Search Results: Authors starting with D from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Boston, Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. G.F.B. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. No date of publication, but appears to be 1880s or thereabouts. Oblong format, illustrated paper over boards, plastic jacket protector. Verses by C.D.B., and drawings by G.F.B. Toning to endpapers, dissipating, shadowing at title page owing to the full-color frontis illustrations opposite. Cracked front pastedown No pagination, but roughly 20 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Complete in two volumes both being bound in printed softpaper wraps, but rebound for library or institutional use in gray buckram cloth and with sharp and distinct black lettering to both spines. Each volume has an orange-colored Sharpie inscription at top of first endpaper, and then an institutional ink-stamp at bottom. Very minor soiling to top edges, Volume Two features forward cock to spine. Volume One is xvi + 289 pp., and features contributions by D.R. Diamond, E.B. Ginn, J.T. Hughes, L.C. Hunter, R.G.L. McCrone, E.H. MacFarlane, M.C. MacLenna, H.K. Murray, L. Needleman, S.C. Orr, H.R. Parker, J. Pilgrim, D.J. Robertson, J.F. Sleeman, J.M.W. Stewart, A.M. Strang, and B.M. Swift. Volume Two is xxii + 358 pp. Both are replete with black-and-white illustrations in the form of maps, charts, diagrams and architectural plans, and all maps are complete, including at frontis,… Read More

Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in First Edition state by Fratelli Treves, Milano, 1902, a flexible hardcover copy in sturdy, clean, tightly bound condition. Short quarto format, unopened top edges, 290 pp., and illustrated profusely with various ornaments in red and black and printed on extra heavy paper. Gilt ornament on front cover, quite nice, appearing to be a sword stabbing downward, into and through a handsomely bound book, and with the Latin term Noi Leggeuamo. The binding is a brown linen cloth over text-block, some splitting of thin fabric along joints, but still remarkably sturdy, and with some brown cloth ties sewn in front and rear with which to tie fore-edge closed. Text in Italian.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Jim Dine. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Staple-bound in oblong paper format, with 24 pp., and illustrated in color and black-and-white. Introductory text by Anne Dagbert. Published to augment the exhibition held in Paris in 1968 to showcase his work, depicted here in black-and-white, duotone and full color. Front cover of the illustrated wraps depict the artist surrounded by his canvases, in black-and-white.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Walker & Company, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A very special tribute to a very special person, Dorothy L. Sayers, born four years prior to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for a few penciled tick-marks in the index. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Contributions by, among others, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Catherine Aird, Michael Gilbert, Carolyn G. Hart, Sharyn McCrumb, Aaron Elkins, and H.R.F. Keating. xiii [1], 2-166 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Map endpapers, being of Dorothy Leigh Sayers' London, quite fine of streets and alleyways where her life and novels were set. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv, 1-158 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Salvador Dali. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Glossy pictorial covers mimicking the bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond a nick to spine head front joint, not price-clipped. A. Reynolds Morse of the Salvador Dali Foundation provides a Preface to this, the Second Edition, having been published first in 1954. Philippe Halsman passed away in 1979, having published over 100 Life magazine covers to his credit. His Postface treats of his special relationship with Salvador Dali.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Berkeley, California: University of California, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a museum exhibit dediated to the memory of Christine Landgraf, who fought leukemia for the final six of the 26 years of her life, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Long essay by Virginia Dalkey about her and about the work of Bruce Nauman, Frank Owen, Gerald Walburg, Helen Post, Edward Kienholz, Stephen Kaltenbach, Greg Kondos, William T. Wiley, Phil Wideman, Christine Landgraf and Ralph Johnson and many others. Simple printed wraps, but sumptuous reproductions of fine paintings of interior, printed on high-gloss paper. Unpaginated, but a page devoted to each of roughly 30 artists, each item being captioned.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Vicenza, Italy: Nella Stamperia Turra, 1743. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. A still quite handsome exemplar of an Italian language compilation of verse. Girolamo Murari dalla Corte (1747-1832), and Italian historian and art compiler. Beautiful marbled paper over boards, contemporary leather-backed, with raised bands, rich friezes and gold titles on burgundy leather gusset on spine, with five fleurs-de-lis. Marbled endpapers. Generally clean, unmarked interior, with moderate to heavy foxing here and there, light soiling to top edge. Scuffing to tips, edges, but binding tight, interior bright. XXIII [2], 2--249 [1] pp. Four fine black-and-white plates, including of an imagined Adam and Eve, complete with elephants, lions, cats, dogs and horse. Fine title page vignette, intaglio insignia of the Virgilian Colony (motto: tibi Mantua Palma). All in, a still handsome little tank of a tome,… Read More

