Search Results: Titles starting with D from Evening Star Books

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 1-276, [6] pp. Grey cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket by Charles Lofgren. A D.A. Doug Selby novel in a striking jacket. Minor wear to the extremities of the boards; jacket has a few spots of wear and rubbing.

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1987), 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [10], 229, [1] pp. Black paper covered boards with pink lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the fourth Kinsey Millhone mystery. Near Fine book with toning to the textblock in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [11], 5-449, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed and dated (in the year of publication) by the author on the half title page. Wharton's second novel, basis for the film directed by Gary David Goldberg and starring Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Spacey. Boards' corners are bumped; rear jacket flap has a small crease.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [11], xiv-xxiii, [2], 2-322, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt decorations on the boards and spine, each board with a gilt inset decoration; all edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Title page with a small engraving. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates (several of which are sepia-tone photographs), and several in-text drawings. The photographs depict some of antiquity's most famous sculptures, like the Minerva Borghese, the Laocoon, the Herculaneum Minerva, the Apollo Belvedere, the Venus de' Medici, and others. A beautifully made book, with a decorative binding and vivd illustrations. Front hinge neatly repaired, a contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown and some foxing to the leaves.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publishers, 1965. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [3], 3-431, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Selected and with an introduction by August Derleth. Joshi 82. A sharp copy of this posthumous collection of short stories, which include several lesser-known tales from the iconic horror author. Jacket with a small rub to its front fold.

London: George Allen and Unwin LTD (1961), 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very near Fine. 8vo. [5], 6-263, [1] pp. Black cloth with light blue lettering on the spine; light blue topstain. Price of 28s. on front flap. Illustrated with a full-page map and several black and white plates. Name on the free front endpaper and a number written on the rear endpaper, topstain faded; slight toning to the spine panel.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 217, [1] pp. Black cloth with ornage lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book moderately askew in a Very Good dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear and a couple of small stains on the rear flap.

New York: E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], 3-324 pp. Quarter white cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $18.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket painting by Russell Chatham. With an illustration on the title page. A tiny spot on the front board and a small crease to one leaf, showing on the bottom textblock; jacket mildly toned.

New York: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [9], 2-183, [1] pp. Grey cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A beautiful copy of the second novel in which professional thief Alan Grofield is the main protagonist. Tiny remainder dot on top textblock; dust jacket is just about Fine.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-157, [3] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Currey 570. A sharp copy of this influential post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, an expansion of Zelazny's eponymous novella; basis for the 1977 film of the same name, and rumored to be one of the key sources of inspiration for the game Fallout. A very near Fine book slightly askew in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small damp stain to the reverse of the rear panel.

New York: Bantam Books (2011), 2011. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. Large 8vo. [12], 4-1016, [6] pp. Light purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine and a gold decoration on the front board. Price of $35.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few maps. A sharp copy of Book 5 of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. A Near Fine book with a slight push to the spine in a very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Light brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns with every page illustrated. Designs done by Symeon Shimin. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. A lovely copy of L'Engle's fantasy story for young readers. The jacket has very minor edge wear.

New York: Random House [1983], 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-228, [4] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper with copper lettering on the spine and front board Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Ahearn APG 006c. A very near Fine book with a small spot of offsetting on the rear pastedown in a very near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard [2004], 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Slim 8vo. [12], 5-112, [6] pp. Quarter navy paper over blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes a book mark laid in from the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence Kansas.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-[3], 3-228, [2] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a map of spain and several black and white photographs. Introduction by James A. Michener. A Near Fine book with a small push to the binding in a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the flaps.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First paperback edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 13-281, [6] pp. White pictorial wrappers with a photograph of Bukowski at the end of the book. Krumhansl 71a. Near Fine with a bit of foxing to the textblock and rear wrapper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [1975], 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 4-196, [4] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Blue endpapers and pasteodwns. Illustrated with in-text drawings by Jill Bennett. A nice copy of one of Dahl's most popular books. Gift inscription on the free front endpaper dated December 1975, else Fine in a price-clipped, but otherwise Fine dust jacket.

New York: Ballantine Books (1965), 1965. First Paperback edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Small 8vo. [4], 5-159, [1] (page of publisher's advertisement) pp. Pictorial covers printed in white, black, and yellow; edges decoratively stained. Price of 50 cents on the front cover. A paperback original. Few hints of wear and rubbing.

London: Robinson Publishing (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Small 8vo. [7], x-xii, [1], 2-339, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £9.95 on front flap of jacket. Errata slip laid in at page 233. A Near Fine book with notable toning to the pageblock (due to the paper quality); jacket is Fine.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1996], 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [14], 381, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with copper lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the first page after the free front endpaper. Few areas of slight discoloration to textblock, else Fine.