Search Results: Authors starting with D from Ripping Yarns

Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1944. Paper covers worn at edges, slightly grubby. Good.

Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1933. Cover missing; piece of paper has been stuck over spine. Subscription form attached at rear. 'The Scrutiny Movement in Education' leaflet of August 1933 inserted. Apart from missing covers, good..

Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1946. Paper covers worn at edges, slightly grubby. Otherwise good.

Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1943. Journal featuring articles by F.R.and Q.D.Leavis, Martin Turnell etc. Subscription form attached at rear. Paper covers worn at overhang edges, slightly grubby. Good tight copy.

London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1957. 1sr Reprint . Green cloth boards with library rivet in spine. Part of the Boots booklovers series. Eps yellowed and a little warped. Some pages loose at joints and there is a small tear to bottom of pages from feps to p.43. O/w a good tight copy of this fascinating autobiography.

London: George Philip & Son Limited, 1913. Soft cover. Good/Good. Walter Crane / T.H. robinson. Small; red pictorial cover; 16pp; 7x5 inches; minor crease near spine.

London: Paul Hamlyn for Golden Pleasure Books, 1965. 1st Thus. . Hardback. Good. Gig Goodenow. Laminated colour illustrated boards, unpaginated. Bright full-page colour illustrations. Bumped, scuffed and a little worn at ends of spine; very faint brown spot by title on front board ( see picture) but good clean and tight. Size: 13 x 9.5 Inches

London: W.H. Allen. Hardback. Good. Dark green boards, slightly faded on front, back and spine, slightly knocked at edges; gilt lettering on spine. Charming account of the training of a Boxer puppy. Illustrated with photographs. Browning to page edges but a good tight copy

London: Walker Books, 1988. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. VG/VG. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 'To Caroline, love from Merry.' Light boards with unclipped dust jacket. Corners bumped. All pages clean and bright. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

Odhams Books Limited. Paper Covers. Good. Small card covers, unpaginated. Colour photo illustrations from the BBC TV children's series. Slighty suned externally but good clean and tight. Size: 4.5 x 3.5 Inches

New York: New Directions. 2nd Printing. . Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 113pp. Poetry by the Chinese poet exiled after the Tiananmen Square massacre 1989. Parallel text in Chinese language and English, trans. Eliot Weinberger and Iona Man-Cheong. From the privte library of the late poet Adrian Mitchell and dedicated to him ' To dear Adrian with best wishes, ( presumably his signature in Chinese) Bei Dao Oct 12 2002'. Very good clean and tight.

London: Thomas Nelson & Son, 1886. Hardcover. Good. Blue pictorial boards with gilt to spine and embossing to rear board. Patterned end papers and neat inscription to front free end paper. Scuff mark to front board. Dated 1887. Scattered foxing to outer text block only. Publishers listing to rear. Beautiful wood graving to frontispiece and front page. Edges are bumped and slight fraying to edge of spine. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Nelson Thornes Ltd, 2002. Paperback. VG-. 196 pp. Contains b&w illustrations. Creasing to back cover. Good tight copy.

Middlesex: Longman Young Books, 1974. 1st Editon. . Hardback. VG/VG. Michael Jackson. Purple boards with unclipped dust jacket, corners and spine bumped. Ex-school library copy with stamp to inside front board and last page but otherwise all pages clean and bright. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1899. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Grey paper-covered boards, quarter brown suede, bright gold title to front board and on brown leather spine label. 175 pp. Copy no. 622 of limited edition of 980. 'Done into a book at the Rycroft shop, which is in East Aurora, Erie County, New York'. Decoration to text in red. Essay subjects by this American lawyer include Walt Whitman and Roberet Burns. Green silk bookmark frayed at ends and unattached. Rough-cut pages. Spine very slightly bumped at ends. One small half-inch square mark to 1st free endpaper - looks like remains of sellotape. Spine suede, page edges and boards a little dusty and grubby but internally very clean. A very good - tight copy. Size: 8 x 5 Inche

Liverpool, 1968. Paper Covers. Good+. Literary journal 36pp. Includes 'The Rainbow Machine' by Alan Plater. Cover design and illustrations by Graeme Wilson. Good+ tight copy.

Paris: Nelson, 1935. Hardbacks in Dustwrappers. Good-/Good-. two volume set. Cream decorated boards, unclipped dustwrappers. 384 pp respectively. Text in French. Vol.1 both dw and book affected by damp at bottom edge, causing discolouration to base of pages (text unaffected) and slight loss to base edge of dw. Nicks and closed tears to tope edge of dw.Vol 2 faint scattered foxing to dw and page fore-edges; dw rather grubby on rear cover. A few closed tears to dw at edges. Dws now in transparent removeable protector. Tight and otherwise clean reading copies.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK). Fair. E.Evans/F.Barnard. Green cloth, pictorial front & spine. Illustrations credited on title page to F. Barnard but are signed by E. Evans. Tissue guard to frontispiece. 159pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue. Boards dulled & somewhat marked. Hinges cracked. Title page clipped at top edge.

London: Luterworth Press, 1968. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good. Green boards with price clipped dust jacket. Corners and spine bumped. Some small chips and closed tears to edges of jacket. Jacket now in clear removeable cover to protect it. Colour plate to frontispiece. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1930. Hardback. Good. Patterned cloth boards, corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Book plate to inside pastedown. Good tight and clean. Size: 8 x 5 Inches