Search Results: Titles starting with D from BookMangos

London: Harrap, 1985. First edition. As New/as new. Considering his fame and his importance in the history of the English theatre, David Garrick has attracted remarkadly few biographers in the land of his birth. In America, where admittedly much original material is now to be found, the situation is very different. In his lifetime he suffered from his own reputation. and the wealth of anecdotes had already begun to obscure the real person. not clipped,tight First Edition AB39

London: Leo Cooper, 1996. First printing. Fine/fine. September 1944: In France the Wehrmacht has been defeated. The shattered remnants are streaming back to the Reich. But already 2500 men of the British 1st SAS Brigade are in position behind them. It is the task of this elite paratroop formation to raise the local resistance, sabotage the German lines and generally raise merry hell so that Patton's 3rd and Patch's 7th Armies can reach the Siegfried Line. The author has written yet another fascination book int he informal series he calls 'The Battles of the Frontier'. hardback, clothbound; mylar dust jacket First Edition AB54

USA: word publishing, 1966. First printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Exposing the deceptive innocence and insidious power of evil belief systems. Zacharias asks ""What is it we live for, and what, in that pursuit, are we doing to our own children? One look at the world we are giving to them spells horror."" clean pages, tight binding. First Edition AB19

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First printing. Fine/fine. The author, after purchasing a high-powered car in England, set out with his wife to return to their home in Southern Rhodesia the hard way - across Africa by way of the Sahara. His book is the conclusive answer to any who maintain that the age of adventure is over. hardback, clothbound; mylar dust jacket First Edition AB54

London: Michael Joseph, 1988. First printing. Very Good +/very good. The story of why a young life full of promise and privilege became a "" living nightmare."" Cheryl Crane refused to become a victim of Hollywood and her famous mother. This is her intensely moving story. minor curling to dj;shelf wear First Edition AB36

London: Secker and Warburg, 1985. First publishes. Very Good/very good. Maud Berkeley was an incredible woman, born into the amiable comforts of the Victorian middle class. She was an acute observer of the world around her both in her sketches and her prose. Brown boards with writing to the spine and the front cover. An illustration to the front cover too.Some bumping and marks.Tight binding and clean pages. Dj mylar covered, some bumping and minor shelf wear. A larger book so the post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB57

London: Hogarth Press, 1984. Second printing. Very Good/very good. Cleone Knox sparkling diary can be relished both for its engaging and comical self, and a grand literary hoax of the most endearing and unintended kind Her journal makes amusing reading affording as it does a vivid picture of he gay society in which she moved. price not clipped,clean pages, gold letterng on spine,chipping to back top left corner of dj and tear to top of back dj. tight binding First Edition AB19

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Later printing. Very Good. Major theme of the book are the social pain and exclusions caused by illegitamacy, the nefarious effects of the demon drink, and the difficulties of romantic attachments outside one's social class. shelf wear to cover.chipping AB37

London: Michael Joseph (penguin group), 1992. Second printing. Near Fine/near fine. One of the hard and fast rules for Freddie Croft's drivers, is never pick up a hitch-hiker, but of course one day they do, and by the time they reach base the passenger is dead. tight;chip to corner First Edition AB36

Great Britain: Futura, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. The story of a menial servant who becomes the Duchess of Duke Street. This novel is set in 1911 and covers a decade of her life in her Hotel. Some shelf wear and bumping to front cover. Picture on the front is from the televised series. AB9

Cairo, 1966. First printing. Very Good. Arabic text, 276 pages New quarter leather binding. Nice tight binding . Some pages have owner markings, and the first pages has a small tear. AB53

London: Faber, 1951. Very Good/very good. A very exhaustive account of the daffodil. All the important species, both common ad rare are included. Also a chapter on pests and diseases. Yellow boards with writing to spine, some bumping. Dj some tears to back cover and chips and bumps. A very nice front cover with a photo of a daffodil. Also inside 6 colour plates and 32 pages of monochrome illustrations. First Edition AB26

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date. Very Good. All the stories in this book were originally published in Aunt Judy's Magazine, except 'The Trinity Flower' and this appeared in The Monthly Packet (May 1866) under the title of 'The Blind Hermit and the Trinity Flower'. Mrs Ewing wrote the tales of 'Dandelion Clocks', 'The Blind Man and the Talking Dog', 'So-and-So', and 'Ladders to Heaven' to fit the illustrations and it is interesting to see how carefully she made use of every detail in the designs. yellow boards with pictorial cover. very rubbed and dirty. owner inscribed in ink but half erased.foxed pages. AB72

London: Society for Promotong Christian Knowledge, 1887. Very Good. All the stories in this book were originally published in 'Aunt Judy's Magazine', except 'The Trinity Flower' and this appeared in 'The Monthly Packet' (May 1866), under the title of, 'The Blind Hermit and the Trinity Flower'. Mrs Ewing wrote the tales of, 'Dandelion Clocks', 'The Blind Man and the Talking Dog', 'So-and-So', and 'Ladders to Heaven' to fit the illustrations and it is interesting to see how carefully she made use of every detail in the designs. Flyleaf inscribed;yellow boards with pictorial cover. rubbed and bumped.inside pages are foxed.binding loose. AB72

London: random house, 2000. First edition. Very Good/very good. A fascinating and powerful portrait of an age of restless politics and grim poverty between the two military storms of the First and Second World Wars Slight nicks to bottom edge dj First Edition AB17

london: Ian Allan Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. A nice little history of the line. Nice tight little book with many black and white photos. Front pages are ephemeral as there are a couple of advertisements for a jewellery shop and an Inn. AB15

leeds,glasgow,belfast: E J Arnold, undated. Good. This is in the Bright Story Readers series and is number 158. A bright stroy readers edition no. 158, grade V. Some bumping to corners and faded but a nice little copy. AB29

London: Macmillan, 1996. First edition. Very Good/very good. Morse appeared almost shell shocked as he looked across at his sergeant: How in heavens name...? some minor shelf wear First Edition AB6

London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First published. Very Good/very good. Set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast. An exploration of an isolated and beleagured community coping with the evil and disruption of murder. Beige boards with writing to spine. Some marks on the front bottom right corner. Some bumping. Dj is shelf worn and slight bumping to back corner. Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB24

London: Elliot Stock, 1887. Very Good. In the first stage dedications are seen as the spontanaeous expression of an authors love and respect for his friend or his patron. In the second we travel through those years when all sense of shame was absent from the mind of the author. A delightful book. Smallgreen book boards with gold writing to front and spine. Minor shelf wear and some bumping to corners.Handcut pages.Some foxing, but tight bimding. Lovely little book. AB66