Search Results: Titles starting with D from Buddenbrooks, Inc.

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932. First edition, LIMITED being one of only 500 numbered copies for subscribers of a total printing of only 550. With two facsimile manuscript pages from LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, Paris edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. 146. A very good and handsome copy, the text essentially fine with just a bit of general toning and that being quite minor. The black cloth a bit lightened to charcoal on the spine panel as is common and with only very minor age evident. NIN'S FIRST BOOK, AND HER ONLY CRITICAL WORK. Nin wrote the book as a assessment of her literary hero; D. H. Lawrence. It was highly unusual at the time because very few women had ever publicly praised Lawrence; his works often being deemed near pornographic and in several cases banned for sexual content. More importunely though, the book was published at a time when readers were turning their backs on Lawrence and he was at risk of being essentially… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First edition, first issue. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original decorated dustjacket. 454 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine. FIRST EDITION. “Intrigue and menace mingle in one of the finest mysteries I’ve ever read. An amazing tale with enigma piled on secrets stacked on riddles.” - Clive Cussler. One of the most popular books of the century's first decade. The Da Vinci Code provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. Combining elements of the detective, thriller and conspiracy genres, it is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "it concisely conveys the kind of extreme enthusiasm with which this riddle-filled, code-breaking, exhilaratingly brainy thriller can be recommended. That word is wow. The author is Dan Brown (a name you will… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First Edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt, in the decorated dustjacket. 500 pp. A very fine copy, in perfect order and as pristine. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY ROBERT STONE. “Throughout his distinguished career, Robert Stone has created unforgettable characters who face ultimate questions: What is the price of loyalty, of betrayal, of faith? In Damascus Gate he draws on actual incidents in recent Middle East headlines, on historical and biblical figures, and on a rich knowledge of mystical writings to pose these questions for the millennium. Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, it is a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.” - publisher

[no place: no publisher given but Fantod Press], 1993. First edition SIGNED TWICE BY EDWARD GOREY using two of his favorite pseudonyms, one side is signed as Dogear Wryde and the other as Ogdreg Weary. Illustrated with either a rock or an elephant on every page. Miniature oblong folio (2.5 by 4 inches), staple bound in the original printed stiff buff paper wrappers, Gorey has scratched out the printed names of both "authors" and replaced them with his signed pseudonyms written below. [60pp, unpaginated.] Very fine, in as mint condition. FIRST EDITIN OF THESE TWO FLIP-BOOKS IN ONE, SIGNED TWICE BY EDWARD GOREY. The Dancing Rock/Floating Elephant is a flip book that can be viewed "dos-a-dos", meaning that it can be used in both directions and thus depicting two separate animations. One side features a rock that dances across the page, then the book is turned over and the rock is replaced by a whimsical floating elephant. Edward Gorey loved to experiment with unusual formats in his books, thus… Read More

New York: Random House, [1983]. First Edition, second printing. 8vo, publisher's original charcoal boards backed in black cloth with copper rules and lettering on both the upper board and spine, in the original unclipped dustjacket. 228 pp. A very fine copy, inside and out, the book and jacket both are pristine and as mint. A VERY FINE COPY OF CRUMEY'S SECOND NOVEL FEATURING DETECTIVE MILO DRAGOVITCH. It is a classic story of boozing, two-bit criminals, and an old lady on the run. Crumley reinvented 'noir' for the 80s generation, and now 40 years later his Milo books are still great fun. It has been said, "If Hunter S. Thompson ever took to writing detective fiction, this is how it would most likely read" - B. Rubendall

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. 8vo, in the publisher's original green printed wrappers. 320. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved. SCARCE ADVANCE PROOF COPY, this is a top-notch thriller by Dick Francis. "Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci, golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew's caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of victims. . . ." - Goodreads.

New York: Viking, 1989. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, and in the colour pictorial dustjacket. 399pp., and afterward by King. A very fine copy, essentially pristine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TALE OF TERROR BY STEPHEN KING. Delivers heart-stopping, blood curdling drama which is sure to please fans.

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1987. First trade edition. With 10 colour plates and dustjacket design from original artwork commissioned for the book by Phil Hale. 8vo, publisher's original black hardcover cloth in the colour pictorial dustjacket and original cello shrink-wrapping. 399pp., and afterward by King. Mint, a pristine copy completely as new and with the publisher's original cello shink-wrap packaging completely intact. FIRST EDITION AND A SUPERB COPY OF STEPHEN KING'S WESTERN SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL, FANTASY, HORROR AND ADVENTURE. The series was inspired by 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning. This entry in the story is a continuation of The Gunslinger and follows Roland of Gilead and his quest towards the Dark Tower. King identified other inspiration for THE DARK TOWER as being THE LORD OF THE RINGS, the Arthurian Legend and the motion picture 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'.

London: Imago Publishing Co, Ltd, 1946. First edition . Small 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 206, index. A very good copy indeed.

London: Harper and Row, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, gray cloth over boards lettered in black and red on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 216. A fine bright copy in the dustjacket. Pulitizer Prize winning Maxine Kumin’s A Daughter and Her Loves, “compresses the past and present of father and daughter into a couple of crucial days that glow with lyric intensity....The author enriches her characters’ backgrounds with memory and actuality, defining them with luminous brilliance.” New York Times

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First edition. 8vo, cloth and boards, in dustjacket. 371. A very fine copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1922. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 351 pp. A well preserved copy with a bit of fading to the spine, the interior clean and tight. FIRST EDITION OF THIS POST WWI NOVEL. Not the usual Zane Grey, but filled with insight and drama as disabled soldiers returned home after the war to a community that was difficult to reenter. Emotionally gripping.

