Search Results: Authors starting with D from small volume

Stockholm: Kungl. Boktr, 1963. Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Pps. 75-103, offprint from original text of "Dramaten 175 ar" (Stockholm, 1963), re-bound in yellow paper boards and backed in green leather. Bright yellow and blue endpapers. Foxing scattered throughout. Warmly inscribed by the author to Erwin Panofsky, German-born iconography scholar and participant in the Kahler-Kreis academic social circle.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Cloth in dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 295 pp. Black cloth w/ gilt titling, in pictorial dust jacket. Chipping at spine ends of dj. Infrequent light yellow underlining to a scattered few leaves, not interfering with legibility. Otherwise clean and sound. Analyzing the female characters of ten Shakespearean plays.

Reading, MA: Published by the Author, 1875. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. 96 pp. Dark burgundy cloth with gilt titling. Rubbing to cloth, bumping to corners. Spine sunned, slightly cocked. Some cracking to hinges but binding remains tight and sturdy. Light ink ownership signature to ffep. Some light soiling to margins of text. Laid in are two small (15x11 cm and 16x9 cm) prayer broadsheets, both creased and heavily worn from use. Illustrated frontis. Religious tract detailing the sufferings of Miss Lizzie O. Smith, an invalid since childhood due to a "violent cold which settled in her left eye." After being treated with bloodletting and calomel (mercury chloride), her illness continued to spread causing partial blindness, rigidness in the jaws and joints, and chronic pain, confining her to bed for over 30 years. By adopting the Methodist faith and practicing avid prayer, Smith is quoted as being "gloriously happy" and exemplified as a Christian martyr.

New York: Hillman Periodicals, Inc, 1956. Wraps. Very Good. 10cm x 14.5cm. 64 pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. Chipping along spine. Photos throughout. Features include: Photos from the Private album of Sammy Davis, Jr., Are American Men Weaklings?, How Witchcraft Became Big Business and more. Cover photo of Maria Stinger. Rear Pin-up of Patti Waggin, "The Stripper on Wheels

Paris: Perrotin Libraire-Editeur, 1849. Second Edition. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo. 362 pp. Vellum boards and endpapers, with title and author handwritten in brown ink to spine. Boards bowed and rubbed, with some soiling and signs of handling. Original paper wraps bound in. Vellum endpapers wrinkled, rfep lightly foxed. Front flyleaf has ownership inscription in brown ink: "If found kindly return to Whitney Warren / Knickerbocker Club / 1906 New York City." Below, blind stamp of Lloyd & Whitney Warren. Both brothers were prominent in the world of architecture and design, Lloyd being founder of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and Whitney being a founder of the successful architecture firm Warren & Wetmore. Flyleaf verso has newsclipping tipped in, very toned, with offsetting to facing page. Additional 31 pp pamphlet titled "L'Instantane: Supplement Illustre de la Revue Hebdomadaire" tipped in at rear. Pamphlet is dated October 1908 and focuses on "Le Roman de Raphael." Pamphlet paper is darkened with… Read More

Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1839. Wraps. Good. 2.7 x 4.25" 64 pp. Tan wraps. Chipping and soiling to wraps, heaviest along spine. Light foxing throughout. Parable of a family with an alcoholic patriarch winning over their devout neighbors.

Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1890. Linen. Fair. Stapled, 16.5 cm x 11.5 cm. Flexible waxed linen printed wraps. [8 pp.] c. 1890s. Fraying and scuffing to front and rear wrappers, speckled discoloration throughout. Abridged and simplified adaptation of Daniel DeFoe's classic story. Illustrated with two full-color plates. From the Father Tuck's Dolly Dear series no. 2305.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1915. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. 110 pp. Green cloth w/ gilt titling. Light rubbing to cloth, 3cm" white sticker to spine, top right corner of flyleaf roughly removed. First edition. Contends that the middle class has a unique position of power in society, and that they must use this position to advocate for social justice and equality.

Denver, CO: Tribune-Republican Press, 1886. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 214 pp. Burgundy cloth with decorative gilt titling to spine and front board, gilt-stamped ship to front. Sunning to cloth, mainly to spine and board edges. Large scuff to rear board, some rubbing to joints. Light chipping to spine ends and bumping to corners. Inscribed by the author in brown ink to front flyleaf, "To Mrs. Mary Friend / From her affectionate / counsin ..." Green floral endpapers. Text clean, binding sturdy and sound. An account of the author's trip West during the California Gold Rush.

