Search Results: Authors starting with D from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

New York: Macmillan, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, cloth,

Metro Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to, 224 pages, cloth; inked name on endpaper With chapters on mounted samurai, skirmishers, pikemen, commanders, firearms, artillery, and siege techniques. With more than 300 color line drawings, photographs, and maps, with step-by-step demonstrations of skills and postures, including how to fire a bow, fight with a katena, pike combat and tactics, firing an harquebus, etc.

New York: Blelock & Co., 1866. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; x, 742 pages, half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, extra-gilt spine with leather labels (title label scuffed), foxing The first one-volume edition (preceded by the first volume which appeared in 1864). "Dabney, a Virginia clergyman, wrote this biography at the invitation of Jackson's family; while the work is polemical in its defense of the Southern cause, it contains much primary materiall." - Nevins, CIVIL WAR BOOKS, II:p.50. [ Howes D2; Sabin 18255 ]. Dabney was a theology professor who joined as a Confederate States Army chaplain, who went on to become Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff. Portrait frontispiece of Jackson.

Utica: Gardiner Tracy, 1837. 24mo; 240, 7, 1,2 pages, stained, contemporary full calf, worn, spine deteriorating. With the additions of the Farmers' and Mechanick's Best Method of Book-keeping. By Samuel GREEN. "In 1800 Daboll published his SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. . It's monetary problems involved both the English and American system, and it was the first book to make frequent use of the # symbol - Nietz, p. 161-162." [ Checklist of American imprints, 43937].

Ithaca, NY: Mack & Andrus, 1831. New edition. Hardcover. fair. 24mo; 226, 7, 12 pages, stained, contemporary full calf, worn, covers detached. With the additions of the Farmers' and Mechanick's Best Method of Book-keeping. By Samuel GREEN. "In 1800 Daboll published his SCHOOLMASTER'S ASSISTANT. ... It's monetary problems involved both the English and American system, and it was the first book to make frequeqnt use of the # symbol - Nietz, p. 161-162."

New York: Scholastic, 1972. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 16mo, 320pp., white wrappers; inked name on title-page, tight Alphabetical guide to the musicians and staffers (such as Brian Epstein) active in the Sixties. Bantam book TK 1937.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Good. I12mo, nked names on brown coated endpapers, bevelled edges, tip of spine chipped, 86pp. An essay revised from its original appearance in the "New York Medical Journal", 1866. DaCosta is a Garrison-Morton author (2770) for Da Costa's Syndrome, aka soldier's heart. He pioneered in this respiratory treatment by atomizer. Respiratory therapy dates back 6 thousand years, or about a century, depending upon your point-of-view.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, ( 1959 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo, 288 pages, clothbacked boards; dj chipped at head of spine. Dahl describes his experiences as a mental patient at two mental hospitals . As his illness progressed, he evolved and tried to implement a fanatical plan to save the world from sin. All who opposed him were, he thought, insane. HE was the sold possessor of ultimate truth. Inscribed to a mental health worker of Lake County, Indiana. Foreword by Dr. George S. Stevenson.

Washington DC : Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Navy Department, 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo, iv, 102 pages, printed wrappers, x-library with only a circular stamp on the top cover, and an added pamphlet binder sews cloth over the spine. Issued as NAVMED 127. Illustrated. "This manual is designed to enable serviceman to live off the lad if he becomes separated from his unit. It illustrates and describes common edible and poisonous plants of the Caribbean region, chiefly of Central America and the West Indies."

Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2006. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, 239 pages + price list, These selections cover books from post-WWI. It is also the catalogue of a exhibition at the end of 2006. Fully illustrated.

Chicago: George A. Ogle & Co., 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto, 680 pages, contemporary full morocco, gilt, tips of spine chipped, loose hinges, cellophane tape on lower joint. Pencilled notes re L. A. Hosmer, Postmaster of Milltown (made, presumably, by his daughter for great-grandson, Durward Carpenter (?). Scarce. Extensive biographical compilation, with 26 full-page portraits of South Dakotans, and other illustrations of national celebrities.

Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Quarto, 680 pages (not collated), publisher's embosses leather, gilt, bevelled edges very worn, spine chipped and joints previously repaired with transparent tape. Offered "As Is" only. Hundreds of biographies, numerous illustrations

Wall, SD: American Legion Auxiliary, ( 1965 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, 475 pages + Index, A massive history of Pennington County including its famous town of Wall, South Dakota. There are also two pages of cattle brands of the county. Lengthy biographies of the 20th century residents of the county, replete with many photographs.

Wall, SD: American Legion Auxiliary, ( 1965 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, 475 pages + Index, A massive history of Pennington County including its famous town of Wall, South Dakota. There are also two pages of cattle brands of the county. Lengthy biographies of the 20th century residents of the county, replete with many photographs. This includes Ziebach County, which began in 1877, when it was carved out of Pennington County, until it was re-absorbed into Pennington County in 1883.

New York: Pocket Books, (1969). First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo, 125 pages, metallic green wrappers, inked inscription and ownership on inside of top cover. "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes - quoted in Newsweek, 3/13/67" This is about Mayor Richard J. Daley; but, in truth, a sequel volume might have been done for his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ( 1968 ). Later printing. Hardcover. Good. Tall 8vo, 246 pages, orange cloth Col

No place: Ferris Publications, 1984. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo, orange wrappers, 50pp. Poet Dalton edited Poetry View / Poetry Scope from 1970 to 1982.

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1867. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xxiv, 695, 32 pages, including publisher's ads; full sheep Revised and Enlarged. Dalton was the Professor of Physiology at New York's College of Physicians and Surgeons. "In the important feature of illustration, Dalton's work is without a peer, either in adaptedness to the text, simplicity and graphicness of deign, or elegance of artistic execution - Chicago Med. Examiner".

Topsfield, MA: Salem House Pub, 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. 4to, cloth Contains about 100 color photographs by Stephen Dalton, including a number not previously published from his work in 1984-1986, which demonstrates the results from his notable innovations in high-speed illumination, which allowed high-speed photographs. His focus was on small animals and insects. He was the first to be capable of stopping an insect in flight with absolute clarity. One chapter explains how he pursued breaking the high-speed barrier from 1970-1975: one stunning owl picture took three weeks to get.

NY: Scribner, (1991). First. 8vo. fine blue clothbacked bds.; fine dj. The second Cat Marsala mystery