Search Results: Authors starting with D from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Nordhausen am Harz: Heinrich Killinger, Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xvi, 493, [2] pp, 24 ff photo plates (8 color, 16 b & w), 473 b & w photos in text, index. Musty smell, cloth just rubbed through at bottom corners & tails of joints, otherwise very good. German-language treatise on potted plants and commercial greenhouse operations. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 26½ X 19 cm.

Copenhagen: H. Hagerups Forlag, 1924 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue buckram, gilt titles on leather labels on spines. Vol. 1: Boghistorie -- Bogfremstillingens Teknik; [vii], 527, [1] pp; fep separating at gutter although binding still feels solid, about a 3 X 4 cm bubble under cloth on front board, else VG. Vol. 2: Bibliotekshistorie -- Biblioteksteknik; publication date 1927; [vii], 572 pp, index; VG. Vol. 1 contains history of manuscripts, printing, bookbinding, and current technology, all with special emphasis on the Scandinavian countries. Vol. 2 contains world & Scandinavian library history, and articles on library operations. Both volumes in Danish. Shipping weight 7 lbs. (International 6 lbs., 8 oz.). 3rd Ed. . VG-/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1912 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Rebound by library in maroon cloth, [iv], 95 pp, 114 pictures (mainly b & w photos). Cloth worn & soiled, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps. Swedish-language history of flight through 1911 by an early Swedish aviator. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . G/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

n. p.: Privately Printed, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on recto of ffep. Brown leather-textured boards with gold foil titles, 141 pp, 12 b & w photos in text. DJ has some cockling and faint dampstaining; in Brodart archival cover. Combined memoir and religious reflections of a conservative evangelical protestant after 50 years of ministry. No date or place of publication is given on title page. Introduction is credited to the president of the Dallas Theological Seminary and dated 1976. Dahlin resided in Minneapolis at the time of publication. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fine/VG-. 21½ X 14 cm.

Minneapolis, 1918 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Brown leather, blind titles on spine & decoration on front board, gilt titles on front board, 656 pp, many b & w photographs & color drawings & paintings, index. Some foxing, slightly musty, some surace chipping to leather, joints starting. The entire annual is printed on coated stock, with four tipped-in paintings by Prof. S. C. Burton, a number of stylized color drawings, and photos or b & w drawings on most of the remaining pages. Looking through it for students who later became well-known, the best I can find is Fred Osanna, president of the Twin City Rapid Transit company at the time it abandoned its streetcar system in the 1950s. Some of the faculty and regents later became members of the Hall family, e. g. George E. Vincent, Marion L. Burton (looking natty in a top hat on p 34), and Pierce Butler, who is memorialized by a street in St. Paul. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping… Read More

New York & London: Paddington Press Ltd, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan cloth-textured paper-covered boards, 287 pp including a 47 pp atlas & gazetteer, 60 illustrations, index. Bottom edge lightly rubbed, gift inscription on recto of front free endpaper. DJ edges lightly rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. A combination of literary history and travel guide, this book is "a delightful journey carefully charted with words and maps to deepen our appreciation and understanding of both the literature and the landscapes the authors have chosen to consider." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, gravure frontispiece, xi, 553 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. Small nicks to spine ends, 1" tear to ffep & half-title, else very good. This biography of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, has as its frontispiece a very finely detailed photogravure portrait of Mrs. Eddy, showing a plate mark. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

London: Faber and Faber, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on spine, 212 pp, notes, index. Light soil to edges. Contents: Fortune's Hill and the poets; Sidney's 'Arcadia': the great house romance; Sidney and the late-Shakespearian romance; 'King Lear' and Christian patience: a culmination; 'Antony and Cleopatra': a Shakespearian adjustment; Beaumont and Fletcher: Jacobean absolutists; 'The Maid's Tragedy'. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1936 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth with title blind-stamped on front board, top edge dyed brown, [ix], 703 pp. Corners bumped, spine cocked, paper lightly browned, a dark smudge on one trailing blank, hinges repaired with acid-free PVA. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). Later printing. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Purple cloth, top edge yellow, frontispiece, xi, 345 pp, 5 ff plates, index. Corners bumped, gold titles on spine partly rubbed away, edges a bit soiled. DJ chipped, soiled, rubbed, and has a number of ½" closed tears; in Brodart archival cover. Life of Edward VII to his accession as King in 1901, with historical background information. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/G. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Random House, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty cloth with grey & red titles & decorations, top edge dyed green, endpaper maps, [vii], 179, [2] pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, line cuts in text, index, two-page listing of books in the Landmark and World Landmark series. This book is World Landmark No. W-33. One corner lightly bumped. Biography for junior high aged readers of the great humanitarian physician, who was still working at his hospital in Lambaréné when this book was written. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by Erica Anderson & W. T. Mars. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark grey cloth, titles in gold & gold on blue, blue endpapers, ix, 372 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, bibliography, index. Extremities rubbed. In the "Mainstream of America" series. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

