Search Results: Authors starting with D from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Napoli: Francesco Castaldo. Good. Marbled Boards. 1754. 2d edition. Title Continues: Tomo Prio, Partei Seconda / Che contiene XXX. Ra gionamenti fulla famosa parabola del Figliuol Prodig. Dati in Luc e Da D. Ludovico Sabbatini D’Anfora, Della Congregazione de’ Peii Operarj, e Vescovo dell’ Aquila. [Volume I and Second Part Containing 30 additional orations on the famous Parable of the P rodigal Son. Annotated by D. Ludovico Sabbatini d’Anfora, of t he Congregation of Pious Workers, and Bishop of Aquila. . volumes in one. 4to marbled boards, gilt band on spine. pp. 326 [vi] 454 . able of the Prodigal Son for use on various Holy Days and celebra tions. The first 26 orations were published in 1752. This 2d e dition reprints them and continues the work with an additional 30 works. Annotated and highlighted by d. Lodovico Sabbatini d'Anfo ra ... Text in Italian and Latin. . us Workers in Naples was founded circa1600 for… Read More

A Hebrew grammar with Latin text by Johann Danz, German theologian and Hebraicist. 5th edition, 12mo, vellum covered boards. 361 pp plus approximately 60 pages of indices. Danz was Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Jena. He was considered by contemporaries to be among the greatest of Hebrew scholars and his several works on Hebrew grammarremained standard works for nearly a hundred years. (Jewish Encyclopedia).
CONDITION: Good: a clean, tight copy overall but age-toned, light-to-moderate foxing throughout. Title hand-written on spine in black ink, surface wear and several small stains and nicks to cover; rear end paper scuffed [See photos].

Paris: Daragnès. Very good. Loose signatures in chemise and slipcase. 1954. 1st edition, limited to 140 copies. Rencontres [Meetings] . . Avant propos de Colette, Portraits par A. D. de Segonzac [Colo red woodcuts by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, Foreword by Colette, Portr aits by A. D. de Segonzac. . 3cmx26cm. [2ff.], 118pp., [3ff.] Copy no. 68 of 140. Orange board s, white vellum spine with gilt lettering. Card slipcase. Fargue ’s homage to his long friendship with Daragnes -- published aft er both their death’s by the latter’s wife. Fargue died in 19 47; Daragnes in 1950. The text is previously unpublished and is illustrated with a suite of 28 color wood engravings by Daragnes illustrated the Montmarte area of Paris where his studio was loca ted. Loose signatures on white woven paper in matching chemise. These are Daragne’ last published drawings. Foreword by Colle te discusses the author and artist, illustrated… Read More

Harper & Brothers. 1922. 1st trade edition, with designs by William Nicholson. 12mo, beige bonds with gold label on front and spine. Decorated end papers. 36 pp. A very good-near fine copy overall but with a bookplate in side front cover and lacking the dust jacket, a clipping of which is laid in. .

Longmans, Green and Co., London . Very good. 1923. First thus. 8vo, half vellum, gilt lettering. The deluxe edition, limited to 310 copies signed y de la Mare. Illustrated with 8 fu ll-page mounted color plates by Estella Canziani. A very good cop y with lower corners heavily rubbed, some light soiling, bookplat e inside front cover, pencil erasures on front flyleaves. Pristin e text block. Lacking dustjacket. .

One of de Sade's earlier works, but from an unpublished manuscript first published in France in 1926. 1st U.S. ed., small 4to, decorated cloth. 52 pp+. on handmade paper, deckled edges. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Samuel Putnam. Number 415 of 650 copies.
The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life. deSade completed the notebook which contains the Dialogue while imprisoned at Château de Vincennes. He took the manuscript with him when he was transferred to the Bastille in 1784.
Following the Storming of the Bastille in 1789, deSade's manuscript survived in private collections and was sold on at auction a number of times during the nineteenth century. In 1920 it was bought by Maurice Heine who oversaw its publication in France for the first time in 1926 in a limited edition of 500 copies for which he wrote an introduction. This first English translation includes Heine's introduction.… Read More

Charles T. Powner. 1946. 1946 reprint of a book first issued in 1924. 8vo illustrated wra ppers. 130 pp. A collection of minstrel gags, jokes, and speeches 'adapted to the use of amateurs and professionals.' Fine copy; no chips or tears - mild age-toning to the news pulp pages. .

London Chapman and Hall . Fair. 1839. 1st edition. First edition in book form. 1st state. 8vo, three-quarter crushed black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands. viii, 526 pp. t.e.g. . e/frontispiece which is often missing. Other points: p.526 l.18 having the words 'reeledbefore' run together and all plates follo wing p.120 with publisher's imprint at bottom. Publisher’s addr ess reading '186, Strand'. A fresh, tight, textually clean copy. Cohn, 234; Eckel 15-22; Gimbel A7; Hatton & Cleaver, p.103; Jerro ld, p.364. . Block Good. Covers: worn but intact, with heavy rubbing to corn ers, edges, and spine. [see photos];. Front gutter partially crac ked but not separated. Text block is clean and tight overall but heavy toning and occasional light foxing to most of the plate mar gins and versos, not affecting the image or the facing text. Vint age bookplate on front pastedown as well as vintage description f rom a dealer catalog. Owners… Read More

1st ed., 4to, illustrated stiff wrappers, plastic comb binding. Unpaginated.
One of a series of annual volumes published in conjunction with an annual ball, and New York, Artists Equity Association. From the preface: "This is Volume 5 of Improvisations. First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, Improvisations has been accepted as a novel and original medium by advertisers in sympathy with the ideals of Artists Equity Association. The member-artists who illustrated the journal were selected by the advertisers and were given complete freedom of expression. Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs."
Contains works by forty-nine artists including Chaim Gross, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn, Louise Nevelson, and Raphael Soyer. Printed in color or monochrome on a variety of paper stocks. Limited to 2000 copies, this being copy 56.

