Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bibliodditiques

London: Pickering & Inglis Ltd.. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. Full colour frontisNo chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Light wear and soiling to coverboards. No publication date stated. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London New York: Frederick Warne & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good +. Book contains the days of the year with a quotation from the Bible for each date and a space to enter names of people who have birthdays on each date. Some entries have been made. No date of publication indicated, but likely early 1900's. Gift inscription on front endpaper is dated 1905. Brown coverboards with embossed design in gold, blue, black and green. Decorative endpapers with small ink smudge and number on front endpaper. Text block has gilt edges. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Size: 32mo (4" to 5").

Toronto: Harper Collins, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Contains words of inspiration for each day of the year and covers such topics as success, overcoming adversity and disappointent, building remarkable relationships, impact and legacy. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Gold ribbon book mark. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5").

Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name stamped on front endpaper. A Christmas sticker on rear endpapers. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has some edge wear. Front free endpaper is detached along 4 inches of its length, but is still secure. 16 full colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Activity pages have not been marked. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 205 pp.

London & Dunstable: Waterlow & Sons. Hard Cover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Publication date not stated, but is likely in 1950's. Endpapers feature illustrations of vintage cars with latest vintage being a 1955 Sunbeam Rapier. Features a Biggles story "Biggles lays a Ghost". Gift inscription on front endpaper. Coverboards have some wear around edges and spine and a couple inch split at bottom of spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 200 pp.

London: H. A. & W. L. Pitkin Ltd. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Clear plastic cover applied by previous owner and is taped on to endpapers. Endpapers have tape shadows and are yellowed. Includes some magazine clippings about wine that have been laid in the book. Twenty-five black and white photographic illustrations + four maps. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 185 pp.

London: G. T. Foulis & Co., Ltd., 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Includes milestones in Daimler history, preface & 2 appendices. Tight binding. Blue coverboards with gilt lettering. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Some small chips/tears around edges of jacket and surface rubbing. One of Index pages has creases and a 1" tear. Richly illustrated with 64 black and white photographic plates. Frontis is a photographic illustration of King Edward VII in Lord Montagu's car, 1903. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 232 pp.

Racine, Wisconsin: Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1974. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Ilse-Margret Vogel. Little Golden Book #102. A hard-to-find title. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Some light edge wear. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8").

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/very good +. Ronald Himler. "A woman tells her granddaughter what it was like to live in a sod house on the Dakota prairie a century ago." Tight binding. Dust jacket is price-clipped and in a protective mylar cover. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: Thomas Allen Limited, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT clipped. Some small tears, chips around edges of jacket and some paper loss at head/tale of spine and top right corner of front panel. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 150 pp.

Toronto: Thomas Allen, Limited, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. In this book from the Dale of the Mounted series, Constable Dale Thompson of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has to solve a mystery involving the death of a Portuguese seaman and the disapperance of a giant Indian. Tight binding. Dust jacket is clean and bright with a few small tears. The pages are clean and without written inscriptions, tears, creases or chips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good +/as new. Author examines the impact of the Scottish Highlands on the New World - the contributions made by soldiers, explorers, guerilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and pioneer settlers. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Front dust jacket flap is price-clipped. Front free endpaper has top corner slightly clipped to removed previous owner's name. Jacket is in a clear, removable, archival sleeve. Illustrated with full colour photographs. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 288 pp.

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Number line reads 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. Pictorial endpapers with maps. Appendix. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 1016 pp

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A later printing of First Edition. Pictorial endpapers with maps. Appendix. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 1016 pp

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009. Paperback. As New. Book recounts history of the First World War fighter-pilot-training initiative established by the British in response to losses in the skies during the war. This initiative launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 358 pp.

San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Greg Shed. Author won Caldecott Medal for "Smoky Night" in 1995. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket has a few small tears around edges, and area of paper loss at tail of spin, and is NOT price-clipped. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11").

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1963. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good +. Lloyd Scott. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Gift Inscirption on front end papers. Some edge and surface wear to dust jacket. No. 6 in the Buckskin Books series. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 122 pp.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket has some tears/chips and is in a protective mylar cover. Jacket is NOT price-clipped. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 214 pp.

London: Howard Baker, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Reprint of original "GEM" magazine stories published in 1922. Includes the complete collection of the D'Arcy The Runaway series of stories. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and is in a clear archival sleeve. Some tape shadows on endpapers and a name/date and book plate on front endpaper. Small dampstain on front top right corner of jacket. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11").

New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Author's first published work of fiction and the first in the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series. Signed without inscription by author on endpaper. "Signed Copy" sticker on front of dust jacket. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 292 pp.