Search Results: Titles starting with D from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, [1970] First edition. 4to (11" x 8.5"), broadsheet, single sheet printed recto & verso on yellow paper.
A Fine uncirculated copy Provides the text of a speech delivered by Anselma Dell'Olio at the Congress to Unite Women on May 30, 1970. Ms. Dell'Olio explains her dissatisfaction & provides reasons for leaving the movement to "return to the hordes of women living out their lives in quiet desperation." The author, who founded the New Feminist Theater, poignantly warns that "rage, masquerading as a pseudo-egalitarian radicalism under the 'pro-woman' banner," was turning into "frighteningly vicious anti-intellectual fascism of the left." Quite uncommon, OCLC locates two copies of this edition & another three variants.

Johnstown, N.Y.: Charles B. Knox Co., Inc., (1915). Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.75"), 41 pages, illustrated in color. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps.
Lightly soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good or better.
The cover illustration features a white girl & an African American girl, each presenting a cake.
Presents recipes for jellies, cold desserts, frozen desserts, salads and savories, candies, and Invalid and convalescent recipes, all using Knox Gelatine. Additionbally includes "Hints for Serving."

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: [Olympia Press], Traveller's Companion Series number 19, no date (ca. 1960's ?). Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 171 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed light card covers.
Trace edge wear, minor internal toning, otherwise very good or better.
An erotic adventure which began with rape. The protagonist searches the jazz clubs & beat bars of New York in search of her violator from whom she wants revenge & more sex.
Author Owens wrote five erotic novels for Olympia, this a pirated edition quite probably actually published in London.

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, (1985). First edition, "Commemorative Copy for the Dear America Celebration, May 6, 1985." This copy signed in green ink by General William Childs Westmoreland on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), 316 pages including full page illustrations from photographs & endpaper maps. Publisher's gilt-lettered off white paper over boards backed in blue cloth lettered in red on the spine, in slipcase to which the program for the celebration is pasted (as issued) to the front panel (12 pages, stapled light card covers).
Binding soiled, spine lettering dull, corners bumped & rubbed, otherwise Good. The attached program has rusted staples, brief evidence of bio-predation, &minor foxing affecting the front cover, still Good or so. The slipcase is lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
"The New York Veterans Memorial Commission is pleased to present you with this commemorative copy of "Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam" to mark this very special occasion." 
~Quoted… Read More

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957} First edition, first state (with title page printed in blue, and "walking" for "waking" on page 80, line 1) Octavo (85" x 575"), 6 preliminary leaves, 3 - 339, & [1] pp Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver & decorated in pale green, in pictorial dust jacketMargins sunned, dust jacket titling faintly offset to upper cover, bottom corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper, small booksellers' label at rear pastedown, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with brief edge wear & rubbingPublished posthumously, Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize "On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly Dancing back and forth… Read More

[Washington]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1848. Single sheet uncut (18.5" x 12") folded forming 8 pp. Tattered including losses & tears in the margins (text unaffected), creased, foxed, & stained, good or so & still quite useful. "Relates particularly to expenses as superintendent of Indian Affairs for Michigan and neighboring territory" (Abstract, OCLC).

Columbus, Ohio: J. L. Stelzig & Co., 1861. First edition. 8vo (8" x 5.25"), [1], 2 - 8 pages. Printed paper self wraps, the lower cover with woodcut depiction of the Delaware Grape. OCLC locates one copy as of 7/24/2023 (Ohio History Center, accession # 35317536).
Folded once horizontally, moderately toned & soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good.
Provides a description of the grape, instructions for planting, testimonials, & pricing for vines.
"The Delaware Grape was first introduced to the horticultural world about ten years ago; and since that time, it has been steadily but surely advancing in public estimation, until now, by almost universal consent, it takes the first place among all grapes, and is well designated by the Editor of the Horticulturist as the "King of the Natives." ~Excerpted from page one.

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 21 & [3] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book viii in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health." Includes a page titled "To Cut Off Viscious Families" on the 1927 Supreme Court decision approving sterilization.
"Of all the diseases to which flesh is the heir, none bring so much misery, moral and physical, as those called sexual or venereal..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

London: A & C Black, (1928) First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75", xi, [1, map] & 227 pp plus 32 leaves of color plates. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt & black, with embossed armorial devices on the upper cover & spine, in pictorial dust jacket.Slight wear at the base of the spine, sporadic modest foxing mostly affecting endpapers, pastedowns, & leaves adjacent to plates, small booksellers' label at rear pastedown, otherwise very good or better in worn price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear including losses & tears (costing a couple of letters at the top of the spine), soiling, staining & foxing, still good or so.A title in Black's "popular series of colour books" "The author broadly surveys the country, dealing with the scenery, the historic towns and cities, the people and the links that bind them to their land" ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

London: Reel Art Press, (2013) First edition 4to, 288 pp., profusely illustrated in black & white from photographs. Publisher's white cloth patterned paper over boards lettered in blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Couple of modest bruises at the bottom edges of the covers, otherwise Very Good in Fine dust jacket.
"I think that what made Dennis a magnificent photographer was his empathy, whether for the rich and famous or the downtrodden and anonymous Whether he was photographing newly arrived European immigrants in 1951, movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando, Greenwich Village beat poets in 1959, or 1960's counter-culture, he was never condescending, but always aware of our shared humanity"~Michael Shulman, Director of Magnum Photos, taken from the Foreword.

