Search Results: Authors starting with D from Goldring Books

London: Collins, 1972. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a small indentation to top front edge with VG dustjacket. 191 pages. The book presents the whole discussion of what lies behind the traditional Easter stories of the Christian Church in such a way that the non-specialist is helped by scholarly but plain talking. The story of the Resurrection of Jesus is made the foundation of a convincing presentation of Christianity. R1. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 1987. A very Good+ clean copy which has a small inscription to front endpaper with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. 238 pages. 60 illustrations. When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary: there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for their country. In this fascinating book, illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs, Dr. Dakers explores exactly what their 'country' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, she presents the most complete picture of the impact of the war on rural England. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A comprehensive, highly ilustrated and up to date study of all aspects of illustration and design - history, equipment, materials and techniques, covered fully in words, pictures and clearly explicit drawings and diagrams. Divided into two sections for ease of reference and written by working artists, all experts in their field. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1933. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper "With best wishes". Black titles on brown cloth boards which have a few small marks and dulling to spine. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers and sporadically to some others, a previous owner's name and separation of front endpaper and front pastedown. Otherwise a clean and tight copy. The author was a columnist on The Daily Sketch newspaper and this book is "a commentary on life at the time, intended to tease as well as to please, half playful, half serious", in fact the personal philosophy of a woman who loves living. Not dated but is in fact 1933. Delightfully illustrated by Lawrence Houghton. **** A VERY SCARCE SIGNED COPY **** C3B. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Houghton, Lawrence. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Avon, 1994. A Very Good unmarked copy. xix + 312 pages. The book takes the reader on an enthralling journey of scientific discovery starting with the case of Phineas Gage - a construction foreman who in 1848 survived a freak accident in which a 3 1/2 foot iron rod passed through his head - and continuing on to Damasio's experiences with modern-day neurlogical patients affected by brain damage. 20. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Dance Books, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 213 pages. 48 pages of black and white photographs. The captivating and long-awaited memoir of Alexandra Danilova, one of this century's greatest and most beloved ballerinas. Her story is the story of modern ballet itself, from its beginnings in Imperial St. Petersburg, through its incubation in the glamorous and intrigue-ridden world of the Ballets Russes, to its triumphant apotheosis in the hands of George Balanchine in America. At each step, 'Choura', as she is known to generations of balletomanes, was present as both witness and creator. S. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thomas Yosseloff, 1959. Gold title and house motif on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with a little chipping G+. A treasury of previously untapped material revealing the contributions made by this army of volunteer women nurses who followed the regiments to the front in the Civil War, appearing on every battlefield from Bull Run to Appomattox. These women endured as much privation as the soldiers and their many letters and diaries have been skillfully sifted and selected to form this fascinating book. Includes the story of a woman who lived as a soldier for two years without having her sex discovered. 25 photographic illustrations. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1904. Ottime condizioni. Mezzo cuoio e coperture marmorizzate. età al bordo della pagina. timbri a inchiostro alle prime tre pagine. Alcuni segni di sfregamento sulle coperture anteriori e posteriori. 280 pagine. Francesca da Rimini è una tragedia in versi e in cinque atti di Gabriele D'Annunzio scritta nel 1901. Racconta la storia di come Francesca da Rimini si innamora del fratello di suo marito nel 13 ° secolo. IN LINGUA ITALIANA It contains Francesca Da Rimini tragedia in cinque atti rappresentata per la prima volta a Roma dalla Compagnia di Eeonor Duse il di IX di Decembre nell'anno MCML. It does not contain part II - Parisina nor part III - Sigismondo Malatesta of the trilogy. D4E. Hard Cover. Molto Bene/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1975. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author has produced a book in which text and photographs (his own), equally balanced and each complementing the other, present an intimate picture of one of the loveliest of the English counties. A wonderful work with 112 black and white photographs and 1 map. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Virago Press, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Translated from the French by Penelope Dening. On 28 May 1996 twelve year old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by the man who turned out to be one of Belgium's most heinous paedophiles. She was his prisoner for eighty long days. 'The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Phoenix House, 1949. Red title to spine and six acting figures in red on yellow cloth boards which are clean and unmarked apart from a small mark to back and with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with light foxing only to closed edges. An interesting work with short chapters on Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, Siddons, Kean, Irving and the role of the audience. 8 photographic illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Harrap, 1960. