Search Results: Titles starting with D from Parker's Rare Books

Cincinnati & New York: Verlag von Benziger Brothers, 1875. HB. Dark green blindstamped cloth, 12 mo, vii, 9-224 pp. Frontis illustration of the Roman Colosseum. No marks in book, minor foxing throughout text. Front and rear hinges cracked, but text block solid. Covers show some soiling and edge wear, corners worn through to boards. Book condition Good.

Matthias Corvinus, 2000. 1st English. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo., 252pp. Book condition NF.

Rock Island, Ill: Augustana Book Concern, 1918. HB. Quarter green cloth and green paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on front cover, 8vo, 494 pp. Hasselquist (1816-1891) was a Swedish-American Lutheran minister and second president of Augustana College in Illinois. Owner's inscription ffep only mark in book, binding tight. Covers show some edge wear and light soiling. Text in Swedish. Book condition VG-.

Reading, Pa: Pisger Buchhandlung, ND. HB. Ein Jahrbuch der Illustrierten Jugendblatter". Red cloth, black designs and gilt lettering on front cover, 12 mo, 144 pp. Anthology of essays and poetry. Short essays on Kaiser Wilhelm, Edgar Allen Poe, Japan, Friedrich der Starke, others. Probably published around 1900, latest date noted in book 1897. Scarce work by this publisher.

New York: American Tract Society, ND. HB. Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering and designs on spine, 16 mo., 81 pp. + ads at rear. Ffep missing, owners name front end paper, no marks in text, binding solid. Covers show edge wear, corners worn through to boards, one spot of white paint on front cover, fraying top and bottom of spine. These are abridged versions of the original works. Book condition Good.

Mitchell, S. D: Educator Supply Company, 1928. HB. Blindstamped maroon cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine, 8vo, 157 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Examples, with short biographies and photographs, of early Dakota writers. Owner's name front paste-down, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear and some spotting on rear cover. Book condition VG-.

Fleet Street, London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1883. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 12mo, xii, 296 pp. Frontis drawing of the East Gate of Damascus, other full-page plates within text. The author was "late of the British Syrian Schools, Damascus." No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear, corners bumped. Book condition VG.

Philadelphia: The Library Publishing Company, 1904. HB. Brown paper covered boards, paper title label on front cover, 12 mo, 54 pp. No marks in book, binding tight. Lacking backstrip. Book condition Good.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. Stated First Edition. HB. Green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 280 pp. Frontis portrait of General Sickles. Owner's name at front, no other marks in book, binding tight. Book condition VG, lacking the dust jacket.

Fort Myers, Florida: Press Printing Enterprises, 2004. Stated First Printing. Wraps. White illustrated stiff paper wraps, black lettering on front cover and spine, 4to, 207 pp. Signed and inscribed by the editor, Yvonne Gustafson, with a tipped in color photograph of the editor in traditional Swedish dress. Letters from relatives in Sweden to American emigrant Inga Mathilda Kron Gustafson, who settled near Canby, Minnesota in 1880. No marks in book, binding tight and covers clean. Book condition Near Fine.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. 1st. HB. Gray cloth with black lettering on spine and black and orange illustration on front cover, 12 mo, 294 pp. Illustrated end papers. Owners name on ffep only mark in book, binding tight. Covers show very minor edge wear. Book condition VG.

New York: Carleton, 1869. HB. Blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 12 mo, 384 pp., blue endpapers. Reprint of 1864 edition. Booksellers blindstamp on rear endpaper, front and rear hinges cracked. No marks in text, binding solid. Covers show shelf wear, fraying top and bottom of spine, corners worn through to boards. Book condition Good.

Merthyr Tydfil: Abgraffwyd Gan Joseph Williams, 1890. HB. Red cloth, black lettering and floral design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 12 mo, 208 pp. + errata slip at rear. Clean, unmarked book. Front hinge cracked, but binding solid. Covers show minor edge wear, spotting. Old bookseller label front paste-down. Most of text in Welch. Author was Professor of Elocution and Oratory at the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pa. Book condition VG-. Uncommon.

Stuttgart: A. F. Macklot, 1823. HB. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 16mo, 271 pp. Owner's name front paste-down, owner's writing ffep, minor markings within text. Binding solid. Covers show light edge wear, chipping with 1/2" loss top of spine, minor loss bottom of spine. Second edition, originally published in 1822. Book condition VG-. Text in German.

Milwaukee: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, 1900. Erste halfte (First Volume, of 3). HB. Mit uber 150 Illustrationen und Karten, sowie 227 Portraits und 24 Modebildern. History of America, text in German. Blue cloth stamped in silver and black, 8vo, 524 pp. No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show minor edge wear. Book condition VG-. Volume I of a three volume work, complete in itself.

Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1970. HB. Blue cloth, black lettering on spine, 8vo, 368 pp. No marks in book, binding tight. Small bump bottom edges of front and rear covers. Originally published as "The Magic Years" by Scribner's in 1959, this edition in German. In unclipped dust jacket that shows minor edge wear, chipping, one 1/2" tear top front fold. Book condition VG+ in VG- DJ.

Leipzig und Berlin: Verlag und Drud von Otto Spamer, 1883. HB. Brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering and illustration on front cover and spine, 8vo, 302 pp., publisher's ads on endpapers. Frontis illustration plus illustrations within text. Edges of text block marbled. Old booksellers stamp front endpaper, no marks in book, one signature shaken. Covers show edge wear, 1/2" tear in cloth middle of spine. Text in German. Book condition Good.

Toronto: McClelland & Steward, 1945. First Printing of the Canadian Edition. HB. Collection of speeches and broadcasts delivered during the last year of World War II. Red cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, xiii, 415 pp. No marks in book, binding tight. Light wear to corners, soiling top edge of text block. In colorful dust jacket that shows edge wear, chipping top of spine. Book condition VG in VG- DJ.

Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1964. 9th pr. hb. Green cloth, 8vo., 239pp. Book nice, clean and unmarked in any way. SIGNED by author on title page. Dust jacket shows minor tears at top. "A History of Bonanza Farming in the Red River Valley of the North". Book condition VG+, DJ Good+.

Atglen, Pa,: Schiffer Publishing, 2015. HB. Glossy illustrated paper covered boards, 4to, 240 pp., brown end papers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. No marks in book, binding tight. In nice illustrated dust jacket. Book condition Near Fine in Near Fine DJ.