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Imprint: 1868 DIAZ, Anna M. [actually Abby Morton] THE ENTERTAINING STORY OF KING BRONDE, HIS LILY AND HIS ROSEBUD. With Illustrations by W. L. Sheppard. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, (1868). First edition of the author's first book - despite having contributed to many periodicals (The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, Wide Awake, etc.) in the years preceding its appearance. Wood-engraved illustrations. Nearly square 12mo. Publisher's blue cloth binding with blindstamped double-rule frames on sides, with the title "The King's Lily and Rosebud" is gilt- stamped on the upper board within a decorative frame of leaves and on the spine; brown coated endpapers. The binding shows general shelfwear and some light soiling, with shallow loss at crown. Text leaves are lightly toned throughout and the final fifty pages or so have a small dampstain at the inside bottom corner. The last signature is partially sprung and loose. Early gift inscription (October 28, 1868) in pencil on first fly- leaf. About very good. Over the course of her long and busy life Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904) was a teacher, for a while at the Transcendentalist community at Brook Farm, and later, as a divorced mother with three children, she worked as a professional author, publishing stories and articles in the leading juvenile and domestic periodicals of the day. She was politically active, involved in the abolitionist and woman-suffrage movements, and was a founding member of the Women's Trade and Industrial Union of Boston, serving as its president from 1881 to 1892. (NAW 1, p. 471-473)., Very Good Stock number: 83726.
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Imprint: 1839 DIBBLE, Rev. Sheldon. HISTORY AND GENERAL VIEWS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS' MISSION. New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. xii + 268 pp. 8vo., brown ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Some minor wear to corners, heel and crown, else remarkably clean and bright binding. Interior shows light to heavy foxing, occasional thumbing. Shallow chip to margins of p. 3-4, not affecting text. Includes accounts of the death of Kamehameha and the crowning of Liholiho, some Hawaiian language notes, successful and failed missions to other Polynesian islands. Stock number: 82838.
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DIBDIN, Charles. THE HIGH-METTLED RACER. Illustrated with six of ten wood engravings by Bonner after Cruikshank. 36 pp. 16mo., half darkest green morocco with gilt rules, raised bands, gilt spine and top edge, marbled paper covered boards. Joints tender, boards rubbed. Tiny London bookseller's label to front pastedown. Occasional light soil within. "To Which are added many interesting Anecdotes of the Race-Horse.". Illustr: CRUIKSHANK Stock number: 83477.
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Imprint: 1923 DICK, Stewart. ARTS AND CRAFTS OF OLD JAPAN. Edinburgh: T. Foulis, (1923). 8vo, x + 153 pp., with 29 b&w plates. Grey cloth. Ink name on flyleaf, some soiling along the front edge and a bit of spotting to the fore-egde. All in all a good solid copy., Good Stock number: 77699.
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Imprint: 1900 DICKENS, Charles. CHARLES DICKENS: ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY EDITION, 15 VOLUMES. Complete. Boston and New York: Colonial Press Company [n.d. ca. 1900]. 8vo., blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt top edges. Near fine, 1 1/2 inch tear to cloth mid-spine on Tale of Two Cities volume. Monochrome illustrations with printed tissue guards at frontispieces. Handsome set, clean and bright. Includes: Barnaby Rudge/Hard Times; Bleak House; Child's History of England/American Notes/Pictures from Italy; Christmas Books/Christmas Stories; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Great Expectations/Edwin Drood/Humphrey's Clock; Little Dorrit; Martin Chuzzlewit; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop/Reprinted Pieces; Oliver Twist/Sketches by Boz; Our Mutual Friend; Pickwick Papers; Tale of Two Cities/Uncommercial Traveller., Fine Stock number: 80996.
