Search Results: Authors starting with D from Classic Books and Ephemera

Paris: Gravure Goupil et Cie, 1882. Very Good -. The sheet is 11.5 x 15 inches; the image is 7.25 x 10 inches. The print is a black-and-white image of the painting Manon Lescaut by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929). No date of publication. The series The Masterpieces of French Art was issued in the United States beginning in 1882. Portfolios containing several photogravure prints and several wood engravings were published on a monthly basis. Gravure Goupil et Cie became Boussod, Valadon & Cie in 1884. A strikingly beautiful image. In Very Good- Condition: closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge; sunned along two edges; image is clean and bright.

Firenze, Italy: Luigi Pampaloni, 1924. Fair. xviii, [10], 216, [8], I-16, II-20, III-26 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown flexible cloth printed in black. Advertisement on back cover for Veedol motor oil. Advertisements throughout. Automobile Club di Milano -- at head of front cover and title page. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of poet Leolyn Louise Everett. Leolyn Louise Everett Spelman (1888-1971) and her husband, composer Timothy Mather Spelman, spent much of their time in Italy, particularly in Florence. This guide is entirely Italian and heavily illustrated, with many advertisements. An interesting guide to the Umbrian region of Italy in the 1920s, even without the maps, which some unkind person has removed. In Fair Condition: back joint separating from head; ends of spine rubbed and frayed; front hinge largely separated; front free endpaper and first leaf (blank) detached but present; text block separated between I-6 and I-7 (advertisement section); leaf with pages 205 and 206… Read More

Firenze, Italy: Soc. An. Itiner. Autom. d'Italia, 1926. Fair. By Giotto Dainelli and Orlando Grosso. xvi, [8], 185, [9], I-28, II-16, III-18, [8] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Brown flexible cloth printed in black. Advertisement on back cover for Veedol motor oil. Advertisements throughout. Automobile Club di Milano--at head of front cover and title page. Entirely in Italian. Heavily illustrated and with many advertisements. An interesting guide to Genoa and the Ligurian region of Italy in the 1920s, even without the maps, which some unkind person has removed. In Fair Condition: spine faded; ends of spine rubbed and slightly frayed; front hinge separated; lacking folded map to go in back pocket; the maps called for on the cover and title page are also lacking; pages are unmarked.

New York: West Virginia Pulp and Paper, 1964. Paperback. Very Good -. 28 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback, stapled. "Written and designed by Carl Dair" -- p. 28. Presents a short history of typography and demonstrates the uses of various fonts. In Very Good- Condition: lower corners of front and back covers scraped; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: West Virginia Pulp and Paper, 1965. Paperback. Very Good. 32 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback, stapled. "Written and designed by Carl Dair" -- inside back cover. Demonstrates the use of various fonts to inscrease legibility in different situations. With: Alphacast, a laminated card to help estimate how much space a typewritten manuscript will occupy when set in any given size and style of type. In Very Good Condition: front cover slightly soiled along upper edge; otherwise, clean and bright.

Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1918. Paperback. Good +. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics. "Alfred Gessler 1922" in pencil at upper edge of first page. Volume and number of issue have been trimmed off along the top edge. Back wrapper contains advertisement for reproductions of a painting by Hugo Vogel titled "Hindenburg als Oberbefehlshaber Ost mit seinem Generalstab." Eugen d'Albert's opera Tiefland (The Lowlands) is based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra Baixa by Àngel Guimerà. It was first performed in 1903 at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague. In Good+ Condition: front wrapper scraped along spine; lightly browning and slightly brittle; faint dampstain along lower edge of back wrapper; otherwise clean and complete.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine. [10], 229 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Label on front cover reading: "Advanced Uncorrected Proof." Virtually all the front matter, typical with uncorrected proofs, is incomplete. Back cover discusses the marketing plan and notes that the expected publication date was June 1997. The cover design matches that used on the dust jacket when published; the design used on the trade paperback was different. Historical fiction set in the Colorado Territory in the 1860s. ISBN: 0-312-15515-8. In Near Fine Condition: corners very slightly rubbed; clean and tight.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First American Edition. [2], 250 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Red cover with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

London: William Innys, 1716. Hardcover. Very Good. [16], 304, [16] p.; 20 cm. Contemporary calf boards; flax spine repair dyed to match boards, with gilt-tooled leather spine label. Publisher's advertisements on page following Contents and on final page after the end of the index. Title page within double-ruled border. Woodcut head-pieces, tailpieces, and initial letters. Engraved armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper: Richard Snead Cox, Eaton Bishop. Richard Snead Cox (1820-1899) of Broxwood Court in Eaton Bishop, Hertsfordshire, England, was the father of the painter Walter Ignatius Cox, who eventually settled in San Francisco. Ex-library: stamped "The Pennsylvania State University Library" on title page verso; no other library markings. This is the very scarce first edition of the English translation by Colen Campbell (1676-1729) of the Historia General del Reino de Mallorca by Juan Dameto and Vicente Mut. Includes index. Lacking the 2 maps; otherwise, in Very Good… Read More

New Haven: Sidney's Press / Increase Cooke & Co, 1806. Hardcover. Good +. From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co. Book-Sellers." 502 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Dana's Sermons." Early American Imprints, Second series (Shaw & Shoemaker), no. 10249. The author, James Dana (1735-1812), was a graduate of Harvard and an Old Light Congregationalist minister. His appointment to a church in Wallingford, Conn., in 1758 inspired a pamphlet war between supporters of the Old Light and New Light factions called the Wallingford Controversy. Among the sermons in this volume is "Caution Against Bad Books." In Good+ Condition: leather is rubbed with minor loss at spine ends; both joints starting at tail, but volume is still solid; pp. 483-4 has a closed tear from upper edge along gutter for about two thirds of the way down; paper is browned with occasional foxing; clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, 1885. Paperback. Very Good -. 35 p.; 17 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Wrapper title: In Memory of Hon. E. A. Rollins. American lawyer and banker Edward Ashton Rollins (1828-1885) served as the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1861 to 1862 and as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1865 to 1869. He moved to Philadelphia in 1868 as the President of the National Life Insurance Company and later he became President of Centennial National Bank. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled with loss at lower spine and minor loss at lower corners; back wrapper is partially separated along spine; minor loss at some page corners.