Boston: the company no date [1881 or 2]. 24mo, 24 unnumbered pages plus covers, with illustrations. Original pictorial wraps, sewn. OCLC locates a single copy at the Hagley Museum as of 5/28/2022. Trace edge wear, brief toning/ foxing, otherwise near fine. Directed to "all out of employment," several pages tout the money-making possibilities which are available to those representing the company. Children, even, "can earn two dollars every day after school selling these patterns." Brief directions are included for making rugs & 8 pages provide "Description of Designs, and Retail Price List." "About fifteen years ago we conceived the idea of designing Rug Patterns, and printing them on Burlap manufactured for and imported by us expressly for that purpose, and which forms the body or foundation of the Rug. These patterns consist of Animal, Flower and Turkish designs in great variety, and specially fabricated with a view to the requirements of persons cultivated and aesthetic tastes, possessing a… Read More

London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind.
Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise very good.
"The following little work is intended to embrace a collection of the lingual localisms; popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teotonic heathenism, to this day preserved among the rural population of Northamptonshire ..." ~Excepted from the Preface.

Brighouse, [Yorkshire]: John Hartley, 1891. First Edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5"), vi, [3], 10 - 142 & [2] pages. Publisher's brown cloth lettered & decorated in gilt on the upper cover.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, edges & joints with minor rubbing, otherwise very good.
"In this little book is an ethnological survey of the various races of men who have successfully made incursions to this country, and the words they have left behind, which have gone to build up the English we now speak ..." ~Excerpted from the author's notice.

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf.
A fine copy.
A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1892. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 5"), XIV, 291, & [1] pages plus two double page plates, with 71 illustrations in text. Publisher's very elaborate brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black. Text in German, edges of the text block stained red.
Light edge wear & rubbing, brief archival tissue reinforcement at the verso of the first folding plate, previous owner's name, place, & date in ink at the front free endpaper, otherwise very good.
An exhaustive & profusely illustrated treatise & a superb example of a late 19th century pictorial cloth binding.

[Boston]: Hotel Somerset, 1910. 24mo, maroon limp leatherette folder lined in red satin, with the seal of the commission in gilt on the upper cover & an enameled brass pin of the Argentinian flag attached. A small bored hole in the rear cover suggests that a second pin, most probably the United States flag, was once included, though now lacking. Laid in, & within folded card stock covers (elaborately printed in gilt & illustrated in color with the flags of the United States & Argentina intertwined & surmounted by an anchor), is the menu & program of music (printed in blue, red, & gilt), with glassine dust jacket Additionally laid in is a duplicate of the menu on thick, bevel-edged heavy card stock which is embossed in gilt with the seal of Boston's Hotel Somerset.
Folder lightly rubbed & briefly worn at the spine extremities, slightly soiled internally, glassine dust jacket torn & edge worn, otherwise Very Good. Apparently an auspicious occasion, the guests enjoyed lobster cocktail & boiled Penobscott… Read More

Boston, London and New York: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1897. First edition. 8vo, vi, [2], & 330 pp, illustrations in text & full page. Publisher's maroon checked cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover. Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, brief fraying at spine extremities, corners bruised (one rubbed through), hinges started, text block cracked in a couple of places (still secure), gift inscription at ffep, text moderately toned, Good or so. Author John Sergeant Wise, son of Virginia Governor Henry Wise, served with the VMI Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market during the Civil War.As noted in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Diomed "was a pioneering effort in what soon became a popular literary genre. Written as if in the voice of Wise's favorite hunting dog, it was extremely popular and featured many anecdotes of Wise's life, particularly his love of hunting birds and small game."

[Nashville, Tennessee: M'Kennie & Brown, 1855]. First edition. 8vo, 12 pp. Removed from a larger volume, lacking wraps. OCLC finds five copies under two accession numbers as of 8/12/2022.Moderately toned & foxed, last leaf detached, removed & lacking wraps, otherwise good or better."Theodore Clapp (March 29, 1792-May 17, 1866), an early Unitarian preacher in the southern United States who established an outpost of liberal religion in New Orleans and built it into a beacon of religious moderation, was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts … In 1823, his church established itself as the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans and associated with the Mississippi Presbytery. The financially troubled College of Orleans made him its President in 1824, but was able to keep its doors open only long enough for Clapp to create a scandal by holding balls at the school for As part of his conversion to his newly adopted city, however, he also became an enthusiastic apologist for slavery, which he regarded as less… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Binford and Mort, (1939). First edition. 8vo, 279 pp. Original orange cloth lettered in blue, in pictorial dust jacket. Text toned, brief foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in good or better price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed, with a small gouge in the front panel, a few nicks along the edges, & publisher's advertisements for other titles on the back panel with prices redacted. "A gripping extract from life. This challenging story is an industrial case history taken from the great plywood mills of the Northwest. It is based on five years of struggle by a group of workers to establish union principles in the face of overwhelming difficulties ..."~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket.
Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in good or better dust jacket with soiling (including a faint cup ring on the front panel), browning at the spine, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch closed tear.
"Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death." ~William S. Burroughs, excerpted from the dust jacket.