Search Results: Titles starting with D from Island Books

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1982]. 8vo., with frontispiece, very numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised and extended version of the original Faber edition of 1960.

Cambridge University Press,, [1991-1996-1998]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and facsimiles; maroon cloth, upper boards lettered in green, gilt backs, cream endpapers, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The most comprehensive biography to date and unlikely to be surpassed. The set comprises: Vol. I (Worthen): The Early Years 1885-1912 (1991); Vol. II (Kinkead-Weekes): Triumph to Exile 1912-1922 (1996); Vol. III (Ellis): Dying Game 1922-1930 (1998).

Jonathan Cape,, [1935]. 8vo., First Edition; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy. This account by Jessie Chambers (the 'Miriam' of Sons and Lovers) describes the relationship between Lawrence, Lawrence's mother and herself which forms the basis of much of the novel. Her pseudonym 'E.T' is taken from 'Eunice Temple', the title of her unpublished novel. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Roberts B43, F34.

Chatto & Windus,, 1955. 8vo., First Edition; light blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately browned at backstrip, and with minor loss at extremities. The first major critical appreciation of Lawrence.

[Southern Newspapers plc, Southampton,, 1993]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Easily the finest of the popular souvenir publications, this high quality booklet is surprisingly comprehensive in scope.

[Battle of Britain Prints International,, 1995]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., with many thousands of photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole set housed in publisher's black cloth slip-case. The definitive pictorial retrospective, based on the 'before and after' photographic technique for which this publisher is renowned. A superb set. Not recorded by Enser.

Viking,, [2009]. 8vo., Seventh Impression, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Splendid narrative account by an acknowledged master. Published in the same year as the first edition.

Viking,, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Splendid narrative account by an acknowledged master. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

[West Sussex County Council, Chichester],, [1994]. Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Excellent pictorial survey published to commemorate the fifieth anniversary.

Durham Light Infantry, Brancepeth Castle,, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps (a number folding); elegantly bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sutcliffe, p.365; White, p. 116.

Dalemain, Penrith,, 1994. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous photographs and pedigrees (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EMINENT HISTORIAN J H OWEN. Loosely inserted is a draft letter from him to the author and the latter's A.L.s in reply. SCARCE.

Thomas Nelson,, 1907. 8vo., with a coloured frontispiece, and coloured and printed titles; original pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in black and lettered in gilt, green patterned endpapers, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front paste-down and 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

Pentland Press, Edinburgh,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Michael Joseph,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Eads, A81a.

John Richmond, Ltd [T.W.H. Crosland],, 1913. 8vo., First Edition, fore-edges very lightly foxed as often; strongly bound in tan buckram, upper board with printed paper label, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good, bright, clean copy. 1000 copies were published on 10 February 1913. Sassoon's delightful parody of Masefield's early work was sparked by a chance re-reading of the latter's 'Everlasting Mercy'. Sassoon's publisher, TWH Crosland helped in the correction of the proofs, and 'Sassoon awoke as the anonymous author of a sixpenny pamphlet in cheerful orange-coloured wrappers' ('The Weald of Youth', p.124 ff). The mock-serious preface was written by Crosland and issued under his trading name of John Richmond. Sassoon sent a copy to Edmund Gosse, who handed it on to Eddie Marsh, the result being a long letter from Marsh criticizing Sassoon's poetry, to the latter's great advantage (see Keynes pp.32-33). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.… Read More

Privately Printed, Berlin,, [1965]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with tinted frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with swastikas and dagger hafts, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.

Faber,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.

F Beyer, Bergen,, [1887]. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy.

Transport Bookman Publications, [Chiswick,, 1972]. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly scuffed, case shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference

Sampson Low Marston & Co.,, 1899. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, page-edges tanning lightly, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original maroon ribbed cloth, gilt back, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. In the Preface, the author states 'the bulk of the recipes contained in this book have already appeared, in serial form, in the 'Queen' newspaper'. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Driver 769.1; not recorded by Cagle.