Search Results: Authors starting with D from Kama’aina Collection

New York : Gallery Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Various. None. None Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Smith, Jessie Willcox & Nielsen, Kay & Dulac, Edmund & Sowerby, Millicent & Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Short biographies of more than 50 of the artists whose talents helped to create the Golden Age. Large format, green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations throughout. Spine and corners are bumped and rubbed. Pale page edge browning. Very clean, pinholes along spine and inside gutter. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR Very clean

Paris : Librairie De L. Hachette Et Ce, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Gustave Dore. None. From the Italian De Pier-Angelo Floretino Librairie de L. Hachette et Ci'e, Paris 1862. Portfolio With 75 woodcut illustration plates by Gustave Doré with protective mat covers. From the First edition of the Doré edition of Dante's Inferno, but only with the brilliant woodcut illustrations. Dante's dark visions triggered Doré's imagination immensely. Cloth covered portfolio box. Illustrations plus two illustrations lists and title page. Illustrations are clean and bright. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London : T FISHER UNWIN, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. DANIEL VIERGE. None. None Contemporary Binding, brown leather spine over red marbles covers with black leather and gilt spine label. Professional slipcover included. Binding is tight and intact, tissue at front piece still in place. Pages are clean, illustrations are crisp and clean with no ghosting to the facing page. 110 bw drawings w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. Text in English. Translation of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas's original story; Illustrated by the Spanish-born French illustrator Daniel Vierge; Includes comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell, as well as an essay about the life and work of Quevedo-Villegas by Henry Edward Watts. Book I -- Giving an account of who he is and whence he sprung -- How I went to school, and what happened to me there -- How I went to a boarding school in quality of servant to Don Diego Coronel -- Of my convalescence, and departure for the University of Alcala de Henares -- Of our… Read More

Paris: La Societe Generale de Librairie, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. Signed William Barlun in Ink. None Large octavo. XXXI, [1], Full Black morocco with marbled end papers, with gold lettering on spine. Additional engraved title. Balzac originally has planned to produce 100 Droll Stories but produced just thirty, and they appeared ten at a time. The first ten in 1832; the second ten in 1833; and the third ten in 1837. The stories are set, in time, in the sixteenth century, and in place, in Balzac's well-loved Touraine. They recreate an era and an area; they present, altogether, a glowing, lust, gusty, brawling motion picture or series of motion pictures. While their main purpose is to amuse, the droll stories possess the subsidiary value of history, sociology, topography. It has been said of them, truthfully, that after reading them, one could almost find one's way about the towns and villages of Touraine unassisted by map or guide. Dore’s 425 striking illustrations in… Read More

London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. Owner’s Bookplate inside front cover. Into English, Compete And Unabridged by George R. Sims Half title, front., plates & illus. throughout. Untrimmed in orig. red cloth, spine & front board blocked & lettered in gilt & black, bevelled boards; This book is in fair+ condition, just a minor amount of rub on the spine, torn at the bottom. Minor worming on the back outside cover and side edge of spine; else bright red with gilt and black lettering and art work. Small work holes on back cover. The text is clean as are the illustrations. Only a few pages show some foxing. A good sound copy. Contes Drolatique, 1832-1837. First Edition of these translations, by George R. Sims. BL has the Chatto & Windus edition of the same year, which is, in fact, the genuine first English edition. The public outcry against these 'immoral' tales led Chatto & Windus to re-issue the sheets, with revised prelims, under the imprint of Hotten… Read More

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London: Grant & Co., 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gustave Dore . Bookplate for: Joel Remington Fithian. In Black Ink: To my Husband, Fannie Fithian, December 25th, 1878 Viviy. None Rebound with original covers and Leather 5 banded spine. Well done with 5 raised bands and gilt on leather. This book was originally owned by: Joel Adams Fithian, Major. It was a Christmas gift from his wife Frances Fannie Barrett Connolly. Major Joel Adams Fithian was a Union Army Officer and commanded the 24th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. At some point it entered into the collection of their son Joel Remington Fithian - notable military officer and land developer and one of the most influential inhabitants in Santa Barbara, California. Beautiful gilt and black cover design. Gilt on spine as well. Back cover illustrated with similar design in black. Gilt on 3 page edges, tight binding. Foxed pages throughout. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos… Read More

Paris: Librairie Plon & Nourrit, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. None. None 8.5 x 12.5 x 1 inches volume. Paperback book bound into a hard cover. Original paper spine in bound into one of the last pages of this book. Preface by Mr. Gabriel Hanotaux - 95 portraits of personalities, deputies, municipalities, the judiciary - good condition decorated with a figure. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gustave Dore. None. None 13.75 x 11.5 x .5 inches volume. Rebound using the original covers. Pages are in very good condition. Some illustrations have ghosted the opposite pages. A very good presentation of this rare book. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Good/Fair. None. None Hard to find book, Some foxing on front and back pages. 11x8.5x0.5 Inches. Text is unmarked and pages crisp. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. No tears, some foxing on the back cover reverse. 3 holes in spine. Still crisp and shiny

Cambridge, MA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Charles E Brock. Book plate for Frances Dobbins. This is book two of a two book series. Clean crisp pages, covers are green cloth in excellent condition with gilt on covers and spine. Pages are clean and bright. Covers are green with bright gold gilt in covers and spine. Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 3rd edition in a format not dissimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by Charles E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown; a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in luster; certainly good Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free… Read More

Cambridge, MA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Charles E Brock. Book plate for Frances Dobbins. This is Volume 1 of a two book series. This book has toning in the gutter area top and bottom. Looks like moisture from the original glue used in manufacture. Otherwise pages are clean and bright. Covers are green with bright gold gilt in covers and spine. Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 3rd edition in a format not dissimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by Charles E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown; a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in luster; certainly good Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh… Read More

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London: HARPER AND BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. In Blue Ink: William S. Schwart, Chicago. A collection of illustrations and tales forming A Legend of Camelot by George Du Maurier. All poems, pictures and features to this work originally appeared in the pages of Punch with the exception of A Lost Illusion which was printed for private circulation. This is a first thus. George Du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist. He was the grandfather of novelist Dame Daphne Du Maurier and the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired J M Barrie's Peter Pan. -Some paper loss on the upper corner of back cover board. Endpaper splitting at front and back cover gutter. Some edge darkening to pages. Tight clean binding. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

Paris: Libraries Du Magasin Pittoresque, 1862. Delux First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Gustave Dore. None. None Delux Edition, in French, printed in Paris, 24 1/8 inches tall x 16 1/2 inches x 1/2 inches. Heavily foxed, replaced endpapers. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. WINLR

THE CENTURY CO., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. TIMOTHY COLE. None. 4to. 28cm, VG. Green/brown cloth highly decorated in gilt to front, rear and spine. Covers slightly bumped at corners with small cloth tear at the base of spine. Binding strong. Front pastedown has small ownership initials. Endpapers browned. xxi, 282p., frontis, 66 black & white plates. Contents clean and bright. Timothy Cole (1852 17 May 1931) was an American wood engraver. He immediately attracted attention by his unusual facility and his sympathetic interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the European galleries. These achieved for him a brilliant success. His reproductions of Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Flemish and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself. Title page is loose. Minor bug tunneling inside front and back cover. Some darkening of page edges commiserate with… Read More