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First Edition of Sorche Nic Leodhas' Claymore and Kilt
LEODHAS, Sorche Nic [LeClaire Gowans Alger].
Claymore and Kilt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
First edition of Sorche Leodhas' beloved collection of historical tales, never before recorded. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137529
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First Edition of Beyond the God Particle; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEON LEDERMAN AND CHRISTOPHER HILL,.
Beyond the God Particle.
New York: Prometheus Books, 2013.
First edition of this "tour de force of physics" (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grace M. Conti-Zilsberger.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 75082
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FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST’S CLASSIC WORK INPUT-OUTPUT ECONOMICS
LEONTIEF, Wassily.
Input-Output Economics.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
First edition of the economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by the Duquesnes. The jacket unfolds into three charts.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 73478
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"One of the best musicals of the century": Original tour program from the 1961 U.S. tour of My Fair Lady starring Ronald Drake and Caroline Dixon
LERNER, Alan Jay. Music by Frederick Loewe.
Original My Fair Lady Tour Program.
New York: Kal Efron, .
Original program from the 1961 U.S. tour of My Fair Lady starring Ronald Drake and Caroline Dixon. Quarto, illustrated with photographs. Signed and inscribed by Ronald Drake, Margaret Bannerman, Marie Paxton, Charles Vistory, Hugh Dempster, and Katharine Hynes. In very good condition. A unique example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 95285
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First Edition of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station; Inscribed by Him
LERNER, Ben.
Leaving the Atocha Station.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2011.
First edition of the Lerner's first novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Ben Lerner on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 62014
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First Hardcover Edition of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station; Signed by Him
LERNER, Ben.
Leaving the Atocha Station.
London: Granta, 2012.
First hardcover edition of the Lerner's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ben Lerner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 63022
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“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me": First Edition in English of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera; in the rare original dust jacket
LEROUX, Gaston.
The Phantom of the Opera.
New York, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1911.
First edition with the printer's imprint "Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y." at bottom of copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, publishers tissue guard. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne with one single-page and four double-page inserted plates with color illustrations. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket. The dust jacket design with the Phantom on the stairwell and not the bell tower on the front panel; one of only three total examples of the book known to have retained its dust jacket. An exceptional rarity of this cornerstone work.
Price: $40,000.00 Item Number: 99560
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Finely bound example of Alain-René Lesage's famous 18th century novel History of Gil Blas De Santillane
LESAGE, Alain-René.
Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.
Finely bound example of Lesage's famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings by the best artists of Paris. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145006
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First edition of Albin Lesky's Greek Tragic Poetry; from the library of English classicist Bernard Knox with his ownership signature
LESKY, Albin. Translated by Matthew Dillon. [Bernard Knox].
Greek Tragic Poetry.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.
First edition in English of Lesky's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the United States federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 134264
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way": First Editions of Each Book in the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Children of Violence Series; Each Signed by Doris Lessing
LESSING, Doris.
Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City.
London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.
First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 796
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First Edition of Doris Lessing's In Pursuit of English; Signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
In Pursuit of the English.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960.
First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 2696
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First Edition of Doris Lessing's Martha Quest; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author
LESSING, Doris.
Martha Quest.
London: Michael Joseph, 1952.
First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 16012
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First Edition of Doris Lessing's The Diaries Of Jane Somers; Signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
The Diaries Of Jane Somers.
London: Michael Joseph, 1984.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Kay.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 50071
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First Edition Of The Author’s Classic Novel The Golden Notebook; Signed By Doris Lessing
LESSING, Doris.
The Golden Notebook.
London: Michael Joseph, 1962.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to the extremities. Jacket design by William Belcher.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110932
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"I wish you good fortune": First Edition of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Warmly signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
The Golden Notebook.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 114758
