Search Results: Titles starting with T from Douglas Books

Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982. 1st thus (orig.-1938) . Black Cloth. VG/VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xv+310 (however, arabic pagination starts at 7 after blank verso of xv); this would be fine but for faint incipient browning to edges throughout; clean unclipped jacket with only v.slight edge rubbing, will seal in protective wrapper when ordered. This differs from 1st in having Quinton's Introduction. Valued for the originality of the author as much as the subject.

London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982. 1st ed. . Glossy Paperback. Fine-. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. xv+135, 11 figs; no obvious faults, outer corners of cover just slightly rubbed, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A scarce and important work. Issued in the 'Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences' series.

London/ New York: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co./ Moffat, Yard & Co., 1921. 1st Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 14.5 Cms x 22 Cms. xv+255, endpapers browned facing pastedowns, top r.h.corner of fr.free enpaper clipped, otherwise entirely unmarked and tight internally, covers bright, sl. shelf-wear at sp.ends and corners. A well above average copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

London/ New York: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co./ Moffat, Yard & Co., 1921. 1st Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 14.5 Cms x 22 Cms. xv+255, endpapers browned facing pastedowns, otherwise entirely unmarked and tight internally, covers bright but small patch of minor cloth blistering middle fr. sl. shelf-wear at sp.ends. A well above average copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering. 336 pp., 77 text figs. Unclipped jacket in removable protective sleeve as acquired. Ostensibly a 1st edition but 13 digit ISBN on back of jacket implies a 2007 or later re-issue of the jacket at least. A pristine copy. 16 cm x 24 cm

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xv+186; virtually pristine, only flaw I can see is slight sun-fading to spine of unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1906. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. VG-/No Jacket (none Issued?). 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm. ix+290+32 (pub.catalogue); browning to outer sides of endpapers, main fault however is fairly frequent, but easily eraseable, pencil underlinings and marginal lines; otherwise clean and tight; covers generally clean and unworn but faint pigment loss centre back of little consequence and scrape marking bottom spine, despite faults a nice copy of this fairly uncommon work. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

UK etc: Penguiin Books, 2014. 1st Edition . Soft cover. VG(-). Glossy cover clean but very slight hints of edge rubbing in places. xliv + 447 +(2, pub. notices for two Penguin Classics books, in which series this was issued); clean, tight and unmarked but hints of edge-tanning. Uncommon. 13 cm x 19.5 cm

London: Free Association Books, 1989. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. As New. Pristine p/b cover. 224 pp.; pristine. 1st pub.1981, this edition has a new preface. A psychoanalytically oriented discussion of the problems and nature of motherhood. 14 cm x 21 cm

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, generally clean and unworn. xi + 359 + (12, pub. list, which gives this as No.12 of the Chandos Classics); modern heralic book-plte to fr. pastedown plus small red Foyles label, a few brown marks to top edges off-set from place-marking slips, decorated end-papers. Otherwise clran, tight and unmarked. Preface dated Tamuz 5636 (i.e. June 1876). 13 cm x 19 cm

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution., 1964. 1st Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. f/p+99, 27 further text figs. & b/w photo illust., illust. endpapers. V. sm. 'History of Science' stamp top fr. pastedown, no other signs of lib. provenance. Clean, tight & unmarked. Covers clean and undamaged but sl.faded aside from a darker horseshoe section of fr. cover. Excellent copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. SALE PRICE

London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. Fair-Good/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 20 Cms. vii+315; large sig. to front pastedown, front endpaper tanned and top outer corner clipped, tanning patches top pages up to p.2 and then scattered spotting resuming after c. p.308 increasingly heavy up to verso last leag and rear endpaper outer side completely tanned, odd spots intermittent throughout, private impressed address stamp to top corner from t.p. to leaf 2/3 (colourless), a few other internal sl.gutter openings; covers clean but 2 short cloth tears bottom spine and corner bumping. 15 anecdotal chapters, some clearly based on historical facts others, replete with dialogue, seem to be more fictional. Some anthropological content.