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Imprint: 1854 DICKENS, Charles. HARD TIMES. New York: T. L. McElrath & Co., 1854. 'First' American edition - one of several issued that year. This edition derives from the typesetting for the periodical publication of Hard Times in the American issue of Household Words, also published by T. L. McElrath. Octavo. [2],108,[2] pp. Text printed in double columns. The final leaf is a blank. Original dun paper wrappers with price (25 cents), title and the name of the Boston agents, Fetridge & Company, printed on the front wrapper, and an advertisement for a face cream - available at Fetridge & Co. - on the back. Although the wrappers are stained and edge- creased, they are surprisingly intact. The stains on the covers have seeped into the bookblock, diminishing as the pages progress toward the center. Sporadic pages have light-colored foxing, which is occasionally heavy. Some leaves have slightly dog-eared corners. One leaf (p. 105-6) has some loss in fore-edge. Very good overall. (See Podeschi A138 - third copy.) Offered with: HARD TIMES, Chapters 1-5, and part of Chapter 6, as issued in the American edition of "HOUSEHOLD WORDS, a journal conducted by Charles Dickens" for May 1854 (New York: McElrath & Barker, Boston: Frederick Parker. Volume 2, Number 1; Whole Number Monthly 13). Dickens' story appears at the beginning of the issue and again at the end, in groups of pages numbered 1-4 and 5-12, with 92 pp. of the regular issue between them. Text is printed in double columns within a double-rule frame on each page. Bound in the original dun paper wrappers, with the title information printed on the front wrap and an advertisement for Hard Times on the back. Wrappers are moderately edgeworn, chipped, and creased, with some soiling and staining. There is a dampstain on the front cover at the fore-edge and intermittently, waxing and waning, throughout the bookblock. Otherwise the text leaves are clean. Good plus. A very scarce format., Good Stock number: 82219.
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Imprint: 1952 (DICKENS, Charles). CHARLES DICKENS: HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH. By Edgar Johnson. (New York): Simon and Schuster, 1952. First edition, in two volumes. A very good set., Very Good Stock number: 54735.
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Imprint: 1866 DICKENS, Charles. MUGBY JUNCTION, the extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round... for Christmas, 1866. Offered with: NO THOROUGHFARE, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Being the extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round... for Christmas, 1867. London: All the Year Round; Chapman & Hall, 1867. Each number is 48 pp. and in the original blue printed wrappers. The wrappers of both issues, which are edgeworn and chipped, have been carefully rebacked on the reverse with transparent tissue paper, reinforced with a thin strip of the same on the spine, and re-sewn. In addition, the number for 1866 has the entire first and last pages of text reinforced with the transparent tissue. Some negligible foxing to text and soiling to wrappers of both issues, with the 1866 number showing a couple of stains to the front wrapper. Acceptable (but not collectible) copies of two of the Christmas numbers in the original wrappers. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. For the pair:, Acceptable Stock number: 58318.
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Imprint: 1870 DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman & Hall, [April - September] 1870. First edition. A total of 14 illustrations, including a portrait of Dickens and a vignette title-page. Octavo. [viii,1]-190,[2] pp. In the original six monthly parts, as issued, in blue paper wrappers. Housed in a green three-quarter leather pull-off case in a green cloth chemise. Wrappers show some general light wear but,some minor expert repair and are very good overall. The front wrap on Part 1 has a small ink spot near one edge and shows a bit more wear than the other wrappers. Almost all advertisements are present, including the rare cork ad in Part 2, lacking only four pages (nos. 7 - 10) of the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in Part 3 and the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 5. Another minor difference, the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 1 is not completely unpaginated; pages 2 and 3 are marked as such. Part 6 has the "Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the original price on front wrap as found in the earliest issues. Some plates show mild light foxing. Text leaves are clean. This was Dickens' last work; it was left unfinished at his death in June, 1870. (Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 371-384)., Very Good Stock number: 83093.
