Search Results: Authors starting with D from Chanticleer Books

Greenwich: Dial Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. Paperback. Foredge of rear wrapper frayed, else very good. viii, 553-664, ix-xx pp., 7 full-page illustrations; original printed wrappers 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Includes first publication of Marianne Moore's poem "People's Surroundings"; Hart Crane's "Praise for an Urn." John Eglinton's "Dublin Letter" and Ezra Pound's "Paris Letter" both discuss James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in February of 1922, offering differing views on the book.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fine acetate jacket. [3], 212 pp., 173 color photo reproductions; quarto, half black cloth and decorative boards. A chronological history of the work of Joe D'Ambrosio with full descriptions and illustrations of the 92 books he has designed. Edition limited to 350 copies. This copy autographed by the author on the title page. Publisher's prospectus, also autographed by D'Ambrosio laid in.

n.p.: Midnight Paper Sales, (2002). First edition, signed, limited. Fine. Unpaginated, [60 pp], 3-color engraved title page illustration and 12 engraved 3-color numerals as chapter divisions; 12mo, marbled boards. A short story in the form of 12 personal statements by a recent immigrant to the US from the Dominican Republic. Edition of 176 copies, this #26. Signed in the colophon by the author and Gaylord Schanilec, printer and engraver. Printed by Gaylord Schanilec on Zerkall paper in monotype Walbaum. Cover paper marbled by Carol Scott, bound by Franny Bannen and Lucy Graber

Santa Cruz: (Printed at the Stalwart Sloth Press in Carmichael , California), 1985. First edition. A couple faint marks to wrappers, else very good. Orange portfolio wrappers, 12 x 8.5 inches, text on 6 folded 12 x 17 inch sheets folded to 24 pages and laid in loose, prospectus laid in. Edition of 200 copies.

Nevada City: Berliner & McGinnis, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Small bleached spot at upper corner of front cover, else very good. Red buckram cloth with gilt title, xii, 64 pp., several illustrations from photographs, floding map at rear.

New York: American Library Service, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Spine somewhat faded, else very good. ix, 316 pp., color frontispiece and several full-page illustrations from photographs. A comprehensive and highly sympathetic history of the racist organization and its frequently violent efforts to maintain white supremacy in the post-civil war South. Please note: while we offer this book for sale as part of the historic record of the USA we find the views promoted in its pages to be thoroughly repugnant.

Florence: Giulio Giannini and Son, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Hand-painted vellum covers with leather ties, 51 pp,, 5 illustrations from drawings by Giulio Giannini. History of the 15th-century Palazzo-Convent d'Annalena. The property was converted into the pensione Annalena in 1919, owned and operated by the families Calastri-Rossoni.

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1977. First edition thus. Paperback. Box lightly worn, else very good. 2 volumes in hinged tray box: 48-page full color facsimile of the original manuscript (94 x 80 mm); introductory volume XXXVII (87) pp. with bibliographical notes, typeset Dutch text with English-language paraphrase on facing pages. Both volumes in original wrappers.

New York: Derrydale Press, (1937). Limited first edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt somewhat dulled, else fine in worn slipcase. 2 volumes, original maroon bookcloth with gilt title and ornaments; octavos, xx, [1], 308; xxvi, [1], 320 pp. Publisher's order blank/title list laid in. Slipcase. Edition limited to 1250 copies, these number 5. Both volumes inscribed and signed on title pages by author to J. O. Dahl. Inscriptions dated June 29, 1937. J. O. Dahl was a food writer and editor, primarily of books and articles for the professional chef and restaurant management.

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition, signed, limited. Moderate soiling to covers, else very good. 8 unpaginated leaves; illustrated with 2 black and white wood engravings; 8vo, boards with gilt title. #404 of 500 large paper copies on English hand-made paper. Printed at the Curwen Press.

(London: Faber & Gwyer), [1927]. First edition. Faint stains to covers, else very good. 6 unpaginated leaves; illustrated with black and white wood engraving on front cover and full-page color wood engraved frontispiece; 12mo, white card wrappers. #298 of 350 copies on Zander's hand made paper. Printed at the Curwen Press.

NY: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967. Facismile of the 1499 first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, burgundy buckram with gilt spine title; [2], [102] pp., woodcut illustrations. Facsimile of the exceedingly rare 1499 first edition of this Spanish chivalric tale.

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1974). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. xiv, 160 pp., map frontispiece, 25 illustrations in the text 102 b/w plates; small quarto, red cloth and boards.

San Francisco: George Fields. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, 1936. First edition, limited to 500 copies. 1937 gift inscription to front free endpaper, else fine in plain paper jacket. Original white and orange cloth; small octavo; (11), 95 pp. Illustrated by Charles Lindstrom. Edition of 500 copies. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 255.

Georgetown, Calif.: Talisman Press, 1964. First edition. Edition limited to 750 copies.. A fine book, entirely clean and unworn, in fairly worn jacket. Original olive-green cloth; quarto; 258 pp. Fronitispiece, 2 illustrations, map endpapers. Considered the best account of French participation in the California gold rush. 4 of the 13 letters translated here were written from San Francsico, where Derbec later edited a French-language newsaper - "Echo du Pacifique" - the others from the mining districts. Kurutz 190.

London: Hutchinson & Co., (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately faded, some foxing to text, else very good. 288 pp. + publisher's 32-page catalog at rear; frontispiece and 14 full-page plates from photographsm many illustrations in the text; octavo, maroon cloth with gilt spine title. English stage magician David Devant (1868-1941) was, according to Milbourne Christopher in his Panorama of Magic "the master performer of his time."

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Fine. xvii, [1], 38 pp., illustrated, oblong printed wrappers. With envelope containing 9 original bookplates laid in Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1987. First edition. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Folio (10 x 14 inches), original linen spine and pictorial boards, pp. xiii, 199. Illustrated by Charles Shaw. Printed sheet from the printer - Wind River Press - apologizing for the publication delay laid in. Limited to 450 copies.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2004. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Hardcover. Like new. Original natural linen cloth over boards; pictorial paper inset on front cover; quarto (10 x 12 inches); xi, 363 pp. 43 full-page plates from historic photographs. Pictorial endpapers. Large folding map printed in colors at rear. A superb history of the Napa Valley from the aboriginal Wappo Indians, through the first European pioneers, to the end of the 19th century. Photographer Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was born in Folsom, CA, but lived most of his life in San Francisco. His archive of nearly 5000 images of California forms part of the Alice Phelan Sullivan Library of the Society of California Pioneers in San Francisco.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1987. First edition. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Folio (10 x 14 inches), original linen spine and pictorial boards, pp. xiii, 199. Illustrated by Charles Shaw. Printed sheet from the printer - Wind River Press - apologizing for the publication delay laid in. Limited to 450 copies. This copy signed by author on half-title page