Dietz, Peter.

The Last of the Regiments: Their Rise and Fall.

First Edition. London, Brassey’s, 1990. 15cm x 23.5cm. XIV, 271 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Digby, Jane] Schmidt, Margaret Fox.

Passion’s Child – The Extraordinary Life of Jane Digby.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1977. 23.9cm x 16cm. XVI, 268 pages. With 28 illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Digby, Kenelm Edward.

An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property. With original Authorities.

Second Edition. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1876. 18 x 12 cm. xiv, 412 pages, 32 pages publishers list. New (2024) dark red cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. New sound binding. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy.

Dillon, T.G.

Notes on Crouchan Ai & Carnfree. Co. Roscommon.

Dublin, Alex. Thom and Iona Works, Glasnevin, [1924]. Eight text pages and a folding Map. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Original metal staples missing. Wrapper lose. Internally bright and clean.

Dimnet, Ernest.

France Herself Again.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1914. 22 x 14 cm. xvi, 511 pages. With a collection of newspaper cuttings by the previous owner. Original brown cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. Hard cover. Top edge gilt, other deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and browned. Internally clean.

Dischell, Stuart.

Backwards Days.

New York, Penguin Poets, 2007. 22.8cm x 15.2cm. XIII, 63 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.

Disher, M.L.

American Factory Production of Women’s Clothing.

First Edition. Limited Edition, copy no. 868. London, Devereaux Publications Ltd, 1947 24 x 19 cm, xvi, 251 pages with 24 full page plates. Original ‘velvet’ type dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Paper labels on front cover and spine. Binding seriously rubbed on corners and spine. Part of spine label missing. Internally very good condition. Minor amounts of foxing. Some age darkening.

Ditchfield, P. H. / Jones, Sydney R.

The Manor Houses of England. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1910. 17.2cm x 26.4cm. Frontispiece, VI, 211 pages with many (nearly 100) wonderful sketches of Manor Houses in rural settings. (The Frontispiece is a beautiful original, coloured engraving of Grimshaw Hall in Warwickshire). Original Hardcover (illustrated blue cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent publication !

Doak, Hugo L. (Editor).

The Treasure House. A book of Prose and Poetry For Boys and Girls. Edited by Hugo L. Doak, M.A. High School Dublin.

Dublin, The Educational Company, ND (c. 1950). 18 x 13 cm. 176 pages. Small illustrations in text. Original green cloth. Hard cover. Titel and decorations in black. Very good condition. Some shelfwear and staining to front board. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Stamps of previous owner on front free end paper. Internally clean.

Dodd, C.E.

An Autumn Near the Rhine; Or, Sketches of Courts, Society, Scenery, &c. in some of the German States bordering the Rhine.

First Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. 21 x 13 cm. 525 pages. Half title and title page are preceeded by two pages of publishers list. No maps or illustrations. Later quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Dark blue morroco label with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. A bright clean copy in a sturdy binding.

Dodd, Susan.

O Careless Love. [Signed].

First Edition. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1999. 16 x 24cm. 274 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page.

Dodsley, J. / Burke, Edmund (Editors). Washington, George / Jefferson, Thomas / Founding Fathers et al.

The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1774, 1776, 1778 – 1781, 1783 and 1787. [A Crucial Primary Source for the American Revolution / Early Printing of the Declaration of Independance / American Civil War / 1787 Constitution of the United States of America etc.].

1774 & 1776 Fourth Editions. All others: First Editions. Eight Volumes. London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1789, 1788, 1779, 1780, 1780, 1782, 1785 & 1789. 21 x 12.5 cm. 1774: (2), 280, 245, (10) / 1776: IV, 270, 259, (9) / 1778: IV, 334, 245, (11) / 1779: vii, 442, 193, (10) / 1780: vii, 404, 251, (12) / 1781: (2), 339, 207, (12) / 1787: II, 320, 202, (14). Uniform contemporary tree calf. Gilt decorations to spine. Dentelles. Generally very good condition. Bindings seriously rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers age darkened and dust dulled. Spine labels missing. Some joints started to crack. Some material losses to heads of spines and corners (see images). The 1779 volume has a split spine. Bindings remain sound. Internally mildly age darkened / dust dulled, occasionally foxed, otherwise clean. The 1781 volumes shows some damp and bookworm damage for the last 20 pages or so, not affecting readability. No annotations, library stamps etc. Eight clean copies. Excellent reading copies or candidates for rebinding.