Berne: Buchdruckerlei Stampfli & Cie, 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Marbled boards with gilt-on-red title label to front, black leather spine with gilt panel lines and gilt-on-red label, chipped lib. label to bottom, clean, slight edge-rubbing in places, small leather chip to back edge just above lib. label at bottom spine. Tarife: 10 + Inhalt (inc. t.p.), Tabellen: 22 + Inhalt (inc. t.p.); both t.p.s have stamps of 'Bundesamt fur Sozialversicherung' to bottom along with a small 'Signatur' number, tlight but broad tanning to all edges, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Probably the least interesting book I have ever listed but hopefully a Swiss military historian will think differently. 21 cm x 27.5 cm

Leipzig: G. Teubner, 1850. Assume 1st ed. . Hardcover. Good+. Marbled boars and leather sp., corner rubbed, sp. a little odd as top section dark and bottom light as if repaired at some time, tiny hole top fr. joint, otherwise clean. xiv + 658; t.p. with sm. central engr. logo has an array of 5 variously coloured early stamps to lower half, another at bottom last page, corners of end-papers all tanned, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. This octavo sized German-French dictionary of military terms is not divided into two sections but continuous with French words in italics. 10.5 cm x 13.5 cm

London & New York: Academic Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Green Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xi+431, num.text figs & tables. Private owner's plate fr. pastedown otherwise internally pristine in clean unworn covers, unclipped jacket a trifle rubbed at edges, back has some dust marks, otherwise excellent.

Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 2001. 1st ed. . Glossy ill. card. Fine. 15 Cm x 21 Cm. 367 pp., maps on pp.15/16, 58 text photos plus numerous figures numbered by chapter; top half-title inscribed 'Kona Kabwaia/Thou Shall Be Blessed' with both authors' sigs. Virtually pristine copy of this scarce comprehensive account of Banaba or Ocean Island between Kiribati and Nauru.

New York: Teachers College Press, 1972. 6th printing (1st-1944) . Hardcover. VG+/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xii+274; 1976-dated sig.to front endpaper otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean virtually unworn laminated red cloth covers - unclear if lamination was as issued or added later, but it has done its work well. The data-base that launched a thousand psycholinguistic experiments. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: S.P.C.K., 1852. 1st ed.? . Disbound. Good-. 10.5 Cms x 18 Cms. t.p., Contents on verso, pp. 119-140, 4 engr.ills of a church from different distances + sm.text fig.; clean but lacking orig.wrapper, nicks along sp., few brown spots lower leaf 139/140, gathering 125-132 disbound, clean and unmarked. Pages 119-124 are on a 'Visit to Bolton Sunday School' so may be of local and social history interest, the 'Geography' section is pp.131-140. Numbers of this series apparently very scarce.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. New imp.of 1897 enl.4th ed. . Brown Cloth. VG-. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. xvi+590, v.occ.small text fig.; 1971-dated sig.top front pastedown, early sig.top fr. endpaper, , front gutter split but tight and secure, outer sides of endpapers browning, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked, one gathering slightly proud but seems to be binding fault; covers clean but hints of rubbing to jints, corners and spine ends. Very acceptable working/reference copy. A nice copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London etc.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 5th ed (2nd-1892) . Illustrated red-brown cloth. VG. 11 Cms x 17 Cms. f/piece (photo of girls watching ironing instructor)+vii+82, 3 further full page photoplates ex-pagination; clean tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers with image of woman ironing centre fr. An intersting document for women's history, history of domestic service and domestic technology covering all aspects of washing and ironing with reference to a variety of materials, types of clothing and cleaning materials. Learn how to use flat, box, gas, polishing and goffering irons, 'Whatever day is to be Washing Day, let an hour or two be devoted to making preparation.' This includes 5 piles of white linen for starters: Table, Body and bed, Handkerchiefs, Bedroom towels, Muslins and Laces, Kitchen and pantry towels, dusters etc. On drying 'Hang everything wrong side out.' Also recipes for e.g. cold-water starch, bran water and gum water. An ideal, but surely risky,… Read More