Search Results: Authors starting with D from Glenn Books

London: John Warren, G. And W.B. Whittaker, 1821. Marbled boards with matching endpaper. Panelled spine. Spine sunned to brown as is usually seen with green bindings. Evidence of old removal of a label from front preliminary. Catalogue slip laid-in. Twenty-six full-page hand-colored plates all beginning with the word "Taking". All plates in excellent condition. Lovely typography of the lengthy poem by Thomas Gaspey. Signed binding by Riviere and Sons. 184pp.. First Edition. 3/4 Dark Green Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Tall Octavo.

Columbus, Ohio: A.R. Harding, 1927. Front cover and spine lettered in brown. Vignette fron cover "Methods of raising, both under natural conditions and in pens, fencing, feeding, diking, ditching, dam building, building, shipping stock, etc." 131pp. + adverts. Illustrated in black and white. Previous owner's signature and stamp fron free endpaper. A very clean copy throughout. . First Edition. Tan Cloth. Light Wear Only/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1969. All edges gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. Silk sewn-in bookmark. A copy of Notes From The Archives laid-in. Illustrations by Hans Alexander Mueller. Portrait frontispiece of the author. First published in 1840. A personal memoir of a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California. Dana lived from 1815-1882. 346pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octa.

Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. Marbled boards. New endpapers. Name in ink in 2 places on title page with slight leeching through onto dedication page. Paper spine label. This is Dana's first book. The text is quite clean with only occasional foxing at leaf extremities. See BAL 4422. 113pp.. First Edition. 1/2 Black Cloth.. Rebound/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

London: Henry Danielson, 1923. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Mr. Machen. Limited to 500 copies. Arranged in order of publication date starting with "Eleisinia" in 1881 and ending with "The Confessions of a Literary Man" in 1915. 59pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Light Cover and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. Preface by Ashley Montagu and drawings by Fritz Kredel. From the Easton series, :The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". First published in two volumes in 1871. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a noted English naturalist, geologist, biologist who contributed major works in the science of evolution. 362pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Black Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo.

London: Seeley and Company., 1900. Gilt lettering and central cover design. Top edge gilt.. Well-illustrated. Slight foxing to fore-edge. Comprehensive history, hard to find in first edition. Black endpapers. Front hinge just barely starting to weakn. Eight full-page color illustrations protected by tissue guards. Twenty others in monochrome. All illustrations printed by Edmund Evans at the Racquet Court Press. Chapters on cameo materials and their cutting processes, early cameos and glass pastes, Graeco-Roman and medieval cameos, Renaissance and later cameos. 66pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Maroon Cloth. Light Corner Wear./No. Royal Octavo.

Topeka, Kansas: Crane and Company, 1899. A selection of poetry by Eugene F. Ware, the "Poet Laureate of Kansas", who used the nom de plume of Ironquill. This is No.1 from the Crane Twentieth Century Classics. 93pp.. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Nearly Fine. Thin Octavo.

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1974. One small defect in cloth on rear cover, a bindery defect which is almost unnoticed. Top-edge stained blue. Front panel of dust jacket shows a vignette of cavalry horsemen. This is Volume X of the Frontier Military Series. Quite a clean copy throughout. Chapters on California duty, New Mexico and Apaches, Seventh and Tenth Cavalries, Oklahoma and Indians, Texas to Fort Custer, among others. Thirteen illustrations including a folded map. 273pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Essentially No Wear./Minor Soiling.. Octavo.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1857. Both covers are detached. Edges worn. Owner's name on front preliminary page dated 1865. Internally completely intact, light foxing. Complete with 34 pull-out plates, all in good condition. Prepared for the use of Cadets of the Military Academy at West Point. First edition published in 1826. 174pp.. Later Edition. Full Brown Sheepskin. General Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Baltimore: Publish America, 2004. Three titles, all SIGNED by the author. "Coffee Shop Poems With Cream" (2004), "As I See It" (2006), and "Oklahoma Sounds: Poems" (2008). 72, 139, 113pp.. First Edition. Color Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

London: Hutchinson and Company ., 1992. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Priced at £13.99 on the front blurb. The fourth book in the series starring Marcus Didius Falco, famed Roman sleuth. Set in about A.D. 70, this adventure finds Falco sent off on an undcercover mission to Roman Germany. Paper lightly toned at free edges as is noted on all copies. A clean, crisp copy throughout. .305pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Price is £13.95 on the front blurb. The second book in the series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, "the wry, witty, and lovable private eye" who patrols the streets of Rome in A.D. 70. A fine, crisp copy. 341pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. £12.95 price on front blurb. Two minor scuff marks on front cover, small indentataion near bottom of front cover not penetrating the cloth. A clean, crisp copy. This is the author's first book featuring the private detective Marcus Didius Falco set in Rome A.D. 70. 258pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Black Cloth. Nearly Fine/Fine. Octavo.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989. "A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome" featuring Marcus Didius Falco. A clean and crisp copy. 258pp.. First American Edition. 1/4 Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

London: Century, 1992. The fifth book in the Marcus Didius Falco series, set in Rome in A.D. 72. The intrepid private eye and spy finds himself in more hot aqua, as is usual. Priced at £9.99 on the front blurb.336pp.. First Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

Montclair, London: Allenheld and Schram, George Prior, 1981. 58 illustrations throughout the text material. Chapters on history, aesthetic components and standards, styles of painting and calligraphy, the tools, holding the brush, body movement in using the brush, fundamental principles of brushwork, the principal brush strokes, principlal ways of using the ink, pi li or strength of line, appendix and terms. 204pp.. First American Edition.. Tan Cloth. Nearly Fine./Nearly Fine. Small Quarto.

Fairbury, Nebraska: Holloway Publishing Company, 1967. White plastic spiral binding, completely intact. A reprint of the scarce 1912 edition printed by Crane and Company of Topeka. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being #254. Includes the folding map. Illustrated throughout. 488pp. See Adams-150, Six-Guns 570, Graff 1025, and Howes D-150 for additional citations on the first edition. . Centennial Edition. Gray Thick Wrappers. Nearly Fine. Thick Octavo.

London Wm. Dawson and Sons, Ltd (c. 1962). Issued in wrappers. Modest soiling and edge wear. Catalogue 91 from this venerable London bookseller. Descriptions of about 7500 books, with bibliographical, historical, and biographical notes, covering both the history of medicoine and the exact sciences..

London, New York: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton Front cover floral designs in white, gilt, green. Comprising versions of two poems, "Mater Speciosa" and "Mater Dolorosa". Printed in Bavaria 347 at bottom of title page. Half-title page in gilt. Six full-page chromolithographs to illustrate the hymns. Dr. Neale and Earl Crawford created versions of these hymns, presented in exquisite typography, with gilt embellishments as titles and borders. The final plate has a 3/4" closed tear in its free edge. Small spots on free edge of the first three leaves.. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Square Octavo.