Search Results: Authors starting with D from Evening Star Books

New York: Viking (1992), 1992. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. Slim 8vo. [3], 4-24 pp. Quarter navy cloth over navy paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with in-text drawings by Quentin Blake.

New York: Viking (1990), 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Slim 8vo. [9], 10-78, [2] pp. Quarter orange cloth over pink paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. Illustrated with in-text and full-page drawings by Quentin Blake. A lovely copy.

New York: Harper & Row [1966], 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slim 4to. [6], 40, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over green paper boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text drawings by William Pene Du Bois. A handsome copy of an earlier printing (circa 1970) of Dahl's third book for children. Jacket shows a touch of edge wear, else Fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1987), 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Slim 8vo. [8], 9-61, [3] pp. Quarter navy cloth over red paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph, in-text, and full-page illustrations by Graham Dean. Published in honour of Roald Dahl's seventieth birthday. A Fine book in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with toning to the flaps.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. Small 8vo. [9], 3-210, [4] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A touch of sunning to spine panel and a crease to the rear flap.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [1975], 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 4-196, [4] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Blue endpapers and pasteodwns. Illustrated with in-text drawings by Jill Bennett. A nice copy of one of Dahl's most popular books. Gift inscription on the free front endpaper dated December 1975, else Fine in a price-clipped, but otherwise Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [12], 161, [3] pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board; brown topstain. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. Very Good or better book with minor fading to the spine in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of tiny areas of edge wear and some creasing to the rear flap.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1984), 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 13-160 pp. Quarter brown cloth over pale yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Endpapers and pastedowns illustrated with black and white photographs. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several in-text black and white photographs and drawings. Flaps somewhat toned, the spine panel lightly sunned.

London: Jonathan Cape (1990), 1990. First printing. Hardback. Very near Fine/Fine. Slim 8vo. [4], 5-62, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £6.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. A very near Fine book with a few tiny spots to the fore-edge in a Fine dust jacket.

Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], ix-xvi, [2], 3-283, [5] pp. Grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine; red topstain. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Published in cooperation with The Huntington Library, Dale recounts the history of U.S. and Native American relations (specifically relations with the indigenous people of what is now New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California). The missteps by the U.S. Government, and the ways in which Native Americans tried to retain their culture and way of life are recorded here, along with the state of affairs in mid-twentieth century Native communities. A Very Good book with offsetting to the pastedowns and minor yellowing to the fore-edge; dust jacket is Very Good and price-clipped with edge wear, some fading to the spine panel. Book and jacket have a moderate tobacco odor.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xxi, [5], 3-399, [1] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. A couple of tiny tears to the top edge of the jacket and a bit of age toning to the flaps.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-212, [4] pp. Blue paper boards with red decorations on the front board and spine, red and blue lettering blocked in purple and white on the front board and white. Price of $2.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Walter Goetz. Translated into English by Robin Farn. Light wear to the bottom edges of the boards, a touch of foxing to the endpapers; jacket with toning and traces of edge wear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 1-149, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Decorated grey endpapers and pastedowns. Published on the hundredth anniversary of Poincaré's birth. Part of the Twentieth Century Library series. A touch of foxing to the fore-edge, moderate toning to the pageblock; jacket is price-clipped and toned.

New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 1869. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Small 4to. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-192, [2] pp. Pebbled brown leather with two gilt rules on each board and a device stamped in gilt on each board, spine is in six compartments with gold lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a frontispiece, with several plates, and numerous in-text and full-page illustrations (eighty-eight illustrations in all). Second edition, published one year after the first. Darley's volume is composed of excerpts from letters written home concerning his travels around the states and Europe. His sketches illuminate the scenes described in his letters. The final page is a charming self-portrait in miniature, of Darley tipping his cap to the reader for their time. A whimsical collection of brief travel vignettes. Minor rubbing to the boards' edges.

[New York]: Westview Press [1998], 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-251, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the Dimensions of Philosophy series. A book that asks the basic questions in ethics. Some pencil underlining to the pageblock; jacket with light edge wear, especially to the spine panel.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [2], 2-458, [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with two black borders on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additions and corrections. A sharp example of a later edition of Darwin's monumental treatise on biology, forever changing the field. A touch of wear to the cloth, an 1877 name on the first blank leaf.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. [9], x-xxix, [4], 2-702 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering blocked in navy on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns with Darwin's family tree. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates, a full-page illustration, and with a few in-text drawings. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith. The first in a twenty-two volume series of Darwin's personal and scientific letters.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. [3], iv-v, [5], 2-374, [14] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red-orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers, pastedowns replaced, six new white endpapers in addition to the originals. Illustrated with seven heliotype plates (three folding), and with many full-page and in-text wood engravings. Freeman 1143. Garrison-Morton 4246. The first American edition of Darwin's landmark studies in human and animal psychology and physiology. An examination of the physiological and psychological causes of several core emotions in mammals. Darwin also examines the role of evolution in the expression and developement of emotions in different species of animals over geologic time. Recently rebacked with a piece of the original spine laid down; the first blank leaf and one plate loose but laid in, one plate with a tape repair to the gutter.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [2], 2-458, [2] pp. Orange-red cloth with decorations stamped in black on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with one folding plate. A new edition from the sixth English edition with additions and corrections. A nice example of a later edition of Darwin's monumental work on evolution, a revolutionary text in the field of biological sciences. Minor rubbing to the extremities and a few small pencil marginalia, a contemporary owner's name on the free front endpaper.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American edition. Hardcover. Good+. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 2-409, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [3], iv-v, [4], 2-436, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Orange-red cloth with black decorations on the boards and gold lettering on the spines. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. With several in-text illustrations. Freeman 129-131. Oxford DNB, Adrian Desmond, James Moore and Janet Browne, "Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882)". With the postscript in volume two, both versos of our title pages are blank. Both title pages dated 1871. These volumes contain the first appearance of the word evolution, and a verbal description of humanity's ancient ancestors, which was no doubt distrubing to Victorian sensibilities. Darwin painted human ancestors as hairy tree dwellers. The majority of the book however, focuses on sexual selection among other animal species. The first print run was very popular, selling 5000 copies… Read More