Search Results: Titles starting with D from Crooked House Books & Paper

Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition (matching dates, NAP). Yellow cloth with red & brown decoration, 7-5/8" x 5-1/4". Minor toning to spine, minor soiling to covers, and minor spine slant. Presents well.

The Macaulay Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Full grey-blue cloth boards with silver lettering & decoration, under pictorial dust jacket designed by Louis Lozowick, 8-1/4" tall, 274 pp. Short split to endpapers at front hinge, dust jacket has light chipping to top edges and spine ends, split (no loss) at front joint. Still an attractive copy. In our modern world of AI-generated content, the opening of the dust jacket blurb is prescient: "American life has become so mechanized that even American art has become Robotized in the process. Everywhere the machine standardizes, while individual genius decays." Lozowick's industrial DJ showing three identical typists beneath a cog is a brilliant adaptation of the theme.

Horizon Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, blue endpapers, 8-1/2" tall, 287 pp. Minor discoloration to page edges; dust jacket moderately soiled at edges, toned at spine, remains intact with very little wear. A critical appraisal of modern dance, with an emphasis on the New York City Ballet under choreographer George Balanchine.

New York: Privately published for Rarity Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Austen, John. Purple cloth covered boards, 4to, 200 pages, frontispiece illustrated in color and numerous black and white illustrations by John Austen. Boards are clean and bright, bit of wear at spine ends, old booksellers label tipped into rear blank page, dust jacket rubbed and edge worn, chipping at extremities and a couple of closed edge tears, now in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of this beautiful love story of pastoral Greece.

Random House, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated. Light grey cloth boards with black spine, gold foil title band across both boards, typographic dust jacket priced at $2.50, 9-1/4" tall, 270 pp. Cracking to foil at gutters, as is common with this book, toning to dust jacket (also common), the external panels are tan instead of blue-grey, spine toned more, small chipping & short closed tears, looks nice over all. Debut book featuring the Armenian-American's breakout story.

Piatkus Books, 2016. Soft cover. Very Good. 146x18x95. Trade paperback, 8vo. Scratch to rear cover, but a nice copy overall.

Oyez, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. White trade paperback printed in red & black , 8vo, 94 pp. "Advance Copy Oyez" stamped on half-title page. Edition of 1000 copies.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition with seal. Fine/Near Fine. The jacket is well made, probably by an early owner, lettered & decorated by hand on spine. The first woman to be Poet Laureate of the US.

Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Trade paperback, 8vo, 47 pp.

New York: Viking, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the authors on front free endpaper, $2.00 price intact in front flap of dj, pictorial tan cloth, tall 4to, unnumbered pages, sepia drawings on almost every page, several double-page color illustrations. Bit of edge wear, toned endpapers; toned and edge worn dust jacket with chipping at extremities, two long thin chips out at top rear edge, now in protective mylar cover. Simple rhythmic sentences present the first year in the life of two fawns. Caldecott honor book of 1943.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover with dust jacket; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 207 pages. Black paper boards backed in terracotta cloth, mild edge, pages lightly toned with age, binding sound, pictorial dust jacket with edge wear and chipping along extremities, two small tears at top front edge, small piece out at top rear edge, now in protective mylar cover. From the jacket flap: The characters in this powerful novel are chiefly adolescents, adult in their worldliness but painfully immature in experience, deficient in their perspective and lacking a set of values to apply to their new-found, near-adult world. They confuse wickedness with achievement, promiscuousness with sophistication; they are haunted by shadows of lies, homosexuality, drug addiction. At once sensitive and callow, their dominant characteristic is impatience, and this is a day of impatience and emotional crisis in the life of a young Italian in post-war Naples, his personal… Read More

E.P. Dutton & Co, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition stated. Red cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards under white dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 6". Minor toning to jacket, two short closed tears to top edge and one horizontal crease to rear panel. A founding member of the Black Arts Movement, Henderson also co-founded and edited the literary magazine Umbra.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 10x7x0. Signed by Author(s). Fine unread copy (previous dealer's overstock.) Signed, name only, to half-title page. Hardcover, grey paper-covered boards with darker grey cat decorations to front board, spine lettered in black, 10-1/4" tall, unpaginated, illustrated with photographs (more cats!) Poems from the science fiction author, which maintain that touch of nostalgia that runs through so much of his stories.

McDowell Obolensky, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st edition, title page in blue, "Walking" for "Waking" on p. 80, $3.95 DJ price. Full blue cloth boards with green & silver lettering and decoration, 8.5" tall, 339 pp. Minor fading to top edge of boards, minor fading to DJ spine panel, very light wear to DJ edges.

London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Red cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 208 pages; slight lean to spine; dust jacket protected in mylar cover. A vintage copy of this, "topical mixture of industrial espionage and boating on the Thames".

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Frederick, Ralph. Miniature hardcover in black leather with gilt illustration and lettering, 2 3/4 x 2 inches, 53 pages, rich purple and green marbled endpapers, illustrations throughout by Ralph Frederick, tiny silver Lilliput bookseller's label on rear paste-down no other notable flaws. Printed in a limited edition direct from type, illustrations by Ralph Frederick were reproduced on copper from original drawings. Designed by E. Willis Jones, typography and production by Norman Forgue.

Limited Editions Club, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Illustrator(s). #746 of 1500 copies made, signed by illustrator at colophon. Hand colored illustrations. Tan deer hide leather spine over marbled paper-covered boards, within beige paper-covered slipcase, 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". Newsletter laid in. Minor toning to spine panel, light wear to slipcase. A lovely edition of a classic of American literature. Extra postage required for priority or international shipping.

New York: Atheneum, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Earl Thollander. Signed by Author(s). First edition stated; signed and inscribed by Beard on blank prelim, 4to (9 3/4 x 5 1/2) inches, blind embossed green paper over boards backed in blue cloth, black and white drawings by Earl Thollander throughout. Gift inscription, "To my beloved daughter, Margaret. Mother," inked above author inscription and accompanying birthday card dated 1964 taped to the page, tiny penciled "x"s next to most books listed on verso, dust jacket has some mild soiling to inverse which is visible as very faint water marks on front, else mild edge wear and spine a bit toned. From the private collection of Margaret (Lindsey) Love, who was the daughter of Fern Trumbull Hubbard, prominent home economist for Edison General Electric in the 1930s. She developed and conducted cooking classes around the country to teach women how to use the new electric ranges and appliances that were quickly… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Limited edition, olive green paper backed in tan cloth, 8vo, 389 pages, illustrated throughout, signed by the author on the colophon; toning to edges of boards, interior is unmarked and illustrations are sharp. Limited edition printing of 1,129 numbered copies, of which this is number 115. Within the back cover is included a facsimile of the unpublished novelette, "A Leaf from an Unopened Volume", by Charlotte Bronte.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, 8vo, 320 pages, illustrated from drawings by the author; mild shelf bump to bottom front board edge near spine, internally clean and sound; dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with chipping and small tears at extremities, one inch triangle out at bottom front edge, still very attractive in mylar cover. Engineer's story of how he surveyed a large area of the Orinoco basin for an American oil company, under peculiarly trying conditions.