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Imprint: 1854 (DICKENS, Charles). PEARL-FISHING. Choice Stories, from Dickens' Household Words. Second Series. Auburn, [NY]: Alden, Beardsley & Co. [and] Rochester, [NY]: Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854. First edition so collected, all having anonymously appeared in the American version of "Household Words," the periodical edited in London by Dickens. While none of these tales appear on Eckel's list, many of Dickens contributions were not identified until some time later. 8vo, 351 pp. + 1 p. ads.; with frontis. portrait of Dickens. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine faded, extremes a little rubbed, but overall a very sound and attractive copy. Horizontal dent to rear board. Stock number: 30726.
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Imprint: 1837 DICKENS, Charles. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, extra illustrated and finely bound. Octavo. (iii)-(xvi), 609 pp.; lacks half-title. This special copy has a duplicate hand-colored set of the original plates by Robert Seymour and "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne), 2 hand-colored plates by Robert William Buss, a small set of 7 hand-colored plates by Phiz, a hand- colored plate of Sam Vale, the original of Sam Weller, by George Cruikshank, a hand-colored plate of Sam Weller, by F. W. Palthorpe, a hand- colored portrait of Serjeant Talfourd, and portraits of Dickens, Robert Seymour, and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz" and "Nemo"). The uncolored plates by Phiz are earlier than the colored ones; they are not titled, but each is signed (when called for) and contains a page location number except the last sixteen (which Hatton and Cleaver, p. 63, claim are the earliest state of the original and duplicate plates for these illustrations) and, of course, the frontispiece and vignette title-page. The frontispiece and vignette title-page are both "second plate" (from the second version of the printing plate). There is a total of 101 plates, of which 55 are colored. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in full green crushed morocco with a black leather inlaid border, gilt facsimile of the author's signature on upper board, inner leather dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An old bookseller's description is tipped-in at the first fly-leaf. Fine. (Smith v. I, 3)., Fine. Illustr: Phiz Stock number: 88069.
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Imprint: 1908 DICKENS, Charles. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE, 14 VOLUMES. Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Company, 1908. One of 1000 copies, unnumbered (although limitation page states the sets are numbered). Volumes I - IX, XI - XV. 8vo., half deep green leather sunned to caramel brown at spine, with gilt spine lettering and decoration, over green marbled paper covered boards. Seven volumes are slightly chipped at crown. Volume II is split at the front joint (backstrip only, binding intact). Top edges brightly gilt, many pages unopened. Monochrome frontispiece and plates, with title pages decorated in red and green. "With Introductions, Arguments, etc." Spines are headed "Dickens' Works". Near fine overall. As follows: I. Bleak House. 888 pp. II. Pickwick Papers. 817 pp. III. Our Mutual Friend. 857 pp. IV. David Copperfield. 882 pp. V. Nicholas Nickleby. 846 pp. VI. Dombey and Son. 898 pp. VII. Martin Chuzzlewit. 865 pp. VIII. Little Dorrit. 860 pp. IX. Christmas Books, Christmas Stories. 411 + 512 pp. XI. Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times. 646 + 269 pp. XII. A Tale of Two Cities, Uncommercial Traveller, Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, No Thoroughfare. 358 + 102 + 127 + 350 pp. XIII. The Old Curiosity Shop, Reprinted Pieces. 551 + 352 pp. XIV. Great Expectations, Master Humphrey's Clock, Mugby Junction, Mystery of Edwin Drood. 461 + 115 + 63 + 263 pp. XV. Child's History of England, Pictures From Italy, Hunted Down, Holiday Romance, George Silverman's Explanation, American Notes. 393 + 178 + 23 + 36 + 252 pp. One closed tear p. 26 (4th section)., Fine Stock number: 80059.
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Imprint: 1969 DICKEY, James. [Extracts from] DELIVERANCE. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company), [N.D., probably late 1969]. Advance promotional brochure, containing photostats of pages from Dickey's hand-corrected typescript. Two long passages, 19 pp. in all. Pictorial wrappers, slightly worn at the spine, else fine., Fine. Illustr: FEA Stock number: 19894.
