Titles starting with D from McBlain Books

1965. 2. Burch, Robert. D.J.'s Worst Enemy. NY: Viking, (c.1965). 1st edition. Illustrated by Emil Weiss. Hardcover. dj. Corner clipped on jacket flap. Review slip laid. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

1588. 2. Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. D. Magni Ausonii Burdig. Viri Consularis Opera ... Cetera Epistola ad lectorem docebit. Adiectus variis & locupletissimis indicibus. [Geneva]: Typis Iacobi Stoer, 1588. 350, 247p. Hardcover in later (probably 19th century) leather. 13cm. One leaf (m2) supplied in facsimile. Moderate browning and some staining (mostly in right margin). Very Good. Latin text. ... more information

1972. 2. D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar. D'Aulaire's Trolls. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. 1st ed. color frontis & illustrations, 62p. Hardcover. dj. 31cm. Very Good/Very Good. Children's book. ... more information

1946. United States. Army Air Forces. Troop Carrier Group, 440th. DZ Europe; the Story of the 440th Troop Carrier Group. n.p.: n.d. [1946?]. photos, maps, 203p. Hardcover (blue cloth; lettered in gilt on front cover). 30cm. Cover shabby and rather worn. Front joint split at top; both joints frayed. Foxing on endpapers and adjacent leaves; contents otherwise sound and clean. Fair/No Jacket. An uncommon WWII account. ... more information

1977. 2. [Signed] *Harris, Wilson. Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness and Genesis of the Clowns. London: Faber and Faber, (c. 1977). First edition. 148p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. Edges browned on jacket. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED by Harris. Two short novels by writer from Guyana. ... more information

1985. Paperback. 2. Wagner, Donald B. Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese Iron-Production Techniques Practiced in Southern Henan in the Twentieth Century. London: Curzon Press, (1985). xi, 112p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Very Good. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph Series, No. 52. ... more information

1916. 2. *Underhill, Irvin W. Daddy's Love and Other Poems. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, Printers, n.d. [1916]. 1st ed. 87p. Hardcover. 19cm. Small spot on front cover. Ends of backstrip slightly rubbed. Very Good/No Jacket. Laid in: (1) a sheet of coated paper on which is printed a portrait of an African American man (Underhill?); and (2) an outline for a brief letter about this book to Underhill on a sheet of note paper (Episcopal Diocese of Philadelphia letterhead). According to an autobiogr... more information

1965. 2. Sahib. Daftar-i Dilkusha. Musku: Idarah-i Intisharat-i anish, Shu`bah-i Adabiyyat-i Khavar, 1965. 285, 31p. Hardcover in original black cloth. 26cm. Very Good/No Jacket. Silsilah-i athar-i adabi-i milal-i Khavar, 5. Facsimile reproduction of Persian manuscript; introduction in Persian and Russian; two-page summary in English. ... more information

1925. 3. Martyr, Graham. Dai Nihon. London: Hopkinson, 1925. x, 228p. Hardcover. 23cm. Covers rather heavily discolored. Good/No Jacket. ... more information

1898. Sherer, John Walter. Daily Life During the Indian Mutiny; Personal Experiences of 1857. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1898. 1st ed. frontis, viii, 196p. Hardcover. 20cm. Extremities chipped. Endpapers browned & brittle. Internal library markings. Fair/No Jacket. ... more information

1896. 2. *Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859?-1915. Daily Resolves. London and New York: 1896. 1st edition. color ills, (15) unnumbered pages. Pictorial (chromo) boards, backed in white cloth. 14cm. Gift inscription. Moderate cover soil. Very Good. Gem Series. Printed in Bavaria. His rare first book. ... more information

1935. 2. [Map] The Daily Telegraph Map of Abyssinia. In 6 Colours. London: George Philip and Son for the Daily Telegraph, n.d. Folding map printed on a 57 x 43cm. sheet. Contained in a Printed brown folder (13 x 20cm.). Red lettering on front; some facts about Ethiopia printed in red inside front cover. Very Good. We assume this was issued in 1935. ... more information

1941. 2. Berolzheimer, Ruth, editor. The Dairy Cook Book. Chicago: Published for the Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publishers, (c. 1941). photos, index, 256p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. Jacket moderately worn. Very Good/Good. ... more information

1969. 2. Landshoff, Ursula. Daisy and Doodle. Englewood Cliffs: Bradbury Press, (1969). 1st printing. color illustrations [30]p. Hardcover. dj. Oblong (18 x 24cm.). Very Good/Very Good. Children's book about a poodle and her young owner. ... more information

1957. Paperback. 2. [Travel Guide] Houlet, Gilbert. Dakar, Saint-Louis et Leurs Environs. Paris: Hachette, 1957. photos, folding map, 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 17cm. Very Good. French text. Les Guides Bleus Illustres. ... more information

1968. Groupe d'Etudes Dakaroises. Dakar en Devenir. Paris: Presence Africaine, (c. 1968). maps, 517p. Wrapper. 22cm. Introduction by M. Sankale. French text. ... more information

1838. 3. [Odd Volume] Addison, Charles G. Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the State and Prospects of Syria, under Ibrahim Pasha. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1838. 1st Amer. ed. Vol. I ONLY (of 2). xvi, [25]-248p. Hardcover (brown cloth). 20cm. Cover sound but rather worn. Title-label on backstrip readable but worn. Good-sized piece missing from front free endpaper. Substantial foxing throughout text. Fair. The American edition was printed in smaller format and omitted ... more information

1858. Paperback. 3. Cordier, Jules. Une Dame pour voyager; vaudeville en un acte. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1858. 31p. Softcover pamphlet. 18cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Light stain in lower right corner. Some adherence along left edge of title-page. Good. French text. ... more information

1983. 2. Townsend, John Rowe. Dan Alone. NY: Lippincott, (c. 1983). 1st American ed. Hardcover. dj. Corner clipped on jacket flap. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

1974. 3. [*Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974] Dan Healy New York's Popular Producer and Star of Hammerstein's "Good Boy" Presents His New Revue "Hot Chocolate" with Special Restricted Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. At the Famous Cotton Club, Lenox Ave. and 142nd Street, New York. Folded four-page program. Undated. Approx. 12cm. x 20cm. Good condition with three spots damaged with no loss of text (probably spots where this program had been glued into a scrapbook). The... more information