Search Results: Authors starting with D from Walkabout Books

Broadside, 21 x 11 inches, printed in four columns, with two cartoon illustrations. Horizontal folding creases, archival tape repair to one long tear on the back, all else very good. If you'd like a peek into the intricacies of North Dakota Republican Party politics leading up to the 1908 election, look no further. In brief, the conservative wing of the Republican Party, known as the "Stalwarts," supported local political boss and Republican National Committeeman Alexander McKenzie, whose "McKenzie Machine" had dominated politics in the state for more than a decade. A faction of progressive "insurgents" wanted McKenzie ousted from power. This Pro-McKenzie broadside reports on the recent activities of both factions and provides a table showing the affiliation (Stalwart, Insurgent, or Undecided) of delegates elected to attend the upcoming State Republican Convention by county. Despite the seeming domination of Stalwarts, McKenzie was forced to retire later in 1908, and… Read More

Pierre, SD: South Dakota Rural Credit Board. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry? South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life, if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life, if you are at present farming high priced land or paying a high rental, if you have only become a cog in the machine....here is offered a golden opportunity to build a future as you would like to have it." Undated, but 1930s. Four-panel brochure, 3.5 x 8.5 inches when folded. Fine. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry? South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life, if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life, if you are at present farming high priced land or… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 520 pp, with frontis portrait of the author, bibliography, and index, in original navy cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Slight wear to extremities, else fine. Edited by Dana's son, this posthumous collection includes essays and speeches on legal and political topics, among them the Bible in schools, usury, the free soil party, fugitive slave laws, and the Monroe Doctrine.

Brown Printing Co, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18 pp, in stapled cardstock wrappers. Fine copy. Personal reminiscences of the author, who was born in Holly Springs in 1883, followed by historical tidbits about the Depot Hotel, Illinois Central Railroad House, Market House, Holly Springs Marble Works, Holly Springs Newspapers, Hill Crest Cemetery, National Hotel Company, and more.

New York: Brentano's, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 6.75 x 9.25 inches, 153 pp, with color frontis by Napolitano and 16 unnumbered b/w plates reproducing works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Braque, Klee, and others. Yellow paper over boards. Wear/chipping to spine, edges worn and lightly toned. Binding sound, but webbing slightly exposed between front free endpaper and half-title page. Inscribed "To Arthur Millier, an artist, a critic, a friend" in Louis Danz's hand, and signed beneath by Danz, Merle Armitage, and the book's printer, Lynton R. Kistler. Millier was art critic for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, beginning in the mid-1920s, and was a close friend to Armitage and Danz.

Edinburgh: The University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. 205 pp, indexed. Library label on spine and bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. Text of the Gray Lectures, delivered before the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge in 1966.

Paris: Blaizot, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. Small quarto. 109 pp, profusely illustrated with etchings by Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet. In a fine Riviere binding of crushed red morocco decorated in gilt, top and fore edges gilt, marbled endpapers, spine in six compartments. One shallow scratch on front board, some rubbing to edges and joints (where it appears at one time an attempt was made to restore color to the rubbed area); still a lovely copy, with original wrappers bound in. L'Arlésienne was first published as a play and first performed in 1872. This first illustrated edition and was limited to 278 copies, of which this is number 125.

Portland, Oregon: Davidson Photo, 1883. Very good. 5.5" x 8" albumen photograph on a 9.25" x 12" mount. Titled "Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking down stream," with further caption for the series: "Scenery Along the Line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Clarke's Fork Division." Credited "Davidson, Photo. Portland, Oregon." Very good condition, with small chips at corners of mount, contrast a bit light. This series of views was apparently taken to celebrate and promote the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Construction had begun in Minnesota in 1870, and the final section was completed on September 8, 1883. An article published in the Helena [Montana] Semi-Weekly Herald on July 19, 1883, reports that "Mr. Ed Stone, General Agent of the Land Department of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is the possessor of a large album of views entitled "Oregon and the Pacific Northwest." Glimpses of pretty sports along the valley of the Columbia River from northern Montana to the Pacific… Read More

London: Grafton & Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8.75" x .575", x,707 pp., with 264 illustrations, bibliography, index. An ex-library copy in original blue cloth. Spine is sunned and has a label on the lower spine, front board has some soiling. Internally sound and clean.

Lima, Peru: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. 94 pp. Pages tanned and slightly brittle. Light cover wear. Binding sound, text unmarked.

