Search Results: Titles starting with D from Books of the World

New York: Penguin, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Small tear to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages + 16 page reader's guide.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl's lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most… Read More

Eden Prairie, Minnesota: Tessera Publishing, 1989. Trade Paperback. First Edition / First printing (stated). Near Fine. Gift inscription by author facing title page, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. vi + 191 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Reading wear. Spine uncreased but lightly curved. Wear to corners and hinges. Creasing/bumping to lower portion of front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 731 pages. Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book.
A brilliant, panoramic portrait of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Markham, Ontario: Penguin, November 1985. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Third Printing. Very Good+. Unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight but lightly creased. Cover clean with reading wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 199 pages.
Contents: Angela -- The lady from Lucknow -- The world according to Hsü -- A father -- Isolated incidents -- Nostalgia -- Tamurlane -- Hindus -- Saints -- Visitors -- The imaginary assassin -- Courtly vision.

New York: Random House, June 2020. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine Book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean. Corners bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 461 pages. 1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives. The evolution of women's lives spanning the second half of the twentieth century is at the center of this beautiful novel that richly portrays how much people know--and pretend not to know--about the secrets at the heart of a town, and a family.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight rubbing and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 349 pages. Now in paperback, here is the stunning true tale of a remarkable woman trained as an elite soldier in the Chinese army, her forbidden love for an American, and her seemingly impossible escape--with his help--from the nation to which she had pledged her life. An astonishing testament to the enduring resilience of love and the human spirit in the face of even the most oppressive, hopeless conditions, Daughter of China offers a compelling look at life inside the rigid walls of Communist China, revealing in fascinating detail Meihong Xu's inculcation into the system--a process so effective that she would willingly betray a friend or family member to prove her loyalty. Written with clear-eyed candor and stark eloquence, Daughter of China is… Read More

Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.

Guilford, Connecticut: GPP Travel, June 2010. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 184 pages. This is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover within a short drive from Washington, D.C. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip. Explore places you never knew existed, many free of charge, and most within a two-hour drive of America's capital.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, October 1982. First Trade Paperback Edition (no additional printings listed). Very Good. Prior owner's name penciled to half-title page. Personal note penciled to dedication page. Text block unmarked. Spine faded, but straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to edges. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi+240 pages. A chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence involving novelists, painters, Haiti and neutron bombs.

New York: Random House / Vintage Books, June 1990. Vintage Classics Edition. Near Fine. Light dust soiling to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 297 pages. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 251 pages.From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost. For European soldiers in the tropics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this added cost in deaths from disease--the "relocation cost"--meant a death rate at least twice that of soldiers who stayed home. This book is partly a statistical exposition of the changing death rates of European Algeria, the British West Indies, and southern India--by cause of death from disease--set against the comparable figures for those who stayed at home in France or Great Britain. About two-thirds of the book is devoted… Read More

New York: Street & Smith Publications, January, February, March 1960. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good-. Jan has "-20" inked to front cover. Feb has notes inked to table of contents, otherwise interiors tanned but unmarked. Rubbing, edgewear, and creasing. Spine ends chipped. Tears at hinge ends. Not from a library. 540 pages. Harry Harrison's novel Deathworld is the first book in his Deathworld series and was a finalist for the 1961 Hugo Award. It first appeared in print when it was serialized in the January, February, and March 1960 issues of Astounding Science Fact & Fiction magazine with cover art (Jan) and 15 interior illustrations by H. R. Van Dongen. Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and… Read More

New York: Bantam, October 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No tears, no folds, no creases. 480 pages.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, November 1968. Trade Paperback. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise unmarked. Not from a library. xxiii+309 pages. Illustrated. 24 cm.
Monographic compilation of introductory lectures on decision making analysis under uncertainty - covers analysis of basic problems, uncertain payoffs and biased measurements, use of judgmental probability, samples and statistical analysis, risk sharing and group decisions, etc., and some further perspectives.

Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, November 2002. Hardcover. Full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Tiny scuff to spine, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 304 pages. Robert Littell's brilliant first book. A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, LeWinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine? Neither the Russians nor the Americans are sure, and LeWinter is swept up in a terrifying political chess match of deceit and treachery.

New Delhi: Frontline Books, 2004. Trade Paperback. Revised Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf/reading wear. 96 pages of beautiful color photographs and geographical descriptions of Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur. Architectural and agricultural information as well as all key visiting sites for tourists.

Fairfield, Iowa: Sunstar, October 1997. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with light rubbin. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 275 pages.

Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pages unmarked but tanned. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii+207 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press, July 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 470 pages. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. Born into one of Florence's most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. Violent conflict rent the city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened by her family's enemies before finally being released and married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France. Overshadowed by her husband's mistress, the gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear children, Catherine resorted to the dark… Read More

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. First Edition / First Printing (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to lower rear corner. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 253 pages. An alternative American history in which colonialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese internment camps with the Yankees; Walmart with the Kansas City Royals; and facial hair patterns with militarism, Guantanamo, and the modern security state. An essay, a miscellany, and a passionate unsettling of Josh Ostergaard's relationship with our national pastime, it allows for both the clover of a childhood outfield and the persistence of the game's service to those in power.