Search Results: Authors starting with D from Andrew James Books

Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2nd edition (revised) In very good condition. Dark blue buckram boards with light rubbing to edges in places. Title label to front board. Owners name to front end paper and both front and rear end papers are age discoloured. Otherwise internally clean. In his Preface the author, a former Oxford Scholar, states that he finds the custom of giving the beginner learning the Greek Language a few of the principle rules and exceptions of Greek Accentuation is not sufficient and here he provides what he describes as an 'exhaustive' set of rules.

Canongate Books Ltd, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing, virtually as new condition with unclipped dust jacket. Both jacket and book in immaculate condition. Black cloth boards with gilt spine. Acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the 21st century with a single suitcase. He did not intend to stay long. Fourteen years later Delhi is still his home and this book is the result of his passion for the city he came to love.

Indian Central Cotton Committee. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated circa 1946. Signed by the author to the ffep. In fair to good condition, green cloth boards with gilt titles to front. faded to spine and spine is chipped in three places and partial split along edge. with rubbing to corners. Spine a little shaky and gutter is cracked at the Preface. With graphs and tables and one black and white plate.

Charpentier, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Edmond Morin. collection Petite bibliothèque Charpentier. Full leather binding with gilt titles to spine with five raised bands. Some surface scratches to front board and very lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine. Decorated end papers and inner board edges with gilt decoration. All text block edges gilt. With original bookmark attached. Delightful original owners inscription design to first blank end paper. (see additional photographs). 11cm x 8 cm approx. Internally in very good condition with only occasional foxing. With two engravings by Edmond Morin with tissue guards. TEXT IN FRENCH.

Oxford Illustrated Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears but with light creasing to top edge. No inscription r markings very clean throughout. Suitable for the beginner and enthusiastic photographer alike, profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs

Unicorn Press, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. first printing. very good in very good unclipped dust jacket lightly soiled through handling though free from nicks and tears. Limited edition of 1500. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean with some foxing to edge of text block not affecting the pages. Davidson committed suicide in 1909 and this edition of his work commemorates the 50th anniversary of his death. This collection of poems chosen by R D Macleod is a generous and comprehensive one. Macleod also provides a long biographical introduction.

Stephen Swift, 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. SIGNED with dedication by the author to front end paper. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine, a little rubbing to cornes and bumped to top and bottom of spine. Rough cut pages. Book Plate to front end paper. A little foxing to the first and last few pages but otherwise clean. An account of the authors tour around Brittany on a very restricted budget, illustrated with black and white photographs

Wales: Gomer Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. Signed and inscribed, without dedication by Greg Cullen. This is a volume of newly commissioned essays on the work of four of Wales Leading Playwrights - Greg Cullen, Dic Edwards, Edward Thomas and Charles Way. It is the first book to provide a full critical perspective on the work of the main English language playwrights now working out of Wales. In excellent condition, covers crease free, with light reading creases to spine. Clean throughout.

University of Wales Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, sunned to spine otherwise near fine, no inscription and clean throughout. A collection of articles that appeared in the first 100 issues of the Welsh Magazine 'Planet' from 1970 onwards. The articles fall largely into three main categories; Welsh Society, Minority Language Cultures and Politics; and Literature and Literary Criticism

Parthian Books, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by the author with a dedication to the title page. Covers and spine crease free. A brooding murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of the imagination. Reduced postal rates will apply.

D S Brewer, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no annotations or highlights very clean throughout. A collection of essays presented to Kenneth Varty on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday.

Viking Penguin, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st US edition in clipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, very light occasional soiling and slight fade to rear. Internally the book is in a very clean condition throughout.

Davis-Poynter, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, free from nicks and tears, small abrasion to inside front flap where label has been removed otherwise fine. No inscription, internally very clean throughout. With fourteen black and white photographs

Jonathan Cape, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very good in good unclipped dust jacket now in protective sleeve. Small chips to corners and top and base of jacket spine and rubbed to edges in places. Boards clean and unmarked. Owners initials so ffep and name and address to reverse of contents page. Partial age toning to end papers and a small amount of light foxing to early pages otherwise clear. A collection of 28 poems by the author of The Autobiography of a Super Tramp written in the two years prior to publication.

Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. In as new condition other than the jacket has been price clipped. Book genuinely appears unread.

Simon & Schuster, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with very small nick to dead of spine. The lower jacket and outer boards have become wet as some stage leaving water mark to boards and discolouration to reverse of jacket. Small stain to lower fore edge of text block and lower corners of text block have also been wet at some stage leaving very feint water mark Illustrated with black and white plates. Arguably the best book written on the experiences of Prisoners of War in Japan during the Second World War. Remains a very good reading copy. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply.

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. WIth unclipped dust jacket which is complete but well worn. Label mark to front paste down otherwise clean throughout. Thriller about the American intelligence agency and a cover up dating from World War II

Summit Books, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing without dust jacket, one or two small marks to boards otherwise clean. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will be required

Allan Wingate, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st English edition Very good with good to very good unclippped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, slight fade to spine and age tanned to reverse of jacket. Internally very clean without ownership details etc. and fre from foxing. Includes a substantial 30 page preface giving background to the play

George Newnes. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. D Murray Smith. undated circa early 1900's. A volume from Newnes Works of Balzac. Brown buckram with gilt decoration and titles. Previous owner has written no. 6 under the title to spine in ink. Previous owners name to front end paper otherwise clean though with some light foxing to edges of text block and early and latter pages. with four etched illustrations.