Torino, Italy: Giulio Einaudi, 2003. Paperback. Very Good +. vi, [2], 171, [7] p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the publisher's series Einaudi Tascabili -- Letteratura. Gift inscription by the editor on the series title page. Reflections by 17 American writers, musicians, and intellectuals on the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Entirely in Italian. Contributors include: Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Grace Paley, and Don De Lillo. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good +. x, 106 p.: illustrations, charts, tables; 22 cm. Yellow cloth with red and green spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Part of the American College of Sports Medicine Series. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; back free endpaper discolored; otherwise, clean and tight.

Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Gallery & Arts, 2000. Fine. 10 color postcards in color illustrated folder, identified as series 11 on the folder, which can be cut into 3 additional postcards. The photographs are by Chan Dara. No date of publication. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Siem Reap, Cambodia: Angkor Gallery & Arts, 2000. Fine. 10 color postcards in color illustrated folder, identified as series 15 on the folder, which can be cut into 3 additional postcards. The photographs are by Chan Dara. No date of publication. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: W. Reid Gould, 1868. Near Fine. 1 indenture (4 pages; 42 cm.) published by W. Reid Gould, successor to Jansen & Bell, 158 Nassau St., N.Y. Printed and handwritten with 2 Internal Revenue stamps. Margaret J. Darcy mortgages for $124 lot #323 on the west side of Water St. and south side of Broad St., in Newburgh, N.Y. Signed by Margaret J. Darcy and Edward Darcy, and by the Orange County notary public, Jno. C. Noe. Homer Ramsdell, George W. Townsend, and James A. Townsend were successful wholesale grocers in Newburgh from 1858 to 1876. The clerk has written "Darcey" but they sign their name "Darcy." In Near Fine Condition: one horizontal fold and two vertical folds; clean and bright.

Williamsburg, Va: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978. Paperback. Fine. Third printing. vii, [1], 16 p.: music; 16 x 22 cm. Paper covers printed with a cover title on a beige rectangle within a decorative border, on a faux green marbled background. Originally for violin; here set for piano or harpsichord by J.S. Darling. Edited from manuscript music books of the Bolling family of Chellowe Plantation, Buckingham County, Va., now in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library. Contents: Trumpet March -- Minuet by Mr. Pelham -- Patterson's Hornpipe -- Cannonade at Yorktown by Linnaeus Bolling -- Pease Upon a Trencher -- Congo: a Jig -- Windsor Forest: a Hornpipe -- Lord Loudoun's March. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

West Chester, Pa: printed for the author, by S. Siegfried, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good -. "For Sale by Kimber and Sharpless, Philadelphia." xxiii, [1], 640 p., frontispiece (engraved, hand-colored map of Chester County); 20 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on leather label in second compartment. Includes index of the genera and species, and index of English and foreign names. First Edition. Former owner's name on blank page following front endpapers: Joseph J. Hopkins. The author, William Darlington (1782-1863), was the president of the Chester County Bank (or National Bank of Chester County), represented Pennsylvania in Congress, founded and was president of the Chester County Medical Society, and was a well-known botanist. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; front board is scraped; closed tear in frontispiece map, archivally repaired; old dampstain along lower edge of endpapers only; foxing throughout,… Read More

Salem, N.J., 1840. Hardcover. Good. [approx. 650] p.; 41 cm. Remains of original leather binding. Ledger book of David Smith Darmon (1815-1879), a saddler in Salem, N.J. The first part of the ledger begins on April 15, 1840, and goes to Feb. 26, 1858, in Salem, N.J. The next page is headed "Philadelphia July 16 1859." The Philadelphia entries run through March 1860. The next page is headed "The Regular Book of Entries Belonging to David S. Darmon" and starts with April 11, 1865, in Salem, N.J. This suggests that the business had been taken over by David Smith Darmon, one of the sons of David Smith Darmon (1815-1879), the latter generally known as Smith Darmon. This section runs to April 1875. The next section begins in Salem in Feb. 1889 but does not identify the person who "Commenced business this date." It runs to the beginning of 1892. The final section contains entries from the 1870s. David Smith Darmon (1815-1879) worked with leather as well as renting… Read More

Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1853. Hardcover. Fair. 4th edition "augmentée des critiques et observations de M. Tiepolo et de leur réfutation par M. le comte Daru." Volume 9 only: [4], 568 p.; 22 cm. Leather. All page edges red. Front free endpaper bears inscription: "Presented as a token of remembrance to George H. Fisher from his cousin E.F. Wistar 1872." Front fixed endpaper bears inscription: "M. Wistar." The first 224 pages contains an index to the set. Includes "Observations de M. Almoro Tiepolo sur L'Histoire de Venise, et Réponses de M. le comte Daru on p. 225-568. In Fair Condition: lacking leather over spine; both boards are largely detached; leather is scraped on front board; small shadow on first few leaves; otherwise pages are clean and tight.