Search Results: Titles starting with D from Underground Books, ABAA

Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2005. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10 1/2" X 10 1/2". 59pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A solid, clean copy of this work depicting the art of Dada with accompanying text in English and French.

New York: Random House, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Emma Cline to blank page bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 267pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket, with scuffing to silver "Signed Copy" sticker at front panel. Bound in full white paper over boards, with spine lettered in silver. Small neat tear to end of spine, else fine, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. An overall very presentable signed first printing of this eagerly anticipated story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. ABOUT DADDY: STORIES: "Daddy's ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent."—Esquire • "Brilliant . . . Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist. . . . These stories vibrate with life."—The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE TEN… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 10" X 7 1/2". xxx, 411pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. A small spot of sticker remnants to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.(Publisher).

Atlanta: The Lowe Gallery, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 11" X 9". 46pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. papers related to the exhibition including a page of handwritten notes, a printed page of information, and a postcard from the Lowe Gallery. A clean, solid copy of this catalog of selected works of Dale Chihuly January/February 2002 at The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. Limited edition of 2,750 bound copies.

Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 215pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Small price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dance marathons were a phenomenally popular fad during the manic 1920s and depressive 1930s. What began as a craze soon developed into a money-making business which lasted 30 years. Some 20,000 contestants and show personnel participated in these events; audiences, the majority women, totalled in the millions. "A Poor Man's Nightclub," dance marathons were the dog-end of American show business, a bastard form of entertainment which borrowed from vaudeville, burlesque, night club acts and sports.(Publisher).

New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xii, 182pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Learn how to succeed in the wake of turmoil in your career and personal life through this groundbreaking toolkit and the captivating stories of those who have put it to work and positively changed their lives. Dancing with Disruption: A New Approach to Navigating Life's Biggest Changes transforms your understanding of upheaval in your life and guides you through a proven toolkit that ensures your personal and career success. Linda Rossetti engages readers with her own experience of disruption along with the stories of many others from a variety of ages, occupations, and circumstances. Readers learn to reframe emotions, restore confidence, and realize possibilities once thought unimaginable. An essential, thought-provoking, and truly empowering roadmap for… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 6". 254pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with edgewear, foxing, dust soiling, and small closed tear to bottom corner of front panel. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. A touch of shelfwear to binding, else fine, firm and sound. Foxing to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. An attractive first American printing of this novel of the Sepoy Rebellion, one of the bloodiest engagements in British military history.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First American Edition. Paperback. Good. First American Edition. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 256pp. Advance review copy in plain printed wraps with introduction by Walter J. Minton, President of G. P. Putnam's Sons, to upper wrap. Moderate wear to binding, with dampstain to top of spine and wraps, sunning, edgewear, and creasing to spine, on which the title is handwritten. Very occasional spot of soiling to pages, else unmarked. A nice pre-publication copy of Derek Marlowe's first book, the inspiration for the 1968 Cold War thriller film starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, and Mia Farrow.

Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc, 1984. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 284pp. Mild shelf wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and creasing to edges. Previous owner's name in pencil at half-title page. Penciled underlining and notation to pages--particularly in the first half of books. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dangerous words, hard words, fighting words, straight talk, sweet talk, wrapped talk, allegory, words that are moving, respect vocabulary, figurative language, role distance: these are the words which inform the various papers in this unique collection of viewpoints on the intricacies and subtleties of verbal art in Pacific cultures. The basic argument in all the essays is that talk makes a political difference. Each contribution shows how the styles, structures and situations of language use in various Pacific societies actively shape not only the political contours of daily life in these communities… Read More

