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

1834. first edition. Lady Lewis’s Only Novel[LEWIS, Lady Maria Theresa Villiers Lister]. Dacre: A Novel. Edited by the Countess of Morley. In Three Volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834.First edition of Lady Lewis’s only novel. Three twelvemo volumes (7 3/16 x 4 3/8 inches; 183 x 112 mm.). [2], 298; [2], 348; [2], 347, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Bound without the half-titles and without the publisher’s catalogue called for by Wolff but not S... more information

1864. first edition. Stories by Hans Christian Andersen and Others[BUSHBY, Mrs. Anne, editor and translator]. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors. Translated by Mrs. Bushby. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1864.First English edition of this collection of Danish tales and verse, selected and translated by Mrs. Bushby. Three octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 200 x 125 mm.). [2, publisher’s advertisements], [6], 312; [4], 303, [1, blan... more information

1863. first edition. George MacDonald's First Novel, in the Original Cloth,Not in Sadleir or WolffMACDONALD, George. David Elginbrod. In Three Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863.First edition of the author’s first published novel. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 199 x 125 mm.). viii, 325, [1]; vi, 335, [1]; vi, 398.Original brick red pebble-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spines ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. A few leaves in gathering N in Volume I po... more information

1881. first edition. One of the Books That Relieved John Ruskin's DepressionRare in Dust Jacket[GREENAWAY, Kate]. FOSTER, Myles B. A Day in a Child’s Life. Music by Myles B. Foster. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: [n.d., 1881]. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in; 243 x 208 mm). 29, [1, printer's slug] pp. Color-printed wood-engraved text illustrations, most accompanied with musical notations. Original light green glazed pictorial boards with green cloth backstrip. Beveled e... more information

1824. first edition. The Profoundly Rare Misadventures of a Free-LoaderTold in Six Beautifully Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates[EGERTON, Michael]. A Day’s Journal of a Sponge. By Peter Pasquin. London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney and Forster, 51, Rathbone Place. 1824.First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; 267 x 369 mm.). Printed title-page and six bright and beautifully hand-colored aquatint plates. The plates are unsigned, with imprint: London, Published by W. Egerton, 1824, and... more information

1845. first edition. With 208 Wood-Engraved Plates After Gavarni[GAVARNI (pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier), and others, illustrators]. Le Diable a Paris. Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes, caractèes et portraits des habitants de Paris, tableau complet de leur vie privée, publique, politique, artistique, littéraire, industrielle, etc., etc. Texte par MM. George dDe Balzac, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, Méry, A. Juncetis, Gérard de Nerval, Arsè... 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

1902. first edition. Elementary, Mr. TwainTWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). A Double Barrelled Detective Story. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition, in variant maroon cloth binding as called for in BAL but with pictorial rather than unprinted white endpapers; thus unrecorded. Octavo [2, blank], [4], 179, [5, blank] pp. on wove paper. Seven plates including frontispiece with tissue guard. Endpapers in mixed A and B state, with no priority.Publisher's original cloth, front cove... more information

1831. first edition. One Of Only 250 CopiesGREENE, Robert. The Dramatic Works of Robert Greene, to Which are Added His Poems. With Some Account of the Author, and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, B.A. London: William Pickering, 1831.First collected edition. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 193 x 120 mm.). vi, [2], cxii, 222; [4], 324 pp.Contemporary full polished calf. Covers triple-ruled in gilt with small gilt cornerpieces, spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with five raised ba... more information