Search Results: Titles starting with D from Thorn Books

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.. Small 4to. xii, 457pp. Blue cloth in a linen pattern, gilt spine title, full color past-on to the upper board, top edge red, illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright, as-new copy. The dustwrapper is rough along the edges and a little age-soiled, else is near fine. Illustrated with eight full page full color plates as well as black and white in-text illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy,also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was known for her literary fairy tales. When she termed her works 'contes de fées' (fairy tales), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. Gustaf Tenggren was a Swedish-American illustrator known for his Rackham-esque fairy-tale style. He was a chief illustrator for Walt Disney in the late 1930s, whose work appeared in films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Deluxe binding by Sickles. Full brown morocco tooled on the boards in an intricate floral pattern. Spine in six compartments with gilt tooling of the title, author and floral design flowing through the compartments otherwise untooled. Top edge gilt. Gilt inner dentelles with watered silk endpapers and pastedowns. Tough of sunning to the spine but a lovely examples of Sickles work A stand-alone work from the New York edition of James' novels. BAL 10665. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Full vellum over boards blocked in gilt with Yapp edges. Illustrated by Harry W. McVickar. One of 250 numbered copies of which this is number 99. Vellum significantly mottled else this this is a very good copy. Presentation copy from the publisher to his wife: "Caroline Sleeper Harper from her Husband, Christmas, 1892." Caroline Sleeper Harper was the wife of Joseph Wesley Harper Jr., a businessman and the son of one of the founders of Harper & Brothers, a prominent publishing firm. She was the mother of Henry Sleeper Harper, a passenger on the RMS Titanic who survived the sinking. Her husband, Joseph Wesley Harper Jr. (1825-1896), was the son of Joseph Wesley Harper, one of the founders of Harper & Brothers. He joined the firm in 1848 and became a partner in 1851. Phillips , page 40; BAL 10768. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Thin 4to. (38)pp. Pictorial paper over boards, bright yellow cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Each page illustrated in either black & white or color with scenes from the Fantasia production. A near fine, with only the barest trace of soil and with a trace of wear along the edges. The dustwrapper is present. It is not price-clipped and it is lightly soiled and rubbed else in very good condition. A scarce early Disney title.

Prague: n.p., 1930. Very good. Sepia photograph, 4 by 5½ inches, showing Vladimir Nemirovich-Denchenko in his study. The photograph is inscribed to Soviet actor Mikhail Zharov. There is a short inscription on the front, and a longer one on the reverse, where Danchenko praises the actor as a magician and wizard of the stage, inscribed as a remembrance of their meeting on April 17, 1930 in Prague. Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; 23 December [1858 -1943), was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, playwright, and producer. He founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898. Zharov (1899-1981) was a prolific stage and screen actor in Russia. A couple of surface scratches, one corner with a small loss, else this is a very good exemplar. .

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Black quarter morocco and Japanese cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on red leather spine. The text is was composed in Ehrhardt types and printed on Frankfurt mould made paper. Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris. Tipped-in original folio and quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of black and white illustrations. Illustrated with original watermarked leaves, and 5 original double leaves from "Old Paper-Making", "Papermaking in Siam", Old Papermaking in China and Japan", "Papermaking in Indo-China", and "Papermaking by Hand in America." There is also a leaf from Dard II's "The Life Work of Dard Hunter." There are reset pages from Roycroft books and rare ephemera, color photos of DH's stained-glass, marbled and paste papers, black and white photos of moulds, watermarks, and type specimens. One of 225 numbered copies. In… Read More

Ithaca: The Dragon Press, 1932. First edition. Stapled wraps. Good. 8vo. 44pp. Stapled wraps. Scarce second collection of poetry by this talented poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and published just a year before her death at a young age. Covers rubbed and soiled, spine neatly repaired, else a good copy, and with an inscription on a preliminary blank which we have been unable to decipher. One of the Dragon Series limited editions edited by Angel Flores. .

New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Jacket design by Julie Dillon.. First printing of this reissue, with a new "Note from the Author" and with a new jacket illustration by Julie Dillon. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Inscribed on the title page by the author "For Wendy". .

New York: Atheneum, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 8vo. Black cloth; spine printed in copper. Stated first edition. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. Trace of soil to the edges else this is a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is rough along the top else it is in near fine condition. The second installment in the 'Dark is Rising' series, and the author's third book. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World; Atheneum, 1977. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Near fine. First U.S. edition, first printing, of the first title; true first editions, first printings of the remaining titles. Although the author moved to the United States in 1963, the 1965 London edition of 'Over Sea, Under Stone' is generally considered the true first; thereafter the U.S. Atheneum editions of the remaining four books in the series are considered the true firsts. "Over Sea, Under Stone" is fine and bright; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has a tiny closed marginal tear on the rear panel else it is fine as well. "The Dark is Rising" has a tiny bit of spotting on the edge of the textblock , else is in fine condition; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped,but has a short closed marginal tear on the front panel; it is first state without the Newbery Honor sticker. "Greenwitch" is fine in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. "The Grey King" is fine in green printed cloth; the… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World; Atheneum, 1977. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Near fine. First U.S. edition, first printing, of the first title; true first editions, first printings of the remaining titles. "Over Sea, Under Stone" is fine and bright; the dustwrapper is price-clipped and has the tiniest bit of wear at the edges, else it is fine as well. "The Dark is Rising" has a tiny bit of spotting on the top edge, and a bookplate on the front pastedown, else is in fine condiiton; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped,but has a short closed marginal tear and crease along the top of the rear panel; it is first state without the Newbery Honor sticker. "Greenwitch" has a small bit of wear on one corrner else is fine in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. "The Grey King" is fine in green printed cloth; the dustwrapper is price-clipped else is in fine condition, and is first state without the Newbery Medal sticker. "Silver on the Tree" has a light residue from an old price-sticker on the… Read More

