Search Results: Authors starting with D from BiblioStax

Washington, DC: U.S. Geological Survey, 1963. Brown wraps moderate wear. Pages fine. Includes maps at back in envelope. 143 pages.. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1992. Glossy pictorial boards w/matching jacket, slight shelf wear. Pages fine. Bright, rich color illustration. Extra-wide 10" x 8 1/4" design. Retells the traditional nursery rhyme which takes the reader through the kingdom and through the day. The text appears in English, French, and Spanish at each page w/bright, charming full-page illustration across. Fine string-bind. Apprx. 30 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Tarrytown, New York: Wynwood Press, 1992. Inscribed at endpaper: "To Nathan, Follow Your Dreams! - Tim Daggett". Brown boards, dk. brown cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Dj lt. edge wear; unclipped 18.00, protected in new clear sleeve. In 1984, Tim Daggett clinched the first-ever Gold Medal for the U.S. Men's Gymnastics team. Then, in 1987, he fell 15 feet from the high bar, rupturing a disc. But he fought his way back to contend in the World Championships, only to suffer an even more devastating injury. Facing More...possible leg amputation, he refused to give up. 8-page photo insert. Author to be a commentator at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. 235 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Stated first edition, C-Z. Navy cloth boards, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Pages very good, no writing in text body. Large photo plate section. Dj flaps adhered inside front board. 321 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

19 Union Square West, New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1986. Stated at copyright page: "First American edition, 1986". Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl on custom Farrar Straus Giroux bookplate tipped-in at half-title page: "Roald Dahl". Very attractive. Unique partial cream colored boards with royal blue extra-wide cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine, no writing. Original dust wrapper, near fine; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features jacket painting by Sir Matthew Smith, 1942, from Dahl's collection. Beautifully illustrated throughout and at endpapers w/classic black & white collage snapshots of Dahl, WWII, family and friends. A near fine first edition in original wrapper. Everyone who has entered 'the brilliantly colored, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical world Roald Dahl conjures will be longing to learn what happens to the supreme storyteller in Going Solo. A tale of deadly snakes on the… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Stated at copyright: "Ninth Printing, December 1975." Rather whimsically signed twice in bold black felt-tip by Roald Dahl, to himself: "To Roald Dahl !!!! Love, Roald Dahl." Jacket front flap and pastedown display shadowing from signatures. Compact 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" design. Grey full cloth boards, crisp red and black impressed cover and spine design, titles, light shelf wear. Deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Original first edition wrapper design by Charles E. Skaggs, light shelf wear, rub; unclipped 7.95, protected in new clear sleeve. With a Note About the Author and a Note on the Type. 308 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Skaggs, Charles E. (Jacket Design]. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Scarce second printing w/five line colophon; matching wrapper without isbn number at back. Charming original illustration throughout by Joseph Schindelman. Includes the infamous Oompa-Loompa illustrations (excised in later editions). Dark red full cloth boards, embossed title design at front board, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, toning. Dark, chocolate colored top edge. Pages generally very good. Few leaves at center with varying chocolate colored smudge, corner crease. Neat vintage inscription penned at half-title page: "12-25-68, To Terri, We thought you would really enjoy this book cause it sounds like a goody - book - Love Dad & Mom." Mustard colored endpapers. Bind fine, light cant; hinges intact. Classic original pictorial dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, toning, rub; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Scarce near good first edition in near very good original wrapper. Concerning the adventures of four nasty children… Read More

London: Puffin Books, 1978. Stated First published by George Allen & Unwin 1973. Seventh printing; published 1978. Pictorial wraps, moderate cover, corner, edge wear, rub. Unique wrap-around design to back cover. Pages good, toned. Front endpaper removed; first page is title page. Bind good. Dynamic, exciting wrap-around cover by Faith Jaques depicts scene of Charlie and Wonka characters blasting into space in glass enclosure over arms raised children below. Illustrated throughtout by the inimitable Faith Jacques. Large paperback design. Several pages at back with summaries of other Puffine titles from Dahl & others. Near good early printing. Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it in a great glass elevator! When the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise,… Read More

