Search Results: Titles starting with D from Neil Pearson Rare Books

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 8vo, pp. 305. Original blue boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Lightening to board edges, but a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some light general edgewear, and a little tape reinforcement to reverse at front fold. First edition of the author's third book. A Carl Wayward title. Lawrence Goldstone [1903-1998] was a lawyer, prolific crime novelist and co-founder of the Mystery Writers of America. Although Goldstone himself dismissed the notion, he is often credited as having pioneered the police procedural genre of detective novels. A very well preserved copy in the scarce dust jacket. HUBIN, p. 407

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1919. 8vo, pp. 319. Original red boards, lettered in black-on-red to front panel and spine. Publisher's device blind-stamped to rear panel. Lacking the dustwrapper. Preliminaries a little spotted, spine faded and with some splitting. Front board marked. First UK edition. Not a pretty copy, but pretty scarce in any condition. McIlvaine A24b

New York: Macmillan, 1945. 8vo, pp. 225. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, front flap price-clipped and with new ($2.00) price sticker attached, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some general edgewear, most pronounced at spine ends, and with a small and unobtrusive closed tear to top edge. First edition. HUBIN, p. 88

New York: The Century Co., 1928. 8vo, pp. 291. Original dark blue boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, scuff to spine at fold and a little light chipping to head of spine. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition published the previous year. Scarce in the dust jacket. HUBIN, p. 75

Insight Editions, 2003. Folio, pp.136., with the Stefanko-signed silver gelatin print, all housed in the original cloth clamshell box. A fine copy in the clamshell box, which has a little light bumping to corners. Limited edition, SIGNED BY STEFANKO, AND WITH A 10 x 8 SILVER GELATIN PRINT OF SPRINGSTEEN LAID IN, ALSO SIGNED BY STEFANKO. No. 421 of 450 copies. Foreword by Chris Murray. A compendium of black and white portraits of Springsteen, taken by Stefanko between 1978 and 1982.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1944. 8vo, pp. 192. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a better than very good dust jacket with a small smudge to front flap, slight fading to spine and a little light edgewear. First edition. A Lancelot Priestley title. Writing under the pseudonyms Miles Burton and John Rhode, the ridiculously prolific Cecil Street [1884-1965] produced four detective novels a year for thirty-seven years -- including more than seventy Priestley titles writing as John Rhode. HUBIN, p. 343

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950. Small 8vo, pp. 219. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Publisher's device in black to rear panel, and crime logo in black to spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. Two small indentations to front panel, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: 'Nov 24th 1950. To [name illegible] The man I admire & respect so much. From, Alfred Tack'. The fourth John Harley novel. Alfred Tack was a businessman who, with his brother, founded the company NuAire in 1937 to manufacture ventilation and heating systems. He later founded a business to teach salesmanship and wrote many books on the subject, as well as developing a sideline as a prolific crime writer.

New York: Crime Club Doubleday, Doran, 1931. 8vo, pp. 317. Original black boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Crime Club device in red to front panel and spine. Illustrated red and white endpapers. Top edge orange, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Edges and spine ends lightly bumped, but a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little edgewear. First edition of the author's first book, introducing Detective Peter Shane, who would lead the investigation in all eight of Walz/Bonnamy's crime novels. A near fine copy. HUBIN, p. 41

London: Collins Crime Club, 1956. 8vo, pp. 256. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A little browning to text block, but a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a little fading to spine. First edition. Writing under the pseudonyms Miles Burton and John Rhode, the ridiculously prolific Cecil Street [1884-1965] produced four detective novels a year for thirty-seven years. All but two of the Miles Burton novels feature Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion as the sleuths; this is a late entry in the canon of more than sixty titles, and a near fine copy. HUBIN, p.59

New York: Arcadia House, 1955. 8vo, pp. 221. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Publisher's device in black to front panel. Illustrated dust jacket. Slight wear to spine ends, offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a dust jacket with extensive mouse-nibbling to flap folds, and some light wear to spine ends. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: '8/17/55 For Phil Reichert, Thanks! Al Eichler'. HUBIN, p. 134

1953. Bloomfield and Mendelson C418.

Cambridge: Celandine Press, 1985. Large 8vo, pp. 30. Original threequarter marbled boards, lettered in gilt to black buckram spine. One corner very lightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy. 3 reproductions of paintings by Paul Nash, protected by tissue guards. First edition, no. 289 of 300 copies, printed on Hahnemuhle mould-made paper.

London: Faber, 1995. 8vo, pp. 159. Original dark blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition. Poet and critic Anthony Thwaite's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. A collection of nine of the poet's short stories, and a fine copy.

London: Faber and Faber 1991. 8vo, pp.241. Original black boards, lettered in white to spine. A little browning to the text block, consistent with most of the Faber output of this period, otherwise a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. First edition.

New York: Editions de la Maison Francaise, 1942. 8vo, pp. 216, 4pp. unpaginated index bound in at rear. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in green and brown to front panel and spine. Spine browned and a little chipped, small chip to wrapper's front lower corner, a little general edgewear. First edition. No. 43 of 50 copies on papier texte, of a total edition of 200 copies. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: 'A Betsy Barney Lefferts, ma delicieuse amie, Mathilde Monnier, Noel 1942'. A very well preseverd copy of a fragile book.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1963. 8vo, pp. 187. Original grey boards, lettered in blue to spine. Publisher's device in blue to front panel. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, two small pieces of tape strengthening to reverse, and a little general edgewear most noticeable at spine. First edition. A Captain Heimrich mystery. HUBIN, p. 259

London: W.H. Allen, 1978. 8vo, pp. 126. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. Usual browning to cheap paper stock, corners a little bumped, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with just a little light edgewear, a couple of red ink marks to rear flap, and a small indentation to front panel near spine. Dust jacket illustration by Roy Knipe. First edition of this novelisation tie-in from the Tom Baker era. Terrance Dicks here adapts a story written by Terry Nation for the thirteenth series of the TV series; Dicks spent five years as the show's script editor. Scarce, and getting scarcer.

London: Faber, 1972. 8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers. Small ownership signature to ffep., minimal bumping to corners, but a near fine copy. First paperback edition of Heaney's second commercially published collection, first published in 1969. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

New York: Arcadia House, 1947. 8vo, pp. 271. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut, top edge blue. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, a single 8mm closed tear to top edge and light wear to spine ends. First edition. A Skelton Keyne mystery. HUBIN, p. 443

Berkeley: Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1972-1976. 8vos, pp. [unpaginated]. Original illustrated paper wrappers. A fine set. Drawn by Larry Todd. First editions. The illustrator and cartoonist Larry Todd moved to San Francisco in 1971; Dr. Atomic made his first appearance the following year, first in an underground magazine called The Sunday Paper and then in Volume I of this set, where a couple of new stories were added. Six issues were published in all, the last appearing in 1981. All early issues are now scarce -- especially Volume 4, which is given over entirely to an illustrated seminar on marijuana: how to grow it, its chemical composition, 'roachology', how to make a reflux tower, isomerization, and detailed instructions for the construction of a Dr. Atomic Tee-Tube Bottomstoker. As if that wasn't enough, there is also invaluable (and possibly impractical) advice on how to adapt a set of bagpipes into a bong. Scarce in any condition, this set is beautifully preserved.