Authors starting with D from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

1964. first edition. “The Adventures of Four Nasty Children and Our Herowith Mr. Willy Wonka and His Famous Candy Plant”DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1964].The true first edition (preceding the English edition by three years). First issue, with six lines of printing information (instead of five) in the colophon on the final page. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/16 inches; 234 x 155 mm.). [12], 161, [1], [1, blank], [1, “Ab... more information

1903. A Nicely Bound Set of DefoeDEFOE, Daniel. The Works of Daniel Defoe. Boston: David Nickerson Company, [1903-1904].Sixteen octavo volumes (7 15/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 201 x 135 mm.). Each volume with a frontispiece and one additional plate, with tissue guard. “With the Author’s Preface, and an Introduction by G.H. Maynadier, Ph.D.” Title-pages printed in red and black.Comprising: Volumes I-III: The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ([2], ix-xxix, [1, blank], 346; [2], vii-viii... more information

1777. Scarce RobinsonadeOnly Five Institutional Copies No Auction Records[DEFOE, Daniel]. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who Lived Eight and Twenty years in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, lying near the Mouth of the great River of Oroonoque: Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men were drowned but himself: As also a Relation how he was wonderfully delivered by Pyrates. The whole Three Volumes faithfully abridged. The Seventh... more information

1912. first edition. First Trade EditionWith Twenty Color Plates by Detmold[DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator]. MAETERLINCK, Maurice. Hours of Gladness. Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: George Allen & Co., [1912].First trade edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 278 x 220 mm.). x, 181, [1, printer’s imprint], [1, publisher’s device], [1, blank] pp. Twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece). Title-page decorated in black and white designed (and s... more information

1912. First Trade EditionWith Twenty Color Plates by Detmold[DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator]. MAETERLINCK, Maurice. Hours of Gladness. Translated by A. Teixeira De Mattos. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: George Allen & Co.; New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1912. First trade edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 in; 278 x 217 mm). [2, blank], x, 181, [1, printer's slug], [1, publisher's vignette], [1, blank] pp. Twenty mounted color plates with captions to opposite leaf. Title page illustrated in... more information

1886. Extra-Illustrated with Ninety-Four PlatesDICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Notes and Numerous Illustrations. Edited by Charles Dickens the Younger. In Two Vols. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.Jubilee Edition (published on the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of The Pickwick Papers). Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 195 x 131 mm.). xlvii, [1, blank], 544; xv, [1, blank], 538 pp. Bound without the final blank leaf in Volume II? Frontispiece in Volume I, ... more information

1900. The “Edition des Bibliophiles” of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens—One of Twenty-Six CopiesDICKENS, Charles. Charles Dickens’s Works. Edited by Richard Garnett. Most Unusually and Elaborately Illustrated. London: Merrill & Baker, [1900].Edition des Bibliophiles. Limited to twenty-six lettered and registered copies (this copy being Letter “H,” Printed for Sadie Belle Lufkin). Thirty-two octavo volumes (8 15/16 x 6 inches; 227 x 154 mm.). Elaborately illustrated w... more information

1859. first edition. A Spectacular Copy in the Original Green Cloth with the 1859 Title-PageDICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.First edition, second state with title-page still dated 1859 but with corrected pagination on page 213 and no signature "b" on the list of plates. Octavo. [i-vii]viii[ix-x], [1]2-254 pp. Sixteen inserted plates, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Browne ['Phiz'].Publisher’s seco... more information

1874. Chapman and Hall’s Illustrated Library Edition of the Works of Charles DickensDICKENS, Charles. [Works of Charles Dickens]. London: Chapman & Hall, [n.d., 1874]-[1891].Reprint of the Illustrated Library Edition. Thirty octavo volumes (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 221 x 141 mm.). Illustrated with plates after the originals by “Phiz” (Hablot Knight Browne), George Cruikshank, Frederick Walker, Edwin Landseer, Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Marcus Stone, George Cattermole, and Luke Fildes. La... more information

