Outlaws on Horseback
by Harry Sinclair Drago
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Lorence Bjorklund. A wonderful Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, HARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO, TO THE ILLUSTRATOR, LORENCE BJORKLUND, on the half-title page. A tight, sharp copy to boot of the 1964 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine (light spotting along the fore-edge) in a crisp,... Read More
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The Diner's Companion: A Guide to the Fine Art of Dining Out
by Maurice Dreicer
New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. Patterned Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY MAURICE DREICER on the front free endpaper. A superb copy to boot of the 1955 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. "Revealing a Connoisseur's Secrets on: How to Get the Most Enjoyment for Your Time and Money -- How... Read More
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The Mountain Road
by Thomas Dreier
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1935. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR THOMAS DREIER on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the December 1935 stated 2nd printing. Tight and VG (light spotting and offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with mild wear to the rear panel.... Read More
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My City (The Signed/Limited -- In Dustjacket and Box)
by Theodore Dreiser
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Printed Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Max Pollak. The lavish 1929 signed/limited. #173 OF 275 COPIES SIGNED BY THEODORE DREISER at the limitation. A very presentable copy to boot. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine, with very light spotting along the wood-grained boards. And in a solid example (with a long closed tear along... Read More
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Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications
by Melvin Dresher
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1961. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. A solid copy of the 1961 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine (the small ghost of a former price sticker at the front free endpaper) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with several small closed tears along the edges, very light soiling at the lower-tips... Read More
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The Greek Accounts of Eastern History
by Robert Drews
Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenistic Studies (Distributed by Harvard University Press), 1973. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, sound copy of the 1973 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 220 pgs.
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The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Arthur Drexler
New York: Horizon Press (For the Museum of Modern Art, New York), 1962. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A solid copy of the 1962 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light offsetting along the top-edges. Quarto, the 300 drawings for this volume selected by Arthur Drexler.
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10 Years of Industrial Design
by Henry Dreyfuss
New York: Self-Published, 1939. Cloth. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY HENRY DREYFUSS on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1939 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its russet cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Octavo, lavishly illustrated throughout in rich black-and-white photos. Wonderful look at the 1930s through... Read More
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Designing for People
by Henry Dreyfuss
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HENRY DREYFUSS on the front blank endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1955 stated 1st printing. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, which shows soiling to the panels and vey mild chipping at the spine ends. Octavo, dozens of... Read More
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Industrial Design: A Progress Report 1929-1952
by Henry Dreyfuss
New York/Los Angeles: Henry Dreyfuss, 1952. Cloth. Very Good. The 1952 1st edition, in its dark-green cloth, with light rubbing to the front panel and light foxing along the preliminaries (including the title page). Square octavo, crisp black-and-white photos (mostly triumphs of design) throughout.
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A Record of Industrial Designs: 1929 Through 1947
by Henry Dreyfuss
New York/California: Self-published, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. The uncommon 1947 1st edition, evidently published by Henry Dreyfuss himself. Solid and VG in its slate-gray boards, with light offsetting along the top-edges and some pencil at the front free endpaper. Octavo, crisp, wonderful black-and-white photos throughout.
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Recollections of a Zouave Before Sebastopol
by Dr. Felix Maynard, Ed
Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1856. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. The 1856 1st American edition, translated from its original French by Mrs. M. Harrison Robinson. Solid and VG in its original chocolate-brown boards, with gilt-figure ("The Trumpeter of the Zouaves") to the front panel, along with decorative blindstamping. Somewhat rubbed gilt-titling and figure along the spine, as well as... Read More
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Jimmy Chew: A Dental Health Book
by Dr. Harrison W. Ferguson, D.D.S.
