Search Results: Authors starting with D from Black Sheep Books

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1989. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/-. A collection of linked short stories and a new long poem. Glossy soft cover, white titling to front, black titling to spine, signed and inscribed to Phyllis [Webb] to title page, 63 pages. Minor shelf wear. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1988. Second Impression. . Soft cover. Very Good+/-. Fred D'Aguiar's first book. Glossy soft cover, white titling to front and spine, inscribed and signed to title page, 48 pages. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Hudson, Wisconsin: Iconografix. Soft cover. Very Good. Book contains behind-the-scenes photographs displaying the exciting and unusual construction and operation of circus trains. Colourfully illustrated red soft cover with white titling, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, 126 pages, publisher's advertising on last two pages. Cover has light shelf wear, there is a light crease to lower front corner. This is a handsome book - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall-Oblong

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good+. A novel by the author of Pigs in Clover. Frank Danby is the pen name of Julia Davis Frankau. Green cloth with black titling on spine and front, red and black decoration on spine, three-colour illustration and simple red border on front, colour frontispiece, duo-tone illustration on title page, attractive colour illustrations in text, 312 pages, several pages of publisher's advertising at back. Cover has light wear to corners and spine ends, cover is clean and bright, text block edges slightly darkened, foxing spots in front and back hinges, front hinge has a two-inch split at top end, frontispiece has a smudge and a half-inch tear at lower corner, text is clean, binding is tight. This is a very attractive book in nice condition. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales… Read More

Monte Carlo, Monaco: Annuaire De France. International Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. International Edition in English. Founded 1843. 154th Year of Publication, compiled and edited from official sources by Count d'Angerville, author of Annuaire de la Noblesse de France, Royalty Peerage and Nobility of the World etc., 96th Volume. Red cloth with gilt titling on spine, gilt decoration on spine and front, decorated title pages, black and white frontispiece, small black and white illustrations in text, 624 pages. With the exception of a tiny smudge to lower text block edge, book appears to be without flaws - a handsome copy. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Greenland: Atuakkiorfik (Greenland Publishers), 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good-. Danielsen, Jakob. Text is in Greenlandic, Danish and English, edited by Birger Rosendahl, translated into English by Nicholas Hills, translated into Greenlandic by Hans A. Lynge. A description of the lives of Greenlandic hunters of the early 1900s. Colourfully illustrated glossy cover with orange, blue and white titling, small oval colour frontispiece, two colour maps on rear fixed end paper, illustrated throughout with colour plates, each with a three-language description, black and white photograph of Jakob Danielsen and his family circa 1930 at rear of book, 42 pages. Cover has negligible shelf wear; this is a handsome book - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Poor. A story that spans almost seven decades of American life - from the eve of Black Friday to the rumble of the guns at Pearl Harbour. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine, 640 pages. Some edge and shelf wear, textblock edge has a very slim ink line probably due to printer's error and some foxing, endpapers browned. Dust jacket is worn and frayed, two-inch by half-inch open tear to top spine end, one-inch by half inch open tear to bottom spine end, small holes in spine, neatly torn or cut the length of the spine but held together in clear plastic jacket cover. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7.75"-9.75" Tall

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Winnipeg. Second Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hamilton, Mary Riter. Catalogue was published in conjunction with an exhibition of forty of Mary Riter Hamilton's battlefield paintings of 1919 - 1922, held at the University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03, co-sponsored by The War Amputations of Canada, University of Winnipeg and the National Archives of Canada. Text is in English and French. Forewords by John C. Law and Jean-Pierre Wallot, Preface and Acknowledgements by Angela E. Davis and Sarah M. McKinnon, text by Angela E. Davis. Colourfully illustrated green soft cover with red and black titling on front, black titling on spine, illustrated with black and white plates as well as five in full colour plus the colour image on front cover, 40 pages. Cover has light edgewear particularly to corners and spine ends, light shelf wear to front cover, slightly more to back cover, spine and adjacent edges are sunned, interior of… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good-. In this first voume, William Lyon Mackenzie King's life and political career are traced up to the establishment of his first administration as Prime Minister. Red cloth, gilt titling to spine, frontispiece, some black and white photographs, 521 pages. Minor edge wear, gift inscription in ink to ffep. Dust jacket shows sunned spine, edge and shelf wear, open tear to top of front, three closed tears. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Science-fiction & Fantasy Publication, 1961. Card Cover. Good/-. A checklist of periodicals of thge super-imaginative genre as science-fiction, fantasy, fantastic adventures and weird tales. Not included are comic books and magazines with only partial fantasy content. The list of mystery-weird magazines is incomplete. Blue card cover with black titling to front, staple binding, 63 pages. Sunning around the edges, light edge wear, and a light bump to top free corner, previous owner's name to title page. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1955. Hardcover. Good+/Good-. Houston, James. The story of the Krangmalit, "The People Beyond" who live on the central Arctic coast of Canada, written by Raymond de Coccola, a missionary who lived with them for twelve years. Red cloth, gilt titling on spine, end papers are a two-colour map of the central Arctic, illustrated with line drawing. 316 pages. Some edge wear with rubbing. Dust jacket has edge wear with chipping and small missing pieces, creasing and several closed tears. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Tokyo: The Vendome Press, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good/-. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series II: Textcritical Remarks on the Bodhisattvavadanakalpalata (Pallavas 42-108). Red card cover with black titling to front and spine, light blue endpapers, 303 pages. Light shelf wear, looks like it is unread. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Netherlands: Rune Books, 2006. Soft cover. Good+ to Very Good-. An English translation. "A treatise about the obsolete ways and methods of working the present-day science practice; adaptations of these to the present human consciousness and indications for further research; a picture of ways to go out of the own observations, explained after own observations and inner experiences; the star science, mother of all sciences, as overall one in a renewed way; the sciences reordered on the base of cosmic-human relations; outworkings to the sciences out of the renewed star science, a renewed university on the base of the archetype of man and society." (from the title page.) Colourfully illustrated soft cover with red and yellow titling, author's inscription on end papers, black and white illustrations, 515 pages (page 494 printed again on rear free end paper.) Cover has shelf wear, light edge wear, light discolouration to text block edges, three of the free corners bumped which can be seen as… Read More

