Search Results: Titles starting with D from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Safari Press, 2015 Complete with original, matching light blue cloth slipcase. Copy 18/1,000, signed and limited.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

LONDON Chatto & Windus, 1938 1st Edition. [5], 587 printed pages. Very small stain on fore-edge of text block. 15 x 21.5 cm. Original black cloth with white lettering on spine (in unusually good condition). Original photographic dustwrapper by Schall of Paris, with old clear tape along top & bottom. Some light shelf wear to an otherwise good dust jacket. This is Celine's brilliant follow up to his Journey To the End of Night that together were his principal works and are among the masterpieces & greatest novels of the twentieth century, full of existential narrative and experimental language, a forerunner and an equal to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1943 Title page, [2, one bllank], 100 printed pages. 100 full-page duotone cartoon illustrations with printed captions. Plain endpapers. 22 x 28.5 cm. Original brown cloth with blue lettering along spine & on upper cover. 2.5 cm portion torn & missing from the foot of the spine. Hinges split, corners bumped, cloth worn and slightly stained. Spine faded and worn. Original colour dustwrapper front and rear panels separated with the spine and inner flaps missing, & remaining portions slightly worn with some marginal closed tears and handling wear. The binding is now slightly loose. This is a first UK edition of the first anthology of drawings of the enormously popular Addams family series whose author died in 1988. Only a few of the cartoons feature the Addams Family, while others reflect the wartime conditions. During World War II, Addams served at the Signal Corps Photographic Center in New York, where he made animated training films for the U.S. Army. In late 1942,… Read More

Religious Tract Society., 1870 40th edition. [124, unnumbered] printed pages. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper. All edges gilt. Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, London. Original yellow endpapers (slight staining). 54 x 68 mm. Contemporary blind stamped and gilt titled blue cloth. Decorative brass clasp & edges (very slightly rubbed). Provenance: James Maden Holt (1829-1911), for 12 years Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Lancashire -in opposition, under Disraeli-, to Margaret Jane Peel (from the marriage of Ann Jane Steers and William Peel there were several sons and two twin daughters. The elder twin, Margaret Jane Peel, married the Rev. Weston Brocklesby Davis, Vicar of Ramsbury, Wilts, I5th April, 1857, and their daughter, Margaret, married Colonel Chaloner, sometime Member of Parliament for the Abercromby Division of Liverpool, and now Lord Gisborough of Cleveland) on July 29th 1870. This is a very simiar publication to Small Rain Upon the Tender Herb… Read More

n.p., 1840 224 printed pages. Slight damage and small hole in title page. Lacks front free endpaper. Leaves evenly age-toned. 35 x 53 mm. Contemporary black roan. All edges gilt. This is a miniature edition of the original moral tale that was later followed by sequels, The Dairyman's Cottage and The Conversion of the Dairyman's Daughter. It had a remarkably wide distribution and influence. It was a narrative of the true experience of Elizabeth Wallbridge, who was the person after whom the book was named. Elizabeth Wallbridge was born, lived and died in the Parish of Arreton, Isle of Wight, England. Her parents although worthy were of the lowly ranks of the poor, and their children were put to service at an early age. The author of the narrative was Rev. Legh Richmond, a religious writer of the period, who was the curate of the neighbouring parish of Brading. According to the account in the book, Miss Wallbridge's life until the age of 26 was of the most worldly character. Never immoral,… Read More

Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture, 1995 282 x220. 36 unnumbered pages, plus eight large folding plans. Diagrams and images throughout. Original buff covers, spiral bound with orange lettered label torn to open access to the inside. Edition of 35, this is copy number 26. Several minor pencil corrections to text errors. This is the Rem Koolhaas/OMA final proposal to convert Bankside power station into Tate Modern. In July 1994 an international competition launched to find an architect to redesign the Bankside Power Station into a gallery of modern art for the Tate. By November, 148 entrants had been reduced to a shortlist of 6: David Chipperfield; OMA/Rem Koolhaas; Renzo Piano; Tadao Ando; Herzog & de Meuron and Jose Rafael Moneo. In January 1995, Herzog & de Meuron won the competition. OMA probably supplied a copy of this to each of their 7 partners, to 13 more individuals listed in the credits at the back, Davis Langdon & Everest (3 partners) and Richard Gluckman… Read More

