Search Results: Titles starting with D from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: Triangle Books, [1945]. 8vo. [6], 295, [1] pp. Blue cloth, black lettering (uniform interior toning as usual w/ wartime paper), w/ d.j. looming skull cover art (1 small closed tear), VG/VG copy. Early Triangle edition of this Doug Selby mystery.

[Secaucus, NJ]: Chartwell Books, [1990]. Folio. 80 pp. Double-page colour-illust. title, over 100 colour and blk & wht photos. Colour-illust. boards, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr), NF/VG. First edition of this installment in the Great Battles of WWII series.

New York: Doubleday, [2003]. 8vo. [12], 454 pp. Half-blk over blk boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. F/F. Later printing of this best selling suspense/mystery.

New York: R.F. Fenno & Co., [1914]. Small 4to. 89 pp., plus 5 pp. publ. ads. Colour frontisp., woodcut engraved plates. Colour-illustrated boards, cover art by Wisa (slight shelfwear, very slight bumping to couple corners), still NF copy, from the library of Charles Gray Martin, Jr. (1909-1951), Iowa architect & building designer, and World War II veteran. First edition, 4th printing, listing to Daddy Takes Us Coasting on verso of title, of this first title in the scarce Daddy series, by this prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate author, best remembered for his Uncle Wiggily, Tom Swift, and Bobbsey Twins series books.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]. 8vo. [8], 304 pp. plus 10 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp., photo plates, text illustrations. Green publisher’s cloth, blue lettering, photo-illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art photo of Janet Gaynor as Judy Abbott (slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy. First Janet Gaynor photoplay edition of this 1912 work, made from the stage play script and which starred Janet Gaynor who won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928, and as her benefactor Warner Baxter who won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in his portrayal of the Cisco Kid in Old Arizona.

London: Lane Publications, [ca. 1930]. Thick sml. 4to. 95 pp. Colour frntsp., colour-illust. title, numerous colour plates, 7 colour pop-up illustrations, including spectacular fold-out peacock, and a wonderful aquarium vignette. Colour-illust. boards (rubbing, minor darkening to spine, creasng, a couple of the pop-ups w/ minor damage), but still a VG- copy of this volume in the series. First edition of this beautiful installment in the wonderful Daily Express annual series which featured elaborate pop-up illustrations using the term “Self-erecting models,” as the term “Pop-Up” had been trademarked by Blue Ribbon in the United States for their very popular series. The most elaborate of the illustrations is a fantastic paper-engineered underwater scene, reminiscent of a Victorian Aquarium, featuring a glassine similar to glass, and depicting saltwater fish, seahorses, and invertebrates swimming around inside in the three-dimensional model, mounted on a seabed illustrations distinctively… Read More

[Portland, OR: Sunshine Division, Portland Police Bureau, 1931]. One large silver gelatin sepia-tinted panoramic photo, sized 34.75 x 8 in., text in lower part of image, excellent contrast (minor creasing, slight wear, minor spotting & toning in couple spots), still VG image with excellent contrast. This souvenir panoramic picnic photo was taken of the Sunshine Division volunteers at their charity shooting event in February, 1931. The image shows police officers, men and women in Jazz Age Dress, men in knickers and argyle socks, and several holding shotguns. Founded in 1922 by Portland City Mayor George Baker who had been forced to lay off 40 police officers due to the recession, he gathered volunteer civilians to serve in emergency situations. The group quickly became dubbed “George Baker’s Sunshine Boys” as they spread sunshine to the households they visited and left food and funds. together with the KGW radio variety show the “Hoot Owls” they solicited funds during a segment, or… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, [1990]. Folio. 397, [3] pp. Colour frntsp., 100s of colour illusts., photos. Colour-illust. boards, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First Omnibus edition of the famed social history classics Life in a Medieval Castle; Life in a Medieval City, and Life in a Medieval Village.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. 8vo. 324 pp. Frntsp., numerous plates. Black boards, silver & green lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF, from the library of the former Oregonian editor & reviewer, Malcolm Bauer. First edition in English of this very scarce social history of the Florentine Republic.

Olympia, WA: E.L. Boardman, 1912. 8vo. 95, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., 1 large folding table listing Dairy farms across Washington, numerous photo plates, diagrams, tables, 1 large folding colour map of Washington state. Yellow-coloured printed softcvrs, blk lettrng on frnt cvr, stapled as issued (mnr edgewear, pullng to rear endpaper frm staples, slght dmpstn at hd of spine), still G copy. First edition of this scarce and well-illustrated promotional work on the value of dairying, swine farming, and poultry raising in the state of Washington, with some sections on cattle, sheep, goats, and beekeeping.

