Search Results: Authors starting with D from Reading Rat

New York: Golden Press, 1973. Apparent First. Paperback. VG+. 184 p. large format pb. Part of the Betty Crocker Home Library. Colour illustrations, diagrams, and patterns. Distinct 70s vibe.

Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press/Western Publishing Company, 1973. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Large format paperback; 184 p. incl. index; Illustrated with over 400 how-to drawings, 56 B & W photos, and 12 pages of colour photos. Toys, decorative items, home items for all ages, suitable for gift giving or bazaar fundraising. Very typical of crafts of the era. Part of the Betty Crocker Home Library. VG+, minor reading wear only, very nice and clean. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press/Griffin, 1996. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good- . 271 p. incl. index and footnotes; tradepaper; VG-, minor shelf wear and bumping, small stained area on outside of text block near top. Interior clean and solid. Bruce Daniels, Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg, has written a book that is both scholarly and entertaining, on the many forms of recreation available to New England colonists, who were not the dour and cheerless lot we sometimes think.

Point Roberts, Washington, U.S.A.: New Star Books, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket. 183 p. First edition, first printing. VG+, light shelf/reading wear. Clean, solid interior. Second novel by Winnipeg author Lynette (Dueck) D'anna. "Rita, Sage, Eddie and Pearce are boldly coming of age. A compelling story of growing up and letting go." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Western Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1975. Fourth Printing. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Magazine-format, 80 page soft cover; VG condition, ordinary wear at edges, no marks, spine firm, reading crease down front cover. Colour photo on cover of woman quilting a "Rob Peter to Pay Paul" quilt. Many colour illustrations & B & W drawings. Complete instructions for pieced and applique quilts and other projects. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Turnstone Press, 1998. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Second printing; 193 p.; VG+; eleven essays on Canadian literature, with a preface by Eli Mandel. Clean, square, unmarked copy. Author's photo on back cover by Michael Ondaatje. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

David W. McFadden. Not Stated. Saddle Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. No date; unpaginated; slim chapbook containing six tanka and six haiku, on blue and lilac paper, gray paper cover with photo. VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Israel: El Al Israel, 1970. Not Stated. Saddle Stitched. Good+/No Jacket. Jean David. 24 p.; very small, 4.5 inch square booklet; G+, interior clean, cover somewhat discoloured with a few stray marks that may be pen or pencil doodles. Date is uncertain but probably from the 1970s. Jean David, a well-known Israeli artist, was commissioned to paint 12 landscapes for an El Al calendar. They are reproduced here in a booklet that was given to El Al passengers. HTF. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1978. First edition thus. Paperback. Good +. 284 p.; PB, moderate reading wear, age darkening; overall G+. Fictional thriller inspired by the work of Chaim Weizmann on synthesizing oil. What if Weizmann succeeded in finding cheap way to synthesize oil, but died without passing on his secret? Fast forward to the oil shock of the 1970s and the attempt to rediscover Weizmann's secret. (Note: this is fiction!)

Columbus, Ohio: Horse Publications, 1966. First. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. First edition; 250 p.; paperback; VG-; moderate creasing of both front and back covers, stamped Pollock Beauty School on title page, otherwise in clean solid condition. Index, photos and drawings of the muscular and skeletal structure of the horse, detailed introduction to veterinary care, including common ailments and injuries, care and treatment, etc. A useful guide, although no doubt veterinary medicine has progressed since 1966. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montreal, PQ, Canada: Vehicule Press, 1996. Not Stated. Pictorial Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 127 p.; cover is a reproduction of an ink & watercolour by Wyndham Lewis; VG+, very light shelf wear. A suite of three stories, A Sweet Comedy, Apostrophe, and East Fortieth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited, 1997. Not Stated. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 270 p.; VG overall, bottom corner bent, light crease on front cover. Light edgewear. James R. Davis served with Canada's armed forces from 1985 to 1996, serving in Sarajevo, Rwanda, and with the Airborne Regiment in its last seven months. "Through it all, his respect for the ordinary soldier grew. So did his disillusionment with the senior ranks and their government masters." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. VG/F; book is clean, firm, cor. & spine slightly bumped, otherwise nice copy. DJ badly worn, tearing along front fold, large closed tear at bottom of spine, chunks missing at top and bottom of spine. Most is intact, incl. flaps and back photo of author with caption. DJ design by Grushkin. Set in Beecher, Kansas, in the 1920s. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1983. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Third printing, orig. publ. 1972, revised edition 1982. Large-format pb, 8.5 x 11 inches, 396 p. incl. index, bibliography and glossary. VG-; clean & firm in binding but has edgewear & rubbing, front cover sl. creased at bottom corner, a few small nicks on front cover, long scratch on back cover. Slight mustiness. A very comprehensive textbook on the history, theory, and practice of photography, incl. detailed instructions for developing film. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-library, with usual stamps on FFEP and edges. VG/VG. Book is clean and tight, a few pages bent at lower corner, DJ taped on, otherwise unmarked. Map of Mexico on endpapers. DJ price clipped, library label on spine, in plastic cover. "While serving hard time in 1922 in a U.S. penitentiary for violating America's neutrality law, Ricardo Flores Magon spins a remarkable tale through the riveting journals of his life and his views of and participation in the Mexican Revolution of 1914. . . . Douglas Day's engrossing re-creation of the revolution adroitly combines fiction with fact: the journals extract much of their juice from Flores Magon's letters to the flirtatious Lily Sarnoff." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montreal: Pocket Books of Canada, 1945. First edition thus. Paperback. Good +. 297 p. PB. Wartime edition; first published in1927. G+ condition; cover creased and worm, interior age darkened, pages intact.. Maze de la Roche's saga of the Whiteoak family and their Canadian estate, Jalna.

Emmaus, PA and London: Rodale Press, 1955. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good. Alistair Grant. 44 p.; one of a series of "miniature books" printed by Rodale Press in the 1950s. VG-/G; some sun fading along bottom, otherwise clean and unmarked, glassine DJ has chipping, some closed tears, small chunk missing at top of spine, front flap creased. A pretty little volume containing one of de Musset's short comedies. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper Collins, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 150 p. PB; remainder mark; minor shelf wear. The author is a journalist and comic strip writer living in Buenos Aires. "Voltaire's Calligrapher is described as an historical thriller, a philosophical work and an adventure.

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Stoddart , 1999. Not Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good -. 411 p. incl. index, bibliography, notes, appendix. VG+/VG-. Book is clean, solid, unmarked. Unclipped DJ is bumped, has two closed tears repaired with archival tape. Glossy pictorial boards with translucent vellum DJ. "From the most ancient of times, when humans huddled close to water sources, to the present, with our reckless and profligate abuse of this critical resource, water has been as vital as air. But now the global supply is pressing up against ever-increasing demands made by ever-burgeoning populations, and the uses and misuses of water are increasing the possibility of armed conflict as nations reach the limits of their resources." Thoroughly documented and researched; a must-read for anyone concerned with environmental and sustainability issues. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wales UK: Envoi Poets Publications, 1992. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +/No Jacket. 40 p.; VG+; trace of shelfwear. Small volume of poetry, perfect bound in red card cover. "The poems in this volume all come from a tour of England, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. These thirty pieces concentrate themes apparent in Deahl's previous titles: the celebration of nature; the recognition of death and human frailty; the longing for redemption; and a belief in the transcendent quality of love, in the face of a dark and increasingly empty modernity."