Search Results: Titles starting with D from Second Wind Books LLC

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth. Portrait frontispiece, two further portraits in text. First edition. Near fine in a somewhat dusty, price-excised dust jacket with only minimal signs of use. ROBERTS F5.

[Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. First edition. Very good.. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 256 pp. Inscribed and signed by Atwood on the half-title page, "For Joe- - /  with thanks and / best wishes -- / Margaret Atwood / Saranac Lake / 1978." Ownership signature on front free endsheet, "Joe David Bellamy," neatly written laudatory annotations in two of the stories, else very good; dust jacket price-clipped with minor toning, (lovely portrait of Atwood on rear panel), else good without tears or chips.  First edition. Personal copy of Atwood's friend and colleague, Joe David Bellamy (1941-2014), a former president of the Association of Writers & Writing Program's Board of Directors and a prolific writer of fiction, articles, essays, poetry, and reviews. He authored nineteen books in his lifetime, including his last novel, Green Freedom, which was published in 2012. His first novel, Suzi Sinzinnati (1989), won the sixth annual Editors' Book Award, and Atomic Love (1993), a collection of short… Read More

London: Martin Secker, 1926. First edition. Very good.. Large octavo. Olive brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Small private bookplate in upper corner of the front pastedown, light foxing early and late, otherwise very good and bright. First edition, limited to five hundred copies. A little-known dramatic work (first produced in London at the Regent Theatre, May 22, 1927), DAVID "is a play of ideas using a Biblical framework" (Univ. of North Carolina). ROBERTS A34.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First edition. Near fine.. Pale green cloth, stamped in silver. Ownership signature and stamp of Boyle's publisher, James Laughlin [New Directions]. Tiny Gotham Book Mart label affixed to rear pastedown (upside down, as you would expect it to be). Spine sunned, else a near fine copy that appears to be unread, without a dust jacket.  First edition. Dedicated to "Eugene Jolas because we sat in the summer of that year in the wine-cellars and the Gasthauses of that town." When this title first appeared in the 1930s, and until at least the latter part of the 1980s, it was condemned as a fascist love story featuring a sympathetic Nazi, and a lovesick American, Pendennis (who is mocked to this day).

New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1985. First, deluxe edition. Publisher's gilt leather. Fine.. Quarter publisher's gilt leather, red cloth, pictorial onlay. Portrait. First separate edition. № 44 of fifty deluxe copes, from a total edition of three hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. A fine line scar on the signature page, probably occurring during binding, else an exceptionally fine copy.   Percy was a medical doctor who didn't practice and a Catholic who did, which equipped him to embark on a search for how we mortals fit into the cosmos. His theory examines when a bad thing is inevitable, for example, a meteorological occurrence such as a hurricane or a brutal winter storm. People feel better because they are focused on something and know what they must do to preserve a state of well-being for themselves and others; when there is no conflict, no focus, people have the luxury to feel badly.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Printed wrappers, paper label. Uncorrected page proofs of the first American edition, edited by Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie. Edges and spine sunned, otherwise fine with promo sheet affixed inside front wrapper which states, "The third part of the five-volume Woolf diary, invaluable for its documentation the writing of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE and THE WAVES." 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1970. Octavo. Pictorial and printed wrappers. 368 pp. Light soiling to wraps, else a very good or better copy.   First edition, thus. "Crowley's first novel. To the reader of 1923 it was a shocking experience, but that is the way Aleister Crowley intended it to be ... it presents a deep insight into the freaked-out world of the drug addict of the nineteen thirties," -- from the publisher.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First edition. Tall octavo. Printed blue wrapper. Fine in slightly frayed proof dust jacket. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition, edited by Anne Olivier Bell and assisted by Andrew McNeillie. A laid in sheet corrects the assertion on the upper wrapper, but not the proof dust jacket, that Quentin Bell contributed an Introduction to this volume. He did so for the prior volume, not this volume.     This, the second volume of Woolf's diaries, covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer as it records the successful completion of her two best known works, To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), as well as the magnificent Orlando: A Biography (1928). Additionally, Woolf conveys her satisfaction with her increasing financial security and social assurance, and reveals the happiness and support she found in her relationship with Vita Sackville-West. .

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart / A Mario Sartori Book, 1987. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, copper stamped on spine. First edition. Frontispiece illustration. 119,[65] pp. First edition. A biography with 106 illustrations on 64 black & white plates. Author's preface, foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, epilogue by Sir Kenneth Clark. Appendix, bibliography, and index. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket with slight flaring at top and bottom and a closed tear at the lower panel's top edge.