman is known to have been written before that of To Kill a Mockingbird,... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 135041
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LEONARD, Herman. L'Oeil du Jazz.
Paris : 1985
True first edition. This copy inscribed by Leonard to French actor and film producer Claude Haymann, "A Claude Haymann En Sincère hommage, Herman Leonard", and extremely uncommon thus. On his return from the Second World War Leonard spent a year in Ottawa as apprentice to the great alchemist of photographic portraiture Yousuf Karsh. In 1948 he established... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 95748
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers;
Mount Vernon, NY : 1933-6
First and only editions, presentation copies, each inscribed by Rogers to his friend and confidante Henry L. Bullen, the librarian of the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company. The First volume, limited to 200 copies only, was printed by William Edwin Rudge from type set by Bertha M. Goudy; the second set and printed by... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 74490
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[LAW, John.] Money and Trade considered.
Edinburgh : 1705
First edition of the major work of the famous Scottish financial adventurer John Law (1671-1729), which presents his theories on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. The title exists in two states: one with an ornament of an eagle and vines, the present with a coastline and its reflection. Textually they are all the same. Of the few... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 117696
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LIARDET, Francis. Professional Recollections of Points of Seamanship, Discipline, &c.
Portsea : 1849
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Queen Victoria on the front free endpaper: "Presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty by one of Her most devoted servants the Author. Dec. 17th - 1851".
Francis Liardet (1798-1860) entered the navy in 1809 as a second class volunteer on the Mercury. By the age of 14 he had seen service... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139373
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LENNON, John. In His Own Write.
London : 1964
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Neville Cashbox, good heavens, from, John Lennon". Additionally inscribed by Paul McCartney on his introduction, "Best wishes, from Uncle Paul" and signed by George Harrison and Ringo Starr on the back free endpaper. Neville Marten worked with Cash Box, a music magazine... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 144037
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LACHAPELLE, David. Artists and Prostitutes.
London : 2005
Limited edition of 2,500 copies worldwide, numbered and signed by the photographer. A superb large-format Taschen publication showcasing the vibrant colour-saturated photography of David LaChapelle. Once dubbed the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications and has been the subject of exhibitions... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 127752