Search Results: Titles starting with D from Northgate Books

Odense: Bremers Bog-Forlag, 1946. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in black leatherette and marble paper (rust brown background and black swirls), brown paper endpapers, frontis portrait, poem and song "Da Danmark Kaldte", 205 b/w photographs. Text describes the history of the German Occupation of Denmark in World War II and the resistance. It includes descriptions of guerilla tactic meetings of resistance personalities and the planning of sabotage activities. It presents what actually happened in the streets, 296pp. Text is in Danish. Corners and board edges are scuffef.

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc., 1968. Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in colour illustrated cloth (brown/yellow/off white), with unclipped dw, black endpapers with an abstract design in white, 271 illustrations, including 80 plates in full colour and 23 in toned gravure, pages are un-numbered. Small loss of surface on dw spine.

London: Daily Express Publications, 1934. Cloth. G to Vg. Each volume bound in navy blue cloth, no dw, frontis (volume 1) show the transport of the time , a bi-plane flying over a speeding steam engine, 3500 illustrations in total, 144 of these are full page photographs, 2pp. coloured plate of the flags of the world, atlas section with 220 pages of coloured maps, each of volumes 1 to 8 has 512pp., volume 9 has 455pp. Some volumes have trace marks of cellophane wrappers adhesive on the endpapers. Please contact us for postal cost to your location.

London: T Fisher Unwin, 1888. Cloth. Good. Bound in brown cloth with decorated boards showing an Indian boat and a boy with a bullock, no dw, brown/maroon endpapers, 8 full page b/w illustrations and 50 in-text illustrations, 288pp. + 22pp. advertisements. Book has been resewn and rebound in brown cloth, the cloth for the spine and boards of the original binding have been carefully harvested and replaced on the new binding. New endpapers.

London: Macmillan, 1885. 2nd. Edition . Good/No Jacket. Bound in grey cloth, alternate pages contain a small text for the day and a blank boxed page opposite for the owner's thoughts, this continues for each day of the year, red page edges, 302pp. endpapers (only) are foxed.

Stroud, Gloucs.: Budding Books/Sutton Publishing, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback, spine and boards covered in shiny colour printed paper, with unclipped dw, 74 in-text illustrations, 224pp.

London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in light brown cloth, with printed black label, no dw, coloured, pull-out frontis " Buddhist Heaven " (a spectacular illustration), 37 b/w photographs, 1 map, 237pp. Binding is uniformly lightly scuffed, corners are bumped. Ex-library but with new endpapers. Condition of text and illustrations is vg.

London: Century, 2008. Softback. Vg to Fine. Softback, a graphic novel (in other words continuous coloured illustrations in comic strip format)

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1973. Exhibitions in London & Birmingham 10Sof . Softback. G to Vg. Softback, catalogue with 327 items, 22 b/w plates at rear, 112 pp. Crease to top corner of front wrapper, text and illustrations vg.

London: William Heinemann, 1924. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Bound in mid-green cloth, no DW. Alternate texts in English and Greek, 423pp

London: Blackie and Son. n.d. (1940s ? ) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. E W Haslehust. Hardback, boards and spine covered in duck egg blue paper,with clipped dw, coloured frontis, "A Moorland Track, The Devil's Bridge", 11 coloured plates, 64pp.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1942. First Edition . Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in black cloth, no dw, 420pp. In this book the author tries to draw out the essence of man by giving a critical account of mechanistic materialism in science, art, and social science. " If we take up the history of certain ideas - the idea of the struggle for life, of economic interpretation of history, of nationalism in art - we find ourselves discussing Darwin, Marx and Wagner, but we also find ourselves embroiled in the present-day problems of democratic freedom, autarky and cultural revolution ". One corner is bumped.

Stuttgart: Frankh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardback, boards covered in colour printed paper showing children at an aquarium, 20 in-text drawings, 112pp.

Reutlingen: Ensslin und Laiblins Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1919. Cloth. Good/Fair. Bound in pale green grey cloth with printed front board, with unclipped dw, pale grey endpapers, 320pp. Water stain on back board (does not affect the text). Condition of text is g to vg. Dw has been repaired

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardback with boards covered in red illustrated paper, no DW. 94pp text plus 129pp plates

London: T C & E C Jack. Certificate Inside Cover Dated 1914 . Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in very pale yellow/brown cloth with coloured plate tipped onto fron board, coloured frontis, " Everyboby that came to the house of a morning read that he was to be taken care of, as he bit", 7 fine coloured plates by F M B Blaikie, 157pp

London: Home Words " Publishing, 1906. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in royal blue cloth, front board illustrated in black and gold with a central vignette of a sea-side town with the sun rising over the sea. Contains many short articles but several are longer, " The Bird World " (in 8 parts, " Day's Eye " (in 12 parts), " For These Times by a Looker-On " (in 12 parts). and " Alan Clifford's Legacy - or, Against the Grain " ( in 6 parts), 283pp. Endpapers are browned.

London: Home Words " Publishing, 1902. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in royal blue cloth, front board illustrated in black and gold, a central vignette of a sea-side town with the sun rising over the sea. Contains mainly short articles but several are longer, " For These Times by a Looker-On " (in 8 parts), " God's Goodness to Insects " (in 9 parts), " Old Stopford " (in 8 parts), 248pp. Corners are slightly scuffed, endpapers are browned.

Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan, 1973. Revised Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in black cloth, with protected, clipped dw, illustrated title page, 24 b/w photographs, 328pp. Top corner of front endpaper has been clipped.

London: Macmillan, 1898. 1st. Edition, 2nd. Imp. . Good/No Jacket. Bound in blue cloth,gold frieze at top of spine and front board, 381pp. + 19pp. advertisements, top edges of pages are gilded.