Search Results: Titles starting with D from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

University Services Corp, 1988. First edition. Hard cover. Like New. A special Limited Collector's First Edition, this being #307. With leather spine. In Fine slipcase box. A bright, fresh copy. Duane Alt was born in Nebraska in 1935, and raised in Southern California. During his high school years, he worked with the scenery painters at the Hollywood film studios. As a teenager, he took formal art training at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and in the 1960s he studied art at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. It was there that the heritage of the Impressionists captured his heart and influenced his personal style. Alt furthered his studies in Germany and Italy; however, it was France, its villages of the Barbizon, the hills of Provence and the Mediterranean which chiefly influenced his work. The dazzling sunshine, light fields of flowers and lush vegetation were his inspiration. . Although many illustrious artists have had their impact on Alt's career, his… Read More

Swallow Press, 1964. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: “It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the book is hot out of the oven, when it is alive within oneself. He gave it to his assistant to revise.” The woman was Anaïs Nin.Nin examined Lawrence's poetry, novels, essays, and travel writing. She analyzed and explained the more important philosophical concepts contained in his writings, particularly the themes of love, death, and religion, as well as his attention to primitivism and to women. But what Anaïs Nin brought to the explication of Lawrence's writing was an understanding of the fusion of imaginative, intuitive, and intellectual elements from which he drew his characters, themes, imagery and symbolism.

The Orion Publishing Group, 1992. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. 10x10x0. The dustjacket is in Near Fine condition. No one who was alive on June 6, 1944, will ever forget that historic day ... and those who came after will hear of it with awe: it was the moment when the tide of war turned to victory, when the long-elusive dream of peace finally seemed attainable. This minute-by-minute account of the Normandy landings by Allied forces unforgettably reconstructs, in pictures and first-person reminiscences, every important minute of the invasion.

Barnes & Noble, 1990. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. Daily Life in Medieval Times is a fully-illustrated edition of the classic and popular books of history and anthropology by Frances and Joseph Gies - Life in a Medieval Castle, Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Village.This book takes readers into the fascinating world of medieval life through historic pictures, period illustrations and detailed text that describes everything from castle-storming techniques to villagers' hair styles.Three real medieval places - a castle in Chepstow on the Welsh border, the city of Troyes in the country of Champagne and the village of Elton in the English East Midlands - are the jumping - off point for this thorough exploration of 13th and 14th century life in Europe.The authors use recent archaeological discoveries and historic and contemporary documents in conjunction with diagrams and dramatic photographs to give readers a full understanding of what it was truly like to live 700 years ago.

Vintage Books, 1995. Trade paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.

Mariner Books, 1994. Softcover. Very Good. 1x5x8. In Very Good+ condition. Like Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge), Norris understands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins to blur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As a result, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for in school. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussion on the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including its Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live such complicated and simple lives.

TASCHEN, 2015. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 10x0x12. Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general.Dalí frequently described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.” Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dalí himself explained, he painted with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the… Read More

Triumph Books , 2010. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. Dale Earnhardt: Defining Moments of a NASCAR Legend is a 10th anniversary celebration of the man known as The Intimidator, and collects 26 defining wins of his storied career in their original form as reported by NASCAR Scene. Few NASCAR champions have achieved the legendary status of Dale Earnhardt and this work shows how the seven-time Winston Cup champion earned his nickname through a pull-no-punches racing philosophy and a relentless winner-takes-all attitude. Highlights of Earnhardt's stellar career are included, touching on the 76 race victories and his dramatic conquering of the Daytona 500 in 1998, his only victory in NASCAR's premier event. Reliving the most exhilarating moments of a legendary career that is forever woven into the minds of NASCAR fans of all ages, this must have book stands as a stirring tribute to Dale Earnhardt.

Sports Publishing LLC, 2001. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. The editors of The Charlotte Observer have selected the most exciting moments from the career of NASCAR legend and seven-time Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt. From that first interview with Tom Higgins to his long awaited victory in the race he most wanted to win, the Daytona 500; from a country boy from Kannapolis, North Carolina, to one of the most recognizable sports figures in the world, here is a look back at the career of a champion. The new epilogue covers Earnhardt's career from 1998 until his tragic death in 2001.

