Search Results: Titles starting with D from Charity Bookstall

Chicago: Featherproof Books, 2010. Stated First Edition 12mo size paperback; 217 pages with a few black and white illustrations and photographs. There are a few pages of the publisher's other works at the back of the book. The design of the book is interesting: there are flaps on both covers when stretched over the outside pages make the book look like a closed metal box. From critical review in front of book: "Lindsay Hunter won't be caught lie-telling in the name of nice. The miniature stories in Daddy's are fierce and unapologetic... When I'm looking again for my next undoing, I'll crack open Daddy's and get the true news they tell us we'll be better off not hearing. -- Kyle Minor, author" In great condition! . First. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan, 1963. From jacket: "(The author) gives a brilliant reconstruction of the life of the ordinary Dutch citizens at this time - the rurul and urban environment in which they lived and worked, their homes and families, their amazing commercial flair, their cultural achievements, their sturdy bourgeois independence and the aggressive protestantism." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered in mylar. Sunned spine. large chip missing from back of mylar jacket; bumped top corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . First American. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1978. Navy blue leatherette cover with slight edgewear. Name written inside front cover. Tight binding. Gilt titles. Pages are unnumbered, but there are about 200 pages to this softcover volume. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. . Revised. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chelsea House Publishers 4to size pictorial hardcover; 63 pages illustrated with black and white photographs throughout From back: "the North Carolina native was known early in his career as "Ironhead" because his stubbornly aggressive driving often led to mid-race bumps and occasional crashes, but Earnhardt learned his lessons well, and his uncanny ability to consistently defeat the competition has earned him many nicknames, including "the intimidator." Piloting a black Chevrolet, which has become the most recognizable car in all of racing, Earnhardt has become to the stock-car world what Michael Jordan is to basketball: his sport's most visible star, and the opponent whom everyone aspire to beat." Small bump on back of spine. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Simon Spotlight, 2009. Stated First Edition with full numberline Shaped 4to size board book; unpaginated - about 12 pages From back cover: "Shuffle your feet! Now clap your hands! And tap your toes! We're dancing!" In great condition, we note only a tiny chip on bottom of back cover. . First. Board Book. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Ireland: Lilliput Press, 1988. 167 pages; signed and inscribed by author on title page. Little shelf and edgewear to jacket. From jacket: "Dancehall days brings the narrator to his father's house in Monkstown, Dublin, to dream of a college education and of twisting the night away." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Stated First American Edition, 2nd printing 8vo size cloth bound hardcover with dust jacket; 256 deckle edged pages. From jacket: "Eberlin, the central figure of (this) novel, is himself a completely believable character, largely because he is so frighteningly normal. Of average height, thin in body and, to his disdain, 36 years old, he is a hermetic dandy who devotes himself wholeheartedly only to the fetish of self - priding himself in his clothes, which he chooses with exquisite care, his books, his three double-barreled Fowling Pieces by Manton, his collection of old Sevres porcelain and his admiration of the legendary George Brummell..." Jacket has wear, edgewear, half inch tear to top right corner and some minor chipping at head and heel of spine, which are also bumped.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1964. 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 433 pages including index and seven technical appendices. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Printed gray laid endpapers. From dust jacket: "The author is especially adept at debunking the endless 'old husband's tales' alleging unprovoked attack, premeditated assault and deliberate mayhem committed upon man by other animals - stories that doubtless originated as soon as man could talk... Throughout the ages, these stories have been so embroidered that ... the comprise a torrential flood of horror. At the same time there are animals that are dangerous to man, some that we expect... and some coming from the most unexpected quarters..." Contents include: Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fishes Invertebrates Roger A. Caras (1928 - 2001) was a naturalist and preservationist, writer and author. This volume is one of his first of more… Read More