1862. Softcover. Very good. Sewn pamphlet, 24 pp, printed in double columns. Minor insect damage, still a very good copy. A speech in opposition to the Second Confiscation Act, which called for court proceedings for seizure of land and property from disloyal citizens (ie, supporters of the Confederacy) in the South as well as the emancipation of their slaves that came under Union control. Davis was a vehement opponent of confiscation and made repeated and lengthy speeches in the Senate in an attempt to derail the legislation. It passed in July 1862, providing the legal basis for the Emancipation Proclamation.

New York: Henry Holt, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 415 pp, with illustrated endpapers, many photographic illustrations. Spine cloth faded, small water stain on front board; internally sound and clean. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the half title page "To Cadet Stanley Payson Blish, Sincerely yours, Hassoldt Davis." A well written account of Davis's travels with documentary filmmakers Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt.

New York, NY; Boston, MA: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce; Little, Brown, and Co, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 334 + illustrations, with map. Spine is lightly sunned; light wear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Davis' account of his expeditions to Africa including tales of cannibalism, sacrifice, Genii, and magic.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression. xvi, 240 pp + illustrations + 16 (publisher's catalogue. Some light general wear to boards, short gift inscription (Christmas 1919) on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Compiled from letters written by the author from France, Greece, Serbia, and England.

Kraus Reprint Limited, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xii, 212 pp, with index. Minimal wear to edges, name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1913 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series, No. XXXI. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series, but it other than the title it appears identical to this one.

London: Derek Verschoyle, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 260 pp + illustrations from photographs, with frontispiece, maps, bibliography, glossary, index. Light sunning to spine, corners rubbed, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket lightly toned at spine and edges; mild shelf wear. Designed as a comprehensive volume on the new Israel, with information about the politics, religion, education, economics, industry, agriculture, the arts, and many other topics.

Published by the Author, 1918. Hardcover. Very good. pp xxviii, 329, 23 (Appendix). Original green cloth, somewhat creased, one corner bumped. Pages age-tanned but clean, binding sound. Appendix entitled "A Short Bibliographical Review of the Origin and Development of the Idea of the 'Society of Nations.'" De Kay (1872-1938) was the author of approxinately "twenty books and several plays, amassed and lost a number of fortunes, and pursued by charges of fraud for various financial deals, spent many years dodging extradition proceedings across Europe. Born in Iowa, he began his career in ranching and newspaper publishing in South Dakota, but by 1910 had achieved international business prominence as president of the Mexican National Packing Company which he had founded in 1902" (NY Public Library Website). This work addresses the changing role of women in the modern world and includes an outline of "a new system of marriage, sound in its principles and morals and in… Read More

Chicago, IL: AGPA. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 10 x 10 inches, 30 pp, with 14 color illustrations. Light shelf wear to wrappers with sunning towards spine, owner's note on half-title; else clean and sound. Includes work by Enrique Arnal, Santiago Cárdenas Arroyo, José Luis Cuevas, Delia Cugat, Fernando de Szyszlo, Marcel Floris, Antonio Frasconi, Gunther Gerzso, Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta, Fernando Maza, and others.

Syracuse: E.H. Babcock & Co, 1853. A typical (but uncommon) example of nineteenth century sentimental mourning literature. Reverend Davis, a Methodist minister, reflects on the frailty of mankind and the particular heartbreak of losing a child. He offers comfort to the bereaved through scriptural evidence that a deceased child goes to a better place and will be reunited with loved ones in eternity. First and only edition. 12mo, 148 pp, in publisher's blind-stamped plum cloth. Wood-engraved vignette of a family scene on title page. Inscribed on the front pastedown "Mrs. Clement Dale, the Author L.D. Davis a Cousin of my Mama." Some staining to boards, internals clean; very good. Four copies located in OCLC. A typical (but uncommon) example of nineteenth century sentimental mourning literature. Reverend Davis, a Methodist minister, reflects on the frailty of mankind and the particular heartbreak of losing a child. He offers comfort to the bereaved through scriptural evidence that… Read More

Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume XIII. 109 pp, with index and bibliography. Three-quarter red leather over red buckram, gilt lettering on spine. Pages slightly browned, else fine. "A Jesuit priest and teacher born in Veracruz of Spanish parents, Alegre is best known for his Historia de la Provincia de la Compañía de Jesús de Nueva España. In this four-volume work, Alegre chronicles the history of Jesuit missionary activity in New Spain from their arrival in 1572 to shortly before the suppression of the order in 1767. Alegre was known to be a brilliant teacher and writer with broad interests. He wrote several poetic works as well as a prodigious multivolume treatise on theology, Institutionum theologicarum, published posthumously in 1789. After the Jesuits of New Spain were banished to the Papal States in 1767, Alegre, along with several of his colleagues, lived the rest of his… Read More