Search Results: Titles starting with D from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

Johnstown, NY: Knox Gelatine Company Inc, 1924. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches ( 17 x 12 cm), pictorial wraps, large chip missing from upper right hand corner, two tears at bottom and side that goes all the way through all the pages. some soiling to covers. Mostly black and white but a few color pictures. 40 pp.

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket, previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Photos in center of book, graphs and charts throughout. 430 pp.

Dallas: Baskerville Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Dark green cloth, with white lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Author's first book. 275pp.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Blue cloth, small illustration on front, unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Lengthy inscription by the author to a friend on flyleaf, 109 pp. Part of a series by the Texas Folklore Society.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. Cream color boards, with green lettering on front and spine, some darkening across bottom front, 1 inch wide. Dust jacket has rips, mostly closed tears. Picture of author on back. 278 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Discoloration to spine, dj chipped with half inch at top of spine with author's first name missing. Stain to top of spine where dj is ripped.

New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First Edition. 1/4 Cloth. Very good/Good +. Yellow boards with red 1/4 cloth, gilt lettering on spine, author's name written cursive gilt on cover. Dust jacket has price marked through with ink, fraying to dust jacket with tiny tear on top front. 258 pp. Morgan takes an anthropological reinterpretation of the evolution of the human species.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Black boards with 1/4 cloth, silver lettering on spine, some spots on cloth, unclipped dust jacket, signed on half title page. Some age spots on page edges. 236 pp.

Pittsburg, PA: Know Inc, 1970. Broadside. Fine. 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.5 x 29 cm), single two-sided yellow sheet. The author is announcing "My swan song to the women's movement." She outlines in-fighting and personal attacks within the movement. Read at Congress to Unite Women, May 30, 1970.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. Hugh Lofting. Cloth, gray-green, with orange lettering on front and spine. Darkening to top of front cover, base of spine, and page edges. Colorful Illustrated endpapers by Lofting. Dust jacket is not price clipped, but has tape on top and bottom of spine and inside the fold of front flap, top and bottom. Some discoloration to dj. Previous owner's name, dated 1928, on front free endpaper, verso. Illustrations throughout by author. Laid in is a blank postcard from the publisher to be filled out to receive "Now and Then, a periodical of books and personalities," 317 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Advance reading copy, paperback. 367 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926. First Thus. Cloth. Very good -. John Austen. White cloth, illustration on front with gilt lettering. Spine is discolored. Deckled pages. illustrated by John Austen. 17 full page black and white illustrations, other black and white illustrations throughout. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. 408 pp.

Philadelphia: Dr. D. Jayne & Son, 1933. Pamphlet. Fair. 5-1/2 x 7" stapled wraps printed in red and black, with loop-cord attached at the spine head. [34] pages. Upper wrap starting to detach, with short tears at the spine and tiny chips out at the corners, pages lightly age-toned. "Published for the 91st Year," the Almanac of course promoted the good doctor's various cures, but also differentiates itself from the masses with features such as guides to fortune-telling via tea leaves and planting by moon phase, and tips for gardening and pruning.

[Buffalo, New York]: Dr. Pierce's Invalid Hotel, 1930. Pamphlet. Fine. 5 x 7-1/4" stapled photo-illustrated wraps printed in orange and black. 32 pages exclusive of wraps, illustrated throughout with rotogravure photographs. Very minor age-toning, a very near fine copy. "Get Dr. Pierce's GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY in liquid or tablet form at your naborhood [sic] drug store!"

New York: Viking Press, 1984. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Green board with blue 1/4 cloth gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket is price clipped. Author's first book. 232 pp.

New York: Midwood- Tower, 1962. First Edition. Pulp paperback. Fine. 4 x 7 inches (10 x 18 cm), pulp paperback, with picture of woman in lingerie, holding a bottle of booze and wearing high heels. Midwood No. F163. Tight unread copy. Good girl art. 190pp.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1986. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Rust colored boards, with turquoise 1/4 cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dustjacket very good condition. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Top edges lightly foxed. 239 pp. First Edition.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20.5 x cm), rust colored cloth with black lettering on front and spine, in several places the cloth is worn away, fading to edges. Previous owner's name in pencil on endpaper, "Louise Roberts, Arden, Delaware." Roberts was an artist who lived in Arden, an art colony founded in 1900 as a Georgist single-tax community." The single tax system is based taxes on land value, supplanting income tax and sales tax. 16 plates with diagrams on nearly every page. Hambidge analyzes vases in geometric terms. 161 pp. First edition.

London: Sotheby's & Co, 1960. First Edition. Boards. Good. Green boards, with black lettering on front and spine. Front cover is bowed. Laid in are the prices and buyers' names. The prices are in pounds. Many full page color plates and 64 pages of black and white illustrations. 8.5" x 11" (21.5 x 28 cm).