Crawl Space Press, Inc., 2004. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 247 pages. From back: "Danny Clarke - celebrated young physicist...blasts himself from 1995 America to 1872 Ireland for mysterious, deeply personal reasons... Racing to survive, find a way home and still fulfill his crucial purpose for coming, Danny finds love, enlists some of Ireland's leading figures of the day, and unleashes events neither he nor the country is likely to survive." We note only edgewear and one previously folded page corner. . First. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scholastic, 1969. Illustrator and author Ezra Jack Keats (1916 - 1983) was the winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal for his classic book The Snowy Day. 12mo size trade paperback; 113 pages with some black and white illustrations, some of which are full page. From back cover: "Danny Dunn has already knocked over the mysterious flask. The strange glowing liquid spills to the floor. Not until the professor shoots to the ceiling does the scientist realize what has happened. Gravity has been conquered... and by accident! Danny has a hard time keeping the news 'top secret' and the Professor starts working for the government on the first anti-gravity spaceship." Light wear to covers, small discolored area from price sticker and tiny abrasion on bottom left corner of front cover, initials on title page. Inside covers and pages are lightly tanned. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Keats, Ezra Jack. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 2003. Signed by author on title page Stated First Edition, but not a first printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 372 pages From jacket: "In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club, poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor." Edgewear to jacket, numbers written on inside front jacket flap; crease to inside back jacket flap; small spot on back of jacket and bottom of last few pages. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. 275 lightly toned pages. Tan cloth with brown titles on spine and embossed logo on front. Ex-library with typical treatments. No jacket, but inside flap from jacket has been cut out and paperclipped to fep. Pencilled price and library markings on fep. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Small 8vo size trade paperback; 262 pages. From fep: "A deeply thoughtful and important collection of essays from 12 eminent African American writers, scholars, and legal professionals on the often-divided loyalties of blacks working in the "white man's system." For many Americans the O.J. Simpson trial brought home the sometimes stark differences in whites' and blacks' perceptions of American justice. It also highlighted the painful dilemma of black prosecutors like Christopher Darden, who was labeled an Uncle Tom for trying to put a black icon in jail. (This book) explores this divided loyalty both inside and outside the justice system - from the black juror who wonders if she can put one more black man in jail for a petty crime to the black professional who is disparaged from becoming 'too white'." The authors are: Paul Butler Betty DeRamus Stanley Crouch Ellis Cose Marcia Ann Gillespie Elijah Anderson Andrea Ford… Read More

Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc., 2011. 8vo size hardcover; 248 pages including index From back: "This is a not a diet book or an attempt to push a new fad: (this volume) is a first of its kind look at atherosclerosis from the naturopathic medical standpoint. Rather than just telling us what to do, (the author) presents in language accessible to everyone the causes of the disease, the rationale behind assessing risk for it, the purpose of the various tests he recommends and the scientific evidence behind his recommendations." New, unread, but the bottom front corner appears lightly bumped. . Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Potter Craft, 2010. A Block by Block Guide to Making Patchwork Quilts Uncorrected Proof 4to sized softcover; 160 pages with black and white photographs and drawings. Covers unique to uncorrected proof with promotional details on back cover From back: "From robots, skulls, alarm clocks, and owls to chains, stripes and skylines, the 10 charming quilt patterns and 12 eye-popping patchwork projects in this book come to life using simple squares and rectangles... Because straight seems are easy to stitch!" Edgewear and some light wear and soil to covers. . Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Uncorrected Proof.

New York: Atheneum, 1975. Stated First Edition 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 182 pages From dust jacket: "When Dad heard he might get work cutting timber in the hills of southern Indiana, he sold the farm and moved Mom and the kids there without discussing it, even with Mom. She hated it. The hills were dark and closed her in... There was beauty in the hills as well as darkness and deep hollows. But there were depression years and life was tough." Ex-library with typical treatments, jacket is covered with mylar. Fep has been clipped to remove barcode, spot or fingermark on outside pages. . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Harper Collins, 2016. Uncorrected Proof 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Covers are unique to proof and clearly marked as proof. Back cover describes the book, provides a brief author biography and information on the national marketing campaign. From back: "Eleanor and her friends have shut down the mysterious Concentrator in the Arctic, but their mission is far from over. The earth is still spinning out of its orbit and growing colder by the day. Their only chance is to find the other Concentrators embedded around the world and deactivate them before it's too late." We note only edgewear. . Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof.

2004. Read by Blair Brown Abridged (approved by the author); 5 hours, 3 cassettes From back: "In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all - and not once, but twice... One trip to the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom, and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamorous sport. Behind the ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and dirty deals..." Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Audio Cassette. New/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Perennial Library, 2001. Signed by author on title page. 8vo size trade paperback; 415 pages. From back: "Meet Edward Rollins, scion of one of Boston's more notable families. A diligent but uninspired employee at one of the city's finest investment houses, he is a man of means - and of secrets. Each night, armed with a hand-held tape recorder, he randomly picks a car and follows it to its destination, cataloging the habits and peculiarities of its driver. A harmless obsession. But one night changes everything. Trailing a car to a remote suburb, Rollins follows it to a house that, he eerily realizes, was once frequented by this murdered cousin... ... A harrowing, tension-riddled literary thriller that echoes the storytelling power of Frederick Busch and Ian McEwan..." Edgewear, notably to bottom of front cover and wear to front corners, numeric notation on top of fep. The author is the uncle of actress Kyra Sedgwick. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your… Read More

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Stated First Edition. 339 pages plus a glossy section of black and white photographs. From jacket: "Kentucky never more deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody Ground then when a small-town physician...called in an emergency...his own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter..." Lightly dusty top and light crease to front flap of jacket. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.