Search Results: Titles starting with D from Mike's Library

London: Dent Children's Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0460881248 . Light wear. Crisp pictorial hardcover. ; Juvenile historical novel set in the time of the Luddite uprising against manufacturing machines.; 106 pages .

Pisa: Nistri-Lischi Editori. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Page creasing, dampstains to endpapers, tone, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED by author on flyleaf. Dedicated to Mussolini: "Dedico questo modesto saggio Al Duce perche si convinca che la mia fede e di buona lega e non tentenna per mutare di eventi". Italian language. Title translates to: "From socialist leagues to the corporate state". Attractive copy bound in half-cloth hardcover with marbled paper boards and spine gilt lettering and rulings. History of the development of corporatism under Italian Fascism, written by prominent Fascist lawyer and activist Tuninetti. ; 224, (1) pages; Signed by Author .

Landisburg PA: Pine Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. 0930502035 . Owner's signature, otherwise slight wear. Crisp paperback pamphlet. ; SIGNED by author on title page! Eleven poems, many influenced by Jennings' stay in Iran. Michael Jennings graduated from Penn as an English major and went to Syracuse University for graduate work in creative writing. Jennings' interest in animals began in southwestern Iran where he broke and trained horses, owned gazelles, a mongoose, and numerous dogs. He is an internationally recognized breeder of Siberian huskies.; 34 pages; Signed by Author .

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807824895 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Examines US perception of a German threat to its interests in Latin America from the late 19th-century until World War One. "This investigation provides, therefore, a case study in threat perception, the study of the subtle tug-of-war waged between capabilities and desires. This is an inherently complicated subject that wrestles with the slippery, symbiotic relationship between preception and reality. The close analysis of German actions anchors it and helps to ward away the insidious assumption that US perceptions were indeed reality; that is, that because the United States perceived a threat there was in fact a threat. It serves as a rigorous mirror to the patterned distortions - the exaggerations - of US perception. ... It is not so much, as some have argued, that… Read More

New York: Johnson Reprint. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1973. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 0384410456 . Disbound from larger volume of reprints with sewing holes along spine edges, new spine and rear wraps, partial stamp mark on fore-edge, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Facsimile reprint of 1897 Johns Hopkins edition. Contents: Introduction; Early Economic Thought in the United States; Daniel Raymond and His Work: I. Life and Work, II. Outline of his system; Genesis of Raymond's System: I. Influence of environment, II. Lauderdale and Raymond; Daniel Raymond and Friederich List. ; Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, ser 15 no ; 63 pages .

Kobenhavn: Politikens Forlag. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8756723253 . Toned, light wear. Solid small hardcover. ; Danish language. Guide to mystery fiction, including author biographies. Kriminallitteratur : hvem skrev hvad.; Politikens literaturhåndbøger; 350 pages .

Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel . Nordisk Forlag. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Leather rubbed and chipped, wear to joints, edgewear, otherwise slight wear to text. Solid hardcover. ; Half leather binding with six compartment spine, gilt spine lettering and rulings. Original pictorial wraps bound in. Printing of 2000 copies. Danish language memoir of trading company in Siberia, 1904 to the Russian Revolution. "Bogen handler ikke udelukkende om det af Hjerl Hansen i 1904 stiftede Sibiriske Kompagni. De forste hundrede sider er helliget en almindelig skildring af Sibiriens folk og natur om ved arhundredskiftet, hvorefter folger en redegorelse for dansk indsats indtil 1904 og endelig skrives Det sibiriske Kompagnis historie, men med stadige sideblik til andre virksomheders indsats i det store, fjerne land." ; 335 pages .

New York: Octagon Books. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Spine crease, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "As the title of the book indicates, its main purpose is to lay stress upon the mystical aspect of the Divinia Commedia, to trace the influence upon Dante of the earlier mystics from St Augustine onwards, and to illustrate the mystical tendency of other, contemporary or even later, masters in the same "science of love."" - Preface. ; xiii, 357 pages .

