Search Results: Authors starting with D from Cox and Budge Books

Croydon: Lambretta Concessionaires Ltd, 1960. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Undated, c1960. Second edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 160pp. A guide to the maintenance and servicing for Lambretta models Li Series I and II, TV Series II, LD 150 Marks I, II, III and LD 125 Mark III. Illustrated throughout with photographs, this book covers control cables, carburettor, decarbonisation, transmission, etc etc and where relevant, kick-starter, self-starter, flywheel magneto and so on. Contemporary adverts to endpapers and pastedowns. Condition: The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has some small tears to the corners and edges but remains good.

Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 269pp. Signed and dedicated by Fred Crawford to historian and author Anne Powell to the half title, and also with two typed letters signed and a Christmas card from Fred Crawford to Anne Powell. Crawford offers a wide-ranging survey of British poets of the First World War, including minor, largely forgotten writers whose conventional responses are more culturally than aesthetically interesting. The major innovators (Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, and Isaac Rosenberg) get attention too, as do others who saw the war in fresh ways. Crawford is fond of classifying poets; Sassoon, for example, appears in a chapter on satire and protest. There is also a chapter on women poets. Though it breaks little new critical ground, the book is a useful introduction, especially since it quotes more than 2000 lines of poetry, much… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardback bound in the original tan cloth with gilt titling to spine. 22 × 14cm, viii + 372pp. A thorough survey of athletics, starting with the history of the sport and the Olympics etc, followed by the general principles (training & equipment, printing, running, hurdling, jumping, throwing, walking, relay-racing, tug-of-war), and then ending with athletics for women and boys, and records and statistics. A few line drawings illustrate the text. The authors were both sportsmen. Douglas Lowe was a double Olympic Games champion, winning gold medals in 1924 and 1928. Arthur Porritt was a military surgeon who won bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the 100m sprint. Condition: Very good condition for age. The book is in good solid shape, with minor rubbing to the spine ends and boards, and some light scattered foxing to the page edges.

London: Watts & Co, 1954. First Edition. . Hardback. Good Plus/Fair. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, xxiv + 967pp. Science in History by scientist and historian John Desmond Bernal was the first comprehensive attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history. It is a monumental work covering science and its relation to society from the earliest times to the (then) present day. "The canvas is vast, stretching from the first gropings of the Babylonians and Egyptians through three millenniums of progressive control." It continues through the scientific revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the First World War. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition with some dulling to the cloth spine and dusting to the pages' top edge. The dustwrapper is heavily rubbed to the corners, edges and spine ends, and has been price-clipped, but is now within a protective sleeve. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First Thus. . Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus. Paperback in wrapper. 18 × 10.5cm, 76pp. First published in 1929, this re-issue of Irish scientist and Communist activist J D Bernal seminal work with a new foreword by the author. Arthur C Clarke called it "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made" and is a futuristic essay which explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about. It is famous for having been the first to propose the so-called Bernal sphere, a type of space habitat intended for permanent residence. The second chapter explores radical changes to human bodies and intelligence and the third discusses the impact of these on society. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little light wear to the wrapper and page edges.

Philadelphia: The John C Winston Co, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, 1900. Two volumes, hardback, bound in the original red cloth with ornate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Each 20.5 × 14cm, 516pp + 565pp. John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. This edition illustrated with frontispieces and fifty one plates, of portraits and photographs of the Exmoor landscape etc. Condition: A lovely set. There is a little light rubbing to the boards' edges and corners, and spine ends but the giltwork remains crisp (very slight loss to the joints through handling). The inner bindings are secure, and the pages clean. A delightful copy. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers,… Read More