[New York]: Leisure Books, 1964. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 190 pp. Pictorial paper wraps. Rubbing to exterior. Dampstain to foot of spine, affecting bottom inner margin of text block. Interior toned but otherwise sound. "Rance Taylor....had almost all the personal shame and degradation he could handle with Penny and Lisa, while trying to get his greedy hands on the passion money...

New York: Hanro Corp, 1953. Wraps. Very Good. 14cm x 18.5cm, 130 pp. Illustrated wraps. Overall wear and handling from use, small notation in ink from PO to front wrapper. Interior clean. Binding sound. First appearance of Philip K Dick's story "Tony and the Beetles". Other contributors in this issue include August Derleth, Charles Beaumont, H.B. Fyfe, James Causey, Johnson Christopher, Mack Reynolds and Kenneth O'Hara.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1846. Wraps. Good. 8vo. 32 pp. [+ 16 pp. of advertisements] Brown wraps, black titling. Chipping to wraps, discoloration throughout text block, POs name, Helen Schell, in ink to first page of text. Advertisements uncut. Good, still readable copy of scarce early US edition.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. 86 pp. Blue cloth w/ silver titling in dust jacket. Review copy w/ slip. Light scuffing to dj. Otherwise fine. Title poem composed for President Carter's 1976 inauguration.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 374 pp. Soiling and sunning to spine trip and edges of boards. Novel romanticizing the rebellion of Confederate states post Civil War. Adapted for the screen by D. W. Griffith for what would become Birth of a Nation.

[Various], 1996. [Various]. Very Good. Collection of 17 items from the library of American author Susan Dodd, including several literary journals and volumes inscribed by Dodd, as well as association copies inscribed to Dodd by others, many with typed or handwritten letters laid in. Publication dates span throughout Dodd's 20-year writing and teaching career, showing her own progression as an author, as well as literary relationships, with other writers and students, through deeply personal inscriptions and letters. She has since retired to Ocracoke, NC and makes anti-war art out of antique baby dolls. Of her art, Dodd stated: "I like things that are unraveling and rotting." (Ocracoke Observer, 2018). Titles in archive include: Windows: A Book of Poems. Bingham, Jo. Norwich, CT: Franklin Press, 1977. 8vo. Black and white pictorial paper wraps. Illustrated by C. Rankin Bingham. Inscribed to Susan Dodd on verso front wrapper, colophon at rear signed and numbered 430 of 650 copies. The Love &… Read More

Atlanta, GA: Clarion House, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. 277 pp. Red paper boards with gold titling to spine and red dust jacket with yellow and white titling. Foot of spine bumped, faint musty odor and signs of handling, otherwise near fine. Introduction by Ray S. Cline. From the DJ: "Red Cocaine presents an abundance of evidence tying Communist China, the Soviet Union, and their surrogates into international narcotics traficking.

Seattle, WA: Eros Comix, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 519 pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Light rubbing along board edges. Otherwise clean and sound. Illustrated compendium of pocket-sized erotic comics produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.

New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher, 1896. Wraps. Good. 8vo. 60 pp. Tan paper wraps. Chipping and soiling along spine and edges. Loss to bottom right corner of front wrapper. Scarce periodical containing four Arthur Conan Doyle short stories: The Sign of the Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity & The Red-Headed League.

New York: Beginner Books, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good/Good. Small 4to. [2] 3-62 [1]. Glazed yellow paper pictorial boards with matching dust jacket. DJ spine is sunned with appx 2 inch tear to rear joint at foot, few small nicks and tears at edges and corners, appx 3 inch closed tear to front forecorner at crease, tiny loss to rear flap lower edge. Boards clean and bright, binding tight and sturdy, interior as new. First printing, with all points (Younger/Hirsch).

New York: Random House, 1939. Cloth. 4to. Unpaginated [48]. Yellow cloth with red titling, in unclipped dust jacket with original $2.00 price to rear flap and 200/200 to front flap. DJ gently rubbed at joints and edges, with some creasing to bottom of rear panel. "Horton Hatches the Egg" to rear flap, small closed tear to bottom edge. Previous owner's name (Penny Walton) stamped in black ink to endpapers, ink smudge to ffep and dedication page. Some faint soiling and small closed tears to bottom edge of text block, but overall a very clean and sound copy. Early printing in scarce jacket.