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Imprint: 1910 DICKEY, Luther S. HISTORY OF THE 103D REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1861-1865. Chicago: L. S. Dickey, 1910. xiv + 400 pp. + folding map. 4to., dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with Company insignia on front cover. Near fine, minor shelfwear to spine. Interior fine, complete. Text and rosters., Fine Stock number: 82380.
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Imprint: 1849 DICKINSON, S. N. BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1849. NUMBER 14. VOLUME V. Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co. and Thomas Groom, 1849. 216 pp. + 4 pp. ads printed on yellow paper (divided between front and rear of text). 5 3/8 inches tall. Brown cloth blindstamped, gilt cover bright, moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. With folding frontispiece map of Boston dated 1849 in good condition, heavily foxed. Block is sound. Includes illustrated feature on Public Schools in Boston., Good Stock number: 84554.
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Imprint: 1840 DICKINSON, S. N. BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1840. NO. 5. VOLUME I. Boston: Thomas Groom, 1840. 132 pp. + 2 pp. ads printed on pink paper (divided between front and rear of text). 5 3/8 inches tall. Brown cloth blindstamped, gilt cover bright, moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. With folding frontispiece undated map of Boston in good condition, heavily foxed. Ink ownership. Block is sound. Includes features on Boston 200 years ago, and railroads leading from Boston., Good Stock number: 84555.
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Imprint: 1838 DICKINSON, S. N. BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1838. NO. [missing]. VOLUME I. Boston: S. N. Dickinson, 1838. 103 pp. + 5 pp. ads. 5 1/8 inches tall. Brown cloth, gilt cover vignette bright, moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. With double page frontispiece undated map of Boston in good condition, moderately foxed. Ink numeral to front flyleaf. Block is fragile, overopened at title page with some clumsysewing repairs. Includes features on Boston in 1837, and listings of churches and ministers in Boston., Good Stock number: 85017.
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Imprint: 1849 V. Boston: B.B. Mussey & Thomas Groom, 1849. 214 pp. 3 1/4"x 5 3/8". Dark brown cloth, blindstamped front and back with gilt illustration to front. Cloth lightly worn. Front hinge starting. A few notes in pencil to Memoranda pages.Folding map of the vicinity of Boston in 1849. Includes a 35-page essay with accompanying engravings of the public schools of Boston by Isaac F. Shepard. Advertisements on yellow paper to endpapers and pastedowns. Stock number: 88078.
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Imprint: 1838 DICKINSON, S. N. BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1838. NO.3 VOLUME I. Boston: S. N. Dickinson, 1838. 103 pp. + 5 pp. ads.3 1/4"x 5 1/8" . Brown cloth, blindstamped front, back and spine. Frontispiece undated map of Boston. Cloth moderately worn, corners lightly and front hinge weak. Prior ownership in pencil to front pastedown and ffep. Rfep missing. Afew notes in pencil to Memoranda pages. Includes features on Boston in 1837, and listings of churches and ministers in Boston. Stock number: 88077.
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Imprint: 1818 DICKINSON, Rodolphus. A DIGEST OF THE COMMON LAW, THE STATUTE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, and of the United States, and the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Relative to the Powers and Duties of the Justices of the Peace... Deerfield: John Wilson, 1818. First edition. 8vo., brown calf. Pencil ownership to ffep. Foxing to preliminary and latter leaves and occasionally elsewhere to text. Ffep creased. Boards considerably scuffed and worn, with upper a touch bowed. About very good., Very Good Stock number: 73721.
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Imprint: 1951 (DICKINSON, Emily). LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Frontispiece. 8vo., green cloth, gilt spine title. Light shelfwear to spine extremities and a very small spot of white residue to front board. Clean and fresh within. Very good plus, in a price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed and somewhat edgeworn., Very Good Stock number: 76649.