Brighton: Royal Pavilion & Museums, 2009. First Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 27 × 21.5cm, 143pp. China has fascinated the imagination of the West for centuries. The story of chinoiserie in Britain is a dazzling example of contact between two very different cultures. This indispensable and beautifully illustrated guide to the chinoiserie style tells three centuries of stories through rare and exotic objects. Loans from HM The Queen, national museums and private collections include some of the earliest Chinese and China Trade objects exported to Britain. English merchants returned from China with silk, porcelain, tea and lacquer. These fabulous objects inspired local craftsmen to produce their own fantastical pieces using the fanciful imagery of an imaginary China. The Royal Pavilion in Brighton is the most dazzling example of chinoiserie style and extravagance in Britain, and is the inspiration and focus for the major exhibition that this book accompanies.… Read More

Natick, MA.: Alphabet Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. First US edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 28.5 × 21cm, 105pp. This book studies the work of graphic artist David Lance Goines, who has focused his attention on the poster and prints all his own posters. The book is a chronological presentation, in full colour, of all 114 posters Goines has completed to date (1985), and has an introduction by Charles Shere. Condition: Good plus condition. There is a little wrinkling to the wrapper's edges and some light staining to the pages' top edge but this has not penetrated at all, the pages are clean and the binding is secure.

Brighton: Scopitones, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in illustrated boards. 25 × 17.5cm, 150pp [6]. This copy has been signed to the title page by Terry de Castro, Lee Thacker and David Lewis Gedge. Terry has signed it to Jason, the other names are signed without dedication. Also enclosed is a card with handwritten note (sender unknown) saying they'd been to a Q&A and live set with the band. Something And Nothing is the second volume in the autobiography from David Lewis Gedge of Wedding Present fame. The stories featured in this book have previously only been available to readers of the Tales From The Wedding Present comic book series. This collected edition comes with 100 pages of never-before-seen additional material and an introduction by Craig Cash. David writes the Tales From The Wedding Present narrative together with long-time musical associate Terry de Castro, and then the stories are illustrated by virtuoso artist… Read More

London: Grub Street, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 223pp. This copy has been signed to the title page by Stapme (Basil Gerald Stapleton), David Ross, and Nicholas Trudgian, the artist of the dustwrapper art. Gerald Stapleton was born in Durban, South Africa in 1920. In January 1939 he took up a short service commission in the RAF and eventually joined 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron in December 1939, prior to becoming on of the outstanding fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain, accounting for nearly 20 enemy aircraft destroyed, probably destroyed or damaged. All his scores were achieved on Spitfires during this battle and he was revered as one of Richard Hillary's contemporaries in whose book "The Last Enemy", he features. Nicknamed "Stapme" after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip "Just Jake", in February 1942 he became flight commander of 257… Read More

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good / Fair. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 304pp. From the dustwrapper, "There are deserted towns in France, small fortified places overhanging remote valleys, whose life ceased long ago and whose people went elsewhere to seek their livelihood. Peter de Mendelssohn has made a new legend in the spirit of the old legends surrounding one of these fortress towns cut off from the world when a river changed its course. Descendants of its original inhabitants returnt o settle there. They build a bridge over the river, and others come. No one is turned away. The little town comes to life again, the property of them all. But if it is now repopulated by the people of today, it has never really ceased to be populated by the generation of yesterday. Ghosts walk its streets and inhabit its crumbled houses. History lies heavily upon it, so that the present seems to be no more… Read More

London: NLB, 1980. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 14cm, 268pp. Logic as a Positive Science represents the fruit of more than two decades of the philosophical work of Galvano Della Volpe. The central concern of Logic as a Positive Science is to establish a scientific logic free of any aprioristic speculation. Delia Volpe argues that there can be no specifically philosophical logic, or method of producing true knowledge. On the contrary, there is only one logic and one method: that of modern, experimental science. The establishment of this proposition is, according to the dictates of his method itself, part and parcel of a description of what that logic is, and how it is distinct from and superior to any other. Della Volpe maintains that the liberation of philosophy from idealist speculation is itself a historical process, and critical consideration of that process is integral to the constitution of a genuinely scientific logic and methodology.… Read More

London: Duckworth, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 287pp. A novel from Irish author Shaw Desmond set in Nero's Rome, described as a reincarnation fantasy. Condition: This copy is in good plus condition. The book is in strong readable condition, but with some tanning to the spine.

