Authors starting with D from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1928.. 21 + 5 vols, 8vo, red cloth. Very good set. . With 5 volumes of Supplements. ... more information

Paris: Ducrocq,, [1862].. 8vo, (4), xviii, 423pp. With a portrait frontispiece of Dacier. Orig. pebbled red quarter morocco, backstrip richly gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt. Occasional light foxing, otherwise very good.. Revised and enlarged edition, the first to contain Silvestre de Sacy's biography and notes. This erudite study covers philology, antiquities, oriental language and literature, history, geography, law, and philosophy. The author considers works not only by French scholars but by most m... more information

Amsterdam: Meridian,, 1977.. 8vo, 66pp. Wrappers. Very good.. ... more information

Los Angeles,, 2003.. 8vo, 325pp, illus. in color & b/w throughout. Wrappers. Fine copy.. First Edition of the best history of modernism in Southern California. I: Art: Naturally Modern' by Victoria Dailey; II: Architecture: A New Creative Medium' by Natalie Shivers; & III: Photography: South of Point Lobos' by Michael Dawson. Includes artists Elise, Knud Merrild, Henrietta Shore, Paul Landacre; photographers Edward Weston, Will Connell, and architects Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra, amd Gregory Ain. Wi... more information

Los Angeles: Turner Dailey,, 1988.. 8vo, 40pp, 8 posters illustrated in color & 38 in black-and-white & three photos of artists. Color-printed stiff wrappers.. The first book on the Danish poster, 'a heretofore unwritten chapter in the history of poster design' (foreword), with an introductory historical essay putting the Danish poster in context with the poster traditions of other countries. Only edition, printed in a small edition. ... more information

London: Edward Blount,, 1613.. Sm. folio, (6), 339, 61pp, device on title, fine copperplate portrait engraving on verso of title. Contemporary full calf, gilt title & arms of the Signet Library front and back, with press mark and library inscription. Very good.. First Edition. Dallington (1561-1637), schoolmaster and gentleman of the Privy Chamber, published a number of travel books. The Aphorismes was his last book. STC 6179. Cockle 84. Not in Pforzheimer. ... more information

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Chicago: American Technical Society,, 1947.. 8vo, vii, 152pp, illus. throughout. Green pictorial cloth, gilt lettered, near fine.. Reprint of the 1938 first edition. ... more information

New York, January 15,, 1866.. 4 pages, octavo (conjoining leaves), to Thomas Brown Esq. Light creasing and discoloration, overall in fine condition.. Charles A. Dana (1819-97), prominent American newspaper editor, joined the Brook Farm cooperative at an early age and contributed to the Dial and Harbinger. While there he met Horace Greeley under whom he later served as city then managing editor of the New York Tribune. He broke with Greeley over his support of the Civil War, leaving the paper to work as a... more information

Boston: Ticknor & Fields,, 1859.. 8vo, 288, 16 as publ. catalogue pp. Publisher's original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered, loss at head and tail caps, cornerwear, otherwise a tight, gilt bright. very good copy.. First Edition, with publisher's catalogue dated April, 1859. BAL 4447. ... more information

Richard Henry Dana Jr (1815-1862), author of Two Years Before the Mast, 1840. ... more information

London: William Pickering,, 1852.. 8vo, (6), 312pp. Later half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered, raised bands, gilt orn. compartments, teg, custom marbled endpapers, bookplate, booksller's catalogue entries tipped-in, some lt rubbing to spine head, joints, otherwise internally clean, tight, near fine.. First Edition, handsomely bound by Hertzberg. Halkett & Laing II, p.37. NCBEL III, 1277. ... more information

London: Gerald Duckworth, , (1950).. 8vo, 343pp. Black cloth. Very good.. ... more information

New York: Brewer & Warren,, 1930.. 8vo, orange cloth, dust jacket. Cloth spine slightly darkend, dust jacket very good indeed, showing only mild scufffing, without chips.. First Edition of a classic fantasy novel, with a card signed by the author and with a small portrait, both pasted to front endpaper. Superb dust jacket designed by Henrietta Reiss. Bleiler Checklist p.56. Reginald 3790. ... more information

Paris: Delaroques Fré;res, Libraire du Ministé;re des Affaires Etrangé;res,, 1866.. 8vo, vii, (1 blank), 646, (2)pp. Quarter calf over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, orig. blue printed wrappers preserved. Light to moderate wear at spine and joints, otherwise a very good, clean copy.. Second issue, first published in 1865. Over 3000 concise entries 'indiquant les oeuvres principales des hommes les plus connus en tous pays et a tou... more information

La Jolla: Green Tiger Press,, 1984.. 4to, v, 56pp, frontispiece, 27 tipped-in color illus. and misc. b&w illus. throughout. Pale brown cloth, brown lettered, dustjacket, fine in very good dj.. First Edition. ... more information

New York: W.W. Norton,, 1995.. 8vo, xxiii, 440pp, frontispiece, 7 tables, 2 figures, 2 maps, 11 illus. Half black cloth over pale gray paper boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket. Fine in like dj.. First Edition. ... more information

London: University of California Press,, (1989).. 8vo, xvi, 3 52pp, 16 color plates & 121 b/w illus. Wrappers, very good.. ... more information

1959.. The article is is accompanied by an 8 x 10 reproduction of the Julia Margaret Cameron photograph referred to in this slim article, together with a carbon of a list of 'Books used in the UCLA Darwin Exhibit.' ... more information

Paris: Collection Française - Henri Cyral,, 1925.. 8vo, (4), 343, (3)pp, frontispiece, 5 full page, many hors-texte aquarelles in pochoir. Illus. wrappers, original glassine, sm loss at spine head, otherwise near fine in like dj with soiling.. Edition de Luxe, limited to 1000 copies sur papier vî;lin de Rives, this being copy 299. Monod 3479. Talvert & Place 27D. ... more information