Search Results: Authors starting with D from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Chicago: The Private Press of Will Ransom: Maker of Books, 1922 Limited edition No. 61/ 259 copies. Inscribed by Author on ffep. Hard cover, Demy 8vo. (measuring 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches) in blue paper-covered boards with starburst design in gold to top board, a cream paper label with black printed title to the spine, hand-printed on Tuscany hand-made paper, in black, blue inks , 122 pp. plus printer's colophon, which states: ""Design, lettering, composition, and presswork by Will Ransom." Condition: Very Good Minus. An inch long chip is missing to foot of the spine, and wear is apparent at the rear joint resulting in a couple of small losses. Rubbing at corners and head of the spine. Inside, offset to the ffep., however, the work remains generally clean, firm and a very handsome example of workmanship and design. Contents include poems reprinted from the works of Power Dalton. The publisher of this item, Will Ransom, (1878-19550 was a noted type designer and graphic artist and bibliographer of… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912 Hard cover, 12mo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), in green cloth with gold pictorial title to front board within a square featuring opposing gryphons, sundial and other classical motifs. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 303 pp. Condition Very Good, with moderate age toning to the text, otherwise clean, firm, and with no writing. One bumped corner and minor shelf wear. The work contains three dramas: "The Mortal Gods," "A Son of Hermes" and "Kidmir." The Author, Olive Telford Dargan ( 1869-1968) was an admired, anthologized Southern writer of lyric poetry, novels, social novels and short stories. Trained as a teacher, she did graduate work at Radcliffe College where she met her future husband, Pergram Dargan, also a poet. She won several prizes for her work as a Southern writer, eventually settling in Asheville, North Carolina. OCLC 3143460. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 2000 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 â…œ"). pp xii 386. In publisher's quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. With photographic plates. Condition: Near Fine. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. *** "Great Heart" is the story of Leonidas Hubbard (1872-1903), Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) and the Scots-Cree George Elson (c1875-c1950), who set out on an expedition in Labrador, Canada in 1903. Their goal was to navigate by canoe from Lake Melville to Michikamau Lake via the Naskaupi River. They were woefully unprepared for the trip - so much so that the took the wrong river at the start, and ended up in unnavigable waters and were forced to turn back. Running out of provisions, Hubbard died from either starvation of exhaustion. With Introduction by Bill McKibben. *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the brainchild of Edward Livermore… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1928 373pp. The story of David and Goliath, retold by Elmer Holmes Davis (1890 - 1958), an American news reporter, and radio broadcaster. He edited the pulp magazine "Adventure" and was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 sci-fi film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Signed to front free endpaper: "To Florence Ford Hugh. Elmer Davis. 26 September 1928". Condition: About Good, with fraying to head of spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921 Hard Cover, 8vo., 344pp; 283pp. Condition: About Very Good or better, with light marks to covers. One page in volume one has a light stain to the edges. The ghost of an ownership plate can be seen to the front paste-downs of both volumes. ** An account of the 1914-18 First World War by Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), who was the chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war he led the effort to resolve the issue of the reparations Germany had been forced to pay by the Treaty of Versailles, for which he shard the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. He subsequently became Vice President of the United States (1925-1929). *** Volume one consists of journal entries for the war from 1917 to 1919, and volume two consists of his daily reports to his Commanding General. OCLC 873195.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928 **Presentation copy from the Author to fellow writer of note, Bud Kelland, (undated).** Hard cover, 8vo., in blue publisher's cloth, embossed with border and with the title and ship vignette to the front board in gilt, and upon spine, 436 pp. Condition: Very Good, with a couple of repairs attempted at two final pages, due to a manufacturing error with the page trim. Minor rubbing to exterior corners and edges. First published in 1925, Steamboat Days is a heavily list-centric compendium of details of the industry, beginning in England, and early America. Broken down by geographic region, it includes details on every part of America's riverine commerce, especially as it blossomed in the nineteenth century. (Of particular interest to this bookseller is the mention of steamboats on the Merrimack River, ferrying passengers to a day of relaxation at Plum Island from Haverhill, or goods and materials from Newburyport to Salem or Boston.) Numerous pen and ink… Read More

