Authors starting with D from John Michael Lang Fine Books

Paris: L. Hachette & Co., 1854. Hardcover 6.5" x 4". 388pp. Rebound in a custom designer binding with light brown calf, with a black bordered red diamond panel in the middle of the front board, embossed with fleur-de-lis patterned. Top edge gilt; red leather spine label with gilt lettering. This French language work on playing cards features many illustrations of antiquarian cards. The book is housed in a custom clamshell box, to which someone has added a set of hand drawn playing cards... more information

Puspashrama, Mysore, India: Divya Jyothi Publications, 1973. Paperback 8.5" x 5.5". 214pp. Illustrated wrappers. Mild general wear; overall nice VG+ condition. Theological philosophy with the main theme being spiritual renewal. ... more information

Harrisonburg, Virginia: Sprinkle Publications, 1983. Hardback 8.5" x 5.5". 742pp. Gray cloth. Near fine condition. A biography of General Stonewall Jackson. Written at the request of Jackson's family. With much primary material, in spite of the author's polemical defense of the Southern cause. ... more information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 1984. Hardback First edition 12" x 9". 165 pp. Grey cloth, grey dust wrapper. Near fine condition; near fine jacket. A retrospective on the Confederate reunion in Richmond, Virginia in 1932, the last large scale gathering of this sort, written by Virginius Dabney, a reporter for the Richmond-Times Dispatch who covered the event. ... more information

Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1989. Hardcover 11" x 8.25". 214pp. Beige illustrated cloth. A fine copy. Volume 4 in a series about the Tell El - Hesi archeological site. This important work includes chapters on the past and present physical environment of the site, early excavations at the site, especially by Petrie and Bliss, methodology, the volunteer and educational program of 1970 - 1975, stratigraphy at the site, reports on Chalcolithic remains, a cemetery from the Persian period,... more information

Columbus, Ohio: Privately Published, 1995. Paperback Third edition 8.5" x 6". 308pp. Color illustrated glossy paperback. Ligh soiling, else near fine condition. Francis was simply a phenom...in one season he averaged over 50 points per game and once scored 116 in a single outing. This volume provides much detail about his career, the records he set, his life after playing at Rio Grande College, etc. With many black & white photo illustrations. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.5". 253pp. Black cloth hardcover. Some edge wear and rubbing on spine tips and edges, bookplate inside front cover, small pencil mark on first free leaf and sticker remnants on inside back cover, else VG condition. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1939. Hardcover First edition Octavo. 239pp. A fine, bright copy in a very nice jacket with only mild edge wear and very light soiling. This book includes Daladier's speeches on various subjects during the time of the disastrous capitulation to Hitler at Munich and Germany's siezure of Czechoslovakia. An interesting and important book, and quite uncommon in a dust jacket. ... more information

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1877. 11.5" x 9". 361pp. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some edge wear and rubbing, snag on the spine, front hinge split at bottom 2", else a nice VG+ copy. With the two maps in the rear pocket; the first has a few tape repairs but both are otherwise quite nice. This scarce book includes articles on succession in the shell heaps of the Aleutian islands and the origin of the Inuit people, notes on the natives of Alaska, Alaskan voc... more information

Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1968. 9" x 7". 252pp. Light foxing to edges, owner's stamp to front paste down endpaper, else a nice VG+ copy in an edge worn and used dust wrapper. The letters reprinted in this volume offer a vivid portrait of shipboard naval life during the Civil War. The Florida was a 214-foot sidewheel steamer. She saw Civil War Service as a unit of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron patrolling the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florid... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.25". 260pp. Red cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering and device in dust wrapper. Top spine tip is lighly bumped, else fine condition. The dust jacket has edge wear with a .75" x .5" chip missing from the bottom spine tip, fading on the spine with light general soiling, VG condition. Black and white illustrations by Bill Charmatz ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.5". 169pp. Illustrated hardcover with gilt spine lettering. Spine tips and corners are lightly bumped, edges are faded, quote pencilled on first leaf, gilt lettering is rubbed on spine, else VG+ condition. illustration page was opened poorly. Black and white illustrations by John Sloan. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Hardback First edition 9" x 5.75". 363pp. Black cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket is lightly rubbed. A study of Webster's legendary speech of March 7th, 1850 and its place in the political milieu of the day. ... more information

Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Publications, Inc., 1947. Hardcover 10.5" x 6.75". 206pp. Dark green cloth covered boards with light green lettering on spine and some edge wear in VG+ condition; in original black decorative dust jacket with edge wear and rubbing, front top right corner torn off and lower right corner repaired with tape. This book is designed to provide primary instruction in the proper use and care of those firearms which are now in common use. The text and pictures unit... more information

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.5". 352pp. Tan cloth, lettering in green. A good+ copy lacking dust jacket. Moderate external wear & soiling, bookplate removed; text clean & unmarked throughout. Overall a sound copy of this mystery novel. ... more information

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, United States Government Printing Office, 1957. Paperback 9.25" x 6". 26pp. Dark green printed paperback. Light edge wear, else near fine condition. From the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164, pp. 279 - 296. Anthropological Papers, No. 55. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Hardback 9.25 x 10. 44pp. Color illustrated paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Light edge wear else nice VG+ condition. Jacket has heavy edge wear and chipping. Illustrated with official US Navy photographs. Depicts the naval battle fleet of the time with photos and descriptions of each type of ship, including submarines. ... more information

New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1958. Hardcover 8" x 5.25". 282pp. Grey cloth covered boards with red lettering; in original decorative white, black and red dust jacket. James Daniel was a contributng editor of Time Magazine. "This book is the record of what was said and done at a gathering of historic importance--when over 600 world business leaders from 62 non-communist countries met, by invitation only, to exchange views, experience, and proposals about econ... more information

Tyler, TX: JKI Publishing , 1994. Hardcover First edition 9" x 5.75". 176pp. Color illustrated hardback. Fine condition. With chapters entitled Lucifer / satan - The Divided God, Order Out of Chaos, the Male God, the Female God, and The Mystery of Secrecy. ... more information

Gonvick, Minnesota: Richards Publishing Company, Inc., 1985. Hardcover 11" x 8.5". 28pp. Blue buckram with silver lettering. Small gift inscription, else fine condition. A good local history of this Minnesota region. With much on early pioneers to the area, homesteading, various villages and towns such as Berner, Winsor and Wildwood, local businesses, railroads, schools, the fire department, the local newspapers, and much more. With black & white photo illustrations and maps.. ... more information