Authors starting with A from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

Boston: Boston Public Library, , 1974.. 12mo, (24)pp (including frontisportrait), 2 ornaments by WAD. Orig. pink wrappers, stamped with ornament. Fine.. An interesting talk given by Dwiggins' talented friend and partner. ... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Chanticleer Press,, 1979.. 4to, 238pp, full page color photographs. Original linen boards in matching slip-case. Very light wear to edges of slipcase, otherwise very good.. First Printing. ... more information

San Francisco: Wofsy,, 1991.. 4to, xx, 399pp, 34 plates, 54 text illus., 556 entries. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good.. Reprint of the 1952 original edition. ... more information

San Francisco: Wofsy,, (1991).. 2 vols, 4to, color plates. Cloth, dust jackets. Very good.. Reprint of scarce original editions, containing full bibliographical descriptions of most of the important color plate books published in England during this period. ... more information

8vo, pp.303-320, marbled paper wrappers, very good.. Taken from letters, these are detailed and vivid memoirs of Monsieur Abbot's travels from the snowy north to the lush Caribbean island. He describes the tropical flora, fauna, geology, local customs, trade, social life, etc. as an observant outsider. Abbot, who had gone south for his health, died upon his return to New York. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead,, 1899.. 8vo, x, 376pp, plates. Dark blue cloth with pictorial cover. Fine copy. . A handsome publisher's binding depicting a ship in stamped silver with background in brown in green. ... more information

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, , 1884.. 16mo, (10 incl. inside covers)pp, block printed with letters colored red. Orig. soft linen stapled wrappers, with pictorial block print design, colored in red, yellow, brown & green; very minor fraying to edges & a few light brown spots to interior, otherwise a fine copy. . Apparently the publisher's first issue of this remarkably well preserved late nineteenth century linen ABC book featuring a wonderful color pictorial cover design. ... more information

London: Bradbury, Agnew, [n.d., ca., 1880].. 3 vols, 4to, xviii, (2), 432; xiv, (2), 416; xviii, 418pp, ca. 300 woodcut vignettes, 30 hand-colored full-page steel engr. plates. Half crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, light wear at extremities, a very good, clean set, handsomely bound. . Later edition of these classic illustrated works originally published in 1847 and 1852, uniformly bound in half crimson morocco by R.W. Smith. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead [and others],, 1887-1975.. 13 vols, thick 8vo, cloth, gilt. Very good set with light wear.. A complete set of the indexes for 1887-1896 and 1916 to 1975, records not included on the ABPC compact disk or on-line database) which commences with the 1975 sales. Includes 1887-1896 (Index to the First Ten Volumes of Book-Prices Current); 1910-22; 1923-32; 1933-40; 1941-45; 1945-50; 1950-55; 1955-60; 1960-65; 1965-70; & 1970-75. ... more information

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag,, 1925.. 8vo, 64pp. Orig. boards, spine lettered in gilt, very good.. First Edition, a treatment of anality, orality and the genital stage by the first German psychoanalyst. Grinstein 108. ... more information

Paris: Payot,, 1950.. 8vo, 397pp, 34 b&w text illus. and maps. Illus. wrappers, unopened, near fine.. First Edition. ... more information

Quito, Ecuador: Edit. Elan,, (1935).. 12mo, 110pp, 7 color plates. Red cloth, lettered in gilt, orig. wrappers preserved. Mild soiling at cloth, text lightly embrowned, a very good copy.. First Edition of this brief study. ... more information

Paris: Sociî;tî; d'Editions Littî;raires et Artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorff, , 1902.. 8vo, 542pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Uniformly browned, abrasion to half title, otherwise very good.. First Edition, one of 400 signed & numbered copies including a page of the original manuscript. Together with a funeral notice for the author, with inscribed envelope. Talvart & Place 30A. ... more information

Boston: Weeks, Jordan,, 1840.. 8vo, 279pp. Later patterned cloth, leather spine label, gilt lettered, bookplate, some scattered foxing, otherwise a tight, good copy.. First Edition, the British edition issued later in the same year. ... more information

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Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History,, 1953.. 8vo, xxi, 97pp. Blue cloth, dust-jacket. Very good.. ... more information

New York: Dover Publications,, (1954).. 8vo, 506pp, 110 illus. Wrappers (lightly worn at extremities), else a very good, clean copy.. Reprint of the 1938 original edition. ... more information

Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press,, (1954).. 8vo, 426pp. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good.. First Edition. ... more information

Cleveland: Zubal,, (1982).. Cloth, dust jacket with splatter spots on spine, otherwise very good.. First Edition. ... more information

Austin: Jenkins & Reese,, 1980.. 8vo, green cloth. Mildest shelf-rubbing. Nearly fine copy.. ... more information