CARTES DE VISITE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY
by DARRAH, William C
Gettysburg, PA: W. C. Darrah, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Red cloth; [6], 221, [1] pages. Illustrated with many photographs. Essential reference for cartes de visite photographs. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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FARMINGTON
by DARROW, Clarence
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 (1928). Third Edition. hardcover. A gorgeous copy, beautifully preserved, with the original dustwrapper which has a long, jagged but closed tear on the front panel that, under mylar, is not terribly offensive. Fine in a lovely dustwrapper. A novel that is really a thinly disguised autobiography of the great labor lawyer. INSCRIBED... Read More
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A PERSIAN PEARL
by DARROW, Clarence
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Brownell's bookplate on front pastedown, some offsetting to endpaper; spine expertly restored, boards with some soiling and wear to edges. Very Good. Reverse calf-backed boards, gilt title on cover, spine label lettered in gilt; #646 of 980 copies finely printed in black and red with decorative initials and... Read More
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FARMINGTON
by DARROW, Clarence
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. New Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper. First printing of the new edition of 1932 with a new preface by the author dated August 1932. A novel that is really a thinly disguised autobiography of the great labor lawyer, most famous for his role in the Scopes... Read More
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THE STORY OF MY LIFE
by DARROW, Clarence
New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown; scattered marginal pencil marks in margins. Small tear at top front corner of the spine, minor chipping to spine label with some light soiling to the spine. Very Good. Large octavo (6-1/4" x 9-5/8") bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with a color... Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by... Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in tan oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Press in Australia. Illustrated with... Read More
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ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
by DARWIN, Charles
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1963. hardcover. Bottom rear corner slightly bumped. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. A beautiful book. Paul Landacre. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound with a black wallaby hide spine impressed in gold leaf with a symbolic design and bearing a green inlaid label on which the title and author are stamped in gold; sides are... Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; small scratch to leather at the rear. About Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction... Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to the spine tips. Near Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type... Read More
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TARTARIN OF TARASCON
by DAUDET, Alphonse
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine, intact slipcase with a sunned backstrip. W. A. Dwiggins. Two duodecimo volumes (4-3/8" x 6") bound in gold-stamped half black cloth with printed paper sides. Translated with an introduction by Jacques LeClercq. Designed and illustrated with line drawings by W. A. Dwiggins. The ninth book of... Read More
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NEGRO SLAVERY IN WISCONSIN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
by DAVIDSON, John Nelson
Milwaukee, WI: Parkman Club Publications, 14 September 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Mostly unopened. Rear wrap neatly detached. Very Good and quite uncommon. Stapled printed green wraps (6-5/8" x 9-1/2"); 211-244 pages plus blank and covers. The Ordinance of 1787 forbade the practice of slavery or involuntary servitude in any form in the Northwest Territory, making it a crime... Read More
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THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS
by DAVIES, Robertson
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As new in shrinkwrap. Decorated dark green leather. Limited and true First Edition SIGNED by the author and with a special introduction by him not included in the trade edition.
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WORLD OF WONDERS
by DAVIES, Robertson
New York: THe Viking Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Spine slightly sunned; textblock cocked. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy of the First American Edition in printed orange wraps.
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WALKING THE BOUNDARIES. POEMS 1957 - 1974
by DAVISON, Peter
New York: Atheneum, [1974]. First American Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Galleys consisting of 7" x 9" loose sheets stapled in the upper left corner. An uncommon format, likely existing in just a handful of copies, this from the library of poet William Meredith, though there are no ownership notations.
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WALKING THE BOUNDARIES. POEMS 1957 - 1974
by DAVISON, Peter
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "For William Meredith/in companionship,/admiration/affection/Peter Davison/Washington D.C./June 4, 1980." With Davison's business card laid in.