Nampula: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1956 Hard cover, 4to,( measuring 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in half calf with brown cloth-covered boards. Printed, bound by Tipographia Silvas, L.D.A., Lisbon. In Portuguese. 2 volumes bound into one with original pictorial wraps bound in. This consists of the official Portuguese government quadrennial report from the General Overseas Agency, on the African colony of Mozambique. Included are many maps, tables and articles describing the condition of the indigenous people, educational law and legislation, the legal system, public works, transportation, agriculture, etc. Many fold-out maps, in color. This was a transitional period, during which the roots of Mozambique's struggle for independence from four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese colonial control would begin, erupting into armed conflict within the next decade. The author was later made Vice Admiral of the Portuguese Navy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863 Hardcover, 16 volumes dated 1863-1886. 8vo, finely bound by Bumpus of London in three-quarter navy morocco with with 5 raised bands and gold lettering to spines. Condition: Almost Fine, with some very light shelf-wear, with a small scratch to volume one, and some tiny chips to the board edges. *** Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was the quintessential man of letters - visitors would describe his rooms as being strewn with papers and books. He was friends with the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and enjoyed instant popularity with the magazine publication of his "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in 1821. *** Contents include "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", his widely praised essay on Shakespeare, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1823), and his opium-inspired dreamscapes in "The English Mail-Coach" (1849). *** De Quincey recalls in his "Confessions" his escape from an English public school, his subsequent… Read More

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1985 Hard cover, quarto, 607pp. John of St Thomas (1589 - 1644), born João Poinsot, and also known as John Poinsot, was a Portuguese Dominican Friar and philosopher. This bilingual edition of his Tractatus de Signus is shown to anticipate the modern philosophy of semiotics. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927 Hard cover, 12mo, (5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches) in a contemporary fine binding (not signed) of three-quarter crushed morocco over terracotta cloth-covered boards, the five raised bands of the spine and other edges banded by hot tool in blind, with the title and author is in gilt to the second and third compartments to the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with cream laid paper paste downs and printed upon similar, heavy wove paper stock, the editions dated 1927-28, First Edition Thus. Various pages. A modern bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. All type is black. CONDITION: Near Fine, showing virtually no wear. Missing one fold-out map from Vol. I "Robinson Crusoe," but has the one called for in Vol. III. Perhaps left out during the rebinding ? There are several volumes showing some foxing externally to the fore or bottom edge of the text block only; this very rarely intrudes upon the reading area, and very… Read More

Nantucket, Mass.: Nantucket Historical Association, 1970 27pp. Stapled booklet.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991 167pp. Advanced Reader's Copy. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Ex-ad man and mystery reviewer Delman here pens a chess thriller, involving a colorful cast of characters. Homicide Lieutenant Jacob Horowitz and his private investigator wife, Helen, find two seemingly different cases of murder may be related...Condition: Fine, with Very Good Plus d/j, (minor scuffing.). First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+.