London and New York: Macmillian and Co., 1892. Third edition. 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 8vo, green cloth with handsome gilt illustrations and lettering on the upper cover and spine. a.e.g. 158pp. A very good copy, quite clean and bright. With a few bumps in the cloth and some minor chips at the spine panel at the hinges. A charming confection. A humorous month in the countryside with Thomson’s witty illustrations.

London and New York: Macmillian and Co., 1892. SCARCE DELUXE LARGE PAPER COPY. First issue thus of the third edition. With over sixty delightful illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Crown 8vo, in a beautiful deluxe binding by one of the important London binders for Hatchard’s of full green morocco, the boards ruled in gilt, the spine beautifully decorated in arts-and-crafts style in an elaborate floral motif in compartments between tall raised bands, two compartments with stylized lettering in gilt, gilt turn-ins and board edges, fine softly marbled endpapers, t.e.g, green silk ribbon marker bound in. ix, 110 pp. Internally a fine, bright copy with just a bit of foxing to the prelims only as is almost always the case, and a few very minor light spots throughout. The binding very handsome, but with some minor faint stains to the boards and the front one detached. SCARCE LARGE PAPER COPY IN DELUXE FULL MOROCCO PRODUCED FOR HATCHARD’S BY ONE OF THE IMPORTANT LONDON BINDERS. This “humorous… Read More

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. First Edition. With title-page within a red and black decorative frame and eight full page illustrations on coated paper. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. t.e.g (6), 431pp. A fine and bright copy. FIRST EDITION and a collection of twelve good stories including “The Ship that Found Herself”, “The Devil and the Deep Sea”, “William the Conquerer”, “.007”, “Bread Upon the Waters”, “An Error in the Fourth Dimension”, “The Brushwood Boy” and others. Includes some of the author’s best. This edition precedes the British edition printed some months later.

Venezia: Christophorus de Pensis, 4 June, 1491. The first printing by Pensis, and only the third printing of Diomedes. With a large woodcut on the recto of A2 within an elaborate woodcut border and with large woodcut initial, printed in Roman and occasion Greek letter, 46 lines. Chancery folio (305 x 202mm), in full red crushed morocco of the 19th century by Leighton, spine with five blind ruled raised bands and lettering in gilt, turn-ins gilt, a.e.g. From the library of Hans Furstenberg with his gilt-lettered book label. 84 ff. A very fresh and fine copy, especially so, the handsome morocco binding with just a hint of mellowing to the extremities, internally very well preserved and clean. VERY SCARCE INCUNABLE PRINTING OF DIOMEDES GRAMMATICUS, which contains "one of the most complete lists of types of dactylic hexameters in antiquity." - Britannica. Written sometime in the 4th century, it is the only Latin grammar of the period to come down to us complete. The work is divided into… Read More

Amsterdam: N.p.: Henricus Koenraad' (i.e. Jan Rieuwiertsz jun.), 1693. First edition in Dutch of TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS, the THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL TREATISE. 8vo [16 x 20cm], handsomely bound in full vellum with leather bands, spine lettered in manuscript. (xxviii), 360 pp. A very fine and handsome copy of this very scarce first edition printing, the text-block very fresh and clean, a strong impression of the text, the binding as pristine. FIRST ISSUE, FIRST PRINTING OF THE VERY RARE DUTCH EDITION WHICH SPINOZA DID NOT WANT PUBLISHED OUT OF FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. QUITE ELUSIVE, AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. Baruch Spinoza is unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time -- and certainly, perhaps the most radical of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism and medieval Jewish rationalism into a nonetheless… Read More

Venice: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, [1761]. 2 volumes bound in one. First edition, first issue, large-paper copy and a copy with pleasing “old world” provenance. Fine woodcut head- and tailpieces, without the engraved portrait by Renard which is often lacking. Folio, 41 x 24.5 cm, full contemporary calf expertly rehinged at an early date, gilt tooled spine, red and green morocco lettering labels. xcvi, 298; 452 pp. A very good copy with wide margins, minor dampstain at the lower blank margin, most noticeable in the index and diminishing toward the end of this section, some wear to the corners of the covers. Bookplate and small title-page stamp of the Medical Society of Norwich and Norfolk. The Medical Society bookplate is pasted over the eighteenth-century bookplate of Johannes Manning, M.D., with the inscription on an early blank, "Presented by the executors of the late Dr. Manning." THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, and “a… Read More

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, with the earliest state of the hook on the left hand on the vignette title-page. With engraved Illustrations by H.K. Browne throughout. 8vo, in a handsome contemporary binding of three quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt bands, one compartment with brown morocco label lettered in gilt. xiv, 624 pp. A very handsome copy in a proper period binding, sturdy and attractive and unusually clean and bright throughout. FIRST EDITION. This is quite a desirable copy of the Dickens novel that introduced the world to the memorable Mr. Dombey and his transactions, business and personal, and that creates a "clear picture of society in [Dickens’] time.” Dickens wrote it while in residence in a number of different areas, beginning the work in Lausanne, Switzerland, continuing in Paris, and finishing in Brighton, Broadstairs, and London, making the text “a true cosmopolite in the manner of its writing.” The publication of… Read More

New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 2001. First edition, signed and presented by Robert Parker as RBP. 8vo, publisher's original blue paper covered boards, the spine lettered in green, in the pictorially illustrated dustjacket. 294 pp. A fine copy, as pristine. INSCRIBED AUTOGRAPH FIRST EDITION OF THIS JESSE STONE NOVEL. "Chief of Police Jesse Stone returns, to investigate the murder of a troubled teenager in a seemingly bucolic New England town...Filled with magnetic characters and the muscular writing that are Parker's trademarks, Death in Paradise is a storytelling masterpiece.