Search Results: Titles starting with D from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Akashic Books, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. Sixteen short mystery stories set in Washington, DC. 308, [7] pages. First edition (stated first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback; not issued in hardcover). This copy is signed by George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman and nine other contributors.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The runaway bestseller, the basis for the movie of the same name. 454 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with faint bumping at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A children's picture-book about the late, great tennis player and his six-year-old daughter, written by his wife. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing their father-daughter relationship. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the dedication page, "To: Cullen, Miles and Jordan. From: Camera Ashe." From the handwriting, this is an early inscription. Uncommon signed.

New York: E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A novel. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. An advance copy, preceding the first edition. A novel. 324 pages. An uncorrected proof. A fine copy with a one-sheet publicity letter from the publisher.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Uncorrected Proof. Very good/Good. A mystery, here in a pre-publication state of unbound gatherings (printed pages assembled for binding). In a dust jacket printed with four different prices (perhaps they hadn't decided yet how much to charge?). First printing sheets (stated), stamped with the publication date on the title page and laid into a trial dust jacket. The jacket is split at the spine and heavily reinforced with tape on the back (verso).

Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first republication of Bradbury's first book since it was published by Arkham House in 1947. Bradbury rewrote and revised about half of the stories for The October Country and the original versions of his early work remained out of print until this limited edition reissue. For this edition, edited by Donn Albright, spelling errors were corrected, but the text was kept intact. In addition, four other stories from the same era have been added. Each story is prefaced by a reproduction of the magazine cover where it originally appeared. At the back of the book are 53 pages of facsimiles of letters and typescripts related to Dark Carnival, all of which are published here for the first time. This edition also includes a history of Dark Carnival by Jon Eller, an introduction by Bradbury, and an afterword by Clive Barker. The book is accompanied by a CD of interviews with Bradbury and a chapbook story, Time Intervening, issued… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tales of terror and the macabre, first published in 2005 and here issued in an illustrated edition of 500 signed and numbered copies. Among the contributors are Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Ramsey Campbell, Gahan Wilson, and Clive Barker. Glenn Chadbourne, Alex McVey, and Vincent Chong are some of the illustrators. The book is signed by some of the contributors, but NOT by any of the best-known writers (Matheson, Campbell, Barker, Bradbury, etc.). 309 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In a near fine to fine slipcase. Signed and numbered on the limitation page. [NB: Number may not match the picture.].

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tales of terror and the macabre, first published in 2005 and here issued in an illustrated edition of 52 signed and lettered copies. Among the contributors are Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Ramsey Campbell, Gahan Wilson, and Clive Barker. Glenn Chadbourne, Alex McVey, and Vincent Chong are some of the illustrators. The book is signed by some of the contributors, but NOT by any of the best-known writers (Matheson, Campbell, Barker, Bradbury, etc.). 309 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In a near fine to fine traycase. Signed and lettered on the limitation page. [NB: Number may not match the picture.].

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The trade edition, illustrated by Ned Dameron. The first printing was 40,000 copies, which for almost any author would be a substantial number. 512 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Presumably the three-panel Donald M. Grant advertising brochure is laid in, as issued, but one would have to open the shrinkwrap to find out for sure.

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. This is one of 3500 unnumbered hardcover copies signed by the artist, Bernie Wrightson. This edition is one volume, like the trade edition, but uses the cover art from the two-volume limited edition. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap, which has split a bit at the corners. The corners are slightly bumped. Signed by Wrightson.

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The trade edition, illustrated by Ned Dameron. The first printing was 40,000 copies, which for almost any author would be a substantial number. 512 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, which, if one is picky, has a couple of places with minute wear along the bottom edge. With the three-panel Donald M. Grant advertising brochure laid in, as issued.

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The trade edition, illustrated by Dave McKean with color plates. The first printing was 45,000 copies, which for almost any author would be a substantial number. 787 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's verse-play set among enslaved people on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. Dove also served as the US Poet Laureate. This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in the publisher's purple and black cloth binding (hardcover). This is no. 33 of 224, signed by Dove.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The hardcover version of the 7th Travis McGee novel, "the most difficult of all [Lippincott's] McGees to find" (Firsts Magazine, Nov. 2002). The novel was first published in paperback in 1966 and then in hardcover in the UK in 1967; this is the first American hardcover edition. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printing). Mild spine lean; large Marine Barracks stamp on the front pastedown, thus very good in a spine-faded dust jacket with a number of tears and snags. The jacket is the first printing jacket, priced at $4.95 with the 470 code at the top of the front flap. A decent copy of a book that is hard to find in nice condition.

New York: Pocket Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Book one of the Iron Elves. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Very minor wear keeps this from being a fine copy in a fine jacket.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A poetry anthology collecting work from Latina writers, including Denise Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, and many others. 283 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine jacket. This copy is signed by seven contributors: Bryce Milligan, Mary Guerrero Milligan, Angela de Hoyos, María Hinojosa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Carmen Tafolla, and Ana Castillo.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. A poetry anthology collecting work from Latina writers, including Denise Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, and many others. 283 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy (with a bit of foxing to the top edge) in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the editors Bryce Milligan and Mary Guerrero Milligan on the title page.

San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. A bilingual collection of poems from a comtemporary Spanish poet. Translated by the New Mexican writer E. A. Mares. Published in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by González and Mares. According to OCLC, only seven copies are held in libraries. 29 pages. First edition (first printing).

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. One of the great Hollywood novels, here in a designer binding by Richard Smart at Olde English Bindery in Vancouver, B.C. that recreates the dust jacket design of a movie camera and blurbs by Dashiell Hammett and Dorothy Parker stamped in gilt on black morocco movie film. First edition (first printing stated). Text block with a bit of spotting to the fore-edge but an attractive copy in a well-executed custom leather binding.