Clinton Corners, NY: College Avenue Press, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author. Pictorial wraps, xvii, 317 pp, 22 photos, bibliography, notes, index. Edges of covers slightly worn, a few words underlined on each of four pages. Concentrates mostly on McCracken's tenure as President of Vassar College, with chapters on Vassar before McCracken and McCracken before Vassar. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

Stockholm: Bokförlaget Prisma WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Engelsk-Svensk: ISBN 91-518-0550-2, 8th Ed., 5th ptg, 1979, 19 X 12 cm, orange boards, xi, 394 pp; near fine, slight rubbing to corners. Svensk/Engelsk: ISBN 91-518-1297-5, 20½ X 13 cm, white pictorial boards, 542 pp; small tear to fore-edge of one leaf, else fine. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the French by Robin Farn. Blue, white & red decorated boards, [v], 214 pp, 23 b & w drawings including title page. Extemities rubbed, owner's name ffep, two leaves browned by clipping laid in. DJ rubbed, joints torn; in Brodart archival cover. The fictional Major William Marmaduke Thompson, having married a French woman, moves to France and writes his observations on the French as contrasted with the English. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG-/G+. Illus. by Walter Goetz. 21 X 16½ cm.

Cleveland, OH & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black & rust cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, top edge dyed rust, 347, [4] pp, 2 ff photo plates, index. DJ slightly worn at corners and lightly soiled along fore-edges; in Brodart archival cover. Biography of the president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

Paris: Blanchet, Libraire-Éditeur, 1840 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Rebound by library in brown buckram, overcast sewing,[i], 474 pp. Brown stains on first few leaves, occasional foxing, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps, otherwise very good as rebound. Also contains Description du Chateau de Marly; Des Baisers d'Etiquette; Le Détail de France (attribué à Pierre Lepesant de Bois-Guillebert); Journal de Verdun, 1715; Extraits Inédits des Registres de l'Hotel-de-Ville de Paris; Années 1700 a 1703; Mort de Louis XIV, 1715; cumulative table of contents for the second series. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . Good/No dj. 20 X 13 cm.

Paris: Blanchet, Libraire-Éditeur, 1839 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Rebound by library in brown buckram, overcast sewing,[i], 415 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps, otherwise very good as rebound. Also contains Projet pour l'Entreprise d'Alger; Relation des Voyages Faits a Thunis par le Sieur de Bricard; Relation Contenant Diverses Particularitez de l'Expédition de Gigery; et; entre Autres; la Retraitte de Trouppes Françoises, par Monsieur de Castellan; Vie de François Eudes surnommé Mézeray; La Feste de Versaille du 18 Juillet 1668; Dernières Paroles de Monseigneur le Maréchal de Fabert, Décédé a Sedan le 17 Mai 1662; La Vie de Monsieur de Molière; par le Gallois de Grimarest; Relation de l'Ambassade de Monsieur le Chevalier de Chaumont: La Cour du Roy de Siam avec ce qui s'est passé de plus… Read More

New Brunswick, NJ & London: Rutgers University Press, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, yellow titles on spine, xv, 159 pp, 9 figures, 9 maps, glossary, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "There is an imaginary line, a green line made of the rock called serpentine, that stretches along the eastern part of North America, from Georgia to Newfoundland. This line marks the ancient 'geosuture' -- the joining place of the North American and Eurasian continents during the geologic past. ... Geologists have pondered the serpentine for the story it tells of earth history. The gray-green serpentine outcroppings represent traces of the earth's mantle, transported by sea-floor spreadings and thrust into the margins of the continent. They mark the collisions of tectonic plates and the birth of mountain chains. .. Writing in the tradition of John McPhee, Kevin Dann brilliantly interweaves new… Read More

Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with sage green cloth covered boards, publisher's logo blind stamped on front board, xv, 767 pp, index. Small tear at top of rear hinge, else very good with corners lightly bumped, ends of spine moderately bumped and worn, wrinkles in paste-downs, and previous owner's name on recto of ffep. DJ lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small closed tears top & bottom; in Brodart archival cover. Thirty-four papers by experts in various fields including ecology, botany, zoology, economics, law, land-use planning, medicine, geography, government, and landscape architecture, are organized into six chapters, headed: the organic world and its environment; regions: their developmental history and future; economic patterns and processes; social and cultural purposes; regional planning and development; organization and implementation. Each chapter,… Read More