Munich: Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schonstein, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. 115,(5)pp. Eight full page plates. Cream-colored cloth boards printed in deep red on the spine and the upper board. When opened, the boards reveal 5 receptacles for 100 stereo photographs and a stereo viewer. The photographs measure 2 1/4" x 5", showing images of Prague German occupation during W.W.II. The photographs depict exteriors and interiors of castles, churches & cathedrals, palaces, monasteries, as well as other architectural and street scenery of Prague. Verso of each photograph with printed description in German of the image. A near fine copy with only a trace of aging and soil. In German. The copy belonging to actor Hermann Rockmann, with his signature on the front free endpaper, heading a list of other signatures and inscriptions. Taped onto the preface is a mimeographed sheet for a concert in Prague on December 9, 1944, listing the performers and the works performed. The signatures and… Read More

n.p.: n.p., 1899. Stiff card. Very good. Small album of stiff colored card containing 14 mounted black and white photographs. Each is mounted with a white border hand-drawn about it. Affixed to the upper board is an embossed chromolithographed die-cut yellow rose and the hand lettered date, 1899. The photographs are mainly 4 by 2½ inches, with a few smaller. There are no captions. They start with a male portrait., probably the photographer. This is followed by a "See Denver" trolley. the Floral Pavilion in City Park, what may be the lake in Washington Park, several pictures of parades of military personnel, carriages and cyclists. The second last photograph is of a train, perhaps at the end of the day. And finally, what appears to be the Indian Scout statue in City Park. Many of the photographs feature a lady dressed in a white blouse and a long dark skirt, probably the photographer's wife. The photographs are largely faded but still in very good condition. This may be a record of the 1899… Read More

Paris: Apud Michaelem Le Petit & Stephanum Michallet, 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (12),554 pp. plus 16pp. index, royal privilege and errata. Modern full calf; spine in six compartments tooled in blind; red leather lettering label; boards tooled in blind as well; marbled endpapers. A very good copy, with a 1790 (?) ownership signature on a preliminary blank. Bound without the final plate; with an Abbey library stamp on page 25. In Latin. Rare. .

Venice (Venetiis): Apud Iuntas (Giunta), 1542. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. (8),365,(1)pp. Fine printer's device to title and full page device to last page. Woodcut initials. Original limp vellum binding with the use of 15th Century manuscript for binding. With the commentary of the French physician Martin Akakia (1500-1551). Vellum lightly soiled, ties perished, else a very good copy with a fine text block and a fine example of Akakia's translation of Galen's important treatise on the theory of healing. This is a most attractive Giunta imprint and Galen's principal work devoted to phlebotomy. Martin Akakia was a physician of King Francis I of France. Rare.

Tubigen: J. G. Gotta, et al., 1801. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin 8vo. 25pp. Contemporary half leather, spine ruled in gilt and gilt tooling, red leather lettering label, gilt, drab paper boards. Armorial bookplate. Upper portion of spine artfully replaced else a very good copy. A refutation of Augustin de Barruel's Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire du Jacobinisme. Thatcher II, p. 70 (French Revolution). In French. Reprinted many times; brought into English as "On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and the Illuminati, on the Revolution in France."

Mexico: En la Imprenta del Ciudadano Alejandro Valdés, 1826. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. 72pp. (Later?) marbled paper wrappers, manuscript title on the upper wrapper. Some soiling of the upper corners of the last three pages, else this is a very good copy. Important discourse on Papal authority, and how episcopal authority fits with it. Originally composed in Madrid, 1820, by Leonardo Nuñez de Vargas. Rare. In Spanish.

Tacámbaro: Taller Martín Pescador, 2016. Limited edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 8½ by 11½ inches, finely printed by Juan Pascoe in black and red on thick stock. Ridland's poetry is reprinted by permission of the author at the Taller Martín Pescador in remembrance of Harry Duncan. With a woodcut illustration of the press' namesake Kingfisher. Limitation unspecified. A fine copy, suitable for framing. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Two volumes. Deep purple cloth. Gilt spine titles. Translated by Constance Garnett. Gilt darkened with time else this is a very good set. The dustwrappers are not price-clipped. They are lightly soiled and chipped along the edges with a couple of closed marginal tears, but give a very good appearance. Scarce in dustwrappers. Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator of many Russian works, and, altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today. This title is the first American edition of her translation. .

London: Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, 1859. Poor. Stiff card wraps. 4to. Bound in thin card with covers printed in color. 16 pp., printed on one side only, with eight full page hand-colored illustrations showing Punch and Judy, et al., in the upper portion with text and drummer below. Each plate has moveable parts operated by a lever at the foot which operates the movement in the upper window; in addition 3 of the drummers move when the tabs are activated. The drummers on the remaining pages have their arms in the form of tabs which fit into a slit in the page. They are affixed on the other side. There is nothing to suggest that they were ever intended to move. To the best of our knowledge all copies of this title have all puppets movable but only three drummers. It is as though Dean had intended to make them all movable but gave up on the idea. Later printing of this work have the drummers all immovable, printed on the page with the text reset to go around the illustrations. This is a very good… Read More