Search Results: Authors starting with D from Second-handSOME BOOKS

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very small closed tears to top and bottom of spine, left bottom edge of front panel and closed tear to bottom edge, back panel. Faint ink markings to back panel. Price clipped. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. Abrasion/tear to front paste-down. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is an exceptionally nice copy of Roald Dahl's popular children's novel, James and the Giant Peach, the basis for the 1996 film of the same name and a twentieth-century classic. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 2nd state (4 line colophon) published by Alfred Knopf in 1961. The 2nd state dust jacket (ISBN numbers on back panel) is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.
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"From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!
Roald Dahl was a champion of the… Read More

VERY GOOD+ — SLIPCASE: Very good condition. No issues. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very fine example of Richard Dawkin's controversial book on evolution, The Selfish Gene, published by The Folio Society, London in 2019. This is a 1st edition, 3rd printing of the work by C & C Offset Printing Ltd, China, on Yu Long Pure paper and bound by them in cloth, blocked with a design by Neil Gower. The book is protected from wear by a hardshell slipcase.
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The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations (most often in fiction titles) or researched artworks… Read More

VERY GOOD+ condition --- BOARDS: Very good condition; no issues. BOOK: Very good condition; no issues. SLIPCASE: Good condition. Minor soiling and reglued bottom seam on one side. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.Here on offer is a very nice copy of Honoré dé Balzac's novel, Eugenié Grandet, a social satire of early nineteenth-century Frech Provincial life, published by The Limited Editions Club in 1960. This edition is one of 1500 copies printed for subscribers, numbered (#545), illustrated and signed by the artist, René ben Sussan. This edition was printed by The Curwen Press in London, bound in buckram with two black hinge-like leather insets. The book is protected from wear by an handsome slipcase.****************************************************************************************************************************"The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929 by George Macy (1900-1956) to publish finely made and finely illustrated limited… Read More

VERY GOOD condition — COVERS: Minor scratches and stress rubbings to face and hinges, respectively. Minor soiling, front and back. Top right front, and bottom left back corners slightly dogeared. BOOK: Age toning to text pages. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Roy DeCarava's and Langston Hughes' The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a photographic essay of life in Harlem in the 1940s and 50s. The story is narrated by the fictional character Sister Mary Bradley. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Simon & Schuster in 1955. It is bound in softcovers.
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"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." —Roy DeCarava
The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a "poem" about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the… Read More

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very small closed tear to back panel, near spine. Very minor curling of laminate face at bottom edge of spine. Minor creasing to outside edges of flaps, primarily front. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of Joan Didion's classic L.A. novel, Play It As It Lays, included in Time magazine's list of The 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1970. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.
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"A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer.
Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along… Read More

VERY GOOD — SLIPCASE: Very good condition. Very minor scuffs to sides; sticker residue to left. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very fine example of metaphysical poet John Donne's extensive body of work, The Complete English Poems, published by The Folio Society, London in 2006. This is a 2nd printing of this edition by The Bath Press, Bath, on Caxton Wove paper, and bound by them in quarter leather and cloth sides, printed with a design by Jane Lydbury. The book is protected from wear by a hardshell slipcase.
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The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned… Read More