Search Results: Authors starting with D from BookMangos

Puffin Books, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. A bucket a ladder and a cleaner? How about a pelican, a giraffe and a monkey? Read about their thrilling adventures. Slight creasing to front cover. Tight binding and clean pages. AB12

London: faber and Faber, 1965. First edition. Fine/fine. This traces the development of D H Lawrence as a novelist. Green boards with gold writing to spine. Dj mylar covered. Minor bumping. Tight binding and clean pages, not price clipped. First Edition AB59

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1975. First printing. Fine/very good. In this important and challenging book Michael Dumas demonstrates that the form and purpose of Silbury is entirely consistant with the principal concern of European Stone Age communities. 109 Illustrations, cloth cover;clean;tight;shelf wear to dj First Edition AB31

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. Fourth edition. Very Good. The vast and imposing structure of modern science is perhaps the greatest triumph of the human mind. But the story of its origin, its development and its achievements is one of the least known parts of history, and has hardly yet found its way into general literature, which this volume seeks to address. Red boards with writing to spine. Some bumping to spine and minor shelf wear. Owner label inside front board. Nice clean pages and tight binding. AB51

London: Cambridge University Press, 1929. Very Good +. The vast and imposing structure of modern science is perhaps the greatest triumph of the human mind. But the story of its origin, its development and its achievements is one of the least known parts of its history, and has hardly yet found its way into general literature. Historians treat of war, of politics, of economics; but of growth of those activities which have revealed the individual atom and opened to our vision the depths of space, which have revolutionised philosophic thought and given us the means of advancing our material welfare to a level beyiond the dreams of former ages, most of them tell us little or nothing. The author began the studies of which this volume is the outcome in an attempt to clarify his own ideas on the all-important subjects with which it deals and hopes the reader may find his labours useful. Cloth bound; slight marking to front cover and fading to spine, bumped corners. some foxing to inside pages but clean… Read More

London: john Murray, 1946. First edition. Very Good. A wonderful book going through a host of memories taken from frames of a library wall. Green boards with writing to spine.Owner bookplate. Minor bumping and shelfwear. Tight binding and clean pages. AB67

New Jersey: A.S. Barnes & Co. Inc., 1978. First printing. Very Good/very good. This book introduces topical coin collecting to the person interested in world and regional games and athletics. It is primarily for the reader who is a coin collector and a sports enthusiast. Brown boards with writing to the spine. Dj some rubbing and bumping, minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB55

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Very Good/very good. Under the title of Les carnets du Major Thompson this witty book is a bestseller in France. He is the typical english army officer and gentleman portrayed by the french author, but does he sometimes trip up in his knowledge of the english? A delightful read. A reflection of the english in a french mirror! Cream boards with writing to spine and embossed illustration to cover. Dustjacket has illustration too and is slightly foxed. Some shelf wear and yellowing pages. First Edition AB10

London: Her Majestys stationary office, 1979. second impression. Paperback. Very Good. A booklet that accompanied an exhibition at the royal victoria and albert museum.It is a collection that conveys a remarkably clear record of early railway development. paperback booklet . Some shelf wear and bumping to corners. very nice prints. AB68

London: Merrion Press, 1979. First Published. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Thomas Bewick. A wonderful collection of poems by this poet who was born in dublin in 1795 and lived most of his life in London. His last poem Nepenthe was largely unknown.Illustrated with Vignettes by Thomas Bewick. Gold boards with writing to spine. Minor shelf wear. Dj minor shelf wear and bumping. Tight binding and clean pages.Not price clipped. First published AB82

London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. Very Good/good. This looks at ricketts major areas of artistic achievement. He was a key figure in the london art world in the 1890s to the 1930s as an illustrator and painter, jewelry and theatre designer art critic and collector. Black boards with writing to spine. some shelfwear. Dj bumped, rubbed and nicked top and bottom at the front, also a tear to the front. Shelf wear. price clipped. Tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB61

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. Very Good/very good. The luxury and glamour of early 20th century Paris. Gossip, intrigue and scandal of aristocratic France. Black boards with writing to spine. Dj painting of proust and the modernist dinner party of 1922. Very nice little book.Mininmal wear. First Edition AB24

New York: Pocket Books, 1984. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. An attack on a small planet triggers an interstellar war. embossed private library print;crease and chipping to cover AB37

London: Titan Books, 1988. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. A freak accident hurl Captain Kirk one hundred years into the future - where he finds a Klingon Empire at peace with the Federation. Revered as the originator of the Great Peace, he must make the journey back in time, to his own past to create the future. clean;tight;sight chipping to front corners AB37

London: penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. Box set of 5 penguin paperbacks, Italian food, Summer Cooking,French Provincial Cooking, French Country Cooking, Mediterranean Food Box set of 5 books, shelf wear and creasing to the spines. Box is rubbed and dirty. AB22

London: The Cookery Book Club, 1966. Second revised. Very Good/fair. No home should be without this book especially if you are a big Elizabeth David fan. For those who take an interest in the pleasures and problems of the table and have never been to France and enjoyed the many things each region has to offer this is a must. Of course her writing is very clear cut and full of prose. Blue boards with writing to spine and embossed picture to cover. Dustjacket rubbed and creased and slight tear to back cover. Mylar covered. Some staining to head leaves. Very nice addition to this authors collection. First Edition AB16

London: B.T.Batisford, 1997. As New/near fine. The Atlas is compiled with 120 exquisite drawings, 16 tables, 3 appendices, a gazeteer of place-names and indexes of birds. Whether as an indispensable book of reference or as a fascinating survey of London birdlife, this is a book that will be treasured by all ornithologist. not clipped;clean;mylar cover First Edition AB42

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Very Good +. The exploration of Greek Cities and sites in Italy and Sicily. user note marks throughout.slight foxing;maps and b/w plates AB42

London: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. first published. Fine/fine. St. Thomas's hospital in London, one of the oldest teaching hospitals in the country, is shown here with all its insights, people, doctors, nurses etc. The most vivdly realised book to emerge from a modern inner city hospital. Black boards with silver writing to spine. First Edition AB58

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978. fifth impression. Paperback. Very Good. A comprehensive framework for a one year course in business organisation for young students with only slight formal experience of the working of business. Some bumping to corners and shelfwear. AB25