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    Dahl, Roald:  The Roald Dahl Treasury.  New York: Viking, (1997). First Editiion. Fine in illustrated, paper covered boards with red and blue text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 5/8 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. 444 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color drawings by a number of different artists.
    TB31521  $45.00



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    Dale, Paul W.:  Seventy North to Fifty South The Story of Captain Cook's Last Voyage.  Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in 1/4 dark blue and decorated white cloth covered boards with the gilt text stamping on the spine somewhat faded, light soiling to the white cloth covered boards, dust staining to the upper edge of the text block and with a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with a 1/8" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area which is tanned and with the panels lightly soiled. 370 pages including and index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with line drawings, maps, charts and steel engravings.
    TB23529  $30.00



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    Dale, T. Nelson, and Herbert E. Gregory:  The Granites Of Connecticut.  Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1911. . Very good+ in printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. Without a dust jacket as issued. Bulletin number 484 consisting of 137 pages including an index. Illustrated with a multi-color, fold- out map of Connecticut with granite types noted as well as smaller maps within the text and several plates of black and white photographic reproductions.
    TB28969  $35.00



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    Dalton, S. J.:  Still Life in Motion A Nurse's Notes.  Middletown: Self Published & Young's Printing, 2005. First Edition. Fine in illustrated paper wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. 71 pages of text and illustrated with strikingly sharp black and white photographs. A collection of 33 poems dedicated to nurses everywhere and based on the author's own experiences from 40 years as an LPN. This is the original and authorized first edition which remains in print. It should not be confused with the pirated edition published by the Llumina Press of Coral Springs, Florida which is little more than a poor quality imitation often seen at much higher prices. This copy is priced at the current list price suggested by the author/publisher.
    TB22519  $12.95



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    Dalziel, Margaret:  Popular Fiction 100 Years Ago An Unexplored Tract Of Literary History.  Philadelphia: Dufour Editions, 1958. First Edition. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with lightly tarnished gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket with several small chips from the upper edge of the spine area. A review copy which was sent to Time Magazine with a letter (enclosed within this copy) typed and signed by Paul J. Dufour and dated "11/19/56". 188 pages including an index.
    TB31659  $10.00



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    Damrosch, Leo:  Tocqueville's Discovery Of America.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2010). First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with what appears to be a printer's error on the title page which shows faint splotches of light gray ink in a narrow vertical line down the page resembling mouse tracks. This same error is repeated on the verso of page ix confirming a printer's error. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 277 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art and a map. Alexis De Tocqueville was most famous for his book Democracy in America which resulted from a nine month tour through the young United States during the years 1831 to 1832. The author brings to life Tocqueville's tour through Canada, the eastern parts of what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, the great lakes, the eastern most states and south down the Ohio to the Mississippi to New Orleans and back to New York City by way of stage coach through the south eastern states.
    TB25147  $25.00



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    Damselfly Design:  Sheffield - From Legend to Lighthouse.  Norwalk, Conn.: Norwalk Seaport Association, 1992. no edition stated. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding with a 1/4 blue cloth spine covering. A small quarto of 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 88 pages of typed text illustrated with a map and line drawings.
    TB33128  $20.00




  • Dana, Julian:  The Sacramento.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1939). Reprint. Very good+ in red cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and map end papers. The seventh volume in the Rivers of America Series. 294 pages including an index. Illustrated by John O'Hara Consgrave, II.
    TB16964  $63.00




  • Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.:  Two Years Before The Mast.  n.p.: Westvaco Corporation, 1992. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 cloth and decorated paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine, a gilt decoration on the front board, illustrated sheets, and a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine with three, minor and faint red marks on the front board. Without a dust jacket as issued; and, without its llustrated paper covered slip case. The Christmas 1992 issue by Westvaco which is the 35th volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. 370 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece and small sketches of wild life within the margins and chapter headings of the text.
    TB24898  $30.00




  • Daniel, Larry J.:  Shiloh The Battle That Changed the Civil War.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with a gift inscription on the first free end paper. In a fine dust jacket. Subtitled: The battle that changed the Civil War. 430 pages with index, text, maps with period photographs. As the jacket lacks a price this is possibly a book club edition.
    TB09192  $14.00




  • Daniel, John:  The Trail Home.  New York: Pantheon, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket. A new young writer and winner of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship award.
    TB01304  $10.50



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    Daniels, Bruce C.:  The Connecticut Town Growth and Development, 1635-1790.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, (1979). First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with faint rubbing to the corners of the spine and to the tips of the boards. In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with two faint spots of soiling to the front panel. 249 pages of text including an index, a note on sources, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps. The author traces the history of the development of towns and cities from "small Puritan villages to the well developed towns of post-Revolutionary years." (from the dust jacket).
    TB32946  $40.00



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    Darley, Stephen:  Voices Waiting To Be Heard Nineteen Eyewitness Accounts of Arnold's 1775 March to Quebec.  Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, (2021). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 343 pages including an index, bibliography, end notes and text. Illustrated with two maps, facsimiles of documentation, and earlier works of art. An extremely fine, collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32762  $35.00



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    Darley, Stephen:  Miles Goodyear The Adventures of the Only Connecticut Mountain Man In The Rocky Mountain West.  (Bloomington, Ind.): AuthorHouse, (2021). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with orange text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 196 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with images from earlier works of art and from black and white images from phtotographs.
    TB33119  $30.00




  • Darlington, David:  In Condor Country.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a very near fine dust jacket.
    TB02392  $10.50



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    Darom, David:  Custom Folding Knives.  Vercelli, Italy: White Star Publishers, 2006. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine and front board. A quarto of 11 by 8 5/8 inches with faint hints of rubbing on the lower edge of the spine. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with tiny nicks to the corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. 256 pages of text illustrated throughout with 400 color images from photographs. A lavishly illustrated book of custom folding knives by leading artists of all nations.
    TB32303  $100.00



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    Darom, David:  Custom Fixed Blade Knives.  Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2007. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine and front board. A quarto of 11 by 8 5/8 inches with the very top edge of the spine faded. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with tiny nicks to the corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. 276 pages of text illustrated on every page with color images from photographs. A lavishly illustrated book of custom fixed blade knives by 26 leading artists of all nations.
    TB32304  $60.00



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    Darwin, Charles:  On The Origin Of Species.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1978. A Limited Edition. Fine in full light green leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 6 inches containing 610 pages of text including an index. One of the volumes in The Franklin Press' collection of The Great Books Of The Western World. A beautiful, tight, clean and crisp copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB31779  $65.00



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    David, Robert Beebe:  Finn Burnett Frontiersman.  Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1937. First Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in red cloth covered boards with gilt text and rules on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with professionally repaired, 4" tear to the cloth over the front joint and to the front hinge and a repaired bump to the lower tip of the front board. The typical library markings appear the front paste down, table of contents and the rear paste down. Without a dust jacket, but protected in a clear acetate cover. One of only 1,000 copies printed. The title page goes on to read: "The Life and Adventures of an Indian fighter, mail coach driver, miner, pioneer cattleman, participant in the Powder River expedition, survivor of the Hay Field fight, associate of Jim Bridger and Chief Washakie". 378 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Burnett, and six plates from reproductions of contemporary works of art each protected with tissue guards. The first volumes in the Western Frontiersman Series. (Clark & Burnet, 64; Adams Rampaging Herd, 646)
    TB29839  $75.00



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    Davidson, Gordon Charles:  The North West Company.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918. First Edition. Near fine in its original dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches with minor hints of rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine. Without a dust jacket, but protected by a clear Mylar covering. This is volume VII of the University of California's Publications In History edited by H. Morse Stephens and Herbert E. Bolton. 349 pages including two indexes, appendices, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a fold-out map of the Principal Trading Stations of the North West Company and four fold-out maps. Considered by Wright Howes in his bibliography : U.S.Iana to be "quite scarce". An extremely handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Howes, D-90; Ewers p. 136)
    TB32885  $475.00



