Search Results: Titles starting with D from The Bookworm

Lateral Thinkers International, January, 1992.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Very Good condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Bibliography, index. Description: Several black and white photo illustrations plus a few maps. From the cover blurb: ''This story is far more than an account of a remarkable man, Daniel C Kinnaman, who crammed several careers into the life of a frontier craftsman. This account covers the saga of American immigrants who kept pushing at the frontiers from the 1650s to the present time. Immigrant John Kininmont is traced from his Scotch antecedents, to his plantation in Maryland, and the spread of his clan in the New World. You'll meet John the Patriarch, Settler Sam, Wandering Walter, Soldier Solomon, and Savvy Susan before D.C. appears and makes his way to Wyoming in 1889. You'll witness D.C.'s remarkable progress from farmer in Indiana, to carpenter in Wyoming to prospector in Alaska to civil engineer for the Union Pacific,… Read More

Washington, D.C.:: National Academy Press, May, 1997.. 3rd Printing.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Very Good condition.. 8vo (9 inches tall) . Glossary, capsule biographies, index. Description: Figure illustrations. From the rear cover: ''This offers recommendations for resolving crucial question that are emerging as DNA typing or 'fingerprinting' becomes more widespread. The volume addresses quality and reliability in DNA typing, including the introduction of new technologies, problems of standardization, and approaches to certification. It discusses DNA typing in the courtroom, including issues of population genetics, levels of understanding among judges and juries, and admissibility as well a societal issues, such as privacy and storage of samples and data.''

New York:: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972.. 1st American Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: mustard color cloth; EX-Library copy, with all the usual markings, the spine is slanted, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Bibliography, index. Description: Dust jacket design by Charles Mikolaycak. Includes two sections of black and white photo plates. From the front cover: ''The biography of a remarkable Victorian woman -- the legendary Daisy Bates, a journalist and self-taught anthropologist who defied the conventions of her day by living in the bush with the Australian aborigine.'' This was originally published in 1971 in Australia.

New York:: Dial Press, 1979.. 1st Printing, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: reinforced binding, pictorial boards; a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped.. about 7.5 inches square . Lavender endpapers. Description: Charmingly illustrated in color; here are three wordless stories. The artist grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In 2006 she was the illustrator of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book written by Jean Van Leeuwen, Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day. Ms Schweninger had previously collaborated with Kay Chorao on a book called The Hunt for Rabbit's Galosh (1976). This book was her first ''solo'' effort. Card catalog description: ''In three wordless stories, three friends try to make the moon appear, a bewildered gentleman has difficulties wooing a young lady, and a musician proves he has more than musical talent.''

Boston:: Allyn & Bacon, 1986.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; there is quite a bit of highlighting, and a few other marks; no text is obscured; otherwise in Good condition; no dust jacket.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Index. Description: Numerous small black and white illustrations which include photographs by Terrence J Gula, and drawings. Contents include: Ballet -- Body Placement; The Language of the Dance; The Elements; Pirouettes; Leaps; The Steps and their Definitions; Choreography and the Floor Exercise Routine; Jazz Dance; Folk Dance; The Balance Beam; Dance Injuries and their Prevention; Presentation and Performance.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1977.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth with gilt spine text; Anchor logo blind stamped on the front cover; a Very Good book with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Appendixes, indexes. Description: Dust jacket art by Leonard Rosoman; jacket design by Fred Troller. Includes a section of black and white plates. A note about the dust jackets for this series -- beginning with the publication of Genesis in 1964, the books were published as they were completed. Up until 1972, the jackets were all the same -- a simple graphic design by George Giusti showing the Anchor symbol on a cream colored background. After that time though, the covers were greatly transformed -- they came alive with outstanding works from various artists. This is Volume 44 in the Anchor Bible series of book by book translations of the Bible. The publisher's blurb declares ''The Anchor Bible… Read More

New York:: St Martin's Press, December, 1995.. 1st American Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Mike Gorman.

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1992.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: tan marbled boards with half black imitation leather (corners and spine), all edges gilt, ribbon place marker, a Very Good+ book.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Printed endpapers. Description: Originally published in 1954, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life World War II Classics series, The Secret War. ''One of the most bizarre and fascinating eyewitness tales of espionage to come out of World war II. The book's hero is not just sent behind enemy lines -- he is dispatched by the American intelligence agency on a wildly improbable mission into Berlin. Sneaking into Germany through occupied Denmark, in a truck packed with fish and lobsters -- he soon finds that his assigned mission to establish a sabotage team is redundant, to say the least. Waves of Allied aircraft rain bombs on Berlin, pounding the city into rubble. Spying quickly takes a back seat to merely surviving.… Read More

