Search Results: Titles starting with D from The Second Shelf

London: Chatto & Windus with The Hogarth Press, 1984. The memoir of a most unusual Bloomsbury childhood, by Angelica Bell, later Angelica Garnett. As the daughter of Vanessa Bell and, as she found out later, Duncan Grant, Angelica was also the niece of Virginia Woolf. Hardback in green boards with gilt lettering to spine. 181 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. First edition, pre-publication review copy with laid in publisher's slip. Very good book in very good dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Highsmith's suspense novel, published after The Talented Mr. Ripley. A thriller delving into the twists and turns of a deeply flawed relationship, claustrophobic and unsettling, Deep Water has been filmed twice and adapted for television. First book edition, previously serialised under the title The Mask of Innocence. Blue boards with black cloth spine titled in silver gilt, light bumping to corners. Dust jacket in very good condition, small loss to top of spine, light toning to edges, wear to hinges. Book and dust jacket bright, clean, and in very good condition.

New York: The Designer Publishing Co., Inc., 1924. 1920s fiction and fashion magazine. With a gorgeous oversize format, art covers and full colour pages. Leading with illustrated short romance fiction by Mary Synon and Louise Taylor Davis, the middle of the magazine was full of fashion illustrations for women, and girls, promoting the publishers' series of Standard-Designer patterns, followed by recipes and household hints. Gorgeous ads for Kellogg's Pep cereal featuring a tennis player, Campbell Soup and Ford Cars. Volume 59 Number 6. Softcover. 35.5 x 28 cm. 86 pages. Stain and loss to back cover, slight tear to edge of rear pages. Overall in very good condition.

New York: The Designer Publishing Co., Inc., 1924. 1920s fiction and fashion magazine. With a gorgeous oversize format, art covers and full colour pages, The Designer and the Woman's Magazine was a coffee table ornament. Leading with illustrated short fiction, the middle of the magazine was full of fashion illustrations for women, and girls, promoting the publishers' series of Standard-Designer patterns. In this 1920's extravaganza there is a gorgeous ad for Ford Closed Cars, an article on decorating your home to match your hair "decorative smartness for silver locks" by Ethel Davis Seal, and designs for a new maj-jong table cover. Volume 59 Number 6. Softcover. 35.5 x 28 cm. 84 pages. This issue has minor tears and loss to the cover, with previous owner's tape repair. In very good condition overall

After Angela Carter's death from cancer at the age of 51, she left behind an extensive working library. Her estate commissioned Sebastian Carter of Rampant Lions Press to design a small bookplate that reads 'From the Library of Angela Carter', which was inserted into the front endpaper of each book.
First Edition. 22 x 13.5 x 3. 338 pages. Ex libris Angela Carter with bookplate to verso of front free endpapers. Male Edition and Female Edition. "The FEMALE edition is almost identical. But not quite. Be warned that ONE PARAGRAPH is crucially different. The choice is yours." Burgundy cover with red and gilt lettering to spine, foredges tinted orange. Decorated endpapers. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. A suspense novel about a young woman framed for murder, by the popular American writer Marjorie Carleton who is best known for "Cry Wolf". Hardback. Brown cloth boards with stylish dust jacket. 236 pages. 19 x 13 cm. First edition. Book and jacket in very good condition.

London: Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Hardcover, 150 pp. Green cloth binding shows light shelfwear Moderate foxing on top of bookedge. The eye-catching dust jacket is slightly toned and darkened at edge and worn at edges of spine, but otherwise clean and bright. The Driver's Seat is one of Spark's most fascinating books, a dark and eerie psychological tale that was marketed as a "metaphysical thriller" when it debuted. The main character, Lise is distracted by her life, and scattered in her thoughts, so she sets out to leave her job for a holiday, but things turn out considerably worse. The book made a huge impression on second-wave feminist scholars.