Search Results: Authors starting with D from Island Books

University Press, Cambridge,, 1925. 8vo., Second Edition, 15 folding maps on japon and numerous maps in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; brown buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Revised and enlarged version of the original edition of 1920. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Royal Marines Historical Society, Eastney,, 1984]. 8vo.,m with photographs in the the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 6. Photofacsimile of the original edition.

Selden Society,, 1965. Roy. 8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate, perforated stamp on title and neat accession panel on reverse. Selden Society, Supplementary Series, vol. 3.

Rothamsted Experimental Station Library, Harpenden,, 1958. 8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32; original pale blue wrappers printed in red and black, backstrip very lightly browned else a near fine copy. SCARCE.

Faber,, [1948]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and diagrams in the text; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one short closed tear.

Methuen,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a tipped-in frontispiece, 11 tipped-in photographic plates and front endpaper map, half-title and title lightly spotted; original beige paper boards, green cloth back, backstrip with printed paper label, uncut, an unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. With trade ticket on front paste-down and spare printed label tipped-in at rear. A delightful account in prose and verse as the author follows the Way from Winchester to Canterbury. Scarce in this condition.

Harrap,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; pictorial brown cloth, upper board blocked in white, backstrip lettered in white, covers lightly faded else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges, and with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip.

Wills & Hepworth,, 1959. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 24 full-page colour illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; original pictorial beige boards blocked and lettered in blue, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Ladybird Books Series 587. Uncommon in this condition.

Book Guild, [Lewes],, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

Putnam,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy without dustwrapper.

Merrell,, [2003]. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome reproductions and photographs in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in white, yellow endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the major exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery, and subsequently shown also at Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham. Very scarce, especially in this condition.

University of Queensland Press, [St.Lucia, QLD],, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, tape marks on free endpapers; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with tape marks on inner surface. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1991]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Chatto & Windus,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in blue and black, 57 fine coloured plates and 4 line illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with coloured illustration mounted in centre frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. With the separately printed addendum slip facing text.

Cedocar, [Paris],, [1983]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with very numerous photographs throughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.

Antique Collectors' Club, [Woodbridge,, 1998]. Roy. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, many hundreds of coloured and monochrome reproductions in the text, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the standard reference first published in 1970.

Leo Cooper, [Barnsley],, [2002]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Royal Archaeological Institute,, 1967. 4to., with 12 plates on 6, several maps and plans in the text and 4 large folding plans; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Offprinted from 'The Archaeological Journal', vol. CXXIII.

Cassell,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, faint reading crease to backstrip, a good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed and creased without material loss at extremities. Wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Gino d'Achille. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.

Patrick Stephens, [Wellingborough,, 1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Action Stations' series.