Search Results: Authors starting with D from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Orange, Virginia: Orange County Review, (1988). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"), viii & 233 pages, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
Bruise at the top edge of the upper cover, brief wear at two corners, previous owner's name, address, & phone number in ink at the front pastedown, otherwise very good.
"Rhoadsville Baptist Church was organized November 11, 1888 by a small group of Christian believers in the Eastern Section of Orange County, Virginia. The saw a need for a Baptist church in their immediate neighborhood and proceeded to begin a movement which has continued for one hundred years ..." ~Excerpted from the Foreword.

New York & London: Hafner Publishing Company, 1952. Facsimile edition, originally published 1839. 8vo, xiv & 615 pp plus 16 plates. Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered green cloth, in pictorial dust jacket
Modest shelf wear, otherwise very good in worn, torn, and chipped dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 1950. First edition. 8vo, 256 pages, illustrated. Publisher's light tan/ mustard cloth lettered & decorated in brown on the spine & front cover, with pictorial endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket.
Two corners slightly bruised, otherwise Near Fine in Good or better dust jacket, faded at the spine, lightly soiled, with edge wear including short tears & small losses.
"Elf was a tomboy English girl growing up in India. This is not only the story of her misunderstandings with her father and of their final hard-won friendship, but also a fascinating tale of life close to the jungle."~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
"A richly conceived portrait of India, loved and understood as a home, but distorted by a British colonial point of view - further weakened by the perspective of a spoiled child of eight." ~Kirkus Reviews.

 New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1967). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1967) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by the author on the title page Octavo (825" x 575"), 199 pages plus 4 leaves of plates, with double-page map Publisher's black lettered orange cloth, in pictorial dust jacket Laid in is an illustrated note card & envelope with message in ink from Davis to a friend Dornbusch/ Military Bibliography of the Civil War IV: 1293Front cover slightly splayed, trace of shelf wear, otherwise very good or better in like dust jacket, faded at the spine, lightly soiled, with a couple of nicks & a short closed tearJulia Davis (1900 - 1993) was born & spent most of her life in West Virginia She was the first author from the state to win a Newbery Honor Award Specializing in historical & biographical fiction, much of her writing relates to the history of West Virginia and, in some cases, her family's role in that history She also wrote a biography of Stonewall Jackson & The… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1962) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink on the half-title page by the author. 8vo, 191 pp, with 3 maps by Jean Paul Tremblay. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in maroon on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Margins & spine of the covers lightly sunned, trace of foxing at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled dust jacket with a trace of edge wear.Julia Davis also wrote The Shenandoah in the Rivers of America series "An account of the little-known Doniphan's Expedition of the Mexican War Reconstructed from diaries, the adventures and accomplishments of one thousand men from Missouri, The First Missouri are recounted Hunger, thirst, cold, heat and distance were their worst enemies They had no supply line and little communication from their government yet they secured the southwest for their country." ~Abstract, OCLC

Jakarta: Ceramic Society of Indonesia, (1980) First edition, one of 1000 copies. Small folio, [12], 221, [1] pp, profusely illustrated in color, corrigenda slip tipped to the last leaf. Publisher's gilt-lettered black "artpaper coated with plastic" over boards, in pictorial dust jacket & matching slipcase. Text in Indonesian & English. Slight bruise on the bottom edge of the front cover, otherwise fine in very good or better dust jacket with a some rippling in the lamination, in lightly rubbed slipcase Adam Malik was a politician, diplomat, and journalist, who served as the 3rd Vice President of Indonesia "This catalogue is devoted to antique foreign ceramics in the Adam Malik collection This is a section of a large collection numbering over one thousand pieces of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, and European ceramic wares." ~Excerpted from the Preface

Bethany Beach, Delaware: Published by Harold E. Dukes, (2000). First edition. Quarto (11.25 x 9"), 256 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good dust jacket with brief edge wear including a half-inch closed tear & a couple of nicks.
"Nearly two years of research unearthed the more than 500 photos that bring the fascinating history of Rehoboth Beach to life for the first time in visual and verbal detail. It's a book you'll find fascinating, educational ... and memorable." ~excerpted from the dust jacket.