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    Davidson, Donald:  The Tennessee The Old River.  New York: Rinehart, (1946). First Edition. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with a gilt on a dark red title block and illustrated end sheets. A small quarto of 8 by 5 1/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with upper edge of the spine area rubbed of it colors to a depth of 3/16th of an inch and with moderate rubbing to the lower edge of the same. The 31st volume in the Rivers of America series with illustrations by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. 342 pages containing an index and bibliography. A very handsome, bright and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32963  $90.00



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    Davidson, Donald:  The Tennessee The New River: Civil War to TVA.  New York: Rinehart, (1948). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in rust colored cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine. An octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with illustrated end sheets. A nice clean, crisp copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with very shallow flecking of the colors at the upper and lower edges of the spine area and light soiling to the rear panel. The 34th volume in The Rivers of America Series with illustrations by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. 377 pages containing an index and bibliography.
    TB32964  $85.00



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    Davidson, Hower K.:  Black Jack Davidson A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier the life of General John W. Davidson.  Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 6 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 273 pages including an index, bibliography, chronology of Davidson's life and text. Illustrated with a fold-out map and photographs of historical documents. Volume number X in the Frontier Military Series by The Arthur H. Clark Company.
    TB24143  $32.00



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    Davis, Geroge:  A Historical Sketch Of Sturbridge And Southbridge.  West Brookfield, Mass.: Self-Published, 1856. First Edition, First printing. Fine in a recent 1/2 brown leather binding with dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine and decorative rules with marbled end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 5 1/2". The contents are generally clean with the exception of the title page and the last page of text which are both well worn and creased. The first page of the introduction is stamped "Forbes Library | Northampton, Mass." with a small "withdrawn" stamp in red on the first page of the text. 233 pages of text. Laid-in at the rear of the book are two extra spine labels. (Sabin, 18820; Mass: A Bibliography, 2730)
    TB24247  $200.00



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    Davis, Matthew L.:  Memoirs Of Aaron Burr With Miscellaneous Selections From His Correspondence.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume, complete set are in very good condition in their original, light brown cloth covered boards with printed, paper labels on the spines. Both are octavos of 8 5/8 by 5 3/8 inches with the cloth backstrips very slightly faded, an early prior owner's name is on the front paste down of volume I and the cloth at the heels of the spines is heavily worn with several short closed tears. The lower half of the paper title on the spine for volume II is badly chipped. Volume I contains 436 pages and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Burr from an engraving and a facsimile of a lette: "Gen. Mongomery's Answer to James Duane" Volume II contains 449 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Burr's wife, Theodosia.from an engraving. (Howes, D-126; Sabin, 18864)
    TB32883  $175.00



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    Davis, Charles Henry Stanley:  History of Wallingford, Conn. from It's Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time, Including Meriden, Which Was One of the Parishes until 1806 and Cheshire, Which Was Incorporated in 1780.  Meriden, Conn.: Self Published, 1870. First Edition. Fine, recently rebound in full light brown leather covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 5 3/4 inches with marbled end sheets. The hinges and joints are tight and strong with no damage to the text block and with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Without a dust jacket. 953 pages including two indexes and three pages of errata. Illustrated with a portrait of the author and numerous illustrations from wood engravings, steel plates and lithographs.
    TB33262  $175.00



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    Davis, Paul Preston:  Howard Pyle His Life - His Work.  New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spines. Each is a quarto of 12 by 9 inches. Both are in fine dust jackets without price clipped flap corners (no prices anyway). Volume I contains 400 pages of text and is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Pyle. Volume II contains pages 401 to 872 and is illustrated throughout with small images of Pyle's huge collection of over 3,300 works of art. The title continues with: "A Comprehensive Bibliography and Pictorial Record of Howard Pyle: Illustrator, Author, Teacher. Father of American Illustration America's Foremost Illustrator." The preface is by Stephen T. Bruni, Executive Director, Delaware Art Museum and there is a foreword by Howard Pyle Brokaw.
    TB30927  $160.00



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    Davis, Charles G.:  The Built-Up Ship Model.  Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1933. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine with a prior owner's name neatly written at the upper edge of the first free end page. A very tight, clean and attractive copy in a a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with heavy rubbing to the folds to the flaps. The fold to the front flap has a 4" long closed tear as a result and there is wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the upper edge of the front panel. 206 pages containing an index, text with many line drawings through-out o provide a very detailed reference scource for rigging and on-deck features. Plans are included for the construction of a plank on frame, 16-gun brig within the text. The twenty-fifth volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.
    TB22638  $75.00



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    Davis, Julia:  The Shenandoah.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1945). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and illustrated end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with minor fading of the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and over the tips of the boards. The 28th volume in the Rivers of America Series with illustrations by Frederic Taubes. 374 pages including an index and bibliography. A very handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings.
    TB32965  $75.00



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    Davis, Britton:  The Truth about Geronimo.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1951. First thus. Near fine red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board and with gilt to the top edge of the text block. The gilt text and decorations are bright and clean on the spine and front board although the gilt text stamping for 'The Lakeside Press' at the lower portion of the spine is somewhat dulled. Without a dust jacket as issued. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1951. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Originally published in 1929 by the Yale University Press. 380 pages with index, text and some illustrations. A bright clean and tight volume with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31357  $40.00




  • Davis, Charles G.:  The Ship Model Builder's Assistant.  Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1926. First Edition, First printing. Good- in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The cloth on the spine is well faded and rubbed at the extremes. The front and rear hinges are cracked and the binding is shaken. Without its issued dust jacket . 275 pages containing an index, appendices, text and drawings throughout to provide a very detailed reference source for rigging and on-deck features. The twelfth volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.
    TB22559  $30.00




  • Davis, Charles G.:  Ships of the Past.  New York: Bonanza Books, circa 1977. First Bonanza Book Reprint. Fine in 1/4 gray cloth and paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with only minor rubbing at the fore corners of the panels. 170 pages including an index, appendices, text, line drawings, photographs with deck and rigging details.
    TB15341  $10.00



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    Dayton, Fred Erving:  Steamboat Days.  New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925. First Edition, First printing. Very good- in dark blue, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and lightly worn at the corners as is the same at the lower tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. 436 pages of text illustrated throughout with a color frontispiece and line art by John Wolcott Adams. Per Albion, this title is a "Delightful general survey of American steamboating." (Albion, p. 37)
    TB22549  $25.00



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    De Bernieres, Louis:  Corelli's Mandolin.  New York: Pantheon Books, (1994). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gold text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 437 pages of text. In 1995 it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. This title was adapted into a movie in 1994 where it was set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Italian, Nazi and Communist occupation during the Second World War. It starred Nicolas Cage, John Hurt and Penélope Cruz.
    TB30935  $35.00




  • de Castaneda of Nejera, Pedro:  Narrative Of The Coronado Expedition.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2002. First by the Lakeside Press. Fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine and on the front board and with a gilt top edge to the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is the "Centennial Edition" of the Lakeside Classics which commemorates the 138th year of the Lakeside Press and the 100th anniversary of the start of the Lakeside Classics. This is the first volume published by the Lakeside Press as a dual-language edition. It is printed in the author's native language, Spanish on the verso of the pages and on the recto of the pages the text is printed in English. The publisher's preface also contains a unique review of the first one hundred years of the Lakeside Classics to include two full color pages showing the different bindings used for each of the four series produced to date. A long anticipated and most welcome note appears in this preface with the statement that the publisher's are looking forward to the start of the fifth series with the publication of the 101st title in 2003. This is a first person narrative of the Corondado expedition of 1540 to 1542 through what are now the Spanish and American States of Sinaloa, Sonora, Jaja, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. 421 pages including and index and illustrated with a two page color frontispiece, 12 color plates, two color maps and several black and white illustrations.
    TB33020  $20.00



