Search Results: Titles starting with D from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

NY: Simon & Schuster (1964). 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Violet cloth and boards. Fine Condition in Very Good jacket with two small closed tears near spine. Subtitled " The Joys of the Table - from Rome to the Renaissance, From Queen Elizabeth I to Mrs. Beeton, the Menus, the Manners - and the Most Delectable Recipes of the Past. Fine in Very Good dj, in Mylar Wrap .

Free Press. Fine. 1964. Hardcover. 0029174902 . Brown cloth lettered in white & black.; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .

Versailles: SVO Art Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Reprint. Softcover. 2953010343 . Reproducing also the illustrations of Andre Derain in black & white. Text in French. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages .

N.Y.: Harper & Bros.. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 250 pp.; 8vo; cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper; what appears to be faint tanning or adhesive stain through paper at gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Very light wear to jacket at edges. A roaring story of San Francisco in its most lavish era. Near fine condition near find jacket, in protective mylar wrap .

Boni and Liveright. Good with no dust jacket. 1921. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, paper spine lable; moderate wear and soil. Interesting full page inscription on front endpaper, but it appears to be from a Macnaly, rather than the author.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Copenhagen: Danish Film Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Fine. 1973. Softcover. Black wrappers; illustrated with stills from the films throughout. Six page mimeograph News Release from the University Art Museum, Berkeley; Pacific Film Archive, for Danish Cinema Week, laid in.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .

N.Y.: Barse & Hopkins no date (c 1900). Near Fine. 1900. Softcover. 9 pp., portrait frontis; 16mo; limp full brown suede, lettered in gilt. Minor snag at spine top. One of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads, the 1890 poem describing the execution of a British soldier in India for murder was composed from the comments exchanged by his regiment as they watch him hanged. .

New York: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Moderate soil to cloth. ; Cloth with copper foil title wrap. Without dust jacket. Inscribed in pencil on front endpaper: " To Buford L. Fox, 1940, from - Arham Saroyan, Fresno - Calif. , Uncle of the Author. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1934 pages .

London: Collins. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth in green dust jacket with moderate soil particularly to white back panel.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Cloth in pictorial red jacket; map endpapers; black & white photographs, maps.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

N.Y.: Random House. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. 92 pp.; gilt stamped cloth in dust jacket clipped at both corners of front flap. Browning and light soil at edges. .

Monsey, N. Y.: Shalheves. Fine. 1992. 2nd Printing. Softcover. 1878999125 . 300pp., plus 11p. information & tape list; 8vo; wrappers. .

Stuttgart: Wu¨ttembergische Landesbibliotheki. Near Fine. 1965. Softcover. Nick to front edge at top of spine. ; Brown wrappers; 277 items described; half-tone reproductions throughout. Text in German. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 161 pages .

London: Heinamann. Near Fine. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; moderate tanning to front & rear endpapers. Masefield's long maritime narrative poem depicting the struggle of the visionary against ignorance and materialism. Includes a glossary of sea terms.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .

Portland, Maine: Institute of Contemporary Art [1997]. Fine. 1997. Softcover. [64] pp.; 4to; printed green wrappers; color and b&w photos throughout; curriculum vitae. .

N.Y.: Kalmus no date. Fine. Softcover. 7" x 5.25"; stapled yellow wrappers. Kalmus Study Score No. 936. Belwin Mills sticker label on front cover. .

San Francisco: By the Author. Fine. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author "in friendship" to Percy King. Oranage cloth with the 'Golden Hind' in gilt front cover. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; (13) pages .

Doubleday & McClure Co.. Very Good. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Moderate rubbing to corners; tanning to front pastedown & endpaper. Eight plate illustrations including frontis by various aritsts, W. D. Stevens, W. Louis Sonntag, Jr., E. L. Blumenschein, W. L. Taylor.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

no place: no publisher (c 1999). 1999. 1A-3A intro; 280 leaves; photocopy of typescript manuscript, with corrections; brad bound black binder. One copy located at the Sonoma County Library. Prepared by Wilkins and originally published in installments in the San Francisco call and post, beginning April 22, 1918. Recollections of his father, William A. Richardson, and his mother, Maria Antonia, daughter of Ignacio Martinez. William A[ntonio]. Richardson arrived in San Francisco from England as a first mate aboard the whaler Orion. He remained at Yerba Buena, was baptized a Catholic, and married the daughter of presidio commandante, Ingacio Martinez, adopting her given name Maria Antonia as his middle one. Mariano Vallejo appointed him Captain of the Port in 1835 and he built the first habitation there, a tent, followed by a board house and finally an adobe in 1836. His large Rancho bordered on the bay named for him. These reminiscences by his son give wonderful first person accounts of the… Read More

France: Figuration Critique. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 290223418X . Unpaginated, (approx. 250 pp.); oblong 16m0, 6" x 8.25"; illustrated brown wrappers; full page halftone reproductions throughout, excluding six pages of explanatory text in English & French. Light wear to extremities; creasing to leading lower edge. Appears to be an early, if not the first publication of this association of artists defined on their current website [in a google translation]: "a point of convergence for artists of different sensitivities but which all assert the choice of the figuration to propose a rebuilding of reality where the permanent questioning (critical) on the human one and his environment is integrated in a process of contemporary creation." Founding members listed: Mirabelle Dors, Maurice Rapin, Yak Rivais. .