Stoke Newington Borough Council, 1960 40 printed pages, contains a detailed bibliographic catalogue of 221 of Defoe's Collected and Single works by date, & works on Defoe and his writings by subject. The remaining 159 exhibits in the catalogue provided a visual context to Defoe's works from the South Sea Bubble to Defoe's tombstone.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Verlag der Bücherkreis, Berlin, 1930 Original half cloth, 8vo, 216 pp. including 4 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. Black/white illustrations. German text. Book design by Jan Tschichold. Covers discoloured. With architects like Hugo Häring, Ludwig Hilbeseimer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Martin Mächler, this book of socialist building, housing shortage, new technology, new architecture, and urbanism from socialist perspective was published in 1930 under the pseudonym "Albert Sigrist". Sigrist was the pseudonym for Alexander Schwab (5 July 1887 - 12 November 1943), a German political activist who withdrew from active participation in politics after resigning from the fractious and short-lived Communist Workers' Party he founded ("Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands" / KAPD) in 1922, but continued his contribution as an independent left of centre commentator-journalist. During the twelve Nazi years he was arrested at least twice, spending the… Read More

346 pages printed in Latin on blue tinted paper. Engraved frontispiece after J.M.Moreau, engraved by N. le Mire. 6-point type by Fournier le jeune. Each page, even the blank versos of the half and full title pages, set within elegant decorative typographical borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. 65 x 90mm. Contemporary ruby morocco; spine in hand decorated gilt compartments with five gilt raised bands, author and title in gilt within double fillet gilt borders (head and tail slightly rubbed; hinges slightly cracked); wonderfully patinated boards with triple gilt fillet borders and floral pointille cornerpieces (corners a little worn). This is a significant eighteenth-century miniature book, due to Pierre Simon Fournier's typeface typesetting within generous margins. Nauroy, 35. Spielmann, 94. Welsh, 1896.

London : H.F. Lynch & Co., 1914 Decorated red & black half title page. Title printed in red & black. 102 printed pages. 20 duotone plates. Top edges gilt. Foredge uncut. Endpapers in grey, with neat ownership stamps (one on front free endpaper, the other on the rear free endpaper) for "L.B. Goldstein. 92 Brick Lane, London E.1. Chartered Accountants". Red greek revival style head and tail pieces. 15.5 x 23 cm. Original grey cloth. Gilt lettering along spine, somewhat age-toned. Upper cover with gilt lettering on blue cloth panel with embossed gilt border. Bevelled edges. Covers richly patinated with handling. Highly amusing but technically exacting problems of inheritance taxation in 30 various situations, from a Justice of the Peace with a wooden leg, a Pig breeder whose prize sow died shortly after her owner, a man dying from a dog bite and a Curate marrying an heiress. Serious educational & accountancy problems but with a funny and memorable twist in each case. Reed… Read More

editions techniques et architecture, 1949 Original brown cloth, slightly worn, corners slightly bumped.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Progress Publishers, Moscow., 1981 Translated by S. Syrovatkin from 1974 Russian first edition. Withdrawn from University Library with stamps on blank front paste-down end-paper, verso of title page, upper margin of page 3 and on blank space at end of text on page 269- text unaffected throughout. 272 pages. 135 x 210mm. Blue cloth with blind embossed design "Dfd=Dfn" on upper cover. Spine very slightly marked near bottom from removal of shelf label.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Padova: Li Fratelli Conzatti e Compagno, 1802 viii, 116; xi, [1], 84 printed pages. One copper engraved folding plate. Small, marginal, red ink library stamp on title page and page 19. "7406" and "BV" unobtrusively stamped in margins of title page and page iii & v. Two short marginal tears to title page of volume two. Very small marginal wormhole in final two leaves (one blank, not affecting any text). Some sporadic very light foxing. 15.5 x 23 cm. Contemporary mottled calf spine with gilt fillets, contrasting gilt lettered leather label. Later paper library shelf label below. Marbled paper covered boards. Corners very slightly bumped. Later paper library shelf label below. Provenance: sold by Collegio Universitario Antonianum - Padova to Antiquariato Librario Bado e Mart s.a.s. and then to a private UK collector (copy of 2015 Italian antique export license available). Established in 1222, the University of Padua (Padova in Italian) is the second oldest university in Italy,… Read More

Circa 1840. [128] printed pages + 2 pages of publisher's advers at end. Contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Leaves A8 and D8-E1 damaged on outer edge effecting text. All edges gilt. 30 x 50mm. Original red cloth (somewhat rubbed); gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. Bible quotations for every day of the year. One of the Diamond Series of Petter's miniature imprints. Later published by C.Duff circa 1850. Bondy, 130. Spielmann, 123. Welsh, 2335. WorldCat locates just seven copies worldwide.

