Search Results: Authors starting with D from Irving Book Company

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1840. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Scattered foxing and browning throughout; some pages rather clean & bright, some moderately toned or foxed. Front & rear free endpapers replaced, but original pastedowns remain.. 8vo. 5.75 x 9 in. viii, 364, 160 [notes] pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Contains Historical Extracts from Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon; Rhetorical Extracts from Lysias, Isocrates, and Demosthenes; Philosophical Extracts from Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle; Critical Extracts from Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Longinus; Miscellaneous Extracts from Theophrastus, Polyaenus, Aelian; an Appendix comprised of Polybius; and finally commentary. Text in Greek, with English endnotes. This edition rather uncommon, with notes presented now 'in an English dress'.

(Manchester): Carcanet New Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Sticker removal from front flyleaf, else very good in very good price-clipped jacket, with light soiling and edgewear. Light spotting to top edge; moderate browning to textblock. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. Short 8vo. 198 pp. Original turquoise boards in matching typographic dust jacket. Introduction by DONALD DAVIE. Uncommon. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; virtually unmarked.

Penland: Jargon Society, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very good indeed. Moderate sunfading to extremities, and a tiny trace of soiling. Binding sound, text clean and bright.. Thin 8vo. 6 x 9 in. [16] pp. Chapbook sewn wrappers with Davenport design in pink. With one black & white illustration by Davenport. Designed and composed by A.D. MOORE of the Finial Press and R.E. CHAPDU of the Moneytree Press. Published as Jargon 67. One of 1000 copies. This copy signed by GUY DAVENPORT on half-title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Traces of edgewear; contemp. bookplate to front pastedown, offsetting to front endpapers. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 467 pp. Original blue cloth, ornamented in blind on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Edited by EDWARD WAGENKNECHT. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1939. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Boards lightly splayed.. 16mo. 4.625 x 7 in. 153 pp. Dark blue quarter-cloth over bright yellow illustrated paper. Translated by a Father of the Society of Jesus of the Province of Missouri; from the German edition prepared for the United States, with the approval and cooperation of the author, Alsatian Jesuit catechist Father Joseph Deharbe. First published in 1882 with a brief preface (dated 'St. Louis, Our Lady, Help of Christians, 1882') impressing the need for strong catechesis, 'especially in our day, when Faith is growing weak and cold, and false theories are daily gaining ground.' An uncommon & uncommonly handsome catechism, originally marketed to the large number of German-American Catholics clustered in the midwest.

Stuttgart: Reclam, 1996. First Thus. Paperback. Near fine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. 32mo. 3.75 x 5.875 in. 235 pp. + adverts. Plain orange wrappers printed in black. Text in Greek and German.

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Unseemly sticker shadow at bottom of rear cover, else very good. A touch of edgewear; light soiling to top edge. Text rather clean and bright. Binding square and sound.. Large demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. lxxxii, 660 pp. Original grey cloth. This is the American Reprint of the Second Edition, Revised by K.J. DOVER. From the library of University of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in pencil to front flyleaf. A serviceable copy.

(Paris): Éditions Galilée, 2012. Paperback. Very near fine. Light edgewear. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. Large 8vo. 6 x 9.5 in. 385 pp. + adverts. Laid buff wrappers, printed in red and black. Edited by GEOFFREY BENNINGTON, MARC CRÉPON, and THOMAS DUTOIT. Text in French.

(Paris): Galilée, 2000. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Nearly fine. The lightest trace of soiling to the uncoated paper wrappers.. Square 4to. 8.5 x 9 in. 349 + [7] pp. French-folded printed wrappers. Illustrated with several full-page reproductions of black & white abstract paintings by Simon Hantai. With publisher's insert laid in. Text in French. Jacques Derrida's philosophical review of the philosophy of touch, conducted via Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus.

Chicago: Ares, 1979. First Ares Edition. Paperback. Very good. 16mo. 353 pp. Original wrappers illustrated in orange.. Vol. 5 only (= Vol. III, Pars II). Reprint of 1916 Edition. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1 April 2005 ownership signature to title page, with a couple citations in red ink to final page.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Very light rubbing to joints and crown & foot of spine, with a few very tiny scrapes at the lower compartments; very lightly sunned. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.25 in. xxvi, 415 pp. Rebound by Bayntun-Riviere in full reddish orange polished calf, exquisitely tooled in gilt, gilt titling & tooling to spine in six compartments, with black and brown morocco title labels; all edges gilt, with dentelle & cotton-candy marbled endpapers. With 24 black & white illustrations by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece ('Oliver claimed by his Affectionate Friends') with tissue guard. Introduction by Humphry House. The otherwise common New Oxford Illustrated Dickens in a decidedly uncommon, strangely attractive signed Bayntun binding.

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 8vo. Unpaginated. Burgundy cloth, titles in gilt. Reprint of the 1882 Leipzig edition. Text in Arabic & German.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Very light toning to spine, gilt remains quite bright. 1942 ownership signature to front flyleaf & 'Vol. 358' in pen to rear pastedown. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.375 in. xxiii, 525, [1] pp. Full blue Oxford cloth titled in gilt, blue top-stain. Black & white frontis. portrait of Dobson. A fresh, crisp copy.

(London): Oxford University Press, 1968. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good indeed. Covers mottled. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 474 pp. Original Oxford blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his ownership signature to front flyleaf, and several verses scribbled in pencil on endpapers.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in very good jacket. Covers lightly soiled, with heavy spotting to top edge; light spotting to endpapers with previous ownership signature to front pastedown. Jacket moderately chipped, with light toning to spine panel. Text otherwise unmarked, binding square & tight.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. xiii + [i blank], 218 pp. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in blue & white typographic dust jacket. The first of the 'Studies in Latin Literature and its Influence' series, edited by D.R. DUDLEY & T.A. DOREY. Contains chapters by H.H. SCULLARD, T.A. DOREY, R.G.M. NISBET, A.E. DOUGLAS, G.B. TOWNSEND, M.L. CLARKE and J.P.V.D. BALSDON.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate rubbing to crown & foot of spine, with light rubbing to extremities. Binding sound, text unmarked.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. 252, [2 blanks] pp. ML Binding Style 1, rich dark bluish green 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; with blue marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 12 titles (C1) preceding title page. Translated by Russian-American editor & publisher Thomas Seltzer, who helped to introduce D.H. Lawrence to the American public. Also known as 'Poor Folk', a Modern Library title from the very first catalogue (May 1917).

New York: Dover, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Good only. Spine cocked.. 8vo. Original glossy blue pictorial wrappers. 696 pp. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; a stray pencil note or two.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1854. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Lightly soiled covers, heavily chipped at crown & foot of spine. Light foxing to preliminary and rear pages, else text is bright & clean. Binding square & tight.. Volumes 1-4 of 5-volume set. 16mo. 4.5 x 7 in. Bound by B. Bradley & Co., Boston, in full brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine with seal & motto 'VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM'. Vol. I includes tissue-guarded portrait frontis. of Dryden. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his 'Hemlock' arts & crafts bookplate to front pastedown.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. Good only.. 8vo. 359 pp. Original wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with some annotation.

Edinburgh: Stirling and Kenney, 1831. First Thus. Hardcover. Spine taped with duct-tape, with handwritten title label affixed; hinges reinforced with duct-tape. Covers moderately worn, heavily toned. Front free endpaper excised. Textblock generally unmarked and tight. A poor scholar's copy.. 8vo. 5.75 x 9.125 in. x, 470 pp. Original cloth. Text in Greek and Latin. 'New Edition'. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer. This edition rather uncommon.