Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bird's Books

David Bogue, London, 1879. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. David Bogue, London, 1879. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. This listing is for 6 issues of this yearbook. Vol 1 (1879) 92pp, Vol 2 (1881) 100pp, Vol 3 (1882) 96pp, Vol 4 (1883) 92pp, Vol 5 (1885) 84pp, Vol 6 (1886) 94pp. All with numerous illustrations of scenes and characters. Each issue reflects on the theatres, plays and actors of the year. Marbled board and leather binding with gilt titles on spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Ex library copy with bookplate to rear and two embossed (uncoloured) stamps. Library numbers on spine. No other library markings. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

Maclaren & Co. , London, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Maclaren & Co. , London, 1905. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. Burgandy leather with gilt titles, faded & worn around spine. All edges gilt. Just over 5'' tall, 377pp including an index of subjects & authors. Ex reference library with stamps & library number. Handwritten dedication "To Kate from .' on front endpapers. Inner book very good condition with no library markings. Quotations for each day of the year covering a wide range of subjects still relevant today. (Fame, discouragement , life's burden etc.)

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, green cloth boards with gilt tiles on spine. Library rebound with name in gilt on front cover. Scarce first edition of this treatise on superstitions, their origins and the customs associated with them. Contents include chapters on Evil Eye, Invocations, and Maledictions; Occult Infection and Cure of Maladies; Miscellaneous Remedies, or Antidotes to Disease; Amulets; Analogies to Propitiatory Sacrifice; Propitiatory Charms; Faculties Ascribed to Sorcerers; Superstitions Relative to Marriage; Doctrine of Sympathy; Ingredients and Instruments Superstition and Sorcery; Mystical Plants; Mystical Animals; Mystical Mankind; Prognostication, Divination; Imaginary Beings; Spectral Illusions; The Tongues; Tests, Trial, Conviction and Punishment of Sorcery. With errata, Addenda and index. A fascinating book. Ex reference library with minimal markings, pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, handwritten library number to reserve of… Read More

London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Hockney. 4to, dust jacket with portrait of Hockney on front over black cloth boards. 100pp illustrated throughout. Exhibition catalogue from a showing held at Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1970. Includes an interview with Hockney by Mark Glazebrook, also biographic note, list of exhibitions and selected bibliography. Slight chipping to edge of dustjacket, generally very good.

London: Edinburgh House Press, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Acceptable. Paperback 8vo, illustrated card covers. 64pp illustrated with frontispiece and 3 other black and white plates. A well used book with age spotting, wear to edges etc. A fair reading copy. Apparently a true story of missionaries and villages in present day Zimbabwe, then named Northern Rhodesia. Previous owner's name on title page.

London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Spine sunned. 255pp. A department Z novel about the British Secret Service. Spine slightly cocked & a few marks to the boards, nice and clean inside.

London: Jacob Woodman & David Lyon, 1725. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Library rebound in quarter leather with brown cloth boards and gilt titles on spine, library name in gilt on front right corner, 14” x 9". Vol I 622pp; Vol II 703pp. Title page of vol I in red and black, fold out genealogical plate, engraved portrait and some engraved chapter ornaments throughout. Index of important characters and list of subscribers. Some pagination errors. Title page of vol I has a small professional repair to top (see pictures) and a contemporary handwritten name in ink, one other professionally repaired tear. The bindings are firm with minor shelf wear, inner books have a little foxing and signs of age, but generally in very good condition +. Ex reference library with minimal markings, pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown and discreet name on cover in gilt, no other obvious markings. Written in Latin and French. A wide ranging account of the life, reign and ultimate demise of Mary Queen of… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, blue cloth boards with paper label on front and spine. 140pp. Part of The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie published in the 1920’s. Very good and clean inside. Undated circa 1925. We have a few more from this series in stock.

United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1950. 1st Edition . Fair. Over 9'' tall in original card binding which shows shelf ware. 1381pp with fold out map. Generally inner book is in good condition with a few pages folded at corners (see pictures). This covers the second world war & it's aftermath, the renewal of diplomatic relations in 1945, with documents on the USSR, eastern Europe, Germany, China etc. Ex reference library with bookplate to pastedown, library number & 2 stamps only. No other obvious library markings. ***Heavy & may require extra overseas postage***

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good +. Slim 8vo, green dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 72pp. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge wear. Very good + / near fine and clean inside. The first collection of Brooke’s poems, many written following his war time experiences.

