Authors starting with D from Bauman Rare Books

1954. FIRST EDITION. (SEWELL, Helen, illustrator) DALGLIESH, Alice. The Thanksgiving Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Son, (1954). Quarto, original pictorial red cloth, original dust jacket. $200. First edition of this charmingly illustrated recounting of the Pilgrims, the Indians and their first, famous Thanksgiving feast. "This much-needed Thanksgiving picture book tells the story of one family during their first year in the Plymouth Colony" (contemporary review, New York Times). Alice... more information

1798. FIRST EDITION. DALLAS, Alexander James. Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution. Philadelphia: P. Byrne, the Reporter, Fry and Kammerer, 1798-1807. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown sheep, red morocco spine labels. $5200. Mixed set, largely first editions, of the first record of U.S. Supreme Court decisions—documenting precedent-setting cases such as Chisolm v. Georgia (1793) and Hylton v. U.S. (1796)—a "very valuab... more information

1862. SIGNED. (DARWIN, Charles) DARWIN, Emma. Autograph letter signed. Bromley, Kent, June 28, [1862]. Single sheet of letterhead, measuring 4 by 6 inches folded in half; pp. 4. $4500. Original signed autograph letter from Charles Darwin's wife Emma Darwin to painter and essayist Thomas Gold Appleton relating Charles Darwin's gratitude for the natural history book Appleton sent him, mentioning Darwin's continuing illness, remarking on the Civil War and slavery, and imploring Appleton to visit ... more information

1897. DAUDET, Alphonse. Sapho: Parisian Customs. Translated by T. F. Rogerson. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, (1897). Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. $400. Limited edition, number 970 of 1000 copies on Japanese vellum paper, with ten etchings by Eugene Abot and Albert Duvivier in double suite, with one of each suite on India paper, and drawings by Stanislas Rejchan. First published in France in 1884, Daudet's no... more information

1898. SIGNED. DAUDET, Alphonse. The Works. New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1899-1900. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, publisher's three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $4800. "Autograph" edition, number 2 of only 25 sets printed for America, with 100 plates (including 24 frontispieces in double-suite, one of each hand-colored), with a signed and inscribed carte-de-visite tipped ... more information

1903. FIRST EDITION. DAVIDSON, George. The Alaska Boundary. San Francisco: Alaska Packers Association, 1903. Quarto, original brown cloth gilt. $700. First edition of Davidson's detailed survey of the Alaskan boundary line, showing how it could be fairly determined by natural objects, with two large folding maps. Geographer George Davidson's greatest works were on the Pacific Coast, where he began his famous surveys in 1850. He combined the skills of hydrographer, geodesist, geographer, and astro... more information

1907. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DAVIES, William H. New Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. Small octavo, original green cloth; pp. 76, [2]. $1400. First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Mr. Edward Thomas, with William H. Davies' compliments." Edward Thomas did more than anyone else to help Davies. Thomas sent a copy of this book to W. H. Hudson, saying, "I enclose my East End Welsh poet's new book, not striking like the first, but I think you will like hi... more information

1919. FIRST EDITION. DE LA MARE, Walter. Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination. London: Sudgwick & Jackson, 1919. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $100. First edition of De La Mare's lecture on Brooke. In this lecture on Rupert Brooke, De La Mare describes children as "contemplatives, solitaries, fakirs who sink again and again out of the noise and fever of existence and into a waking vision." In 1915 De La Mare became one of the legatees of his fellow poet. Fine ... more information

1927. FIRST EDITION. DE LA MARE, Walter. Alone. (London: Curwen / Faber & Gwyer), [1927]. 12mo, original red wrappers, stitched as issued; pp.4. $150. First trade edition, Number Four in the special Curwen Press Ariel Series featuring poets such as T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy, de la Mare's evocative poem Alone with two woodcut engravings (one in color) by Blair Hughes-Stanton. This elegant printing of Walter de la Mare's poem Alone, illustrated with woodcut engravings (one full color) by Blai... more information

1760. DE L'ISLE, Guillaume. America Meridionalis and America Septentrionalis. Augsburg: Tobias Conrad Lotter, circa 1760. Two large original hand-colored maps of North and South America, each measuring 23 by 18-1/2 inches; handsomely framed side by side, entire piece measures 53-1/2 by 25-1/2 inches. $7800. Guillaume de L'Isle's fine hand-colored maps of North and South America, re-engraved sometime after 1757 by Georg Friedrich Lotter. De L'Isle is recognized as "the first scientific... more information

