Search Results: Authors starting with D from Douglas Books

Dover/ Constable, 1950. 2nd Enl., 1st-1927 . Paperback. VG-. 13.5 Cm x 20.5 Cm. 481 pp., 19 text figs, ills. inside covers; clean, tight & unmarked internally, Constable & Co. imprint label superimposed on t.p. below Dover Publications, Inc.; covers generally clean and unworn but spine a tad darkened and end-rubbed. Almost exclusively about the history of physics.

London: Edmund Ward, 1959. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/VG-Fine. 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. 64 pp., but this inc. interleaved 56a-56d in blue on 'Lullaby for a Doll' in French; 22 ills on 6 plates ex-pagination, pp.37-56 contains carols from many lands with musical scores, numerous small text headpieces etc. pink endpapers; book pristine bar thin strip of fading across bottom spine of little significance, jacket clean bar a v.sm.red spot to back, unworn bar slight top edge rubbing (will add protective sleeve when ordered). pristine, unclipped jacket A really attractive little book in quite excellent condition. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985. 1st . Paperback. Fine-. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xxv+580, sm. prev.owner's stamp verso fr. cover, otherwise clean, unworn and unmarked. An 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.

Ithaca NY: Morrill Hall, Cornell University, 1927. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG-. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. f/piece portrait photo of Margaret Floy Washburn+unpag.prelims+442+(2, notices); ex-New College Oxford library but markings confined to fr. pastedown and recto fr. endpaper, comprisinging heraldic plate on the former, three nubers, sm.rectanguler stamp and cancellatiob stamp to plate, this may be one a limited special run as verso t.p. has 'No. 100' inscribed below copyright date; no other internal marks, otherwise internally clean with good end-gutters; covers generally clean bar a few very sm.surface marks but top spine sl.rubbed and spine somewhat dull with a sm.whitish lib.label ghost at bottom. Contributors included many major names from the period: Calkins, Cannon, Dodge, Dunlap, Jastrow, Pillsbury, Ruckmick, Seashore Thordike, Warren, Woodworth and Yerkes among them, plus a Washburn Bibliography 1894-1927 by H.K.Mull

Turin ('Torino'): Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, 1845. 1st ed. . Leather sp., black cl.boards. 18 Cms x 27 Cms. Text in Italian. 432 pp., 35 col. plates with tissue guards (bar one); back cover and spine virtually detached (held at top front spine by tape used to secure front cover down internal gutter,spine ends chipped, scattered white surface rubbing to both boards; internally front end-paper diagonally creased and tanned, remainder of text generally clean and tight, early small blue stamp of Jersey City N.J. Free Public Library to t.p. and verso all plates; front endpaper has prev. owner's pencilled plate-collation notes and date 'Sotheby 3/2/87 Lot 97' with incomprehensible long word above, the plates are esentially complete and p.o. has ticked them on final page list, one listed plate seems never to have been bound in (facing p.42) but 3 others unlisted, these are all in excellent condition, tissue guards have varying degrees of tanning from heavy to virtually none, text… Read More

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Printed paper wrapper as issued. clean bar a little tanning along front edges, two short staple removal holes to spine, original rusting staples now replace a little above and below these - the originals had broken through spine paper and rendered text-block detached, old holes now closed with barely visible transparent tear repair tape Rust marks remain to central gutter. xxxvi pp. (all numbered in Roman and inc. wrappers); clean, tight and unmarked aside from central rust- marks. Verso front wrapper is Foreword by Hugh Dalton, wartime President of the Board of Trade with facs. signature. Text contains answers to 111 questions related to clothes rationing, many relating to armed services, but also e.g. 'Can womne's or maids' lace oor ace net dresses or blouse be made?', Answer, in short 'No'. Very scarce. 14 cm x 21 cm

London: The Women's Press, 1984. 1st British Edition . Hardcover. VG(+)/Near Fine. Black cloth with silver-lettered sp., virtually pristine. f/piece + xii + 470; almost fine but a faint hint of edge tanning throughout, plus a small brown spt to lower fiore-edge. Unclipped jacket is clean and undamaged, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 14 cm x 20 cm

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG for age and genre/No Jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front, assume this is private binding by UK owner as bookbinder's small label to corner fr. pastedown, excellent condition bar tiny cloth chip top sp. of little consequence. Assume original French cover wrappers discarded' half-title + t.p. + ix (inc. half-title & t.p.) + 118, 33 text figs, 3 coloured Tables.; previous owner's sig. top fr. end-paper and top original end-paper, short top gutter paper tear before t.p., edge tanning throughout as typical of French publications at this period and presumably common to all copies. Uncommon. 16.5 cm x 24.5 cm

New York etc.: John Wiley & Sons, 1965. 3rd Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dark red cloth with yellow lettering to fr. and sp., clean and unworn but sp. dull. col. f/piece + x + 323, 387 text figs of various kinds but no further plates; Johannesburg book-seller's label bottom fr. pastedown and small red stamp top corner same, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A classic text-book first pub.1895, this 3rd ed. first issued 1949. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm