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Imprint: 1888 DICKINSON, John. THE LETTERS OF FABIUS, IN 1788, ON THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. [One of the series PAMPHLETS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, Published during its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788.] Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. [Brooklyn, NY: Historical Printing Club, 1888]. 54 pp. An octavo-size pamphlet, side-sewn and glued into plain paper wrappers. Fine within but wrappers show wear along edges: shallow chipping, closed tears and creasing, and starting on folds. Very good overall. These letters written by John Dickinson, the "Pennsylvania Farmer," and member of the Annapolis and Philadelphia Conventions, were originally published in a Delaware newspaper in 1788., Very Good Stock number: 84925.
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Imprint: 1925 DICKINSON, G. Lowes and William J. Bryan. TWO CIVILIZATIONS. (Say and Gainsay). Compiled by Jiro Nagura. Tokyo: The Sanseido Co., Ltd. 1925. 8vo., wrappers; vi + 179 pp. + ads. Touch of soil to wraps, top-edge; fore-edge lightly thumbed, slight browning to pages. Errata sheet tipped- in at fly-leaf. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 62682.
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Imprint: 1910 DICKSON, Walter. JAPAN. With two supplementary chapters of recent events by Mayo W. Hazeltine. Illustrated. (Nations of the World Series) New York: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, 1910. 8vo., green cloth; 384pp. Rubbing at edges, else very good., Good Stock number: 38897.
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Imprint: 1908 DICKSON, Walter. JAPAN. With two supplementary chapters of recent events by Mayo W. Hazeltine. Illustrated. (Nations of the World Series) New York: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, 1908. 8vo., red cloth; 384pp. Ownership. Rubbing at edges, else very good., Very Good Stock number: 39032.
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Imprint: 1885 DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., v.d. (1885-1900). First edition. In 72 volumes, together with 1. 3 supplementary volumes New York: MacMillan & Co., 1901 2. A concluding volume containing an Index and Epitome of the whole 1903 3. An errata volume 1904. These and all of the above volumes very good in brown cloth, some library book plate, none with external markings. 4. Second Supplement 3 volumes 1912. (This group in worn blue cloth with chipped spines.) 5. DNB--20th Century 1912-1921 with index. 1927 1 volume. (This volume blue cloth, very good condition.) Total number of volumes is 72. Volumes 1-21 edited by Leslie Stephen. Volumes 22-26 edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. Volumes 27-63, with the 3 supplementary volumes and the Index and Eptiome, edited by Sidney Lee. 8vo. Brown cloth, very good. This is classic reference work containing accurate and concise biographies of noteworthy inhabitants of the British Islands and Colonies from the earliest historical period to the date of Queen Victoria's death on 22 January, 1901. An unusually complete edition of this wonderful reference set., Very Good Stock number: 77995.
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Imprint: 1979 [Dictionary of Proper Names, Japanese] JIH PEN HSING MING TZ'UTIEN, JIH PEN TI MING TZ'U TIEN. Peking: 1979, 1982, 1983. 4vols. 8vo., boards with fabricoid spines, gilt. The three volumes of personal and family names are indexed by romanization, kana and radical for ease of use, as is the one volume on placenames. A very useful guide to readings for the English or Japanese speaker. The place name descriptions are in Chinese. This set is as new. 4 vols., Fine Stock number: 38524.
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Imprint: 1979 [Dictionary of Proper Names, Japanese] JIH PEN HSING MING TZ'UTIEN, JIH PEN TI MING TZ'U TIEN. Peking: 1979, 1982, 1983. 4vols. 8vo., boards with fabricoid spines, gilt. The three volumes of personal and family names are indexed by romanization, kana and radical for ease of use, as is the one volume on placenames. A very useful guide to readings for the English orJapanese speaker. The place name descriptions are in Chinese. This set is as new. 4 vols., Fine Stock number: 39306.
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Imprint: 1977 DIDION, Joan. A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: Simon and Shuster, (1977). Advance uncorrected proof. 12" x 5", yellow wrappers, 173 pp. Wrappers detached, now tape-repaired; somewhat soiled and sunned, with small chip to the front wrapper. As is. Stock number: 48435.
