Lanier Bartlett (51 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book size about 5 1/2 by 8 inches with some 309 pages. Bound in decorated yellow cloth. Top edge with a publisher applied red stain. Illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). In the original dust wrapper with a front flap price of $2.50. A historical romance based loosely on the feats of the notorious California outlaw Joaquin Murrieta. Apparently made into a movie of the period. Book with light wear. Wrapper heavily tape repaired and with much damage. VERY GOOD/FAIR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, xiv + 336pp. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers and black & white plates. Hardcover, bound in original black cloth with yellow paper title-labels to spine and cover. Top edge of text-block is dyed red. In very good condition. Firm binding and clean, unmarked, interior. No signs of porior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine. Now protected in a new custom-made clear archival dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Green cloth wrapped boards with black print in pasted on red title box, on front cover. Black print in yellow paste-on label on black & white denim cloth spine.Slight stretching of head edge on spine. Each of endpapers (4) have 2 different B/W illustrations .Red tinted head edge. Book is ex-Library with bookplate, circulation material and numerical identifications. Tight, sound and except Library items unmarked. 336 pages including index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Chips at head and tail of spine.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED by booth authors. Slipcase has excessive wear and tear. There is an inscription inside the front free end page. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [worn at extremities with exposure of boards at tips, light external soiling, a bit of fraying to cloth at both ends of spine, front hinge cracked]. (frontispiece map) One of a series of such city guidebooks -- "The Seven Days Series" -- issued by this publisher in the 1920s and 1930s (there had also been volumes on New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Rome, and London, by different authors, and later books covered Berlin, Vienna, and Brussels), each blurbed as "A Guide for People in a Hurry." I don't know if this applies uniformly across the series, but the format of this one, at least, is utterly engaging: rather than being couched in a more-or-less-encyclopedic "reference" idiom, the whole thing is presented as a kind of running monologue by the authors (a husband and wife), delivered as they play hosts and tour guides to "a big Eastern publisher" who's visiting the city with his wife and young daughter. They take the little family -- "Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Jones" (of which we eventually learn the first name only of the latter, Annabelle) -- around the city on a week-long whirlwind tour in seven chapters ("Monday," etc.). Our authors style themselves within the narrative as "Mr. and Mrs. Guia" -- which the clever Mr. Jones figures out, right away, is Spanish for "Guide" -- and the conceit of the book is that they're trying to "get [the publisher] interested in the books we're trying to write!" It begins, appropriately, with a problem that plagues Angelenos to this day: parking. As the authors pull up across the street from the Biltmore Hotel, where they are to collect their tourists, "the missus" warns Mr. G that there's "only forty-five minutes' parking here" and suggests a nearby parking lot -- but he brushes her off, stating that "finding room at the curb right in the downtown block where we wanted to stop was too rare an opportunity to be slighted and I insisted on enjoying the thrill of it." If you're wondering (as I initially was) what caused the publishers to consider Los Angeles of the early 1930s to be on a touristic par with the other cities in this series (New York, London, Paris, et al.), the answer is right there in the year of publication: 1932, the year the Olympics came to town. (The book was published in March, and sure enough there are several pages devoted to the Olympic Village and other preparations for the upcoming Games.) NOTE that there were two variant printings of this book: one with a folding map of the city contained in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown, the other without. This copy is WITHOUT the map.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. Photoplay edition. A VG copy in a good dust jacket. Basis for the film starring Richard Barthelmess. Scarce in dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in orange cloth with black titles. 1st Printing. A nice firm copy with light rubbing to boards. 298pp 12mo.

Authors' Limited Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg.

Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction. 1 Kg.

Cloth / Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 44 Pp. (Unnumbered). First Edition. Beige Cloth Over Boards.Short Prose. Inscribed By Author To Her "Dear Friends" Dr. And Mrs. Griffin, And With The Note Of A Later Owner. Inscribed by Author(s).

octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth with green linen spine cloth and red paper labels on spine and cover. Mild bump to upper corner, otherwise VG, contents tight. 336pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Gift inscription on front endpaper; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. near fine yellowish binding, with several name stamps, in a very good dust jacket , small corner and spine end chips, fold rubbing, closed tears, small clear tape piece center right, reprint with richard barthelmess hardcover.

Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 336 pages. In Good condition. Spine is black with black print on yellow banner. Boards in black cloth with yellow pastedown title label. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has brown tinted top edge, penciled name on front flyleaf, tipped in book description on rear pastedown. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait, endpaper illustrations, and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column C. 1375465. FP New Rockville Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This work is a fascinating record of the dramatic, colorful life on the old West Coast, edited by an authority on early California history. The editor used primarily material left by the celebrated Major Horace Bell upon his death in 1918. The book contains photographs, illustrations, footnotes, notes, and an index. Jacket is worn and chipped, now in mylar; otherwise, this copy is clean and solid. Related newspaper articles are laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition.

Authors' Limited Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Vg in black-stamped orange boards, no dust jacket; light rubbing to board corners, faint staining to pageblock edges, red erasable pencil underlining within the first 8 pages else a tight square unmarked copy; states First Published March 1932; 298 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED limited edition numbered 23/210 On the Old West Coast Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger- Major Horace Bell 1st ed edited by Lanier Bartlett (signed by him) 1930 published by William Morrow some slipcase wear, some spine wear, inside is clean tight and very good Horace Bell left Indiana to seek gold in California. He then went on to serve as a Ranger who pursued Joaquin Murietta, a soldier of fortune in Latin America and a Union officer in the Civil War. After the war he returned to Los Angeles and became a lawyer and a newspaper editor. He provides lively anecdotes of Los Angeles and its residents under Mexican and American rule, emphasizing cowboys and criminals and native Americans. Throughout, Bell gives special attention to the fate of Hispanic Californians and Native Americans under the United States regime. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xiv+336 pp., frontis., photos, index, dj, vg+ 6-Guns #188 much more material than appeared in the 1881 ed.

Condition: VG. New York 1930 first edition. Morrow. sm4to hardcover. Plates with Photo illus and drawings.336p. pictorial end papers. Green cloth with red printed title label on front cover panel and backstrip. VG spine toned but lettering on spine label still legible. no dj.

Hardcover. Vintage. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light staining along spine and rear flap fold. Few open tears along panel edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photoplay Edition. Photoplay edition of "Adios". Illustrated with scenes from photoplay starring Richard Barthelmess. Beautiful illustrated dust jacket. Chipping to head and heel of spine and corners. special sale 20% off regular price of 100.00. now.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. original orange cloth, spine has some surface wear/soiling, large folding map present in rear pocket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bright Dj Unclipped With Slight Shelf Wear Under Mylar, Boards With A Little Soiling But Paper Title Label Intact On Cover And Spine, Binding Is Square And Solid, Pages Are Clean With Age Toning At Edges, There Are No Names Or Marks In The Book, The First End Paper Has Light Stain To The Outer Tips, Pictorial End Papers Front And Rear, A Great Copy Of A Very Scarce Title. no.