Search Results: Authors starting with D from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. First edition. Octavo. 238 pp. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, black and gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front cover, chocolate brown endpapers. Minor extremity wear. A very good copy of a rather elusive title.The author a noted anti-suffragette, author and translator, was the second wife of Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren. She was the daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first Assistant Secretary of the newly created U.S. Department of the Interior. Dahlgren took command of the South Pacific Squadron from Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, in 1867. He was stationed in Lima and Valparaiso. When he was relieved of the command of the Squadron in 1869, he returned to the Washington Navy Yard where he served until his death in 1870. These sketches are Madeleine Dahlgren's remembrances of those two years spent in South America. For an uptight society woman, living in South America in the 1860s was… Read More

St. Paul: Ingersoll, Photo, [ca. 1888]. Five original albumen photographs, each about 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches on original matching plain mounts, 8 x 10 inches, captioned in negative, 3 with inked stamps on verso of "Ingersoll, Photo., St. Paul, Minn." One with a short marginal tear and another with minimal foxing. A fine view into the workaday world of the 1880s.The Little Missouri Horse Company was established by Arthur Clark Huidekoper in the Dakota Territory in 1884, around the same time and place that Theodore Roosevelt began his own ranching adventures. The Little Missouri soon became one of the largest horse breeding operations in American history, known for its elegant and hard-working Percherons. Various addresses are given for the company in southwestern North Dakota, including Medora, Amidon, Gladstone, and Black Butte; it was a big property. As the decades rolled in Huidekoper grew more and more irritasted at having his horses end where they shouldn't so he bought a lifetime supply of… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First American edition. Octavo. 235, [1] pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering within gilt framed darker brown rectangles, photographic dust jacket (small crease at bottom of front panel). A very clean and fresh copy.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. First revised and enlarged edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Illustrated and with fold-out color map as frontispiece. Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. A very good copy, clean and tight.The standard text for discussion of the journeys famed trapper and mountain man Jedediah Smith made while in the employ of William H. Ashley. Dale had to significantly rewrite this book (originally published in 1918) after the discovery of the Jedediah Smith journals.Jedediah Smith was the first reported American to travel overland to California, the first to cross the Sierra Nevada from the west, the first to travel across the Great Basin, north and south as well as east and west, the first to travel north up the California coast to Oregon, and the first to provide a usable description of South Pass.

Santa Fe: Fenn Galleries Publishing, (1979). First edition. Oblong quarto. 135, [1]. Numerous illustrations of Jacob's art, some in color. Publisher's brown cloth with silver spine lettering and an elaborate silver design of a Native American on the front, brown endpapers with cover device reproduced in miniature, dust jacket with same image again. Some light edge wear to jacket but overall a very good copy.

(Sherman Oaks, CA): D'Ambrosio, )1992). First edition thus. With an introduction by Patrick Magarick. One of 75 signed and numbered copies (this copy an Artist's Proof). Octavo. 24, [20. [1, signed colophon], [1] pp. All edges artfully scalloped. Folds for all two-level pages are backed with fabric for durability. Printed letterpress by D'Ambrosio on M. Pestiaux handmade "Misty Rose" paper. Hand-sewn in a book-in-a-box modular-type binding using decorative fabric and colorful Roma paper over archival boards, printed paper spine label. Near fine. Prospectus laid in.

Fullerton: Lorson's Books and Prints, 2002. First edition thus. One of 50 copies designed and produced by D'Ambrosio and signed by him. Miniature book (2 1/14 x 2 3/4 inches). Publisher's quarter decorative cloth over green boards, printed paper spine label, original slipcase. Excellent.The book opens up to a pop-up origami flower. There are no pages but the Prokosh poem is printed on the inner pastedowns. The signed colophon is printed on the rear board. A lovely production.