London: Duckworth, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in green cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 331pp + ads. An early novel from Shaw Desmond, the Irish author, poet, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1934, and author of many works on the afterlife. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Duckworth, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in brown cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 320pp. An early novel from Shaw Desmond, the Irish author, poet, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1934, and author of many works on the afterlife. Condition: This copy is in good plus condition. The book has a little light bumping to the corners and some light tanning to the pages but remaining in strong readable condition.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. First paperback edition. 21.5 × 14cm, 213pp. "In this book Tim Dinsdale tells of a Quest, the true life adventure story of a search for something which appears to be impossible - the Loch Ness and Loch Morar Monsters. It is a book about people, and experiments, and extraordinary events, and for the first time Dinsdale examines the more intriguing human aspects of the chase. He shows what immense effort and ingenuity have gone into hunting 'Nessie' over the years, in terms of modern technology, and tells of the romantic, sometimes comically eccentric, expeditions put in by enthusiast; the 'Monster-hunters' as they have come to be known. He looks in a kindly way upon their failures, and applauds their successes." Condition: Very good condition, with a light crease to the spine and a little tanning to the pages.

London: Kelly's Directories, 1904. Hardback. Good. Hardback. Rebound in binder's burgundy cloth, remnants of handwritten title label to spine. 26.5 × 17.5cm, xxviii + 812pp, 617pp, and 68pp ads. A fascinating summary of Norfolk and Suffolk in the first years of the twentieth century. Each county begins with a brief account of the county, its officials, and geology followed by an alphabetical gazetteer of the towns, cities and villages (for Norfolk this is Acle to Yelverton, and in Suffolk it is Acton to Yoxford). Then comes the countyside private residents directory (an alphabetical listing of the notable residents), and then the trades directory. This is followed by county adverts. This copy has the two maps, one for each county. Condition: This copy is in good plus condition for age. The rebinding has been done to a high standard and the inner binding is very secure. The burgundy cloth is a little marked with a light but visible dent over the front board. The Norfolk map is in very… Read More

London: Kelly's Directories, 1907. Hardback. Good Plus. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with gilt crest to upper board. 27 × 17.5cm. xviii + 319pp, 68pp ads. A fascinating summary of Buckinghamshire in the first decade of the twentieth century. The directory begins with a brief account of the county, its officials, and geology followed by an alphabetical gazetteer of the towns, cities and villages from Ackhampstead to Wyrardisbury. Then comes the private residents directory (an alphabetical listing of the notable residents), and then the trades directory from Abyssinian Tube Wells engineers to yeast merchants. The book closes with 68 pages of advertisements, some for the county and surrounding area's businesses. The large fold-out map is present. Condition: This copy is in good condition for age. The red cloth is a little rubbed to the edges and faded to the spine, with reference label to spine. The contents are in good order and in strong readable condition. Previous… Read More

London: Kelly & Co, 1894. Hardback (rebound). Good Plus. Hardback, professionally rebound in red cloth with gilt titling to spine. 26.5 × 17cm, 430pp (inc folding map) +72pp ads. This Kelly's Directory for Cumberland is a wonderful resource for genealogists and researchers and a fascinating guide to the county in the late Victorian age. The directory begins with a brief outline of the county, it's council, magistrates, constabulary and geology. This is followed by the alphabetical directory of it's cities, towns and villages, from Addingham to Wythop, with each location being given a physical description, and notable provate and commercial persons noted. Then comes the court directory, listing the names of notable people of the whole county, and runs from Frederick H Abbott of Henry St, Carlisle, to Emile Zullig of St Bees. And finally the trades directory, listing county businesses by industry from absorbent wool manufacturers to zinc workers. Then comes 72 pages of adverts,… Read More

London: Country Book Club, 1965. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Hardback. 22 × 14cm, 217pp. A description of Romany life in the early to mid-1960s, with superb pen and ink illustrations by Beshlie, herself a seasoned Traveller. Includes a brief glossary of Romani terms. Condition: Good readable condition but the spine is tanned and there is some bumping to the corners.