Delft: Gebotekst Zoetermeer, 1987. 1st ed. . Blue Card. VG. 16.5 Cms x 23 Cms. viii+119, text figs. numbered by chapter, slipped in summary sheet in Dutch; clean and unworn, faint hints of minor edge-wear, textblock had originally become detached from cover but this now repaired. Seems to have been a doctoral thesis. Uncommon.Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. 1st ed. . Brown Gilt.lettered cloth. VG+/Good+. 15.5 Cms x 21.5 Cms. 67 pp., 57 photo-ills in text; prev.owner's small gilt label top corner front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean, bright unworn covers; clipped jacket browning to edges top front edge curling with two nicks and chip top front joint, generally clean but dust-line along back joint. 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.

New Y etc: Prentice Hall, 1953. 1st ed. . Grey Cloth. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. xv+416; bookseller's label bottom front pastedown, signature top front endpaper, a few bttom outer corners creased at tips otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers clean bar 4 tiny brown spots but spine faded with a little shallow dent towards top of scant significance, otherwise unworn. Concerned primarily with practical issues such as handling psychological literature, research reporting and problems of professional psychological organisations, nothing that I can see directly on ethical issues of psychologists' relationships with subjects, participants or clients. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York and London: Hawthorn Books, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-Fine/VG for age. White cloth with red sp. lettering and cross lower fr. outer corner, this would fine but for a few light tanning spots. 230 pp. + (2, 'The author and his book'), red end-papers, 15 ill plates to pp. 129 -144, one across full opening; no obvious internal faults. Jacket in protective sleeve as acquired, top-clipped, a few minor edge- rubbings and nicks to top edge and sp. ends, otherwise clean and unworn. 15.5 cm x 23 cm

Standford: Stanford University Press, 1989. 2nd Ed. (1st-1974) . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. unpag.prelims+xix (Foreword and Introduction)+160; both book and jacket virtually pristine with no obvious faults, will add protective sleeve to jacket when ordered. This is the prefered edition as it contains the author's Afterword in which he discusses soem modifications to the position he takes in the original edition. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Toronto: The Northern Miner, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. 304 pp. map on p.6, about 2 dozen un-numbered text photos. A pristine copy. Concerns 'the world's greatest stock market swindle' centred on supposed largest gold deposit in the world at Busang in Indonesia. 16.5 cm x 24 cm

Danish Red Cross, 1990. 1st ed. . Red paperback. Fine-. 15 Cm x 21 Cm. 96 pp.+ 3 blanks for notes, photos throughout; pristine bar very slight corner rubbing. Apparently scarce.

New York etc.: Pergamon Press, 1977. 1st reprint (1st ed.1976) . 'Flexicard' p/back. VG. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xxii+238+pub's psychology list; a 1978-dated sig.+library donatin label verso front cover, slight crease top corner t.p. and a thin short cut of some sort to upper spine which is genuinely of little significance being minimally visible and quite secure. Covers virtually all aspects of the topic from interrogation to non-human primate communcation and nonverbal communication to family and child interaction. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dark cloth with gilt sp. lettering, no obvious faults. viii + 183; marred only by tanning to outer sides of end-papers off-set from jacket so possibly common to most copies. Unclipped jacket generally clean but chip across top sp., and small chipps to bottom sp.and outer corner, a number of tears now internally closed with archival tear repair tape., will add protective sleeve when ordered. 13 cm x 19 cm

London: George Morrish. 2nd 'revised and corrected' ed. . Blind-stamped grey cloth. Good-VG. 11 Cms x 18.5 Cms. 143 pp.; 1864-dated sig. to front endpaper+early pencilled price to top, some eraseable pencilled underlining through to p.8, paper stick changes after p.48, being a shade whiter thereafter, rear end-gutter slightly opening exposing netting but secure. No printed date. Covers clean but slight rubbing to extremeties and all rather faded, esp. spine, but gilt title remains legible. Scarce work by the leading Plythmouth Brethren preacher of the mid-19th century, a premillenialist who introduced the notion of the 'rapture'. He split from the Plymouth Brethren, founding own 'Exclusive Brethren' church, his followers becoming known as Darbyites. The current work dates from after this split. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959. 1st ed. . Printed Card. VG+. 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm. family connections chart f/p + 101 pp., prev.owner's gilt label verso front cover and 1979 dated to facing half-title (no endpapers issued), very slight wear in a few places to covers but these are generally clean and bright. An extremely useful and succinct and, in some respects, revisionist, overview of the nature of Darwin's achievement and contemporary controversies, including a handy Appendix with a bibliography of editions of William Lawrence's 1819 'Lectures' and works related to the controversy it generated. One the more enduring products of the 'Origins' centennial despite its modest size. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.