Search Results: Authors starting with D from Alba's Books

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Diagrams. A groundbreaking work on the neurone by the Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society. Original aquamarine gilt cloth. A clean, unmarked copy. Uncommon.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Graphs and charts. Original blue gilt cloth with gilt title on front and with date on title page. Noted American neurologist Dr. Jack Buel's copy with his signature and sporadic pencil notes on margins. A notable work on the subject which became the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation Lecture for its year. Clean, bright and free of wear. Scarce.

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Out of print.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Original $4.00 price on the flap and ""First Edition"" stated on copyright page. The gray cloth cover boasts gold embossing of the title, author, and publisher on the spine, with mild fading. The jacket exhibits two inconspicuous nicks on the spine, reinforced with interior archival tissue, and a quarter-inch gently closed tear on the top edge of the front jacket panel. Condition is tight and crisp overall, and both the jacket and the book are clean and bright and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. A must-have for collectors of Salinger's timeless prose. 201 pages.

London: Agora Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photo frontispiece. A limited edition of the definitive text of Ouspensky's Psychological and cosmological lectures, 1934-1945, limited to 2500 copies. A pristine copy in a thick Mylar dust jacket.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Very good. Excellent essays on the history of medicine, including ""Dickens' Doctors"" and ""The Old Jefferson Hospital."" Illustrated with engravings. Binding is cloth boards.

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1837. First Thus - Primera. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo. Wood Engraving. En Italiano - in Italian. Legatura coeva - Original quarter leather over marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Printed by hand in Milan, this was the standard edition used in Italy during the early part of the 19th Century. A very well preserved copy, tight, clean and unmarked. Very rare.

New York: George Brazilier, 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Leonardo Da Vinci. Definitive edition in one volume edited and with an introduction by Edward McCurry. A clean, unmarked copy in a fine dust jacket. Archival Mylar jacket cover included.

New York: Dover Publications, 1950. New & Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. In Mylar cover. With new preface by author. Out of print classic. Binding is cloth boards.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Graham Dean. A superb copy, unclipped and unmarked.

Viking, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

The Viking Press, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Patrick Benson. In a Mylar dj cover. A very nice copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. John Lawrence linocuts. Has all the first issue points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Viking, 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Quentin Blake. Has all the first edition points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected by the Mylar plastic dust jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Quentin Blake. The first edition illustrated by Blake with the '1' in a number line. Engaging children's story of a boy doctor by the author of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, in the same style. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is unclipped and fine but for a tiny chip at the spine corner of the rear panel and a couple of bottom edge nicks. till an attractive, bright and clean jacket in the archival Mylar jacket cover.

London: Century, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Quentin Blake. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Paul Bacon. Original cream cloth spine over orange boards with $5.95 on flap and '1' in number line. An entirely fine, clean and whole copy save for a small 1/8"" chip at the top edge of front flap and a very slight narrow 1/2"" amber stain o the bottom of the jacket spine, not extending inwards. Protected by a Brodart jacket cover.

New York: Viking Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Roald Dahl. Fine as issued, in illustrated boards. Large quarto. 444 pages containing original essays, scarce pieces, and new discoveries, as well as famous works. Binding is boards.

Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Joseph Schindelman. Stated first edition. The sequel to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, featuring the popular Willy Wonka. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy free of fading and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.