Circa 1840. [128] printed pages. Contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Leaves A8 and D8-E1 damaged on outer edge effecting text. All edges gilt. 30 x 50mm. Original red cloth (somewhat rubbed); gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. Bible quotations for every day of the year. One of the Diamond Series of Petter's miniature imprints. Later published by C.Duff circa 1850. Bondy, 130. Spielmann, 123. Welsh, 2335. WorldCat locates just seven copies worldwide.

Edward Moxon, 1847 viii, 587 printed pages, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, full diced calf, spine in compartments with git decoration slightly rubbed, raised bands and gilt ruled edges. From Pull Court Library, with library label on front paste down endpaper and blind embossed stamp on title page. Together with heraldic bookplate of William Dowdeswell of Pull Court, Worcestershire, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1920 32.5: 24 cm. 52, (6) pages, number 71 of 250 numbered copies of the limited special edition on heavy hand made paper (total circulation 260). In German- Signed by the author. - Glassine dustwrapper has tears, damage to the edges, slight creases and a little stained. The Plague is Hasenclever's 2nd screenplay & the first film text that was printed in book form. One of a small number of Expressionist plays that was adapted for cinema. Die Pest is divided into 151 film scenes; it implies camera distance and employs the montage technique used a few years later by Mayer and by Eisenstein. It is a sci-fi dystopia set in 2000 about a united European Union, where poverty has been solved through nutritional advances. However deadly disease spreads from cruise liners to spread rapidly through the world population. A mad rush to discover the vaccine includes a banker trying to cash in on the situation. A number of other scenes of montage focus on the pandemic, the increasing… Read More

Academy Books, San Diego, California, 1975 91 pages and 1 page invitation to Essene Workshop and Seminar and publishers listing on inside rear cover. Illustrated throughout. Spine somewhat dulled and minor crease in top of the lower cover and last 30 pages.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

No date but 1788. 94 printed pages with printed twin black borders, 8 finely engraved plates with accompanying engraved titles and texts facing (lacking leaf A1 additional engraved titlepage,reading: Recueil de chansons des meilleurs auteurs, etc). Contemporary ink stamp to title-page. Bound with Le Secretaire des Dames et des Messieurs, same publisher, 48 printed pages on blue tinted paper, with similar borders and with some blank spaces for notes. Also bound with 12 page calendar at end. Bookseller's antique printed descriptions pasted to blank preliminary & frontispiece verso. Contemporary cornflower blue silk place-marker. Leather gilt stamped heraldic label of Sir David Lionel Salomons + similar label of Edward Hailstone on contemporary blue front endpapers. Imprint size 2.1 x 3.8 inches; binding 2.6 x 4.5 inches. Contemporary ruby red morocco binding (very slightly rubbed & corners very slightly bumped). Spine in compartments with scrolling gilt floral hand-tooling within double fillet and… Read More

128 printed pages. Attributed to Thomas Sherman in Halkett & Laing. Preface signed: Christopher Perin. Two hymns. Charles Sutton (1765-1829) and his son Richard (1789-1856), both printers and proprietors of the liberal Nottingham Review. Charles Sutton was imprisoned for a year in Northampton County Gaol for political libel in criticising in the Review the conduct of British troops during the war with the U.S.A. Both father and son were Methodist lay preachers and members of Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. Their business premises were at the corner of Bridlesmith Gate and Bottle Lane, Nottingham, where they lived for a number of years. Lacks front free endpaper. Small smudge and thumbing to title page. Contemporary ink inscriptions on endpapers. Provenance: James and then Mary Pyke of Baythorn[e] Park. James Tweed Pyke (1815-78) the third son, one of three, of George Pyke and Mary Surtees was born at "Baythorne Park", Essex, in 1815. In 1832 he & his brothers migrated to Tasmania, on… Read More