Authors starting with D from Bartlebys Books

a woodblock engraving from the original surrealist watercolor, picturing the angel searching through bureau drawers extending from his body. Woodblock engraving, 10 x 7 1/2 inches, numbered "17/150" in red pencil in lower left margin, signed by the artist in red pencil in the lower right margin. Reproduced as one of 100 such engravings from original watercolors executed in the 1950s to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy, prepared to commemorate Dante's birth. Published in an edition o... more information

(Richmond, VA):: Privy Council Members,, 1821.. First edition. 4to. 4 pp. The Privy Council here disagrees with Gov. Thomas M. Randolph, Jr., in regard to his rights as Commander of the Militia and as to when the Council has the right to govern the state, noting that Patrick Henry shared their interpretation of the Constitution. Not in American Imprints. OCLC locates one copy (Duke). Several fold tears repaired, edges somewhat browned and soiled, but a good copy of a rare pamphlet. Printed self-wrappers, f... more information

London:: Rowland Ward,, 1898.. With fifty-two illustrations (from photographs by the writer) and two maps. First edition. Small 4to. xviii, 506 pp. Plates, two folding maps in pocket at rear. Czech "Asia," p. 58: "Darrah kept a diary of his travels and sporting adventures in Baltistan and Ladakh. He journeyed from Srinagar to Shitkuri, crossed the Zogi La, then on the Garmpani and Burme. He stalked markhor, red bear, and ibex. After collecting numerous ibex, he moved to Sangtha were he hunte... more information

London:: J. Knapton,, 1698.. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes: (16), 279, 62, (2, ad leaf); (12), 434, 64 pp. Four folding tables. With the engraved bookplate of "Lord Sinclair" on the front pastedowns. "A Discourse upon Improving the Revenue of the State of Athens" appears as a supplement to volume one, with its own title page; "An Essay on the East-India Trade" appears as a supplement to volume two, also with its own title page. Sabin 18686. Wing D-306. Goldsmiths 3523. Kress... more information

Baltimore, (MD):: Plaskitt & Co. and Armstrong & Plaskett …,, 1833.. 12mo in sixes. 468 pp. Illustrated, folding hand-colored map of the United States, folding plate. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco (rubbed), gilt, gilt title and rules on spine; spine ends a little chipped, but a very good copy. First edition. The map pictures the United States east of the Mississippi, plus Missouri and the Arkansas Territory; the plate depicts profiles of a number of canals and railways, including t... more information

Baltimore, (MD):: George M'Dowell & Son,, 1832.. First edition. 8vo. 471 pp. illustrated through text with small woodcut views and maps, two folding hand-colored maps. Sabin 18694 (calling for one map). Contemporary calf, gilt title and ornaments on spine (dull). Very good. (1781) ... more information

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill Company,, (c1912).. First separate edition ("reprinted from a volume of short stories and published by request). 12mo. 31 pp. Gilt-stamped green cloth, printed dust jacket; owner's name, but a fine bright copy in other respects, as good as might reasonably be expected to be found. ... more information

Boston, (MA):: Prince Society,, 1910-1911.. Small 4to. 4 volumes: xx, 471; xii, 470; xix, (2), 496; xvi, 503 pp. Illustrated, plates, facsimiles. Early brown buckram, gilt title on spines, original printed wrappers bound in; institutional bookplate on pastedowns, binder's endpapers brittle, else a very good copy. First edition, 1/250 copies. Davis "performed a useful and lasting service in editing reprints of pamphlets which appeared in the early eighteenth century in Massachusetts in connectio... more information

Richmond, (VA):: A. Morris,, 1861.. First edition, second issue, with the added 19 pages of bugler's music. 12mo. 284, 19, (1) pp. Parrish 4797 (Yale, Emory, Boston Athenaeum, Clements Library, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia Historical Society, William & Mary, Southern Mississippi). Very good. Rebound in brown faux-leather, gilt spine title and rules. (#3782) ... more information