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Imprint: 1865 DIECK, Rudolf. DE STERNO AVIUM. Halle: Halis Saxonum, 1865. 30pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, blindstamped and stamped in gilt to front, blindstamped to back. Bookplate to front pastedown and ownership in ink to ffep. of J. Amory Jeffries. Boards lightly worn. A dissertation presented in 1865 by Dieck at the University of Halle-Wittemberg. Stock number: 89442.
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Imprint: 1852 DIETRICH, Dr., transl. by Leopold WRAY. THE GERMAN EMIGRANTS OR FREDERICK WOHLGEMUTH'S VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA. Guben: F. Fechner [n.d. ca. 1852]. 39 pp. 12mo., Rebacked, flyleaves lacking, gilt and green decorated paper covered boards with swan vignette on rear cover. Very good, light rubbing to boards, minor corner wear. Housed in a custom three flap red cloth folding box. (illustrations of African slaves in Havana)., Good Stock number: 82138.
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Imprint: 1651 BRISTOL, George Digby, Earl of, and Sir Kenelm Digby. LETTERS BETWEEN THE LD GEORGE DIGBY, AND SR KENELM DIGBY KT. CONCERNING RELIGION. London: Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Prince's Arms in St Pauls Church-yard, 1651. First edition, with the final letter dated "Sherburn, March 39, 1639." Small woodcut vignettes on title-page, a crown and rose and a crown and fleur-de-lis, and page [iii], a rose and a thistle. [iv], 132 pp. Collation: A-H8, I4. 14 x 9 cm. A worn and old leather binding, possibly contemporary, with lower board and rear endpapers detached. Scattered marginal notes and bracketing of text in pencil. Complete. (Wing B4768). Although not published until 1651, these letters, a "long discourse" about religion between two of the leading courtiers of their day, were exchanged between 2 November 1638 and 30 March 1639. Lord George Digby (1612-1677), the second Earl of Bristol, was a talented politician, administrator, soldier, and scholar who ultimately failed at each due to his inconsistent and rash temperament. Horace Walpole judged him "a singular person, whose life was contradiction." Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), son of the executed gunpowder plotter Everard Digby, was even more accomplished than his kinsman and, in general, more consistent and controlled. He married the famous beauty Venetia Stanley, whom he met as a child and to whom he was devoted - even after her death. He was Ben Jonson's patron in London, and he associated with Voltaire and other learned men when he lived in France. He was an early member of the Royal Society (his paper entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants" was the first formal publication authorized by the Society, in 1661) and made positive contributions to modern embryology, though he also had a strong interest in occult philosophy and alchemy. Lord Clarendon, his contemporary, observed that "he possessed all the advantages which nature and art and excellent education could give him." In this volume Lord George, who was born and lived his early life in Catholic Spain but raised in the Church of England, attacks the Roman Catholic Church, while Sir Kenelm, who was born in Protestant England and raised in the Roman Catholic Church, and educated by Jesuits, defends the authority of Stock number: 88490.
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Imprint: 1904 DILL, Samuel. ROMAN SOCIETY FROM NERO TO MARCUS AURELIUS. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. 8vo., blue cloth ruled in blind, spine in gilt. Partially unopened; some of the opened pages have been carelessly opened. Some text underlined in red ink. Publisher's materials laid-in. Light wear and some creasing to spine, else a fine copy., Fine Stock number: 54010.
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Imprint: 1911 DILLON, Edward. THE ARTS OF JAPAN. With 40 Illustrations. (Little Books on Art). Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911. First edition. 12mo. blue cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; xiii + 212pp. Spine darkened, light wear and soiling at boards; else, very good., Very Good Stock number: 30042.
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Imprint: 1906 DILLON, Edward. THE ARTS OF JAPAN. With forty-one illustrations. London: Methuen & Co, (1906). 12mo, blue cloth, stamped in gilt; xiii + 212pp. Corners bumped. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 32934.
