Search Results: Authors starting with D from Abbey Bookshop

London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. Fourth impression. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original patterned cloth, paper title-piece to spine, illustrated by with wood engravings by R.A.Garnett. Lovely copy of Garnett's beautifully illustrated novel which first appeared a year earlier. Fourth impression of the first edition. cloth very lightly but unevenly faded

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959. First edition. Very Good. 8vo., original green cloth. occasional neat annotations in pen and pencil, cloth spotted and worn in places.

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., contemporary green calf, red morocco title piece to the spine, all edges gilt, spine richly decorated in gilt. Edited by John Aitken Carlyle. A thorough and erudite history of Scottish poetry from its infancy up to the beginning of the 18th century. binding lightly spotted, extremities rubbed in places, neat contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper

Amsterdam, 1727. First edition. Very Good. Three volumes, 12mo., contemporary calf, five raised bands to spines, gilt, morocco titling-pieces. spines worn at head and tail, joints worn and split in places but holding nicely, small loss to margin of one page in third vol not effecting text

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Seule édition complète augmentée de préfaces et de fragments inédits. 8vo., near-contemporary quarter sheep, five raised bands, marbled boards, original wrappers preserved. A lovely copy of Stendhal's mock-scientific description and classification of love in all its forms. some pencil underlinings and marginalia, some light foxing, two handsome bookplates on front pastedown

London: Ernest Nister, [c. 1890]. Fourth edition thus. Very Good +. 4to., original pictorial green cloth, 6 colour plates and richly illustrated in the text by J. Finnemore, G.H. Thompson, and Archibald Webb. Scarce early-twentieth century edition of this classic work of English literature extremities lightly rubbed, spine dulled

Paris: Gallimard, (1958). Fifth edition. Very Good. 8vo., original wrappers. Scarce spine worn at head and tail, notes of a French student loosely inserted

New York: Golden Press, 1948-9. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. WILLIAMS (Garth). 32mo. (8 x 5 cm), original illustrated boards. Thirteen miniature children's books from the "Tiny Golden Book" series, being numbers 1-8, 15, 16, 19-24. The titles are, in order: The Baby Camel and his Naughty Father; The Little Leopard and his Fat Stomach; Why the Little Elephant got Spanked; The Little Giraffe wants to play; Look out, Baby Bear, here he comes!; The two stuck-in-the-mud Rhinoceroses; The Brave Father Gorilla; The Baby Hippopotamus's Adventure; Happy Valentine; April Fool!; The Wonderful Silly Picnic; Little Squirrel's santa Claus; Mrs Sheep's Little Lamb; The Cowboy Kitten; The Two Snowbulls; The Naughty Little Guest. Also included is the cover for no. 17, Uncle Quack. A wonderful collection of children's stories charmingly illustrated by Garth Williams.

London: Longman, Brown and Green, 1844. First edition. Very Good. Sm. folio, near contemporary half burgundy morocco. Blair's world chronology, composed of a little over sixty long tables, in which he dates Creation somewhere between 4004 and 4105 BC. lightly rubbed at extremiities, some gatherings coming loose

London: Penguin Books, 1948. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Oblong 8vo., original green printed wrappers, with 32 plates on 16 leaves, half of them in colour. Reprint of the 1944 first edition. spine worn, endpapers enthousiastically illustrated by a child in crayon, last plate and wrappers bear a few pencil scribbles