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London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1929. Second printing. Very good minus.. Part I of Daglish's six-part series of illustrated texts on the beasts of the earth and the fowls of the air. Charming and skillful woodcut illustrations accompany Daglish's rather ungenerous assessments of the Larger Beasts, from the Wolf, "really a great coward," to the Elephant, "surely the strangest, as well as the largest, of all animals." 8'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial boards. Illustrated with black and white woodcuts throughout. 47, [1] pages. Light scuffing and toning to boards. Spine sunned, with small tears to head and lower edge. Interior pages toned, with scattered foxing and a few smudges; small tear to lower edge of title page.
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THE LARGER BEASTS
by Daglish, Eric Fitch
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by Dahl, Mary
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First Edition. Near Fine in a very good plus dust jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this juvenile novel based on the events of the Amistad. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering and embellishment. Original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. 134 pages. Inscribed by Dahl to half title page. Jacket with some edgewear, a bit of soil. Clean and bright.
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SOMETIME NEVER: A Fable for Supermen
by Dahl, Roald
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London: Collins, 1949. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Dahl's first adult novel, a gruesome apocalyptic fantasy on the emergence of Gremlins in the wake of humanity's expected self-annihilation via chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare. 7.5'' x 5''. Original fuschia cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) dust jacket by Stephen Russ. 255, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, minor foxing to endpapers and jacket. Sun and light chipping to jacket spine.
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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
by Dahl, Roald; Simeon, Michael
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. First printing. Near fine.. First UK edition of Dahl's escapist fruit adventure - a beautiful copy. Originally published in the U.S. in 1961 and newly illustrated by Simeon for this first British edition, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH was described in Allen & Unwin's foreword as Dahl's "first book for children" (somewhat accurate, if one disregards his earlier THE GREMLINS (1943), originally intended as the basis for a Disney film). Dahl's genius as a writer for all age groups lies in his refusal to strip his children's books of the pure, unadulterated nastiness at the core of his most memorable adult short stories; sex is absent, but the vulgarity and meanness in the darkness of the human heart is, if anything, greater and more fearsome here: for Dahl, hatred of injustice is born early in a child's spirit and festers until it finds some awful, Aunt-crushing catharsis. The gruesome revenges taken by the weak upon the strong are correspondingly satisfying, unfettered…
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KISS KISS [Parson's Pleasure]
by Dahl, Roald
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(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), 1960. Fine.. Uncommon edition of "Parson's Pleasure," a satisfying short story of a dishonest antiques dealer too clever for himself, from Dahl's KISS KISS collection. Perhaps a piracy, the rear cover notes "Arlene Noble / Fine Quality Staffordshire." Noble was a noted collector and dealer of various Staffordshire keepsakes and may have been attracted to this tale of an antiques dealer. Unusual. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original spiral-bound tan printed wrappers. [74-108] pages. Minor soil to wrappers, toning to interior.
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THE BFG
by Dahl, Roald
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New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase.. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and illustrator. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. Ably illustrated by Quentin Blake, Dahl's frequent collaborator, whose frenetic gestural drawings quiver with life and indelibly define the characters. After CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, one of Dahl's best and most beloved titles. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market. 9'' x 5.75''. Original red publisher's cloth with gilt titles. In original blue-grey slipcase. x, 222 pages. Limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies, this #208, signed by both Dahl and Blake to the limitation page. Clean, sharp, and bright throughout.
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OVER TO YOU
by Dahl, Roald
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New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Dahl's collected World War II-era stories about flying, drawn from his own experiences as a wing commander in Royal Air Force. Though a British citizen and member of the Royal Air Force, Dahl first found success as a writer in the United States, where he was sent for office duty after being injured in a flight over the Sahara. In the States he became friends with C.S. Forester, who encouraged him to "write a story based upon his experiences" (rear flap). This led to the publication in the SATURDAY EVENING POST of "A Piece of Cake" (1942), which appears here for the first time in book form, along with nine other semi-autobiographical wartime stories. Dahl's reputation as a children's book writer would only come after "A Piece of Cake" with the publication of GREMLINS (1943), about fairy creatures who playfully wreak havoc with plane mechanics. This American edition precedes the UK edition. 7.5''…
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SOMEONE LIKE YOU
by Dahl, Roald
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Signed first edition of Dahl's Edgar Award-winning collection, including his celebrated murder-by-leg-of-lamb story "Lamb to the Slaughter," along with seventeen horrifying others. 7.25'' x 5''. Original tan and lavender cloth. In original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket designed by Charles E. Skaggs. 359, [1] pages. Signed by Dahl on front free endpaper. Boards lightly bumped, offsetting to endpapers. Minor stain to upper edges of pages 155-158. Light edgewear, moderate toning and soil to jacket. Overall, sound.
