Search Results: Titles starting with D from Julian Roberts Fine Books

D. C. Thomson, 1959. Red pictorial boards. A very good+ copy with clean and bright boards. Wear to extremities. Internally very clean. "This book belongs to..." completed. A very attractive copy of a 1950s Dandy annual.

Wightman and Cramp, 1827. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 322, [6]pp + illustrated title frontispiece. Original publisher's rare grey boards with buff paper spine & spine label. A very good copy with wear to extremities with light slither chipping to spine tips & bottom right foot of spine. Wear to gutter hinges and light chipping to label. Internally clean with neat manuscript name & date [1829] to half title. A very good copy of an uncommon title in first edition in rare original publishers boards. The Desolation of Eyam is a tragic poem describing a Seventeenth century outbreak of plague in the Peak District.

Macmillan, 1930. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards - light mottling. Internally clean and complete with attractive bookplate of the renowned collector of Delafield - "From the E. M. Delafield library of Robert Milnes No 20A" to front endpaper. Very clean with wonderful period plates by Arthur Watts. The rare dustwrapper is complete with some edgewear to extremities and mild toning to spine. Original price of 7/6net to front flap. A lovely copy of a Classic title in the very rare dustwrapper. This is the first dustwrapper we seen or handled on this title. Delafield's defining title and a classic of domestic literature - critics on both sides of the Atlantic greeted it with great enthusiam. It initially appeared in weekly instalments in Time and Tide - the feminist weekly. The diary is the (largely autobiographical) chronicle of the disaster prone "day to day" life of a wife and mother living a frugal life in… Read More

Harper Collins [HarperCollins], 2022. Special Edition - Signed by author to specially laid in leaf. Black boards with heavy gilt decoration & decorated textblock edges. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with no marks to boards & no marks internally or to edges. No inscriptions. Completely unread. The fine dustwrapper has no wear, marks or tearing. Original price of £20 to front flap. Special edition - Waterstones autographed edition with sticker stating such to front board & extra printed content with bonus essay on the women in Bond & highly decorated textblock edges [not present on standard trade edition]. The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6's Double O agents with licence to kill as they search for a missing 007.

Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1902. Limited [First] edition No 34 of 250 copies Van Gelder's hand made paper. Deluxe large paper issue with vellum spine & ribbed green buckram boards. Topedge gilt. Deckle edges. This copy has the author's initials next to the limitation number on the limitation page but is also Signed by the author [which is not normal to this Limited edition] in lilac to the titlepage. A near fine copy. Some light dusting. Foxing to endpapers. A superb and rare fully signed copy of this vintage fishing title. Classic fishing title of the Authors rememberences of golden holiday times on the Dove and the Lea.