Search Results: Authors starting with D from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1864. Hard Cover. Good binding. 12mo. vi, [2],333, [1 (blank)], 2 (ads), 16 (ads) pp., frontis. First edition. In publisher's embossed cloth with title on the spine; mounted frontispiece of Jackson is present. Binding is soiled with moderate wear including a tear in the cloth at the top of both joints; fraying to spine ends and corners; light to moderate soiling; scattered foxing, otherwise contents are clean. All in all a relatively solid copy of the first volume of a scarce first edition of this important biography. "Written by a member of Jackson's staff, with the help of Jackson's family. Next to Henderson, his most authoritative biography" Howes D-2 "aa". Dornbusch II, 2826; CWB II, 50.

Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. First edition. Number in ink on the front free endpaper else contents clean.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. ix, [3], 332 pp., plates, illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. A bright fresh copy. Illustrated throughout, including a section of color reproductions.

Union City, TN: Pioneer Press, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. xii, 112 pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright copy in a lightly shelfworn dust jacket with a small closed tear to the front fold.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. viii, [14 (genealogies)], 362 pp., ports. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fairly bright, clean copy but for a previous owner name and date on the front free endpaper and very few pencil checks in the margin; dust jacket is a bit edgeworn and soiled, but presents well; price intact on the front flap. A fairly nice copy of an increasingly uncommon history of a significant American family.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo. viii, [14 (genealogies)], 362 pp., ports. First edition. In publisher's cloth but lacking the dust jacket. Spine is sunned; covers are generally soiled; a solid binding. This copy belonged to Eppa Hunton IV, the grandson of Confederate Generals Eppa Hunton and William H. Payne, and bears his name and note in ink on the front pastedown with his pencil marginalia throughout. An interesting association copy of an increasingly uncommon history of a significant American family.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. viii, [14 (genealogies)], 362 pp., ports. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Daniels. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fairly bright, clean copy with just a bit of offsetting to the verso of the front free endpaper from something that was laid in; dust jacket is a bit edgeworn and soiled with some minor chipping to the head of the spine, but presents well; price-clipped. A fairly nice copy of an increasingly uncommon history of a significant American family.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio. [16] pp. Prospectus. As issued, in marbled cloth over thin boards; printed paper label on the spine. Quite a nice copy of this prospectus with sample page openings of each of the four volumes. This copy with publisher issued subscriber information and copy number on a slip pasted to the front pastedown. This announcement was issued in two forms, marbled cloth over thin boards and marbled paper over heavier boards. O'Day writes of Nash's Dante, "This is the magnum opus of John Henry Nash. Started in 1923, it was six years in the making. Entirely handset, and printed two pages at a time, it was a great undertaking brought to a brilliant conclusion in 1929. It is a work that takes its place with the finest examples of modern printing, such as the Kilsmscott Chaucer and the Doves Press Bible" (O'Day Catalogue p. 65). Even the announcement in book form is uncommon.

Athens, OH: Ohio Universities Library, 2000. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xvi, 134, [8, blanks for notes and colophon] pp. Limited edition. A clean copy in full cloth; corners are a trifle bumped. Issued in an edition of 450 copies, 50 of which were bound in cloth and signed by Smith and DeMott. This copy is marked "Print overrun | for Review only" and NOT signed.

Berkeley, CA: Sand Dollar, 1973. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Octavo. [20] pp. Limited edition, numbered 14 of 26 special copies on Wookey Hole paper and signed by Davidson As issued, sewn into stiff wrappers with printed jacket. A bright, fresh copy. A collection of poems on various subjects, with a particular emphasis on art history. The title page is lettered in sky blue and black with a small blue sand dollar ornament. This from a larger edition of 376 copies.

Richmond: Virginia War History Commission, 1927. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xx, 506 pp. First edition. In publisher tan cloth with title in gold on the front cover and the spine. Binding is a trifle soiled and the spine a bit darkened; few of the preliminary leaves have gentle crease where the must have been folded over and the cover closed; previous owner note in pencil on the front pastedown referencing a longer pencil annotation elaborating on the summaries of activities at one of the base hospitals.

1925. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Octavo. viii, 62, [2] pp. First edition. Stapled with stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling to the covers; contents are clean. A few leaves have some creasing/wrinkling at the time of binding; minor and while the folds are through the text, they do not inhibit reading. Fairly uncommon sketch related to Norfolk, VA during World War I. We have been able to locate only 8 copies in institutional hand (OCLC: 5114282). Scarce in commerce.

Boston: John Eliot, 1814. Disbound. Very Good binding. Octavo. 31, [1] pp. Removed from volume. Pencil notations to the title page; blind stamp to the second and third page; contents generally toned, nevertheless a reasonable copy. An uncommon address by the District Court judge and U. S. Attorney General appointed by Washington. Sabin 18844; Shaw & Shoemaker 31298.

London: Epworth Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. First edition. Previous owner name and date on the front free endpaper else a clean copy in gently shelfworn dust jacket.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 63 pp. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A sharp copy in similarly nice dust jacket.

Washington: The National Tribune, 1884. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Octavo. 467 pp., frontis. First edition. In publisher's cloth with vignette title on the front cover. A solid copy with some rubbing to the extremities including some fraying at the spine ends and corners; slight forward lean; residue from a bookplate on the front pastedown; light spotting to the preliminaries; generally but lightly toned throughout. Logan was served in both the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the Civil War. He served in both houses of Congress before and after the war. While an 1887 Chicago edition of this book is fairly common in commerce, this first edition is less so. "Logan himself furnish much of the material [for this biography]" CWB II, 51. Oxford American National Biography.

Danville, VA: Dance Brothers Company, 1899. Original Wrappers. Good binding. 12mo. 119 pp. Gray wrappers with title stamped in gold on the front cover; fairly fragile binding, particularly at the front joint and first signature. While a work of fiction, this is among that genre of vernacular history told through the lens of a freed enslaved person (Uncle Yorke in this case) in the early 19th century who recounts stories of Washington's time, Bacon's Rebellion, and "Indians." As one would expect, written in an offensively, heavy-handed dialect. Uncommon. Hayne 4789.

New York: Blelock & Co, 1866. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 12mo. 153 pp. First edition. Inscribed by the "editor" the year of publication. As issued, in publisher's cloth; all edge gilt. Light shelfwear only; a small white stain on the tail of the spine; some rippling and very faint tidelines to the inner margin of the first few dozen leaves; no visible evidence of moisture exposure to the binding. But for this rippling this is an extremely nice copy of this collection of songs, many of which relate to the Civil War and the South's heroes. Further enhanced by De Leon's inscription on the first blank.

Flushing, NY: Press of the Iron Horse, 1953. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 16mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 350 copies. As issued, sewn into stiff wrappers with a printed title label on the front cover; five numbered engravings with a 6th engraving above the colophon. Some adhesive-creep around the title label; gentle crease through a portion of the textblock; a clean, bright copy of an uncommon DePol book. It is charming "story" with engravings printed on the recto only, except for the frontispiece. DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41.

London: Dropmore Press, 1948. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto. [10], 96, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, numbered 119 of 450 copies. As issued, backed in brown morocco with cloth over boards; an unopened copy. corners bumped and light rubbing at the spine; contents clean. A fine production of an evocatively written account of the Tartar migration under threat by Russian soldiers, by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater--who was generally considered to have accomplished a great feat of literature than of history with this work.