Search Results: Titles starting with D from Inklings & Yarnspinners

Amsterdam: Kilderkin, 2016. 1st. p/b. Fine, as new. C (216 x 135). A travel guide to a country that no longer exists, the Ddr. What could be more useful than that? Find out where and what you should have been drinking in ThŸringen and East Berlin almost thirty years ago.

London: Reprint Society / Heinemann, 1964. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); cream boards (small dents on cover and spine); gilt on brown panel spine titling; text block firm (slight forward lean); pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A compilation edition comprised of the first three books of Powell's 12-volume series: A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer's Market, and The Acceptance World

Oxford: Oxford, 2008. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war staged in the city of Berlin. Using sources in four languages, Caute explores the cultural Cold War as it rapidly penetrated theatre, film, classical music, popular music, ballet, painting and sculpture, as well as propaganda by exhibition. Artists such as Miller, Picasso, Eisenstein, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky became involved in this fierce cultural competition through which each of the major Cold War protagonists sought to establish their supremacy. Caute challenges some recent, one-dimensional, American accounts of 'Cold War culture', which ignore not only the Soviet performance but virtually… Read More

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1878. 1st thus. h/b. Very good, 1st thus edition (originally pub in 8 parts in 1876), maroon clothbound boards (some bumping and chipping), black/gilt pressed decoration & titling on cover/spine; text block firm, pages untrimmed.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, Signed and dedicated on ffep ('to Pat Solomon, with best wishes and many happy returns, John Fowles, 9th Nov 1977'). Unclipped d/j (slightly creased in protective sleeve), brown boards, gilt spine titling bright, Text block firm but slight forward lean; pages unmarked (top edge black).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.

London, New York: Hutchinson, 1945. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (some bumping in protective sleeve), red clothbound boards, black spine titling, text block firm and pages crisp and unmarked; some tanning.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A spy story set in an English aircraft factory during the Second World War written at the time and published by 1945. Despite initial suspicion falling on a Greek engineer in the factory, he is not the culprit and the search is on.

Leicester: IVP, 2006. 1st. paperback. Fine, 1st edition, text block firm. Provenance: from John Stott's library. C (216 x 135). With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis in scientific research. This book reviews and celebrates the life and thought of Phillip Johnson and the movement for which he has served as chief architect. Editors William A. Dembski and Jed C. Macosko present eighteen essays by those who have known and worked with Phil for more than a decade. They provide personal and in-depth insight into the man, his convictions and his leadership of the intellectual movement that called into question the hegemony of Darwinian theory.

London: Doubleday, 2011. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed on title, unclipped d/j (some bumping at base). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position. They have become more important to her boys than she is. A crisis brings these subtle rifts to the surface. Can there be a way forward, if they are to survive as a family?

London: Sceptre, 2012. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve). Signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front. Yet they find courage in the face of extreme danger and become the friends they never were before. And eventually they meet the kind of men worth giving up their precious independence for - if only they all survive. At once epic in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings the First World War to vivid life from an unusual perspective. Profoundly moving, it pays tribute to the men and women who voluntarily risked their lives for peace.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1905. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, blue boards, blind ruling, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages tight and unmarked (top edge gilt). Provenance: from library of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, FRSL.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).

London: Arcadia Books, 2020. 1st thus. paperback. Near fine, 1st UK edition of US translation from French original (2018). Text block firm and intact, unmarked pages. Small mark on cover.. B (198 x 129). "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself"" DAVID HOCKNEY ""A perfect short exposŽ of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist"" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving home for the Royal College of Art in London his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalised, and because of his inclination for a figurative style of art, which was not sufficiently ""contemporary"" to be valued. Trips to New York and California - where he would live for many years and paint… Read More

Phillipsberg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2019. 1st. paperback. Fine. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Through his pursuit of a naturalistic grounding for morality and his forceful critique of supernaturalism, Scottish philosopher David Hume significantly undermined confidence in orthodox Christianity.Professor, minister, and philosopher James Anderson summarizes the major points of Hume's thought and offers a critical assessment from a distinctively Reformed perspective. He shows that Hume's arguments, far from refuting the Christian worldview, indirectly support that worldview by exposing the self-defeating implications of naturalism.

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1990. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg), red boards, gilt spine titling/ruling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked, top edge red. Slight scuffing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Martyn Lloyd-Jones' hard work in the difficult War and post-War years became the preparation for his great influence in London in the fifties and sixties. But these pages trace his ministry into wider circles - to the Universities, to Europe, the United States, South Africa and ultimately, in his books, to the whole world.

New York: Knopf, 1985. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, a little spotting on otherwise pristine boards; bright gilt spine titling; text block firm and untrimmed pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy--and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless toll. And Davita, unexpectedly, finds in the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned both a solace to her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence. To her, life's elusive possibilities for happiness, for fulfillment, for decency, become as real and resonant as the music of the small harp that hangs on her door, welcoming all guests with its sweet, gentle tones.

London: Little Brown, 2015. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed on title ('To Lawrence'); text block firm but internal spine broken at ffep. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession. Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. 1st UK. paperback. Very good, first UK edition, purple wrapper, with black titling and silver-embossed king's head; binding good, pages unmarked, but slight foxing.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Written after the death of King Edward VII in 1910, this poem first appeared in the USA and then published in the UK in the same year, three years after his Nobel prize for literature.

London: Macmillan, 1997. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, signed, unclipped d/j (v.g., protective sleeve), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages umarked and crisp. Signed to title: 'For Jimmy & Jackie, with best wishes, Bill Deedes 28/xi/97 (with auctioneer's certificate of authenticity for signature). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A collection of memoirs written by W.F. Deedes, the journalist and politician who is most well known as the recipient of fictional letters from Dennis Thatcher, printed in Private Eye. The author covered the 1930s Abyssinian war and was a cabinet minister during the 1950s and 60s.

London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1994. 1st (1st reprint). hardback. Very good, boxed set 1st edition (1st reprint) in printed box; black clothbound boards, bronze spine titling; text blocks firm, pages unmarked and crisp; owner's inscription on front pastedowns.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Ph.D., was internationally regarded as a dean of New Testament scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received over thirty honorary degrees from Catholic and Protestant universities worldwide, and was elected a (Corresponding) Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.In addition to serving as president of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Society of New Testament Studies, two popes appointed Father Brown as the sole American on the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Some of the best… Read More

London: HarperCollins, 1996. 1st. hardback. Near fine, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards pristine, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages slightly yellowed. Signed on title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece ÔAn Instance of the FingerpostÕ. A tip-off without any names and a theft with no obvious motive Ð these are the apparently innocuous matters currently in the hands of Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad. Flavia is able to disturb the looters of the monastery in San Giovanni but not catch them. And it's a good thing that nothing valuable was stolen because neither she nor art dealer Jonathan Argyll have a clue who the culprits were. Maybe the truth lies with the item they did get away with Ð not the disputed Caravaggio the monastery is known for, but a curious icon of the Madonna that is said to have strange powers. Such claims… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2011. 1st (5th imp). h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. But on the eve of their annual autumn ball, chaos descends. A chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Plunged into frightening mystery and a lurid murder trial, the lives of Pemberley's owners and servants alike may never be the same . . .