I found Dunnington's Attacking with 1. d4 inspiring, though not sure if will play any of his recommendations nowadays. Before his book i didn't know 1. d4 could be played so aggressively! His analysis is optimistic, and even somewhat "Fritzy", but that's how it is if you want to play like that.

The weakest part of the book is on the Slav, where he recommends the dubious 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5?!, after 4... dxc4! i think black is already better. But he make up for it by providing excellent analysis of QGA 3. e4, the quality in this part is not inferior to Sakaev/Semkov's generally authoritative QGA work.

Actually, I think all 1. d4 players should buy Dunnington's book. Even if his book is not a repertoire for life (far from it!), it's a nice hodge-podge of interesting ideas, somewhat like a good SOS collection for the 1. d4 player.

I am still waiting for the repertoire book that is in-between  Palliser and Dunnington on the aggression scale, for me this would hit the sweet spot, am thinking of lines like nimzo 4. Qc2 0-0 5. e4!, Samisch KID, 5. Bf4 QGD etc.

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Your first sentence is very interesting.  Why is that exactly?   What is the difference with e4 in that regard?  I'd guess it is because of possible transpositions and move order tricks.  And to carry on a debate here from another thread, isn't that an indication that d4 is more work then e4. 

Btw, can you give more information on the Pedersen books?  Is the Queen's Gambit one still worth getting?  I think it is 10 years old.

1.d4! is Palliser's book, I think. 

I checked at Amazon and there are two relevant books by Pedersen: Queen's Gambit for the Attacking Player (which is only on the QGD and perhaps the QGA) and Beating the Indian Defenses. 

Summerscale's book is more a Queen's pawn repertoire book, I think.  I should have specified that I was thinking of Queen's Gambit (d4 followed by c4) repertoire books.

Steffen Pedersen has written one (1.d4! I think it's called), Summerscale another and Khaliman's opening series according to Kramnik is essentially also a d4 repertoire though he fiddles about with the 1.Nf3 move order. There are probably many more...