Search Results: Authors starting with D from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Quebec: Banque D' Epargne, 1987. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. 96 pages. Soft cover bound in blue and green wrappers. Light to moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. Illustrated. Text in French.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 629 pages, indexed. Hardcover in brown and white dust jacket. DJ has edge-wear, chipping, small tears. Spine is sunned. Prior owner's name written on front flyleaf. Text is clean. INSCRIBED by the author on the second front flyleaf and dated Dec. 26, 1974.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 154, (1) pages, indexed. Hardcover with a brown pictorial dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to the jacket. The outside edges and the endpapers of the book are foxed. The text is generally clean. The jacket is not price-clipped. Number line ont he copyright page runs from 1 to 10.

Chicago: Smith and Miller, 1886. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. Unpaginated. Hardcover is quarter bound in red cloth with colour illustration pastedown on front cover. The binding is smudged, the colours of the illustration have faded. The boards are rubbed and spotted. Headcap/foot of spine have a small piece of cloth missing. The front board has detached from the text block but the cloth of the spine is still attached, keeping the book together. The front flyleaf is missing. There is a 1 inch tear on the top of the title page. Text is toned, foxed.

N. P.: N. P., 1765. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 235 pages. Hardcover in full brown leather with a black label pastedown on spine. The binding shows heavy rubbing and wear and scuffs to the leather. Corners are rubbed down to boards. The front hinge is cracking, and the foot of the spine is chipped. Leather at headcap is split for one inch on both sides. Spine is scuffed. The gilt designs on the spine are very faint, missing in some places. All edges of the text block are red. The endpapers are marbled. The recto side of the front flyleaf has pencilled notation. The text is toned and has some occasional foxing. No publisher or place printed. Worldcat suggests London, Edinburgh, and France. We would have expected Paris. Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and co-editor of Encyclopedie by Diderot.

Edinburgh and London: Printed for William Creech and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. x, 351; 382; [385] pages. Hardcovers bound in 19th century 3/4 brown leather with plum cloth-covered boards. All edges marbled. Red and black leather labels on the spines. The bindings are rubbed and scuffed but sound. Possible ex-library set with evidence of labels removed from the spines. No interior library markings. The front pastedowns have a prior owner's 1936 signature ("Ian Battle"?) from Edinburgh. Endpapers foxed. The text is toned but generally clean. Complete three volume set.

High Point, NC: Hall Printing Company, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 188 pages + index. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with gilt. Nice Clean Sound copy.

Tualatin, OR: N. P., 2000. Hardcover. Good. 4to. 145, 28, 82, 54, 17 pages, indexed. Hardcover in grey cloth. Binding is soiled. Title is on front cover and spine in gilt. Some spotting/soiling inside front and rear covers.Text is clean and sound.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 376 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in tan cloth. Light wear to the binding. A fresh, clean copy. Illustrated.

Laurinburg, NC: St Andrew's Press, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo. 105 pages. Softcover in blue and silver illustrated covers. Binding is lightly rubbed. Prior owner's name imprint on half title page. Text is clean and sound.

Amsterdam / New York: N. Israel / Da Capo Press, 1971. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo. 311 pages, indexed. Hardcover in tan cloth with red label pastedown on front cover and spine. Binding is foxed. Edges of text block and the text itself are foxed.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo. 277 pages, indexed. Hardcover in tan and black dust jacket. DJ has been placed in protective mylar sleeve. There is occasional underlining in the text. Good reading copy.

Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 212 pages. SIGNED softcover bound in white wrappers. Covers and spine are lightly toned. Author has signed front flyleaf. Text is lightly toned at outer edges but is otherwise sound.

Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Company , 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 239 pages. Hardcover bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. There is moderate wear to the binding, which has begun to fray at the edges and is smudged on the front cover. The back cover appears to have several small ink stains. The outer edges of the text block are toned. There is foxing and/or discoloration to the title page and somewhat sporadically throughout the text. Hinges are secure. Text is unmarked and sound. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, "To W. W. Daniel from his brother- the author, with affection. / J. W. Daniel. / Jan. 28th, '15 / Charleston S.C. / 89 Pitt St." Rev. James Walter Daniel (1856-1936) was born in Laurens County, South Carolina and died in Seneca, South Carolina. He was a member of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His brother, William Wellington… Read More

Austell, Georgia: Sweetwater Press, 1976. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated. Slim soft cover bound in gold wrappers. Moderate wear to the binding; there is some damping to the top corner throughout the text block but not affecting the text. SIGNED by the author on the title page. This is number 67 of 300 copies.

Raleigh: The Graphic Press, Inc., 1949. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Poor. 4to. 61 pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. The binding is worn and rubbed, especially about the edge. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's signature and embossed blindstamp on the front flyleaf. A sound copy and clean within.

Washington, D.C.: Pictorial Bureau, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 374 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth. The binding shows rubbing and wear, and the front cover has light pale spotting. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. Daniels, a North Carolina native, businessman and journalist, was also the Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson in WWI.

Raleigh, N.C.: Mitchell Printing Presses, 1945. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 199 pages, indexed. First edition, signed hardcover bound in blue cloth. Binding is rubbed. Front flyleaf has an inscription written by one of the Daniels relatives to Martha and Frank Graham. Presumably this is Frank Porter Graham, of North Carolina fame.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 262 pages, indexed. First edition hardcover bound in blue cloth. Some rubbing on covers. SIGNED by Governor R Gregg Cherry of North Carolina on front flyleaf. Written inscription on front flyleaf. Some notations/underlining in text, which is otherwise sound.

Chapel Hill: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1975. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 4to. 307, (2) pages. Hardcover bound in red cloth. Modrerate rubbing to the binidng, which is unevenly sunned. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean but a little musty. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf: "To Dr. Daniel, with appreciation for your consideration. Joe.