New York: The Woman's Press, 1931 Hardcover, 8vo (5 ½" x 7 ⅞"). Revised version of the 1926 first edition. Condition: Fine. *** A study of the music, musical instruments, dance, songs and ceremonies of Native Americans, by the American anthropologist, Frances Theresa Densmore (1867-1957). As well as writing about the tribal songs, she made may recordings of them too, for the Bureau of American Ethnology (many of which are now housed in the Library of Congress). Her studies included the Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, Pawnee and the Papago.. Revised edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Madrid: Editorial de Espiritualidad, 1969 Paper wraps. 8vo. 130pp. Signed by the author to front free endpaper. Spanish text. Condition: Very Good. Crease to corner of covers. Small tears and marks to covers. ** Title translates as "The Treatment of Subjective Time in the Work of Gabriel Miró". Gabriel Miró Ferrer (1879 - 1930), known as Gabriel Miró, was a Spanish modernist writer. His 1915 work, "El abuelo del rey" ["The King's Grandfather"] is the story of three generations of a family in the Levant, and considered a "meditation" on the passage of time.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Signed by author.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1996 247pp. The Golden Dagger award-winning author from the Seattle area gives us his eleventh novel. Ruth Rendell says, "Didbin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. He writes the unmentionable, calmly and with devastating effect." In this volume, Zen has been re-assigned from Rome to what he assumes will be the more quiescent harbor detail at Naples. However, between tussling with the local mafia, and over-enthusiastic female acquaintances, he's never out of hot water. Condition: Near Fine, in Very Good, price-clipped dustjacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1896 192pp. Local town history. Condition: Covers bumped with a little wear to corners and some marks. Owner's stamp to title page.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-.

Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, Publisher , 1910 Reprint. Soft cover chapbook in green card wraps, yapp edge, over paper, 16mo (measuring 3 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches) with vignette watercolor reproduction art by London-born artist Charles E. Brock (1870-1938) on front of wraps, titles printed in darker green. Frontispiece, plus three additional watercolor plates by Brock within the text. Printed by Neill and Company, Edinburgh.**Charles Dickens's short story was first published in 1865, and T.N. Foulis did a number of different editions of this popular Christmas story. It features the struggle to overcome adversity faced by a street pedlar, named Dr. Marigold (after the man who delivered him,) and his adopted, deaf-mute daughter. Sophy has had a background of her own childhood trauma to deal with. The work has been noted for its progressive views on the deaf. It was also reworked into a play. CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Some scuffing to the applied cover image. However, the wraps remain bright, and… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1988 Hard cover in slipcase, 8vo, (6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) in half red cloth with decorated tan marbled paper-covered boards, pictorial endpapers, with many black and white and color illustrations, 252pp. in a red slipcase. Condition: Fine, slipcase Near Fine (minor shelf rubbing on bottom.) Autobiography of the beloved author, Charles Dickens (1812-1870.) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Bigelow, Brown and Co., Inc., 1111 Hard cover, 8vo, (5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches) in gray buckram, with blue label, gold titles blocked to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece illustrations by various artists, v.p.,undated (circa 1920's) rubricated title page, various pages. Each volume contains a brief publication history, and list of the full-page illustrations reproduced from the original famous Dickens artists listed above, usually about ten to a volume. Full length novels and shorter works are included, as well as a selection of the author's correspondence, poems and a life of Dickens in the final volume. Indexed, where appropriate.**CONDITION: Near Fine, clean, and with no apparent shelf wear. One bumped rear corner and one small closed tear to as half title page is noticed in the twenty volume set. One exterior title label lightly rubbed. Bright and virtually unread.**TITLES INCLUDE:" Sketches by Boz, Parts I and II, " (465 pp.) "The Pickwick Papers," (522pp.) "Oliver Twist "and "Hard… Read More

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles in gold to the spine, lacking dust jacket, with frontispiece illustration, red and black title page, 105 pp., Second Edition. First published in 1939, this volume contains eleven previously unpublished short stories, essays and poems of Duval, a biographical sketch and bibliography. **Kentucky-born writer John Crittenden Duval (1816- 1897) was famous for pioneering adventure stories about Big-foot Wallace, Texas Ranger, based upon a real man the author served with around 1845 in the Mexican-American War. "The Adventures of Bigfoot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter" was published in book form in 1870. His reminiscences of the Goliad Massacre, contained in the classic "Early Times in Texas" was serialized in Burke's Weekly at Macon, Georgia, beginning in 1867, later going into multiple printings in book form in the 1890's. CONDITION: Fine. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Tom Lea.