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    de Crevecoeur, J. Hector:  Letters from an American Farmer.  n.p.: Westvaco Corporation, 1976. LimitedEdition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained with-in a near fine illustrated paper covered slip case with a dime sized spot on one panel. Attached to the front paste down is a presentation card signed by an officer of Westvaco with a prior owner's name written out on the slip. Originally published in 1782 in England and republished 11 years later in Philadelphia. The Christmas 1976 issue by Westvaco which is the 19th volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. 272 pages of text.
    TB23681  $35.00



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    De Foe, Daniel:  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.  London: Willoughby & Co., n.d.. Reprint. Fine recently rebound in 3/4 red morocco with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments. The balance of the board covering is marbled paper enhanced with blind embossed borders on the leather This copy is undated and we can only guess that it was printed in the mid-1800's. Without a dust jacket. 486 pages of text. "Embellished by Three hundred engravings after designs by J. J. Grandville." With 38 listed plates and numerous vignettes. Missing from this copy if the plate facing page 342.
    TB33261  $150.00




  • de Hauranne, Ernest Duvergi:  A Frenchman in Lincoln's America (Vol. I).  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1974. First thus. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and front board with a gilt top edge to the text block. The gilt on the spine is slightly darkened with tarnish and there is faint spotting by foxing to the end sheets and fore edge of the text block. The Lakeside Classic release of 1974. The first English publication of the Journal and letters of the author's eight month travels through the US at the start of the Civil War. 525 pages including an index followed by a list of previous titles published in the series.
    TB26511  $20.00



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    de Kay, James Tertius:  The Battle of Stonington Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990. First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of almost 9 inches by 5 7/8 inches. In a near fine dust jacket with no price clipping with a 1/4" long closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel which is barely visible. (Note: first printings of books published by the Naval Institute Press have no price on the dust jacket flap. Reprints do however.) 216 pages including an index, list of sources, appendices, text with photographs, illustrations and maps.
    TB29218  $30.00



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    De Kay, James Tertius:  A Rage for Glory The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN.  New York: Free Press, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and tan paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 237 pages including an index and a section on notes and comments. Due initially to his daring feat of bravery during the Barbary Wars, Stephen Decatur (1799-1820) was one of the most popular and well respected naval commanders in America. He added to his fame with several naval victories during the War of 1812. His unfortunate death in 1820, a result of a duel with another naval commander, occurred near the height of his career with the then fledging Navy.
    TB29302  $20.00



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    de Maupassant, Guy:  The Tales of Guy De Maupassant.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1977. Collector's Edition. Near fine in full bright red leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/2" containing 472 pages of text. Some of the gilt filled tool work on the front board has deteriorated and is missing. Based on the translations of Lafacadio Hearn and others. Illustrated with drawings by Gunter Bohmer and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Other than the missing gilt on the front board, this is a very handsome, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB23379  $50.00



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    de Tocqueville, Alexis:  Democracy In America.  n. p. (no city stated): Westvaco, 1999. Limited Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a stamped gilt Fleur-de-les on the front and rear boards and with a red silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. The rear board has two rents to the cloth of about 1/3" each. Without a dust jacket as issued; however in a fine paper covered slip case with bumps to the enclosed corners. Laid-in is a special presentation card from several Westvaco employees to the prior owner. 297 pages of text. The Westvaco Christmas release of 1999 which is the 42nd volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series.
    TB24214  $35.00



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    de Trobraind, Philippe Regis:  Army Life in Dakota.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1941. First thus. Fne in decorated red cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge. The gilt text of the title and decorations on the spine and front board are bright and untarnished. The Lakeside Classic release of 1941. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife and translated from The French by George Francis Will. A narrative which takes place in the 1860's in the Upper Missouri area. 387 pages including an index, text and illustrations.
    TB32905  $50.00




  • DeArment, Robert K.:  Alias Frank Canton.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Paperback reprint. Fine in heavy, illustrated paper wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated with maps drawn by Rosemary DeArment Walter. 402 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes. The biography of one of the most famous and colorful lawmen of the old-west.
    TB21434  $25.00



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    Decker with Margaret A. Harris, Robert Owen:  Cromwell Connecticut 1650-1990 The History of a River Port Town.  West Kennebunck, Maine: Phoenix Publishing, (1991). First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and light green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping and decorations on the spine and front board and with printed end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. One of only 1,500 copies printed. 523 pages including an index, illustration credits, appendices and chapter notes and text. Illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art, photographs and maps.
    TB27150  $40.00



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    DeConde, Alexander:  The Quasi-War The Politics & Diplomacy of the Undeclared War With France 1797-01.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in red-orange cloth covered boards with gilt on a black title block on the spine and the author's name in gilt on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with soiling to the upper and lower edges of the boards and with faint foxing to the fore edge of the text block. There is a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the first free end page. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with the spine area faded and a dark bleed through mark from the adhesive from the attached Brodart dust jacket protector. 498 pages containing an index, chapter notes, text and illustrated with reproductions of contemporary art work and map end papers.
    TB32876  $45.00




  • Degler, Carl N.:  The Other South Southern Dissenters in The Nineteenth Century.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in gray cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. 392 pages of text including an index.
    TB22306  $18.00



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    Deighton, Len:  An Expensive Place To Die.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine with a blind, embossed prior owner's stamp on the title page. In a very near fine but price clipped dust jacket with mild fading to the spine area and with hints of rubbing to the edges of the panels. 254 pages of text without the secret dossier which was laid-in.
    TB20051  $100.00




  • deKay, James Tertius:  Monitor The Story of The Legendary Civil War Ironclad.  New York: Walker and Company, 1997. First Edition, First printing. Fine in brown paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a modest bump at the heel of the spine. In a near fine dust jacket due to a price clipped front flap. The full title reads: "Monitor The story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History." 247 pages including an index.
    TB14416  $7.00



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    Delafield, John, Jr.:  An Inquiry Into The Origin Of the Antiquities Of America With an Appendix, containing Notes, and A View Of The Causes of The Superiority Of The Men Of The Northern Over Those of The Southern Hemisphere by James Lakey, M.D..  New York: J. C. Colt, 1839. First Edition, First printing. Good in the publisher's original dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text and a decoration on the front board. The edges of the text block are gilt. A quarto measuring 11 1/4" by 9 1/2" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn through, as is the same at the tips of the boards. The end sheets are soiled from materials having been laid in and the pages at the beginning and end of the text block show ample foxing. The lower corner of the rear half of the text block shows a dampness stain which is restricted to the lower margins. 142 pagesof text including the lengthy appendix by Lakey. Illustrated with ten plates, five of which are hand colored. The seldom seen folding frontispiece is missing. Considered "mildly scarce" by Howes. (Howes, D226)
    TB24552  $250.00



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    Delehanty, Elizabeth:  Arise From Sleep.  New York: The Viking Press, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in red-orange cloth covered boards with bold black text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the first free end page and with mild foxing near the hinge areas of the fixed end sheets which is a reaction to the glues used in binding. In a very good+, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a 1/2 chip from the upper corner of the rear panel extending on to the upper corner of the spine area. The author's first novel. 216 pages of text.
    TB31542  $40.00



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    DeLuca, Dan W.:  The Old Leather Man Historical Accounts Of A Connecticut And New York Legend.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. Fifth Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and light gray paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 144 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions, maps and facsimile reproductions of contemporary news articles. Annotated by Dione Longley.
    TB33130  $30.00



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    Demers, Ronald F.:  Modernization In A New England Town A History Of Willington, Connecticut.  Willington, Conn.: Willington Historical Society, (1983). First Edition. Near fine in white cloth covered boards with gray text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with spots of foxing on the spine and on the edges of the boards probably caused by the glues used in binding. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 431 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece map of the town from a photograph and images throughout also from black and white photographs.
    TB33012  $40.00



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    DeMille, Nelson:  Night Fall.  New York: Warner Books, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 dark blue paper and medium blue paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine with map end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 488 pages of text.
    TB26364  $10.00