[New York]: Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices," [1864]. First edition. 8vo, [3] - 10 pp. (as issued). Self wraps, removed. Text in two columns. Light edge wear along the folded side, small loss just touching text affecting pp. 5/6, otherwise Very Good. A supporter of George McClellan, Ticknor writes in part: "No more awful spectacle can be contemplated than that of a great, powerful and energetic nation, who have no rule of action but the rule of a written Constitution, and who have lost their fidelity to its requirements. We have been so situated through three whole years of Civil War, that it has been in the power of extreme and violent men to denounce a pure and high regard for the limitations of our fundamental law as treason to the Union ..." The author, who was co-counsel for Dred Scott, concludes his essay with a series of "Mottoes fot the Campaign" selected from the writings of McClellan.

New York: Book Collectors Society, by arrangement with Thames & Hudson, no date (ca. 1953). Limited to 250 copies, this unnumbered & out of series. 8vo, x & 350 pp, indexed, Illustrated by numerous photogravure plates & line drawings. Publisher's full pebbled brown morocco lettered in gilt on spine, with pink satin marker sewn in.
Lightly rubbed, brief wear at corners, gift inscription at title page, front hinge cracking, otherwise very good.
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, is highly regarded as the mother of avant-garde film making She visited Haiti between 1947 and 1954 funded by a Guggenheim fellowship where she wrote Divine Horsemen and filmed what would become a posthumously released documentary of the same name.

New York: Privately printed by the Derrydale Press, 1927. Complete in 7 variously paginated & profusely illustrated tall octavo volumes. Limited edition, an assembled set, volume one number 440 of 500, the others number 435. Original green cloth with pairs of gilt-lettered black leather spine labels on each volume, the upper covers with armorial crests in gilt. Volume one with large, lithographed "by the name of Howe" bookplate at the front blank. Partially unopened.
This set signed by illustrator & author Edith Somerville at the half-title page of volume one. Tipped to the verso is an autograph letter signed from Somerville to Harry Worcester Smith on "Drishane House" letterhead (2 pp, approximately 236 words recorded in purple ink recto & verso). Responding to a letter from Harry Worcester Smith, founder of the Masters of Foxhounds Association in America, Ms Somerville replies on July 6, 1928 She indicates that she is supplying sketches at his request which are "re-drawn little subjects from my… Read More

New York: Park Lane, (1967), reprint ca. 1975 Quarto (12.25" x 10.25"), 277 & [7] pages, profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Gilt lettered light brown cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.Slight foxing at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with a trace of edge wear "Rodin's career as a sculptor spanned a period of fifty years, and although he has been judged the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, until now no book has done justice to the scope of his genius." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Santa Cruz: Kayak Books, (1971). First edition, one of 1200 copies, this inscribed & signed by Benedikt ("Michael") on the first blank page & in full on the title page.. 8vo, 38 & [1] pp. including 6 color plates. Publisher's pictorial stiff paper wraps.
Trace edge wear, lightly soiled, hint of darkening in the upper margin, otherwise Fine.
Presents an interesting assortment of French Surrealist poet Robert Desnos' work. Desnos, a member of the French Resistance during World War II, was deported to Auschwitz, then Buchenwald, and eventually Terezнn where he died of typhoid a month after liberation. Translator Michael Benedikt, a noted poet in his own right who also supplies the Introduction, describes this copy in his presentation inscription as the "official version." Throughout, he adds manuscript corrections, notes, and additional lines of verse.

No place [Columbia, South Carolina]: no publisher [the author ?], no date [1973 ?]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Devereux at the ffep. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), viii & 125 pages, illustrated. Original tan cloth lettered & decorated in black in dust jacket which replicates the binding.
A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket, moderately browned at the spine, toned & soiled, with brief edge wear including a tiny loss at the top of the spine & a short closed tear.
This issue with no publishing information which we believe precedes the edition published by the State Printing Company of Columbia, S.C. in 1973.
"My aim is to write a biography of two owners of Hagley Plantation in Georgetown County ... I will mainly put into this writing facts that are illustrative of the strengths and weaknesses of a great antebellum Southern agrarian civilization ..." ~Excerpted from the author's preface.

