Search Results: Titles starting with D from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Coloniae Allobrogum: Apud Fratres de Tournes, 1750. Vellum Binding. Very Good binding. Folio. Vol I: [8], 226, [2]; II: [20], 352 pp. In contemporary vellum over boards, button and loop closures; contemporary manuscript title on the spine; vellum loosening from the turn-ins; arrested mold in some margins; foxing and general age toning. Fernandez de Otero held the chair of civil law at teh University of Valladolid and practiced before the regional high court (audiencia). This volume brings together two distinct works: one on government officials and employees in Spain and the other on the right of pasture under Spanish and Roman law. The latter work is "cum notis & additionibus Vincentii Bondeni" (i.e., Vicenzo Bondeni [1630-1704]). The officials and employees run the gamut from hangmen to night watchmen to treasurers. The pasturage work was applicable throughout the Spanish Empire, including parts of Italy. This edition was preceeded by others in 1682, 1700, and 1732.

New York: American Printing History Association, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto. [2], vi, 182, [6] pp., plates, illus. Limited edition, number 50 of 50 special copies from a full edition of 500. Signed by the designer, Stinehour on the limitation page. As issued in marbled paper boards with cloth shelf-back and gold-stamped paper label on the spine. Two hinged in facsimiles found in all copies as well as several in-text illustrations (some full page). Additionally, there are three specimens, two are bifolia and one single sheet are hinged in at the back in a section "Limited Issue Supplement" found only in this special edition of 50 copies. Fascinating correspondence by two larger than life figures in the early 20th century. A beautiful copy with only a bit of foxing to the fore-edge. From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small label on the rear pastedown.

Science Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. Short introduction in Chinese else the remainder of the volume is illustrated with color and black and white photographs--all identification in Chinese. Contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request.

London: Printed by S. Roycroft, for Robert Clavell, 1694. Full Leather. Poor binding. Small octavo. [20], 240, [4] pp., illus. First edition. In contemporary leather; one folding plate as called for by ESTC R6067. Binding is heavily worn; spine desiccated with chipping to the leather; boards detached; contents are lightly foxed; early bookseller's blind stamp on the rear free endpaper.

Lexington, VA: Privately Printed, 1951. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Octavo. viii, 134 pp., frontis, illus. First edition. Publisher's black cloth. Binding rubbed; light fraying at the corners; title is darkened but title is decipherable; some foxing/toning else clean; several black and white photographs throughout.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 99 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed by McHugh on the title page. In pubisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fairly bright, clean copy; trivial foxing to the textblock edge; dust jacket is a bit shelf worn and toned; spine is slightly sunned; price intact on the front flap.

Bath: Old School Press, 2011. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. x, 61, [1] pp + 48 plates. Limited Edition, number 97 of 175 copies, signed by Chambers and initialed by Ould beneath the colophon. Cloth-backed, paper covered boards; printed paper title label on the spine; a very bright and fresh copy; in addition to the illustrated plates, there are 2 tipped on reproductions. A beautifully printed volume cataloging some of the earliest items printed by the Daniel Press over its first decades in Frome before Daniel removed the press to Oxford.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1993. Unbound. Very Good+ binding. Folio. [4] pp. As issued, an unbound bifolium prospectus with paragraph from James Merrill's introduction and a sample page containing a portion of Canto XXV translated by Richard Wilbur. On the final page, the pre-publication pricing has been marked through in ink and a publisher's stamp noting "Publication Price / $1,250.00" near the publisher's device. An attractive prospectus, letterpress printed on fine paper.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. 12mo. xxii, 138 pp. First edition, first printing, signed by Bly on the title page. Backed in black cloth with paper over boards. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the textblock; text is evenly toned throughout; in fresh, crisp dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.

Athens, OH: Ohio Universities Library, 2000. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xvi, 134, [8, blanks for notes and colophon] pp. Limited edition. A clean copy in full cloth; corners are a trifle bumped. Issued in an edition of 450 copies, 50 of which were bound in cloth and signed by Smith and DeMott. This copy is marked "Print overrun | for Review only" and NOT signed.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [6], 66 pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Dillard on the front free endpaper. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A very nice, clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.

New York: Persea Books, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. 111 pp. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A very bright, clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket; price intact on the front flap. Uncommon hard cover edition.

Baton Rough: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. xiv, 222 pp. First Printing, signed and inscribed by Garrett on the title page. A bright, clean copy in similarly fresh dust jacket. Price intact on the front flap.

Hauniae: Jani Hostrup Shultz, 1831. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. [4], 133, [3] pp. In blue paper over flexible boards; spine is reinforced with a sympathetically colored paper--appears to be a 19th or early 20th century repair. Generally worn at the extremities with some creasing to the covers; front hinge and first gathering are a trifle loose, but all in all a solid copy of an uncommon dissertation on Danish epidemics by Mansa, a Danish physician and medical historian. Text in Latin. Uncommon.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [10], 241 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's decorated cloth with dust jacket, price intact on the front flap. Binding with only very minor wear; an early bookseller's tick on the front free endpaper; contents clean; dust jacket is a bit clipped at the edges but presents quite well. A striking jacket.

University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. xiv, [2], 151 pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy. A story illustrating the racial tensions and the power of the Klan in Reconstruction south.

Richmond: printed at the Enquirer-Press for Ritchie & Worsley and Augustine Davis, 1805. Hard Cover. Poor binding. Octavo. viii, 477 pp. Second edition. Untrimmed, in publisher's paper over boards with printed paper title label on the spine. A pretty rough binding with boards detached but held in place by early tape to the exterior of the binding as well as some tape hinges to a few preliminary pages; the title label is only present as a fragment and much of the spine is perished; binding is soiled and stained; contents are variously foxed with early dampstaining to the last hundred or so pages; occasional marginal bracketing by a previous owner; a serviceable copy of this, the second edition of what was originally issued in three volumes in a 1788-89. Sabin 100029; Shaw & Shoemaker 9665.

Charleston: Printed by Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860. [Americus, GA?: n.p., n.d.]. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 13, [3 (blank)] pp. Counterfeit edition. As issued, in printed wrappers. A bright fresh copy. This is a fairly nice example of the late 19th century or early 20th century forgery, identifiable by the error in the publisher's imprint on both the wrapper and the title page. Of this document, Harwell writes, "Presented by Christopher G. Memminger as the report of the committee to draw up the Declaration. It is this document that the South Carolinians of 1860 regarded as a new Declaration of Independence" (In Tall Cotton 171). Even the counterfeit of this seminal Confederate document has some interest to the collector. Parrish & Willingham 3762 (ref.). Confederate Hundred 85; Streeter 1270.

Oxford University Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xvii, [1], 479 pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. 289, [1] pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Montague on the front free endpaper. As issued, in publisher's cloth; lacking the dust jacket. A fairly nice copy with just a bit of sunning at the spine and light edgewear; a couple relevant clipping pasted in at the front pastedown; contents clean.