Search Results: Titles starting with D from Lansdowne Books

Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.

Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities. Throughout, however, she never… Read More

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls, choosing instead to read history at Oxford, where she took a first in only two years. [This book] is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy."

1st edition pictorial boards. Large octavo 133 pp., col. frontis., b/w ill., Gladys Henriques Lister (1887–1957) was the seventh of ten children, and was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. Her family had emigrated to Australia from America, though her mother's ancestry was Irish. After leaving school, Gladys Lister studied painting under Julian Ashton; married in 1913.Lister's stories used what happened to her life, as well as current events. During the Second World War, some British children were evacuated to Australia, and her book Jennifer Stands By featured evacuees and their adventures. Gladys Lister had always owned a pony, to which she ascribed her love of horses. Includes descriptions of post-war sea voyages made by Lister to North America, England and Europe.

First Edition Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Ainsle Roberts (Artist). Illustrated brown boards/Fine. DJ/NF in protective mylar. previous owners inscription. 32 colour plates Full-color companion volume to The Dreamtime (1965) and predecessor to The First Sunrise (1971) Anthropologist and photographer Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890 - 1976) and artist and photographer Ainslie Roberts (1911 - 1993). Superb record of Aboriginal mythology with line drawings and painting produced in full color.

The complete and unexpurgated editions with the original 16 plates by Louis Challon reproduced and coloured by hand. Volume 1 ; 332pp. Volume 2: 404pp. 1.24Kg.
Vol 1 & 2 with illustrated introductions and sixteen hand-coloured illustrations (some nicely erotic) from original drawings by Louis Chalon
Hardbacks. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped Dust Jackets Condition: V. Good in protective covering. Undated: circa 1960. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions.
ORIGINAL PRICE 63/- FOR THE TWO VOLUMES.
Extra postage for the TWO VOLUMES HARDBACKS.

Hardcover. VG+ Condition: Dust Jacket VG+ Condition in Mylar protective covering: Good. Photographic and Illustrations (illustrator). 9-400 pages, foreword by authors and list of coloured plates. Bright yellow coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations and full-page, full-colour photographs (some double page) throughout. Light blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Pink coloured tint to the top text block edge. Colour photographic dustwrapper with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper top edge. No markings or rubbings. A book about cooking and all things gastronomical listed alphabetically.

A rare copy of this title offered for sale. Beautiful production of high quality photographs celebrating the "Divine Child" and representations of the Infant Jesus. This title comes with related exhibition brochure and 6 postcards from the exhibition hosted in Gardone Riviera. A delightful Christmas Gift.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: F. D/J protected in mylar. Heavy book, black line-embossed cloth boards, embossed title at top front, very bright gilt lettering at spine. Uncut quality pages clean and tight. 1st US. (Originally published in Italian, 1957, a First Thus) New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Velokhonsky. Includes translation notes, notes to pages, epilogue and the Poems of Yuri Zhivago.In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.Overall a fine copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no inscriptions or marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover.
Illustrated with drawings by Val Biro. Foreword by Roy C.
Facsimile of the original edition which was published in 1963. Black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Clean bright jacket unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover.

No inscriptions and not price clipped. The DJ is bright and clean with no shelf wear. The book itself is very smart with marbled navy blue boards and red letters to the spine. The book is fine - all tight, bright and clean. Decorative endpapers. 184 pages. Copious sepia and bl/wh photography . This book explores the enduring fascination that the area now known as the Middle East has exerted on western women and the freedom that it offered. Sumptuously illustrated with paintings, engravings and photographs.

Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, owners signature to front: yellow dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 9 inches tall: 297 handcut pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Includes the original newspaper article from The Times Saturday January 10 1981 news article, " Letters from Libya" by Freya Stark as a separate item.Synopsis : Freya Starks autobiographical account of her service with the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office during the Second World War from 1939 to 1946. She recounts details of a mainly persuasive role during her assignment in Aden, where she assisted with the Arab News Service; the Yemen, where she combated fascist influence by operating the only cinema projector in the country; in Egypt where she formed and expanded the Brotherhood of Freedom during the North Africa Campaign ; in Iraq where she extended the Brotherhood Committees in opposition to German influence ( here she was caught up in the German instigated siege of the… Read More

Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.
Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans in the post-9/11 terrorist war context about the history of a perennial "hotspot" that has long viewed the US as an empire. Includes a map of Asia and photos of US, British, and Soviet players in the region

First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket protected with mylar covering.About the Author: Ros Pesman has taught history at the University of Sydney.Synopsis: The historian Roslyn Pesman has produced a subtle, erudite and fastidiously researched account of Australian women's travel from the 1870s--when travel in Europe became popular--until 1970, when jet travel altered the concept of this key Australian rite of passage. Drawing on innumberable travel diaries, letters, and interviews, Pesman analyses the different needs and expectations of Australian women of all types and generations. After reading Pesman, it is difficult to think of a key Australian artist, intellectual or public figure who was not affected in some way by her adventures abroad.

First Edition. With 28 fine plates, including 16 in colour and 12 in monochrome, and with 34 line drawings within the text, many of which are quite large, decorated title-page printed in black and red. Publisher's original olive cloth-covered boards backed in buckram and ruled and lettered on the spine in dark green titling to spine. Top edge of pages green with front and bottom edges untrimmed. Sound and firm with no staining or foxing to contents. A very clean and tight copy, the text clean and fresh, the plates all very fine, the binding solid.Maxwell, an official artist sent by the Imperial War Museum, was a most original writer, artist and traveler.