Search Results: Titles starting with D from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: Rhinehart & Company, 1954 Hardback, with pictorial dust jacket protected by a Brodart cover, 246 pp. Advance Publication Notice laid in. The death on a picket line of Rabbi Sakker raises difficult questions in this Southern Californian whodunit. Condition: Fine, with a Very Good dust jacket. Grey paper-covered boards with white and yellow titles. No bumps or other wear. Uniform age-toning to text. Endpapers clean, binding tight. Dust jacket, with art of Ben Feder, has one inch-long tear on front, some slight foxing to rear, and wear to corners, head and tail of spine.. First edition, Advance Reader's Copy. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1930 Hard cover, 8vo. in oxblood cloth with tan titles, 341pp. A discussion on philosophy, written between the wars. Index includes unlikely topics such as: "telepathy," "automobilism, as a cult of mammon of unrighteousness," "machinery, it's mental influence." Condition: Very Good. Slight sunning to spine and boards and minimal shelf wear to head of spine and corners. Moderate foxing to endpapers. Otherwise, tight and clean within. The author also wrote a sequel, "The Light" in 1932.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: John Bumpus, 1888 Hard cover, 12mo., 83pp. Condition: Good. Covers are badly stained, with bumped corners and lightly worn edges. ** Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 and this scarce work is an essay in response to criticism of Darwin's theories, and a defense of reason and science. OCLC 26069287.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 2000 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp xv [3] 202 [4]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a ship at anchor, gilt titles to spine on dark green printed labels, and end papers featuring a tropical landscape with exotic animals. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. With illustrations and color plates. Condition: Fine. *** A wonderfully illustrated account of Charles Darwin's famous voyage to discover the process of evolution. The journey aboard the HMS Beagle lasted five years, from 1831 to 1836, and took Darwin to South America, Tahiti, the Galápagos Islands, and Australia. He contracted malaria (and was treated using various local remedies), was nearly stranded ashore in Montevideo, collected fossils, hunted kangaroo, and got thoroughly homesick (the trip had been planned to take just two years). The captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, spent the trip conducting geological surveys for the British Admiralty. Both FitzRoy and… Read More

New York: Harper Collins , 1999 First U.S.Edition, 1999 (later printing). Hardcover, black cloth with gold title to spine, 399 pp. Oprah Bookclub edition d/j. Condition Fine, with Near Fine unclipped d/j, in mylar. Young Eliza Sommers, raised among conservative English relatives in Valparaiso, Chile, sets sail in search of her departed lover, gone to seek his fortune in the California gold rush of the 1840's. From the blurb: the " on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough and tumble world of SanFrancisco and northern California, we enter a world who's newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever…Her search for the elusive Joaquin gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms over time, and what begins as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.". Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

't Goy, The Netherlands: Antiquariaat Forum, 2000 Soft cover, quarto, 208pp. Illustrated catalogue from the Dutch book dealer, Antiquariaat Forum. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1893 Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover Crown 8vo., in original green publisher's trade cloth with pictorial gilt to front board and spine, 158 pp. No dust jacket. The satirical persona of landed country squire Sir Roger de Coverly was the invention of Addison and Steele, and premiered in The Spectator during 1711. Irish illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) is credited with the cover design of this volume as well as the fifty illustrations within. His delicate pen and ink style of illustration was particularly suited to the depiction of characters from the "Queen Ann Revival," which harkened back sentimentally to pre-industrial Britain. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to corners. Spine somewhat cocked. Light scattered foxing within does not detract. Old ink gift inscription on ffep. dated 1893. Old bookseller's label (small) insufficiently removed from bottom corner of front pastedown. The pictorial bookplate of Dr. Ann Ridler (1935-2018) appears… Read More

Paris: Croulbois, 1785 Hard cover, 8vo., pp [4] xxxiv [2] 522 [6]. French text. Leather binding with gold lettering to spine, which has five raised bands. Condition: Very Good Minus. Covers very worn at corners. Some loss to head and tail of spine. Outer joint cracked at head and tail. Hinges firm. First few pages have dog-ear creases. Very small chip missing from the corner of one page (not affecting text). Pages browned with age. ** Pierre Bertholon (1741 - 1800) was a French priest and physicist, known for his works on electricity. He was influenced by his friend, Benjamin Franklin, and procured lightning rods for the protection of southern France. De L'Electricite du Corps Humain concerns the effect of electricity on various human maladies. . Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