Baker Publishing Group, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x1x9. Signed by Author. With bookplate on front end paper; inscribed "God bless you Dale Evans Rogers". Dale recounts how God's grace enabled her to find hope on less than happy trails, such as her rocky rise to stardom in Hollywood's golden era, the tragic deaths of three of her children, and recently, her grueling rehabilitation from her stroke. She also lovingly pays tribute to Roy Rogers, with whom she shared almost fifty-one years of marriage. Dale Evans Rogers (1912 – 2001) was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. For her contribution to radio, Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6638 Hollywood Blvd. She received a second star at 1737 Vine St. for her contribution to the television industry. In 1976, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1995, she was inducted… Read More

Globe Pequot Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. During the frenzied days of early emigration and expansion in the West, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam-building fever that transformed the map of the region in the twentieth century filled empty spaces with cities and farms. Today, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Denver are desperate with thirst. These cities are growing explosively, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the region is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will expose the startling fragility of civilization in the western United States. Dam Nation looks first to the past, to the stories of explorers venturing into a forbidding wilderness, gold miners and farmers devising arcane laws to govern water use, and pioneers struggling to settle the "Great American Desert." Next, it delves into an era of technological mastery that fulfilled the nation's dream of… Read More

Pantheon Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 6x1x9. The building of the O'Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park–despite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities - set off a defining controversy in American environmentalism. From the early 1900s to 1913 Americans argued about proposals to dam the Tuolumne River and transform the extraordinary Hetch Hetchy Valley into a giant source of water and hydroelectric power for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a story of intrigue replete with political scandals and suspect tactics played out in the corridors of Congress, in San Francisco's City Hall and its corporate boardrooms, and in the national media. The colorful cast of characters includes Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir, as well as a host of political bosses, West Coast boosters, East Coast patricians and… Read More

LTs forlag , 1984. First Edition. Like New/No Dustjacket as issued. . 0x0x0. A Traditional Swedish weaving technique.

United States Government Printing Office, 1938. Trade paperback. Good. Dams and Control Works by United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Reclamation 2nd Edition, Softbound. U. S. Government Printing, Washington, D.C. (1938) Good+. A small area of fraying upper spine; 260 Pages. With some discussion of Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Roosevelt Dam, Taylor Park Dam, and much more. With photos and illustrations throughout.

Abrams , 2007. Hardcover. Good/Good . 9x1x11. An x-library copy with labels; else Very Good in Very Good condition. From the frontlines of the American Studio Glass Movement to the renowned studios of Cristallerie Daum, the Fenton Art Glass Company, Waterford Crystal, Herman Miller, and Steuben Glass, Dan Dailey’s glasswork has been in the public eye for the past four decades. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive look at his beautiful—and playful—oeuvre. Like his colleagues and predecessors Harvey Littleton and Dale Chihuly, Dailey’s work has been met with critical and popular acclaim at home as well as abroad, and collected by nearly fifty museums on three continents. His vibrant, humorous pieces draw upon his background in cartooning and training in nearly every glass technique, as well as a proficiency in metalwork—a blend of antic and innovation that continually pushes the medium forward. With a… Read More

Pantheon Books, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 12x9x1. A short tear and some edgewear to dustjacket. Artistic and anthropological treatment of various sub-Saharan cultures as photographically recorded over a thirty-year period and accompanied by ethnographic notes explicating the significance of depicted masks, costumes, ceremonies, and choreography.

Workman Publishing, 2012. Softcover. Like New. 7x0x9. The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking—but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic.

Simon & Schuster, 1995. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. Signed "John Gierach" on first blank page. Signed copies rarely offered. With the wry humor and wit that have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and even better fish stories. In this new collection of essays on fishing — and hunting - Gierach discusses fishing for trout in Alaska, for salmon in Scotland and for almost anything in Texas. He offers his perceptive observations on the subject of ice-fishing, getting lost, fishing at night, tournaments and the fine art of tying flies. Gierach also shares his hunting technique, which involves reading a good book and looking up occasionally to see if any deer have wandered by. Gierach's work has appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, where he is a contributing author, and Fly, Rod, and Reel, where he is an editor at large. He also writes columns for the Longmont Daily Times-Call… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1995. Trade paperback. Like New. 5x0x8. With the wry humor and wit that have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and even better fish stories. In this new collection of essays on fishing and hunting Gierach discusses fishing for trout in Alaska, for salmon in Scotland and for almost anything in Texas. He offers his perceptive observations on the subject of ice-fishing, getting lost, fishing at night, tournaments and the fine art of tying flies. Gierach also shares his hunting technique, which involves reading a good book and looking up occasionally to see if any deer have wandered by. Always entertaining, often irreverent and illuminating, Gierach invites readers into his enviable way of life, and effortlessly sweeps them along. As he writes in Dances with Trout, Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. Its not even… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 8x5x0. Signed by Author. Brief gift inscription by and signed by author. This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.While working as a family physicans in a Native American hospital in the Southwest, Carl Hammerschlag was introduced to a patient named Santiago, a Pueblo priest and clan chief, who asked him where he had learned how to heal. Hammerschlag responded almost by rote, rattling off his medical education, intership, and certification.The old man replied,"Do you know how to dance?"To humor Santiago, Hammerschlag shuffled his feet at the priest's bedside. Despite his condition, Santiago got up and demonstrated the proper steps. "You must be able to dance if you are to heal people,"he admonished the young… Read More