Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers
by Davey, Arthur (ed.)
Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1987. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 238[10]; publisher's gray cloth, printed in gilt. Original pictorial dust jacket. Professor Richard Dale's copy, iwth his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, an expert on international politics, expecially South Africa, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations. Internally clean and bright.
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ENEMY AND BROTHER
by Davis, Dorothy Salisbury (SIGNED)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS ON TITLE PAGE. A very good+ copy with foxing and edge wear covers. In a very good+ dust jacket with mild edge wear and light foxing verso of dust jacket. 280 pp.
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SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS. Two Volumes
by De Amicis, Edmondo
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1895. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES. Translated from the tenth edition of the Italian by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall, 293, 292pp, large folding map at rear. Illustrated, bound in blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt with top edges gilt. A fine set in original blue cloth dust jackets lettered in gilt; housed in original cloth covered slipcase.
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with a Memoir of the Author, and an Essay on His Writings (Fore-Edge Painting)
by Defoe, Daniel
London: Robert Tyas, 1840. Very Good. Grandville. octavo, 638 pages; contemporary dark green leather, gilt image of Crusoe on front and rear covers. FORE-EDGE PAINTING, showing Crusoe on the beach. All edges gilt, yellow end papers. Expertly rebacked; mounted frontis, owner inscription on ffep. Illustrated in black and white. Overall very good.
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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Two Volumes
by Defoe, Daniel
London: For John Stockdale, 1804. Hard Cover. Very Good. Quarto 8 1/2" X 11" TWO VOLUMES. Large paper copy, 11 1/4" (29cm) with wide margins; uncut, 405, 446pp. Illustrated with 17 plates including frontispieces and title pages; engraved by Medland. Bound in contemporary pale blue-gray boards backed in beige cloth; paper spine labels printed in black; light scattered foxing to first few leaves, light off-setting from some plates; inner hinges stressed, but strong. In all, a very good... Read More
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QUAKE, QUAKE, QUAKE. A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
by DEHN, Paul. Illustrated By Edward Gorey
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edward Gorey. Octavo. $3.50 on front flap. Dust jacket cover art and illustrations by Edward Gorey. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with minimal edge wear. 109 pp.
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THE LISTENERS and Other Poems
by De La Mare, Walter
London: Constable and Co, 1912. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12mo. Stamp to upper right hand corner of title page "presentation copy" with small morocco bookplate of the well known collector John Stuart Groves to front pastedown, 92pp. bound in burgundly cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, minor spots of bubbling to cloth otherwise near fine in matching cloth chemise and slipcase.
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The Veil, and Other Poems
by De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED)
London: Constable & Company, 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON FEP. 12mo, 91 pp. Bound in black cloth spine over decorative boards; paper label on spine. Fine, no dust jacket. Housed in an excellent black quarter leather slipcase, spine decorated in gilt, with chemise.
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Broomsticks and Other Tales
by De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED)
London: Constable & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON COLOPHON without personalization. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY DE LA MARE ON FFEP WITH 4 LINE POEM DATED CHRISTMAS 1925. LIMITED EDITION OF 278 COPIES. THIS IS No. 60. Beige cloth spine over blue boards, leather label on spine. A Very Good+ copy; internally fine; small chip to label on spine, not affecting title. Top cover corners bumped.
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Stuff and Nonsense, and So on
by De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED)
London: Constable & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON COLOPHON without personalization. LIMITED TO 275 COPIES. THIS IS No. 49. xi, 110 pp. Bound in beige cloth spine over blue boards; leather label on spine. Internally fine, small stain at foot of spine and a little toning to upper boards; very good+.
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PUNCHES AND COCKTAILS
by CHARLES OF DELMONICOS
New York: Arden Book Company, 1934. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Quarto. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering front cover, top edge red. A near fine copy with mild cover edge wear. 53 pp.
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World Encyclopedia of Political Systems & Parties. Volume I, Afghanistan - Mozambique
by Delury, George E. (ed.)
New York: Facts on File Publications, 1983. First Edition. Fine. quarto, 707 pages; publisher's blue faux leather, printed in silver. First printing with full number line. As issued, without dust jacket. Volume one only, of two. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on South Africa politics and delivered a number of lectures before the United Nations. A fine copy.
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World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties
by Delury, George E. (ed.), Kaple, Deborah A. (ed.)