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    Deming, Dorothy:  The Settlement of the Connecticut Towns.  New Haven: Yale University Press for The Tercentenary Commission, 1933. . Near fine in light blue, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's name written at the top edge of the front cover. 75 pages of text followed by a fold-out map of the State of Connecticut. An errata sheet is tipped-in at the first page of text.
    TB29474  $20.00



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    Deming, Wilbur Stone:  The First Church Of Fairfield.  Bridgeport, Conn.: Cutting & Woods, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket. 136 pages including a summary of dates, an index and text. Illustrated with line drawings and images from photographs. From the title page: "Being a brief account of three hundred and twenty three hundred years in the First Church, Congregational, of Fairfield, Connecticut"
    TB30850  $12.00




  • Demmin, Auguste:  An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.  London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in a recently rebound tan cloth binding over boards with a brown leather spine label with gilt text. The text block has been recently sewn to replace the original double stapled binding. The pages of the text block are very slightly tanned at the edges and exhibit quite a few notations, check marks and numbers in the margins of the pages in pencil. A small 12mo measuring 7 3/8" tall by 5" deep overall containing 595 pages including an index which is followed by a number of pages of advertisements from the publisher. This volume is illustrated with over 2,000 sketches providing the reader with some of the most bizarre looking early weapons and contraptions employed in war.
    TB19039  $175.00



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    Demos, John:  An Unredeemed Captive A Family Story From Early America.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 red-orange cloth and tan paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 316 pages including an index, chapter footnotes and illustrated with maps. The story of the tragic sacking and burning of the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1708.
    TB21568  $20.00




  • Dempsey, Hugh A.:  Red Crow, Warrior Chief.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. First Edition. Fine in brownish cloth covered boards with bold black text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with minor faint foxing marks on the fore and lower edge of the text block. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 247 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and maps.
    TB00297  $20.00



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    Denton, Daniel:  A Brief Description of New York Formerly Called New-Netherland.  No city stated: Westvaco, 1973. Limited Edition. Fine in embossed black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, a blind embossed 1670 on the front board and decorated end sheets. With a prior owner's name and date written on the second free end page. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a near fine, decorated paper covered slip case. Originally published in 1670 in England based on the author's narrative of his settlement in Jamaica, Queens in 1644. The 16th volume in Westvaco's American Classic series.
    TB23468  $40.00




  • DePaola, Tomie:  The Night of Las Posadas.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1999). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in illustrated, paper covered boards with yellow and orange text on the spine and yellow and red text with a color illustration on the front and rear boards. A small quarto of 11 by 8 1/2 inches. In a fin, unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed on the title page and inscribed "For Carol" by the author and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated, but containing 32 pages of text and full color illustrations by the author.
    TB33456  $50.00




  • Derr, Mark:  The Frontiersman.  New York: William Morrow & Co., 1993. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine area. In a fine jacket with light rubbing at the fold to the front flap and very light rubbing to the rear panel. Sub-titled: The Real Life and the Many legends of Davy Crockett.
    TB06424  $10.50




  • Desmond, Alice Curtis:  George Washington's Mother.  New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. With a signed typed and inscribed letter from the author and her husband pasted to the front end paper making this a presentation copy of the book. 235 pages including an index.
    TB19474  $35.00




  • DeVries, Leonard:  Little Wide-Awake.  Cleveland: The World Publ. Co., 1967. First Edition, First printing. Fine in gilt decorated green cloth covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/4" chip at the upper edge of the spine area which is hardly noticable. An anthologhy of Victorian Children's Books and Periodicals.
    TB09966  $17.50



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    Dexter, Frankliln Bowditch:  Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of Christ In New Haven, Connecticut (Center Church) A.D. 1639-1914.  New Haven: Self-publilshed, 1914. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 6". Without a dust jacket. 469 pages including an index to the names of the 4,902 records listed in this book.
    TB25897  $125.00




  • Dexter, Pete:  Paris Trout.  New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and decorated paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award for 1988 and a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
    TB05285  $31.50



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    Diat, Louis:  Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook Techniques of French Cuisine.  New York: Gourmet Distributing Corporation, (1962). Second Printing of June, 1962. Very good+ in blue patterned cloth covered boards with three gilt title blocks on the spine and a gilt decoration on the front board. A small quarto of 9 3/4 by 7 inches with very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine Without its issued dust jacket. 654 pages followed by an 18 page index. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author from a photograph and illustrations by Georgette De Lattre and several color plates from photographs.
    TB31411  $25.00



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    Dibner, Bern:  The Atlantic Cable.  Norwalk, Conn.: Burndy Library, 1959. First Edition. Very good+ in heavy printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4 by 8 1/4 inches with light wear at the folds to the spine. Without a dust jacket. 95 pages including a bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with engravings and reproductions of earlier works of art and a fold-out map.
    TB28671  $20.00




  • Dick, Everett:  Vanguards Of The Frontier A Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker.  New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1941. First Edition. Very good+ in charcoal gray cloth covered boards with black text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. The decorated map end papers are tanned at the hinge areas and there is a prior owner's name on the verso of the first free end paper. In a very good- dust jacket with chipping at the upper corners of the spine area and rubbing and wear at the lower edge of the spine area and with a 1" deep chip at the upper edge of the rear panel. 574 pages consisting of an index, bibliography, text and illustrated with reproductions of art work contemporary to the period. This history of the western frontier starts with the mountain men and fur companies who first explored the area, then moves on to the military installations, Indian agents, missionaries, and miners who first settled in the area.
    TB17115  $40.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  A Tale Of Two Cities.  London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. First Edition, First Issue. Professionally re-backed preserving much of the original back strip and the blind embossed, red cloth covered boards with new end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Overall in very good plus condition with slight foxing to the engraved title pages. Page 243/244 has a 1 1/2" closed tear at the lower edge which has been repaired. The plate facing page 72 has been professionally reattached; however, its extreme lower edge is soiled. The top edge of the text block is soiled. 254 pages of text followed by the publisher's Catalogue of Books 32 pages dated November, 1859. With 14 plates and the frontispiece and the vignette titlepage by H. K. Browne ['Phiz']. The list of plates shows the signature letter "b", the page number error on 213 is present as is the misspelling of "affectionately" on page 134, line 12, all of which evidence this copy as a first issue. (Eckel p.86, Podeschi, A143; Smith 13)
    TB29375  $5000.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  Master Humphrey's Clock.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1840 and 1841. First Editions. This complete set of three volumes are all in very good+ conditions and bound in their original, ribbed, brown cloth, blind stamped bindings with gilt text and elaborate gilt designs on the spine and with a gilt decorations on each of the front boards in the form of clocks with the hands on each volume pointing to the appropriate volume number. Each volume is a small quarto of 10 1/8 by 6 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the cloth and the heads and heels of the spines and with the cloth worn through on the tips of the boards. Volume II has a small 1/8 by a 1 inch long chip to the cloth at the rear edge of the spine in the title block which barely impacts on the gilt title. The title pages for each volume show a small, oval 1.5 inch wide auctioneer's stamp to the right of the author's name. Save for a few printer's ink stains in the margins and minor foxing to the preliminaries the contents are quite clean and free of much tanning or foxing. The hinges and joints remain tight and storng. None of the three volumes are in dust jackets and presumably as issued. Volume I contains 306 pages of text and is illustrated with a frontispiece and vignettes throughout from wood engravings by George Cattermiole and Hablot Browne ("Phiz"). Volume II is dated 1841 as called for and contains 306 pages and is illustrated as above. Volume III is also dated 1841 and contains 426 pages and is illustrated as above. (Smith: Charles Dickesn in the Original Cloth, 6; Gimbel/Podeschi, A51; Eckel p.69)
    TB32243  $1000.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First Edition in book form. Very good+ in elaborate full leather (calf) covered boards with gilt borders on the front and rear boards, five raised bands on the spine with red morocco, title labels with gilt text in two of the compartments with gilt tool work in the others. The end sheets are marbled with gilt inner dentelles that have offset to the edges of the first and last free end pages. The top edge of the text block is gilt. The binding is by Ramage of London as can be seen by that firm's gilt embossed line on the front paste down just above the dentelle. There is a small prior owner's book plate on the front pastedown, the same name with an address is stamped on the first free end page and the name appears again in ink on the second free end page. While the hinges are tight and sound the joints are rubbed; and have startied. An octavo measuring 8 3/16" tall by 5 1/4" containing 624 pages of text. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). This is a mixed state first edition with the transposed pound sign on the sign-post on the vignette title page; but, with the second issue, fourteen-line errata page. (Gimbel/Podeschi, A72; Smith, 65-67; Eckel, p83)
    TB22114  $675.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  Dealings With The Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.  London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First Edition in book form. Very near fine in in a late 19th century binding of 3/4 pebbled, black leather covered boards over marbled paper with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments, marbled end pages and the top edge of the text block is gilt. There is a minor area of 1/2" by 1/8" at the upper edge of the spine area where the leather is rubbed and the paper edge at the lower edges of the boards is rubbed through in one small area. The hinges are tight and strong. An octavo measuring 8 9/16" tall by 5 1/2" deep containing 624 pages. Tipped-in at the second free end page (and before the fly title page) is the front wrapper from #3 of the original part. Illustrated with 38 engraved plates and a frontispiece by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). An eight line errata page follows the list of illustrations. The word "Captain” is spelled correctly on the last line of page 324. (Eckel, p74)
    TB20035  $600.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.  Philadlphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. . Very good+ in gray-green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with tanning to the cloth on the spine and around the edges of the boards with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with the last three pages of the text showing a faint water mark at the upper margins with no impact on the illustrations. Without a dust jacket. Unpaginated. The volume is a collection of the illustrated plates by "Phiz" collected from Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and redrawn by Yeager. 39 engraved plates (separated with tissue guards) including the frontispiece portrait of Dickens of 40 listed in the contents. Printed by T. K. and P. G. Collins and stereotyped by J. Fagan. (Gimbel, A43
    TB26297  $125.00



