Search Results: Authors starting with D from Richard Beaton

London: T. Fisher Unwin,, 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition, Pseudonym Library. Original beige cloth, blocked and lettered in blue. Rubbed head/foot of spine and along lower hinge, spine a little darkened, signature (1893), good. Volume 9 in The Pseudonym Library series..

London: C. Daly, 1840. Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1840. Original red cloth, elaborately lettered and blocked in gilt; all edges gilt. Rebacked with half of original backstrip relaid, endpapers replaced. Frontispiece and title page heavily browned, other plates (with tissue guards) browned on margins, good. Both titles appeared independently in 1830, and were issued together (the link being Cruikshank's illustrations) in 1840..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Late issue, as the catalogue (Autumn 1910) states the novel is in its "54th thousand". Title page framed in brown. Original dark green cloth, lettered in yellow on front board, in gilt on spine. A few light marks, front inner joint paper lightly cracked (but joint tight), good. Parts of the novel are set in Ceylon..

London: William Heinemann, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original lilac cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Cloth generally sunned, faint stamp (Joint Fiction Reserve) on verso of title page, poor quality wartime paper lightly browned throughout, good. Dane wrote some 30 novels up to 1965, but probably achieved her greatest success writing screenplays for the cinema. First the Blade was her second novel: uncommon..

London: Mills & Boon, 1911. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Board edges a trifle darkened, lettering dulled, foxing (especially on early pages, good. Publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1912 bound in at end..

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. Book. Illus. by Myrbach. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original two-tone cloth binding: spine in navy blue with gilt lettering, with maroon boards; green-and-white patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Boards faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Daudet's novel -- which some see as influenced by Dickens -- tells the sad story of an illegitimate boy and his selfish mother. Wolff [1729] has a two-volume edition of the same translation issued by Dent in 1896 -- and this is also the edition cited by Baker in Best Fiction. Both seem to have been unaware of the 1890 issue..

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1894. Book. Illus. by George Roux. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus.. Original navy-blue cloth, lettered and decorated in silver and green; black endpapers. Light scuffing, light foxing, very good. Daudet's novel appeared in France in 1874, and the first English edition (under the title Fromont the Younger and Risler the Elder) was issued by Henry Vizetelly in 1880. By 1894 the Vizetelly firm had folded and Vizetelly's son Edward oversaw this new (or rather revised) translation..

London: Methuen & Co., 1896. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Ex-library with trace of plates on front endpapers, stamps on title page (recto/verso) and first/last pages of text. Loss of cloth to head and foot of spine, but contents (library stamps apart) in good order. A working/reading copy only of a scarce title. Publisher's catalogue for March 1896 bound in at end. Remaindered copies were later issued in blue cloth. Davidson was a contributor to The Yellow Book, author of the extravaganza Perfervid (1890), and drowned himself at the age of 52, fearing that he had cancer. This is a collection of 10 short stories: Miss Armstrong's Circumstances, A Would-Be Londoner, Some Poor Folk, An Ideal Shoeblack, Alison Hepburn's Exploit, The Member for Gotham, Talking Against Time, Banderole's Aesthetic Bill, Among the Anarchists, The Interregnum in Fairyland..

London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1924. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1924]. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Boards lightly marked, some foxing, good+. Uncommon naval novel with a far-eastern setting.

London: Methuen & Co., 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original light blue cloth, with blindstamped framing on both boards. Spine lightly sunned, a few marks on cloth, undated inscription on front free endpaper, owner's note on pages 95 & 97 (noting error in chronology), good. Publisher's remainder cloth (originally issued in the standard Methuen red cloth) without catalogue at end. Davidson was a contributor to The Yellow Book, author of the extravaganza Perfervid (1890), and drowned himself at the age of 52, fearing that he had cancer. This is a collection of 10 short stories: Miss Armstrong's Circumstances, A Would-Be Londoner, Some Poor Folk, An Ideal Shoeblack, Alison Hepburn's Exploit, The Member for Gotham, Talking Against Time, Banderole's Aesthetic Bill, Among the Anarchists, The Interregnum in Fairyland..

London: Ward & Downey, 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original fine-ribbed blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a tiny nick to cloth on upper hinge, a little faint foxing, very good. A short novel and four short stories, including science fictional and fantastical elements..

London: Leadenhall Press, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1899]. Illustrated by N. Prescott-Davies, R. B. A . [ie, the authors]. Original grey boards with beige buckram spine, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. A few light marks, endpapers browned, very good. Comic novel concerning an innocent Vicar and the rough-and-tumble pupils ("pups") he takes in..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1886. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated reprint, c1885. A rebound yellowback: late C19th beaded purple cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated. A few light marks on cloth, some stamps on front pastedown, oval stamp (Police Library, Birmingham) on corner of first page of text, trace of removed bookplate on rear pastedown, good..

London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1894. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original fine-ribbed olive green cloth with decorative border in red, black and yellow head and foot of front board and spine, lettered in black. Minimal scuffing, minimal foxing, near fine. Seven stories. The binding has Harpers name rather than Osgood's at the foot of the spine (Osgood had been Harpers' London agent): but the binding is completely different from that of the American first..

London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. "Red Letter Stories " series. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, some faint marks on boards, signatures (1897) on prelims, a little foxing, good. First British edition of short story collection originally published in New York in the same year..

London: Greening & Co, 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original purple cloth, with raised floral pattern on boards and spine, gilt blocking on spine. Spine sunned, lacks front free endpaper, otherwise a good reading copy.

London: Digby, Long & Co., 1905. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, illustrated in black, white and grey on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners lightly rubbed, inscription (1913) on front pastedown, note in pencil on front free endpaper, good. The autobiographical story of a young woman who, inspired by Florence Nightingale, becomes a nurse; after the trials and tribulations of her training, she goes to serve the army in Egypt..

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original greeny-yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, a little foxing, very good. Graves adopted her male persona/pseudonym for the highly successful Dop Doctor (1911) and continued to use it thereafter. The Headquarter Recruit is a collection of 18 short stories, concerning soldiers and their families -- a subject in keeping with Graves's new identity. The stories originally appeared in The World and other journals..

London: William Heinemann, 1915. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original olive green cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Gilt on spine a little dulled, light foxing, very good. An immense historical novel concerning the Chancellor of Prussia and later of a united Germany, Otto von Bismarck -- and the events leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. Graves (under her own name) was also a contributor to the multi-authored novel The Fate of Fenella..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935. Book. Good. Soft cover. Undated, probably mid 1930s. 51st Thousand. Paperback with striped blue and white cover. Lightly rubbed on spine ends, otherwise good++. Original dustwrapper (matching original binding but with price added). Chipped and lacking front flap, fair. The dustwrapper rarely survives..