Search Results: Authors starting with D from Elk River Books

Lisbon: Editorial Imperio, 1936. Paperback. Very good. 12mo (17 cm), pp. 273. Red paper wrappers with black titling. Some light edge wear, and yellowing of text block. A guide to battlefield command, published in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War by military officers.

Eckville, Alberta: Spur Graphics, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Quarto (27.5 cm), pp. 32. Black and gray pictorial wrappers, staplebound. Black and white illustrations throughout by Marjorie Vetter. Poem "100 Years from Now" by Daley laid in. "Made in Canada" sticker on front cover, wrappers with light wear. Cowboy poetry by Alberta rancher Doris, who has performed her work in venues ranging from the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, to the Saskatchewan Opera Company.

New Orleans: American Zen Association, 2003. Paperback. Fine. Duodecimo (17.5 cm), pp. 234. Pictorial wrappers. Stamp of the American Zen Association inside front cover.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1977. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 174 with index. Includes line drawings, black and white photos. Jacket with multiple small chips and tears, spine slightly cocked, light edgewear to boards.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (20cm), pp. 209. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Blue and gold decorative pastedown on front and back inner board. Very light sunning on top of boards, small dampstain on top of dust jacket near spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 178. Signed by author on title page. Pages slightly discolored with age, cover has light edge wear.

Dallas: Collectors Covey, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on dedication page by Bob and Curtice McCloy. Octavo (28 cm), pp. 239. Pictorial jacket, lavishly illustrated in color. Introduction by artist Bob Kuhn, whose works is featured prominently in the collection. Includes index of artists and their works.

New York: DK Publishing, 2006. Paperback. Very good. Folio (30.5cm), pp. 64. Full color illustrations and photographs throughout. Light staining on bottom right corner.

Glendale, CA: Balcony Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Large quarto (28 cm), pp. 256. Black cloth, pictorial jacket. Lushly illustrated with color photos. Introduction by Christopher G. Kennedy, who says the celebrity designer's kitchens "can be artful compositions and expressions of ourselves." Boards rear corners are bumped, and jacket has light edge wear.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. First Clark City Press Edition. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. Slight bump to upper corner at spine. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand."

Guilford: Lyons Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 299. Signed and dated 2003 by author on title page. Maroon boards with brown quarter-cloth and gilt spine text. Jacket illustration by Russell Chatham. Minor bumping to spine and front board has very light rubbing to bottom edge. Jacket shows simlar bumping and light rubbing on back. The only novel by the highly-acclaimed outdoor sportsman, author, filmmaker and member of "the sporting club" of fishing writers and artists including Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison and Chatham. Signed copies of any of this author's books are scarce in the trade.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. First Clark City Press Edition. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. Slight bump to upper corner at spine. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand." As new, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Stamped with author's signature by his daughter, prior to his death, but after he developed Parkinson's and could no longer manage the task. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 171. Beige cloth boards with pictorial jacket. Black and white drawings throughout by Russell Chatham, whose painting graces the jacket. "Valdène's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand."

New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Dedman on title page. Octavo (24.2 cm), pp. 460. White boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photographic jacket with $28 price. Slight bumping to head of spine, else fine. A fascinating exploration of the reclusive life and fortune of the duaghter of W.A. Clark, a "copper king" of Butte, Montana.

New York: Abercrombie & Fitch, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of 1900 classic. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 324. Light brown cloth over orange quarter cloth, with silhouette of a bighorn ram stamped in black. No jacket as issued. Includes foldout color map of the Altai Mountains and Russian-Chinese border with the expedition route marked, index of plant names from the mountains, index, black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Demidoff, who was an Italian prince married to a Russian countess and speculated to be the richest man in the world, undertook the expedition in order to acquire spectacular trophies (photos of which are included in this volume). According to the publisher of this edition, "If the group would have to rough it in uncivilized and inaccessible wilds, Demidoff saw to it that they would rough it in the best possible style ... with cook and valet, their personal physician, even a pet lap dog."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 419. Brown boards with red quarter cloth binding and gilt text on spine. Bumping on head and tail of spine, dust jacket shows rubbing.

Baker, OR: The Eddie Tern Press, 1991. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 261. Pictorial wrappers have very light edgewear.

New York: Viking Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 424. Red boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photo-illustrated jacket. Minor bumping and edge wear to boards and jacket, else fine. The first 30 years in the life of a vital poet of the Beat era and beyond.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, ca. 1900. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo (20.8 cm). Brown cloth with half-leather and gilt titling. Top edges gilt. Frontispieces with tissue guards and numerous illustrated plates throughout. Title pages printed in red and black. Volumes include: Barnaby Rudge / Hard Times, Bleak House, Child's History of England / Edwin Drood / Master Humphrey's Clock (Miscellaneous), Christmas Books / Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop / Reprinted Pieces, Oliver Twist / Pictures from Italy / American Notes, Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers, Tale of Two Cities / Sketches by Boz, and Uncommercial Traveler / Christmas Stories. Most volumes with minor foxing and edge wear, a few volumes show chipping to leather spines with small loss of material, and two volumes have moderate spine damage.

First Edition. Hardcover. Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977. Minor bumping to spine ends, bumping, sunfading to jacket, else fine. VG/vg.Last Tales. New York: Random House, 1957. Bumping and soiling to boards, minor edge wear and chipping to jacket. Bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. VG/vgSeven Gothic Tales. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Hass, 1934. Bumping and rubbing to boards, jacket, affixed to boards at flaps, shows heavy wear with loss of material at edges and especially on the spine. G/fair.