London: Methuen & Company. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1938. Second Edition. Hardcover. Cocked, tone, light shelfwear, owner's signature on front paste-down, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket in two pieces at spine front edge, 1" chip at front bottom corner, smaller chips and tears, rubbed, tone, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Second and Cheaper Edition. "Almost the whole story takes place near a small seaboard town on the west coast of Ireland. The principal characters - indeed with one exception, all the characters are Irish. They belong to various sections of the community and are prompted by very different loves, hates and prejudices. The "fishing" of the title is not the angling of the noble salmon, for which the wealthy pay high prices, but a simpler and more primitive kind of sport. Mr Birmingham has rarely been in such witty form as in this novel, which, besides its wit, is full of the other characteristics of geniality and charm that have long made… Read More

Westport CT: Greenwood Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0313238286 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "This study, then, is an attempt to discover the origins and subsequent development of an American tradition of viewing Africa by examining the experiences of those Americans who had actually journeyed to Africa. It is not a history of African-American relations, although the subjects of colonization, commercial exploitation, and American missionary activity in Africa are not ignored. Nor is it a history of the American contribution to the discovery of Africa, although it does deal with the American presence on the continent as well. Rather, it is an examination of how Africa and Africans - both the land and its peoples - were seen by Americans in Africa and ultimately how their descriptions shaped American ideas about the continent in a very particular way. Thus the central… Read More

New York: Rinehart & Company. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Dampstain rear cover edge, light tone; Dust Jacket dampstain. Solid hardcover. ; Steve Johnson detective series. Hubin II p 598. Murder set in Colorado Rocky Mountain fishing camp. ; A Murray Hill Mystery; 216 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Light soil, light tone, owner's signature on both free endpapers, light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn, 2" tear at spine head, soiled, edge chipping. Solid hardcover. ; "Murvyn Morgan comes to America from his Welsh home with the one idea of gaining financial independence and returning to Wales. But America catches him, first through business, then through love. A gripping, vital story of the struggle in a man's heart when old loves and faiths war with new." First novel, uncommon in dust jacket. ; 348 pages .

New York: AMS Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. 0404114008 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, transparent protector residue glued to paste-downs, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1936 edition, Boston: Meador. First novel of Harlem in the Thirties. ; Ex-Library; 154 pages .

Tacoma WA: Bomber Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Paperback. Light edgewear, light wear. Solid oversize stapled paperback. ; History of the P-61 Black Widow night fighter with airborne radar. "The Northrop P-51 Black Widow was a specialized tool of war for the exact purpose of finding and destroying targets in the blackness of night. It was not an adaptation of any existing design, and therefore was not subject to some of the mediocrities which sometimes attend a converted or multi-mission aircraft's performance." ; 28 pages .

Freiburg: Universitätsverlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Trade Paperback. 3727807458 . Light cover rub, light wear. Crisp trade paperback.; German language. Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.; 178 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. 0824004361 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; German language. Facsimile reprint of 1918 edition, Munchen: Georg D W Callwey. "As a protest against this corruption on the part of writers and artists - notably those in the Allied camp, Avenarius published two books which were intended to make clear the intellectual treachery behind war propaganda. ... publishing a second book, drawing in this instance upon the new art of cartooning, the use of caricatures, which afforded him in the final, nihilistic and most bitter phase of the war a plentitude of proof of the perversion of art." - new Introduction by Kurt J Fickert. Contains 338 Abbildungen = cartoon illustrations. Das Bild als Narr : Die Karikatur in der Völkerverhetzung, was sie aussagt - und was sie verrät = The Picture as the Fool: Caricatures in the Persecution of a People: What… Read More

Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; German language. Facsimile reprint of 1936 edition, Berlin: Verlag Dr Emil Ebering. Inhalt: Einleitung; Erster Teil: Frankreich; England; Dänemark; Polen; Böhmen; Ungarn; Byzanz; Armenien; Die Araber; Zeiter Teil: Kaisertum und Nationen; Das Schisma; Die Kreuzfahrt; Quellen und Schriftum. ; Historische Studien; Ex-Library; Vol. 289; 139 pages .

Munchen: C H Beck. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 3406090923 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, dj protector taped to endpapers, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket spine label, slight wear. Crisp oversize hardcover.; German language. Volume Two ONLY, of two volume work. Post-war West German compensation.; Die Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Ex-Library; xv, 524 pages .

Wien: Verlag Gerold. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Tone, 1" chip at top of front cover, edgewear with light chipping, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; German language. "Philipp Frank (March 20, 1884, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – July 21, 1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was a physicist, mathematician and also an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism." - Wikipedia. Frank was a core member of the Vienna Circle, and this influential article on The End of Mechanistic Physics, published in the Vienna Circle journal Einheitswissenschaft shortly before his forced emigration to the United States, supported his thesis that "scientific ideas can best be explained by explicitly showing how they are used and what roles they… Read More

Baden-Baden: Pet. Weber. Good with no dust jacket. 1896. Hardcover. Both hinges starting but holding, tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; German language. History of the Cistercian nunnery at Lichtenthal, Baden, Germany. ; xiv, 341, 2 ad pages .