Doering, Carl Heinrich.

Die Grundpfeiler des Clavierspiel’s in Studien und Etueden. Systematisch und practisch bewaehrte Anleitung zur gruendlichen sicheren und schnellen Erwerbung einer soliden Mechanik und Technik des Clavierspiels von Carl Heinrich Doering. Opus 38. In drei Abtheilungen.

Neunte unveraenderte Ausgabe (Ninth Edition). Three Volumes bound in One. Dresden, L. Hoffarth, Not dated, ca. 1900. 33 x 25 cm. (6), 13, Title, (4), 14, Title, (2), 26 pages. New (2019) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Text block dust dulled and browned. Some pages repaired, some tears. A few pencil annotations.

Domino Phillippo Austriaco / D. Phillippo O’Sullevano Bearro / Matthaeus Kelly (Editor).

Historiae Catholicae Iberniae. Compendium.

First Edition. Dublin, Apud Johannem O’Daly, 1850. 24 x 15 cm. xxx, 369 pages. Editor’s Preface in English. Main text in Latin. Half calf over green cloth. Five raised bands and label on spine. Gilt decorations and title on spine. Marbled edges . Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped, some abrasion. Edges and end papers age darkened. Hinges cracked, but binding is sound. Bookbinders label on front paste down. Small sticker with name and address of previous owner on front free end paper. One old signature on titel page. Internally mildly age darkened and ocassionally foxed. Text block clean.

Douglas, Gawain.

Fortuna.

London, Alma Books Ltd., 2009. 19.6cm x 12.5cm. 191 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.

Douglas, Sir George / Ramsay, Sir George Dalhousie (Editors).

The Panmure Papers. Being a Selection from the Correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, afterwards Eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., G.C.B. With a supplementary Chaper by the Late Rev. Principal Rainy, D.D.

Second Edition. Two Volumes. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 24 x 16 cm. Vol.1: viii, 515 pages / Vol.2: viii, 547 pages. Each volume with a frontispiece. Uniform cloth with gilt titles on spine. Gilt decorations. Top edges gilt. Other edges deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Deckle edges dust dulled and spotted. Spines faded. Internally clean. From the library of Howth Castle, Dublin. No Ex Libris or inscriptions.

Dowd, J.H. (author) / Spender, Brenda E. (illustrator).

Important People.

Fourth Impression. London, Country Life Limited, 1934. 28 x 22 cm. 78 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Original decorated cloth. Hard cover. Inside unclipped dust jacket. Inside Archival cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Name of previous owner on front free end paper, dated Xmas 1934. Internally bright and clean.

Downey, Alan / Nioclas Toibin (Translator).

Datad A Haon. (Forty-One. A Story of the second Anglo-Irish War in the Seventeenth Century.)

First Irish Edition. Dublin, 1955. 18 x 12 cm. 344 pages. Original red cloth with black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Head of spine a little frayed. Mild browning to edges and end papers. Paper sticker on title page with names of author and translator (by publisher?). Internally bright and clean.

Downey, Edmund (Editor) / Walker, Francis S. (Artwork).

Killarney’s Lakes and Fells. Twelve Mezzotint Engravings by Francis S. Walker. Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers; Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. With some Accounts of Killarney, its Legends and its Poems. Edited by Edmund Downey.

First Edition. Ordinary Edition, printed on India paper by Gilbert & Rivington. London, Downey & Co., 1902. 27 x 37 cm (oblong). (4) [Title / TOC], 120 pages plus 12 Mezzotint Engravings, as called for. Original boards, rebacked in 2024 with new cloth spine. Original green moire cloth boards with gilt title across fron board. New black end papers. Good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped, and damp damaged (see images). Half-title and first title page chipped on side edges; light chipping to edges of feps and pages. Internally dust dulled with light ink smudging from plates to opposite pages. Most pages show mild damp staining to the bottom edge, not affecting the text or the actual angravings. Despite the wear; still an impressive book with wonderful illustrations.

Doyle, Doirin.

The Secret of Kerrytown. Signed.

[First Edition]. Dublin, Kamac Publications, [1974]. 18 x 12 cm. 36 pages. Original decorated stiff paper covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, dust dulled. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Internally bright and clean.