London: Printed for private circulation (by Unwin Brothers), 1867. First edition, this copy signed ("with the thanks of the author"), & dated in the year of publication on the title page. 16mo, [1-2], 2 (ie 3), & 4-56 pages. Modern green cloth backed in black morocco lettered in gilt on the spine.
Internally lightly foxed & toned, with several light pencilled check marks throughout the text, otherwise Very Good in Fine modern binding.
William Frederick Rock was the founder of Rock & Co, who published steel-engraved vignette views in the form of cards, fancy stationery, books & booklets He also founded the Barnstaple Literary and Scientific Institution & the North Devon Athenaeum. As stated in the introduction to the glossary (pp 39-56), "the chief object of the foregoing story is to interweave every provincial word known to the author."William Frederick Rock was the founder of Rock & Co., who published steel-engraved vignette views in the form of cards, fancy stationery, books & booklets He also… Read More

Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press/ University Press of New England, (1990). First edition (softcover issue, simultaneous with the hardcover), this copy inscribed & signed by Dickey in ink at the half-title page. Octavo (9" x 7"), 66 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial card covers.
Brief wear & shallow creasing at corners, otherwise very good.
A title in the Wesleyan Poetry series & the last book by Dickey published in his lifetime. Features poignant poetry from the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate & author of Deliverance.
"- to Jules/ from Jim -/ at the beginning -/ from/ James Dickey/ (also!).
"Jules" is almost certainly Jules Bacon, a bodybuilder & Mr. America of 1943, who was nominally the subject of an unfinished poem by Dickey entitled "For Jules Bacon."

Washington, D.C.: The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 1894. Original die cut calendar measuring approximately 13.75 inches by 10 inches printed in color on card stock.
Removed from a scrapbook. Brief remnants of adhesive & a ring stain on the verso, lightly stained, modest edge wear including a couple of nicks & short tears, a bit curled, otherwise very good.
Presents the front page of the newspaper for November 23, 1894 surrounded by the months of the year, each with a little girl in color outfitted to match the month. This stunning calendar was probably issued as a premium for subscribers.
The Evening Star was the paper of record for Washington, D.C. for much of the time between 1852 & 1981.

[New York]: "Sold in theatres showing "Gone With the Wind" and may be purchased from Ellison B. Greenstone," no date (circa 1939). First edition. Original movie program in pictorial, stapled light card covers measuring approximately 12 inches by 9 inches with 18 pages plus covers, illustrated throughout in color & black & white.
Small scuff briefly affecting the portrait of Ann Rutherford on the rear cover, slightly soiled & toned, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
A unusually nice copy of the "Southern" edition of this movie program which omits a portrait of African American Hattie McDaniel on the back cover. Her image, which appears on the "Northern" edition, was left off this version at the suggestion of consultant Legare Davis, the Advertising Manager for Atlanta Gas Light. Ms. McDaniel and other African American cast members did not attend the premier due to the State of Georgia's Jim Crow laws which prohibited them from sitting with their white colleagues. Thereafter, McDaniel was awarded an… Read More

London: Published by J. Francis, printed by James Holmes, 51 issues bound in gilt-lettered one quarter calf & plum cloth, numbers 271 to 322, January 5 to December 28, 1833. Quarto (11" x 9"), 904 & viii pages (continously paginated), with illustrated title page & 4 small illustrations at page 764. Text in three columns.
Binding lightly rubbed, spine faded, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
An early volume of this auspicious journal which was published continuously from 1828 to 1921.

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary refers." Publisher's light brown cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind.
Binding soiled, spine cocked, small splits at the joints, corners bruised, minor foxing, otherwise about good & still quite useful.
The author notes in his preface that he has "introduced into this work some descriptions of local custums, sports, and pastimes, which may tend to rescue from oblivion these fast-perishing relics of a bygone period."

Los Angeles, California: Rohman Publications, (1982) First edition Quarto (11" x 8.5"), viii & 200 pages, profusely illustrated mostly from photographs. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards in plastic comb binding.
Plastic comb partially broken (still secure), slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, brief offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good.
"An important new book for both novice and veteran - for judge and dog fanciers of all breeds …" ~Excerpted from the rear cover.