Puffin Books , 1986. Front cover neatly clipped along spine edge. Pages very good. Good reading copy. 208 pages. Snatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her! Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem… Read More

London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1980. Scarce import; collection of the beloved Roald Dahl's short stories. Stated at copyright: First Published in this edition by Michael Joseph Limited in 1980. Published simultaneously by Penguin Books. Purple and orange pictorial wraps, moderate shelf wear, crease. Center portion of front wrap clipped; formerly inscribed Dahl to "Steve" - Dahl's writing of Steve remains verso cover. Dahl and summary review at back. Pages very good. Bind good, intact. Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories, the surprises are as wicked and witty as ever. Taken from "Someone Like You", "Kiss Kiss" and "The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar", plus four brand new stories, they lure you into a world as full of unease, coincidence and black humour as you could wish. This title covers stories including: "Poison";… Read More

Middlesex, England: Penguin Group Ltd., 1978. Stated at copyright: Published in Penguin Books 1976. Originally signed by Roald Dahl, but this has been clipped from book - in Roald Dahl's pen remains his handwritten words: "To Doris". Black wraps some cover, edge wear. Pages good; one page w/sentence underscored. Classic '70's cover design of two circles w/smaller circle and tassels at center in yellow and pink on black b.g. These four stories are, by turns, funny, bawdy, touching, and outrageous. They are for lovers of tales that combine the macabre and the erotic with intriguing twists of plot. Originally published in Playboy magazine. 140 pages. Insured post.. First Penguin Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Stated First Edition. Red full-cloth boards, gilt stamped spine titles and RD at cover, light shelf wear. Deckled pages fine. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 5.95, protected in new, clear sleeve. Very attractive. Classic jacket illustration by Charles Shields of symmetrical reclining bare women, men facing each other, and a woman w/large bust in red, white and blue haltertop w/silhouette of Egyptian setting in b.g. Near fine first edition in same wrapper. These four stories originally appearing in Playboy are, by turns, funny, bawdy, touching, and outrageous. They are for lovers of tales that combine the macabre and the erotic with intriguing twists of plot. Contains four stories: "The Visitor," "The Great Switcheroo," "The Last Act," and "Bitch." 140 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake at limitation page: "This edition of The Wtiches, signed by the author and the illustrato, is limited to three hundred copies, of which this is copy number '177'. 'Roald Dahl,' 'Quentin Blake.'" Stated First American Edition, 1983, at copyright. Brilliant blue cloth boards, stylized red metallic spine titles, slight shelf wear. Red metallic vignette of mouse about to feast on beans. Pages very good; no writing. Last couple with slight 1/2" blue bleed from bottom; also fairly faint bleed near gutter of lower exterior text block. Fine matte blue endpapers at front and back. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautiful original yellow slipcase, slight shelf wear; light blue bleed to interior. Dedication page To Liccy. Sharp near fine limited edition. The Witches was the 1983 winner of the Whitbread Award for Children's Books. Left an orphan at age 7, the hero… Read More

Amsterdam: Meulenhoff Editie, 1982. Vertaald door Else Hoog. Stiff pictorial wraps, moderate wear. Pages near fine. Formerly inscribed by Roald Dahl with "To Erik" remaining at partially clipped endpaper. Humorous cover illustration of hairied gorilla man with pipe in mouth holding baby bottle and tormented wife holding infant w/messed room in b.g. Collection of short stories from 'Kiss Kiss' translated into Dutch. 251 pages.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Rare first edition, first state with six-line colophon with matching original wrapper without isbn number at back. Charming, original illustration throughout this first edition by Joseph Schindelman. Includes the infamous Oompa-Loompa illustrations (excised in later editions). Set into volume is First Day Cover beautifully signed by Roald Dahl for the "The Year of the Child" in 1979: "Roald Dahl." First Day of Issue envelope features four charmingly illustrated postal stamps with silver silhouettes of the Queen and color designs of: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit; The Wind in the Willows; Winnie-the-Pooh; and, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Also, what appears as a child's color drawing with row of little ones waving in wheeled carts. Very attractive. Pictorial white cloth boards feature the original jacket design at front, spine, and back cover. Boards with moderate discoloration, some corner, edge wear, bump. Small black… Read More

