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Photo of "Poëmes antiques"
LECONTE DE LISLE. Poëmes antiques. Paris. Alphonse Lemerre, 1874. Édition nouvelle [i.e. new edition]. 8vo. [4], 310pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers bound in. Minor shelf-wear. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription of novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) to upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25400
Photo of "The Night Manager"
LE CARRE, John. The Night Manager. London. Hodder & Stoughton, [1993]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 443pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped. Contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. Flat signed by the author to title page. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28379
Photo of "The arrest of arsène lupin"
LEBLANC, Maurice. The arrest of arsène lupin. London. Eveleigh Nash, 1911. First Eveleigh Nash edition. 8vo. 277pp, [10]. Original publisher's green cloth boards, lettered gilt, with the pictorial onlay intact. Worn; bumped and marked, with some tearing and chipping to the sunned spine, where the gilt is entirely faded. Toning to endpapers and page block, light foxing throughout and to edges. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30038
Photo of "A traveller's thoughts; or, lines ..."
[LEATHAM, William Henry]. A traveller's thoughts; or, lines suggested by a tour on the continent. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837. Third edition. 124pp, [2]. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. The victim. A tale of the "Lake of the Four Cantons." London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. 68pp, [2]. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip.

[And:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. Sandal in the olden time. An historical poem. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839. 106pp, [2]. With a half-title. With ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 21038
Photo of ""Ebenezer," or, "hitherto hath the ..."
LAZARUS, J[oshua] G[eorge]. "Ebenezer," or, "hitherto hath the lord helped us." - 1 sam. VII. 12. A Narrative of the Lord's Doings with one of his ancient people... London. Wertheim and Macintosh, 1855. Second edition. 8vo. xxxix, [1], 323pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a list of subscribers. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown buckram, lettered in gilt, near contemporary plain brown paper dustwrapper. Slight rubbing to extremities. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16656
Photo of "New dialogues, english and german. ..."
LAYCOCK, John. New dialogues, english and german. For the Use of both Nations. Preceded by a variety of initiatory lessons, and a large collection of idiomatical phrases, well calculated to accelerate the progress of the respective learners. In two parts. I. Preliminary Lessons and idomatical Phrases. II. Dialogues in the modern Style of Conversation. Hamburgh [i.e. Hamburg]. F. H. Nestler & Melle, 1851. Fifth edition newly revised and enlarged. 12mo. [16], xxiv, 394pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Near contemporary ownership inscription to head of title-page 'Fanny G. Houghlin / Feb. 1863', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16785
Photo of "Scotland delineated. A series of ..."
LAWSON, John Parker. Scotland delineated. A series of views.. London. Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, [c.1858] Quarto. [8], 285pp. With an additional tinted lithograph title and 71 further tinted lithograph plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, contrasting burgundy morocco lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed to extremities and surfaces. Marbled endpapers and edges. Occasional light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33870
Photo of "The maniac, with other poems"
LAWSON, John. The maniac, with other poems. London. Printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821. 12mo. [4], ii, 95pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, later naively rebacked in cloth. Extremities worn and marked. Hinges exposed, later book-label of Robert Barr and partially erased ownership inscription to FEP, foxed, a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21862
Photo of "Orient harping: a Desultory Poem, ..."
LAWSON, John. Orient harping: a Desultory Poem, in two parts. London. Printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821. Second edition. 12mo. xi, [1], 227pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Without lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, Armorial bookplate of Thomas Merrett to FEP, manuscript shelf-marks to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21863
Photo of "In the days when the ..."
LAWSON, Henry. In the days when the world was wide and other verses. Sydney. Angus and Robertson, 1896. Third thousand. 8vo. 234pp, [8]. With four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32439
Photo of "The home letters of t. ..."
LAWRENCE, T. E. The home letters of t. e. lawrence and his brothers. Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1954. First English edition. Quarto. 731pp, 45 photographs tipped in, including frontispiece, and facsimile of Winston Churchill's typewritten permission to reproduce the original Allocution that follows. Original publisher's dark navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the pale grey unclipped dustwrapper lettered in black and red. All edges spotted with some further spotting and markings throughout. Dustwrapper is worn and toned with some tearing though intact. Some notes in Henry ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27983
Photo of "Revolt in the desert"
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Revolt in the desert. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. 8vo. xvi, [4], 335pp, [1]. Pictorial endpapers after Kennington; with 16 plates and a folding map. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in black, pictorial dustwrapper (horse variant). Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper heavily worn and marked, with substantial loss and several tape repairs. Short tear to margin of p.9-10, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22256
Photo of "Letters to T. E. Lawrence"
[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. Letters to T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. Without errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear. dustwrapper a trifle marked, spine panel sunned, several brown paper repairs to verso. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26296
Photo of "Seven pillars of wisdom: a ..."
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph. London. Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition. Quarto. 672pp. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper chipped, torn, and stained. Internally clean and crisp.Inscribed to recto of FFEP by Eric Kennington's son: 'With every best wish to / Tom Redman / in thanks for many helpful things. / New Year, 2002 / Chris Kennington'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27426