Search Results: Authors starting with D from Capricorn Books

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. 343 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Combining literary criticsm with psychology, sociology, and the history of ideas, (this book) offers a fresh approach to the often-asserted connection between Puritanism and the rise of the English novel. Its premise is that the Christian myth, far from serving as a simple, unified background to fiction, was paradoxical and full of potential conflicts, and that these were particularly vivid in the Puritan imagination. The extraordinary power of Puritan psychology rests in the control it granted Providence over the individual. Yet as a basis for fiction, Puritanism confronted a paradox that is the central theme of Damrosch's study - the tension between fictions that confess themselves to be fictional and the Puritan faith in human life as a narrative invented by God. Damrosch holds that the eighteenth-century novel was preeminently a novel of ideas, not simply illustrating or alluding to ideas but testing them and… Read More

Harper & Row, New York, (1987), Ist edition. 95 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "(Dana) is a writer of strong, rich experience, which spans the city slums where he was born and came of age to the fields and skies and town life of Iowa where he has lived and taught for the past thirty years. (H)is poems are often rooted in the harsh soil of his early memories. Tense to the point of being enigmatic, Dana is a poet whose voice one trusts: what he says he feels is validated by the precision and force of the saying itself." Minor edgewear to boards. Dust jacket has very minor edgewear/rubbing. VG+/VG+.

Edmonton: Hurtig, 1983. 303 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "There were more than nine thousand Canadians taken prisoner during World War II. Here, in their own words, are the stories of 165 of them - soldiers, airmen, sailors, captured in Europe and the Far East and imprisoned in camps in Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, and Japan. Forty years after the event, they retell their remarkable adventures." Light old tape marks on free endpapers, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, light dust staining/foxing on top of text block. Dust jacket has minor edgewear/wrinkling, slight waviness at edges, minor rubbing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Toronto: Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart, 1988. 292 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "The second battle of Ypres provided the First Canadian Division with its baptism of fire, and it could not have been worse. They were holding a salient, jutting out so that they were targets from three sides. The Germans, for the first time ever, used chlorine gas, which turned the Canadians' bayonets green and destroyed their lungs. Then they discovered that in combat conditions their Ross rifles jammed, as the waves of Germans hit their trenches. At the end John McCrae looked across the battleground where so many hundreds of his countrymen had fallen, and wrote 'In Flanders Fields'. Back in Canada, the war began in earnest the day the casualty lists were posted. " Small notation, place, date and initials in ink on half-title page; light wrinkling at bottom of spine; small bump at bottom corner of boards; slight waviness to edges of text block. Dust… Read More

New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 248 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps. "Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It took raw courage to fly on Operation Chowhound, as American aircrews never knew when the German AAA might open fire on them or if Luftwaffe fighters might jump them. Flying at 400 feet, barely above the tree tops, with guns pointed directly at them, they would have no chance to bail out if their B-17s were hit. The question was, would 120,000 German troops keep their word and resist the temptation to fire at the American sitting ducks for eight days? As they flew, grateful Dutch civilians spelled out 'Thanks Boys' in the tulip fields below. Many Americans who flew in Operation Chowhound declared it was the… Read More

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1984. 192 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, diagrams. "Complete with working plans, drawings, instructions" to build 35 clocks, grouped in the following sections: Simple Wall, or Plaque-style, Clocks; Shelf Clocks; Wall Clocks; Tall Case Clocks; Weather Stations. The Appendix gives Suppliers and Finishing Suggestions and Techniques. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: George G. Harrap, 1951. 344 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H) - black cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold badge on front board. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps. Light browning to pages, small stain in gutter of pages 254 to 271, browning and light staining to edges of text block, light to moderate edgewear on boards, light fading to spine colour, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor bump at corners, small area of colour loss on rear board.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Paris: Hachette, 1964. 411 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H). B&w illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Interior - a few tiny soiling specks on half-title page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one tiny corner crease, very minor browning, a few soft wrinkles across spine, minor edgewear/wrinkling.. Soft Cover with Self Flaps. Very Good. Illus. by Walter Goetz..

London: Hutchinson, 1994. 137 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "In this exciting prequel to 'The Animals of Farthing Wood', we meet an earlier generation of animals at the beginning of the adventure that will take their descendants on their epic journey from Farthing Wood to White Deer Park." Pages browning lightly. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing.. Third Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Trevor Newton. Cover art by Frances Broomfield..

San Rafael, California: Presidio, 1980. 198 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "The heroism of William Darby and his Rangers in World War II has become legend. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and close combat, they led the assaulting troops in the initial North Africa landings, fought in Tunisia, landed through concentrated hell at Gela, and were in on the final kill at Messina. At Sorrento they stood off forces that outnumbered them by at least eight to one, and they spearheaded the desperate struggle at Anzio. This is Darby's own story of those climactic days, as dictated, just a few months before his death, to his friend General William H. Baumer. Baumer has added background information about the war and on Darby's life, plus a summary of the exploits of other Ranger units. Darby was a combat leader in the highest tradition of the United States Army - a forceful, charismatic man who inspired loyalty and in turn gave loyalty to his… Read More

North Branch, NM: Specialty Press, 1999. 100 pp, 10 7/8" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color with photographs, drawings/diagrams. Contents: Introduction; Building a Deterrent (Birth of a Bomb - Birth of a Bomber); From Paper to Metal (The Design and Development of the Type 698); On Trial and in Service (Design - Development - Deployment); Extending the Options (The Development of the Vulcan B.2); Special Full Color Section: Bombing Color (Shades of War); Blue Steel and Skybolt (Missiles for the 'V' Force); Vulcans in Full Flight (Vulcans Come - Vucans Go); Vulcan at War (The Falklands, Corporate, and Beyond); The Vulcan Alphabet (Acronyms and Abbreviations); Significant Dates (Key Events in the History of the Avro Vulcan). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft crease at top corner of rear cover. . Soft Cover. Very Good+.

Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. 165 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, drawings. 'Part Two of the book shows that many of the species survive. Part One, on the other hand, is an attempt to look at the aircraft from a different angle, not so much the fighter pilot's glamorous view but the day-to-day operations, trials and tribulations and the joys and delights of a ground crew struggling to come to terms with an aircraft that was, in many ways, a quantum leap in technology. A delight to fly, a joy to watch and a menace to work on - these sentiments seem to sum up the Lightning." Contents: Introduction; The Thunder Begins; Cutting Metal; Inside the Lightning; From Hand to Jig: The Tall Tails; The Thunderous T-Birds; The Square Fins; Lightnings in the Sand; After the Thunder; Selected RSAF Lightning Histories; Royal Saudi Air Force Lightnings; Kuwait Air Force Lightnings; Lightnings Clinging on to Life - Just!; Appendices - Lightning… Read More

London: Grub Street, 2002. 212 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps. "(R)elates how a massive strategic bombing force was used to counter the flying bomb (V1) threat and how the airmen from the Commander-in-Chief right down to the aircrews and groundcrews acted upon the decisions made. Decisions which would lead to many Allied airmen suffering serious injury, many losing their lives or being captured by the enemy. Decisions which would inflict further misery upon the oppressed population of the occupied countries. The author details all raids against flying bomb targets and also covers raids against other German secret weapons. The story is told using fascinating photographic coverage, previously unpublished records, intelligence information and graphic first hand accounts provided by Bomber Command veterans, Luftwaffe nightfighter veterans and accounts from French people who witnessed the whole German operation from the construction of the secret weapon installations to the launching of… Read More

Willowdale, Ontario: Ampersand Press, 1985. 317 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions of letters. Signed "Lois E. Darroch" on title page. "(T)races the lives and fortunes of a pioneering family in Oxford County, Canada West. The venerable head of the family, Enos, is ambitious, enterprising, astride of his time; his four sons are exceptional too as they go off to school in Cleveland, build their own house, then join the Union forces against the Confederacy." The author is the granddaughter of one of these four brothers and has written this fictionalized account of their experiences based on family diaries and over one hundred contemporary letters. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing with a few scuffs, slight fading to spine colour.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1882. xvi, 693 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. List of other titles by Darwin on verso of title page. B&w illustrations. "(Here, Darwin) applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the dominant role of women in mate choice, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society." Scattered tiny foxing marks on verso of free endpapers and on adjacent pages, an area of light foxing in the top margin of pages 88 & 89, gilt lettering and decorarion on the spine has faded (not on… Read More

London: John Murray, 1876. viii, 482 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. List of other titles by Darwin on verso of title page. Errata slip laid in following "Contents". "(Darwin's report) on experiments conducted on over 60 different species of plants, where he used controlled pollinations in order to produce self-fertilised and cross-fertilised descendants. Through growth experiments of this progeny, he concluded that self-fertilised progeny performed poorer in most species and for most traits measured. Thus he showed that inbreeding may have severe detrimental effects on progeny. While this idea was accepted by many, e.g. plant and animal breeders, Darwin's book provided overwhelming experimental support for this idea. This book has remained the starting point for the study of… Read More

London: John Murray, 1875. viii, 208 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. B&w illustrations. List of other titles by Darwin on verso of title page. The title page states "Second Edition, Revised", but this is the first appearance of the title in book form. It first appeared in the 'Journal of the Linnean Society' in 1865, but "is here reproduced in a corrected and, I hope, clearer form, with some additional facts." - from the author's Preface. Contents: Preface; Twining Plants; Leaf-Climbers; Tendril-Bearers; Tendril-Bearer's - continued; Hook and Root-Climbers - Concluding Remarks; Index. The publisher's catalogue that is sometimes included at the rear of this volume is not present here. Foxing marks on verso of free endpapers and on several adjacent pages, some… Read More

London: John Murray, 1882. x, 592 pp, (no publisher's advertisements), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Circumnutating Movements of Seedling Plants; General Considerations of the Movements and Growth of Seedling Plants; Sensitiveness of the Apex of the Radicle to Contact and other Irritants; The Circumnutating Movements of the several parts of Mature Plants; Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements; Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons; Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves; Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Light; Sensitiveness of Plants to Light: its transmitted effects: Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Gravitation;… Read More

London: John Murray, 1882. xvi, 300 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. List of other titles by Darwin on verso of title page. 38 b&w illustrations in text. "(This book was Darwin's) first detailed demonstration of the power of natural selection, and explained how complex ecological relationships resulted in the coevolution of orchids and insects. The view has been expressed that the book led directly or indirectly to all modern work on coevolution and the evolution of extreme specialisation." A few scattered tiny foxing marks on verso of free endpapers and on adjacent pages, gilt lettering and some decorarion on the spine has faded (not on spine label), small piece missing from corner of spine label (letters F & E missing), darkening to top of text block, light to moderate edge wear to… Read More

Leavenworth / Manhattan, Kansas : J.H. Johnston III / Sunflower University Press, 1982. 157 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: Commander in Chief's Congratulations (President Ronald Reagan); Foreword (Lieutenant General William R. Richardson); Introduction; The Beginnings; Reviving Leavenworth's Sagging Image; An Era of Reform; Growing Up in the Twenties and Thirties; War and Change; Leavenworth and the Cold War: 1945-1960; Vietnam and After; Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendixes; Index. Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor edge wear. Dust jacket has one tiny tear (archivally taped), very light edge wrinkling, light wrinkling/waviness to spine and on panels, faint partial cup ring and a small area of very light soiling on front panel, minor soiling on rear flap-fold.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good.