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small neat inscription to front endpaper else clean and unmarked with a little foxing to closed edges. Pictorial dustjacket is price clipped with a small removal and some chipping. The author was drama critic for the Daily Telegraph since 1919 and is an autobiography of a playgoer rather than a person. Throughout his long career he has reviewed numerous plays although the title is only a conservative one and covers the interesting late Edwardian era up to after World War II. 11 . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bounty, 2007. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards with a dustjacket which has a close repaired tear and a stain (not visible to front) and is price clipped. 215 pages. 27 illustrations. Over 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives in World War II. On one raid alone, Nuremburg in March 1944, more airmen lost their lives than were lost in the Battle of Britain. Historytells of nations of these men, mobilised to answer their country's call, fighting for ideals, living, dying, possibly returning home. One such man was Arthur Darlow, grandfather of the author, who was a pilot of a Lancaster crew in 405 RCAF Squadron, made up of British and Canadians. They were one of the legions of RAF bomber crews that took the offensive against Germany or most of the war. Their story, vividly recreated by Stephen Darlow is a special one. B4B. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Duckworth, 1987. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a small bump to one corner tip with VG+ price clipped dustjacket which has a very small repaired closed tear. Introduced by Barry Took and Peter Alliss. Written by one of the greatest of all writers on golf, Bernard Darwin's classic description of the golf courses of the British Isles, first published in 1910, dropped from sight and lurked unnoticed for 80 years. It now emerges in a new edition as fresh, fascinating and full of golfing wisdom as when it was first penned. It provides not only a hole by hole description of many Great Britain and Ireland's leading courses but an intriguing evocation of the time when the 'gutty' was being replaced by the rubber cored golfball. An amusing and scholarly introduction by Barry Took and Peter Alliss sets the scene. 23 plates. 22. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Routledge, 1892. Gilt title on green cloth boards which have fading to spine and a touch of wear to top corner tips. Internally there is the usual darkening of endpapers and age toning of page edges else a clean, tight copy. 365 pages + index. Top edge gilt. Translated by Henry Frith. Printed on Japan Paper and profusely illustrated on most pages by Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi, engraved by Guillaume Brothers. **** SCARCE **** B2D. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good TEG/No Jacket. Illus. by Aranda, De Beaumont, Montenard, Myrbach and Rossi. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: The London Book Co., 1907. Half brown leather with gilt fleur de lys and title on green cloth boards. Light wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally there is foxing to endpapers and to fore and lower edges else a clean, tight copy. xxvi + 429 pages. Photogravure portrait of Daudet to frontispiece after a pastel drawing by Will Rothenstein and 3 coloured plates by Louis Edward Fournier. Translated with a critical introduction by Professor Trent. Appendix of portraits by Octave Uzanne. Uniform with A Library of French Masterpieces edited by Edmund Gosse. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.89 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 4. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good TEG/No Jacket. Illus. by Fournier, Louis Edward and Rothenstein, Will. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: J. M. Dent Gilt title on blue cloth boards which have age darkening to spine and a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there are fairy decorated endpapers and two contemporary inscriptions else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy. 317 pages. Coloured engraved frontispiece ' she left the room walking rigidly with eyes half shut' from chapter IV. A Good+ copy. Uniform with The Wayfarers Library. Not dated c. 1910's. Inscription dated Christmas 1915. B2D. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 29 of the world's most respected and influential corporate leaders, ranging from Dr. Daniel Vasella of Novartis and Timothy Koogle of Yahoo. discuss how they are preparing to meet the challenge of a radically changed 21st century business environment. The authors are senior partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 1998. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to fore edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 534 pages. 'When is a rebel not a rebel? When he is Jorel Kable, who fights his own kind in the belief that to destroy the corrupters is to destroy corruption. When is a machine not a machine? When it is the creature known as Wispy, conditioned to kill with neither desire nor justification for her actions. When is a killer not a killer?. When he is Rudi Kingston, whose radical values drive him to commit acts no sane individual would countenance; he has no just cause, just himself. Bring these bizarre characters together in a future imagined with extraordinary detail, add the chilling influence of an alien race for whom there is no concept of the individual and the result is Enemies of Society. This book was later turned into a six parter:- Becoming Death, Destroying Worlds, Passion for Dead Leaves, Send in the Swords, Let Not the… Read More

London: Werner Laurie, 1958. Boards have very minor marks but no wear. Internally there is a contemporary name to ront endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has staining and age darkening and is not price-clipped. xvi + 486 pages. 20 illustrations..The author tells the stories of many famous ballets, including such favourites as The Firebird, Petrouchka, Robert Helpmann's Hamlet and Casse Noisette. In outlining the plot-sequence behind the stylised actions of the dancers, she explains the underlying symbolism in each ballet and shows how effective the creative combination of movement, grouping, decor and choreography can be. Contains a valuable index giving details of the source of each story, information about the composer of the music, the scenic and costume designer, as well as the date and place of the first performance. B2E. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.