New York: Charles Ritzman "Celebrities", [ca. 1906]. Original boudoir card (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches). On photographer's printed mount. Very small piece of upper left corner chipped else and excellent image.Ruth St. Denis holds a hallowed placed in the history of modern American dance. Such was her gift that she influenced almost every phase of American dance."From an early age Ruth Dennis displayed a marked interest in the theatre and especially in dance. She began dancing and acting in vaudeville and musical comedy shows when she was a teenager, and she appeared in David Belasco’s productions of Zaza, The Auctioneer, and Du Barry. While touring in the last play she was reputedly inspired by a cigarette poster featuring an Egyptian scene of the goddess Isis to begin investigating Asian art and dance.Dennis took the stage name Ruth St. Denis, and in 1906, after studying Hindu art and philosophy, she offered a public performance in New York City of her first dance work, Radha (based on the… Read More

Dresden: Cigarettenfabrik Orami, 1933. First edition. Oblong folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). Title and plate list plus 12 leaves bearing 142 of 144 original miniature photographs (cigarette cards) of contemporary dancers popular in Germany at the time. Each photograph identified in the plate. Publisher's gilt lettered brown wrappers. Some wear at corners but a very good copy.In 1933, Hitler was gaining popularity but the Weimar culture was still powerful. A partial list of the dancers shown herein; Ruth Anselm (partially nude; a member of the Jewish Kulturbund in Berlin; she survived Hitler's assault); Kate Richter; Usa Koch (an early Yoga practitioner); Max Terpis (choreographer at the Berlin State Opera for 6 years); Jonny Ahemm; Nini Theilade (Danish modern dancer who appeared in Max Reinhard's Hollywood film A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935); Niddy Impekoven; Rudolph Kolling; Iva Langentels; Harald Kreutzberg (who partnered with American ballerina Ruth Page in the 30s); Lilo Ralph; Gret Palucca… Read More

Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukuopadhyay, 1965. Second. Octavo. xxiv, 101, [1[, 33 [appendix]. [1] pp. Publisher's unprinted gray wrappers in yellow dust jacket with lettering in black, Some edge wear where the text is not flush with the wrappers but overall a very good and clean copy.Essays concerning the development of Tibetan Budddhism but one of India's great scholars. It was first published in 1893. Born in Chittagong, eastern Bengal to a Bengali Hindu Vaidya-Brahmin family, Sarat Chandra Dash attended Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta. In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling. In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet. They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for… Read More

Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1866. Second edition. Octavo. xi, [1], 280 pp. Publisher's ribbed red cloth with gilt cover lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Small pieces missing from upper and lower spine. A couple of signatures a bit proud, a few faint pencil underlining to a few pages (easily erasable). A very clean and good copy.The author, an Indian, was converted to Presbyterianism by missionaries. He went to the United States for further theological traiing but soon returned home.He continued his studies with the English missionaries; and, in 1865, was licensed by Furruckabad Presbytery, and stationed at Futtehpoor. He died there in 1867. One of Dass' main goals was to make Christianity more understandable to his countrymen. mainly Hindus

(Paris): (Editions Robert Laffont), 1975. First edition. Folio (12 x 16 inches). One of just 20 copies, with a 6 line inscription in ink on the title leaf to "Jackie and Pierre" from Dassault, dated 1975. Original cloth portfolio with mounted photograph to the upper cover, within is the printed title leaf and nine color photographs mounted to larger sheets, each signed in pencil below the image. A few scuffs and finger soiling to case but a wonderful copy.Olivier Dassault (1951-2021) had an interesting career as a French politician, billionaire businessman, and deputy in the National Assembly. A scion of the founding family of the aerospace engineering company Dassault Group, he worked in a number of roles within the family firm. He was a 1974 graduate of the Air Force Academy (Ecole de l'air) and held a master's degree in mathematics (1976) as well a doctorate in business management computing (1980). During his lifetime, he cultivated a passion for photography and published several books of his… Read More

[San Francisco]: [Dassonville Studio], 1906. Original Gum Bichromate print of this wonderful Mission. 8 x 7 5/8 inches. Signed by Dassonville on the lower right margin. Matted and with mylared window. A wonderful image. William Edward Dassonville (1879-1957) was a California photographer primarily known for his Pictorialist landscapes. He was an associate of Ansel Adams and worked with William Keith, George Sterling, Maynard Dixon, and John Muir. Born in Sacramento, CA, he acted as secretary of the California Camera Club and contributed to Camera Craft. He also invented a velvety surfaced printing paper that he later manufactured commercially and very successfully.Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood of Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseno tribe of Mission Indians. The full name of the mission is La Mision de San Luis, Rey de Francia. It was named for King Louis IX of France.

