Search Results: Authors starting with D from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Natraj Publishers, 1996 Original green cloth, with some minor binder's blemishes on the spine (a few spots and two bands of very slight discolouration, possibly from the binder's glue). No marks in text. 228 pages. 8 photographic plates (4 colour). Folding map at rear. Un-price clipped dust wrapper, very minor creasing at top of spine. Decorative green end-papers depicting leopards.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London : Joseph Robins and Sons, 57 Tooley Street, Southwark., 1820 No date, circa 1820. COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES. 4to. 6 copper engraved forntispieces and 121 plates, 3 folding maps, 3 folding views & 3 folding plans (very slight browning & mild staining to some). About 100 vignette woodcut illustrations, head and tail pieces in the text. viii,680, xvi (index); 540, xvi (index); 640, viii (index); 595, ii (index); 476, viii (index); lacks half title(?), 584, viii (index) printed pages. Predominantly unopened (except for volumes two and four that have largely opened gatherings. Outer and bottom edges predominantly untrimmed & of slightly varying widths. Printed on cotton rag paper, watermarked 1806. Occasional mild foxing. Gathering 3Q in volume four and leaf PP2 in volume one, misnumbered by the printer. Marginal very slight wormholes in pages 76-8 of volume five and in some of the engraved plate margins in volume three (not affecting the images nor the captions). 15 x 23 cm. Original dark… Read More

191 printed pages (some mild foxing). Frontispiece and woodcut vignette on title-page. 46 full-page black &white; woodcut illustrations. Stereotyped by J. Fagan, printed by C. Sherman. All edges gilt. 68 x 83mm. Original sage-green vertically ribbed cloth (slightly rubbed) with gold-embossed vignette of Robinson Crusoe on front cover. Spine with scrolling floreate gilt decoration and titling. Not in Welsh. Welsh only lists later imprints. WorldCat locates 13 copies that are all in USA.

Libraire de la Strategie, 1911 Book is complete and in very good condition. There is an ownership inscription on the front free end paper.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

John Murray, 1904 Frontispiece & 24 plates, contemporary 3/4 red morocco, spine slightly spotted. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.

Gollancz, 1986 179 pages. Unclipped dustwrapper. Collector's condition. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon is a book by American writer Philip K. Dick, a collection of 10 science fiction short stories and one essay on his "discovery" that we are living in the Roman Empire:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later","The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford","Explorers We","Holy Quarrel","What'll We Do with Ragland Park?","Strange Memories of Death" "The Alien Mind","The Exit Door Leads In","Chains of Air, Web of Aether" "Rautavaara's Case","I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon". Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Rolling Stone College Papers, The Yuba City High Times, Omni and Playboy.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

vii, 433 double pages (some page corners sightly creased; preliminary leaves and page block very slightly dusty). To comfortably read this book you have to rotate it 90 degrees. Marbled endpapers. 48 x 60mm. Yapp style binding. Original brown calf (very slightly rubbed). Lettering on upper cover in gilt "Thumb Gazetteer". Particularly detailed for the UK and for North America; every town of at least 2,000 inhabitants recorded. The UK Census of 1891 recorded a total population of England, Wales and Scotland as 33,015,701. Bondy, 104. Garbett, 13. Houghton, 18. Welsh, 6717. WorldCat locates only two copies in the UK (British Library and the National Library of Scotland) and four in the USA (Newberry Library & Illinois, Indiana and Virginia Universities).

E. Harding, London, 1798 1-22 1-120 pages, numerous head and tail pieces, signed engravings after Sylvester Harding and dated 1795. Contemporary ink inscription across title page "Matthew Thomas West, Cork. Matthew Thomas West H.M. Ship Miniotaur off the start, March 21st 1808. At anchor in a calm 1/2 past 5 during quarters". Pencil inscription on front paste down endpaper "Eliza M. West". Gathering G loosened but still attached. On pages 5 and 21, the leaves have been excised, not affecting the text. Thumbing, toning, offsetting, foxing and mild handling marks throughout. 11.5 x19 cm. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards (rear hinge split but firm, head and tail of spine with some loss, corners worn, rubbed ). First published in 1751 this was a poular book of maxims. West was a Lieutenant in the British Navy. At the time he inscribed this book in 1808, West was serving on the Minotaur. His Majesty's Ship Minotaur, of 74 guns, was ordered by Admiral Sir… Read More

Chapman & hall, 1890 Contemporary 3/4 calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, uncovered boards . This was bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.

Au Bureau de l'Eclipse No date. [German siege of Paris 1870-1] Folio. Hand coloured lithographic title page and 31 similar plates; in original very slightly worn embossed cloth folder with mounted paper title on front. Not held in British Library. Plate 12 is of an aerial balloonist.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz., 1819 Large hand-coloured copper engraving of 1819. Measurement of the engraved part 45.3 x 72 cm. Very mild marginal foxing. A short & barely noticeable crease on the left side. Mounted, glazed and framed in attractive, period style frame (104 x 75 cm); the frame has some very slight age wear that does not detract from its overall very good presentation. Extracted from Antoine Ignace MELLING s Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore , [Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1819] with a vertical crease where it was originally folded into the folio volume. Stunning hand-coloured delineation of the Hippodrome Square of Istanbul, the city's skyline, a train of camels, and nearly 200 members of Ottoman society in the foreground (in the background the Obelisks of the Byzantine Emperors Theodosius II and Constantine VII & on the left the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I). Melling (1763-1831), having studied architecture, painting and mathematics, went to Italy and Egypt at the… Read More