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Inventory No.35896 Author: Lacan, Jacques
Ecrits I 1
Published 1966 Editions du Seuil Type:
Edition: ISBN: 2020005808 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34769 Author: Lambert, David
The Field Guide to Geology
Published 2007 Checkmark Books (New York) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 9780816065103 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
Nice and clean, no reading crease

Inventory No.34239 Author: Lambert, Janet
Transect Through Time: The Archaeological Landscape of the Shell North Western Ethylene Pipeline (English Section)
Published 1996 Lancaster Imprints Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901800740 Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Please note there is a publishers error in the binding, pages 181 to 196 have been bound between pages 204-205, otherwise a clen bright copy with 7 microfiche in rear pocket.

Inventory No.23219 Author: Lamming, Douglas
In Lincolnshire Long Ago
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167608 Size:A4 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.33826 Author: Landstrom, Bjorn
Sailing Ships in Words and Pictures from Papyrus Boats to Full-Riggers
Published 1969 Allen & Unwin (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Tear at top of spine else very good

Inventory No.36780 Author: Lang, Gordon
The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics
Published 1988 The Powell-Cotton Museum (Kent) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 095139150x Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Excellent copy, clean and bright

Inventory No.36764 Author: Lardner, Ring
The Best Of Ring Lardner (Everyman)
Published 1993 J. M. Dent (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0460872729 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean shiny copy

Inventory No.36271 Author: Lawrence, T. E.; Garnett, David
The Letters of T.E. Lawrence
Published 1988 J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0460047337 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Pencil notes on endpapers else very good

Inventory No.36580 Author: Lawson, Will
Pacific Steamers
Published 1975 Brown, Son & Ferguson (Glasgow.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Blue cloth, gilt. Dust jacket rubbed and with repair to head of spine. Numerous illustrations, not listed, but appear to be all present. A nice bright copy pp. xx, 244.

Inventory No.33192 Author: Le Fleming, S. H.
The Manuscripts of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., Of Rydal Hall
Published Type:
Edition:Print on Demand ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Please note this is a Print on Demand copy which we have in stock. Looks unread.

Inventory No.33213 Author: Le Pard, Gordon
Dorset Then and Now from the Air
Published 2011 Dorset Books Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781871164817 Size:Square Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
Clean and bright

Inventory No.34059 Author: Lea, J. Henry
The English Ancestry of the Families of Batt and Biley
Published David Clapp & Sons (Boston) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £11
Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, April, 1897. Wrappers worn and torn, with loss and loose. YAS stamps to covers and title-page. Pages untrimmed but very clean. pp. 26.

Inventory No.37037 Author: Leach, Edmund; Aycock, D. Alan
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
Published 1983 Cambridge University Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0521274923 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8.5
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.33440 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Eleventh
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £30
Spine renewed, rather worn and battered but contents very good, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on ffep

Inventory No.33439 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Twelfth
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33438 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Eighth
Published 1795 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33437 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Seventh
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33435 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the First
Published 1793 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.23211 Author: Leahy, Kevin; Williams, David
North Lincolnshire : A Pictorial History
Published 1996 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167802 Size:Square Octavo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Faint creases to cover but clean and bright
North Lincolnshire Local History Family History Genealogy Old Photographs

Inventory No.36159 Author: Lee, David
Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
Published 2008 University of Chicago Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0226470520 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
D/w slightly faded on spine else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34784 Author: Lerer, Seth
Inventing English: a Portable History of the Language
Published 2007 Columbia University Press (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780231137942 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Excellent clean copy, almost like new

Inventory No.34037 Author: Levi, Primo
Other People's Trades
Published 1989 Summit Books (New York) Type:
Edition:First U.S. Edition ISBN: 0671611496 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy, d/w has 1" split on fore-edge and closed tear on front

Inventory No.34036 Author: Levi, Primo
A Tranquil Star
Published 2007 W. W. Norton (New York) Type:
Edition:First U.S. Edition ISBN: 9780393064681 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34035 Author: Levi, Primo
The Mirror Maker
Published 1990 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0413630609 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8.5
D/w sunned else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34034 Author: Levi, Primo
The Sixth Day
Published 1990 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718133323 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £9
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34031 Author: Levi, Primo
The Periodic Table
Published 1985 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 0718125157 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34030 Author: Levi, Primo
Moments of Reprieve
Published 1986 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718127269 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) else nice clean copy

Inventory No.36202 Author: Lewin, Ralph A.
The Biology of Algae and Diverse Other Verses
Published 1987 Boxwood Press (California) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0940168111 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Covers sunned else nice clean copy

Inventory No.36426 Author: Lewis, H. D.
Philosophy of Religion (Teach Yourself Books)
Published 1965 English Universities Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £7.5
Excellent copy- appears unread