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1992.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: tan marbled boards with half black imitation leather (corners and spine), all edges gilt, ribbon place marker, a Very Good+ book... 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Printed endpapers. Description: Originally published in 1954, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life World War II Classics series, The Secret War. ''One of the most bizarre and fascinating eyewitness tales of espionage to come out of World war II. The book's hero is not just sent behind enemy lines -- he is dispatched by the American intelligence agency on a wildly improbable mission into Berlin. Sneaking into Germany through occupied Denmark, in a truck packed with fish and lobsters -- he soon finds that his assigned mission to establish a sabotage team is redundant, to say the least. Waves of Allied aircraft rain bombs on Berlin, pounding the city into rubble. Spying quickly takes a back seat to merely surviving.… Read More

New York:: Pantheon Books, 1995.. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: Book & dust jacket are both Near Fine (dj is NOT price clipped).. Description: 8vo.

New York:: Random House, 1977.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green boards with ivory cloth at the spine; owner's name on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Richard Clifton. A novel of romance and suspense set in the Hebrides. Judith Mullaine has come with her son to the island of Cathair Mor after a dreadful incident. Her husband had tried to kill her to gain custody of their child. But she finds no safety at the castle on the island -- the lights and sounds of bagpipes she observes coming from the Bay of the Dark Star lead her to believe her husband is nearby.

New York:: Simon & Schuster, 1998.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Description: This is the author's first novel. Dust jacket art by Shasti O'Leary.

New York:: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.. 4th Printing.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo BINDING/CONDITION: gold paper covered boards with black cloth at the spine; owner's name and date (writ small), and a color transfer from the black paper at the bottom spine to the bottom edge of the text (this affects the last three pages only), otherwise the book is Very Good, with a Very Good+ dust jacket

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall, 1968.. Later Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two tone cloth binding, burgundy with black at the spine; owner's name and date, writ small, but in two places (front endpaper and title page), otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.75 inches tall) . Notes, index. Olive green endpapers. Description: Includes several black and white illustrations. This is the fifth volume in a Series in Nature and Natural History under the general editorship of Joseph Wood Krutch. From the jacket blurb: ''In this volume, Ley reveals the bizarre discoveries of the earliest investigators of the animal world -- how they unraveled the mystery of the Flittermouse, the case of the Thorny Pig, the strange disappearance of the wild oxen of the 17th Century, the secrets of the whales, the curiosities of the giraffe, the exotic truth about the Bird of Paradise, and many others. Animal myths,… Read More

Chico, California:: Self Published, 1987.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: sturdy dark burgundy binding with gilt text; Very Good condition.. 4to (about 11 inches tall) . Description: A project presented to the Faculty of California State University, Chico; in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts in Special Major: Education/Theatre and Dance, Summer 1987. This paper presents a brief review of American Musical Comedy, and details a project consisting of three performances aimed at sparking an interest in Musical Theatre. These three performances were ''Let Me Entertain You'' from Gypsy; ''You Mustn't Kick it Around'' from Pal Joey; and ''42nd Street'' from the play of the same name.

Tucson, Arizona:: University of Arizona Press, 1968.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light rust-red 'tweed' cloth with gilt text; the boards are slightly bowed; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. oblong format: 9.25 inches tall by 12.25 inches wide . Tan endpapers. Description: Illustrated with full page color reproductions of paintings by Ted De Grazia. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Artistic in his inimitable use of fresh color, De Grazia has poured his feelings through the brush with imaginative composition and individual interpretation. The Holy Season ceremonies are the main focus of the year for the Yaquis -- full of variations because they are unscripted interpretations, not formalized, unchanging rituals. The glimpses given here were set down from vivid personal recollections of the ceremonies as conducted in the mid-sixties. De Grazia spent forty days and many nights with the Yaquis. 'I waited and I waited. I watched and I watched. At night I did many sketches of… Read More

New York:: Ballantine Books, 1998 - June.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo CONDITION: the text edges show handling soil, otherwise the book is Very Good, with a Near Fine dust jacket (the dj is NOT price clipped)

New York:: Walker & Company, 1965.. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo, dust jacket by Roberta Kimmel. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with silver text and decoration: owner's name, the boards are slightly sprung, otherwise the book is Very Good+, with a Fair dust jacket; the dj is NOT price clipped

California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1994.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . facsimile endpapers. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. Some of the letters in this book were previously collected and published in 1973, under the title What Makes a Man. This new edition of the letters is considerably more complete, both in terms of the number of letters and the completeness of the letters themselves. The original letters have been consulted and their exact language meticulously reproduced and lightly annotated for the convenience of contemporary readers.

New York:: Stein & Day, 1978.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: wine colored boards with black cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Tim Gaydos. A Mafia capo masterminds an audacious heist of two state-of-the-art fighter jets from an Air Force dock in New Orleans and plays the would-be purchasers against each other. Author John Crosby won a Peabody Award for radio criticism in 1946, and was widely known as a television critic. This was his fourth novel.