Search Results: Authors starting with D from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

St. Louis: D. H. Harris. Very Good+. 1921. Hardcover. Moderate cover wear and soil; moderate tanning to endpapers. ; Black cloth lettered in gilt. Front endpaper with ownership signature of Edith Davidson Harris, with the note, "From D. H. H. " Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout including portraits, scenes, buildings; two fold-out photographs showing a panorama of the St. Louis Pageant and Mask, and a panorama of the interior of The Coliseum. Also: a floor plan of the First National Bank. Publisher's printed slip "Compliments of D. H. Harris . . ." bound in at title page. Publisher's printed acknowledgement slip laid in at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages .

Paris: Realisations Sonores. Fine. 1957. Sticker label top left corner of cover. Record very clean with no apparent marks or scratches. ; 7" vinyl record, in illustrated cover. D. H. Kahnweiler was one of the most important art dealers of the 20th century, operating a gallery in Paris beginning in 1907. He was an early supporter of Picasso, Braque and the Cubist movement. This is no. 56 in the Francais de Notre Temps series .

London: The Nether Press. Fine. 1971. Softcover. 0900859075 . 196pp.; 8vo; white wrappers. Miscellaneous Series 101. .

Oakland: By the editor. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Two 17"x13.75" sheets, printed & illustrated on both sides; folded twice and housed in folding portfolio with illustrated cover, "Down for a Drink" by K. C. Rignall, and printed poems and graphics on inside panels. Each folded sheet functions as a booklet with illustrations and poems each page. Unfolded, one side of each sheet is printed & illustrated full page: i. E. , one sheet has the poem Loneliness printed down the left side of the sheet with facing graphic; the other sheet is a full page mandala. The back of the portfolio contains contributor and imprint information, with the place, Broadway Terrace, Oakland Cal, crossed out in pen, and 4 Hawthorne Av, San Anselmo written below. Portfolio with light tanning to extremities and two small (less than a dime) light spots near spine front cover; interior of portfolio with darker strip of tan down vertical fold crease. The first sheet mentioned… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine. 2009. Keepsake. Prints. In portfolio, 10" x 8". 13 color illustrated folded sheets. Designed by Janine Vigus This keepsake presents the work of California childrens book authorsthirteen ladies and one manwho presented the people and places of the Golden State to young readers for the first time. .

N.Y.: The Freethought Press. Good. 1929. Hardcover. "This Special Edition . . . is printed in defiance of the amazing attempt to suppress this book by fanatical Christian Scientists who prefer delusion to truth!" Signed by the author on front endpaper. 553 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; red cloth, spine stamped in black; in brown paper dust jacket printed and ruled in red. Foxing stains to verso of half-title, edges of both sides of frontis plate, top & foredge of title page, diminishing to faint foxing on small part of top leading corner of dedication and forward page. Jacket spine age toned & spotted; rubbing to edges, with soil and thumbing mainly to front cover. Otherwise a tight copy with clean text pages. Good , in protective mylar wrap.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Francisco: Pivately Printed By K. K. Bechtel. Near Fine. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint spot lower front cover. ; Green cloth lettered in gilt. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. The letter, type on Bechtel's letterhead, November 2, 1954, presenting the volume, "I'm mailing it to you because I haven't had a chance to get it into your hands at recent club affairs." Bechtel produced the volume for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs in Los Angeles, 1954.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 17 pages .

Oxford; London: Clarendon Laboratory; Physical Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. c.1957-1965. Softcover. Small spot of ink top edge of rear cover of Quark Models. ; Xerox typescript including corrections by hand first two volumes; printed text in last two. Typed & printed covers with cloth binding on spines of first two items titled by hand. Three of the volumes with ownership name "Jackson" in top front corner, from the library of J. D. Jackson. "Discussion of Duality" with the note in upper right front corner: "We were sorry you weren't able to come. Here, read about it! , Best regards." ; 4to 10" - 13" tall; 169 pages; Richard Henry Dalitz, FRS (1925-2006) made outstanding contributions to breakthroughs in nuclear & particle physics. Among his many other pioneering efforts, The DalitzPlot, Dalitz Pair and CDD poles that bear his name. John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 - May 20, 2016) was a Canadian-American theoretical… Read More

Paris: Alphonse Picard. Good. 1891. Hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. Original color illustrated wrappers bound in later burgundy library buckram. Usual library treatments with stamps on corners of all of the illustrations. Title page with expertly repaired tear across bottom third of the page. A very solid and useful reference in the original on history of lighting from Roman times to the 19th century; a work containing 500 engravings in the text and 80 large plates without text. Many on candles, candelabra, chandeliers, etc.; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .

