Search Results: Authors starting with K from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Nangawara (Saga-ken, Kyushu), 1950     ¶ A scarce promotional pamphlet written in earnest English, probably for Westerners visiting Japan during the Allied Occupation 1945-52: "We sincerely hope to have a special regard and we should be pleased if our articles are worthy of being added to Your goods."   ||| Collation: 256 x 187 mm irregular: Two leaves, paginated 1-3 [4 blank]. Text hectographed or mimeographed from manuscript fair copy.  Binding: Printed wrappers, map on lower wrapper recto.  Condition: Three lateral creases, withal a very good copy of a scarce and fragile pamphlet. .

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett publications inc, 1966     ¶ ONLY EDITION, first printing. A James Bond pastiche relating the mock-heroic adventures of Satyr-Man; by the author of The Mothman prophecies (1975, film 2002). Scarce. (Series: A Fawcett gold medal book. Fawcett world library.)   ||| Collation: 179 x 105 mm: 80 leaves, paginated [1-4] 5-160. Eight full-page illustrations after Jaffee (1) or unsigned (7).  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers (priced 50¢, stock-number d1719/9).  Condition: A very good copy, slightly bumped.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below..

New York: Viking Penguin, Inc, 1988 ¶ FIRST EDITION, trade issue. ||| Collation: 229 x 151 mm: Pp. [xi], 289. Binding: Quarter blue cloth (spine bumped), dust-jacket. Condition: A good copy. Reference: ISBN 0670804371. .

Rungsted Kyst (Denmark): Anders Nyborg, 1973 In 8s (179 x 103 mm): Pp (pi)[i-vi], [i-ii], [1] 2-17 [18-32]. (Leaf [1]1 is laid down; pages [i-iii] are blank.) Publisher's patterned boards (suggesting bearspaw-prints), brown spine unlettered, plain wove lower endpapers, no headbands, all edges trimmed and plain. *** ONLY EDITION IN ANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGE; INCLUDING FOUR MORAL FABLES IN KALATDLISUT (GREENLANDIC) AND DANISH PROSE. The Kalatdlisut text was originally printed at Godthab (Nuuk, Greenland) in 1860. The present edition comprises a facsimile of the Godthab edition (pages [i]-[18]), together with a modern Danish translation by Frederik Nielsen (pages [19-32]). One of 1,200 copies. The author was the son of Peter Kragh (1794-1883), the famous Greenland missionary and translator of numerous Biblical and devotional texts 1822 &c. The younger Kragh was himself a missionary at Upernavik 1849-58; apart from the present work, he contributed to a volume of meteorological observations made in… Read More

New York, 1997     ¶ Only edition; presenting fifty-two rare books 1469-1955 generously annotated, in four sections, viz: Philosophy and literature; Religious works; History, geography, & cosmography; School-books and dictionaries. Indexes, pages [85-86]; References cited, [87-90].  (H. P. Kraus, Inc. Catalogue 206.)   ||| Collation: 272 x 200 mm: Fifty leaves, paginated [i-iv] v-x, 1-84 [85-90].  Illustration: Full-page color facsimile (page [ii]), 22 full-page facsimiles, 26 smaller.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: NYPL.  .

New York, 1991     ¶ Only edition, New York issue, of this lavish catalogue describing a "Magnificent Pair of Early Dutch Globes, 1618/1600". The author is the leading historian and connoisseur of early European globes. "Globe pairs of this calibre", he says, are offered on the market only every few decades, and virtually all extant examples are in public collections. Richly embellished and in their original wooden stands, the globes summon the grandeur and excitement of an era when the maps of the world and of the heavens were being dramatically revised. They are the first globe pair to have been independently produced and published by Jodocus Hondius, a seminal figure of the Dutch Golden Age of Cartography." (Page 3.) Contents: Magnificent pair of early Dutch globes, 1618/1620. Extant examples of Hondius globes (35.5 cm. diam.). Condition of the globes. History of the globes of Hondius: The terrestrial globe; Revisions of the terrestrial… Read More