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

London: Vizetelly & Co, 1890. First Thus. . Hardcover. Good. Undated, c1890. First thus. Hardback, quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Gilt titling to spine. 22 × 14.5cm. xiii, 155pp + ads. Daphnis and Chloe was written in the 2nd or 3rd century CE and considered the first pastoral prose romance. It tells the story of two foundlings who are brought up by shepherds and who fall in love at an early age. The translation for this edition follows that of C V Le Grice, the illustrations from the 1800 Amyot Edition, and the head and tailpieces fromt he 1718 edition (see the introduction for more details). The book has nine full page plates. Condition: A good copy. There is rubbing to the corners, edges and spine ends, and a little tanning to the pages but this copy remains in strong readable condition.

Toronto: ChemTec, 2019. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 23.5 × 16cm, 542pp. Databook of Curatives and Crosslinkers contains extensive data on the most important curatives and crosslinkers in use today. Forty groups of curatives/crosslinkers are included in the book. They include the following chemical groups of additives: acids, acrylamides, aldehydes, amides, amidoamines, amines, anhydrides, aziridines, borates, epoxy-functionalized polymers, carbamides, carbodiimides, chitosan derivatives, cyanamides, diols, glutarates, glycols, graphene oxide derivatives, hydantoin glycols, hydrazides, hydroxides, hydroxyl-containing moieties, imidazoles, isocyanates, isocyanurates, ketimines, maleimides, melamines, novolacs, peroxides, peroxyketals, phenols, polyols, salts, silanes, siloxanes, thiols, titanates, and ziconium derivatives. In total, 416 additives are included in the book.Information on each additive is divided into five sections: General… Read More

London: National Portrait Gallery, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 28 × 23cm, 256pp. David Hockney is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. He has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of My Father (1955), and portraits of family, lovers, friends and well-known subjects represent an intimate visual diary of the artist's life. This authoritative new study examines Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photocollage and prints - and is produced in close collaboration with the artist. Together, the authors reveal how Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his iconic double portraits of the late 1960s and early 1970s to his cubist-influenced investigations of the 1980s and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from… 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.

New York: Doubleday, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First US edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 14cm, 180pp. Signed and dedicated by Alex Finer to the ffep. The mining ship "The Voyager," on an assignment three thousand miles out in the Pacific, discovers unimaginable mineral wealth and strange new life forms three miles from the surface. Condition: The book is in good plus condition, the dustwrapper is chipped to the edge but is now within a protective sleeve.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 128pp. This simple introduction to the design of decoration is intended for people who are skilled in making craft items but not in their decoration. Includes items such as the bedspread, carpets, curtains, cushions etc, as well as painted and decorated furniture. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little light spotted foxing to the page edges.

London: OUP, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 150pp. Two works in one from Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski. The Key to Heaven contains seventeen Biblical narratives retold for application to our time, with morals, and including the Creation, Noah, Ruth, Solomon, and Salome. Talk of the Devil is a collection of writings on those who have met the Devil. Condition: The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has light edgewear.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair / Good. First edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 376pp. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world. Condition: The book is in good solid condition, though with a little tanning to the page edges and endpapers. The dustwrapper is quite heavily chipped to all edges and the rear joint, is tanned to the spine but has not been price-clipped… Read More

Bristol: Spectrum International, 2000. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First thus. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 155pp. When the fake Hitler diaries were taken up by The Sunday Times, it was accompanied by all the razzmatazz of the modern media. Yet in 1949, when Eva Braun's diary was published, there was no such circus in a world already tired of the war. The source of the diary was Luis Trenker, a film-maker, and there was plenty of evidence to verify that this was no fake. He had not the slightest doubt that Eva had given him her private diary in which she reflected upon the most momentous years and events not only in her lifetime but in that of millions of others. She alone knew of the most intimate facts concerning one of the most infamous men in the history of the world, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third German Reich. And here they were spread out before a small-time film director. Yet here, quietly languishing on the odd bookshelf, is one of the most… Read More

New York: Abrams, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 295pp. Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable Mexican artist. The 170-page journal contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams - many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera - along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations. The text entries, written in Frida's round, full script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct… Read More

London: Pavilion, 2002. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21 × 13.5cm, 152pp. This book tells the remarkable story of how an English food writer restored a curate's ancient, walled garden situated at the foot of a medieval castle, in a beautiful village deep in the Ardeche region of France, to plant herbs for the benefit of the villagers. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Good Plus. First edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm. 215pp. Signed and dedicated to the title page by Clive Sinclair. From the dustwrapper: "Twenty years ago, Clive Sinclair was indifferent to Zion. Then came the Six Day War and a passion for Israel never quite consummated by settling there. In Diaspora Blues he confronts the conflict of loyalties between language and history, between the country of his birth and the land to which instinct and emotion bind him. 'I am Jewish,' says one of Sinclair's characters, 'but my tongue is not circumcised'. Diaspora Blues is both the story of Sinclair's 'coming home' and a portrait of Israel since the Six Day War, seen through the eyes of some of the country's most outspoken artists, poets, novelists and playwrights. The two decades that have seen Sinclair follow his own 'Law of Return' as he comes back again and again to… Read More

