Search Results: Authors starting with D from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd, 1957. Hardcover. 4to. Brown pebble-grained cloth with green lettering. xvi, 142pp. Line drawings, numerous full-page color plates. Very good. Faintest edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight, attractive third edition of this well-illustrated survey, with color plates plentiful and pristine.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by Mark Schorer. Preface by Archibald MacLeish. 12mo. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxvii, 376pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Small ownership signature on front pastedown. First issued by ML in 1959, this tight, sharp, bright copy of #148 is a later printing ($2.95 jacket flap price dates it to circa 1970).

New York: Boni and Liveright, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by John Macy. 16mo. Black limp leatherette with gilt lettering and decoration. ix, 517pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Outer hinges starting but still firm; 1924 ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and nice early printing (ca. 1923-25) of this 1922 "Modern Library" title (#109).

[Suffolk, UK]: D.S. Brewer, 2010. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. (xii), 221pp. Illustrations (some color). Fine/fine. First edition of this volume in editor Peter Kitson's "Essays and Studies 2010" series. Presents ten essays on early manuscripts.

New York: Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Abridged from translation by Edward MacCurdy. Edited by Robert N. Linscott. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 455pp, (6pp ads). Patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket wear. Tight, handsome later (early 1960s) printing of #156 in a lovely jacket.

New York: IBM Department of Arts and Sciences, n.y.. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 24pp, (4pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint wrappers edgewear, else tight and internally fine. Probable first and only edition. Undated (likely 1970ish) pamphlet surveying "International Business Machine Corporation's traveling exhibitions of models built according to Leonardo's scientific and technical drawings [which] have been shown in museums, colleges, universities and other institutions throughout the country.

Milan: Comitato Nazionale per le Onoranze a Leonardo da Vinci, 1952. Paperback. 4to. Stiff unprinted wrappers, dust jacket. (41pp). Full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket soiling. Handsome first edition of this elaborate program (entirely in English) celebrating the Italian Renaissance figure's life and achievements. Uncommon and unusual.

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 642pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Quite handsome, quite tight second printing of this thick history first published in 1981. Of special interest is a heavy stock 5½" X 8½" leaf tipped in before half-title page signed large and bold in black fineline by one of UVA's most renowned professors: DUMAS MALONE (1897-1986), Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History whose massive six-volume biography of Jefferson (1948-81) earned him the 1975 Pulitzer Prize.

London: Fotobank Books, Ltd, 1985. Hardcover. 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 189pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Probable sole edition.

Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 173pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of Volume XII in this museum's fine "American Maritime Library" series.

London: Arlington Books, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 304pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this Holmes pastiche.

St. Louis: The Bethany Press, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 221pp. Fine/very good. First edition. Compendium of essays serving as a memorial to Jesse Moren Bader, including works by Billy Graham, Charles P. Taft, Eugene Carson Blake, et al.

[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 100pp). Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of this unusual photograph collection. Signed large and bold by both authors in black fineline on the front flyleaf, with an inscription penned by Dahlgren: "To Maia -- / Welcome to the world!"

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1941. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. vii, 228pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with small edge chips, age toned spine and large archivally-closed (on verso) rear panel tear -- but complete and overall fairly attractive. Superb, tight and bright first edition in a decent jacket of this important in-depth study. Scarce in first edition wearing jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvi, 283pp. Maps, illustrations. Very good/good. Jacket spine slightly sunned. First edition. Volume 28 in "The Civilization of The American Indian Series." The story of a hundred years of federal relations with the Indians of the territory acquired from Mexico in 1848. Published in cooperation with The Huntington Library, San Marino.

Toronto: The Charlton Press, 1995. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xvi, 248pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine. Second edition, tight and handsome, of this reference.

New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Paperback. Small 8vo. Pictorial grey wrappers with inner flaps. 273pp. 6 charts. Near fine. Tight, attractive first softbound edition of this economic study, signed large and sloppy in full by Dale in black ballpoint on the dedication page.

This English educator and author served as principal of University College in Liverpool (1899-1903) and long-time vice-chancellor at the University of Liverpool (1903-19); in 1903 he revised and edited a history of English Congregationalism written by his father, the noted Congregationalist church leader Robert William Dale. TLS, 1p, 7" X 9", Liverpool, England, 7 November 1908. Addressed to Reverend Oliver Huckel (1864-1940, American Congregationalist clergyman and author). Very good. Faint original folds; mounting traces on verso. On University of Liverpool letterhead, Dale discusses some cryptic but clearly delicate issue regarding his and Huckel's mutual friend, the noted Scottish theologian P.T. Forsyth (1848-1921). In part, "...the Council and Educational Board of Mansfield College... came to no final decision, so your judgment will still be in time to help us. I fully appreciate all that you say of Forsyth, who is a close friend of mine and was a neighbour for many years; but… Read More

This shortstop played briefly with the St. Louis Browns 1912; after facing legendary pitcher Walter Johnson, he reportedly proclaimed, "You can't hit what you can't see." Handsome full signature in blue ballpoint , heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., n.d. Fine. A lovely later life example.

This shortstop played briefly with the St. Louis Browns 1912; after facing legendary pitcher Walter Johnson, he reportedly proclaimed, "You can't hit what you can't see." Handsome full signature in black ballpoint on heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., dated 1982 September 4. Near fine. With original envelope.