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MATILDA
by Dahl, Roald
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(New York): Viking Kestrel, 1988. Fine in fine jacket.. Lovely first US edition of Dahl's novel, still beloved by contemporary children and nostalgic adults alike. A model for child prodigies, a wistful dream for harried schoolteachers, a perfect librarian's pet and the avenging angel of the elementary grades - Matilda Wormwood is an icon. Like all of Dahl's books, MATILDA pops at the seams with fury and spite, and like his best books, it is furious and spiteful about the right things: hateful parents, abuse of authority, all the petty cruelties and humiliations of childhood. It is an explicitly pro-book-reading text, and what it is for goes hand in hand with what it is against: repression, injustice, and television, television, television. Despite all that rage, on the page and essentially inseparable from the page, the inscrutable operations of Nemesis posthumously rewarded the famously adaptation-hating author with not one but two highly successful adaptations of his last great work for those who…
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
by Dahl, Roald; Jaques, Faith
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First printing. Near fine.. First UK edition of the great chocolatier fantasy of desire fulfilled, a beautiful copy. Dahl's Dickensian tale of a good-hearted waif rescued from poverty by literature's most stylish factory owner, drawing powerfully on the author's remembered childhood miseries and later post-war deprivation. Charlie's wish for a Golden Ticket, more than the uncomplicated greed animating the book's less virtuous children, is an unfathomable longing for sweetness, for a taste of wonder in a grey and oppressive world. Meanwhile, Wonka's chaotic energy drives the story to its greatest heights. As the walled chocolate garden's grotesqueries reward a child-reader's basest narrative instincts, each unworthy child is punished according to his or her character and just desserts, in sequences as merciless as a medieval morality play. For these disquieting episodes, and for the sheer material lavishness of Charlie's ultimate reward, the novel was derided by…
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First issue. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket, of the great chocolatier fantasy of desire fulfilled, a beautiful copy. Dahl's Dickensian tale of a good-hearted waif rescued from poverty by literature's most stylish factory owner, drawing powerfully on the author's remembered childhood miseries and later post-war deprivation. Charlie's wish for a Golden Ticket, more than the uncomplicated greed animating the book's less virtuous children, is an unfathomable longing for sweetness, for a taste of wonder in a grey and oppressive world. Meanwhile, Wonka's chaotic energy drives the story to its greatest heights. As the walled chocolate garden's grotesqueries reward a child-reader's basest narrative instincts, each unworthy child is punished according to his or her character and just desserts, in sequences as merciless as a medieval morality play. For these disquieting episodes, and for the sheer material lavishness of…
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ADAM AND THE GOLDEN COCK
by Dalgliesh, Alice; Weisgard, Leonard
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First edition. Fine in near-fine jacket.. First printing, set in Connecticut during the American Revolution, featuring Weisgard's gorgeous two-tone illustrations. 8'' x 5.75''. Original grey cloth with orange rooster design. In original unclipped ($2.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Weisgard throughout, with many full page. 64 pages. Jacket with light toning and faint rubbing, spot of edgewear at top of front panel.
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ADAM AND THE GOLDEN COCK
by Dalgliesh, Alice; Weisgard, Leonard
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First edition. Fine in very good jacket.. First printing, set in Connecticut during the American Revolution, signed by Weisgard with a simple ink sketch of the titular rooster. 8'' x 5.75''. Original grey cloth with orange rooster design. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Weisgard with gorgeous two-toned illustrations, many full page. 64 pages. Signed by Weisgard with a sketch in pen. Jacket with some shallow chips and closed tears.