Belfast, Ireland: The Quota Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line currently. First Edition, bound in what appears to be publisher's original pebbly bluish-green cloth covers, green cloth-backed, and with abraded paper title label to spine lettered in red. Short, skinny octavo hardcover format, with 88 pp. James Dalzell was born on 7 April 1865 in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland, the child of William Dalzell and Margaret Millar. They emigrated to Canterbury in 1869 arriving on 08 June 1869 on the ship Caroline Coventry. Mr. Dalzell passed away in 1937. He was buried in Horsley Down cemetery, Masons Flat, Canterbury, buried with his wife, Laura Maud.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London, England: MacLeHose, 2019. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First English Edition, First Printing, with "1" in number line present, translated from the original Italian. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for black remainder mark along bottom edge, unobtrusive. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, lightly worn. 329 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Conoga Park, California: Collectors Editions, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy, colorful pictorial covers; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Published in First Edition state by Collectors Editions, 1998. First Edition. Mary Margaret Nash and William C. Stone add a Publisher's Note to put Hessam's work in context and explain the unusual format to the text, relying as it does also on extensive interviewing of the subject by the author, noted art historian. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 96 pp., and complete with several full-page, full-color plates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London : Abelard-Schuman, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, black illustration and label to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Complete with a Glossary of Terms, and replete with several dozen sharp black-and-white illustrations, complete with thumb-nails. [9], 10-323 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Edgar Degas. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped, with a fine black-and-white photographic cover. 144 pp. with 106 illustrations, as follows: 40 tritones, 63 duotones, and three in full color. A fine museum exhibit catalog to augment the show of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 14, 1998 to January 3, 1999, in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and then also in Paris, France. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello, Preface by the author, another contribution by him, Malcolm Daniel, and others by him and by Eugenia Parry, Theodore Reff and others.Member, I.O.B.A.,… Read More

Los Angeles, California: The Design Center of Los Angeles , 1984. First Edition. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Faint sticker-residue to front upper tip is all that mars this fine museum exhibit catalog from a show that displayed the works of 60+ painters. Introductory essays by Sandy Nelson and Fidel Danieli, and with captioned reproductions from A to Z, Kim Abeles to Peter Zecher. 24 pp. Glossy pictorial wraps on stiff card stock, and black-and-white reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Los Angeles: The Design Center of Los Angeles , 1984. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Faint sticker-residue to front upper tip is all that mars this fine museum exhibit catalog from a show that displayed the works of 60+ painters. Introductory essays by Sandy Nelson and Fidel Danieli, and with captioned reproductions from A to Z, Kim Abeles to Peter Zecher, Phyllis Davidson, Victor Henderson and others. 24 pp. Glossy pictorial wraps on stiff card stock, and black-and-white reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Acadia Summer Arts Program, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear,dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-143 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bookplate of the previous owner, the bookseller extraordinaire, Mr. Richard L. Press, of Sacramento, inside front flap. Attractive green cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Tightly bound, bright, clean of interior. Fine addition to the Series: Columbia University Studies in Library Service, being no. 12. xxiv + 188 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, January 29, 1731-32. 281 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on… Read More

London: R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, January 3rd, 1729-30. 331 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages… Read More