Search Results: Titles starting with D from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Kobenhavn (Copenhagen): Branner og Korch. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and corners, four raised bands, gilt spine titling, pictorial paper boards, 731 pages of text (including index), 304 color illustrations of plants by Henning Anthon on separate plates, 32 pages of color photographs, contents split across the two volumes. Text in Danish.; 8" x 11"; 731, 304, xxxii pp; A few tiny blemishes on the leather, first volumes with minor creasing at top of first few pages. Still a most attractive set. .

Annapolis, MD.: United States Naval Institute. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1927. Second Edition. Softcover. First was issued in 1926 Gilt stamped brown cloth, text Illustrated With Seventy Plates. ; 7" x 10"; 172 pp; Mild corner wear, sound binding, two pages with small marginal spot otherwise clean and unmarked. .

New York: Chelsea Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. Four separate works published in one binding, each work separately paginated, text in German. Undated 1970s? reprint. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering. ; 5-1/4" x 8-1/4"; Ex-library (withdrawn) with the usual marks, covers lightly worn. .

Philips Technical Library. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrations include several fold-outs. Book IIIA of The Series of books on Electronic Valves, cover Valves developed during the period 1945/50. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; 011, 487 pp; Ex-library (withdrawn) with the usual markings, spine and board edges with protective coating, binding loose in two spots though still holding well, pages are clean and free of tears, writing, highlighting, etc. .

Santa Monica, Calif.: Douglas Aircraft Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Loose-leaf manual contained within a Boeing School of Aeronautics 3-ring cloth-covered binder. Manual has 11 Sections with index tabs, is printed and illustrated. Sections cover General Airplane Description, Limitations and Capacities, Instrument and Control Locations, Systems Description, Basic Performance Data, Operaqting Techniques, Check Lists, Emergency Procedures, Extreme-Cold Weather Operation, Flight Planning and Converions Tables (with an index). Each section is separately numbered. This copy was issued 1 September 1954 and Revised 1 April 1955. ; 9-1/2" x 11-1/2"; Uncommon. OCLC reports only two of these - one in Canada and the other at the Hunt Library in Daytona Beach. ; Notebook toned and faded along edges, spotting seen only on first page. .

New York: Skyhorse Publishing. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1-62873-681-X . Blue paper over boards, black paper over spine lettered in silver. In dust jacket featuing a scene looking at a dark sky from a boat. First printing with full number line. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; xvi, 201 pp; Andy Hall writes a blurb on the rear jacket panel: "In this authentic account of the realities of commercial fishing in Alaska, Dave Atcheson captures the satisfaction of hard work, the transcendent moments, and the dangers that come with life on the water. He captures what many Alaskan commercial fishermen feel, and try to ignore: the potential for catastrophe that is their constant companion, waiting to pounce on the careless and the unlucky."; Book with no wear of note. Jacket with light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and corners, light scratches, not price clipped, in clear protective cover. .

Annapolis, MD: Lighthouse Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2010). No edition noted. Softcover. Stiff wraps, perfect bound, front cover with photograph of long-ago grounded boat, illustrated with additional photographs (many in color). ISBN: 978-0-930030-90-2. ; 6" x 9"; 303 pp; An uncommon title by this author, not seen in the trade or held institutionally as shown in OCLC (10/2019). ; Slightly rubbed at corners, lightly bumped upper left, clean and unmarked. .

Sydney [Australia]: R. J. Green, Printer. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Softcover. A suggested plan for the defence of Australia, written to promote improved military readiness in the aftermath of the German invasion of Czechosolvakia.Tan wraps, illustrated with b&w maps. No edition noted; preface dated January, 1939. Likely only printing, dated 1939. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 168 pp; Stain at top of front cover with bleeding onto the first few leaves, paperclip residue with staining and impressions seen on pages 49-56. Bumping seen at corners, esp. to front cover. Name inked on front cover, pages other clean and free of tears or writing. .

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederick Clarke, Preface by the Right Hon. James Bryce. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, 2 pp. ads at rear. Review slip laid in at front of Vol. I.. ; 5-3/4" x 9"; lviii, 627 + xlii, 793 pp; Boards mildly edgeworn, small stain on rear cover of Vol. I. Solid hinges, pages clean and free of tears or writing. .

London: The Buddhist Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1945]. Softcover. A less literal tramslation, that seeks "to appreciate the spirit of his message, and to use such words as may best convey that message." Green wraps, stapled, black lettering front, contains 423 brief quotations. Printed by James Wakeham & Co. Editor's Preface dated August, 1945; no other dates. Errata sheet tipped in: Scarce thus, with WorldCat reporting but two holdings of this printing (both at the British Library).; 3-3/4" x 4-3/4"; 72 pp; Wrappers sunned, staples rusted. .

Padre Las Casas, Chile: Imprenta y Editorial "San Francisco". Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. Reprint. Softcover. White wraps, covers with illustrations and lettering front and spine in blue, text in Spanish.; 7" x 10"; xvii, 304 pp; Wraps edgeworn, toned and lightly soiled, corner creased on rear cover. Paper quite toned though not brittle, pages clean and unmarked. .