New York: Facts on File Publications, 1999. Third Edition. Fine. quarto, 3 volumes; blue faux leather boards, black cloth spine, printed in gilt and blue. First printing, with full number line. Professor Richard Dale's copy. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on South African politics and he delivered a number of lectures before the United Nations. A beautiful set, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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Indian Pictures: Facsimiles of Paintings in Water-Colour and Engravings of Drawings in Black and White
by Deming, Edwin Willard
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899. First Edition. Very Good. folio, unpaginated; 6 chromolith plates; publisher's pictorial paper covered boards, brown cloth spine. Beautifully illustrated by E. W. Deming, with "picture-writing" at foot of each plate. "The picture-writing at the bottom of each facsimile of a water-colour painting gives the story of the year, told in the way an Indian would record it on his robe or his lodge lining." Light soiling and staining to boards and... Read More
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Les Deux Maitresses
by De Musset, Alfred
Paris: Editions De La Pleiade, 1928. Original Wraps. Fine. V. Choukhaeff. Number 100 of 330 copies; original pictorial wrappers, original glassine dust jacket; illustrated in color. 150 pages. A fine copy, 2 large chips to spine of jacket.
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NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS Two Volumes
by De Quincey, Thomas
Boston; 1853 & 1854: Ticknor and Fields. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 12mo. TWO VOLUMES. 8pp., ads, 280pp., 304pp, blank,11(1)pp. ads at rear. Yellow endpapers, bound in brown cloth stamped in blind, spine lettering gilt. Age toning to ads in volume one; minor light wear to spine ends of volume two; a very good to near fine set.
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RESTLESS IS THE RIVER
by Derleth, August (SIGNED to Faith Baldwin)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH to author Faith Baldwin: "For Faith Baldwin/Contemporary/from August Derleth/Contemporary/with the hope that the story will not seem too depressing/10/9/39" written on the half-title. Faith Baldwin (Oct. 1, 1893 - March 18, 1978) was an author of romance fiction. 514pp. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in light blue and gilt. In all a very good... Read More
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A Praed Street Dossier
by Derleth, August
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. Frank Utpatel. Publisher's black cloth, dust jacket with $3.00 on fron flap; owner name and date on ffep. One of 2904 copies printed.
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THE ONLY PLACE WE LIVE
by Derleth, August (SIGNED)
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1966. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH. ALSO SIGNED BY FRANK UTPATEL, THE ILLUSTRATOR. 48pp., bound in 1/4 brown cloth over patterned blue paper covered boards, spine gilt, a fine copy in unclipped, in nearly fine, clean bright dust jacket.
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GABRIELLE D'ESTREES. A Volume in The Royal Library Historical Series
by DESCLOZEAUX, Adrien
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Full Leather. Near Fine. Octavo. Signed fine binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London England for Marshall Field and Company. Bound in full blue leather with raised bands spine, gilt decoration spine, gilt lettering on red leather spine labels, gilt floral interdentales, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bookmark, laid paper. In marbled paper covered slipcase. Near fine copy in near fine slipcase. A beautifully bound copy. vi, 330 pp.... Read More
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
by Dibdin, Michael
New York (1978): Pantheon Books. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 192 pages; original black cloth, printed in silver, pictorial dust jacket, with price of $7.95 on front flap. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Author's first book. First American edition, stated.
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An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics;
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
London: W. Dwyer, Hanwell & Parker & Cooke; Deighton & Barrett, 1804. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. xx [lxxiii] 571(1) errata; frontis is a facsimile of the Complutensian Polyglot text. Bound in early 20th century cloth, with paper label on spine. A very good, tight copy, with some small marginal spots of mildew.
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWN DROOD
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. Hard Cover. Very Good-. S. L. Fildes. Octavo. First edition in second issue binding. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and black design spine and front cover. Two thin black ruled borders front cover. Yellow endpapers. Engraved portrait and title page and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. Mild cover edge wear, foxing and small dampstain on engraved portrait and title page, owner name and library blindstamp ffep. Pencil... Read More
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Bleak House
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. First issue, with uncorrected text (p. 19, line 6, with "elgble"; p. 209, line 23, with "chair"; p. 275, line 22, with "counsinship"); octavo, 624 pages, 5 line errata. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards, marbled end papers, marbled edges; spine printed in gilt. Vignette title and 40 inserted plates (10 dark plates) by H. K. Browne; frontis with tissue guard; plates browned at edges, but images... Read More
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Dombey and Son, in the Original Monthly Parts, First Issue of Text and Having ALL the Ads Called for
by Dickens, Charles
London: October1846 - April 1848: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. 20 parts in 19, original printed wrappers. The present set has ALL the correct wrappers and ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver. First issue of text, with the word "Delight" instead of "Joy" mentioned twice on page 284, part IX; with "Capatin" in the last line of page 324, part XI; first state of Advertiser in part XIII, with "October 1847" in unbroken type on p.... Read More
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