Search Results: Titles starting with D from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: Warfare, 1993. Large oversize hardcover, red laminated pictorial boards, with images reproduced on glossy dust-jacket. 80pp., Prosely illustrated with photographs, several in color. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Looks new, unread. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Secaucus, New Jersey: Book Sales, 1990. Large format hardcover. laminated paper covered boards with image repeated on dust-jacket. 80pp., Appendix, Index. Illustated with numerouis black and white photographs, as well as several in color. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, as new copy in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Thus. Laminated Pictorial Boards. As New/Very Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Times Books, 1979. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Illustrated with photographs. 208pp., Bibliography, Index. No name, no book-plate, etc. a nice clean copy, fine in very good+ dust-jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. Hardcover, red cloth with spine lettered in gold. 160pp., Bibliography. Extensively illustrated with photographs and battle maps. First edition, stated first printing. Housed in customized dust-jacket consisting of front and rear panels of the soft-cover edition laid down on white backing and protected by reinforced mylar covers, "D-Day" printed on spine in bold block letters. Inside covers show old adhesion marks from mylar covers. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy with no writing, underlining or marginalia. Dust-jacket well executed and attractive. Very good in a very good wrapper. A title in Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II. Scans on request.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Nordhausen am Harz: L. Hornickels, 1937. Paperback, perfect bound in drab beige covers with image of chrch and title in black on front cover. 95 pages + 24 pages of photographic plates appended. originally published circa 1894, this edition completed and reissued with added material by Wilhelm Hunstiger Dechant. German edition, text in German. Illustrated with 2 drawings and 24 pages of photographs. First edition thus. Private inscription in German and title-page and ephemera laid-n, some relating to the church, others of a more personal nature. Light edge-wear to extremities of covers, else a clean, square. unmarked copy. Text in German. Good.. Revised Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Knopf, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover, royal octavo in black cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. Holographic paste-down on dust-jacket cover in excellent condition. Bibliographical References, Further Reading list, Index. Copiously illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. Watson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, takes the reader on a fascinating journey from ancient Greece to a nineteenth century German monk's garden [Gregor Mendel], to the double helix and on to ongoing work sequencing the human genome. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new from a private collection. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Doubleday, 2004. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 467pp., Exensively illustated throughout with ovewr 160 full color images. Stated first edition, later printing. A large quarto volume, 10.5 inches tall. A clean, square, tightly bound copy with no previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, or any other blemishes inside or out. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.. Later Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. Hardcover in non pice-clipped dust-jacket. 454pp. No name, no book-plate, etc. A clean, fine copy, in dust-jacket.. Later Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tall trade paperback, perfect bound. Vol. 132, no.3. 120 pages. Includes 14 articles on the main topic of secularism and religion, plus one selection each on poetry, fiction, and a dialogue "On Philosophy, Race, Sex and etc.", Red card covers and interior clean and unmarked, like new. Fine..

Cambridge, MA: American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 306 pages. A collection of articles on the intersection between religious morality and modern ecology among major world religions. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy; appears unread and as new. Fine..

Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. Trade paperback. 337 pages. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and two double page maps, one each of London and paris in the year 1180. Reprint. No previous ownership marks. No writing, underlining or highlighting. A used copy with remainder strip on bottom edge, but clean, sound and unmarked. Good. . Reprint. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St. Paul, MN: Borealis Books, 2009. Harcover in laminated boards. 214pp., Index. Illustrations. First edition, first printing. Over 100 recipes from the proprietors of Hell's Kitchen of Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh, unmarked copy in new condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1999. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 218pp., Further reading, Index. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. An unread copy. Slight bump to upper fore-edge of several text pages, else an as new copy. Near fine in as new dust-jacket.. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Hardcover, red cloth with printed paper spine label. 244pp. Illustrated with 24 full color plates by Thomas Rowlandson, plus color title page and frontispiece. Former owner's name and brief incsription inside front cover. Paper spine label worn and toned. Slight wear to cloth at top of backstrip. Text untrimmed. A solid, internally clean copy with 24 wonderfully wry color plates. Based on the 1817 edition published by R. Ackermann. One of the more illusive titles in the Dr. Syntax series. First thus. Good+.. Hardcover. Good+/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Cloth. Hardcover in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated. Dustjacket moderately worn and chipped. The autobiography of America's first lady of dance, Good in good dustjacket.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: MacMillan, 1974. Hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 223pp., Bibliography. First edition, no additional printings listed. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. Small old bookseller's label affixed to lower front free endpaper [History Bookshop, London]. No previous ownership marks. A tale of the Queen's soldier's off to rescue European hostages from a remote fortress in Ethiopia in the year 1867. Loosely based on real events, a rousing adventure yarn set in the hey-day of British Imperialism. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 322 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. Memoir of a safari guide who in addition to recounting the majesty and beauty of African fauna relates the tale of a 1999 attack by Rwandan rebels which left two of his clients dead. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. .

New York: Macmillan Company, 1962. Large format hardcover in original publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 377 pages. Index. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and 34 color images. First edition, stated first printing, printed in Israel. Previous owner's small label inside front cover, short black marker stripe by printed price on inner dust-jacket flap, and old retail second-hand price in black marker at top of front free end-paper. Else a clean, square, unmarked copy in clean and complete dust-jacket, now protected by handsomely crafted home-made acetate covers. Near fine in a very good+ dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. Trade paperback. New copy still in publisher's shrink-wrap. "Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the newest and most exciting work in contemporary Dante studies and focuses in particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics, minor works, and reception." [from rear panel] New copy.. Softcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, 1991. Hardcover in boldly colored pictorial dust-jacket, protected in accetate covers.. Original price unclipped on rear dust-jacket flap. First limited edition. Boldly flatsigned on title page by Phil Temple. 251pp., plus 26p. appendix on Dante's life and carrer. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs and several pages of full four-clor reproductions of original Dante show posters. A typed 8 1/2" by 11" broadside by author laid-in explaining production delays. An exceedingly scarce, privately printed survey of Harry August Jansen - aka "Dante the Magician", a pioneering stage performer. An as new copy with no faults or flaws, and,as of this listing, the only signed copy available.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.