Search Results: Titles starting with D from Michael Laird Rare Books LLC

Dallas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co, 1939. 198 x 135 mm. [1], 2-48 = 48 pp. Bound in stapled paper wrappers, soiled on front and back covers. Pages slightly yellowed, some foxing and staining throughout, pp. 23-26 loose. An advertisement for a new Stamps-Baxter publication, "Favorite Radio Songs No. 2" on pp. 46-48. With some condition problems, and priced accordingly. A fascinating piece of Dallas radio history, being program notes of an All-Night broadcast of early Southern Gospel Music on KRLD Radio Station (July 1-2, 1939). The pamphlet contains information and photographs of 30 obscure, now forgotten Gospel singing groups from all over the American South, and thus remains a valuable source of information not obtainable elsewhere. According to the introductory article by Harvey A. Armstrong, the purpose of the All-Night Bradcast was "to help promote and encourage nation-wide and better gospel singing." Many famous songwriters and Southern gospel music composers were in attendance that… Read More

Copenhagen: Museum of Decorative Arts, 1958. First Edition. Very good. 4to. Typescript. Unpaginated (but 33 ff.) typed on rectos only, with a title-page, Introductory Notes (1 f.), list of Collections from which the exhibition was assembled and respective abbreviations used in the Catalogue (1 f.), plus 30 ff. descriptions of 260 Block-Printed Papers, each with date, name of the book in which the papers are found, location of the book, and in many instances the shelf-mark of the book. The catalogue is perfect-bound in boards; title typed onto a small brown slip of paper and pasted onto front cover (3 ff. loose). Pencil accession number of B.H. Breslauer on front cover, and the lot number of the sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana in pen on the lower cover. "The present catalogue was translated and typed as a manuscript only for interior circulation." This very scarce typescript catalogue is the only record of a remarkable exhibition of Block-Printed Papers held in Copenhagen at the… Read More

London, Dusseldorf, Vienna: Michael Joseph / Econ Verlag, 1973. First Edition. Very good/Very good. Together 2 vols., 8vo. Ad 1: 236 pp. (top edge dust-soiled). Original cloth, original dust-jacket printed in red, black and silver (the latter with some abrading along spine and extremities). Ad 2: 242 pp., [1] f. (ads). Original cloth, original dust-jacket printed in red and black (toned along extremities). Both volumes in excellent condition, the bindings tight, hinges quite perfect, without any blemishes, inscriptions or stamps whatsoever. NOT ex-library! "DE-EVOLUTION" PROCLAIMED: THE INSPIRATION FOR DEVO AND THE CLARION CALL FOR "BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS" WORLDWIDE. We are pleased to offer excellent copies of the first edition (Dusseldorf and Vienna, 1971) and the first English translation (London, 1973). An extraordinary pseudo-scientific book which does not have a single footnote. "The book proposes that early cannibalistic apes discovered the aphrodisiac effects of brains, and became addicted to… Read More

S.l., 1910. Good. 168 x 115 mm, photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely, romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach, holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river, her expression seemingly wistful. We have been unable to identify the subject of this remarkable vintage photograph. From the Dorothy Sloan collection of Women in the West.

Vratislaviae (i.e. Wrocklaw, Poland): [Privately published by] J.D. Grueson, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. 58 pp. COMPLETE with 18 lithographic plates. Original nineteenth-century boards (corners and tail of spine bumped), printed label on upper cover. Some minor foxing. An unsophisticated and partially unread copy, with many gatherings unopened. Important and very early work on plant pollens by the brilliant Bohemian polymath Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), illustrated with 18 full-page lithographs. According to DSB, Purkinje was inspired by his colleague A.W. Henschel, and "studied plant structures, mainly the elastic fibrous cells of the anthers and the form of the pollen and spores in relation to the mechanism of their dispersion. In his extensive comparative study, combining anatomy with physiology, he distinguished structural types, and drew attention to mechanical factors and the role of cells in the differentiation of plant tissues. His dynamic concept was recognized… Read More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo. 23 x 15 cm. 112 pp. with color illustrations throughout. Original wrappers. This beautifully produced Grolier Club exhibition catalogue provides an authoritative bio-bibliographical assessment of the life and work of Theodore Low De Vinne as a printer, historian, typographer, and technical innovator. Indispensable for students of American publishing.

Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksells, 1936. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. Color frontispiece portrait of Ignatius Meurer (1589-1672), 16, 48 pp., 62 plates (9 folding). Original boards, gilt vellum spine (slightly palm soiled, corners bumped). A celebration of early Swedish books, issued on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the introduction of the art of printing in Sweden. The essential catalogue of an important exhibition held from December 1933 to May 1934, in which appeared 265 items of national interest. More than half of the present volume consists of full-page plates (62) of printed books that date mainly from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century (the "newest" book is dated 1795). ¶ Presentation copy from the compiler Isak Collijn to his friend Martin Breslauer, inscribed on the occasion of the latter's visit to the Royal Library in September, 1936. From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana (sale at Christies NY, 2005, lot 1249), with B.H. Breslauer's circled accession… Read More

Heidelberg: Antiquariat E. Hatry, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Good in Wraps. Quarto, in original wrappers., [316] pp. Illustrated in black and white. ¶ A catalogue to commemorate Christian Weise upon his 350th birthday. With particular emphasis on the development of the novel, from Joh. Fischart "Geschichtklitterung" up to Christian Gellert's "Schwedischer Grafin.

Nurnberg and Basel: Edelmann / Haus der Bucher, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Dates: 1963-1975. 3 vols., 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. Catalogue 706 (Part 1: A-K). Catalogue 707 (Part 2: L-Z; spine chipped and worn). Catalogue 770 (Neue Folge). 278 + 244 pp. Illustrated. Textblock of Catalogue 707 evenly toned as is true with all copies. Reference works with some flaws, priced accordingly. ¶ Essential catalogues of German Baroque literature, altogether with 1150 + 991 items carefully described, many with illustrations. Price lists loosely inserted in vols. 2-3.

Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, 1967. Softcover. Good. Octavo, 79 pages, some markings on cover. Illustrated in black and white. ¶ Auction of classic and romantic German baroque literature. 600 lots described and illustrated.

Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 315 pages, original cloth with gilt lettering. ¶ The first scientific catalog of the early German lithography, arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name. First published in 1925, this book is still considered an essential reference work.

Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1775. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. [24], 475, [1] pp. Binding with minor rubbing (a few insignificant wormholes) but overall in excellent condition, the text very clean and crisp. Contemporary Spanish mottled sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco label, early paper shelf label at foot, marbled endpapers and edges. ¶ An extraordinary work on Spanish business development through education of artisans and craftsmen. The work deals with female labor, trades, apprenticeships, as well as provisions and funds for the disabled and old aged members of the working class. It also has a chapter about Spanish foreign trade, notably with the West Indies. ¶ Albert Boime gives an insightful overview of the Spanish government at the time: "Goya's print of the 'Crockery Vendor' celebrates the Spanish government's ideal of a prosperous and proud artisan class, enunciated in Campomanes's publications of 1774-1775, 'Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular and Discurso… Read More

Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1774. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (4 ff.), cxcviii pp. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, evidence of two pair of ties. Text very crisp & clean. True first edition of this crucial work on bringing parity to the tradesmen in Spain, with particular emphasis in reforming the Spanish economy. Conde de Campomanes "probably influenced Spanish economic thought of his time more than any other writer" (La Force p. 156). The present work is described as: "one of the fundamental books of the Spanish Enlightenment" (Venturi, Italy and the Enlightenment. Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, p. 274). Campomanes advocates household industry - mainly textiles - rather than large-scale industry, so that people will not have to move from small towns and farms. In order to spread the knowledge that would make such industry possible, he strongly advocates the formation of local economic societies. Campomanes analyzes the natural resources, existing industry, and available… Read More