Search Results: Authors starting with D from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First Edition, Second Isssue, with Bound by The Book Press, New York at colophon page. Fine in bright red cloth, in Near Fine dust jacket, small spot of soil front cover, price on jacket flap of $3.95 inked out with inked price of $3.29, a few small edge tears and chips, mainly at top edge and flap folds. With wonderful illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. This was Roald Dahl's first book for children. Basis for the 1976 BBC TV film starring Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, and Ann Beach, and the 1996 animated film starring Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Postlethwaite, and Susan Sarandon. A lovely copy of this enduring children's favorite story. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1941. Near Fine, top edge light soiling, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, 2 small closed edge tears, small chips at spine tips. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley: Hipparchia Press, 1983. One of 26 (?) lettered copies, copy A, in an edition of 175 copies printed on Frankfurt cream and bound in Roma covers with Shibugami endsheets. SIGNED by both the Author and by Robert Duncan at colophon page. Very Good, stain to front wrapper, handmade paper wrappers a bit wavy. SIGNED. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Handmade Paper. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Oblong 8vo. Limited Edition.

San Diego, CA: Adult Books / A Division of Greenleaf Classics, 1968. AB442, Gay pulp fiction. Near Fine, light edge wear to wrappers. The pseudonymous Dick Dale wrote a number of gay-themed pulps in the late 1960s, including - Mr. Fancy-Panties (1967) Callboy (1968) has a cover by Darrel Milsap who also did the art for Gay Paragon (1968) The Price of Pansies (1967) Four Way Gay (1968) The Cruising Class (1967) has art by Robert Bonfils. Gay But Not Happy (1968) Gay on the Range (1968). Uncommon in collectible condition. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 6 3/4" x 4 1/4".

Chicago: City of Chicago, 1956. RARE [ Not listed in The Wright Library ] poster issued to commemorate Frank Lloyd Wright Day in Chicago, Sept. 11, 1956. Tri-fold poster with photograph of Wright and Mayor Richard J. Daley's Proclamation. Near Fine, small area of staining , not affecting photo or text.. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 10 1/4" x 21 3/4".

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. vii, 566 pages with 219 illustrations in text. Dated 1884 copyright page, 1893 title page. SCARCE in any edition in current commerce. Near Fine in original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt, from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt, noted North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and local civic leader, and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers, and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division, the first to break the Hindenburg Line. His ownership signature and name stamp front end page. Slight wear at spine ends, light soiling at end pages. . Revised American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: K. F. Dallas, Ltd., 1963. Iconic early British folk music journal, founded and edited by Karl Dallas, British journalist, musician, author, playwright, peace campaigner, record producer, and broadcaster. An almost complete run, lacking only Vol. 1, No.6 (13 magazines in all). Published 1963-1965, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-5 and 7-11 of Folk Music, which in 1965 merged with Ballads and Songs to become Folk Music, Ballads & Songs, which lasted only 3 issues. Near Fine, a few small corner creases else Fine. RARE, WorldCat notes only one institutional holding. . First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: La Librairie Mondiale No date, circa 1907-1908. Finely bound in contemporary full black morocco, five raised bands with gilt ruled borders, top edge gilt, gilt floral dentelles, marbled end pages. Very Good, spine sunned to gray, light rubbing at edges of spine and tips, prior owner name 2nd title page. The bookplate front paste down of Victoria Sackville-West, mother of novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West. SIGNED Victoria Sackville-West and dated by her 1908 on first title page. Additionally inscribed and SIGNED V.S. West by her in pencil and in French, at blank page facing title page, That inscription denotes 2 pages in the book where she has found relatives mentioned ( " mon arriere grandpere", my great grandfather, a "duc de Dorset" and "Lord DeLawarr"(?).. Additional inscriptions by her in pencil at those two pages. She has also pasted in 5 cut-out portraits of Marie-Antoinette taken from other books at front end pages. Victoria's daughter Vita became… Read More

