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John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet. Garden City, New York, 1928: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. First Edition After the Printing of 201 De Luxe Copies. Dust jacket is toned with stains and tearing along the sides and particularly on the spine edge. Interior pages are toned but clean of marks and complete at 377 pages. 8 1/4" tall. - $125
Kings of the Rod Rifle and Gun by "Thormanby" (W. Wilmot Dixon). Volumes I and II, with 32 portraits and illustrations. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1901. Beautifully re-bound with the tree calf leather panels maintained front and rear; the spines are nicely gilt-detailed with a fish, a dog, a deer and a rabbit in four of the six spine panels. There is some foxing, but otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. 8 3/4" tall. - $350
La Liturgie, Ou Formulaire Des Prieres Publiques, Selon L'usage de L'Eglise Anglicane. Nouvelle Edition. London: Paul Valliant, 1764. 5 1/2" Tall. - $450
Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance by Thomas Moore. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849. Full deep navy Morocco leather, gilt-tooled front and back; all edges gilt with raised hubs on spine with six gilt-tooled compartments. 7" tall. - $115
The League of the Alps, The Siege of Valencia, The Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems by Felicia Hemans. Two Volumes in One. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. Good condition. - $180
Le Grant Testament Et La Petit by Francois Villon. 1957 Facsimile of the 1489 book. This is #251 of an edition of 5000. Bound in full vellum; cover has a blind-embossed emblem; chip at top hinge. 8 5/8" tall. - $125
Le Menege de Moliere by Maurice Donnay. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1912. Finely-bound in maroon morrocco leather; gilt-ruled covers and gilt-decorated spine in six compartments. Spine dated Paris, 1913. Moire endpapers cracking at inner hinge. This is #8 of 50 examples on Japan paper with twelve beautifully hand-colored plates and twelve identical un-colored plates. This volume is housed in a matching slipcase box. 11 5/8" tall. - $450
Les Aventures de Telemaque by Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon. Nouvelle Edition with twelve engravings. Paris: Chez Bossange, 1807. A full green leather binding with gilt ruling and tooling on the front, back and spine. All fore-edges are gilt. There is some rubbing at the hinges and corners and the interior has some light foxing. 6 5/8" tall. - $125
Les Pseaumes de David. A Paris chez Lefevre, Libraire Rue de L'Operen, 1817. Full green straight-grain leather; gilt-decorated spine and both covers. All foredges gilt; includes slipbox. 4" Tall. - $175
Life of John Eliot, The Apostle To The Indians by Convers Francis. Volume V of Library of American Biography, Conducted by Jared Sparks. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. - $100
The Life and Works of William Cowper by Robert Southey. Complete in Fifteen Volumes. London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835. Bound in full green morocco leather; blind and gilt-tooled on covers and spines in signed bindings by Cedric Chivers. There is some light wear to the extremities with Vols. XI and V having light chipping at the spine top and scratches on the front cover of Vol. XI. Otherwise, a very attractive set. Interiors are tight and clean except for some foxing and toning focused at the first few and last few plates. Residual signs of past bookplates inside on paste-downs. Vol. I contains an original watercolor of the Cowper home as the frontispiece. Overall an attractive set. 6 5/8" tall. - $950
The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President, edited by John Gilmary Shea. New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1865. Green cloth binding, 288 pages. Front hinge cracked and bumped at the spine ends. 9" tall. - $150
Liposuction: The Franco-American Experience by Yves-Gerard Illouz. Volume 1, 1985. Medical Aesthetics, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA. Bound in full black leather. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs. 438 pages. Excellent condition. 11 1/4" tall. - $450
The Lives Of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton. London: John Major, 1825. Signed Riviere binding in full red Morocco leather, with gilt ruling on front and rear covers and gilt fish on the spine, and along the edges inside each cover; all fore-edges gilt. 6 5/8" tall. - $350
Livingstone, der Missionar I and II by David Livingstone. Leipzig, Berlag von Otto Spamer, 1869. Volume I has a damaged spine and a few loose papers in the book, with some foxing; Volume II also has loose pages and a nearly detached spine, and some foxing. 8" Tall. - $100 for the pair.
Livre Des Orateurs by Timon. Treizieme Edition, Paris: Pagnerre, Editeur, 1844. Includes 27 engraved portraits. 1/2 smooth blue leather and mottled paper binding, spine gilt-ruled with two black labels, six compartments. First free flyleaf imprinted at bottom: "Docteur Lancevin, Havre" in oval stamp. Foxed throughout, binding is tight. 10 1/4" tall. - $125
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