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DARK HOUSES
by DAVISON, Peter
Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Decorated dark blue wraps. One of 300 handprinted copies. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page: "For Bill Meredith/very well met at/Villa Serbelloni/Peter Davison/June 1972/And with certain emendations,/and with thanks. PD." There are 3 corrections in the text by Davison.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Irish Radical Nationalist Michael Davitt to Publisher of THE AMERICAN IRISH WORLD Patrick Ford
by DAVITT, Michael
Dublin, 2 February 1899. Letter. Patrick Ford (1837 - 1913) was a journalist and founder and publisher of the influential IRISH WORLD. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) marked "Private" on one 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper folded into fours, with the original envelope, to Patrick Ford, publisher of THE AMERICAN IRISH WORLD. Davitt passionately writes to... Read More
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EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE. A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life
by DAWIDZIAK, Mark
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, (2017). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Second printing. Foreword by Rod Serling's daughter, Anne Serling. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both Dawidziak and Anne Serling on the front endpaper: "To Angela,/Submitted for you/(we hope)/approval!" The previous owner has written at the bottom of the... Read More
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PICTURING AMERICA, 1497-1899. Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory That is Now the United States
by DEÁK, Gloria Gilda
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges and dustwrappers. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers. Two quarto (8-3/4" x 11-1/4") volumes in dustwrappers. The first volume is text ( xxx, 657 pages), the second illustrations (880 plates).
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![VOYAGE AU LEVANT, C'EST-A-DIRE, DANS LES PRINCIPAUX ENDROITS DE L'ASIE MINEURE, DANS LES ISLES DE CHIO, RHODES, CHYPRE, &C. DE MEME QUE DANS LES PLUS CONSIDERABLES VILLES D'EGYPTE, SYRIE, & TERRE SAINTE (2 volumes) [and] VOYAGES DE CORNEILLE LE BRUYN PAR LA MOSCOVIE, EN PERSE, ET AUX INDES ORIENTALES (3 volumes)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/952/432/1082432952.0.m.jpg)
VOYAGE AU LEVANT, C'EST-A-DIRE, DANS LES PRINCIPAUX ENDROITS DE L'ASIE MINEURE, DANS LES ISLES DE CHIO, RHODES, CHYPRE, &C. DE MEME QUE DANS LES PLUS CONSIDERABLES VILLES D'EGYPTE, SYRIE, & TERRE SAINTE (2 volumes) [and] VOYAGES DE CORNEILLE LE BRUYN PAR LA MOSCOVIE, EN PERSE, ET AUX INDES ORIENTALES (3 volumes)
by DE BRUYN, Cornelis
Rouen: Ch. Ferrand, 1725. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Margins of the first leaves of Volume I reinforced, some browning and staining in the margins throughout with occasional margin reinforcement. Light wear to corners of bindings. Very Good. Five quarto (7-1/4" x 9-3/4") volumes bound in modern mottled calf leather, blind-ruled border on covers, gilt ornamented spines on 5... Read More
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METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE en Rondeaux Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures par Ordre de sa Majeste, Dediez a Monseigneur le Dauphin
by [EMBLEM BOOK] OVID [BENSERADE (Isaac de)]
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1697. Early Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the frontispiece; owner names on front blanks; title page to first volume with short stitched repair of a tear; contents clean with dark impressions of the plates. Bindings solid with light wear and short splits along the joints with covers firm. Near Fine. Two small quarto (6-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes... Read More
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ROXANA, THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS
by DEFOE, Daniel
Avon: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Bernd Kroeber. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/4") bound with scarlet linen covers with a design stamped in white leaf and a white vellum-finish linen spine stamped in scarlet and gold leaf. Illustrated with 12 full-page two-color woodcuts in three-color schemes and 14 smaller black-and-white woodcuts by... Read More
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THE LIFE & STRANGE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
by DEFOE, Daniel
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcover. Some soiling and wear to covers, still quite good. Thomas Stothard. Two volumes in publisher's cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Thomas Stothard. Designed by Bruce Rogers. This edition (Haas 80) is a reprint of the Riverside Press Large-Paper Edition (Warde 89) in 4 volumes published the same year.
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THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS
by DEFOE, Daniel
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. hardcover. Fine. Reginald Marsh. Octavo (5-5/8" x 8-7/8") rebound in full red morocco leather by Maurin with double gilt-ruled borders on the covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, top edge gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Introduction by John Winterich. Illustrated with pen drawings by Reginald Marsh hand-colored by Martha... Read More
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