Search Results: Authors starting with D from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Stuttgart, Germany: Daimler Benz, 1961. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound,, pp. 85. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of motor vehicles and internal combustion engines, which was founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's Benz & Cie. and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, which had been founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. Daimler had died in 1900, and Maybach had left in 1907. 

New York: American Society for Psychical Research, 1972. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 132. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

New York: Hearst Magazines, 1942. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 234, w/ Index of Advertisers. Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. MOTOR is a monthly American automobile magazine first published by Hearst Magazines in 1903 as THE MOTOR. Founded by William Randolph Hearst it is based in Troy, Michigan.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full quarter-bound camel-coloured cloth-backed faux-marbled robin's egg blue boards, sans dust jackets, [as issued], and and rather ratty spine labels, pp. 204; 201. Vol. I: "A Tale of the City," "Follow Your Nose" and "The Lodging House Bewitched". Volume II: The Old Maiden's Talisman" and 12pp. publisher's advertisements. The book was first published in England by Bull & Churton in 1834. There's a brief biography of Dalton on the Internet at http.//www.eapoe/people/daltonjf.htm. Edgar Allen Poe's review of Peter Snook is included in The Works of the Late Edgar Allen Poe, (1856) 4:4:392-408 and is available on the website of the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore...http.//www.eapoe.org/works/criticism/wrks4004.htm Poe summmed his quite lengthy review with: "The incidents of this story are forcibly conceived, and even in… Read More

Cooperstown, New York: New York State Historical Association, 1997. Magazine. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], magazine with pictorial covers, pp. 63. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Temse, Belgium: The Boelwerf , 2014. First Impression. Hardcover boek. In uitzonderlijk goede staat (In exceptionally good condition). Demy tafel [25 bij 30 cm], volledig beelddoek zonder stofomslag, pp. 199, geïndexeerd. Geïllustreerd met b-w halftonen, & tc. Aarzel niet om te vragen naar bijzonderheden en / of extra foto's. ... De Boelwerf werd in 1829 gesticht door Bernard Boel (1798-1872), die als timmerman op de scheepswerven van Antwerpen-Zuid had gewerkt. Hij werd opgevolgd door zijn zoon Jozef Boel. Tijdens de eerste vijftig jaar van zijn bestaan, bouwde de scheepswerf houten schepen en stelde een beperkt aantal arbeiders tewerk. Het bedrijf bouwde maar één schip per jaar, voornamelijk tjalks. Vanaf 1900 groeide het aantal schepen en daarmee het aantal werknemers gestaag. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog floreerden J. Boel en Zonen na een internationale doorbraak. Bij de 150ste verjaardag van het bedrijf telde de Zaat, zoals de scheepswerf bekend was in het… Read More

Arroyo Grande, California: South County Historical Society, 1999 (First Dawson's1960). Second Edition. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 142, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Juan Francisco Dana was the son of William Goodwin and Maria Josefa, -[nee Carrillo]-,Dana The Grantees of the Rancho Nipomo in in San Luis Obispo County. Both Richard and William Dana were from Boston and had traveled a great deal. Both men could trace their family tree back to Richard Dana who arrived from England in 1640. However, William was born 18 years before Richard and lost his father when he was only two and his mother died when William was nine and his sister Adeline was eight. Fortunately, his uncle, William Heath Davis, a prominent ship owner, helped him launch a career at sea at the age of 18. He went on to become a proficient… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1969. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed aquamarine blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xx, 346. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the bow of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana gives vivid descriptions of the different groups he encountered on the journey. He described Californios as lazy and remarked that the local Indians were effectively enslaved by them, yet he also described the Indians as lazy. He wrote disdainfully of the uncleanliness and sloppiness of whaling ships — and even more so of the Russian vessel he encountered, claiming that the Russian crew actually "lived upon grease; eat it, drank it, slept in… Read More

New York: The Heritage Press [George Macy Companies], 1947. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed pictorial cloth, sans dust jacket, -as published,- w/ slipcase, pp. xx, 346. Illustrated with halftone chiaroscuro drawings, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Hans Alexander Mueller was the author of Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them, (1939). Though now largely forgotten as a technique, chiaroscuro, of which Mueller was an undisputed master was widely used in illustrations throughout the Nineteenth Century, until replaced by offset and color lithography printing technology. William McFee immigrated to the United States in 1911 and wrote books, afterwards going to sea in ships of the United Fruit Company. During World War I he served in the Royal Navy as engineer in various transport ships. After the war, McFee returned to the United States to live in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was… Read More

New York: Pantheon, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. vG Very Good/VG Very Good. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed plum-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 488, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Alex Danchev's obituary noted: "The historian and biographer Alex Danchev, who has died aged 60 from a heart attack, believed that it was artists rather than politicians who had the power to change society. Danchev made his name as a military historian, with acclaimed biographies of Oliver Franks (1993) and Basil Liddell Hart (1998), and a co-edition of the unexpurgated war diaries of Lord Alanbrooke (2001). More recently, artists had become his focus, although he continued to write about contemporary politics, notably Anglo-American relations and the so-called war on terror. A life of Georges Braque (2005) – the first ever to be published – was succeeded by a… Read More