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    Dickens, Charles:  Master Humphrey's Clock and A Child's History Of England.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. The Oxford Illustrated Dickens. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 4 5/8 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 529 pages of text and with 29 illustrations by George Cattermole "Phiz", Marcus Stone and F. W. Topham. One of the volumes in the publisher's collection of 21 Dicken's works.
    TB31300  $15.00




  • Dickey, James:  Tucky The Hunter.  New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in emerald green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with two closed tears on the front and rear panels of the jacket and the spine area a bit tanned. Illustrated with full color paintings by Marie Angel. Unpaginated but containing approximately 30 pages of text and illustrations.
    TB16803  $10.50




  • Dierks, Jack Cameron:  A Leap to Arms: The Cuban Campaign of 1898.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott Co., 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping and decorations to the spine area. In a near fine dust jacket with a price clipped flap with the verso of the spine area dampstained but with no damage to the recto (outside) with a tiny (1/32") chip to the top edge of the spine area. The author recreates the events which lead up to "the splendid little war" and it conclusion in just three months.
    TB06887  $17.50



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    Dietz, Arthur Arnold:  Mad Rush For Gold In Frozen North.  Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Priting and Binding House, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Very good in the publisher's original, decorated light blue cloth covered boards with the remnants of bold gilt text stamping on the spine and red, white and gilt text and decorations on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4" by 5 1/4" with a prior owner's name faintly written on the first free end page. The cloth at the head and heel of the cloth are rubbed and worn as is the upper edge of the front board. Simply signed by the author - "Arthur A. Dietz | 1916" on the first free end page. 281 pages illustrated with line drawings from photographs by W. A. Sharp.
    TB26701  $200.00



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    Dietz, Lew:  The Allagash.  New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in green cloth covered boards with a very slight roll to the spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with the spine area well tanned and with evidence of insect predation to the same and mild hand soiling to the panels. The 58th volume in The Rivers of America Series. 264 pages including an index, bibliography and chapter notes. With illustrations by George Loh.
    TB32918  $75.00




  • Dillard, Annie:  Encounters with Chinese Writers.  Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1984. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and front board. In a near fine dust jacket due to a price clipped jacket flap and a tiny nick at the upper corner of the front panel. This Pulitzer Prize winner for her earlier book: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, writes of many strange encounters between Chinese writers and American writers in both the US and in China.
    TB07279  $25.00




  • Dillard, Annie:  The Living.  New York: Harper Collins Pub, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket.
    TB01869  $14.00




  • Dillard, Annie:  Mornings Like This.  New York: HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. A collection of 39 poems. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for her earlier title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. 75 pages of text.
    TB17031  $12.00




  • Dillard, Annie:  The Annie Dillard Reader.  New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Near fine, remaineder mark on bottom egdes, else fine. In a fine dust jacket.
    TB02541  $9.80




  • Dillard, Annie:  An American Childhood.  New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket.
    TB00700  $7.00




  • Dillon, Patrick:  Lost at Sea An American Tragedy.  New York: The Dial Press, 1998. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black and charcoal grey paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact but with a 1/4" mark of wear at the lower corner of the spine area at the fold to the front panel. The prize winning journalist investigates the disasterous loss of two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels in the Bering Sea during the early weeks of February, 1983.
    TB11519  $17.50




  • Dimsdale, Prof. Thomas J.:  The Vigilantes of Montana.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Pr, 1953. First Edition. VG+ in decorated paper covered boards with a red and gilt text block on the spine with rubbing to the heel of the spine. In a very good- dust jacket with some rubbing and flecking to the extremes & a 1/4" chip to the upper corner of the spine area with the price intact. The 1st volume in The Western Frontier Library series by the University of Oklahoma Press. The book's sub-title reads: "being a correct & impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture & execution of Herny Plummer's Nortorious Road Agent Band".
    TB05143  $60.00



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    Dinesen, Isak:  Seven Gothic Tales.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. Fine in full, dark green leather covered boards with two raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt decorations on both boards. The end sheets are silk, there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine and all edges of the text block are gilt. 446 pages of text. With illustrations by Bernard D'Andrea. A collection of seven short stories by the author of Out of Africa. One of the volumes from The Franklin Library's collection of The Collected Stories of The World's Greatest Writers. A beautiful, clean and tight volume with no prior owner's marks, dates, names or book plates.
    TB25833  $65.00



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    Dinesen, Isak:  Daguerreotypes and Other Essays.  London: Heinemann, (1979). First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 15/16 by 5 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with 1/3" deep closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel and light wear and a 1/4 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. With translations by P. M Mitchell and W. D. Paden and with a foreword by Hannah Arendt. 229 pages including notes. A collection of seven essays.
    TB29066  $25.00



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    Dippie, Brian W.:  'Paper Talk' Charlie Russell's American West.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated simulated leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring just less than 9 by 6 7/8 inches. In a very near fine dust jacket with modest flecking of the color to the spine ends. Published in coperation with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, this is a collection of Charles Russell's illustrated letters, poems, Christmas greetings (what he called "paper talk") and some of his paintings. 224 pages.
    TB08062  $20.00



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    Disney, Walt, and Jean Ayer:  Donald Duck And HIs Friends.  Boston: D. C. Heath And Company, (1939). First Edition. Very good+ in printed tan cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and colored illustrations on the front and rear board with printed end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/16 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine turned inward, the front and rear boards are lightly scuffed and the spine is lightly soiled. Without a dust jacket. 102 pages of text "told by Jean Ayer" and illustrated throughout with color images created by The Walt Disney Studio. One of the Walt Disney Story Books. A very clean and collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32536  $80.00




  • Dobie, J. Frank:  Wild and Wily: Range Animals.  Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1980. First Edition, First printing. Fine in orange paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. A collection of six animal folklore tales from the west. The rear section of the book is devoted to a checklist of major writings by Dobie.
    TB07073  $31.50