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. Soft cover. Very Good+. An intricately structured novel, full of a wealth of detail about music, Cornwall, and things magical and arcane," signed by the author. Colourfully illustrated black soft cover with blue titling, four pages of musical notation and a two-page glossary of unfamiliar terms at back of book, 540 pages. Cover has some minor shelf wear, otherwise this attractive book is in great condition. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Ottawa, Ontario: Statistique Canada, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Written in French, this book depicts Canada from coast to coast: economics, tourism, scenery and people. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine and front, green end papers, illustrated throughout with very handsome colour and black and white plates, 146 pages. This handsome book appears to be without flaws. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear but is otherwise in great shape. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall-Oblong

Buenos Aires, 1953. Paper in Wraps. Good. Vardiero, Haydee Z.. A compenium of Folk Dances of Argentina, written in Spanish. White card cover with black and blue titling, black & white illustration, black and white illustrations throughout, 188 pages. Cover has edge wear particularly to spine ends, some tiny pale spots front and back, text block edges darkened and foxed, occasional foxing spots in text. Dust jacket has shelf wear with chipping at corners, several open tears to upper edge, foxed and sunned overall. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: A. & C. Black. Hardcover. Good to Very Good. Subtitled on Half-Title: "London Reminiscences and Confessions of an Opium-Eater." Dark blue cloth with gilt titling and elaborate decoration on spine, top text block edge is gilt, leading and lower edges untrimmed which has resulted in a few uncut pages, black end papers, red titling and elaborate black decorative border on title page, 472 pages. Upper corners bumped, light wear to corners and spine ends, cover has light shelf wear, gilt on top edge is bright, other edges slightly darkened, lower portion of back hinge is cracked, page edges slightly darkened. This is a handsome volume, in remarkably nice condition for its age - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.… Read More

London: A. & C. Black, 1897. Hardcover. Good. Subtitled on Half-Title: "Tales and Romances." Dark blue cloth with gilt titling and elaborate decoration on spine, top text block edge is gilt, leading and lower edges untrimmed which has resulted in a few uncut pages, black end papers, red titling and elaborate black decorative border on title page, 474 pages, four pages of publisher's advertising at back. Corners, edges and spine ends have wear, cover has light shelf wear, gilt on top edge is bright, other edges darkened, lower edge has some discolouration, lower corners bumped, upper rear hinge lightly cracked at both ends, first free end paper has some tiny black marks and a cracked hinge, pages 240 to 250 have some stains near top edge, occasional other small marks in text, page edges slightly darkened. This is a handsome volume. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees.… Read More

London: A. & C. Black, 1897. Hardcover. Good+ to Very Good. Subtitled on Half-Title: "Literary Theory and Criticism." Dark blue cloth with gilt titling and elaborate decoration on spine, top text block edge is gilt, leading and lower edges untrimmed which has resulted in a few uncut pages, black end papers, red titling and elaborate black decorative border on title page, 455 pages. Very light wear to corners, edges and spine ends, cover has light shelf wear, gilt on top edge is bright, other edges slightly darkened, tiny chip in leading edge of first free end paper, page edges slightly darkened. This is a handsome volume, in remarkably nice condition for its age - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 12mo - over… Read More

London: A. & C. Black, 1897. Hardcover. Good to Very Good. Subtitled on Half-Title: "Literary Theory and Criticism." Dark blue cloth with gilt titling and elaborate decoration on spine, top text block edge is gilt, leading and lower edges untrimmed which has resulted in a few uncut pages, black end papers, red titling and elaborate black decorative border on title page, 474 pages, two pages of publisher's advertising at back. Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends, cover has light shelf wear, gilt on top edge is bright, other edges slightly darkened, leading edge has a few small, dark spots, page edges slightly darkened. This is a handsome volume, in remarkably nice condition for its age - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions… Read More