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. , London, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. , London, 1952. 1st Edition . Good. 4to, brown c;loth with gilt titles, xvii + 233pp with colour frontispiece, 135 colour and monochrome plates. This covers the development of English design & ornamentation from the middles ages, through the Renaissance, Restoration, Georgian, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian & to the interwar period. Ex reference library with some of the usual markings. ***Heavy & may require extra overseas postage***

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good + . Folio, green cloth binding with photographic dust jacket. 184pp illustrated throughout with photographs and plans.'Twenty interiors have been selected to show the many ways in which art can become part of our environment: in private homes, colleges, museums, churches and concert halls from the United States, Japan, Finland, Germany, England, Austria, Italy and France.' Additionally, this includes A special feature devoted to the Art of Fibre and a review of current trends in furniture, glass, ceramics and fine crafts. Very nice clean condition inside, previous owner's name handwritten under dust jacket on front pastedown, dust jacket has a little edge wear.

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Good. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1876. First edition. Good. First edition, approx. 10.5'' by 6.5''. Original black cloth with gilt titles on spine & blind embossed decoration on covers. A little edge wear, particularly to spine (see pictures). X + 360pp with supplementary portion (published 1877) bound in with main volume, viii + 87pp, illustrated with frontispiece and 23 other plates (7 hand coloured)."Accompanied by a concise general history of the subject and remarks on cards of divination and of a politico-historical character.' Plate 20 is loose & binding a bit cracked at rear pastedown. Ex reference library with minimal markings, presentation bookplate on front pastedown & pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown. No other obvious library markings, the inner book is generally clean & in good + condition.***Heavy & may require extra overseas postage***

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Good +. Various. 8vo, softcover illustrated, 102pp of pictures plus index of artists. A little foxing to front.

Francis Griffiths, london, 1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Francis Griffiths, london, 1907. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Library rebound in blue cloth over board with gilt titles and no. on spine. 7 1/2in tall, 162pp + 6pp publishers catalogue. Ex library with bookplate and number to front pastedown, 1 stamp on upper edge, 2 blind stamps within. No other library markings. Nice little copy, clean & still tightly bound. 'Containing a list of the works, secondly a summary of chapters in each book or pamphlet, and thirdly a complete alphabetic index of names, with the title of book and number of chapter quoted.'

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First edition. Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934 First edition Hardcover Good First edition, complete in 2 volumes Approx 975'' by 7'', large 8vo Original brown cloth binding with faded gilt titles on spine Vol I: The Old World, xi + 958pp Vol II: The New World, 753pp 'The history of the world by dates is a record from the earliest times through to the year 1930 arranged under countries, giving a digest of information contained in many books, encyclopaedias, and yearbooks It is an outline of events' To be noted this is written from an Old World point of view & so the history of the New World begins with the 'discovery' of America Nevertheless interesting to dip into Ex reference library with some of the usual markings The inner books are generally clean & in very good condition ***Heavy & may require extra overseas postage***

London: . & J. Offor, W. Allason et al, London , 1820. Hardcover. Good. London: . & J. Offor, W. Allason et al, London , 1820. Good. 'In Which The Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language and An English Grammar'. Complete in 2 volumes. 4to, approx.11'' by 9''. Full leather binding, spine rebacked with gilt titles on spine, some edgewear to boards & bumped corners (see pictures). Mark on front pastedown where bookplate may have been, a couple of minor repairs, occasional foxing, but generally nice & clean inside. Vol. I 1029pp illustrated with frontispiece of Johnson, tear to page 451. Vol. II 1084ppType in 3 columes. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown, single stamp on rear endpaper & upper edge, handwritten number on reverse of title page, blind stamp on title & first page, occasionally elsewhere . No other obvious library markings,… Read More

Willliams and Norgate, London & Edinburgh, 1871. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Willliams and Norgate, London & Edinburgh, 1871. 3rd Edition . Good. 8vo, original blue cloth binding with gilt titles on spine & blind embossed emblem on front. Xv + 267pp. Ex reference library with handwritten number on front pastedown and reverse of title page, blind stamp on title page, single stamp on upper edge, decorative bookplate on rear pastedown. Cover a little grubby.

Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1957. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. 9'' tall, blue cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. 493pp. Ex reference library with bookplate to front pastedown & stamps to endpapers & upper edge, library number inside. No other obvious markings, the inner book is lovely & clean & in very good condition. A combined glossary of statistical terms in alphabetical order of the English language with equivalents in French, German, Spanish and Italian. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

London: Philip Allan & Co., London, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Philip Allan & Co., London, 1926. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Spine sunned with library no. Xv, 330pp, 6pp adverts. Ex library with bookplate on front pastedown and a couple of stamps within, handwritten no. inside. Contents tightly bound and clean.