Search Results: Titles starting with D from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

BBC Books, London, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. author's acknowledgements, producers' acknowledgements picture credits and index. The text is illustrated with contemporary photographs, colour photographic stills from the film, maps and the occasional illustration. Photographic card cover with white, green and red coloured titles to the front panel and red and green coloured titles to the backstrip. Put out in conjunction with the film made by Dangerous Films, this book tells the remarkable story of the planning and execution of the landings at Normandy on 6 June 1944, when the Allies landed to start taking Europe back from Nazi occupation. A little creasing to the book corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5] 6-192 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Film, Radio &… Read More

Cassell and Company, Limited, London . Toronto . Melbourne and Sydney, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Tan coloured cloth covered boards with blue coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and blue coloured titles to the back strip. First published in Great Britain in 1945, a novel about a crusading district attorney. Softening to the back strip edges with a little rubbing of the book corners. The spine is o so slightly cocked. Browning to the text block edges and lighter Browning of the pages with foxing to the top text block edge. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. Browning, particularly to the back strip, of the dustwrapper with foxing. Foxing particularly to the creases and back strip. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [6], 3 - 215, [3] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight:… Read More

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1956. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Plain paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel The second outing of Doug Selby – investigating wire young man is taken to embezzling which he has spent gambling. . Rubbing of the book edges with previous owner supporting lower back strip edge with tape. Sunning to the back strip and lighter sunning of the panels. Tanning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 169, [7 – of which 6 are further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Inventory No: 0290902. .

Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/Poor. introduction by James Horan. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the spine. Plain text dust wrapper, with yellow coloured background with purple and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the spine. This book deals with the breaking up of the organised crime rackets in New York in the 1930s and 40s. Softening and rubbing of backstrip edges with rubbing and bumping of the book corners. A slight cock of the spine with age toning and foxing of the text block edges. Some foxing to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker to the lower edge of the free front end page. Attached to the front panel is a library sticker, from the booksellers own library -please see photograph. Previous owners name underneath the title on the title page. The dustwrapper is in awful shape – please see photograph. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and… Read More

The Macmillan Press, London, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Maps and illustrations, reference abbreviations, acknowledgements, four appendices and index. Dark cream-coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with four pages of maps and 16 black-and-white photographs between pages 148 and 149. Orange coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Orange coloured tint to the top text block edge. Photographic dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "This study serves principally as a guide to the evaluation of Lawrence's works. Each novel is the subject of close analysis; all the short stories are considered; and poems, constituting 'a biography of an emotional and inner life', a survey with reference to important changes in the text, Lawrence's poetical development, and his attitudes to life and society." – from front… Read More

Macmillan, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bottle green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. The 4th in the Kinsey Millhone alphabetical mystery series. In which Kinsey investigates the life of John Daggett – giver of bad checks (to Kinsey), drunk, ex-con, compulsive liar, spouse abuser, drunk driver and vehicular manslaughter x 5, and dead. Kinsey investigates who wanted John Daggett dead, with a pool of suspects that was ever-growing .... Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Some moisture and staining to the rear three front end page, which has ghosted on to the pages to 229. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. The rear panel has some… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Carlton South Vic, Australia, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. 500 g; XVI, 216 pages, last page blank, 12 pages of black-and-white photography, one in text diagram, chronology, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Barbara Falk and dated May 2000 on the title page The book has no damage to report. The subject of this book, widely known and respected as headmistress of Melbourne Church of England girls Grammar School, (Merton Hall) from 1938 to 1955 -- was an icon of female education. In this elegantly written new biography, the author seeks to deconstruct the icon. Her interest is to discover the "real" Dorothy Ross, the private person behind the carefully constructed public image. Into so, she illuminates the life and times of a prominent thinker and participant in the field of education and captures -- with nuance and sensitivity… Read More

Michael Joseph, London, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Hedley, Peter & Aynsley, Cyril. List of illustrations. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Plaintext dustwrapper with white and blue coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. On 21 February 1967, the Daily Express newspaper published a front-page story, stating that their Defence correspondent, Chapman Pincher, had some of his outgoing private cables scrutinised by authorities. This claim created an uproar in the halls of government; and, the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, immediately challenged the accuracy of the article; but, more importantly " ... accused the Daily Express of having breached two D- notices, a device to alert editors on certain matters of security." --- from the front fold over panel blurb. A major political row ensued – involving not only the government and… Read More

Davis Gelatine, Australia, 1941. Reprint. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. Ephemera small tear top of rear panel, rubbing of panel edges, internally very good, apart from 3 leaves coming off the staples. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Item Type: Ephemera. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 0267844. .