1874-76. Illustrated Library Edition Of DickensDICKENS, Charles. The Works of Charles Dickens [and] The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874-1876. Thirty-two octavo volumes comprised of thirty volumes of The Works…. Illustrated Library Edition, and two volumes of The Life… Library Edition. Illustrated throughout.Contemporary half blue morocco over cloth boards. Spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. A handsome set in excellent condition.This b... more information

1839. first edition. First EditionWholly UntouchedIn The Scarce Publisher's Presentation Binding DICKENS, Charles. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition, with thirty of Smith's forty-one first issue text points; first state frontispiece, first state plates with the exception of plates one and two (second state), and plate 31 (forth state). Octavo. xvi, 624 pp. Forty black and white plates, including frontispiece.Pub... more information

1865. first edition. First Edition in Book FormIn The Original ClothDICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition in book form, first state following all forty-two points listed in Smith. Two octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 224 x 140 mm). xi, [1, blank], 320, 36 as publisher's catalogue dated January 1865; vii, [1, List of Illustrations], 309, [1, imprint], [1, adv.], [1, blank], 4 as publisher's advertisemen... more information

1839. First EditionComplete in One VolumeDICKENS, Charles. Sketches By Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.First edition, first and second series complete in one volume Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 3/8 in; 222 x 135 mm). viii, 526, [2, blank] pp. Forty engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page. Original pale yellow end papers.Publisher's original brown cloth, blocked in... more information

1850. first edition. A Near Fine and Complete Set in the Original PartsWith All of the Required Advertisements Including the Rare Lett's Diary in Part VIIIDICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850 [i.e., May 1849-November 1850]. First edition in the original monthly parts, twenty numbers bound in nineteen; first issue, following all points in Hatton & Cleaver. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 9/16 in; 220 x 142 mm). [i-vii] vii... more information

1850. first edition. David Copperfield In the Original Monthly PartsDICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850 [i.e., May 1849-November 1850]. First edition in the original monthly parts, twenty numbers bound in nineteen; first issue, following all points in Hatton & Cleaver. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 9/16 in; 220 x 142 mm). [i-vii] viii [ix] x-xii [xiii] xiv [xv-xvi], [1], 2-624. Forty inserted plates, including frontispiece... more information

1848. first edition. The Renowned Kenyon Starling - William Self CopyExtremely Scarce in the Original Cloth BindingDICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition in book form, first state following all points in Smith. The Kenyon Starling - William Self copy. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm). xvi, [1, errata], [1, blank], 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece, titlepage, and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz").... more information

1940. first edition. A Finely Bound First Edition of Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”[DISNEY, Walt]. TAYLOR, Deems. Walt Disney’s Fantasia. By Deems Taylor. With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 5/16 inches; 318 x 237 mm.). 157, [1], [2, blank] pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white (including sixteen tipped-in color illustrations). Title-page printed in red, black, and blue.Bound ca. 1977 by Zaehnsdorf for E. J... more information

1902. first edition. A Fine First Edition “Hound” in the Original ClothDOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902.First edition in book form (first serialized in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902). Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 122 mm.). [8], 358, [1], [1, blank] pp. With sixteen plates (including frontispiece) by Sidney Paget.Original scarlet cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black (... more information

1905. first edition. “‘Holmes!’ I cried. ‘Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive?Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?’”—the Third Collection of Sherlock Holmes StoriesDOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, 1905.First English edition of the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (preceded by the first American edition by about one month). Small octavo (7... more information

1958. A Fine Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels DOYLE, Arthur Conan. [Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels]. London: John Murray, [1958-1964].Uniform Edition. Fifteen (of eighteen) octavo volumes (7 1/16 x 4 11/16 inches; 179 x 119 mm.).Comprising the following Sherlock Holmes titles: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Return of Sherlock Holmes ([1962]); His Last Bow ([1960]); The Hound of the Baskervilles ([1964]); The Sign of Four ([1963]); and Th... more information