London: The Trustees of the British Museum. Fine. 1964. Third Edition. Hardcover. lxxvi, 82 pages, plus 31 pages of half-tone plates; drawings throughout text pages; 4to; green cloth in printed paper jacket with creasing at edges and lower extremity near spine. Very Good dust , in protective mylar wrap .

Paris: Librairie Plon. Fine. 1953. Hardcover. Light rubbing to parts of spine. ; Quarter brown leather, and brown fabrikoid over boards, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated with gravure photographs throughout. Text in French. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 238 pages .

W W Norton & Co Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. 1st Editions. Hardcover. 0393037207 . Cloth backs and paper over boards in dust jackets. Corpus with checklists; Forbidden with illustrations and tables. ; 260;440 pages .

NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THE HUMANITIES. Fine. 2006. Softcover. 9071093557 . White wrappers. Holograph note from Bernard Rosenthal on his notehead, "Hope you'll enjoy this brilliant essay as much as I did, even though it's far removed from my more familiar, much earlier entries, Barney, 7.28.09." From the library of the late Ian Jackson. ; KB LECTURE 3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 51 pages .

N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company. Good. 1900. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. 461 & 478 pp.; 8vo; burgandy cloth; spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; illustrations. Light cover wear; spines faded with back cover of volume 1 heavily faded leaving the sillouette of a bookend. .

N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co.. Very Good. 1899. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. 558 & 562 pp., incl. index; 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With text illustrations. Fading to spines and across 1.25" of top edge volume 2; owner's signature in corners of front pastedowns. .

N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co.. Very Good. 1899. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. 372 pp., incl. index; 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt.; with photographic and other illustrations. Fading to spin; light rubbing top of spine; small ownership name top corner front pastedown. .

Privately Printed. Very Good. 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth back and board; spine & front cover lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. No. 134 of 250 copies printed. Fading to boards and a bit to spine at top. .

Seattle: Fjord Press. Fine. 1986. Second Printing. Softcover. 094024215X . 8vo; wrappers. .

San Francisco: The Geographical Society of the Pacific; F. F. Partridge Print.. Near Fine. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 153 pp.; 4to; originally bound in printed wrappers, this copy rebound without original cover in half red morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; bright red, decorated endpapers. Ownership circular blindstamp on new front endpaper of Lars Vistnes, who was a noted plastic surgeon at Stanford and founding director of Interplast. He also found time to take up bookbinding, this being one of his efforts. One can see the craft was a natural fit given his professional training and talents, however the leather is faded on the spine and at top front, yet a nice preservation of an important work by George Davidson, scientist and major member of the U. S. Coast Survey, heading the survey of the California coast (1850-57), resulting in the publication that was eventually known as the Coast Pilot. (Cowan II, p. 156) .

Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row and Laurence Flin in Castle-Street. Poor. 1761. Hardcover. xii, 196 pp, [26, index], 2 leaves pub. ads; 16mo; full brown calf. Front board detached; ownership signature, Thomas Knight, 1829, with four line note "Collection of Irish History from the reign of Elizabeth, (etc.) front endpaper. Thomas Knight's name also written vertically accross top portion of title page. At the end of the half page of text on xii, begins in a miniscule holograph hand (presumed by Knight) an account of Lady Davies, who according to the preceeding Author's Life, "had or pretended to have a spirit of prophecy," and it was reported that she predicted her husband's death, the Sunday before his being found dead of an apoplexy on the morning of Thursday, 8th of December, 1626, just before his installation as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The writing continues onto the next blank page (printed oddly, with only the words… Read More