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Imprint: 1944 DILTS, Marion May. THE PAGEANT OF JAPANESE HISTORY. Illustrated by photogravures from Japanese Art and Drawings by Toyojiro Onishi. NY/London: Longmans, Green & Co., (1944). Later printing. 8vo., beige cloth, pictorial endpapers, [xviii] + 380 pp. + plates. Ex-library. Heavy soil, some sun to cloth; hinges cracked. A few chips, nicks to page- edges, but with no loss of text. A serviceable reading copy; as is. Stock number: 63852.
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Imprint: 1991 DINNERSTEIN, Leonard. LEO FRANK CASE: Together with, the Tennessean Special News Section. Birmingham: Notalble Trials Library, 1991. 8vo., boards. Prior owner's book plate on front paste-down. Tipped in ribbon page marker and guilt edged pages. In very good condition., Very Good Stock number: 73995.
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Imprint: 1977 DIRECTORY. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF ARTS. Frankfurt: Verlag Muller, 1977. In two volumes. 8vo., green cloth. In various languages, depending on country listed. Very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 68452.
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Imprint: 1943 DISMOND, Binga. WE WHO WOULD DIE and Other Poems, including Haitian Vignettes. Illustrations by E. Simms Campbell. New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1943. Inscribed first edition. Unpaginated. Slim 8vo., blue synthetic leather, title in gilt to upper board. A clean and fresh copy, showing just a touch of wear to heel and an old ink price on ffep., in a chipped dust jacket. The illustrated dust jacket, originally a pale green which has faded to white, is chipped and creased along the top-edge, with some loss. It is inscribed to Doris Chander on the front pastedown. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 57276.
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Imprint: 1948 DISNEY, Walt. LAVENDER BLUE (Dilly Dilly). Sheet Music. From Walt Disney's "So Dear to My Heart". Lyric by Larry Morey, music by Eliot Daniel. New York: Santly-Joy, 1948. Four pages, two leaves. Small closed tear and shallow chip to top-edge, else fine., Fine Stock number: 54514.
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Imprint: 1933 (DISNEY, Walt). THE "POP-UP" MINNIE MOUSE. Story and Illustrations by the Staff of Walt Disney Studios. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). Three bright double-page color pop-ups and many black and white text illustrations. [26] pp. Small quarto, color-illustrated paper boards. Some light soiling in margins. The binding is lightly soiled all over, slightly rubbed along the spine and at corners, and gently bunped at heel. Nonetheless, this is a very good copy of the hard-to-find Minnie pop-up., Very Good Stock number: 70658.
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Imprint: 1878 (DISRAELI, Benjamin). BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. In Upwards of 100 Cartoons from the Collection of "Mr. Punch." London: Punch Office, 1878. Large 8vo., printed wrappers. Wrappers chiped at edges, and torn, with some moderate soil; front wrap detached, badly worn, but present. Internally, very good images, though the margins are occasionally slightly soiled, with chipping at the prelims. (lightly) and several latter leaves (lacking the bottom corners). Faint crease to approx. half the leaves, where binding was once bent. As is., Very Good Stock number: 60654.
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Imprint: 1880 (DISRAELI, Benjamin). ENDYMION. By The Right Honorable The Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880. First American edition, published the same year as the first (English) edition. The author's last novel. 8vo., green cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt, spine in gilt. A very good copy, clean and bright, showing only light rubbing at the spine ends and extremities., Very Good Stock number: 47109.
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Imprint: 1870 DISRAELI, Benjamin. LOTHAIR. New York: D. Appleton, 1870. First American edition (same year as the London first). 8vo, terra cotta stamped in gilt, black and blind; with only slight shelfwear and spotting. Just about fine., Fine Stock number: 47625.
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Imprint: 1881 DISRAELI, Benjamin. NOVELS AND TALES BY THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, 11 VOLUMES. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1881. Hughenden Edition. var pp. 8vo., half brown polished morocco with gilt rules, glt top edges, raised bands, gilt spines. Marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers. Binding signed "Bartlett." Clean and bright, only a touch of occasional wear to joints. A few faint dampspots to gilt top edges. Vignettes of Hughenden Manor on title pages, b/w frontispiece portrait in Volume I. A lovely set. Extra postage required. Stock number: 83455.
