Search Results: Authors starting with D from Back of Beyond Books

Boston. Good. Sheet music. Disbound sheet music with pleasing lithograph of young maiden's reaping the harvest on front. Unknown publisher or date but circa 1860's. Moderate foxing throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 5 pp .

Just Buffalo Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Pamphlet. Blue paper wrap with green text and decoration on front. Fading to spine, but wrapper is otherwise clean and shows little wear. Text block is very clean. No loose pages. A collection of poetry by a variety of writers including, but not limited to, Sheryl Robbins, Anne Turyn, And Louise Nayer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 44 pp .

New York, NY: Edward J. Clode, Inc.. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. A Race Williams detective story. Daly's crime novels were among the first to popularize the "hard-boiled detective" as a character. Plain red cloth boards are rubbed on edges, interior is clean.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Islands. Good. 1843. A monthly temperance publication that also contains information for the American seaman. Paginated [54]-62. Newspaper was folded multiple times and has moderate toning, minor foxing and a closed tear that affects content of all pages and ranges from ¼" - 1" long. This issue is from 1843, the first year of the newspaper's publication. Editor Samuel C. Damon was a prominent early missionary to Hawaii, pastor of the Seamen's Bethel Church (where he served as Pastor for 42 years), and Seaman's Chaplain of the Honolulu American Seamen's Friend Society. He was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 1869. He also issued the publication "The Friend" which was similarly devoted to "temperance, marine and general Intelligence." This issue covers "Temperance in England", temperance for the lady, editorial correspondence, and news from the Sandwich Islands and Asia. Articles of note… Read More

Damonproductions.com. Good. Hardcover. Gray glossy boards. Front board engraved with photographers signature. Glossy photographs adhered to each other and when pages were turned, the photographs came apart from each other creating small white paper spots on the photographs. This photograph series shows the adventures a Ferrari goes through on a beach, through a forest, and various cities. Book larger than scanner bed, image cropped. ; Color and B/W Photographs; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Damonproductions.com. Good. Hardcover. Gray glossy boards. Front board engraved with photographers signature. Glossy photographs adhered to each other and when pages were turned, the photographs came apart from each other creating small white paper spots on the photographs. This photograph series shows the adventures of various cars and their owners. There are also verbal quotes scattered throughout the photographs. Book larger than scanner bed, image cropped. ; Color and B/W Photographs; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Cincinatti, OH: Looker, Reynolds & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Calf-wrapped boards and string binding. Leather is raw-looking and attached to boards with string on interior of boards. A few small tears and holes in leather on front board. Twine holds boards together and also binds pages, though missing through last 1/3 of text block which creates looseness between rear board and pages. Pages held together with a separate run of thread. Previous owner's signature on FFEP, along with some faded pencil writing which reappears on back of rear board and looks to be contemporary lists of supplies and prices. Pages show heavy to moderate browning and foxing and rough cutting along bottom edge. Binding and cutting is possibly an amateur job but is still contemporary. Dana was a land agent engaged in exploration for purposes of emigration and settlement in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan Territory. His experiences resulted in the publication of this… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1840. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. First edition, first issue of Dana's travels at sea in the 1830s. Rebacked with full leather spine; original tan cloth of rear board is missing but original cloth of front board is present. Housed in modern clamshell box. First issue with dot over the "i" in the word "in" on copyright page, and the unbroken running head on page 9. State is unknown as the original rear cloth is missing. Original boards have heavy wear and soiling; "Town of Brighton School District No. 5" written in ink and pencil on front pastedown and endpaper; p. 303-4 has a ½" hole in bottom corner and p. 305-6 has a ¼" hole in bottom corner; text block has moderate foxing. "If not the most widely read book on California, certainly this ranks extremely high on such a list. The author sailed up and down the California coast trading for hides from January, 1835, until May, 1836.… Read More

Good. Albumen photograph measures 4 ¾" x 6 ¾"; mount measures 8" x 10". Photographer's information "O. O. Danner, 327 N. C. , Canton, Ill." stamped on verso. Mount has moderate foxing and light wear. This photograph depicts 12 boys posing with baseball, bats and trophy. All of the children are white except one Black boy who sits to the right. It is possible this photo was taken around Canton, Illinois and likely around the 1920s. Orely Otis Danner (1881-1967) was a farmer and photographer of Canton, Illinois. .

Central City, CO. Ephemera. A poem titled "The Face Upon the Floor" on a leaf with the letterhead of Teller House of Central City, Colorado, and one Teller House envelope. Both items are in very good condition. The poem is on white leaf with black lettering and illustration, was at one time folded twice and measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; envelope has black lettering and illustration in the upper left corner. The leaf with poem has no soiling or toning, and has only light wear to folds; envelope has moderate toning, light creasing at edges, a 1/4" tear on one edge and light soiling. The Teller House used the poem, which was adapted by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy in 1887, as an inspiration for a painting on their bar room floor, which they then promoted with the printing of the D'Arcy poem. Two copies in OCLC as of August 2017. .