  • Dockstader, Frederick J.:  Indian Art in America The Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian.  New York: Promontory Press, 1972. . Near fine in yellow paper covered boards with gray stamping on the spine and front board. There is a prior owner's book plate on the first free end paper. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap but with light wear and rubbing to the upper edge of the front and rear panels. 224 pages including a bibliography and illustrated throughout with 180 black and white photographs and with 69 color plates.
    TB16823  $10.00




  • Doctorow, E. L.:  The Waterworks.  New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03745  $7.35



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    Dodd, Stephen:  The East-Haven Register In Three Parts.  New Haven: A. H. Maltby & Co., 1824. First Edition, First printing. Fair to good in full leather covered boards with the front joint broken but the front joint and text block reasonably strong and in place. The majority of the text block shows dampness staining across the upper 2/3rds of most of the pages yet the printing on each page remains easily read. There are two early prior owner's names in ink on the first free end page. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8" tall by 4 1/8" deep containing 200 pages of text. The information contained in the parts of the book include: Part I. Containing a history of the town of East-Haven, from its first settlement in 1644, the year 1800. Also, an account of its boundaries, iron-works and mills, division of lands, controversies with New-Haven, and Branford, town charters, ecclesiastisal affairs, schools, population and taxes, losses by war, natural history and curiosities, roads and public lands. Part II. Containing an account of the names, marriages, and births, of the families which first settled , or which have resided in East-Haven, form its settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Part III. Containing an account of the deaths in the families names in the second part, from the year 1647 to the end of the year 1823. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce" and Sabin calls it "An extremely rare local history." (Howes D-387; Sabin 20485; Armstrong: Connecticut A Bibliography of its History; 3321)
    TB22311  $200.00



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    Dodd, Anna Bowman:  Talleyrand The Training of a Statesman 1754-1838.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Very near fine in 3/4 leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in two of the compartments specially bound by the publisher. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/8 inches with touches of rubbing to the leather over the raised bands and to the tips of the boards. The contents are fine with no evidence of foxing or tanning. 529 pages including an index, bibliography, addenda and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Talleyrand from an engraving of a portrait "supposed to be by Prud'hon" 3 facsimiles and 37 plates (3 in color) the color plates are protected with tissue guards. A handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33415  $150.00



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    Doerr, Anthony:  Cloud Cuckoo Land.  New York: Scribner, (2021). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and blue paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or a date. 626 pages of text. The author's third novel. The author of All The Light We Cannot See which was the Pulitzer Prize winner of 2015 for fiction.
    TB32075  $55.00



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    Doig, Ivan:  English Creek (Uncorrected Proof Copy).  New York: Atheneum, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in heavy, printed, orange paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. Laid-in at the front of the book is a letter from the publisher to the late Charles Kuralt which promotes Doig as a great western writer and urges Kuralt to read this "galley" and write a review. The first of a trilogy written which deals with the early settlers of the Montana frontier. Reading this trilogy one should start with Doig's Dancing At The Rascal Fair. 301 pages numbered in hand in the margins. A very handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Uncommon.
    TB29314  $125.00



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    Doig, Ivan:  This House of Sky.  New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, 1978. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 green cloth and paper covered boards with minor dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a near fine jacket with the price clipped from the front flap with a mild stain at the upper corner of the front panel which is no bigger than 3/4". Doig's most important work for which it was a nominee for the National Book Award and won the Christopher Award. A autobiographical account of the author's early life growing up in Montana.
    TB17531  $100.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Inside This House of Sky.  New York: Atheneum, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in decorated lime green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap and with moderate wear at the corners. Photographs by Duncan Kelso. A book of 110 +/- un-numbered pages which forms a photographic companion piece to the author's award winning book This House of Sky. Very uncommon.
    TB11964  $90.00



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    Doig, Ivan:  The Sea Runners.  New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with a yellow stained top edge. The fore and bottom edges of the text block show spots of minor foxing a result of acid in the paper oxidizing. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Ivan Doig's scarcest book. A novel set in the mid-1800's when four Scandinavian indentured servants escape from what is now Sitka and their Russian masters to travel 1,200 miles down the raw Pacific coast to what is now the coast of Oregon. 279 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece map.
    TB13587  $75.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Bucking the Sun (Signed).  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. A novel set in Montana during the Great Depression.
    TB03273  $45.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Ride with Me, Mariah Montana.  New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
    TB01888  $40.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Bucking the Sun.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Set in Montana during the Great Depression.
    TB03244  $24.50




  • Doig, Ivan:  Mountain Time.  New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. An advance reading copy with materials by the publisher laid-in.
    TB11039  $21.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Heart Earth.  New York: Atheneum, 1993. First Edition. Fine, Fine, With Heart Earth Ivan Doig continues his memoir of This House of Sky tracing his family's move from Arizona to Montana.
    TB01672  $20.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Bucking the Sun (Advance Reading Copy).  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. ARC. Near fine with two tiny nicks a the ends of the spine area. An advance reading copy issued in wraps without a dust jacket. An advance reading copy. A novel set in Montana during the Great Depression.
    TB03868  $20.00




  • Doig, Ivan:  Ride with Me, Mariah Montana.  New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB01989  $12.25



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    Dole, Esther Mohr:  Maryland During The American Revolution.  No Place Stated: No Publisher Stated, 1941. First Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in its original blue cloth covered boards with very faded and tarnished gilt text on the spine and with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head of the spine and with moderate wear and rubbing to the heel of the spine and with a prior owners name and location written at the upper edge of the front paste down and a pocket on the rear free end page. Lacking a dust jacket. Signed by the author without an inscription or date on the fly title page. 294 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography and text. Illustrated with line drawings as chapter headings by George B. Keester, Jr. (Gephart, 2129)
    TB32606  $80.00



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    Dolin, Eric Jay:  Rebels at Sea Privateering in the American Revolution.  New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (2022). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 302 pages including an index, chapter notes, illustration credits and text. Illustrated throughout with images from earlier works of art and an 8 page section of images in color.
    TB33095  $35.00




  • Donachie, David:  On A Making Tide.  London: Orion Publishing Group, 2000. First Edition. Fine in bright blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Historical fiction which is an "epic novel of Horatio Nelson and Emma" Hamilton that follows their lives from 1771 to the battle of the Nile in 1798 when Nelson and Emma's affair ignites. Vol. 2 will continue the narrative. Only 1,500 copies of the 1st printed.
    TB13679  $32.50




  • Donahey, William:  Teenie Weenie Neighbors.  New York: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 1945. First Edition, First printing. Good in light gray cloth covered boards with bold blue text on the spine and a line drawing on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and there are stains and rubbing around the outside edges of the boards. The front hinge is starting and the rear hinge is cracked but has been professionally repaired. Without its issued dust jacket. 68 pages containing numerous line drawings and four full color plates with color pictorial end sheets.
    TB22493  $75.00




  • Donleavy, J. P.:  The Ginger Man.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Fine in full dark green leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are marbled with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 5 1/4" containing 386 pages of text. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page. Laid-in is a brochure from the publisher containing the notes from the editors. One of The Franklin Library's volumes in their collection of Signed Limited Editions. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB23906  $65.00




  • Donnelley, Gaylord:  To Be A Good Printer Our Four Commitments.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition, First printing. Very good in two tone brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text stamping on the front board. The top edge of the text block has been stained with coffee which has caused a dampness stain across the upper 1/4" of the pages. Without a dust jacket as issued. 110 pages of text illustrated with several photographic plates.
    TB22475  $10.00



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    Dorat, Claude-Joseph:  Never Again! And Other Stories.  London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928. Limited Edition. Very good+ light brown cloth covered boards with all the gilt text worn off of the spine. An octavo measuring 8 3/8" by 5 1/2". Without its issued dust jacket. One of only 1,000 copies printed and this copy is out of series but identified as "HC" on the limitation page in pencil. 137 pages of text. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton and with an introduction by Vyvyan Holland. A collection of three short stories including Never Again!; Flricourt; and Euphrasia.
    TB23624  $25.00



