Search Results: Authors starting with D from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947. 247 pages. Original cloth. [21.8 cm.] A fine copy in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly rubbed on extremities and has several tiny nicks, but is bright and attractive. A nice copy. Fourth printing, following the first of 1941.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987. [4], 184 pp. Original white paper covered boards. [21.5 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Just a hint of faint foxing or soil to edges of spine; some very faint tanning to endpapers; minor dust soiling to top edge. Jacket is a trifle age-toned and has a tiny closed tear to the head of the front panel with neat repair on verso, a minor scuff to the front panel, and slight evidence of soiling to the extremities. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. His presentation inscription begins on the front free endpaper: "For Eva McKenna, with the compliments and affection of the Author." It is continued on the half-title: "-- but this is not `the sequel to the Phoenix and the Mirror,' though it will form with it parts of the trinity of trilogies, The Ennead entitled `Vergil Magnus;' and may we both live to see it. A.D." The book is signed by the author on the title page, which also bears his manuscript… Read More

N.Y.: Carlton Press, [1968]. 123 pp. Original orange cloth. [21 cm]. Very nearly fine in very good plus dust jacket. Spine panel of dust jacket is sun-faded and shows tiny tears at base with repair on verso. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, dated in the year of publication, on the title page. A memoir of the author's boyhood in the vicinity of Cloud Chief, Washita County, Oklahoma. There is much also on the Gantz family. Included are recollections of a covered wagon trip to Texas, Dawson's education at the Eureka School, the expansion of roads and the coming of automobiles, the Arapahoe Indians living near Colony, social life, etc.

Philadelphia: James K. Simon, 1851. 12mo. 538 pages, plus six hand-colored plates, including frontispiece. Original embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. [17.6 cm.] Good plus. A little wear to extremities. Early gift inscription on front free endpaper. Offsetting to title page. Occasional, mostly marginal stains, affecting the text in a few places without impact on legibility. Later edition; probably the second by Simon, who previously issued the work in a smaller format and with two fewer plates in 1844. The publisher advertises this as "a new and much improved edition" and "the only complete edition published in the United States."

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem.… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 12mo. 276 pages, plus [4] pages publisher's ads at rear. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, and with gilt and blind rules on covers; yellow-coated endpapers. [19.4 cm.] Good only. Head of spine chipped to headband; shallow chip to cloth at base of spine and exposed paper colored to match cloth; wear to hinges and corners; tiny hole to rear hinge; some faint spotting to boards. Early owner's lightly penciled inscription on front endpapers: "Annie H. Stephens, Baltimore, Sept. 27, 1863." Corner chip to front free endpaper. Moderate foxing to title. Perhaps two dozen other pages similarly affected; the rest with only light scattered foxing. Slight wrinkle to some leaves along gutters. Mesh starting to show between two leaves, but signatures holding well and binding otherwise sound. FIRST EDITION. The author's third book, a diverting account of his travels in Italy, Austria, and France. Much of the work is devoted to… Read More

London: G. Wilkie, J. Cuthell, J. Stockdale, [et al.], 1816. 8vo. Leaves 21 x 13 cm. [2], xxviii, 554 pages, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. Indexes to the text and the editor's footnotes. Contemporary quarter calf with raised bands and gilt spine decorations over marbled boards with calf tips. Light wear to extremities; rubbing and a few scuffs to boards; front joint very slightly started at the base, but the binding is solid. Marginal foxing to the frontispiece; title page a little tanned and with offsetting from the frontispiece; light scattered foxing throughout. Still, about very good. Later edition. Stated as "A New Edition, with supplemental notes, and a preface biographical and critical," but probably the third edition thus, the first such having been published in 1807 soon after de Lolme's death. The work originally appeared in French in 1771 with an edition in English following in 1775. A landmark study of the English constitution. Well-received in Britain and on… Read More

New York: Oswald Pub. Co., 1925. 403 pages. Illustrated with numerous type specimens and tables, and a few engravings, all printed with the text. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. [19.3 cm.] Very good plus. Slight rubbing to spine ends, some rather faint soiling to cloth, still a nice copy. From the library of Charles Harold Lauck, Sr. (1896-1975) with his signature on the front pastedown. [Lauck was the founder of the Journalism Laboratory Press at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and its director from 1932 to 1962. The Press was noteworthy for its publication of limited-edition books and pamphlets concerning bibliography, printing history, and graphic arts education. In addition to his work at Washington and Lee, Lauck was an active member of the National Graphic Arts Education Association and the International Graphic Arts Association and served as president of the latter in 1939-1940.] Later edition, apparently being a reprint of the first edition of 1900… Read More