Leipzig and Francfurt: Printed by George Saalbach. Good with no dust jacket. 1736. Hardcover. but also their proper accent, phrases, figurative speeches, idioms and proverbs, taken from the best new ENGLISH DICTIONARIES. SECOND EDITION Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Considerably Augmented. Bound in modern light green library buckram with gilt spine lettering and modern endpapers. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 739 pp; Book is complete from title page to final page but lacks original endsheets and half title. Soiling to cloth (more on the rear board than the front), first three leaves with tape repairs (including across left part of title page), resulting in minor losses of readability of no more than a few characters, a long-ago ink spill created a brown marginal stain on the last 60 pages. The text is not impacted, but the last few sheets are brittle where the ink stain is located. Scattered foxing to a few pages, but no apparent writing or ownership markings. .

New York: Harry N. Abrams. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. Volumes are uniformly bound with light blue cloth boards and dark blue leatherette spines with four raised bands, Introduction by Roger Lewinter, with 3115 full-page plates spread across four volumes, fifth volume is index with 304 pages. All volumes contained within slipcase covered in light blue cloth matching boards. Large (over 9" of books) and heavy, USPS Media Mail as expected, others extra.; 4" x 6-3/4"; Several pages in Volume I have tiny corner creases, small area of rubbing to gilt on spne of Volume IV, creasing to ribbon for lifing books out of slipcase. Volumes and slipcase otherwise clean, unmarked and unworn. .

Groningen-Batavia: P. Noordhoff N.V.. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Autorisierte Übersetzung von Dr. Phil. Max Pinl. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, text in German. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" (16,5 x 24 cm); xi, 569 pp; Ex-library (withdrawn) with the usual markings, covers lightly soiled/worn, solid binding, text block free of tears or writing. .

Louisville, KY.: Printed at Courier-Journal Book Rooms. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Earliest result of the 1875 Eighth Annual Session of the National Grange recommendation "That our members may know the laws and usages they are obligated to obey, I deem it advisable that, at an early day, a Digest of our Constitution, laws, usages, and rulings be prepared, under proper supervision, and published in book form." It would have been presented in draft form at the Tenth Annual Session and completed shortly after (March 1, 1877 per the preface). Original black pebbled cloth, blindstamped "Digest" on front. 1877 date on title page. Copyright 1877 by the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. Uncommon in this earliest edition.; 4.5 x 7"; 140 pp; Cloth lightly worn and fraying at edges, signature of prior owner inside front cover, pencil doodles on a page at the rear. Scattered light foxing to some pages. .

New York: Dissent Publishing Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Softcover. This issue includes: Paul Goodman on Berkeley and Its Repercussions, Justin & Kahn on The Ambiguous Legacy of Malcolm X, A Special Feature by Robert C. Tucker on The Great Moscow Trials: A Retrospect, and more. Light green wraps, perfect bound, reddish-brown cover lettering. ; 6" x 9"; [145]-288 pp; Sunned at spine, slight edgewear, pages clean and unmarked. .

Chicago: Clohesey & Co., Printers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt emblem to front cover and gilt lettering to spine, illustrated with tables (including one fold-out) and two fold-out maps (partly colored). ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; viii, 216 pp; This book was the copy of hydraulic and sanitary enginner and UC Berkeley professor Charles Gilman Hyde, with his own library marking to spine, library pocket and unused card inside front cover and stamp to front free endpaper. Otherwise little worn with some bumping to corners, solid hinges, one leaf with a small closed tear, and clean and unmarked text and fold-outs. .

Cosenza: EDITRICE CASA DEL LIBRO - Dott. GUSTAVO BRENNER. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Later Printing. Softcover. First volume identifies this set as #55 of an edition of 300 as reproduced from the edition of 1848, remaining volumes report the limitation but are unnumberered, each volume in tan wraps, title pages are dated 1961 but covers are dated 1962 . Other reprint sets omit the fourth volume. Heavy, USPS Media Mail as expected, others extra.; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; 479+482+701+517 pp; Minor shelfwear to wraps, covers and pages toned at edges. .

New York: Exposition Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. (1967). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth lettered in black, "Illustrated by the author". Blue and white dust jacket with a dozen small illustrations. This copy signed by the author without inscription beneath the octopus that is the frontispiece illustration. ; 5-1/2" x 8"; 82 pp; Signed by Author; Slightly worn at spine ends, clean and unmarked apart from noted inscription. Jacket rubbed - lightly on front, a bit more to rear panel, lightly edgeworn, not price clipped ($3.50), in clear protective cover. .

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1945). Softcover. Yellow wraps, stapled, drawings with accompanying text. A volume in the Pitman Drawing Series. Early edition. ; Oblong, 10" x 7-1/2"; [64] pp; Light cover wear and soiling, staples show some rust, a few minor corner creases, pages clean and unmarked. .