Search Results: Titles starting with D from Collectible Books

1. 1835. 1st Ed. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, Cheapside...by C.Whittingham, Chiswick. pp.xix + [1](engraving list) + 379 +[1](printers note. 32 engravings. 6 5/8"" x 4 1/4"". Original half-leather binding. Attractive w. mild edgewear, bump and rub. Dark green leather spine and corners. Marbled boards. Spine showing raised bands, multi-layered gilt compartment lines, and label w. gilt letters on brown leather. Pages clean, bright, tight and square; original ribbon marker. Chapters on: Domestic Architecture; Interior of an Old English Mansion; Meals; Historical Notices of Education in England; Almanacks; Newpapers; Post Office; Ancient Furniture; Tapestry; Curfew; Chimneys and Fireplaces; Lamps and Lanterns; Candles, Candlesticks, and Snuffers; Coals; Bread; Baking; Ale & Wine; Coaches; Traveling; Dress; Superstitions; Servants

SIGNED by both author and illustrator. Mylar protected orange dustjacket with woodcut illustration on front. Black stapled wraps and map endpapers. ""Donkeying Through Seven States by Dyrus Cook. Decorated by Edith A. Roberts"" on dj front cover, repeated on title page with ""Privately Printed 1933"" and autographs of husband author and illustrator wife. Frontis photo of the couple walking with loaded donkey. 1st edition. Very Good condition with cracking to spine and front hinge paper. 53pp. About 20 small woodcuts throughout. Contains a narrative of their eight month Depression-era trip on foot thru New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia enroute from their home in Woodstock, New York to Southern Pines, North Carolina and return. . . and and Priority Mailed.

1. Dutton 1984. Stated first edition. Fine book. Near fine dj with slight shelf wear. Excellent condition with no marks, tears or creases. Probably unread. Choreography and dance, including training technique and biography of a great artist. 236 pages.

1. 1st ed., 1912 Geneva, NY., Press of W.F. Humphrey, Illustrated by H. Def. Patterson. 148 pages. Rust colored cloth with black letters and illustraions to spine and front cover. 1""; vertical tear to paper at top of front hinge. Front endpaper shows vertical 1/2""; closed paper tear to top edge near center, and small penciled bookseller note at top corner, "";-1st edition Rader #3775 -Six guns 2465 Scarce""; Else clean, bright and tight.

1. Dust jacket very lightly rubbed, not torn. First edition. First printing. Tiny previous owner name at top of fep.

1. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author on the title page. First edition. Bluehen Books, Penguin Putnam. New York. Fine book in fine dustjacket.

1. 1978 Viking first edition. Book clean, tight and bright. Dustjacket is clean w. a closed tear on spine, top back flap has corner fold.

1. Scarce 7 volume set in excellent condition. 1983. Edited by Robert E Burke. Published by Garland Publishing. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spines. 6.5 x 8.25 inches. Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper. The facsimiles in these volumes have been produced from copies in the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. They contain an extensive introduction with an index in Vol 7. Frontispiece portrait of Hiram and his two sons in Vol 1. Johnson practiced law in 1888 in Sacramento. Moved to San Francisco in 1904, became assistant district attorney, and was one of the founders of the Progressive Party in 1912. He was Governor of California 1911-1917, and served as a Senator until his death in 1945. A great gift for a politician or anyone with interest in early 20th century California history spanning both World Wars.

1. Knopf stated First Edition. Green cloth spine with gilt letters. Pressed design on brown paper covered boards. No dustjacket. Clean, bright and tight but for browned endpapers and my bookplate on the front endpaper.

1. Harcourt Brace & World, New York, 1965. Stated First (American) edition.'A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book' Translated by Ralph Manheim. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt letters on spine. 570pp. Published price $6.95 on front flap. Dustjacket lightly rubbed w. faintly faded spine and small wrinkle at spine top, 5 tiny edge tears (under 1/8""). Cloth bumped at top left spine end; else clean, bright, tight and unmarked.

1. Title continues, ""...69 Through Oklahoma"". 1936. 1st ed. Historic Oklahoma Series No. 2, University of Oklahoma Press. 46pp. Yellow stapled card covers. 3 full page maps. 4.75 x 5 inches. Has small piece of clear tape on top edge, bookplate inside front cover, split below bottom staple along spine; else clean, bright and tight. Radar 1431. Originally known as the Osage Trace, this road led from St. Louis across Missouri into northeastern Oklahoma to Texas. History of indians, travellers and settlers along the way.

1. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated first edition. Clean, bright and tight. Appears unread. Faint shelfware to dj.

1. 1979 FSG. First trade edition. (A limited private issue was previously printed) Stated first printing. Dustjacket has a 1/8"" closed tear at bottom corner and faint edge fade. Book clean, bright, tight and square with tiny scattered spotting on textblock foredge.

1. Copyrighted in 1927 by the Young Mens Christian Association. First edition with 1927 on the title page. Published by Association Press. 98 pages. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Scarce. Very clean, intact red cloth with black spine lettering; pressed black title label on the front cover, showing red lettering and a red line border. Only fault is browning on inside board pastedowns and adjacent front endpapers. Laid-in card reads, ""WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE BOARD OF PUBLICATION OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Frederick Harris, Director"". Fep has a custom bookplate of Gilbert Beaver who was a formative YMCA(publisher)figure.

1. Published in New York by William H. Colyer, 104 Beekman Street, 1839. 20 cm., 7.75 x 4.75 inches. 263pp. Original binding, but pages 145 to 168 follow page 263. Original chipped paper spine label shows title, author and ""Complete in 1 volume""; missing the C in both ""Capt."" and ""Complete"", and the A in ""America"". Some browning, soiling and foxing, a few minor corner folds, binding tight. 1/4 cloth with light green paper covered boards and darker blue-green cloth spine. Possibly the first American pirated edition. Marryat's travels thru New York, Washington, Kentucky, Canada...Documents his observations, commenting on prisons, religions, slavery, habits, army, climate, language, government, education, commerce, law (particularly ""Lynch Law""), plants and animals, cities, etc. Howes M300.