Paris: Jouve & Cie, 1950. 154, [1] pp. Original printed green wraps. [25.3 cm.] A very good, unopened copy. Spine is a little sun-faded and creased; lower corners are bumped. Text is clean and bright. FIRST EDITION. A bit scarce in the trade. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and index.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. vii, [1], 595 pages, plus 24-page publisher's catalog at rear. Illustrated in the text throughout. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and black rules on the covers and spine ends. [18.7 cm.] Shallow chip and short (1 cm) tear to head of spine, wear and minor tear to base of spine, some light spotting and soiling to cloth. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown. Front hinge starting, but holding well. Light foxing to title and prelims only. Short closed tear to one leaf (pp. 17-18) with inconspicuous archival repair. A good copy. From the library of British historian and numismatist, Arthur Rutter Bayley (1868-1948), with his signature on the title page and his name stamp on the half-title and on the top edge. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. Same pagination as the first edition in English, which was issued in 1870 with the title starting, "Weapons of War, Being a History of Arms and Armour . . . " The work was… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. MISSING THE SECOND HALF OF THE BOOK. xiv, [2], 306 pages [ONLY, of 609 pages], plus frontispiece and 23 full-page plates [ONLY, of 43 illustrations]. Also lacking the engraved title page. Bound with the half-title. Modern full flame calf with gilt-lettered leather spine labels; decorative printed endpapers. Binder's ticket on front pastedown reads: "G. Horner, Encuadernacion. Gomez de la Cortina 34. Eric. 15 - 21 - 17. Tacubaya, D.F." Binding is fine; book block is good, but with heavy browning to the frontispiece and uneven browning and foxing to the other plates; old gift inscription on the black verso of the frontispiece. First edition, later issue. A woefully incomplete copy, offered primarily in respect of the attractive mid-20th-century Mexican binding. Smith I, 3. Eckel, pp. 56-57.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. 8vo. 92 pages, plus [4] pages terminal ads. Text in two columns. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Chip to dedication/contents leaf with loss of two words in table of contents ("System" in "Lowell and its Factory System" and the word "to" on another line), else fair only. Both wraps detached, creased, and marginally chipped with no loss of text. Early gift inscription at head of front wrap. Several leaves with corner creases. Moderate foxing and small, light dampstain throughout. Third American edition, published just one day after the first. The two preceding American editions were published as extras by New York newspapers ("The New World" and "Brother Jonathan"). Dickens' account of his highly-publicized travels in America during the first half of 1842. He toured the northeastern states and went by steamer down the Ohio and Mississippi as far as St. Louis and through the Great Lakes. His experience of the… Read More

Boston and N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co., [printed by] Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1936. 400 pages. Original light blue cloth. [23.3 cm.] A good plus copy in fair to good dust jacket. Spine a little faded, some spotting to cloth, light foxing to endpapers. Jacket has several very small chips and several tears, with a number of non-archival tape repairs to verso; one tape repair to front panel (6.5 cm long), with transparent, but slightly toned tape; moderate foxing to spine panel; and some creasing. Upper corner of front flap is clipped with loss to last two digit of price ["$2." remains]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. Basis for the 1938 film starring Claude Rains.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., [printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge], 1923. [2], 128 pages. Original quarter dark blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards with paper spine label. [19.1 cm.] Very good plus in good dust jacket. A little cocked, minor tanning to endpapers. Jacket has chip to head of front panel with some loss to the title and a long tear with internal repair. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper, reading as follows: "To Leonard Mackall, with friendly remembrances from John Drinkwater. September, 1923." Leonard Leopold Mackall (1879-1937), a native of Baltimore, made numerous contributions to scholarly journals in the fields of bibliography, philology, and history. He was a noted Goethe scholar who resided in Jena for a number of years and helped edit his correspondence. Americanists will recognize him for his "Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library" (3… Read More

. New York: The Bowling Green Press, [printed and bound by William Edwin Rudge, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.], 1928. 34, [1] pages. Original white paper spine and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt. [23.2 cm.] Near fine in original unprinted parchment dust jacket. Spine a trifle sunned, upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket sunned on the spine panel and a little wrinkled with several tiny tears on the top edge. FIRST EDITION. One of 800 copies set by Bertha M. Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough, N.Y., using types designed by Frederic W. Goudy. The text is an essay on Lincoln's legacy by the English playwright, John Drinkwater (1882-1937).