Search Results: Authors starting with F from Douglas Books

Berkeley etc.: University of California Press, 1986. 1st ed. . p/back. Fine (-). 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. f/piece map+ix+206; thin strip along rear fore-edge slightly sunfaded, hint of rubbing to bottom outer corners. An excellent copy of this highly original exploration of the linguistic aspect of colonialism in Africa. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Butterworths, 1963. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine-/VG(+). 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xi+268; virtually pristine bar a 1965 dated sig. top front endpaper; unclipped jacket clean, edges unworn but three patches of rubbing down rear outer edge and occ. trivial spots of rubbing elsewhere, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Scarce. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1933. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good-VG/VG for age. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+xv+248, 7 further plates, 23 text figures; early signature to front pastedown, tanning to front endpaper, more heavily to back and lower p.248, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean and minimally worn but marred by patchy pigment loss to lower back and very faintly down front outer edge. Unclipped jacket remarkably clean but spine and outer edges tanned and top edge rubbed primarily due to slight extension above cover edge. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: John Bales, Sons & Danielsson, 1927. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG-Fine for age & genre/VG for age. 12.5 Cm x 19 Cm. f/piece+96 pp., 4 text idiagrams'; clean, tight & unmarked bar some brown spotting to t.p. and occasionally elsewhere, covers clean and bright, top spine very slightly rubbed, with tiny nick, spine title (0n white label) hypthenates 'Bi-Sexuality' and has additional text above this 'Constructive Essays' with 'I' beneath - but there is no mention of this elsewhere. Brown printed jacket unclippoed and remarkably clean for age and only slightly worn to extremeties, front wraparound reprints some reviews so this may be a second issue. Will add protective sleeve when ordered. Very scarce. He is using bisexuality to refer to the possession of both male and female psychological traits by everyone, not, as in current use, sexual attraction to both genders. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified… Read More

New York: Chemical Catalog Company, 1921. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Good+. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. 136 pp., sm.1921-dated sig.fr.free endpaper, sm.paper splits at ends of fr.gutter, but remains firm, there is a long ovalish symettrical dark smudge across top margin of pp.126-127, v.sm.similar top edge smudge pp.122-123 - these however appear to be a printing fault, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers generally clean (a few surface rub-lines) and minimally worn but sp.dull and has sustained a sm.knock towards bottom which has broken cloth and v. sl.exposed board. Issued in the American Chemical Society Monograph Series. Scarce.

New York, London: W.W.Norton, 1990. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 13.5 Cm x 21 Cm. Glossy cover near pristine. xiv + 458, intermittent text figs. numbered by chapter and un-numbered text photos; near pristine.

Cambridge: Icon Books, 2005. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13.5 Cm x 20.5 Cm. ix+206+(5 pub.list & notices), 28 ills. Virtually as new. The author is an eminent scholar at the Cambridge University History and Philosophy of Science department.

Austin TX: University of Texas Press , 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Red cloth with gilt sp. lettering, pristine. ix +(4) + 122, 117 text ills, publisher's original issue flier slipped in; no obvious faults. Unclipped jacket clean and nearly unworn but top outer corners and top back edge slightly rubbed and nicked, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Seven chaps. five discussing, respectively, Donne and Jonson, Carew & Lord Herbert, Crashaw, Lovelace, Herrick plus one on 'Lady Drury's Oratory' and an opening chap. on 'Visual Art in the New Arcadia'. Apparently scarce especially outside U.S. 23 cm x 29.5 cm

Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1961. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 16.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xvii+430, num.text photos, occ.photo-plate, 2 pp maps, 1 unf. (inc.in pagination); pencilled sig. of pioneer social psychiatrist Joshua Berier top fr.free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers minimally worn and clean bar a thin dark surface mark just below top back edge.

Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 1st ed. . Soft cover. Fine. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xvii+204, pub.compliments slip inserted; a virtually pristine copy. Uncommon.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878. half-black leather, purple cl.. Good+ for Age. 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. 1st ed. of "Chapters on Language" apparently 1865, of "Families of Speech", 1869 with a 2nd 1873. xx+411, 5 ills, 4 being coloured, 3 unfolding, top edge dark tinted; outer side son endpapers browned, end gutters thinly cracked but secure, two bookseller's catalgoue entries pasted to front pastedown, 3 ll. Latin inscription centre front endpaper, t.p. on slightly darker paper though not I think browned small lane bottom inner corner verso final leaf; cloth of covers clean and unmarked, leather spine end and joint rubbed with top slightly chipped, corners all moderately rubbed. A quite acceptable working/reference copy of this Victorian philological classic with pioneering treatment of language origins and language family classification, virtually all of which is now rejected but which nonetheless paved the way for later work on these topics; also tackled the… Read More

London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1866. 10th ed. . Puce blind-stamped cloth. Good-VG. 10 cms x 15 Cms. 251 pp., brown end-papers, 2 sm.sigs verso fr.endpaper facing t.p., sl.edge-browning to t.p., otherwise clean, tight & unmarked; cover has a few sm.marks but generally clean, some surface rubbing, mostly to sp.ends, and sl.corner bumping but no significant damage. A quite acceptable copy of this little Victorian reference work which is now surprisingly scarce given number of editions issued.

Norwich: Agas H.Goose, 1903. 1st Ed . cl.spine & dark brown boards. Good-/Good, not original. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xxxi+93, text figs in Introduction, 10 yellow tinted plates ex-pagination, 1 unfolding with additional colour, uncut fore-edge; the plates are excellent, main problem is detached front end-paper with heavy tanning and pencilled notes, with front gutter opening, quite heavy tanning from verso final page to rear pastedown, clean unworn cover with light brown cloth spine and dark brown boards with title to front is very good bar small whitish marks bottom front of little consequence, occ.marginalia (some of interest) and underlining occ.throughout; the jacket appears to be a later hand-made addition, with illustrations to front and back and carefully done lettering to front and spine, all in firmly fixed protective sleeve, most outer edges heavily tanned, spine title also under plastic, added afterwards. Uncommon companion to same authour's book of Norfolk brasses.

London etc.: Cassell & Company, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Black cloth, gilt lettering to fr. only, slight rubbing only to sp.ends, joints and extremities. 95 pp. (to x. in Roman), author's sig. top t.p., or perhaps a relative's as looks more like T.C. a than T.H.; some ingrained dustiness to top edge and very faint page-edge tanning but clearly very good for age. Rare. 14 cm x 22 cm

Newark, Delaware: Proscenium Press, 1975. 1st ed. . p/back. Fine-. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. Issued as 'The Society of Irish Playwrights No.2'. 86 pp., small sticker to front re:- distribution outside North America; very faint suggestion of tanning to spine region otherwise clean, tight and unmarked inside and out.

Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Printed Card. Very Good. 14.5 Cm x 23 Cm. viii+311, prev.owner's inscr. on t.p. (no free endpapers or half-title issued) o/wise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean undamaged covers, sl.sp.fading. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: American Folk-Lore Society/ G.E.Stechert, 1931. 1st Edition . Dark Red gilt printed cloth. Good/very Good. 17 Cms x 25 Cms. xxii+204, ex-lib.: label fr. pastedown, numbers verso t.p., faint label adhesion marks fr. free endpaper and back pastedown, sm.label fragment top rear free endpaper, white lib.# bottom sp. Were it not for these relatively innocuous lib.provenance signs this would rate as VG/Fine, being internally clean, tight & unmarked in bright clean unworn covers. Scarce. Issued as Vol.XXIV of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London etc.: Quartet Books, 1979. 1st Ed . Paperback. VG. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xviii+274, 16 pp.central illustration block (ex-pagination) + 8 (I make it) full page text ills of playbills. This would be fine but for the fact that edges are tanned throughout, otherwise clean, unworn and unmarked, small $ price sticker bottom back cover.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/Good+. Light brown cloth binding, clean and unworn but light fading to sp. and back edges. ill. end-papers (different at each end), f/piece+ xi + 156, 19 plates ex-pagination, 7 text figs; author's small sig. top fr. end-paper (which has a tiny smudged blue spot as well), another, 1977-dated, top fr. pastedown, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. Price-clipped jacket in protective sleeve as acquired, fairly heavy tanning to back edges, rubbing to sp.ends. A centenary account of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 17.5 cm x 22 cm.

Cambridge: W.Heffer, 1960. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine (-)/VG. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. An expansion of lectures given at Toronto in the autumn of 1958". vii+97; very thin strips of fading to spine ends the only flaw to this otherwise near pristine copy; clipped jacket otherwise clean and unworn. Includes discussion of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, and matters relating to trade in timber, tobacco and coal. A very nice little monograph on the economic character of Scottish Enlightenment society. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.