Tokyo: Japan Mix Inc, 1998. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 12" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of factory-clipped dust jacket. Rubbing to edges of red paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, solid copy of this collection of erotic photographs featuring shibari. Shibari is a traditional Japanese art form that involves the intricate and decorative tying of ropes around a person's body. It originated from the ancient martial art of hojojutsu, which was used for restraining captives. In modern times, shibari has evolved into an artistic practice, often associated with BDSM and erotic contexts.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xi, 390pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. She demonstrates how the priestly body plays a significant role in shaping major aspects of Carolingian history, such as the revival of classicism, movements for clerical reform, and church-state relations. In the political realm, Carolingian churchmen consistently exploited monastic constructions of gender to assert the power… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 425pp. Wear to price-clipped dust jacket with toning to covers and creasing and shallow chipping to corners and edges. Yellow cloth over boards with spine lettered in green and gilt. A small spot of toning to front cover. Dust-spotting to top edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this original and provocative book Russell Fraser has set himself no less a task than the description and interpretation of one of the signal "facts" of Western history—the breaking away of the present from the medieval past. He locates this break in England in the sixteenth century, and on the continent two hundred years earlier. Unafraid to synthesize, he weaves a rich fabric of quotations, allusions, and examples from art, music, philosophy, theology, and physical science to explain the cultural transition to the modern world. Although the author ranges from Plato to the… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 375pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Faint toning to edges of black paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: LAPD Detective Katherine Duvall risks everything as she singlemindedly pursues a savage murderer--Anthony Cross, the world's greatest theoretical physicist and a brutal serial killer who kills in order to understand the link between life and death.(Publisher).

New York: Minotaur Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed in ink by author to title page. 9 1/2" X 61/4". viii, 293pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Green paper over boards with spine backed in gilt. pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dark River Rising is a tense and expertly-plotted mystery set against the bayous of Louisiana, from debut author Roger Johns. Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman has had better days. With her long-time partner and mentor on medical leave and a personal life in shambles, she's called to the scene of a particularly gruesome murder: the body of a known criminal has been found in a deserted warehouse, a snake sewn into his belly. Obvious signs of torture point to a cunning and cold-blooded killer who will stop at nothing to find what he's looking for. When Federal Agent Mason Cunningham arrives on the… Read More

Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 2002. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 8 3/4". 159pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of white paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The pictures that this book contains convey to the stranger the city and its landscapes, the delightful buildings it houses, and the people who populate it in that compassionate way that only pictures are capable of portraying. This volume describes the past and present of this little "big city," which lies not only between the high hills and the broad valley, but also between north and south. For Darmstadt is also the northern end of the "Bergstrasse," the area in which Germany starts to become Italian, as the Darmstadtians are fond of telling anyone who takes the time to listen.(Publisher).

Leipzig: Theosophisches Verlaghaus, 1911. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 3/4". 525pp, plus 2 leaves of ads. Text in Luxembourgish. Dark blue cloth over boards with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Heavy wear to binding, with edgewear, scattered rubbing, boards exposed at extremities, tears to edges of spine, and 5" tear along edge of spine near upper board. Front hinge cracking, with webbing visible at half-title. Inked notes to front free endpaper. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Pages are age-toned but unmarked. A worn but solid copy of this theosophical work from esotericist and occultist Charles Webster Leadbeater.

Wein: Herder & Co, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 6 3/4". 76pp, plus ads. Text in German. Paper over boards, with film separating at edges and near spine at upper board. Small tears to head and tail of spine. Lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.

New York: Wilhelm Rabbe, 1859. Leather bound. Good. Leather bound. 5 1/4" X 3 1/2". xxxii, 672pp. Text in German. Printed in two columns. Bound in full embossed leather, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with hard rubbing to edges and extremities, chipping to tail of spine, small open tears to spine, creasing, and soiling. Hinges tender but holding. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and flyleaf. Occasional foxing and damptaining to margins of pages throughout. A worn but solid and still quite attractive copy of this hymnbook.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10" X 8". xii, 238pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An ideal textbook for complete beginners—teaches from scratch R, statistics, and the fundamentals of quantitative social science Data Analysis for Social Science provides a friendly introduction to the statistical concepts and programming skills needed to conduct and evaluate social scientific studies. Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics and coding and only minimal knowledge of math, the book teaches the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference while analyzing data from published studies with the statistical program R. It teaches not only how to perform the data analyses but also how to interpret the results and identify the analyses' strengths and limitations. Progresses by teaching how to solve one kind of problem after… Read More

Kent: Parapress, 2010. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xii, 508pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This critical review challenges the orthodox scholarly consensus about the order in which Shakespeare composed his plays and when they were written. It reveals surprising discrepancies in date comparisons. King John has been placed by scholars in every year of the decade up to 1598 and there are suggestions that Hamlet‘s date of 1602, could be as early as 1589. In this authoritative book, evidence is reviewed methodically to produce a range of dates supported by in-depth analysis of aids to dating such as language, historical allusion, the testimony of title pages as well as works by other authors including Palladis Tamia, and the Stationers' Register. In considering Oxfordian dates, the intention is not to prove the Earl of Oxford's authorship but the possibility of a range of… Read More