Time Publishing, New York, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographs & colour maps. clean secondhand copy, free of annotations, and without damage. Mainly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, although there are some colour plates. Indexed. The editors of Time tell the story of D-Day in an illuminating new way, dividing the events of sixth of June 1944 into 24 hour by hour chapters each, offering one aspect of D-Day. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 154 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs & colour maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Europe; WW II; ISBN: 1932273220. ISBN/EAN: 9781932273229. Inventory No: 0282787. . 9781932273229

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 510 pages, preface by the author in which she reveals that these two books were originally published pseudonymously, since she wanted to know whether it was possible for her to be published and reviewed as a 'new' writer on her own merits. Secondhand copy, reading creases to the spine, no damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 014008133x. ISBN/EAN: 9780140081336. Inventory No: 0263071. . 9780140081336

John Murray, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. pp. xii, 288; map, portrait frontispiece & 8 plates, index; lower corners bumped, top edge foxed, ownership inscription on ffep; light wear to the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Biography; Bulgaria; Inventory No: 0208087. .

Abacus Books (Sphere), London, 1984. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). 240 pages. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0349113599. ISBN/EAN: 9780349113593. Inventory No: 0244574. . 9780349113593

Pocket Books, New York, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: diagrams. there is creasing to the front and rear cover corners, and age toning of the page edges. Internally clean. There is no annotation that I can find. The author, a physician, talks about the use of DL-phenylalanine as an end to pain and depression. Size: Trade Paperback. 224 pages including footnotes, and bibliography (extensive). The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: diagrams. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: New Age & Alternative; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0671631209. ISBN/EAN: 9780671631208. Inventory No: 0242889. . 9780671631208

Century, London, 1984. Reissued, 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good Condition. There is nothing ordinary about this volume. It was written out of necessity in dramatic circumstances by a most uncommon woman, the style through not remarkable in itself carries matter that ranges from the lively to the startling." – page V Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). 432 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage to report.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; USA; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0712609342. ISBN/EAN: 9780712609340. Inventory No: 0248264. . 9780712609340

John Lane -- and the Bodley Head, London, 1928. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor Condition. Illustrator: Frank C. Pape. 900 g; XX, 252 pages, includes bibliography, frontispiece illustration. Offset tanning of front and rear end pages, traces of foxing to the front, and top edges, the top edge also being tinted, ownership inscription at the top of the front free end page, bookseller's sticker at the bottom of the front paste down, the dustjacket is missing the bottom 3rd of the spine, and a triangular piece at the bottom left-hand side of the front panel. Now protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Frank C. Pape. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 0234809. .

Consolidated Press, Sydney, 1946. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Half Cloth). Fair Condition. Illustrator: Kem. Cover is hard bound with 1/8 red cloth, papered Coloured Pictorial board at front, plain Cream board at back. Fair condition. Faded. Chipped. Edge-wear. Bumped corners. Light foxing. Dust Jacket is not present. End papers are intact. Coloured Blue, White & Black Illustration. Tanning. Main Text Body pp. 30. Good condition. Discoloured. Light soiled on some pages. Coloured illustrations produced by Kem throughout. Edges are even on top and bottom. Deckled on side. Tanned. Previous owner's details in childish hand on title page. . This is an unusual children's book with a bomb named Dozer for a protagonist. 'Dozer, 'a long, slim, cold, shiny, metal bomb' has a gentle dreamy nature and can't muster any enthusiasm for the war. He doesn't understand the use of making such perfect bombs only to destroy them.' Cited In Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian… Read More

Michael Joseph, London, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: photographs. trace of flecking across top edge of front panel, no other damage to the book, no annotations. Includes 28 pages of black-and-white photographs in a central section, & appendices, and index of actors and actresses. Second Impression. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 186, XXVI pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; Gilbert & Sullivan; England; Music. Inventory No: 0281973. .

MAYFLOWER, London, 1972. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Originally published, London: Dobson, 1965. traces of foxing to the first and last pages, and age toning of the page edges. the race of man is growing old, but it's not ready to die – not while there are dragons still to kill! First softcover edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 123 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0583121004. ISBN/EAN: 9780583121002. Inventory No: 0248666. . 9780583121002

Studio Vista – Dutton Pictureback, London, 1970. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. illustrated with photographic reproductions of artworks and literature associated withthe dadaist the movement from Europe to America and back to Europe again. The book includes a book list and index. the book is clean, and has no damage, apart from a small tear at the top of the front panel. Please see the attached picture. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 168 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Art & Design; Europe; Essays & Literary Criticism. ISBN: 0289796776. ISBN/EAN: 9780289796771. Inventory No: 0252991. . 9780289796771