Seattle: Pacific Motor Boat, 1935. Magazine. VG Very Good. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 48. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates, line drawings, schematics &tc. . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Balboa Bay Yacht Club, Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, (Hawaii) and regular Departments ... The New York Public Library's catalogue notes: "Pacific motor boat. 1931-52 its Handbook number is issued as an annual special number, separately catalogued; Pacific motor boat. Handbook number. "With which is consolidated Pacific international power boat", Oct. 1915-Jan. 1916; "with which is consolidated Pacific international power boat and Western yacht & launchman", Feb. 1916-June 1918. United with Sea; the Pacific Coast yachting magazine, to form Sea and Pacific motor boat.

San Diego: San Diego Corral of Westerners, 1970. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed maroon-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 195. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Part of the working library of noted San Diego historian Jeff Smith, Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The San Diego Corral of the Westerners Records are currently housed in San Diego State University's Special Collections Library The collection comprises 12 lineal feet and documents the publishing history and administrative organization of the group dedicated to preserving the history of the American West. These records include correspondence, meeting notices and minutes, event information, membership rosters, financial statements, and documentation of the Corral’s creative output such as newsletters, book production materials, and sample book artwork. The bulk of the materials primarily date from 1967-2012. The San… Read More

Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International MBI, 1996 . First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full pictorial cloth with matching mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 96. Illustrated with colour plates, b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

London: Institute of Civil Engineers, 1975. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. vii, 222. Illustrated with b-w halftones, graphs, schematics &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. In exceptionally good condition. Hardcover. (29170) $45.00

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. Full Calf. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [ 27cm/10.75 inches], full gilt-embossed ebony calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xvi, 362, indexed. Colour frontis and 4 textual illustrations by Fritz Kendel . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Smithsonian noted: "Charles DarwinÂ’s On the Origin of Species rattled Victorian readers in 1859, even though it said almost nothing about how the idea of evolution applied to human beings. A dozen years later, in 1871, he tackled that subject head-on. In The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published 150 years ago this month, Darwin argued forcefully that all creatures were subject to the same natural laws, and that humans had evolved over countless eons, just as other animals had. “Man,” he wrote, “still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” In Descent, Darwin details a theory that he… Read More

Alhambra, California: Borden Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed dark-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.176, indexed. Illustrated with pen & ink drawings of each cartridge, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Fred Datig was born on September 9, 1925 in Hollywood. He was an actor, known for Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946). He died on May 22, 2011 in Palm Springs, California. He was also a world-renowned author of some dozen technical-historical books dealing with various aspects of firearms development. His 1955-1958 volumes on "The Luger Pistol (Pistole Parabellum)" are quite possibly the longest in-print books of their type on record. Having resided in Europe in the decades between 1965 and 1985, he has acted as a technical consultant for military museums and police administrations throughout the continent and also holds one of Egypt's highest civil… Read More

Beverly Hills: Fadco, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full chrome-embossed ultrmarine-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.173, indexed. Illustrated with pen & ink drawings of each cartridge, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Fred Datig was born on September 9, 1925 in Hollywood. He was an actor, known for Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946). He died on May 22, 2011 in Palm Springs, California. He was also a world-renowned author of some dozen technical-historical books dealing with various aspects of firearms development. His 1955-1958 volumes on "The Luger Pistol (Pistole Parabellum)" are quite possibly the longest in-print books of their type on record. Having resided in Europe in the decades between 1965 and 1985, he has acted as a technical consultant for military museums and police administrations throughout the continent and also holds one of Egypt's highest civil decorations, awarded by… Read More

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: The Daguerreian Society , 1995. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 27. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Daguerreian Society's website notes: "As the premier historic photographic collecting organization, the Daguerreian Society brings together a community united by a common interest in and passion for all types of early photography. Members include top museum curators and scientists, photo collectors and dealers, photo historians, photographers and artists, students and teachers, and contemporary practitioners of antiquarian processes. We invite anyone that loves 19th-century photography and its processes, history, impact, and aesthetics to join. The Society was formed in 1988 as a group "dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype," but has expanded its mission… Read More

San Diego: McIntyre Pubishing Company, 1929. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition/VG Very Good. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.75inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 170, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Davidson was a founding member of the San Diego Historical Society and she worked as a local historian in partnership with her husband, John. They were married for over sixty years and they were credited with curating the largest store of information on the history of San Diego. She has the Historian and her husband was the curator and finally Director of the Junipero Serra Museum in Presidio Park. She was President of the American Literary Association for ten years as well as vice-President of the British Poetry Society.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. 1993Demy table [27.75cm/11inches], full charcoal-gray clothwith mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 198. Illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Art Davidson is the author of Minus 148 Degrees: First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley, as well as numerous other books on mountaineering and adventure.