Titles starting with D from The Bookpress, Ltd.

Paperback. (LAWRENCE) J. STEPHAN LAWRENCE RARE BOOKS. D.H. LAWRENCE. Chicago: n.d. 8vo. Wrappers. Supplement to catalogue 38 with 163 items. Very good. ... more information

1968. Paperback. RUBIN, William S. DADA, SURREALISM, AND THEIR HERITAGE. New York: Museum of Modern Art, n.d., (1967). Square 8vo. Wrappers. 252 page First edition. Being a well illustrated catalogue of a 1968 exhibit of dada and surrealistic art. Spine sunned, else very good. ... more information

1922. Paperback. BOCCOLARI, Benito. DALL' ALTO, OP. N.1. N.P.: The Artist, 1922. Oblong folio (13 x 15 1/2 inches). Original printed wrappers, ribbon tie. 8 wood block prints. First edition. Artists edition limited to 55 copies. These powerful and haunting wood block prints -- original impressions by the artist -- eerily foreshadow the stifling regimentation and horror of the Fasc era. Dall' Alto Op No 1 includes some of Boccolari's most important images, including, the cemetery, the assignati... more information

1982. Paperback. (MUSIC) BEIJERS'. DANCE, THEATRE, MUSIC. Utrecht, The Netherlands: 1982. 4to. Wrappers. 354 lots. ... more information

1921. (BURNHAM) MOORE, Charles. DANIEL H. BURNHAM, ARCHITECT, PLANNER OF CITIES. volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. 4to. Cloth. xviii, (ii), 260 pages, (54) plates, (12) color plates; x, 238 pages, (40) plates, (6) color plates. First edition. This is the first and best edition of the biography of the famous American architect. Burnham was Director of Works at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and a contemporary and associate of Theodore Thomas, Charles F. McKim, Saint-Gauden, Millet, and Olmste... more information

1974. MADAN, F. THE DANIEL PRESS, MEMORIAL OF C.H.O. DANIEL. (Kent, England): Wm. Dawson & Sons, (1974). 8vo. Cloth. (iv) viii, 198, (2), pages, 15 plates. Being a brief biographical sketch of the founder of the Daniel Press along wi a bibliography. Very good. ... more information

1897. (DANTE) DANTE'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. London: Elliot Stock, 1897. 8vo. Board spine, cloth. Slightly shaken, bookplate, else very good. ... more information

1957. KLAY, Andor. DARING DIPLOMACY, THE CASE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1957). 8vo. Cloth. (xii), 246 pages. First edition. Bookplate and name in pencil on front fly-leaf, embossed stamp and name ink o title page, else very good. ... more information

1961. (RUSKIN) ROSENBERG, John D. THE DARKENING GLASS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. 8vo. Cloth. Very good. ... more information

1950. RENKER, Armin. DAS BUCH VOM PAPIER. (Wiesbaden): Insel-Verlag, 1950. 8vo. White cloth spine, boards. 230, (4) pages, 46 illustration on plates, 4 leaves of watermarks, 2 and 13 leaves of paper samples, 1 folding map. Third edition. Renker's important history of paper and its manufacture. The text of this edition has been enlarged by 52 pages over the 1934 edition; the numbers of watermarks and paper samples are the same, but the samples themselves are somewhat different. Ex-library copy, with a... more information

1934. RENKER, Armin. DAS BUCH VOM PAPIER. Leipzig: Im Insel, n.d. (ca. 1934.) 8vo. White vellum spine and corners, boards. 178, (iv), 46 illustrations on plates, 4 leaves of watermarks, 13 lea of paper samples, 1 folding map. First published in Berlin in 1929, this is one of the best books on the histo and manufacture of papers, written by a leading German papermaker and paper historian. This edition contains four leaves with thirteen reproductions of watermarks, including mounted samples of papyrus and p... more information

DEMANEGA, A. DAS BUCH DER STADT INNSBRUCK. Innsbruck: Tiroler Graphik, n.d. 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. 152 pages. First edition. There are 104 full-page photographs of Innsbruck's architecture, with texts i English, Italian, and German. Very good in worn dust jacket. ... more information

1927. TAIROFF, Alexander. DAS ENTFESSELTE THEATER. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1927. 8vo. Boards. Frontispiece, (xiv), 112 pag 11 plates. Second edition. First published in Russian (1921), this is Tairoff's famous treatise on the unchained theater. Tairoff, a leading Moscow theater director, gives his opinions on the current state of Russian theater and expresses support for th work and theories of Gordon Craig. Covers lightly rubbed, and sunned, extremities of spine and tips slightly worn, some pen... more information

1914. SPELTZ, Alexander. DAS FARBIGE ORNAMENT ALLER HISTORISCHEN STILE...DAS ALTERTUM. Liepzig: Baumgartners Buchhandlung, (1914). Folio. Later cloth. 5-24 pages, of 61 color plates. First edition. A book on ornaments from the antiquities with excellent plates mounted on hea stock gray board. This is a compilation from the three volumes--ancient, medieval and modern with only part of the text. Priced accordingly. ... more information

1914. SPELTZ, Alexander. DAS FARBIGE ORNAMENT ALLER HISTORISCHEN STILE...DAS ALTERTUM. Liepzig: Baumgartners Buchhandlung, (1914). Folio. Cloth portfolio. (viii), pages, 61 color plates. First edition. A book on ornaments from the antiquities with excellent plates. This was the first book in what was to be a series on the history of ornaments. To our knowledge none of the others were ever published. Very good. ... more information

1842. NIETNER, Theodor Eduard. DAS GANZE DER ERDBEERZUCHT. Berlin: Nauck, 1842. 8vo. Contemporary papered boards. x, 205 pages. First edition. Scarce item with only one copy cited on OCLC. Monograph on the cultivation o the strawberry. Cloth spine with paper label; edges and tips rubbed. Sporad foxing; small oval stamp on title page. ... more information

1949. VOLCKERS, Otto. DAS GRUNDRIBWERK. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1941. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. 348 pages. First edition. Plans for many different types of buildings. This was a popular book, made i a third edition in 1949. The year of publication for the first edition, however, was not a good one for German architecture books. Edges considerabl browned. ... more information

1963. KRASA, Miloslav. DAS LACHELN VON ANGKOR. (Main: Werner Dausien, 1963.) 4to. Cloth. 169 pages, 6 folding legends. Firs edition. Text written in German. With photographs by Jan Cifra, this documents the intricate, religious, stone carvings in Cambodia. Very good. ... more information

1927. Paperback. WALTER, Friedrich. DAS MANNHEIMER SCHLOSS. Karlsruhe: C.F. Muller, 1927. 4to. Wrappers. Cover lightly chipped, else very good. ... more information

1927. Paperback. HOFFMAN, Richard. DAS MARIENMUNSTER ZU ETTAL IM WANDEL DER JAHRHUNDERTE. Augsburg: Benno Filser, 1927. 4to. Wrappers. (x), 157, (5) pages, 48 plates. First edition. Being a treatise on the cathedral in Ettal, illustrations include interior an exterior views. Wrappers slightly chipped, else very good. ... more information