Inventory No.36274 Author: Lian Quan Zhen
Chinese Painting Techniques For Exquisite Watercolours
Published 2002 David & Charles (Newton Abbott) Type:
Edition:First Paperback ISBN: 0715315471 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36152 Author: Libbrecht, Kenneth; Illustrator: Rasmussen, Patricia
The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty
Published 2004 Colin Baxter Photography (Grantoun-on-Spey) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1841072532 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Mark on front of d/w where label reoved else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.33281 Author: Lightoller, Commander
Titanic and Other Ships
Published 2007 Historia Press (Hull) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 9781906187026 Size:12mo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12
Limited edition, this being copy no. 726, reprint of 1935 ed. Excellent unread copy

Inventory No.35269 Author: Lin Yutang
Imperial Chinese Art
Published 1983 Omega Books (Ware, Hertfordshire) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0907853617 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.28581 Author: Line, Paul Leslie
A Guide to Liverpool, 1928. Armchair Time Travellers Street Atlas
Published 2011 Mapseeker Archive Publishing Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 9781844917440 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £8
Original pictorial card covers rubbed and scuffed. Damp staining to corners of front endpapers. Text, illustrations and maps all in very good condition. Good working copy.
Lancashire Liverpool Local History

Inventory No.36589 Author: Liudprand Of Cremona; Norwich, John Julius
The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Writings (Everyman)
Published 1993 J. M. Dent (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0460872354 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean bright copy, appears unread

Inventory No.30903 Author: Lloyd, David; Moran, Madge
The Corner Shop. The History of Bodenhams from the Middle Ages; Ludlow Research Paper No. 2
Published Studio Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 52. Covers a little faded. Clean copy.

Inventory No.37120 Author: Lock, John; Dixon, W. T.
A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters, and Times of the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 1777-1861
Published 1979 Ian Hodgkins & Co (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0930466152 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £25
Corners slightly bumped but very good copy, inscribed with birthday greetings to Win
Bronte

Inventory No.36859 Author: Lofthouse, Jessica
Lancashire Countrygoer
Published 1962 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
Clean bright unmarked copy, d/w slightly edgeworn and spotted on reverse
Lancashire Local History Topography

Inventory No.35296 Author: Loftie, W. J.
Orient-Pacific Line Guide. Chapters for Traveller By Sea and By Land
Published Sampson Low (London) Type:
Edition:Sixth Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £50
Original green cloth with black titling. Cloth a little rubbed. Endpapers shaded. Previous owners name/address stamp to top edge of title-page, also top corner of page cut off. On reverse of title-page is a small book plate with inscription underneath. 2 of the "Views of Ships" have their names written in margin. 1st S.S. view has small bookplate on rear. Illustrated within text plus Maps, Charts, Views of Ships and Plans of Ships, all present and in very nice clean condition. pp. xlvii, 407. A very nice clean copy.
Orient Line

Inventory No.32923 Author: Loftie, W. J.
The Inns of Court and Chancery
Published 1908 Seeley and Co. (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Blue Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Slight wear to spine, some spotting throughout, decent copy
Inns Court Law

Inventory No.35736 Author: Low, David
Low's Political Parade with Colonel Blimp
Published 1936 Cresset Press (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape: Binding:Pictorial Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £8
A worn copy. Some pages loose, but complete. Working copy.

Inventory No.35848 Author: Lowell, Russell; Belloc, Hilaire, Introduction
Poems
Published Blackie and Son Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
Maroon leather with gilt decoration to front board and spine, and titling to spine. Decorated endpapers. Leather a little rubbed and worn at head of spine. Some thumbing/reading marks. pp.311
Poetry

Inventory No.35930 Author: Loxton, Howard
The Golden Age of the Circus
Published 1997 Grange Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1840130202 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
slight fading at bottom of spine else clean brigh copy in spine-faded d/w with small tear at top of spine
Circus

Inventory No.36930 Author: Lucian
Satirical Sketches Translated with Introduction By Paul Turner
Published 1961 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Scuff at bottom of spine else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34721 Author: Lucian
[Works] in Eight Volumes with an English Translation By A. M. Harmon
Published Type:8 Volumes
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition: Price: £75
Mixed set: vols I-IV Heinemann, ex-Ampleforth Abbey Library with bookplates, a little worn but very good, no dustwrappers; vols V-VIII Harvard, near fine in like dustwrappers

Inventory No.33943 Author: Luo Guanzhong; Wu Cheng'en; Li Ruzhen
Excerpts from Three Classical Chinese Novels: 'The Three Kingdoms', Pilgrimage to the West' and 'Flowers in the Mirror'
Published 1984 Panda Books (Beijing) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0835113302 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.32600 Author: Lyall, Andrew. Editor
Irish Exchequer Reports. Reports of Cases in the Courts of Exchequer and Chancery in Ireland, 1716-1734. Volume CXXV
Published 2009 Selden Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780854231263 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good Price: £17
Looks unread.
Irish History Chancery

Inventory No.37195 Author: Lyons, William
Modern Philosophy Of Mind (Everyman)
Published 1996 Everyman (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0460875582 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Appears unread, clean and bright

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