[San Francisco]: [Dassonville Studio], 1906. Original Gum Bichromate print of this Queen of the Missions. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Signed by Dassonville on the lower right margin. Matted and with mylared window. A wonderful image. William Edward Dassonville (1879-1957) was a California photographer primarily known for his Pictorialist landscapes. He was an associate of Ansel Adams and worked with William Keith, George Sterling, Maynard Dixon, and John Muir. Born in Sacramento, CA, he acted as secretary of the California Camera Club and contributed to Camera Craft. He also invented a velvety surfaced printing paper that he later manufactured commercially and very successful.Founded by Father Junipero Serra at the present site in 1771, San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is the second of nine missions that he would eventually establish in California. It must have been his favorite as well as he made this mission his headquarters. He is buried under the sanctuary floor at the Carmel Mission.

London: Rider & Co., 1931. First edition. Publisher's presentation copy with their stamp on the title page. Octavo. 224 pp. plus 27 photographic illustrations on 16 leaves. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very clean and solid copy.

Santa Ynez: Rancho Deluxe Editions, 2004. First edition. One of 25 copies, hand-bound by David Weinstein and for private distribution, signed by the publisher, John T. Reynolds, and with an original Borein etching tipped in. Quarto. Unpaginated but comprised of the entire catalog output of art dealer Harold G. Davidson. Sixty-six short (2-4 pages each) catalogs, reproduced in photocopy. Original wrappers bound in. Publisher's half green calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering and gilt-ruled bands, slipcase. Title with a barely noticeable ripple, else a fine copy.Harold G. Davidson is generally known as the man who almost single-handedly rescued Edward Borein from oblivion. This is a complete collection of all his catalogs, generally about two pages and with no illustrations. They are minly taken up with offering Borein items. It is interesting to note the other artists that Davidson dealt in: Henry Chapman Ford, Joe DeYong, Edgar S. Paxson, Carl Oscar Borg, Maynard Dixon, and others.

San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, (1981). First edition. Quarto. 96 pp. including eight essays (one by Ansel Adams) and forty color plates. Publisher's white cloth with Dixon thunderbird embossed on front, brown endpapers, matching slipcase. An excellent copy.

Boston: Sanborn, Carter & Bezin, 1851-65. First edition of all but Vol. I (it being the fourht edition). Five octavo volumes (complete). Frontispiece of the author in Vl. I. Publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth with blind-stamped borders, corner devices and central arabesques, gilt spine lettering pale yellow endpapers, Some chipping to cloth at various place,two volumes with expert spine restoration but a very clean and tight copy.This is the magnum opus of Andrew Jackson Davis, one of the most prolific authors in the field of spiritualism and hermetic science. A supreme compendium of Davis's thinking, this work comprises eight books. Each of these contains a revelatory analysis of a realm of spiritualist thought, beginning with considerations of the divine God and His relation to human intellect and thought processes. This examination of the Creator is followed with a detailed look at the interplay between the cosmos, spiritual forces, and the very genesis of mankind.Davis was no Hegel… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. One of 525 numbered copies, signed by Davis on the limitation leaf and signed by Dreiser at the end of the foreword he wrote for this book. Folio. [10, preliminary matter and foreword] plus 20 full page illustrations by Davis with Dreiser excerpts on the opposing versos. Publisher's extended black cloth spine over boards of silver and gold, gilt lettering on cloth in front board, No slipcase although most of original acetate still present. Corners sharp and contents clean. A very good copy.

Oakland: Rebis Press, 1976. First limited edition. One of 325 numbered copies, signed by the author, printer and binder. Oblong quarto. [98] pp. Bound and riveted by James Petrillo in actual raw pinewood boards, the front with a hole cut in it and some fuzzy hair that can be touched. Front cover with lettering in a very soft white, black spine lettering. Very good.The colophon reads' "Fondle this book made 1976 by Rebis Press slipt between hard board & penetrated brass riveted piano hinges spreading by James Petrillo, title moistness letterpressed deep into crevices of Arches Cover by Betsy Davids ... each copy of 325 fondled, breathed on & signed by Davids, Petrillo & Davids.". Kenneth Davids was a professor at Berkeley, the University of Hawaii and the California College of Arts & Crafts. From the biography leaf; "The Softness was his first published book. It was written he says, in a few months in 1966... The immediate inspiration was going into the men's room at the Caffe Mediterraneum… Read More