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. 1979, 2nd Printing of the Johns Hopkins paperback edition. Near Fine, price rear cover neatly blacked out, very light rubbing to edges of wrappers at spine. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. The bilingual edition, woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. SCARCE. . Second Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society, 1938. Near Fine, faint crease rear wrapper. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Henry Colburn, 1854. Volume IV published 1843, the rest, 1854. Seven volumes bound in contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, backs intricately gilt, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Very Good, frontispiece portrait Vol. I detached, two front end papers before that are nearly detached, fold-out facsimile letter Vol. I nearly detached at first fold, marbled boards rubbed, prior owner names in ink. Still overall an attractive set nicely bound. . New Edition. Quarter Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1932. Jay N. "Ding" Darling (1876-1962) was a 2-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and a noted conservationist, for whom the J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida is named. SCARCE in the First Edition. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, red lettering at spine a bit rubbed, cloth l;ightly soiled. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: E. Dentu and Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. "Les Femmes D'Artistes" , Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1874 and "Les Rois En Exil. Roman Parisien", E Dentu, Paris, 1879, both books SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at 3rd front end page and half-title respectively, to the French playwright and novelist Adolphe Belot, author of the wildly popular " Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife" in 1870 and co-author and collaborator with Daudet on the play "Sapho" in 1885 and who adapted Daudet's "Fromont Jeune et Risler Aîné" for the theater in 1876 "Les Rois en Exil" is SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "Adolphe Belot lou ami Alphonse Daudet" and "Les Femmes D'Artistes" is SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "A La femme de feu Les Femmes des Artistes". Belot's novel "La femme de feu" was published in 1872. Both books Near Fine, bound in contemporary half crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled end pages, the… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Four volumes bound uniformly in signed George Routledge & Sons contemporary half brown pebbled morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands with gilt lettering back, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Very Good Plus, the bookplate of Bavid Bixler front paste downs, moderate spotting., light rubbing at tips. Sappho published by Guillaume et Cie, Paris, 1887, illustrated by Rossi, Myrbach, etc., engraved by Guilluame Brothers. The other three volumes published by George Routledge and Sons, London and New York, Tarascon illustrated by Montegut, De Myrbach, Picard, Rossi. On the Alps translated by Henry Frith, illustrated by Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi. La Belle translated by R. Routledge, illustrated by Montegut. Quite uncommon bound finely as a set and in the English translations. . Second British Edition. Half Pebbled Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1899. Originally published in green cloth, this set handsomely rebound in early unsigned 20th century half calf over marbled boards, marbled endpages, gilt lettering with lovely gilt floral decoration at spine, top edge gilt, with etchings by Ed. de Beaumont and engraved by E. Boilvin. Translated into English by John Davidson. All three with period bookplate of Eugene Lent, small label of Lewis Vogler, noted collector. Near Fine, tiny rubs to leather at spine ends. . First Thus. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Gunnison, Colorado : Alan Swallow, 1943. SCARCE. Printed at the Prairie Press for Alan Swallow. Illustrated by Bruno Da Osimo. 31p.; Bulmer Roman, hand-set; black and brown; 500 copies on Kilmory. Cheever 55. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth , 1804. In period James Toovey signed fine binding of gold crushed morocco, the back with ornate floral gilt tooled designs and gilt lettering, triple gilt rules to covers, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, the armorial bookplate of Johannis Naylor Leightonensis front paste down. Near Fine, slight shelf rubs, scant toning at end pages, a quite handsome book with distinguished provenance. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Printing. Contains 749 poems, adding 113 poems to "Collected Poems", published in 1942 and reprinted several times. Near Fine, prior owner name front endpage, in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with a 1" closed tear at spine fold and light edge wear. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1991. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited, Signed First Edition. Leather. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

New York: The Macmillan Co,, 1918. Blindstamp at title page "Advance Copy For Review". Near Fine, top edge light soiling. ix, 438, 6 pp. publisher's ads, one fold-out chart. illus. Michael M. Davis (1879-1971) was a medical economist and advocate for comprehensive medical care and national health insurance. He is remembered for introducing the concept of a pay clinic, allowing lower income patients a means of low cost treatment. SCARCE, no other copies in current commerce. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Review Copy .