Chicago: The Good Teeth Council for Children, 1934. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. Charming children's dental instructional, "based on the Toothland Puppet Show --a World's Fair attraction presented at the Official Dentistry Exhibit/Hall of Science/Century of Progress". Clean and Near Fine in its stapled orange wrappers. 16mo, 32 pgs., including several photographs and nice line drawings thruout. ... Read More
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Pitch Pine Tales
by Howard R. Driggs
New York: Aladdin Books, 1951. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +/Near Fine. L.F. Bjorklund. A crisp, very presentable copy of the 1951 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine (light offsettting at the pastedowns and endsheets) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Thin 12mo, nicely illustrated by L.F. Bjorklund.
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Nick Wilson: Pioneer Boy Among the Indians
by Howard R. Driggs
New York: Aladdin Books, 1951. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. L.F. Bjorklund. A lovely copy of the uncommon 1951 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($1.75), Near Fine dustjacket. Thin 12mo, illustrated by L.F. Bjorklund.
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Don Nice: The Nature of Art (Inscribed to Dick Polich)
by John Driscoll
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2004. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An important Association copy: INSCRIBED BY DON NICE TO RENOWNED ART FABRICATOR DICK POLICH on the title page. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot. Clean and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Superb color plates throughout.
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Beton Als Gestalter: Bauten In Eisenbeton und Ihre Architektonische Gestaltung -- Ausgefuhrte Eisenbetonbauten
by Dr. Julius Vischer, Ludwig Hilberseimer
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1928. Original wraps. Very Good +. A very presentable copy of the 1928 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its slate-grey rappers, with light foxing along the preliminaries and the fore-edges. Quarto, with 264 illustrations ("abbildungen") complementing Vischer and Hilberseimer's text. Includes examples of the work of Modernist architects such as Le Corbusier, Eric Mendelsohn,... Read More
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The Word Made Flesh
by Johanna Drucker
New York: Granary Books, 1996. Boards. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the 1996 "facsimile reprint of an original letterpress edition issued in 1989". This, the facsimile edition, has held up beautifully: tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine example of the printed beige dustjacket. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies and painstakingly reproduced (giving the complicated... Read More
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Plasma Physics
by James E. Drummond
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. The 1961 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Tight and VG (light offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns, very mild spotting along the edges and at the half-title and its verso) in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with very light wear along the spine ends. Octavo, dozens... Read More
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Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality
by Mildred Glimcher / Jean Dubuffet
New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Pictorial cloth. Fine/Fine. A crisp, lovely copy of the 1987 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, first-rate color (and black-and-white) illustrations throughout.
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Archive Documenting the Commission and the October 1972 Unveiling of Jean Dubuffet's "Group of Four Trees" in Front of 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York
by Jean Dubuffet
1972. Portfolio. Near Fine. A wonderful chronicling --through photos, letters and documents-- of the commission and the 1972 unveiling (both overseen by David Rockefeller, the CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank) of "Group of Four Trees", the first monumental sculpture specifically intended for the United States created by the great French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985). The portfolio... Read More
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L'Erotisme Au Cinema
by Lo Duca
Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur, 1957. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The uncommon 1957 1st hardback edition. Clean and VG+ in a bright, VG+ pictorial dustjacket, with very light chipping at the foot of the spine. Square 12mo, 221 pgs. Part of the wonderful Jean-Jacques Pauvert series done out of Paris in the 50s and 60s on the... Read More
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Goodbye, Darling
by Laura Duchamp
New York: Tower Publications, 1964. Original wraps. Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1964 1st printing. Bright, crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Pocketbook, Midwood F391. "There were times when she didn't mind her husband calling her to say that he'd be working late again at the office.
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
by Richard Hamilton (Marcel Duchamp)
New York: George Wittenborn, Inc, 1960. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. The 1960 1st American edition, published simultaneously with the 1st UK edition (Lund, Humphries), both representing the first complete English translation. "A typographic version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's 'Green Box', translated (from its native French) by George Heard Hamilton". Clean, tight and Near Fine in a... Read More
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Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory
by Darrell Duffie
Princeton University Press, 1992. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1992 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Octavo, "a textbook for doctoral students and researchers on the theory of asset pricing and portfolio selection in multiperiod settings under uncertainty". (From the dustjacket front flap).
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