Kansas City, MO: Fred Harvey. Very Good. 1917. Softcover. Laid in is a color illustration depicting a bird’s-eye view of the Grand Canyon entitled: “The Greatest Thing in the World” with brief text by Charles F. Lummis. Stiff blue wraps with silver and black lettering. The text block includes many b&w maps and illustrations, and an inscription is written on the front endpaper. The inscription is quite sweet: “Awarded to Thomas J. P[? ] as champion egg roller in contest Easter 1917. By Miss Lillian Baker, teacher at Seligman, Ariz, April 1917.” Wraps have light sunning and wear. Glue residue on front gutter. Crease on the title page and a few of the preceding pages. Overall very good condition. The author, a noted geologist, writes in detail about the geologic history at popular tourist sites at the Grand Canyon and provides many illustrations and photographs. The eye-catching illustration of the Grand Canyon was made for the Santa Fe Railroad and greatly adds… Read More

Albuquerque, NM: Avanyu Publishing, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket in mylar, not price-clipped, minimal sunning to spine, old price sticker on front top corner; otherwise in very good condition. Green cloth boards with title in black lettering, moderate scuffing to spine tail corners; otherwise in very good condition. 79 Kachinas painted by Neil David, Sr. And described by Hopi individuals, J. Brent Ricks & Alexander E. Anthony, Jr. Inscribed to former owner, Barton Wright: "To Barton, the spirits are all about [Pray? ], many good things will come too! Peace in the world, Neil David, Sr. " Wright's notes are included in a 3-page printout stapled together & pasted onto front endpaper, and then with small post-it notes throughout the book regarding corrections, numbering, etc. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 9.5" - 12"; 196 pp; Signed by Artist .

Berkeley, University of California, 1918. First Edition. Large 8vo 9”-10” tall. 349pp. Hardcover. Very Good. University of California Publication in History Series, Volume VII. Navy blue boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine; includes all maps as called for. Boards have light wear to edges and light soiling; previous owner’s bookplate and inscription on front pastedown and endpaper; text block has light toning. This volume contains a history of the famed company of the Canadian fur trade and its competition with the Hudson's Bay Company. Howes D-90. .

New York: Wiley & Long. Very Good. 1835. Second Edition. Full-leather. Original full-leather binding with brown and gilt title label on spine. Rubbed edges and corners, light soil. Spine head is repaired and spine tail is worn off. Light soil on edges. Endpapers and pages have foxing. Small bookseller's ink stamp on first free endpaper. 31 folding plates. Laid in is a penciled practice page of geometry. One of a very successful series of texts by West Point mathematics professor Charles Davies, considered more easily understood than most mathematics texts at the time. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 174 pp .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Red cloth with gold imprint, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, corners are bumped. Dust Jacket is wrapped in brodart, sunned spine, chipped head and tail.; Book .

Des Moines, IA: Mills & Co. Printers and Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1869. Hardcover. Brown boards with blind embossed borders and gilt on spine. Soil and sunning on boards with rubbed and bumped corners. Text block interior bright with foxing and soil on a few pages. Former owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Front and rear pastedown endpapers are advertisements. Includes folding map of Madison County with a tear where it is tipped in. The recto pages of the main text have full-page advertisements opposite the informative text about the county. At the end are census records including a census of agricultural plants, a list of all voters (almost entirely farmers) , an index, and an index of advertisers. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 254 pp .

Good. Hardcover. Three softcover publications bound together in one volume. Blank red boards with bumped and rubbed corners. Binding tight with uneven fore edge due to different sizes of reports. Soil on top edges, patterned endpapers. One front blank endpaper has content notes in pencil. The first report, Indian Games, has the red wrapper bound in. I. Indian Games: An Historical Research by Andrew McFarland Davis and inscribed by him on front wrap. Printed at the Salem Press, Salem, Massachusetts, 1886, 58 pages. Chips on a few pages, interior clean. II. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson, printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, 1877, 124 pages. A few pencil markings. This is a US Geological Survey catalog of its collection of photographs by tribe, with brief descriptions of each people by photographer William Henry Jackson. Jackson was the survey photographer of US Geological Survey western expeditions for almost a decade. III.… Read More

Very Good. Stapled wraps. Item is in very good condition. Small closed tear on bottom of front wrap. Laid in are two playbills from the show. "The production is owned and managed by Everyman Opera, Inc. It was first presented at the State Fair Auditorium, Dallas, Texas, June, 1952." Directed by Robert Breen. .

New York: Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation. Good. 1919. Softcover. Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation Volume V, No. 2. Green paper wrappers with black lettering on cover. Slight chipping and creasing to edges; very minor scratching. Binding is tight. Dampstaining to text block, leaving half-inch tidemark on bottom edge of all pages and a quarter-inch tidemark on top fore-edge corner of last 20 pages. Many pages remain uncut. Includes five plates with black-and-white photos as well as 13 figures with the text. The Kumeyaay, also known by the historical Spanish name "Diegueño," are an indigenous people from the region that is now southern California and northern Mexico. This article offers a museum field collector's personal observations of the Diegueño Image Ceremony. ; B&W Photographs & Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 33 pp .

Santee, NE: Santee Normal Training School Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Pamphlet. Glue bound wrappers with photo of author Joshua W. Davis on front. Entirely in the Sioux language but topic apparently is regarding tobacco use and its affect on the Dakota population. Publications from the Santee Normal Training School Press were typeset and printed by students. Signed in type by the author, Boston, Mass. 5 copies in OCLC as of May 2018.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 8 pp .