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Imprint: 1836 (DISRAELI, Benjamin). THE LETTERS OF RUNNYMEDE. London: John Macrone, 1836. First edition. 2pp. adv.; xx, 234pp.; 6pp. adv. 8vo., original green cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine. The text is clean; however, the upper board and the initial gatherings, through page xx, are nearly detached. The boards are worn and soiled, and the paper label is sunned and rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown and ink ownership to title-page. As is. (Halkett & Laing). Stock number: 53330.
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Imprint: 1833 [DISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield] THE WONDROUS TALE OF ALROY. THE RISE OF ISKANDER. By the Author of VIVIAN GREY, CONTARINI FLEMING, &c. In Two Volumes. VOL. I.[-II.] Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833. First American edition, the same year as the British first. Two 12mo. volumes, untrimmed. 212;225 pp. Publisher's advertisements are bound-in at the start of the first volume and at the end of the second volume, [4] and [8] pp. respectively. (Among the titles on offer are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Jane Austen's Emma, which is listed as "in press.") Contemporary publisher's binding: dun paper boards, brick linen back with paper label. Early and possibly contemporary ink ownership (Geo. A. Botts) and a mid-twentieth century bookseller's label (Claitor's of Baton Rouge, LA) on front pastedown in each volume. Bindings show general rubbing and soiling, are sunned on spines, and the labels are abraded and nearly illegible. Volume 1 is missing the rear fly- leaf and a blank, and one leaf (p. 103/4) is torn but without loss. Text is quite clean but for a couple of foxed leaves in each volume. A very good and sound copy in contemporary bindings. Rare., Very Good Stock number: 86192.
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Imprint: 1890 DITTRICH, Max. DER DEUTSCH-FRANZOSISCHE KRIEG 1870 UND 1871. Gedenk- Blatter in Wort und Bild an die Ehrentage der deutschen Nation. Dresden & New York: Druck & Verlag von H. G. Munchmeyer, [1890]. Profusely illustrated with color lithographs and wood-engraved text illustrations. 86pp., plus illus. 17 3/4 by 22 3/8 inches (45.5 x 55.2 cm.). Oblong folio, brown cloth, interlaced border stamped in black to boards, title and decoration stamped in gilt to upper board. This is a near contemporary account of the Franco-Prussian war, which resulted in the establishment of the Third Republic of France and the German Empire, produced in Germany. It is illustrated with 25 full-page lithographs depicting military actions; 24 of which are in brilliant color. The text pages have printed borders and numerous wood-engraved illustrations showing supplementary action and portraits of prominent people and leaders on both the French and German sides. The paper has toned at the edges and is brittle, showing several short tears and some chipping; the title page is torn in half, but both pieces are present. The volume is dampstained along the fore-edge, affecting the text and some of the plates. Two of the plates have closed tears which enter the image. The volume lacks the spine, although both boards are attached to the text block by the sewing cords; the cloth is moderately stained, and the gilt has dulled. This is an interesting historical item with impressive chromoliths; it is offered as is. Stock number: 55614.
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Imprint: 1868 DIXON, William Hepworth. SPIRITUAL WIVES. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1868. 2 vols. 8vo., red cloth, spine in gilt. A copy that needs rebinding; it's all there but binding broken and several signatures are loose. Stock number: 46529.
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Imprint: 1965 [Do^moto Insho^] Do^moto Shiro^, editor. INSHO DOMOTO. Kyoto: Kyoto- Shoin, 1965. 4to., white fabricoid. Profusely illustrated guide to the paintings of this important avant-garde artist. With a signed and dated note from Insho^ to Thomas Hess. Near fine in the original publisher's band and glassine dustcover., Fine Stock number: 31741.
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