2000. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DEAVER, Jeffery Wilds. Speaking in Tongues. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $150. First edition, signed by Jeffery Deaver on the title page. Written by "the best psychological thriller writer around" (The Times), this fast-paced suspense yarn pits a brilliant psychologist turned kidnapper against a trial lawyer struggling to find his daughter. Hairline mark to front flap of dust jacket. Fine conditi... more information

1910. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DEBILLEMONT?CHARDON, Madame G. La Miniature sur Ivoire. Essai Historique et Traite Pratique. Paris: Librairie Renouard, circa 1910. Contemporary full turquoise morocco, raised bands, ornately gilt- and burgundy-decorated spine and borders, morocco doublures, all edges gilt; untrimmed. $800. First edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author, with 16 full-page plates. "This miniaturist is well known by her works, in which so much grace, freshness, skill, ... more information

1914. SIGNED. DEBUSSY, Claude. Rêverie. Transcrite pour Violin et Piano par Alberto Bachmann ou Violincelle et Piano par F. Ronchini. Paris: E. Fromont, 1914. Folio, original self wrappers, unbound as issued; pp. 6. $6200. Early edition of the piano-violin score, inscribed by Debussy on the front cover to the arranger Ferdinando Ronchini, "pour F. Ronchini, avec mon sincere compliment. Claude Debussy. Juillet-1914." Written in 1880-81, Rêverie is an early Debussy piece from his stud... more information

2003. FIRST EDITION. DELAHAYE, Luc. Winterreise [Winter Journey]. (London: Phaidon, 2003). Small quarto, original stiff white wrappers, original photographic dust jacket. $150. First edition in softcover of Delahaye's "richly colored" photobook of post-communist Russia (Parr & Badger II), with 144 vibrant color photographs, most double-page. Magnum photographer Luc Delahaye traveled across the barren landscapes of Russia "in the winter of 1998, from Moscow to Vladivostok" to c... more information

1784. (ECONOMICS) DEMEUNIER, M., Editor. Encyclopedie Methodique Ou Par Ordre de Matieres; Par Une Societe de Gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes; Economie Politique et Diplomatique. Paris: Chez Panckoucke, 1784-88. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary half dark red polished calf gilt, marbled boards, renewed endpapers. $1350. First edition of this late 18th-century French encyclopedia of political economy, published at a time and place of dramatic political, economic and social upheaval, with fol... more information

1954. FIRST EDITION. DENMAN, Earl. Alone to Everest. London: Collins, 1954. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $100. First edition of this account of an illegal climb up Everest. In 1947, after various climbing achievements in Africa, Earl Denman attempted an illegal and woefully undersupplied and poorly equipped climb up Mount Everest's north face with Sherpas Ang Dawa and Tenzing Norgay, who would later summit with Hillary in 1953. This is Denman's account of the trio's amazi... more information

1716. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DESTOUCHES, [André]. Oenone, Cantate A Voix Seule avec Symphonie. Paris: Ballard, 1716. Tall folio, contemporary full speckled calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $3000. First edition of this score, in contemporary calf gilt, signed by composer Destouches and printer Ballard on last leaf. During the course of his successful career, composer André Destouches served as both Inspector General of the Opéra and Superintende... more information

1836. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. Reminiscences of a Literary Life. London: John Major, 1836. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $800. First edition of the noted English bibliographer and bibliophile's memoir, illustrated with 10 engraved plates, handsomely bound by Ramage. "Should be in the possession of everyone aspiring to be a man of books… A most valuable storehouse of biographical and... more information

1840. FIRST EDITION. DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock by "Boz" London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Twenty monthly parts. Quarto, original pale green pictorial wrappers. Housed in custom three-quarter green pebbled calf pull-off case. $4000. First edition of Master Humphrey's Clock in original monthly parts, including The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablôt Knight Browne ("Phiz"). When Dickens conceived of this work, h... more information

1847. DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun, 1847. 16mo, original full red cloth. $1000. Copyright edition for Continental Circulation of the fourth of Dickens' five Christmas books. The fourth of Dickens' Christmas Books, The Battle of Life was the least successful of his books, despite having sold 23,000 copies in the first 24 hours. According to Todd, this was probably set from advance proofs, and this edition may precede the English first. First pub... more information