Search Results: Authors starting with D from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Nairobi: Buchanan's Kenya Est. Ltd., in association with Hatchards, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xxvii, (iii), 654, glossary, index; illustrated with thirty-one color plates by Joy Adamson and eighty black and white plates, and one hundred ten drawings, folding map at rear; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. A comprehensive record of indigenous Kenya trees and shrubs of 6 ft. and more. Superb illustrations accompany accurate botanical descriptions sufficient for identification and timber utilisation.

Clinton Mass: W. J. Coulter Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; 76; Frontispiece; green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;.

Fitchburg: S. & C. Shepley, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo; pp. (1-6)-90; Frontispiece plus five black and white wood engraved plates and six smaller cuts; gilt decorated blind stamped black cloth; Very good. Scarce. The Robber's Cave and other stories. OCLC lists less than 20 copies with the AAS copy.

Philadelphia: Universal Book And Bible House, 1924. Salesman's Dummy. Hardcover. a very good copy;. Octavo; pp; 64 select sample pages, including the title page, contents, introduction and various chapters; illustrated; the frontispiece portrait and thirty, (30) pages of black and white plates; decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt with an oval paste-on portrait of Wilson at center upper board; example of the spine on the rear board, half broadside conditions and 12 pages of canvassing sheets;. A variant of Zinman #360; that citation states that the imprint is Chicago and the publisher George W. Noble. On the copyright page the name "Will H. Johnston" appears on both copies.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Moderate wear to extremities internally very good. Oblong duodecimo; pp; (45); illustrated in color with twenty-two (22) plates; pictorial boards;. The author is the grandson of Charles Darwin, and primarily a golf writer. His wife, Elinor was an Irish engraver and portrait painter. The narrative is in rhyme.

London: John Murray, 1890. Second edition , revised. Tenth thousand. Cloth. Very good.. Two volumes, small octavo (5" x 7.5"), dark green cloth with gilt titles. Covers decorated in blind. xiv, 473pp, [1] with ad leaf; x, 495pp. with index. Illustrated with wood engravings. A tight, clean set with a minor rubbed spot on each spine. There is a faded area at the fore-edge of the cover of volume one. A very attractive set. The first appearance of the term pangenesis, in which Darwin postulated the existence of a hereditary material inside cells called gemmules which could be modified by the organism's environment and passed on to the offspring.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good. Small octavo (5" x 7.75"), terracotta cloth, gilt, with black border design on the cover which is in blind on the back cover. 562 ,(2)pp. with index and appendices. 2p. advertisment for Appleton's publications follows the index. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait from a photograph, and a facsimile of a notebook page from 1837 with the text printed on the facing page. Errata slip laid down on p.v. A lovely, solid copy. There is a faint white waxy streak on the cover and a little bump on the spine. This is Volume II only.

Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Quarto (8"x 10"), orange cloth spine and tan boards. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 32 full page and one illustration in the text. Black and white photographs. Some soil at the fore-edgfe of the front board. A little dampstain at the top margin ot the title page and frontispiece. Sculpture by the Ukranian Cubist Sculptor Alexander Archipenko with a poem by Blaise Cendars.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Montegut. Octavo; pp. (13), 14-245 plus (10pp.) table of contents; Illustrated by Montegut, De Myrbach, Picard and Rossi; Color Vignette title ad leaf, half title, additional title, additional half title, woodcut illustrations throughout; three quarter patterned calf and green boards, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt, untrimmed; light edge wear, some minor bubbling to the cloth at fore edge rear board; a nice copy.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (vi), 335-388 (vii-x); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

New York: Stoddard-Sutherland Press, 1912. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; (16); original printed paper wrappers;. The Party Platforms contrasted in columnar fashion and organized by topic or issue.

Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp; 406; Illustrated, frontispiece portrait and forty-six black and white plates; decorated blue cloth with an paste-on oval portrait of Taft at center upper board lettered in red and blue, patterned endpapers;. Features a chapter by TR. Miles Image Makers #896.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp. x, 228; frontispiece plus fifty-two black and white illustrations; decorated sage cloth lettered in gilt; Lightly faded else very good. Part travelogue, part reportage by this journalist and storied war correspondent. BAL 4515;.

(New York): P. F. Collier & Son, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Small quarto; pp. (vi), 278; portraits, black and white plates; tan cloth lettered in brown, pictorial label at center of front board; moderate wear;. In depth profiles of six military adventurers, H. K. D. MacIver, James Harden-Hickey, Philo N. McGiffin, William Walker, F. K. Burnham and Winston Churchill.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Later printing. Hardcover. a minor old water stain on the front paste-down, else very good. Octavo; pp; (viii), 263; illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven additional black and white plates; decorated burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt;. Among war correspondents in this period Davis had no equal; he was made an honorary "Rough Rider" by the regiment and went into action with them, and in one instance pointed out enemy positions to the Americans. His account of the battle is important. This book contains that and many other accounts of other battles, other wars.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very good. Octavo; pp. viii, (ii), 329; frontispiece plus five inserted black and white plates by Walter Appleton Clark; green cloth lettered in gilt;. The author was a journalist and storied war correspondent. BAL 4539. Davis was one of three men made honorary members of the Rough Riders. Davis while covering the fight contributed to the American victory.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Small octavo (5" x 8.25"), navy shadow-stripedcloth with large gilt title device. 52, (1) pp. With 3 illustrations in gilt and black and white by Charles Dana Gibson, and many illustrations aside the text. Text is bordered by a gilt garland throughout. Decorated endpapers. A simple but elegant production. Light edgewear.

Np: Privately Printed, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good.. Octavo; pp; 192; illustrated with twenty-one black and white plates; red cloth lettered in gilt;. Inscribed by the author to career diplomat and former Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew. A Scarce TR item with African Content.

Rochester N.Y.: Stecher Litho Co, 1916. Wraps. Very good. 16mo; pp; (16); illustrated seven color plates including the covers and a centerfold illustration; color pictorial wrappers;. Scarce. OCLC locates just six copies. The story in verse of a little girl and her dog with beautiful color lithos by the author.

New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1928. Limited Edition, 1/275 copies signed by the author. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 265 plus a colophon; Color frontispiece and black and white plates by the author; black cloth, gilt and decorated blue and red paper covered boards in a slipcase; Slipcase worn at edges; Very good, light edgewear. Autobiographical novel.