(Newton Abbot, England):: Flyfisher's Classic Library,, 1994.. First edition thus, 1/750 copies, a reprint of the 1904 original. 8vo. xxiii, 159 pp. Illustrated, plates. Errata sheet laid in. Tan Bonded leather and gilt-stamped decorated cloth, publisher's slipcase. Fine. (2087) ... more information

Georgetown, SC:: Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co.,, 1949.. First edition, "A Samworth Book on Hunting". 8vo. viii, (2), 328 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece; publisher's ads at rear. Based on the author's experiences in low country South Carolina; preface by Herbert Ravenel Sass. Laid in is a single-spaced typed letter (4to, two pages, approximately 550 words), signed by the author 23 February 1949, to jurist Clint Graydon of Columbia, South Carolina, entire... more information

Georgetown, SC:: Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co., a Samworth Book on Hunting,, 1949.. First edition. 8vo. viii, (2), 3319 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, vignettes; eight-page publisher's advertising supplement dated December, 1948, at rear. The classic work on the subject, based on the author's 55 years hunting and studying the wild turkey in the lowlands of South Carolina. Very good. Original gilt-stamped gold cloth (spine somewhat darkened). (#4720) ... more information

New York:: Robert H. Russell,, 1897.. First edition. 8vo. 56 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits, maps. Cover sub-title: "Being an account of the recent uprising in the Transvaal; the grievances of the Uitlanders which led to their revolution against the Boers, and the causes and failure of the Jamieson raid; together with illustrations, maps, and sundry facts here collected and put down for the first time." BAL 4523. Quite scarce on the market, with no copy appearing at auction since 1977 (that c... more information

London and New York:: John Lane,, 1917.. First edition. 8vo. 129, (2) pp. Plates, tailpieces. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in 1922; his printed card affixed to front endpaper, inscribed by him "apologizing if this book is too macabre." Original black cloth. Tape shadows on pastedowns, else very good. (1468) ... more information

Washington, DC?]:, 1870.. 4to. 4-leaves, a memorial printed in Spanish and in English, each in three pages. Disbound pamphlet (some separation at spine). Very good.  First edition of the memorial for de Luna; Coopwood served as de Luna's attorney in fact. OCLC (for another memorial in the same case): "Describes damages resulting from a raid led by Captains Callahan and Henry on Piedras Negas in 1855 to obtain booty for the support of the U.S. Army in Texas"; de Luna here asks for... more information

Pasadena, CA:: Upton Sinclair,, (c1920).. Introduction by Upton Sinclair. First edition. Small 8vo. 99 pp. Inscribed on the front pastedown in the year of publication "From the author." Introduction: "[The contributors] have been moved to indignation by the treatment of [Eugene V. Debs] and they have expressed their indignation" in poems and letters, printed here; among those represented are Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Helen Keller, Max Eastman, James Whitcomb Riley, Carl Sandburg, Siegf... more information

Paper a bit rumpled; faint pencil drawing on verso. Very good. ... more information

New Albany, OH:: Countrysport Press,, (c1995).. First edition, 1/250 copies signed by DeLaurier and the illustrator. Small 4to. x, 192 pp. Line drawings. Contributors to this anthology include Philip Bourjaily, Jim Fergus, Gene Hill, John Madson, Michael McIntosh, and Charles F. Waterman. Gilt-stamped decorated plum faux leather, top edges gilt. (#4902) ... more information

Durham, NC:: Duke U. Press,, 1940.. First edition. 8vo. viii, (2), 286 pp. Thornton 3276. Gray cloth, printed dust jacket (chipped at head of spine and corners). Very good copy in the scarce dust jacket. (3207) ... more information

4to 1-page, in full: "Amos Y. Smith was driven from the state of Texas because he would not join the Rebellion against the United States and by reason of his escape from there, he lost his property. He is an honest and competent man for the office of Assessor of Internal Revenue and we ask for him an appointment at the Galveston District, believing that his appointment is just & by his due for his devotion to the Govt." Also signed by Congressmen A.J. Glossbrenner (1810-1889; served from Penn... more information