Search Results: Authors starting with D from Goodbar Books

Spine is square and tight. There is some scattered highlighting throughout text. Small former seller label to the front cover. Covers are somewhat tanned and there is a cosmetic dent to the spine. 132 pp. Biography.

Cocina Indigena y Popular 16. Text in Spanish. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very gentle wear. 87 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is a crease running vertically down the length of the back cover, but else only gentle shelf-wear. Cover design by Edgar Blakeney. 'It is the undesirable activities of some secret societies,' writes Shah, 'and their very air of mystery which has given them the reputation of being strange, abnormal associations. When, however, their beliefs become those of the majority, they cease to be considered anti-social.' Shah counted among his fans Doris Lessing, J. D. Salinger, and Robert Graves, and he was key in fostering the burgeoning Wicca movement by writing (pseudonymously, taking the name of UFO Club light show maestro Jack L. Bracelin) and publishing Gerald Gardner's biography. 256 pp. Parapolitics.

Former library book with markings to front cover, title page, and fore-edge. Cover is beginning to separate at the spine, but text block is tight and square and book over all is sound. Light shelf-wear otherwise. Features two beautifully printed tipped-in foldout maps, one full-color and one monochrome. Includes B&W plates. 33 pp. Natural History.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very minor edge-wear, but nice clean copy overall. Includes B&W illustrations, annotations, and a bibliography. 388 pp. Wicca & Paganism.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Light shelf-wear to the covers, including a few small, subtle areas of soiling. In 1973, Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro's Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art hit the shelves, and Haney and Ballantine's Catskills-focused book, first published a year later, rode the wave of that success while also capitalizing on the countercultural cred still emanating from the 1969 music festival. '"Woodstock" became a word people used when they talked about imagination and self-sufficiency and getting together with your environment,' the authors write in the preface. '. . . In making this book we drove up many dead-end, washed-out roads and hiked farther on when they pinched out in places where "contractor" is a discouraging word.' A wonderful record of some of the folk architecture that inspired the hippie modernist aesthetic, this lovingly photographed book highlights materials and processes ranging from rough lumber to cob to hand-quarried bluestone to… Read More

Inscribed by Davies to Dale Kramer, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, to the first leaf. Saddle-stitched binding remains sound. Clean, unmarked interior. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. Really nicely designed little book. 32 pp. Poetry.

Inscribed by Davis to front paste-down: '"God Bless" to Janet from Jinni'. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some rubbing, very light chipping and a small area of adhesive remainder to the jacket. Full-cloth tan buckram case binding. Scarce. 64 pp. Poetry.

Book is in lovely shape with unmarked pages, tight spine. Some very gentle shelf-wear to the cover and mild foxing to the pastedowns. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has some fairly severe tearing and chipping. Lovely mid-century design. Beige full-cloth buckram case with title stamped in black on spine and front panel. Lots of beautiful ink-wash and charcoal illustrations by Claridge. 127 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gilt to spine remains bright. Some bumped corners, but no other notable wear to the book. Jacket has some light soiling and areas of rubbing and moderate to heavy edge-wear. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. Intro by Peter Quennell. Jacket design by Philippe Jullian. 254 pp. Fiction.

Signed by DeSautel to the title page. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very gentle edge-wear and some light rubbing to the cover. Cover design by Jock Edblom. Nicely designed book with lots of B&W illustrations and photos. 158 pp. History.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some sunning/toning and light edge-wear to the covers. As a young teen, De Quincey fled a Manchester boarding school to tramp around Wales, sleeping in a handmade tent and subsisting on rosehips and blackberries. At the age of 19, neuralgic facial pain drove him to opium use, and his dependency on the substance eventually formed the basis of the two pioneering works of addiction literature included in this volume. Features a unique three-color cover collaboration between mid-century design master George Giusti (whose minimalist designs include editions of John Barth's Chimera, S. J. Perelman's Crazy Like a Fox, Albert Camus's Caligula and 3 Other Plays, and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh) and illustrator Edward Shenton (known for his contrastingly classical work in first editions of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa, and William Faulkner's The Unvanquished). 233 pp.

No copyright date stated, but appears to be 1940s or 1950s. Clean, unmarked interior. Tight square spine. Some sunning to the book's exterior and creasing to the ribbon marker, but very little other wear. There is moderate chipping to the jacket. Includes full-color plates. Unmarked slipcase has some heavy wear. 787 pp. Crafts/Skills/Trades.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. Includes B&W maps, photos, and illustration, as well as an index. Bibliography: p. [69]. 72 pp. Regional History.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light edge-wear, chipping, and small areas of creasing to covers. Foreword by J. H. Plumb. Is that the mysterious H. F. on the cover? And if so, is he an invented protagonist or Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe? Ever since it was first published in 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year has been varyingly labeled and read as history, fiction, and historical fiction. Set in 1665 as the bubonic plague swept through London, the book was written by Defoe, possibly under pay of the British government, as a warning that history could soon repeat itself. 240 pp.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for some permanent marker markings to the inside front cover. Some areas of light soiling to the back cover, but very little wear overall. Includes B&W photos, figures, and illustrations. 196 pp. Miscellaneous.

Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. A few small areas of very light soiling and creasing to the covers. Lovely copy overall. As stated by Grove Film Book Series General Editor Robert Hughes, the original French title of The 400 Blows, Les Quatre Cents Coups, is a colloquialism meaning 'to deliver one's self over to every sort of excess'. This literary adaptation lives up to the name, offering over 100 frame enlargements of stills from the movie, as well as a lengthy supplement collaged of fragments drawn from issues of Cahiers du Cinema, which according to the book's acknowledgements were procured by Jonas Mekas. 256 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.

In lovely shape: tight, square, uncreased spine: clean, unmarked interior; sharp corners. Only the very gentlest of shelf-wear. Printed on lavender paper, with over 80 illustrations. 127 pp. Spirituality/Esoterica.

Clean, unmarked pages besides former owner name and stamp to front flyleaf. Tight, square spine. Minor edge-wear and some light foxing to the fore-edge. Library binding with green buckram over boards. Lots of B&W illustrations. 505 pp. Natural History.

Very good. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages besides former owner name to front pastedown. Tight, square spine. Only very light shelf-wear. Library binding with turquoise buckram over boards. Lots of B&W illustrations. 507 pp. Natural History.