Search Results: Authors starting with D from Neil Pearson Rare Books

London: Country Life, 1949. 8vo, pp. 176. original green boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Some foxing to preliminaries, corners bumped, spine split and its lettering very worn. Photographic author's portrait as frontispiece, photographs throughout text. 1950 reprint, first published in 1949. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HALF-TITLE: 'To David, Best Wishes Joe Davis'. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER BY SEVEN SNOOKER LEGENDS. The signatories are Sydney Lee, Rex Williams, John Pulman, Jackie Rea, Kingsley Kennerley, Alec Brown and Joe's brother Fred. An extraordinary collection of signatures, comprising almost the entire snooker pantheon of the 1950s.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1992. 8vo, pp. . Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. A fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition.

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1934. 8vo, pp. 54. Original cream boards. Spine label. Leading and lower edges uncut. Text a little age-toned, but a very good copy in a darkened dustwrapper, with two closed tears and some loss to rear panel, small chip to lower edge at front corner. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Iacovleff. First edition. One of 100 copies, this copy unnumbered. The only book by Isabel Maria Teresa Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Nadejda de Bragança, a descendant of the Portuguese royal family, who killed herself via a London hotel window in 1946 -- an entirely understandable reaction to having written these execrable poems. Of no literary value, the book is one of the scarcer titles issued by the Obelisk Press, the English-language Paris-based imprint responsible for publishing the early work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Anaïs Nin, among many others. Very scarce in dustwrapper. Pearson A-30

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918. 8vo, pp. 312. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Two small stamped names to front pastedown and ffep. ('Watab Pulp & Paper Co, Sartell, Minn.'). Small handwritten index number to ffep, the number repeated on a small labe affixed to spine. Folding map tipped in at pp. 160-61, with a resulting slight cracking to the signature. A bright, well-preserved copy in a spectacular dustwrapper with a little very slight edgewear but no tears or chips, and the colours beautifully bright. Illustrated with black and white photos and maps. First edition. 'Gunner Depew tells an amazing story of what he did -- what he saw -- what he endured -- in two years packed with fighting on land and sea.' A near fine copy in a spectacular (and possibly supplied) dustwrapper. Not a particularly rare book, except in this condition.

London: Faber and Faber 1991. 8vo, pp.241. Original black boards, lettered in white to spine. A little browning to the text block, consistent with most of the Faber output of this period, otherwise a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. First edition.

London: Faber & Faber, 1992. 8vo, pp.277. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition of the author's third Aurelio Zen title.

London: W.H. Allen, 1978. 8vo, pp. 126. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. Usual browning to cheap paper stock, corners a little bumped, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with just a little light edgewear, a couple of red ink marks to rear flap, and a small indentation to front panel near spine. Dust jacket illustration by Roy Knipe. First edition of this novelisation tie-in from the Tom Baker era. Terrance Dicks here adapts a story written by Terry Nation for the thirteenth series of the TV series; Dicks spent five years as the show's script editor. Scarce, and getting scarcer.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. 8vo, pp. 353. Original green stiff card wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine. Very light indentations to rear panel (see below), otherwise an absolutely fine, unread copy. First edition, first issue of the author's first novel, without the green border to title page, and with the earlier price ('Francs: 1.500') to rear panel. The Ginger Man had been rejected by upwards of thirty publishers on the grounds of obscenity before finding a home in Paris with Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, for whom its obscenity was its chief appeal. Donleavy was delighted to have found a publisher, and delighted to have found one who had recently published work by Beckett, Bataille and Genet. He was less delighted when The Ginger Man appeared in 1955, on a list including books called White Thighs, The Whip Angels, and The Sexual Life Of Robinson Crusoe -- all of which were advertised in the back of his book. Massive litigation and counter-litigation followed, conducted in a… Read More

Paris: Olympia, 1955. Small 8vo, pp.353. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine. Light edgewear, corners and spine ends a little worn, small pencilled ?price to front panel alongside author's name. About very good plus. First edition of the author's first novel. The Ginger Man had been rejected by upwards of thirty publishers on the grounds of obscenity before finding a home in Paris with Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, for whom its obscenity was its chief appeal. Donleavy was delighted to have found a publisher, and delighted to have found one who had recently published work by Beckett, Bataille and Genet. He was less delighted when The Ginger Man appeared in 1955, on a list including books called White Thighs, The Whip Angels, and The Sexual Life Of Robinson Crusoe -- all of which were advertised in the back of his book. Massive litigation and counter-litigation followed, conducted in a number of countries and over two decades, and when the dust finally… Read More

Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps, 1939. 8vo, pp. 229. Rebound in red boards lettered in gilt on spine, half-title, index and page of advertisements bound in. A fine copy preserved in a modern binding. 16 b&w heliogravures by Charles 'Herric' Hérouard placed throughout the text. Second edition. French text. No. 1316 of 2225 copies. Lesbian spanking novel from the stable of Jean Fort, the clandestine publisher of mostly sado-masochistic erotica. Fort was active in Paris throughout the period between the two World Wars; this work dates from the very end of his known publishing career. Whether he survived into the 1940s is uncertain, but no book bearing any of his known imprints appeared after 1939. As the title page shows, Fort distributed books bearing the Aux Galants Passe-Temps imprint from 79, Rue De Vaugirard -- the same address from which his better known Collection Des Orties Blanches had been issued a few years before. The identity of 'G. Donville' is unknown, but is believed also to have worked… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937. 8vo, pp. 288. Original light red boards, lettered in dark red to front panel and spine. Top edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown, but a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket worn at corners and spine ends. First edition of the author's second and last book. HUBIN, p. 124

N.p. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. 8vo, pp. 219. Original blue boards, paper label to spine. Top edge cut, others uncut. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Lacking the dustwrapper. Boards a little browned and marked, but a very good copy. Photographic frontispiece. First edition. One of 500 signed and numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and signed on limitation page: 'Soiled. N.D.'

Morro Bay: Java Books, 1977. 8vo, pp. 304. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Authors' bookplate to ffep.jh A fine copy in an all but fine dustwrapper with just the lightest of wear to spine ends. First edition, INSCRIBED BY DUFFY. With the authors' bookplate. 'This novel follows the life of a junkie and is told in his own words as he bares his soul to the reader. It is based on true facts.' (As opposed to the untrue kind). Novel by the former Warden of San Quentin prison and his partner, heavy on italics, exclamation marks and hysteria, and very light on style. Authors' own copy, which they seem to have given away. (Can't say I blame them...). Scarce.

London: Faber, 1969. 8vo, pp. 62. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Publisher's price label [£1.00] to foot of front flap. a fine, unread copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little sunning to rear panel and the lightest of wear to top edge. First edition of Dunn's first collection.

London: Faber, 1972. 8vo, pp. 72. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A fine, unread copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little sunning to spine, and with the lightest of wear to spine ends. First edition of Dunn's second collection of verse.

London: Faber, 1970. 8vo, pp. 283. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A little wear to spine ends, but a near fine copy in a like dustwrapper, slight production-fault raising to laminate on rear panel, and a little mild edgewear. First edition.