[Cincinnati, OH: The Dalton Adding Machine Sales Co., 1922]. 4to. 48 pp. Numerous photo illustrations, text illustrations, diagrams, 1 printed in red & black. Illustrated tan softcovers, lavender-coloured borders, lozenge cover illust. of Dalton Super Model Machine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG bright copy. First edition of this uncommon promotional instruction manual and catalogue for the famed Dalton Adding Calculating Machine, Super Model -- considered to be the first ten key adding machine. Dalton (1866-1926) was a successful amateur mechanic and businessman who was brought into developing the first adding machine by William & Hubert Hopkins who desperately needed money to finance their manufacturing. They set up a company in 1902, but afterwards through some secret and possibly illegal business moves by Hopkins who secretly sold his stock to the Addograph Co., Dalton managed to buy control of all rights to produce and develop adding machines, and patented the invention by 1904. He… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., [c. 1919 (1929)]. 12mo. 319, [1] pp. Orange cloth, blk lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght tear at guttr mrgn of half-title, mnr bmpng to crnrs), VG-. Early printing of this adventure/mystery about the escaping daughter of an Earl.

New York: Gnome Press [1951]. 8vo. 381, [1] pp. Quarter-green cloth over gray boards, silver lettering (minor soiling to first few leaves fore-edges at one spot), w/ d.j. cover art by Edd Cartier (slight sunning to spine, very slight shelfwear), still VG/NF copy. First hardcover edition, stated, of one of John D. MacDonald’s early stories. This anthology also includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, A. Bertram Chandler, E.E. Doc Smith, and others.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1953]. 8vo. 250 pp. Numerous photo illusts., text illusts. Beige cloth, green lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, rubbng, price-clppd), VG/VG-. First edition of this excellent work on Balinese music and dance, by the former prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, who helped fight for Indonesian independence.

London: Scientific Book Club, [1965]. 8vo. 191, [1] pp. Blue ribbd boards, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art of shark swimming (mnr shlfwr), VG/VG. First SBC edition.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1953]. 8vo. xi, [1], 210 pp. Illustrated endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Dark green publisher’s cloth, silver lettering on spine (very slight interior toning, faint offsetting at gutter margins of endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art of Mayan and Viking warriors by Henry Enoch Sharp (minor creasing, edgwears, slight rubbing), still VG/VG bright copy. First edition, stated, of this Winston Science Fiction title, and Evan Hunter’s second book, perhaps best known for Blackboard Jungle (1954), and later the Ed McBain mysteries. Foreshadowing Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and possibly influenced by Verne & Wells, Hunter spins another tale of time travel, this time to the Jurassic period with a big game hunter, who smashes a jeep into the force field.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1953]. 8vo. [8], 209, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous illusts. by Louis Glanzman (some full page). Blue tweed boards, illustrated endpapers (very minor shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. (couple closed tears, minor creasing), VG/VG- copy. First edition, 1st printing of No. 2 in the Tom Corbett science fiction adventure series, based on the Radio & Television series. Listing to Danger in Deep Space on half-title, Rick Brant, Stairway to Danger, No. 9 on back cover of dustjacket.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, [c. 1922 (ca. 1935)]. 4to. [8], 308 pp. Frntsp. Gray cloth, blue & gilt lettrng, ruling & design on cvrs (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), w/ d.j. cover art by Daugherty (mnr edgewear, scuffng, rubbng), still VG/G copy. First Sun Dial edition of this excellent juvenile biography of Daniel Boone, and one title in the Young Moderns Book Shelf series.

New York: Rand McNally & Co., [1928]. 4to. 96 pp. Silhouette frntsp., silhouette illust. title, numerous colour and blk & wht illusts. Beige cloth, blue lettrng, colour plate mntd frnt cvr (sml clsd tears to a few leaves), VG-. First edition.

New York: Everest House Publishers, [1981]. 8vo. 400 pp. With numerous photo illustrations, text illustrations. Quarter-maroon publisher’s cloth over red boards, w/ d.j. (very slight crease to lower fore-edge back cover), still NF/NF copy. First edition, 1st printing ($ 13.95 price on front flap, RRD281 on copyright page), of this exceptional work examining the history, importance, and influence of horror in print, television, radio, film, and comics. Still considered a must-read for those interested in horror, science fiction, suspense, and supernatural media.