Search Results: Authors starting with D from Collectible Books

1. 1819 First American Edition. Title continues...and an Account of the Chief Prophecies that Relate to Him: Represented in a Way of Question and Answer. Illustrated with Various Remarks on the History and the Religion of the Patriarchs, Jews and Christians, and on the Laws, Government, Sects, Customs and Writings of the Jews.""; By I. Watts, D.D. Published by Charles Ewer, Cornhill. Full leather. Gilt to black label and compartment lines. 5"" x 7"" xii (preface), xiii (contents) + 292 pages. Joints, binding and hinges intact. Age discoloration and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper has faint penciled name and date, and is partially detached. Rear endpaper also contains faint pencil notation.

1. Title continues, ""...by Benjamin Smith (Frank Davis) Fifteen Years an Outlaw"". Copyright 1935 By Benjamin Smith (Frank Davis) Joplin, Missouri. Foreword by Willard L. Butts and R.A. Pearson. First Edition. No dj as issued. Six Guns 2043. Pebbled blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering, stamped border on cover. 123 pages. Contains frontis photo portrait of author at age nineteen with another photo at the back, showing his first meeting after release from prison by Governor Park in Joplin. Experiences in the Oklahoma Indian territory, in the Ozarks of Missouri, California and elsewhere; including accounts of prison escape, murder, Cherokee encounters, evangelism, mining and more. Tiniest wear to spine and corner tips. Previous owners name inside front cover and first endpaper. Otherwise clean, bright, tight and unmarked.

1. First edition. First printing. 606pp. + maps note + bio note. Book is clean, bright and tight. Sturdy binding. Pictorial dust jacket has 1""; closed tear at center of spine bottom, 1/8"" corner tear to top back corner, lightly rubbed. Map pastedowns and endpapers.

1. First edition, first printing. Book appears as new but for tiny nick under bottom board edge. Dustjacket is clean but has a couple of closed 1/4"" edgetears.

1. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Ilustrated. 250 Pages; William Morrow and Company; NY; 1978; Fine/Near Fine. Dustjacket has faint fade on edges of flaps, and faintly rubbed panels. Bookplate on the fep. Appears unread, and very clean, tight and bright.

1. First printing. First edition. Unread, clean bright and tight. Small store sticker below John Gardner blurb on the back of the dustjacket with same $9.95 price as published on dj flap.

1. 1977 Knopf. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Binding tight. Pages clean, tight, bright and square. Appears unread. Unclipped dustjacket has a 2"" backtaped tear along the top front spine edge. Light tanning on and behind dj flaps and on pastedowns, likely from pastedown glue.

1. NY: Knopf, 1978. Stated First Edition. Very good dustjacket with faintly tanned edges, a couple under 1/16 inch microtears, and light surface scratch/rub with no color loss. Bookplate on fep; else clean, bright and tight. Appears unread.

1. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1972. Stated first printing. Black cloth with silver letters on spine and front. Dustjacket Very Good with lightened blue topstain and publisher $5.95 on flap. Very slight bump and rub overall; most noticeable at spine ends and corner tips. Book is clean, bright and tight. First edition of the author's second book

1. 1976 Stated first edition. Knopf. Dustjacket has NO tears or chips; only very light edge bump to spine ends, a faint surface scratch, and some edge fade. Book is clean, tight and bright.

1. First edition University of Georgia Press 1987. 135 pages including index. Dustjacket faintly bumped at spine top and one corner tip (it's a teeny bit longer than the book), and has creased front flap. Else like new, unread, clean, bright and tight.

1. Title continues, ...The Bible: a New Vision. # 2147 of the First Edition. 12.25 x 11.25 inches. Dust jacket has two hard-to-see archivally back taped tears 1/2"" and 1/8"" on the top front edge. Book is clean, bright and tight, but for spotted foxing on top and bottom edges of cloth covers.

Scarce SIGNED and dated by author on the half-title page. Excellent, but for faint surface rub to jacket. Copyright 2003. Published by Xlibris Corporation. ISBN: 141344251X. Author's life involving poverty on the Navajo Indian Reservation, Marine action in Vietnam, alcoholism, religious experience, and transformation.

1. FIRST EDITION 1967. 67 pages. The Ghost Dance of 1889 among the Pai Indians of Northwestern Arizona by Henry F. Dobyns and Robert C. Euler. Prescott College Press. Illustrated dj is edgeworn and backtaped along front edge of spine. Light blue/grey cloth covers with gilt letters on black spine. Clean and tightly bound. ""A Scholarly and exciting study of the post-conquest condition of the Wala-pai and Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon Region in the late nineteenth century.""

1. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author on the title page. First edition. Bluehen Books, Penguin Putnam. New York. Fine book in fine dustjacket.

1. Title continues ""...on the 3rd of May, 1814, While on a Missionary Voyage to the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. Interspersed with Numerous Reflections; and Concluding with An Abstract of His Writings and Character. BY SAMUEL DREW, OF ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL..NEW YORK; PUBLISHED BY J. SOULE AND T. MASON, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES..A. PAUL, PRINTER..1818.""; Frontis, xix, [1]-391 pp. 9 x 5.5 inches. 1st American ed. Original full leather. 6 panel spine w. gilt rules, and black leather label with embossed gilt letters. Light wear to edges and corners. Occasional very light foxing. Penciling and 1844 bookplate on front pastedown, owner's signature on following two endpapers. Else very clean, bright and tight. See Howes C-550.

1. First edition, second issue. Very Good+ condition. Embossed textured cloth. Slight spine lean. Clean, bright and tight. xi,131pp. Published by Inland American Printing. Complete with tissue guarded plates. . . . An autobiographical account of ranching, farming, mining, Pony Express riding, Indian fighting and more; by a pioneer who travelled from Missouri to California in 1854. Cited in Howes, Adams and Smith.

1. The Evolution of Chiropractic: Its Discovery and Development. By A. Aug. Dye, D.C. (Palmer Graduate 1912). First edition. 1939. Published by A. Aug. Dye, D.C. in Philadelphia, PA. 343 pages. 6.5"" x 9.25"". Edge torn and lightly soiled dustjacket. Bound in maroon cloth with clear gilt lettering on spine and cover. Pages exceptionally clean, bright and tight. From the Forward, dated July 1938, ""The story of Chiropractic... as an Art, Science and Philosophy, since its discovery by Daniel David Palmer...1895...to its present position..."". Dye worked with Palmer and was allowed access to his papers to insure accuracy. An excellent and thorough first Chiropractic history; defining it, detailing controversies, important pioneers, the school and establishments, medicine vs chiropractic, straight vs mixer, equipment, spinal analysis, treatment, adjustment, effects and more.

SIGNED by both author and illustrator. Mylar protected orange dustjacket with woodcut illustration on front. Black stapled wraps and map endpapers. ""Donkeying Through Seven States by Dyrus Cook. Decorated by Edith A. Roberts"" on dj front cover, repeated on title page with ""Privately Printed 1933"" and autographs of husband author and illustrator wife. Frontis photo of the couple walking with loaded donkey. 1st edition. Very Good condition with cracking to spine and front hinge paper. 53pp. About 20 small woodcuts throughout. Contains a narrative of their eight month Depression-era trip on foot thru New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia enroute from their home in Woodstock, New York to Southern Pines, North Carolina and return. . . and and Priority Mailed.