Search Results: Authors starting with D from Shapero Rare Books

London; New York. 1st June 1785; 16th November 1785. . Manuscript, single leaf; folio (33.5 x 21 cm); blind stamp to header, signed with seals to verso, easily legible hand; marginal tears with two areas of text-loss partially repaired in tape, small hole (approx. 0.5 x 2 cm) affecting text. A power of attorney appointing the New York based merchants Nicholas Low, Thomas Lawrence and Jacob Morris to perform any such 'Actes Deeds Matters Businness and things whatsoever as may be needful requisite and necessary in the premises as they the said Constituents [i.e. Hananel and Jacob Mendes da Costa] might or could themselves do if personally present in the said State of New York', signed 1st June 1785. Later witnessed before Richard Morris, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Judicature for the state of New York, and countersigned by him on 16th November 1785 confirming the legal validity of the document. The Mendes da Costa family settled in England at the end of the seventeenth century. A… Read More

Marseilles, Images en Manoeuvres Éditions, 2003. . First edition; 4to (270 × 220 mm, 10¾ x 8 ¾ in); colour and black-and-white photographs, texts by Christian Caujolle and Bruno Le Dantec in French and English, light toning to margins as usual; photo-illustrated perfect bound wrappers, near-fine; 192pp. In Insomnia, Antoine d'Agata presents a series of nightscapes and nocturnal portraits which resulted from chance encounters. He describes his work as fulfilling 'the need to record, not as a deliberate act, but as a flat pattern of regular and extreme experiences. A practice inseparable from a particular way of looking at life, where the risk, the desire, the unconscious remains the essential elements. No moral attitude there, no judgment, but the need to explore some universes, share them through, without any precautions... It is a passage to the act of writing, to the verge of extinction, enjoyment and death.'

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. . First edition, first printing; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, near-fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, but overall a near fine, bright example with no fading to spine. The continuing adventures of the Bucket family and the splendid Willy Wonka, catapulted into the heavens via Wonka's special glass elevator, where they encounter the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies and more. The American edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator precedes the first UK edition.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1988. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake; publisher's crimson cloth, pictorial dust-jacket, correctly priced at £8.50 nett, minor rubbing and wear to top edge, otherwise a near-fine copy; 240 pp. A first edition of Dahl's superb tale of a little girl whose innate genius has her pitted against her inane parents and irate headmistress. A classic of modern children's literature, Matilda was the winner of the Children's Book Award in the year of its publication.

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. . First UK edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pink edges, slight fading to cloth at spine ends, with the unclipped dustjacket, slightly toned, head of spine chipped with loss, annotations in blue ink to rear panel, else very good. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Jelly' and an early version of what was to become Danny: the Champion of the World. With the author's fine, inscribed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Frank with love on his birthday from Roald and Oat 14 Jan. 1968'.

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. . First American edition; 4to; illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett, a few minor spots to upper endpapers, else fine; publisher's plum cloth, pictorial dust-jacket, twoclosed tears to one corner, slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1968. . First UK edition, small 4to, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, very small dent to upper joint, but overall a fine copy, uncommon in such condition. A near fine copy of Roald Dahl's third children's book The Magic Finger.

New York, Random House, 1943. . First edition, sole printing; 4to (28.6 x 23 cm); colour frontispiece, 11 full-page colour illustrations and one double-page colour illustration, plain line illustrations throughout, pictorial patterned endpapers; publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor chaffing along the bottom edge of the boards but a superb copy in the somewhat frayed, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of very minor chips. A very smart first edition copy of Roald Dahl's first book The Gremlins, a collaborative effort with Disney for a feature-length animation which, in part due to copyright issues revolving around the 'gremlin' characters, never took off. Fortunately the planes and Air Force pilots featured in the story had better luck getting off the ground, but only to be subsequently plagued by these mischievous sprites with mechanical failures and worse.Laid into this copy is a black and white photograph of an animator and Walt Disney looking at some of the concept art… Read More

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973. . First UK edition, first impression; large 8vo; black & white illustrations by Faith Jacques, contemporary ink name to front free endpaper, overall internally very good; original boards with wrap-around artwork, laminated as issued, slight wear to corner-tips and spine ends but overall very good. An attractive first British edition of Dahl's sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not easy to find in such condition.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1983. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Quentin Blake, paper stock beginning to brown as usual; publisher's blue boards, titles to spine gilt, small mark to the front free endpaper, Quentin Blake designed dust-jacket, lightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. A classic dark tale from a master of the genre, the macabre menace only slightly mitigated by the target audience being children. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Novel in 1983, The Witches was also successfully dramatised on several occasions, most famously perhaps the 1990 film featuring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, which featured a differing ending from that in the book (much to the author's chagrin). Intriguingly, it has also found itself at one time or another banned for perceived misogyny, as Dahl states that only women can be witches: 'I do not wish to speak badly about women,' the author writes. 'Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are… Read More

New York, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1982. . Limited deluxe first US edition, number 70 of 300 copies, signed by the author and illustrator; 8vo; illustrated throughout in black and white; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to upper cover, grey marbled endpapers, housed in original blue cloth slipcase; a fine example. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. Dahl's beloved story of a giant both Big and Friendly, who steals young Sophie out the window of her orphanage and whisks her away to the land of Giants to invent idioms at her and show off his dream collection. This signed limited edition, which has no UK equivalent, is increasingly scarce on the market.

