Damn the Torpedoes: Farragut & USS Hartford: 158 Years of Service
by Paul DeHaan
N.p.: s.i., 2014. Near Fine. N.p.: s.i., ca. 2004? Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 79pp.; color photographs throughout. A hint of wear from handling, else Fine. Sticker cancel to p. 1: "Collection to be sold June 2014, Cowan's Auction." Self-published catalog of the Civil War Navy Collection of Paul and Pat DeHaan of Kalamazoo, Michigan,... Read More
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London Match [Signed]
by Len Deighton
London: Hutchinson, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [iv],405pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £9.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with light bumping at top corner and along top edge of front flap. Boards lightly edgeworn with corresponding bump to top front corner.... Read More
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Louise Fishman
by Louise Fishman; David Deitcher
New York: Cheim & Read, 2006. Very Good. New York: Cheim & Read, 2006. First Edition (limited to 1000 copies). Quarto (30x23.5x1cm); unpaginated [66pp], including concise biography and extensive exhibition and collections lists. Twenty-one full-page color reproductions, with additional photo portrait frontispiece. Illustrated card wrappers with deep French flaps over sewn gatherings. Covers are clean and crisp. Binding... Read More
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Beauford Delaney: A Retrospective
by Beauford Delaney
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978. Very Good. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978. First Edition. Slim oblong quarto (21.5x27.5cm); publisher's glossy orange photo-illustrated card wrappers; unpaginated; illus. throughout, many full color. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, light curling to fore-edge of upper cover, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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![The Bridge of Lost Desire [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/397/1654397493.0.m.jpg)
The Bridge of Lost Desire [Signed]
by Samuel R. Delany
New York: Arbor House, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Arbor House, 1987. First Trade Edition. Signed by Samuel Delany with a brief inscription, though with a different pen, to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth over blue paper-covered boards with spine stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn and... Read More
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The Jewels of Aptor [Signed]
by Samuel R. Delany
New York: Ace Books / Charter Communications Inc, 1968. Very Good. New York: Ace Books / Charter Communications Inc., [1968]. Third (1972) Printing. 12mo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 159pp. Moderate shelf wear, shallow crease to bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, textblock uniformly toned; overall Very Good and sound. Signed and dated Washington DC, '99 by the author... Read More
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Tales of Neveryon [Signed]
by Samuel R. Delany
New York: Bantam Books, 1979. Very Good-. New York: Bantam Books, [1979]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],264pp. Moderate edge wear, wrappers a bit dust-soiled, spine creased, textblock toned; About Very Good overall. Signed by the author and dated Washington, DC, '99 on title page. The first title in the author's Sword and Sorcery... Read More
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Players
by Don DeLillo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 212pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price present. Maroon and ivory boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket toned along edges with rather sizeable chip to top edge near spine. Boards worn and toned along edges and noticeably bowed... Read More
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Underworld [Signed]
by Don DeLillo
New York: Scribner, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition. Signed by Don DeLillo without inscription at title page. Thick octavo. 827 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Light green and black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed and creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear and binding is sound. Touch... Read More
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Great Jones Street [Signed]
by Don DeLillo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition. Signed by DeLillo without inscription at title page. Octavo. 265 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Black boards stamped in green and purple; yellow topstain. Dust jacket lightly worn and creased along edges, spine and flaps with slightly heavier... Read More
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![Lying Down With the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power [Signed and inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/097/569/1699569097.0.m.jpg)
Lying Down With the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power [Signed and inscribed]
by Ronald V. Dellums
Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. Near Fine/Very Good +. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. Later printing. Octavo (23cm); 220pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $25 price intact; boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends and along edges; superficial scratching and toning throughout. “2.00” written in marker in upper left corner of... Read More
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Les Matinées Littéraires
by Taxile Delord
Paris: Charpentier, 1860. Very Good. Paris: Charpentier, 1860. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards; [4],380pp. Some general shelf wear, spine a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound. Literary essays by the French journalist and liberal politician.