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    Doro, Marion E.:  Rhodesia/Zimbabwe A Bibliographic Guide to the Nationalist Period .  Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., (1984). First Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket. 247 pages including an index, appendices and text. A reference publication in African Studies.
    TB28906  $25.00




  • Dorris, Michael:  Working Men.  New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1993. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. A collection of 14 short stories by the author of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. His second book, The Broken Cord won the Best Nonfiction Book award for 1989.
    TB05372  $7.00



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    Douglas, Marjory S.:  The Everglades.  New York: Rinehart & Co., (1947). First Edition, First printing. Very good- in green cloth covered boards with a gilt on dark green title block on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine show light rubbing and wear with some fading and flecking of the gilt text on the spine. A prior owner has stamped their name on the end sheets, fly title page and the third free end page. The 33rd volume in the Rivers of America series with illustrations by Robert Fink. Although part of the Rivers of American series this is one of the most important titles in Florida's environmental heritage. 406 pages including an index.
    TB33238  $65.00




  • Douglas, William O.:  My Wilderness The Pacific West.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. First Edition, First printing. Fine in gray linen covered boards with gilt and blue text on the spine and front board & a 1/3" stain on the fore edge. In a very good+ dust jacket with a long 2" closed tear on the front panel, an 1/8" chip at the upper corner of the spine area and a 2" closed tear with related creases on the rear panel. With illustrations by Francis Lee Jaques.
    TB10308  $14.00



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    Dowd, Maureen:  The Year Of Voting Dangerously.  New York: Twelve of The Hatchette Book Group, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in red orange cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 7 5/8 inches with a faint bump to the heel of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear at the base of the spine area. Signed simply "Maureen" and inscribed to "Steve" on the title page with "Be careful! | It's really scary out | there!" 432 pages of text.
    TB29086  $20.00



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    Dowie, William:  Peter Matthiessen.  Boston: Twayne Publisher, (1991). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. in a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page without an inscription. 154 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece black and white photograph of Peter Matthiessen. One of the volumes in the Twayne's United States Authors Series.
    TB29592  $175.00



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    Downer, Martyn:  Nelson's Purse The Mystery of Lord Nelson's Lost Treasures.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 copper colored paper and light brown paper covered boards with metallic blue text stamped on the spine and illustrated end sheets. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with four sections of photographs and reproductions of earlier works of art. A work which focuses on Nelson's best friend, Alexander Davidson who rose to prominence in British society as an agent, banker and significant businessman. His close friendship with Nelson gave him the opportunity to know and correspond with Nelson's wife, Fanny and his mistress, Emma. This book publishes, for the first time, many letters and notes from many people central to Nelson's life.
    TB30490  $20.00



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    Downie, Major William:  Hunting For Gold Reminisences Of Personal Experience And Research In The Early Days Of The Pacific Coast From Alaska To Panama.  San Francisco: The California Publishing Co., 1893. . Good+ in its original 1/2 black, pebbled leather and black cloth covered boards with gilt text and blind stamping on the spine and gilt text on the front board. An octavo o 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches with the leather at the head and heel of the spine chipped in several areas down to the edge of the text block and the leather rubbed and worn through over the tips of the boards. The hinges and joints are tight, strong and show no signs of weakness. The contents are clean and save for a few pages are generally free of foxing and tanning. 407 pages which includes tables of contents at the rear of the book. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and with engravings and reproductions of photographs throughout. A native of Scotland, the author heard about the discovery of gold in California while in Buffalo, He shipped around Cape Horn and arrived in San Francisco on June 27th 1849 and subsequently worked mines around the Sacramento area. He discovered gold on the Yuba River at a place now named Downieville. He continued to hunt for gold in Canada, Alaska and Panama. (Kurutz, 203) Howe's in U.S. Iania states of this title: "Unassuming but valuable reminiscences of an inveterate miner and pioneer." Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". (Howes, D-448, Cowan, p179)
    TB29640  $225.00



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    Drake, Francis Vivian:  Vertical Warfare.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1943. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in bright red cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and illustrated end papers. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with several short closed tears to the ends of the spine area which is also slightly faded. "The bombing program on which the United States Air Force and R.A.F. are basing their operations and their plans." 142 pages of text with extensive black and white photographs.
    TB19881  $20.00



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    Drayton, Daniel:  Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months A Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) In Washington Jail Including A Narrative Of the Voyage An Capture Of The Schooner Pearl.  Boston and New York: Bela Marsh and American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1855. Early Reprint. Very good in its original dark brown, blind stamped cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/16 by 4 5/8 inches which once suffered a narrow 1 1/2" long chip to the cloth at the lower front corner of the spine. That chip has been professionally repaired greatly improving the appearance of this copy. The first free end page is missing and preliminaries and end sheets show marks of foxing. Only page 46 and 47 show spots of foxing, otherwise the contents are clean. 122 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Despite the copyright date of 1853, this is a first edition of the title. (Dumond: A Bibliography Of Antislavery in America, p.48; Sabin, 20912)
    TB30594  $200.00



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    Dreiser, Theodore:  Sister Carrie.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1981. Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a pink silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 10 1/8" tall by 6 1/2" deep containing 387 pages of text. Illustrated with drawings by Reginald Marsh and with an introduction by Burton Rascoe. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Masterpieces of American Literature. With a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the first free end page; otherwise, a beautiful, tight, clean copy with no marks, notations or inscriptions.
    TB22800  $60.00



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    Dring, Captain Thomas, and Henry B. Dawson:  Recollections Of The Jersey Prison-Ship From the Original Manuscript of Captain Thomas Dring, One Of The Prinsoners.  Orrisania, NY: Self-Published, 1865. Third Edition, Presentation Edition. Very near fine in 3/4 green morocco leather with five decorated, raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and gilt text in the compartments and gilt rules at the edges of the leather near the green cloth covered boards. A quarto of 11 by 7 1/2 inches with the top edge of the text block gilt and with marbled end sheets. The leather over the spine has faded to a fine light brown color, the tips of the boards are lightly worn and the leather at the upper one inch of the boards near the spine is also very slightly faded owing to its height above octavo volumes shelved near it. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. This copy is a special presentation copy issued to John Ward Deane on Feb.22nd, 1866 and warmly inscribed and signed by the editor, Henry B. Dawson on the dedication page. It is also signed on the copyright page by Dawson and this copy identified as copy "K" of only 50 quarto copies printed, signed and numbered. 201 pages of text including a 72 page appendix followed by four blank pages, a full page image of the prison ship Jersey from an engraving, followed by a lengthy article of five pages from the New York Weekly Times dated Feb. 22, 1855 in facsimile titled: The Dungeons Of The Revolution. Reading this article one gets a deeply disturbing picture of the unsanitary,dreary and deadly conditions on board the prison ships in and around the New York harbor.
    TB32656  $750.00



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    Drury, Bob, and Tom Clavin:  Throne Of Grace A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West.  New York: St. Martin's Press, (2024). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches with printed, full color, map end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by both authors on the tipped-in second free end sheet. 355 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a double page map and a 16 page section of color images from earlier works of art and photographs. Using the life and legend of Jedediah Smith as the central narrative, the authors trace the history of the early exploration and initial settlement of the American West and how instrumental Smith was in pointing the way. It was he who discovered the "South Pass" through the Rockies to reach California.
    TB33337  $50.00



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    Du Bois, W. E. B.:  In Battle For Peace The Story of My 83rd Birthday.  New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in illustrated and printed heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches with minor rubbing to the corners of the covers and to the folds and wear to the ends of the spine. Without a dust jacket, but the book is protected within a clear, acetate covering. This copy is signed by the author without an inscription or date on the first free end page. 192 pages of text. Taped to the recto of the rear cover is a newspaper clipping noting Du Bois' death and an earlier clipping regarding Du Bois' having become a member of the Communist Party. A collectible copy with the very uncommon signature of its author.
    TB32311  $3600.00



