Search Results: Authors starting with D from Acme Book & Anvil

Hardcover with pictorial gilt on front board and gilt lettering on the spine. Full-page color frontispiece with tissue guard. Filled with numerous full-page line drawings and incidental art by Heath Robinson, a titan of early 20th century illustration who's best-known in the UK, where he is also (separately) famous as their version of Rube Goldberg.

Book is solid and square, in all-around very good condition with bright copper gilt and oh no what's this? A buzzkill of a library mark in a small lightened area on the spine, and the dread ka-chunk of a library ink stamp on the ffep and elsewhere. BUT WAIT: Does not have pockets, paste-ons, or any other severe library nonsense.

Does have one pencil inscription by a child telling you what her favorite poem is, and one colored-in line illustration (not a bad job).

1st Edition, 1st Printing (1889, Harper & Bros.) duodecimo-sized hardcover with ornate blue binding, gold and silver figuring; correct w/no DJ and deckled edges. Frontispiece; introduction by Henry James with printed signature. (Includes ad for contemporary books by William Dean Howells, titles published 1887-89.)
This is the English-language debut of Maupassant's stories (the British version followed two years later). The most famous story here is probably "The Necklace."
Copy is Fine with straight and solid binding and vivid dye and gilt. The pages are toned and should be handled appropriately to their age. Despite this, the book was apparently unopened past the introduction until I got it.
The downside of this is that the glued binding has never been broken in -- an operation that ought to be done slowly.
Wear is limited to imperfections, with three faint water spots in the dye on the front cover, similar small flaws in the silver and gold decorations, and a very small tear in the material above… Read More