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Viking - Penguin Books , 1986. Stated at copyright: "First Published 1986". First printing. Beautifully signed by Roald Dahl on custom pictorial bookplate at front endpaper: "Roald Dahl". Unique bookplate appears to be of tiger in jungle foliage preparing to pounce; but, Dahl has signed this plate upside-down and a facial expression of an awestruck child can be seen when held this way. Black full-cloth boards, sharp gilt impressed spine titles, fine. Pages near fine, no writing. Features a smooth color frontispiece with full and partial page imagery. Illustrated by Graham Dean in a rather impressionist or abstract way throughout. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dynamic dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 5.95 GBP, protected in new clear sleeve. Designed by Bet Ayer, jacket appears to imply with deep red and black areas torn in two representing love and death. Near fine rarity. From front flap: Roald Dahl is recognized as a master in… Read More

New York: Random House, 1943. Oversize 9" x 11 1/4" design. Red pictorial boards with bold yellow titles, black spine titles on brick red cloth spine wrap, moderate corner wear, rub. Cover depicts the gremlins at work destroying an RAF fighter plane at front; back cover features similar vignette, hand drill and saw in hand on rear wing. Yellow endpapers feature monochromatic red collage scenes of the horned gremlins playfully using their tools of pickaxe, bombs, oil cans, saws, hammers, etc. with silhouette planes in b.g. Pages very good, clean; no writing. Bind good; hinges intact. Scarce sharp first edition with moderate wear. A whimsical tale of devilish imps creating aerial havoc for the Allied Forces in the skies of WWII. Full page color designs throughout, with b&w illustrations, partial-page imagery and vignettes. Roald Dahl was sent to Washington DC in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday… Read More

Thirty-Two Bedford Square, London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Stated First Published 1980; fourth printing, 1985. Beautifully signed and inscribed by Roald Dahl at front endpaper: "Olwen, Love Roald Dahl." Bold large inscription and signature fills the page. According to prior collector, Olwen in this case refers to Olwen Barnard (born Hill-Duffy), a relation to Sir Joseph Brian Barnard of North Yorkshire. Olwen, pronounced O-loon, is of Welsh origin and a name for girls translating as "white footprint" or "white track." According to legend, the goddess Olwen was so gentle and fragile that white trefoils or clovers grew in her footprints. Olwen is a Welsh favorite, and was also the name of a legendary princess in what is believed to be the earliest Arthurian romance. Other sources cite Olwen as a Welsh sun goddess whose name means golden wheel. According to this tale, she overcame thirteen obstacles to obtain her true love; and thus teaches tenacity in obtaining… Read More

London: Puffin Books, 1975. Stated First published by George Allen & Unwin 1973. Published, Reprinted by Puffin Books 1975. Originally this book was signed by Roald Dahl at the title page which is partially clipped; Dahl's writing "Trudi" remains at the partially clipped page. Pages good, toned. Bind good. Dynamic, exciting wrap-around cover by Faith Jaques depicts scene of Charlie and Wonka characters blasting into space in glass enclosure over arms raised children below. Illustrated throughtout by the inimitable Faith Jacques. Large paperback design. Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it in a great glass elevator! When the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in orbit around the earth. A daring adventures… Read More

Puffin Books, 1985. Front cover neatly clipped along spine edge. Pages very good. Bind good. Charmingly illustrated throughout by Faith Jaques in a unique near sci-fi fashion with simple, yet great, detail reminiscent of the original Chocolate Factory imagery. Good reading copy. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. Picking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off, Charlie and his family along with Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in a great glass elevator. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it! When the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise our heroes begin shooting into the sky headed for destinations unknown. Charlie and his family find themselves in orbit above the earth and a new daring adventure has begun with Mr. Willy Wonka leading the way. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical… Read More