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    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt:  The Gift of Black Folk The Negroes in the Making of America.  Boston: The Stratford Co., Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bright, gilt text on the spine and on the front board with embossed borders in blind on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 inches with only hints of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's name written at the upper edge of the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 349 pages including an index and text which includes a 29 page introduction, titled: "The Racial Contributions To the United States", by Edward F. McSweeney. One of the volumes in the Knights of Columbus Racial Contribution Series.
    TB32310  $3000.00



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    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt:  Dusk Of Dawn An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1980. Limited Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with two raised bands on the spine, gilt text and decorations in the compartments, gilt borders and tool work on both boards, silk end sheets and all edges of the text block are gilt. An octavo measuring 7 7/8 by 5 1/2. Without a dust jacket as issued. 355 pages including an index and text. Illustrated by color art work by Romare Bearden. A very handsome and collectible volume with no prior owner's notes, marks or book plates.
    TB32564  $65.00



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    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt:  The African Roots of War .  Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1915. First appearance. This May, 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly is in very good+ condition in printed, light salmon colored paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 5/8 by 6 3/4 inches with the paper over the spine slightly tanned and chipped by 1/8 inch at the heel and there are two small notes in pencil at the top edge of the front cover. Du Bois' essay: The African Roots of War, runs from pages 707 to 714.
    TB32312  $45.00




  • Du Bois, William Pene:  Gentleman Bear.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a very near fine dust jacket very light wear at edges & on flap hinge.
    TB02514  $21.00



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    Dudley, William S. and J. Scott Hamon:  The Naval War of 1812 America's Second War of Independence.  Virginia Beach, Vir.: The Donning Company Publishers, (2013). First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A quarto of 12 by 10 inches with printed end sheets. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 264 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout from photographs of earlier works of art, model ships, maps and objects from the U.S. Naval Academy Museum.
    TB32922  $75.00




  • Duffy, John (Editor):  Early Vermont Broadsides.  Hanover: University Press of New England, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A narrow 4to measurinng 12 1/4" high by 9 3/16" deep. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap but with minor light rubbing to the edges and folds with no chips. This is the first publication of its kind to provide a collection of the "earliest examples of broadside art printed in northern New England" from 1777 to 1821. 51 pages of text and illustrated with large, full-page photographs of the original broadsides.
    TB16984  $17.50




  • Dufour, Charles L.:  Ten Flags in the Wind.  New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with mild discoloration at the heel of the spine & an inked date on the first free end paper. In a very near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with light rubbing at the upper edge of the spine area. The ninth volume in The Regions of America Series which deals with the story of Louisiana. 307 pages including an index and bibliography.
    TB02155  $24.50



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    Dumas, Alexander:  The Count of Monte Cristo (Four Volumes in One).  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 2003. Special Easton Press Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with gilt tool work on the boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and gilt text stamping between with silk end papers and a silk placement ribbon sewn into the head of the binding and with gilt edges to the text block. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". Four volumes combined into one comprising a total of 1,237 pages of text and illustrated by Lynd Ward and with an introduction by Andre Maurois. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. A beautiful volume with no names, dates, markings or prior owner's book plates.
    TB28327  $165.00



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    Dunbar, Maurice:  Books and Collectors.  Los Altos: The Book Nest, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in light beige cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with dust staining to the top edge of the text block and light foxing to the other edges of the text block. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a long closed tear to the front panel, rubbing to the folds and light soiling to both panels. Signed, dated in 1980 and inscribed by the author on the fly title page. 189 pages including an index
    TB31666  $15.00



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    Dunbaugh, Edwin L.:  Night Boat to New England 1815-1900.  New York and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, (1992). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light yellow cloth covered boards with dark blue text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket 370 pages including an index, bibliographic essay, appendix and text. Illustrated with line drawings and images from black and white photographs. A well researched and readable account of the history of the steamboat trade throughout the 19th century which provided the major means of transportation between New York City, the Connecticut ports of Long Island Sound, Rhode Island and from Boston north to the ports of Maine.
    TB30833  $75.00




  • Duncan, Dayton:  Out West.  New York: Viking Pequin Inc., 1987. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with modest curling at the upper edges. A review copy with the publisher's materials laid-in and also a book from the personal library of the late Charles Kuralt. One hundred and eighty years after Lewis & Clarks famous trek this author retraced their journey in a Volkswagen camper taking his time and retelling his experiences, much of it thru Montana.
    TB10260  $30.00



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    Duncan, Dayton:  Scenes of Visionary Enchantment Reflections On Lewis And Clark.  Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 202 pages of text.
    TB31281  $30.00




  • Dunham, Sam C.:  Riley Grannan's Last Adventure.  Austion: Packsaddle Press, 1969. First Edition thus. Fine in decorated yellow cloth covered boards with red text stamping on the spine. This is copy 457 of 500 limited copies. In a near fine dust jacket with a small 1/2" closed tear to the jacket. A small 8vo measuring 7.75" x 5.25". 33 numbered pages with two un-numbered pages following, with text, a map and several photographic reproductions of the pictures that appeared with this article which was originally published by Adventure magazine in January of 1912.
    TB08056  $31.50



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    Dunn, James T.:  The St. Croix.  New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1965). First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in light green cloth covered boards with a gilt on light brown text block on the spine. An octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with dust staining to the top edge of the text block and tanning to the extreme edges of the cloth binding. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with chipping across the lower edge of the spine area, light wear to the upper edge of the same and rubbing to the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the first free end page. The 55th volume in The Rivers of America Series. With illustrations by Gerald Hazzard. 309 pages including an index, list of sources, text and illustrations.
    TB32971  $60.00



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    Dunne, Cominick:  The Way We Lived Then Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper.  New York: Crown Publisher, (1999). First Edition, First printing. Fine in gold and black paper covered boards with white and black text on the spine. With a prior owner's book plate on the fly title page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 218 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of many celebrities.
    TB25688  $65.00



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    Dunning, John:  Tune In Yesterday The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1925-1976.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1976). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine. A thick octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 with minor bumps to the upper fore corners of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with minor light rubbing to the folds to the flaps. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 703 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with two sections of two-sided plates from black and white photographs. A very attractive, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30787  $100.00




  • Dunning, John:  Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime.  New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in black and light blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine which has a slight roll. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with inconsequential wrinkling at the upper edge of the rear panel near the fold to the spine area.
    TB20407  $10.00




  • Dunning, John:  The Bookwoman's Last Fling.  New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 brown and yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 3/16 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 337 pages of text. The author's fifth Cliff Janeway biblio-mystery and the last volume in the series.
    TB30789  $10.00



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    Durham Historical Society:  Durham 1900-1950.  Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. Edition unstated. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the volumes in the publisher's collection of Postcard History Series. 127 pages including a bibliography and illustrated throughout with maps and images from black and white photographs. A very fine, clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31960  $20.00




  • Durrell, Lawrence:  Collected Poems.  London: Faber And Faber, (1960). First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8 by 5 inches with stress cracks to the front hinge which remains tight and strong. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with three narrow and shallow chips at the upper edge of the spine area and rubbing and wear to the fore corners of the panels. Signed by the author on the first free end page and dated either 1960 or 1961 in Edinburgh. 288 pages including an index of first lines.
    TB28681  $150.00



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    Dwight, Rev. E. W.:  Memoir Of Henry Obookiah, A Native Of The Sandwich Islands.  New York: American Tract Society, n.d. circa 1830. Revised Edition. Very good+ in elaborately blind stamped dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The first free end page shows a hand written note: "Limerick Bap. S. S. Library | No. 109", perhaps denoting a Sunday School Library rather than a public library where circulation was much heavier. A 24mo of 5 7/8 by 3 3/4 inches with very faint foxing to the edges of the text block, two minor stains to the rear board and occasional light foxing to the lower margins of the pages due to handling. 124 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Henry Obookiah. First published in New Haven, Conn. in 1819. A very tight and clean copy with no weakness to the joints or hinges. (Sabin, 56429)
    TB31071  $100.00






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