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WINGS AROUND SOUTH AMERICA
by Dalgliesh, Alice; Milhous, Katherine
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Very good plus.. First edition, first printing of this first hand account of the people and cultures from the time when both Dalgliesh and Milhous visited the South American countries. This copy was once in the inventory of Aleph-Bet Books, and the description uses their images; if you would like further photos of the book, please contact us. 9.5'' x 7''. Original cloth. Slight fading on covers. In original, soiled dust jacket. Illustrated with beautiful full page color illustrations plus black and whites by Katherine Milhous. Laid in is an interesting card from Dalgliesh: "It was so nice of you to write about the Author's Award dinner, and I was most interested. I'm glad Scott O'Dell got the award - and the others too. Of course I'm most of all pleased about Leo [Politi] - especially as Moy Moy was the last book I worked on with him. Last night I had dinner with May Massee, and she was very pleased about the Buffs. I wonder what Frances thought about…
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LOITERING
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Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books, 2014. First edition. Fine.. Signed first printing of this essay collection, showcasing D'Ambrosio's funny and devastating takes on subjects from Native American whaling to his own family - this copy issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 7.75'' x 4.5''. Original color pictorial wrapper. Fore-edge machine-deckle.…
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GRINDLE LAMFOON AND THE PROCURNIOUS FLEEKERS
by Damon, Valerie Hubbard
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Kansas City, MO: Star Publications, 1978. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this curious story that's a little bit Seuss, a little bit Lear, and a lot of Hippie. Our story opens with a "befumed" Fleeker smoking a pipe in the shade of a "Mellow Leaf Tree," depressed that they do not have a float for an impending celebration. Thankfully, the Moon offers them some advice on natural float alternatives. Joyful and deeply '70s. 11'' x 8.25''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped ($7.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. [32] pages. Signed by Hubbard to blank facing half-title page, dated February 19, 1979. Small gift inscription below signature, dated March 15 1979. Folded promotional pamphlet/poster loosely laid in. Jacket with mild edgewear and a hint of rubbing. Bright and clean.
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THE POET AND OTHER POEMS
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Cincinnati: [n.p.], 1920. Very good plus.. Rare inscribed first edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati," presented to another Cincinnati poet. Dandridge, a painter and decorator in his early years, changed his profession to telephone coal sales and his creative talents to poetry after polio left him hemiplegic at the age of 29; by the mid-1920s he was literary editor of THE CINCINNATI JOURNAL. The poems in his three published collections are written alternately in dialect reminiscent of fellow Ohioan Paul Laurence Dunbar, to whom he was frequently compared, and in the literary register of poetic convention. During and after his lifetime, Dandridge's lesser efforts were frequently anthologized. The poet is still more frequently damned with excruciating faint praise as an inspirational figure, his poetry reduced to "a striking example of what can be done in spite of handicaps" (Wormley, 1937). There was…
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THE POET AND OTHER POEMS
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Cincinnati: [n.p.], 1920. Fine.. First edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati." Dandridge, a painter and decorator in his early years, changed his profession to telephone coal sales and his creative talents to poetry after polio left him hemiplegic at the age of 29; by the mid-1920s he was literary editor of THE CINCINNATI JOURNAL. The poems in his three published collections are written alternately in dialect reminiscent of fellow Ohioan Paul Laurence Dunbar, to whom he was frequently compared, and in the literary register of poetic convention. During and after his lifetime, Dandridge's lesser efforts were frequently anthologized. The poet is still more frequently damned with excruciating faint praise as an inspirational figure, his poetry reduced to "a striking example of what can be done in spite of handicaps" (Wormley, 1937). There was considerably more to his work than "sweetness and light"…
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GIANTS, PIGMIES AND OTHER ADVERTISING PEOPLE
by Daniels, Draper
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Chicago: Crain Communications, Inc, 1974. First printing. Fine in a near fine jacket.. Scarce first edition of the memoir of advertising legend Draper Daniels, real-life inspiration for MAD MEN's Donald Draper. Daniels was responsible for numerous iconic 20th campaigns including the Marlboro Man and Elsie the Bordon Cow. An uncommon book since the popularity of the AMC TV series, scarce when signed. 9'' x 6''. Original yellow cloth in original unclipped ($7.95) dust jacket. 257, [1] pages. Inscribed by Daniels to front free endpaper: "For Anne Richardson, / who made a flight / from Boise to Chicago / a pleasant interlude / instead of a bore, / Draper Daniels." Jacket spine lightly sunned. Mild edgewear. Else clean, sharp, and bright.
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IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE: A Study of the Boston Negroes
by Daniels, John
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. Near fine.. First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer. IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE is a valuable snapshot of Black life in Boston when the traumas of slavery and the Civil War were still in living memory. The first third of the book offers a history of Black people in America, with a particular focus on their roles in various American wars. From there, Daniels presents an overview of Boston's current Black community gleaned from nine years of study in and around the Robert Gould Shaw House, part of the South End House settlement project. The philosophy of the leaders of the South End House and its offshoots could most charitably be described as "assimilationist"; in his introduction to IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE, Robert A. Woods advocates for treating Black Americans as "immigrant nationalities" that must "adopt the method or rule himself out of the game" (x-xi). Despite his…
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