Search Results: Authors starting with D from Supercalifabulistic Books

Hafner, 1952, A Facsimile Reprint of the FIRST EDITION NF/VG. Hardcover has boards with geometric design , green spine with gold gilt titles. Binding is tight, clean interior of book. No marks, no stickers, no bookplates, no p.o's signature. Inside front and back cover depicts a map of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Fifteen scarce (15) breathtaking wood cut plates on back pages of book. Dust Jacket has a sketch of the ship and shows average shelf ware of a book over 60 years old- tears at top and bottom spines,corners and edges bumped. 615 pgs. + 15 full page platesOn October 6, 1836, Charles Darwin, then a young Geologist of twenty-five, returned to England after a five-year voyage around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle. This memorable voyage of exploration and research was particularly important in Darwin's intellectual development. When he set out Darwin was still under the influence of the Biblical Idea of creation. As the trip progresses, the reader of the Journal of Researches becomes… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 1960 Book. Illus. by Marilyn Miller. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/VG Dark navy blue boards, near fine condition. Tight, clean , unmarked. DJ is not price clipped. Original price $3.95. In this glowing novel of one winter in Milan, the central situation is a love affair, at once intense and complex, between two people utterly different in inheritance. Harriet Piers, a young American, finds herself deeply caught in the pattern of Italian social and family life, which is new to her and she mets a crisis - made of the conflict between everything she has known before and this experience with an old, secured code of living. .

New York : Bramhall House, 1952 Book. Illus. by Henry Bugbee Kane. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/VG First Edition, First Printing Book in Very Good condition. Golden cloth boards are square with sharp corners, straight spine, black titles. Slight warping at back cover corner. Flyleafs contain tape and pen marks, 300 pages are otherwise unmarked, and quite crisp. Many detailed illustrations by Henry Bugbee Kane. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. White/ teal/ black color scheme with illustrations of a light house ont he front cover, and a woodland creature striking it rich on the back. Slight shelf wear, a few small chips, and a vague water spot on the front cover, tape marks inside. "Together with the traditional text of Cape Cod there has been coupled here for the first time Thoreau's Journal account of his fourth and last visit in June, 1857, to 'the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts'." From the DJ front flap.

New York: Putnam, 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/VG++. Burgundy boards,gold gilt titles to spine. DJ is NOT price clipped. DJ is bright and hsiny with a few chips at corners and ends of spine. B & W photo of Bette on the back. She needs no introduction. She does not regret one enemy she made during her career. She finds them a prime requisite for success. Sh proved that you can have a career and remain honest - if you aree willing to pay th price of personal loneliness..

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1908 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/NJ This blue hardcover with gilt titles is in fine condition. No dust jacket printed for this first American edition. Sharp corners, crisp pages, square and strong spine with very slight wear at edges. Amazing condition for a book printed over a century ago! Original owners Ex Libris sticker on inside front cover. 565 pages to this third tome by the famed ceramacist turned novelist, about early 20th century London and the life of a girl, woven within a fascinating cast of characters.

Zondervan, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/ VG+ DJ has price of $17.95. 2 small tears to dJ at top and bottom front. Clean, tight, copy with no marks. Photo illustrated jacket of John Delorean. "Since the sixties when he was known as the brilliant but brash young executive at General Motors, John Zachary Delorean has been one of the most controversial public figures in the United States and of recent years, the world. His 6'4" Lincolnesque fiqure and his striking appearance have made him one of the most photographed and recognizable celebrities outside of Hollywood...Now for the first time, John Z. Delorean speaks out about the man behind the headlines. Many have attempted to tell his story; now it is his turn.".

Macmillan, 1969 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. VG++/none. Mustard colored boards with blind stamped design on fron, gilt tiltes spine. Edges slightly bumped, 2 tiny smudges to front cover, barely noticible. Inscribed: To Norton Steuben, A damn good Prof. Vine Norton Steuben is an award winning Professor from the University of Colorado School of Law. .

A Golden Shape Book, third printing (stated) 1977. In VG condition with previous owner's name. No other marks. Clean copy with slight shelf ware. 49 cent price on front cover.

Disneyland Vista Records & Western Publishing Company , MCMLXX 1970. Collectible . VG+ condition. Light shelf wear. Clean, No marks. Record appears to be in new/FINE, never used condition~. 24 page book, 33 1/3 Long Playing Record. Full Color Illustrations.

New York, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/NF Jacket is in great condition, not price clipped. Book has tight spine, sharp corners, beige cover with blue metallic titles, only mark is small initials on inside of first flyleaf. 321 pages. AGM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Tom Drury's first book, The End of Vandalism made Grata's list of 20 top young American Novelists. .

Doubleday New York, 1954 Stated First Edition. Same date. VG green hard boards with black titles to front and spine. Edge wear to spine, corners bumped . No dj. First fly leaf torn, otherwise no damage to inside. No marks, no names, no stickers.Author Daphne du Maurier reconstructs from museum and personal notes, the life of her great great grand mother Mary Anne Clarke who lived for a year or two under the protection of H.R.H. The Duke of York Commander in Chief of the Army.

Doubleday New York 1957 First Edition as stated. VG/VG Black and gray boards, Silver and black titles to spine. PO's signature on first page,no other marks, otherwise clean. DJ has chipping , closed tears and a one inch open tear at top front. A Novel of Impersonation : a Frenchman and Englishman.