Search Results: Authors starting with D from The Last Word

London: Samuel French Ltd, 1939. First printing. Cards. Very Good. 13 pages, French's Acting Edition No. 1552. First year of World War Two interest: Interesting red lettered note "This play has been licensed by the Lord Chamberlain on the understanding that there will be no uniforms or emblems used to identify the place with any actual country."

Vintage Austin Register, 1982. First printing. Staplebound. As New. includes a blank blue membership card V. A. R. 20 pages, White stapled booklet with black titles and picture and reg. trade mark.

Wellington, NZ: The Civic Press, 1930. First printing. Cards. Very Good. 60 pp Minor foxing pages edges and rear cover. Later label on spine with title

Edinburgh: W. & A .K. Johnston, 1883. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 2 Volumes, folios, 52 full page colour plates- chromolithographs , each with an accompanying page of text. A very good hardback set in original pictorial green cloth binding with a gilt flower in centre.. Extremities slightly worn. Some light foxing, plates generally clean and bright. Past owner names on FFEPs. Heavy set of 2 volumes so extra postage will probably be required.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Blue Cloth w/ DJ has large piece missing from rear. 1st edn. 8vo, pp. 234. This book is a serious study in Hindu philosopy for students. Ex library but looks hardly read

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First Impression. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some chipping and tears. 512pp. What happens to everybody - workers, teachers, farmers, artists, shopkeepers, clergymen - when Communists seize control of a Western democracy like Czechoslovakia..

London: Cassell and Company , Limited, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. Good. viii, 768 pp vol 1, 769 - 1560 vol 2.Half leather bound with blue cloth boards, paper label to spine Cloth stained and faded. Text blocks clean and Small damp stain to rear of vol 2 affecting last endapers adn last page.

London: Ward Lock & Co, 1910. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. [publisher: Ward Lock & Co., London] Hardcover 1910. Reprint, possibly first thus. 389pp. and a frontispiece portrait of Darwin. A feature of this edition of Charles Darwin's ground-breaking work on natural selection and evolutionary biology, first published in 1859, are decorated endpapers and a border design to the frontispiece and title-page by the book designer and decorative artist A.A. [Albert Angus] Turbayne (1866-1940) smilar to those of Talwin Morris. The book is bound in the original dark green cloth covered boards with gold titling and decoration on the spine and a blind stamped design by Turbayne on the front board. Size 17 1/2 cm high x 10 1/2 cm wide

london: John Murray, 1888. Later printing. Leather_bound. Very Good. Contemporary three quarter leather binding by Mudie. seventeenth thousand 519 pages including index plus i to ix preface. Beautiful /leather binding with raised bands to spine. Gilded lettering, ruled lines and design to spine with the title on a black leather .background. Attractive marbled boards and endpapers. Tan calf leather in good condition - some surface loss to the corner pieces . All page ends also marbled - the pages edges are quite perfect with a noticeable gloss to them.

London: Sceptre, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Book Description: (London) Sceptre (2006)., 2006. The first British edition of the author's highly praised fourth book, a semi-autobiographical novel of a year in the life of a 13 year-old boy. Mitchell has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and his prior books had been praised for the complex structures and elaborate style. This book, a more straightforward narrative, was a notable departure for such a highly praised author, and earned excellent critical reviews and something of a cult following. A signed limited edition was later produced by Waterstone's, but this is the true first. Signed by the author, with the promotional diary. Also together with a proof dust jacket, which omits a photo credit and mention of one of the author's two children. All elements fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sceptre, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Book Description: (London) Sceptre (2006)., 2006. The first British edition of the author's highly praised fourth book, a semi-autobiographical novel of a year in the life of a 13 year-old boy. Mitchell has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and his prior books had been praised for the complex structures and elaborate style. This book, a more straightforward narrative, was a notable departure for such a highly praised author, and earned excellent critical reviews and something of a cult following. A signed limited edition was later produced by Waterstone's, but this is the true first. Signed by the author, with the promotional diary. Also together with a proof dust jacket, which omits a photo credit and mention of one of the author's two children. All elements fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sceptre, 2006. First Edition in Slip Case. Cloth. As New/As New. Book Description: (London) Sceptre (2006)., 2006. The first British edition of the author's highly praised fourth book, a semi-autobiographical novel of a year in the life of a 13 year-old boy. Mitchell has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and his prior books had been praised for the complex structures and elaborate style. This book, a more straightforward narrative, was a notable departure for such a highly praised author, and earned excellent critical reviews and something of a cult following. A signed limited edition was later produced by Waterstone's,. Signed by the author, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press, 1986. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. The Salamander and the Fire isbn 9780195581478

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1994. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Farrar Straus & Giroux (T),Hardcover. New. Brand new condition, mint and unused. Dust jacket in pristine condition in a clear cover. Signed to title page by author - no dedication. 215 x 145 x 23 mm

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (t), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As New in As New dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Cream colored hardcovers with black titles to the spine. White on white title on front cover. Spial binding motif on front of dust jacket. As New, tight, bright, unmarked. The DJ is unclipped and also As New condition protected with a mylar clear cover. "Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory." In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships." 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.8 Inches; 193 pages Signed by Lydia on title page "June 21 1997" to Kathleen. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize, 2013

Lone Pine Publishing, 1992. Second printing. Paperback. As New. 156 pages then 3 pages adverts. Flat signed by author on title page. French flaps.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Cards. Good. xvi, then 12 pages un numbered adverts. frontis - photogravure portrait of John Masefield the pages 1 - 3, THthen numbered 162 to 232, then the supplement is numbered page 1 - 160. Rear cover missing. Binding still intact. Inner pages age-toned but unmarked. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. One tipped in illustration facing page 210 missing. John Austen tipped in illus. facing p 206 has a couple of creases and a tear down oneedge. Some foxing to page edges, Top of spine missing - "chr" and one inch at bottom. of christmas. Goes to page 160 and no rear cover. should go to page 168.

London: John Murray, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Good with dust jacket - small closed tear at base of spine; Usual x-lib. Markings. Very light corner wear. . Binding is nice and tight. Inside pages (other than library markings) nice . and clean. Date: 1960. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 160 pages .

Phaidon Press, 2015. Second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 4to (29cm by 22cm), 320pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. About 300 full pages illustrations of different pots by artists from around the world.. French flaps. A large heavy book - postage outside New Zealand will be expensive - please ask for a postage quote.

Paris: Éditions de la revue Verve, 1943. Hardcover. Good/good. Some splits to spine of paper dustcover tipped in Coloured lithographs to front of covers snails and flowers in blue and gold undated 4 images of Purgatory earthly pradise, hell, angels. Then 11 images of Jesus.