New York: International Polygonics, Inc., 1990 Hard cover with dust jacket in a Brodart cover, 204pp. In this tenth, (and last), novel featuring the gritty world of Detective Tony Lonto and his partner Runnion of the Homicide Squad. In what has been described as a well-woven police procedural, the body count begins with the murders of a florist, followed by an off-duty police detective. Lonto struggles to identify the good guys from the bad guys, as members of the city's narcotics squad seem to be implicated. The author (born 1937) is an ex-convict who, among other things, worked in intelligence during the 1950's in Europe, and was president of the prison bonsai club at Stillwater State Prison in Minnesota, where he served three sentences. Condition: Fine, with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Rhinehart & Company, Inc., 1959 246pp. Ex-Library copy. Hardback, with a dust jacket in mylar. The seventh in this series of California noir suspense stories, in which the duo must catch a cop-killer. Condition: Good, with a Good dust jacket. Textblock edges and interior pages are evenly tanned. Neat library stamp and envelope. Dust jacket is not price clipped, and shows slight scuffing to front and rear, wear to edges and corners, as well as several small chips to head and foot of spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Portland, Oregon: National Society of the Colonial Dames, 1987 Hard cover, 8vo, 194pp., First Edition. A collection of letters by a 49'er who left his home in Baltimore to look for gold in the California Gold Rush of 1849. The collection was given to The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Oregon by his daughter, Jane Smith Taliaferro. Condition: About Fine in like dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989 Hardback with dust jacket, 188 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the author who does, indeed, run a British bookshop. In this, the critically-acclaimed fifth mystery of the series starring fictional book dealer Matthew Coll, our hero travels to Verona to research a manuscript he hopes will shed light on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Condition: Near Fine, with a Very Good+ dust jacket. . first U.S. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1968 192pp. State first printing. Hardback, blue cloth-covered boards with black titles, and a mylar-covered dust jacket. An exotic dancer gets murdered and hard-boiled P.I. Bart Challis is on the case. He "deals with a crooked psychic in a Victorian mansion, a pre-war Packard full of tommygun toting badmen, the Berkeley sex revolution, a San Quentin stoolie, a karate expert, flying saucers and a kidnapped heroine." Nolan also collaboratively wrote the novel which became the movie, Logan's Run in 1976. Condition: Very Good+ in a like dust jacket. Very faint foxing to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, otherwise book is tight and clean. Light foxing to dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2004 Hard cover, quarto, 335pp. Reprint edition, with bibliographies in several languages. Condition: Fine.. Hard Cover. Fine.

Amstelodani: Ex typographia Blavania, 1693 In Latin. In-8,[12], 784, [20] pp. Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 5 x 8 ¼ inches) in a contemporary full calf binding, panel stamped in blind and accented with a rolled gilt double border. The spine has five raised bands, double ruled in gilt, one compartment with the title, others stamped with a single gilt flower. Edges of the text block are decoratively spattered red. The boards of the binding are decorated in a cottage roof style, with inner and outer banding joined at the corners, the use of a rolled floral ornament parallel to the inner lined border and four fleurons at the outer corners. The engraved title page features an image of Erasmus and three scholars inspecting a globe-- likely a play on the printer/publishers' identity: the family of Joan and Cornelius Blaeu with family roots and fame in the making of globes, maps and atlases. The Blaeus were the official mapmakers to the Dutch East India Trading Company. The editor, Cornelius… Read More

Hammersmith, London: Eragny Press, 1903 Hard cover, 12 mo (4 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches) in quarter blue green Michallet paper-covered boards over decorative "daisy" design paper, the title label in red applied to the left side of front board. Inside, are cream laid endpapers. The watermarked Arches paper also carries the Eragny Press watermark (best seen to the ffep.): a roughly circular monogram made up of an Art Nouveau initials "E "and "P" intersected by images of two vertically-oriented acanthus leaves. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. 30, [2] pp., First (and only) Edition. Letterpress, hand printed in Black, red and green, using woodblock designs created by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, with the frontispiece illustration by Author and artist Diana White, entitled "Oh that Ishtar Might Hear Me." Text is printed in Lucien Pissarro's own Brook font, created after the use of type from the Vale Press, with whom Pissarro was also engaged upon his arrival in London in 1893, was famously destroyed… Read More

Fortrose: Stansfield, 1974 46pp. Facsimile of the 1752 edition. Limited edition of 500. Owner's signature to front endpaper.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Edinburgh: William Auld, Printer, 1774 The first edition in English, and Scots English. Hard cover,16 mo in full sheep, with five gilt edged raided bands, the title on an applied label in blind to the spine. Collation: (2)(2) "7" [Contents page] (1) (1-48)[Description of the Western Isles of Scotland called Hybrides.] (1549/ 1773) (2), (51-54) [Geneologies of the Chief Clans of the Isles by Monro]; (2) (55-59 )[Observations Upon Surnames by The Rt. Hon. Earl of Marchmont, n.d.],( 62-64 )[an Account of Hirta and Rona] i-iv, 65-70, [Description of Saint Kilda, alias Hirta by Rev. Alexander Buchan, 1773], (71-159) [A Voyage to Saint Kilda, M. Martin Gent., 1773.] The first edition in English of a set of important historical accounts of the Western Isles of Scotland. Monro's was the first known written description of the Hebrides, first published in Latin in 1582. Condition: Good. Front hinge loose. Back hinge cracked. Main title page has piece missing from the top, and a further closed tear to the fore… Read More

Konigstein: Verlag Robert Langewiesche, 1980 Hard cover, quarto, 224pp. Condition: Fine in like dust jacket. ** Illustrated book of German woodcuts until the end of the 17th century. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832 Hard cover, quarto, (measuring 8 1/2 x 11 inches) three quarter calf, with gilt title to spine. 2 books in 1, 106 pp, and 48 pp. 74 full page steel engraved plates, including both maps, and the two vignette title pages with views of Lydford Cascade and Logan Rock. All edges gilt. If you are a fan of PBS's Doc Martin or Poldark, or planning a trip to this area, you will appreciate this material. The topographical and historical essays alongside the views are quite interesting. The artist Thomas Allom (1804-1872), architect, artist and illustrator, was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and worked on the mid nineteenth century rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament with Sir Charles Barry. William Henry Bartlett was Allom's apprentice and had his own success as illustrator of topographical views in North America, and the Middle East. Condition Good. Exterior with stains, rubbing and scuffs and some loss to head of spine.… Read More