Search Results: Titles starting with D from Austin's Antiquarian Books

(Joliet: P. F. Volland & Co, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor edge wear else very good. Duodecimo; pp; unpaginated, (40); lllustrated by Ve Elizabeth Cadie with fine, bold color designs in her Art Deco style; pictorial paper covered boards lettered in yellow and burgundy, striking color endpapers;. One of the most striking Volland books. Poems by Hankins are matched with beautiful Art Deco style illustrations. A most handsome offering. A volume of the Volland "Sunny Book Series"

(Chicago): University Of Chicago Press, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/a tiny bit of wear on the spine else a very good. Octavo; pp; xxv, (i), 229, notes; blue cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1965. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; 391 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and four additional plates, map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Laid-in is a compliments of the season card from Gaylord Donnelley of The Lakeside Press. Edited by Dale L. Morgan and consists of a personal narrative of the Sioux uprising of 1862 in Minnesota. It was first published in 1863. A personal narrative of the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota during the Civil War. Howes M-58.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. octavo; pp; 55, (i), ad; illustrated in black and white by Gordon Browne and other artists; original pictorial yellow paper covered boards; some wear to spine, else very good. Ewing's books were reissued following her death in 1885.

Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, blue cloth. 180pp. with index, notes and bibliography. Illustrated with frontispiece and three maps.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo; pp; (2), 3-392; gray cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket;. Set in Liberia, a political thriller. A very nice copy.

Concord N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners bumped, light wear, one small tear in cloth at very head of spine, a ghost of a water stain on the rear board, else a clean tight very good copy. Duodecimo; pp; xii, 322, (i); illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-two additional black and white photographs; gilt lettered green cloth;. Covers Baseball, Football, Track & Field, but also Boating. Origin of the "Dartmouth Yell"

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Small octavo (4 7/8" x 7 3/4), terra cotta cloth. Cover decorated in black stamped border design, which is blind stamped on the back cover. Spine titled in gilt. 351, (17)pp. with publisher's ads for scientific books, including a list titled "Standard Evolution Library". Very nice condition. Slight wear at the extremities. There is a (probably) nineteenth century pencilled price on the front free-endpaper, which has been erased. There remains an indentation from the pencil of the heavy-handed bookseller. "This volume contains, of course, only an outline of the contents of the twelve volumes from which it is compiled, and for which it isby no means intended as a substitute. It will, on the contrary, we should hope, create an appetite which can be satisfied only by a careful reading of the works themseves." A great sales pitch, which is followed by two pages of "Darwin and His Theories from a Religious Point of view"

Munchen: Georg Muller, 1910. Limited Edition. full leather. Very good +. Bayros. (1910). Quarto (9" x 12.5"), navy quarto, elaborately gilt, with Chinese characters on the cover and gilt decorated spine. The heavy stock endpapers are bordered in gilt Grecian key, surrounding a Chinese figure framed in a Chinese border. Edges are untrimmed. 210, (3) pp., including table of contents and colophon page. The Beautiful Girl of Pao. a Chinese Novel... Superb Edition with Pictures by Bayros. limited to 600 copies, of which this is copy number 323. The page prior to the half-title bears a presentation from the publisher, Georg Muller, with the presentee's name partially removed. A somewhat erotic tale with commensurate illustrations.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo; pp. (iv), 59; With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher; green cloth decorated in blind, lettered in orange;. .The hero is a bulldog named Swallow.

(Pittsburgh): University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (vi), (2), 3-202, index; beige cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. Fishing the Ohio, Susquehanna, and the Delaware Rivers.

London: Michael Joseph, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; 379; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo; pp; (viii), (2), 3-272); frontispiece by Leyendecker and three black and white inserted plates by Remington, Hitchcock and Hooper; decorated burgundy cloth , top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; Overall a good or better tight copy, edge wear at spine ends and corners, one abrasion at lower right, bookseller's tag from F. Loesser & Co. Brooklyn on front paste-down also (What were they thinking) an embossed stamp not unlike a library stamp advertising their store on the verso of the half-title and on page 4; Unusual;. Collection of short stories. BAL #15039. Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8. This is a Bleiler item with two ghost stories.

Rochester NY: Stecher Lithograph Co, 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Folio; pp; (12); beautifully illustrated in color by Nina Mason; color pictorial cardstock wrappers; Front cover depicts a smiling little girl in blue polka-dot dress holding red pail and shovel against an ocean background; The Rear Cover is the rear view of the same, quite clever; There is one abrasion to the foot of the rear wrapper at center, some minor edgewear, else very good;. OCLC locates just a single copy at the University of Rochester; A tale in verse of the adventure of a little girl who is at the seaside, convinced by a Starfish to "ungrow" & visit the "Squee" below the sea for Tea; Without revealing the end of the tale (Things do work out), she has quite an experience.

New York: The Free Press, 1998. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (vi),154; black cloth and cream paper covered boards lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket;. Character & Leadership. Bennett had worked with Clinton prior to his Presidency. He became deeply disappointed in the President beyond policy.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (xii), 287, (ii); Illustrated by the author; grey cloth lettered in silver in dust jacket;. Author of Trout and Matching the Hatch, The late Ernie Schwiebert was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished fisherman-writers. Transporting and vividly descriptive stories of fishing the streams of the world.

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; 278; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket.

Buckarest: Jugendverlag, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. An ex-United States Air Force library copy with a pocket and stamp on rear inside cover and a small removed label on the front wrapper, else solid, clean and complete, very good. Octavo; pp; 109, (iii),; illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait of the author, thirty pages of reproduced cyanotype photographs comprising forty-four images and three large folding maps; original printed pictorial color wrappers; Text is in German;. Scarce, OCLC locates just a single copy in a German library. Emil Racovi (1868-1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and explorer of Antarctica. He was the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racovi was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic, as well as an influential professor, scholar and researcher.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. residue of newspaper clipping on front free fly leaf else very good/a very good. Octavo; pp. xv, (i). (2), 3- 432; Photographs; black cloth, gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. TR's post presidential years were filled with achievement, controversy and pathos.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. Hardcover. Moderate wear to the extremities of this very solid binding, light toning to some of the pages, yet a lovely very good copy;. Octavo; pp; 46, (ii), ads; illustrated with thirty five black and white wood engravings after the etchings of Creswick, Webster, Redgrave, Stonhouse, Cope and others; terra-cotta beveled cloth covered boards decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt;. A very nicely illustrated printing of Goldsmith's lament on social change and the destruction of the rural countryside. This copy has a gift inscription "given to Dear Mother", dated 1875 and another bit of holographic adornment, notably an earlier Christmas 1857 gift with "Cousin Eliza" executed in a highly decorative calligraphic style on a preliminary leaf.