Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bygone Books

London: Daily Mail, [no date, circa 1953 ]. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 8vo, red boards illustrated and lettered in blue (cover is of a hot air balloon, same as jacket cover, by Hickson;) [200] pages, illustrated endpapers, with music to We Three Kings of Orient Are (on fep) and Thanks for a Day by Eleanor Farjeon on rear enpdpaer, color and b&w illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has lt. edgewear, lt. browning to endpapers, owner inscription on title page, otherwise text is clean and tight; jacket has typical edgewear, rubbing along folds, chipped at spine head. This issue includes pictures of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip and family photographs; articles on the Crown Jewels, space travel, marine life and tropical birds; stories by Enid Blyton "It Happened one Afternoon," Mollie Chappell "The Missing Masterpiece," Andrew Roberts "Kidnap Castle" and "The Greenhorn," and other popular writers; puzzles, verses and cartoons.

New York: Michael di Capua / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. 1st edition (stated), oblong 8vo, unpaginated, color illustrations on every page. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: tiny spot on front endpaper, otherwise, no visible wear; the jacket is price-clipped. A lovely copy. An old tale by Wilhelm Grimm, first discovered in 1983 and newly translated by Ralph Manheim, this is the first edition of this tale with the magnificent illustrations by Maurice Sendak.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 1st edition, 340p. b/w illus. 1st edition. black cloth. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: spine ends creased; owner label and name. DJ: edgewear, spine sunned (in mylar) Burney [1752-1840] was the author of Evelina, Cecelia, Camilla, The Wanderer, and is most known for her Diaries.

Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1993. Limited . Soft cover. NF. Limited edition of 800 copies, printed at the Stinehour Press (Vermont), 8vo, unpaginated wraps. NEAR FINE

London / New York: Frederick Warne, 1892. Hardcover. VG. With notes by W. C. Ward, and prefaced by Lord Macaulay's Essay "Madame D'Arblay." 3 volumes, 12mo, burgundy pebbled cloth w/ gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, vol. 1: 447pp, engraved frontispiece of Burney (based on a drawing by Edward Burney); vol. 2: 468pp, engraved frontis of George III, Queen Charlotte and their Family (from drawing by T. [ Thomas ] Stothard; vol. 3: 480pp, frontis of General D'Arblay (all frontispieces with tissue guards intact); decorative head, tailpieces and letters for each chapter. Condition: VERY GOOD set: covers have light toning at edges, "Warne" label on spine of v 1 and 2 are rubbed, some pages are unopened, minimal faint scattered foxing to each volume, light spotting to bottom page edges, label of the 'Paige Memorial Library' listing its many regulations is on the front pastedown of each volume but no other library markings and obviously little used (no location… Read More

Aylesbury, UK: Shire Publications, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd edition [1975], 16mo, stiff card wraps, 48 pages, b/w text illustrations, b/w photographs, index. No. 29 in the Shire "Discovering" series, first published in 1968. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

Union City, Tennessee: Pioneer Press, 1974. Soft cover. VG+. 4to, stapled illustrated wraps, 61 pages, b/w illus. VERY GOOD+ : minor wear.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-/Fair. 1st edition, 8vo, blue cloth, 253 pages. VERY GOOD- book / POOR - FAIR jacket: book has lr. rubbing along edges and corners, sl. "dusty" top page edge, owner name on fep, sm. stain on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket is quite tattered with a few chunks missing here and there....all held nicely together in mylar. A collection of 16 essays, some of which first appeared in The Bookman and The Yale Review, offering short biographies and literary interpretation. Included are: Marie Bashkirtseff, Madame de Sevigne, Christina Rossetti, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sappho, George Sand, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Saint Teresa, Emily Dickinson, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Mew, George Eliot, Elinor Wylie, and Katherine Mansfield.

Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, 1979. Limited/Numbered . Soft cover. VG+. Published by Bradford Morrow on the 20th anniversary of the original appearance of The Naked Lunch, consists of 324 numbered copies in wrappers... cast in Monotype Baskerville and designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh in August 1979; this copy is out of series and numbered 399. Title on cover states: A variant passage from The Naked Lunch, with a new introduction by the author. 8vo, french folded wraps, 42 pages, frontispiece drawing by K. Anders after Egon Schiele's "Kummernis." Condition is VERY GOOD+ : very slight edgewear and very slight tanning to spine. A very nice copy.

Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1936. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. DESCRIPTION: Special reprint from the Saturday Evening Post, © 1948 Curtis Publishing; this 1986 edition printed letterpress by The Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine is limited to 1500 copies. However, there is a bookplate on the rear paste-down saying "This special edition is limited to 50 copies. This copy number 36 (handwritten in)", and includes a business card from the Press. 8vo. green cloth with pictorial paste-on, gilt titles on front board and spine, b/w woodcuts as chapter headings. 25 pages. CONDITION: NEAR FINE / no jacket: small mark on front board, tiny brown stain on bottom page edge of last 5 pages, otherwise like new.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1911. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+. Introduction and notes by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. 1st ed [published September 1911], 8vo, blind-stamped rust cloth, gilt titles, 252 pages, 15 b/w plates, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to spine extremities and corners, top page edge mildly "dusty," internally clean and tight. A very nice copy.