London: University of London Press, 1968. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardback. Fair. Second edition, second impression. Hardback, rebound in blue leather with gilt titling and David Heathcote's name in gilt to the upper board. 22 × 14.5cm, xxvii + 992pp. This copy belonged to British artist David Heathcote (b.1931), who after studying at the Slade School of Art, worked in Zimbabwe and Nigeria for twenty years, an experience that would contribute significantly to his creative vision. A dictionary of the Hausa language, from to Hausa to English. Hausa is a Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria and the surrounding countries. For example gizaka is a caterpillar whose hairs come out on being touched and cause irritation; farangaita is travel slowly from illness or fatigue, and ya rikida kura is he changed into a hyena. Condition: A reference copy only but in good readable condition. The blue leather binding is mottled and marked, and the pages edges are foxed and tanned. However, the main… Read More

Munchen: O C Recht Verlag, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, full leather with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine. One of 100 copies signed by the author, numbers 1-20 being hand-bound in full leather and this being No 3 (numbers 21-100 were bound in half-leather). Top edge gilt. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 174pp. German text. Signed by Lili Turel to the limitation page at the rear of the book. The title translates as 'The Well-Beloved Woman; George Sand and her friends in letters and documents', and is a biography of George Sand (pseud. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil) the French novelist and memoirist. The book is illustrated with ten mezzotints of her circle: Chopin, Liszt, Heine etc. Condition: Good condition. There is tanning to the pages, most of which are unopened (uncut at the top edge). However, the inner binding is secure and the book remains in strong readable condition.

London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 22 × 14cm, 495pp. A summary of the Presbyterian Church's meetings, rules and regulations during 1906 and 1920, dealing with officials, presbyteries, boundaries, law and history, ministerial support and training, home mission, foreign and Jewish missions, religious, moral and social questions etc etc. Condition: Very good condition for age, with some light wear to the covers. Previous owner's name pencilled to ffep, and label to front pastedown stating this copy belonged to the congregation of Ramsay.

Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2018. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 73pp. Signed by Mara Bergman directly to the title page. In Mara Bergman's first full collection, the poet travels from the tenements of New York City to the Sussex countryside, from childhood to motherhood, and beyond. Through a wide range of subjects steelworkers and young apprentices, photographs and photograms, dolls in a local museum's hidden collection she writes with a keen sense of time and place. These are probing poems, seeking to discover; poems with a sense of urgency. Here are poems about love, loss, friendship, family, fitting in and, ultimately, acceptance. They are infused with wonder and provide a fresh way of looking at the world. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Loewenthal / Carney, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Card covers. 18 × 10cm, 69pp. A charming pocket guide to London, with three suggested walks, and sections on music, opera, ballet, jazz, theatre, window-shopping, pubs, restaurants (with prices etc). Illustrated with pen and ink maps and drawings, and a large fold-out colour map to the rear. Condition: Very good condition for age, but with a little surface tanning to the covers.

Ashford: L Reeve, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good / Fair. Undated [1930]. First edition. Hardback bound in the original burgundy cloth with gilt titling to spine. 25.5 × 16cm, xx + 744pp, with 22 plates of which two are colour. A fascinating book studying the movement of seeds and fruits throughout the world. The book looks at dispersal by wind (with and without special adaptations); dispersal by water (rain-wash, river, flood, sea etc); dispersal by animals; dispersal by birds, by fish and reptiles; dispersal by simple adhesion; by special modification; by adhesion due to viscid exudation; by human agency; by mechanical dispersal; with notes on various islands, and dispersal of orders and genera. Condition: The spine has heavy mottled fading and a strip of fading to the rear joint but the boards are in good order. Light spotting to the page edges. The contents are in very good order as well, with clean pages and secure binding, this copy remains in strong readable condition.

London: Cockatrice, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Paperback. 20.5 × 14.5cm, 246pp. From the back cover: "The rather extraordinary lives of the women described in this book, all members of the same family, were strongly motivated by the persuasive forces of the Oxford Movement in the mid nineteenth century. The inhabitants of a Warwickshire rectory lie at the core of this story which had its beginnings with their slave owning ancestors in Jamaica, and continues with later generations, imbued with the same ethos, down to the twentieth century". Condition: There is creasing to the spine, and light wear to the covers but otherwise this is a good copy in strong readable condition.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Laing Art Gallery, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Card covers. 25.5 × 21.5cm, 52pp. An illustrated exhibition catalogue from 1990 exploring the work of Dod Procter and her husband, Ernest. She lived in Cornwall from 1912, and became President of St Ives Society of Artists. The majority of the illustrations are in black and white, with a few in colour. The catalogue has a fairly extensive essay running through it by Elizabeth Knowles. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.