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Mussolini's Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance
by Charles F. Delzell
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; xix + 620pp. Graphic dustjacket. over brown cloth with two-color stamping on spine. Price-clipped dustjacket has two 1" chips missing, one at bottom of spine, the other on front face, along with a couple larger tears at top back and couple smaller... Read More
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Love Story Black [Signed to Hugh Seidman]
by William Demby
New York: Reed, Cannon & Johnson Co, 1978. Very Good. New York: Reed, Cannon & Johnson Co., 1978. First Edition, wrapper issue. Small octavo; publisher's illustrated wraps; 141pp. Light wear to edges; a few scuffs; binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Demby at half title with inscription "For Hugh Seidman, whose poems, for me, this summer... Read More
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![The Key Route: Transbay Commuting by Train and Ferry [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/400/171/1615171400.0.m.jpg)
The Key Route: Transbay Commuting by Train and Ferry [Two Volume Set]
by Harre W. Demoro
Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, 1985. First Editions, First Printings. Two volumes; quartos (28.5cm); publisher's boards in matching pictorial dust jackets; 165,[1]; [6],167-328pp.; nine folding maps bound in rear (four in Part I, five in Part II), illus. throughout. General wear to jacket margins including several small losses to top margin... Read More
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Collected Poems [Signed Limited Edition]
by Edwin Denby
New York: Full Court Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Full Court Press, 1975. Limited First Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 66. Octavo (21.5cm); green dust jacket with black and white lettering and border; boards in charcoal cloth with silver lettering to spine; [x],186pp; photo frontis. Jacket is crisp with... Read More
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![Au Siècle des Libertins et des Folles Marquises: Les Plus Belles Pages Galantes du XVIIIe Siècle [Collection "L'Art d'Aimer"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/519/662/1338662519.0.m.jpg)
Au Siècle des Libertins et des Folles Marquises: Les Plus Belles Pages Galantes du XVIIIe Siècle [Collection "L'Art d'Aimer"]
by Denis Diderot; et al.
Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, 1920. VG-. Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, ca. 1920. Octavo (23cm.); later maroon cloth, red gilt morocco spine label; viii,728,[16](ads)pp. Bottom margins of both covers discolored from exposure to damp, text block uniformly toned, else Good to Very Good overall. Anthology of 18th-century French erotic and romantic literature. Authors include Diderot, Laclos, Casanova, Molière, the Marquis... Read More
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The Port Folio (New Series) Vol I., No. I. through No. 26
by Oliver Oldschool [i.e. Joseph Dennie]
Philadelphia: Printed and Published (for the Editor) by John Watts, 1806. Very Good +. Philadelphia: Printed and Published (for the Editor) by John Watts, 1806. First Edition. Octavo. 416 pp. First twenty-six issues of the New (i.e. Second) series from the influential and popular Federalist periodical, featuring articles on politics of the day along with poetry and letters.... Read More
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Iznik: The Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics
by Walter B. Denny
London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Very Good+/Very Good. [London]: Thames & Hudson, [2004]. First U.K. Edition. Folio (34cm); publisher's cloth in glossy unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 239pp.; full color illus. Light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped, else Very Good or better.
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House That Jack Built
by W.W. Denslow
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, 1913. Very Good -. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., [ca. 1913?] Reprint. Octavo. [8 unnumbered pages, including covers.] Covor illustrations by Denslow; interior b&w illustrations by unknown artist. Linen wraps and pages. Wraps edgeworn and spotted. Gatherings loose, but still attached at bottom staple. Pages unmarked. Abridged reprint copy... Read More
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Dumb Instrument: Poems and Fragments [Limited Edition]
by Denton Welch; Jean-Louis Chevalier [ed.]
London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. Near Fine. London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. Limited First Edition of 660 copies, this being number 7 of 60 specially bound and numbered copies. Publisher's blue and white cloth with black lettering to spine; in clear acetate jacket. Printed on blue paper, with illustrated frontis on glossy white. Boards are clean and square. Binding is... Read More
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Pour la Revolution, Pour la Poesie
by Rene Depestre
Montreal: Lemeac / Collection Francophonie Vivante, 1974. Very Good-. [Montreal]: Lemeac / Collection Francophonie Vivante, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy decorative card wrappers; 225pp. Wrapper margins rubbed and curled, white portions toned, original price sticker to rear cover, textblock uniformly toned, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good example. Essay collection... Read More
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![Man Track Here: Poems [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/413/973/1652973413.0.m.jpg)
Man Track Here: Poems [Inscribed & Signed]
by August Derleth
Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1939. Good/Fair. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); 122pp. Ex-library, dust jacket and textblock margins significantly damp stained bleeding into early leaves, spine quite browned with top inch perished, light rubbing to cloth margins, endpapers quite toned and foxed; a Good copy in... Read More
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The Man on All Fours: A Judge Peck Mystery Story
by August W. Derleth
New York: Loring & Mussey, 1934. Very Good +. New York: Loring & Mussey, 1934. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, black spine titling; xii,[13],244,[8](ads)pp.; illus. Very slight spine lean with nudging at head and tail, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy of an early Derleth title, the second Judge Peck novel preceded by Murder Stalks... Read More
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Feasting, Feasting [Signed]
by Anita Desai
London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. First UK Edition. Octavo (22cm); 228pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with £14.99 price intact; boards bound in charcoal cloth with silver stamping to spine; emerald endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to bottom front and rear corners; otherwise clean. Boards show minor bumping to bottom... Read More
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