London, Michael Joseph, 1979. . First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket, spine slightly sunned, a little rubbed at extremities. A collection of the further adventures of Uncle Oswald.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. . First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, near-fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little light wear to extreme head of spine with some minor rubbing to top edge of lower panel but overall a fine, bright example. The continuing adventures of the Bucket family and the splendid Willy Wonka, catapulted into the heavens via Wonka's special glass elevator, where they encounter the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies and more. The American edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator precedes the first UK edition.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. . First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman; publisher's cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine in link. With the pictorial dust jacket. Minor toning to the text but a near-fine copy in the dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made, black quarter morocco box. A very good first edition of the continued adventures of Charlie Bucket and his family, in the company of mad confectioner Willy Wonka. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Love Roald Dahl 12 Dec'.

Skt. Peterburg & Moskva, Volf, 1911-1914. . Vols. I-III fourth edition, vol. IV third edition; 4 vols, 8vo (27.2 x 19 cm), text in two columns, paginated accordingly. Contemporary red calf over red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, red edges; slightly rubbed and sunned. This was the most comprehensive dictionary of the Russian language at the time of publication. Vladimir Dahl (1801-72) dedicated 53 years of his life to this monumental work, which contains 200,000 words and uses 3,000 proverbs and sayings to illustrate their meaning. Dahl began collecting words for a future dictionary at the age of eighteen, and passed away working on its second edition. He was awarded the Konstantinivskaya Medal and Lomosov Prize for his work, and in 1868 was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The third and fourth editions were edited by Jan de Courtenay (1845 – 1929), one of the most influential linguists in Russia in the late XIX - early XX century, and are famous for their… Read More

London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. . First edition of the author's first book, number 177 of 520 copies; 8vo; bookplate on front pastedown; publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, printed dust-jacket, clipped, slightly toned, minor chipping to top edge, but overall very good. An unusually good copy of Dahlberg's first book, published first in London in both a limited and trade edition; recounting the author's childhood experiences at an orphanage in Kansas City and his travels in the American West. Roberts B26 (Lawrence)

W.C. Mayr, Kassel, circa 1760]. . Quarto. 41 etched plates (of 49, lacking engraved title and plates 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 31, 35 & 41), captions printed in German and French; light marginal soiling and water-staining to some plates, corner tear to plate 30, but images clean. Loose in recent cloth solander box. Extremely rare work on Russian costumes and the cries of St Petersburg, masterly drawn by a contemporary of Le Prince in a typical 18th-century style. Dahlsteen was born in Stockholm in 1720. He was trained as an artist and at 23 and left his native city, first for Kassel and then Riga. In 1749 he visited St. Petersburg from where he returned to Kassel by 1753, presumably where he died in 1769.Although the 'Nationalmuseum' of Stockholm holds a volume of his etchings, Dahlsteen's work related to Russia is very rare: we couldn't trace any copy at auction in the last 35 years and COPAC lists only one copy, in the British Library. Colas 776.

London, Reader's Library, [1929] . First U.K. MGM edition, small 8vo., eight full-page photographic stills from the film, tone but clean, publisher's red cloth boards gilt, pictorial dust-jacket, illustrated on both panels, small chips to spine extremities and corners, otherwise very good and bright. Following the success of The Jazz Singer, Jolson starred in this musical drama, part-talkie film that assisted in helping to cement the popularity of both sound and the musical genre.

Chandigarh, Published under the direction of Brigadier J.A.F. Dalal... Officiating Surveyor General of India, 1969. . Second edition; colour-printed lithographed plan of Delhi (142 x 102 cm), dissected and laid onto linen as issued, scale 1:20,000; framed and glazed, overall size: 151.5 x 112.5 x 2.5cm. A large colour lithographed plan of Delhi, published under the direction of Brigadier Jamshed Dalal, the Surveyor General of the Republic of India (1969-1971).The map displays a wealth of detail, including roads, railways, historical and archaeological sites of interest, water features, canals, municipal boundaries, post-offices, and contours, with a colour key explaining the symbols and abbreviations used therein, and a table of 'Places of Interest' giving the grid-references for over 300 institutions and localities.

Paris, Michèle Broutta et Pamela Verlag, 1972. . Limited edition, numbered 57 of 150; folio (48 x 35 cmO; complete with 10 drypoints printed in colours, each signed by Dali in pencil, each numbered 57/150 on Richard de Bas paper; each protected by transparent sheet, text in Italian, printed title and justification pages, printed cream dust wrapper, slightly marked, all loose and housed in red cloth foldover box with title lettered in silver; a fine copy. An excellent example of the complete portfolio of the Italian text edition of this work on Richard de Bas paper with each coloured etching numbered 57/150 and each signed by Dali in pencil. This collection of erotic love stories first written in the fourteenth century are represented by Dali's highly erotic evocative and ethereal imagery. He captures masterfully the tragic and the comic in his illustration. The images are as follows: 'La Péché Partegé', La fiancé du roi de Garbe, Le diable de Enfer, l'ange Gabriel, L'enfer des Beautés… Read More