Search Results: Authors starting with L from McBlain Books

Paris: Amable Rigaud, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vols. Contemporary 1/2 leather (marbled boards with brown leather backstrip and corners). 21cm. Edges and joints scuffed. French text.

Paris: Honore Champion, 1878. Paperback. Fair. viii, 91p. Softcover (only the front cover of the wrapper is present and it has been taped on with three strips of cellophane tape). 23cm. Contents sound. Latin text.

Paris: Chez David Pere Libraire, 1750. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes. frontises, illustrated title-pages, xii, 380, 438p. Contemporary leather. Extremities rather heavily worn. Ends of backstrips chipped. Joints quite tender. A few tiny worm holes. Scattered foxing (mostly in margins). French text. First published in the late 17th century.

Paris: Chez Le Breton, 1735. Hardcover. Very Good. 120, 32, 19, 34, 32, 20, 4, 7p. Contemporary Leather. 17cm. Some splitting at ends of joints. Scattered foxing. Old bookplate. Name on blank page and title-page.

France: Alvin Michel, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Armand Rapeno. illustrations (by Armand Rapeno). 32cm. dj (jacket flapped on three sides (with flaps glued to each other by publisher). Jacket scuffed and somewhat worn along joints and extremities. Gift Inscription. French Text.

Grottaferrata: Tipografia Italo-Orientale "S. Nilo", 1912. Paperback. Good. xv, 344p. Original wrapper. 28cm. Cover chipped. Text browned and rather brittle. Unopened. INSCRIBED on first blank leaf by La Piana (as "George"). Italian text.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. 1st separate ed. Paperback. Very Good. [183]-403p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Some chipping at ends of backstrip. Reprinted from the Harvard Theological Review (Oct. 1927). Gift inscription from Professor La Piana on leaf preceding title-page.

Roma: Edizioni de Storia e Letteratura, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, index, xv, 354p. Original cloth. 25cm. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by the author ("To ... amici carissimi, Love, Patsy"). Giustiniani was a Venetian statesman and the author of an important history of Venice.

Poitiers: Universite de Poitiers, Centre d'Etudes Superieures de Civilisation Medievale, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. 857, 58p. Wrapper. 25cm. Backstrips faded. French text. The first volume contains 4803 entries; the second volume contains the index.

New York: General Phonograph Corporation, n.d.. Very Good. 10-inch, 78 rpm record. Okeh 4966-A Fox Trot and 4900-B Fox Trot Later Sleeve. Note on sleeve rates this as V+, apparently because of some not very deep scratches (looks like on Side B). We have no record player and don't know how it sounds.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1858. Paperback. Good. 36p. Pamphlet. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No wrapper present. Minor staining along fore-edge. French text.

London: John Murray, 1836. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated. numerous illustrations (some small text and 25 separate full-page plates), folding map, xxviii, 331p. plus 8p. publisher's advertisements dated March, 1837. Contemporary (original?) cloth, rebacked in modern brown cloth. 23cm. Corners wear. Scattered foxing (heaviest on some of the plates). Minor wear to contents. The plate called for at page 116 appears as the frontis.

London: Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, n. d. [186?]. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], ii, 166p. [and a final blank leaf]. Original cloth. 24cm. Circular library stamp (James Clift Masonic Library) embossed on lower right portion of title-leaf and a short tear in right margin on the two succeeding leaves. Label or bookplate removed from front endpaper. An appealing copy. Daniel A. Payne, a bishop of the AME Church and perhaps the only African American to be a Delegate at the Conference, identified himself as appearing on behalf of the AME Church and used the growth and progress of his denomination to show that the formerly enslaved were progressing rather than failing since being freed by the Northern victory in the Civil War (pages 24-26).

Paris: Gallimard, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxv, 917p. dj. Flexible blue binding. 17cm. Top inch clipped from half-title. French text.

Paris: Albin Michel, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. maps, 367p. Wrapper. 23cm. French text.

n.p., 1965. Paperback. Fair. 2 vols. 377, [381]-645p. Wrapper. 24cm. Spines sloped. Numerous underlinings and annotations, mostly in light pencil but some in ink. French text.

Paris: Pagnerre, 1845. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 30 plates (including frontis), 472, [4]p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Covers scuffed. Joints tender. Substantial foxing. Several tissue guards for plates are still present. French text.

Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1967. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. xiv, 331p. Wrapper (with dj). Spanish text.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1858. Paperback. Good. 36p. Pamphlet. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No wrapper present. 18cm. Light staining on fore-edge. French text.

Paris: Ecole Francais d'Extreme-Orient, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. This Volume Only. map, index, 413269, 413p. Wrapper. 29cm. French text. At head of title page: Publications de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Volume L.