Search Results: Titles starting with D from Abacus Books

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First U.S. Edition with thirty two full page illustrations by S.Paget. Blue cloth with desert oasis scene and black lettering to front, palm tree and gold lettering to spine. Previous owner's name to front fixed endpaper. Spine a little darkened. Covers shelf worn more so at bottom corners.

Tall quarto. Grey cloth over boards with pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated but 92pp. With the photographer's signed inscription to the title page. Dear Marilyn- / to share with you this small / measure of my life's / meaning / /with affection / Dave / May Day 1968.Very good condition throughout. Dust jacket shows some distress with closed tears to edges and small loss to bottom of spine along with some discoloration."A Dialogue With Solitude, an incomparable book that James Borcoman, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Canada, has described as the most important book by a photographer to appear in the 1960's. A Dialogue With Solitude was the product of more than a decade of personal exploration in photographic self-expression and the resolution of Heath's creative search to enunciate his statement in the visually poetic form of sequence." - Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Modern boards with paper title label to front. Small octavo. [iv] 32pp. A doctoral thesis in Latin submitted to William Robertson, principal at the University of Edinburgh by John Simpson. Inscribed by author " Dr. McIlwaine / With best Comp. / from his friend and / fellow Candidate" Very good.
An early dissertation on women's reproductive health.