The Book Club of California. New. 2987. 1st edition. 1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copie s. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. . uarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed pape r spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket. Isaac Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessm an prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, he traveled to Fort Smit h, Arkansas, where he joined an elder brother who was running a t rading post. Afterward, he became a western and mountain scout, v enturing to the California Gold Rush in 1849. This book records D uval's reminiscences of the Gila Trail journey from Texas to the Mother Lode Mines. Kurutz: The California Gold Rush, No 212. A n ew copy, but with some toning, light creases, and edge-nicks to t he jacket; light creasing to… Read More

First edition. 243pp. Illus. The Honda Point disaster is the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. This history of the incident is a relatively common and inexpensive book. But accompanying it are 13 vintage 3x5" b/w photographs, 8 original b/w negatives with different images, and 9 b/w photos from the negatives, possibly printed later. The book is good in d/w. The photos were apparently taken by an amateur photographer at the scene; none of the photos appear in the book. The photos are VG, with the vintage photos glued to album pages.

Milano: Fratelli Treves. 1902. 1st ed.. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper ; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several fu ll-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in Italian . A tragic play in verses, presented for the first time at the Te atro Costanzi in Rome on December 9th 1901. The text centers on the story of how Francesca da Rimini falls in love with her husba nd's brother in the 13th century. The play is based on an episod e from Dante Alighieri's Inferno. It was written for D'Annunzio's lover Eleonora Duse, who played the title role. An English trans lation by Arthur Symons was published in 1902. D’Annunizio was an Italian writer, poet, journalist, and playwright. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and lat er political life… Read More

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. Lists of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of California's Board of Land Commissioners, was the State's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johnson [1856-1858]. Condition: Fair. Covers heavily worn; damp-stained at lower right front; rear board was very heavily damaged but was professionally restored. Spine is modernly rebacked in black morocco to match the original leather, gilt titles. 6 pages of advertisements in the front are on thinner paper and somewhat worn, but still in good shape and fully intact. Three leaves in the back with marginal… Read More

In 1951, James Drayer [1927-2017] graduated from Ohio State's School of Architecture with a degree in Landscape Architecture. These 100 drawings, from 1947-49, reflect the quality of his student work.
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A combination of pen and ink, crayon, and watercolor – each approximately 8x11" in size.
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About a third are landscape scenes – parks, trees, and parkways. The rest depict a wide variety of architectural themes from house design, to schools, to cemeteries. The former are often delightful images suitable for framing; the latter offer insight into residential and commercial designs of the period. We don't know his career path or activities after leaving Ohio State, other than a move to California where he worked as a Landscape Architect for the Sacramento Parks Department.
CONDITION: Very Good to Fine

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.. 1924. 1st ed.. 8vo, batiked-paper boards with 1/4 vellum-spine. Printed by the P elican Press and limited to 250 copies. English translation of se venteen verses by Goethe, Schiller, Moerike, Uhland, Hebbel, Theo dor Storm, Keller, Guenther, Gleim, Boie, Hofmannsthal, Liliencro n and Buerger. The Pelican Press was founded in 1916 by Sir Franc is Meynell, with the active involvement of Stanley Morison - a Br itish typographer, designer and historian of printing. He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, havi ng designed the Times New Roman typeface (1931) and several histo rical revivals for the Monotype Corporation. A couple of stray pe ncil marks on FFEP otherwise absolutely pristine -- as if it came off the press today. In very good glassine d/w with several smal l tears and creases and original cardboard box that is split at a ll 4 hinges. .

Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York. Very good. 1929. 1st edition. FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapita tion and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Wor king List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read a nd Kept in Every Family . , 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label . 129pp + hangman's "Ready Reckoner" drop chart at back. Patterne d gallows endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. A satirical handbook on h anging and other methods of capital punishment. Hailed as a "mino r classic" by Dylan Thomas, the book was reprinted in 1999 under the NYRB Classics imprint. Spine label chipped, otherwise a VG-ne ar fine copy. .

Dutton, New York. Fine. 1960. 1st American edition. First U.S. edition; first state. His first major novel, originall y published in Paris in 1936. Advance review copy with review sli p dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Conforms to the first issue point s identified by McBride's "Points Of Issue" (1996): Front flap st ates "Lawrence Durrell's Black Book is the first piece of work by a new English writer …" not "T.S. Eliot said…" - Also with t he year 1936 x’d out on the copyright page and replaced by 1959 . A fine copy in very good d/w; just a hint of rubbing to spine e nds and corners. Jacket is not price-clipped but has wear to edge s and corners with several small nicks and creases. .