Search Results: Titles starting with A from Douglas Books

Brighton UK/ Atlantic Heights NJ: The Golden Dawn Press, 1937. 5th Ed. (1st-1936) . Printed Orange Card. Good-VG. 12 Cms x 18 Cms. 75pp.+ 1p pub.list; prev.owner's inoffensive stamp verso front cover, dated 1937; hint of a shallow vertical crease to front, outer corner tips slightly rubbed/creased. Issued as 'The "Golden Dawn" Series. 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.

Newark, Delaware: Proscenium Press, 1975. 1st ed. . p/back. Fine-. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. Issued as 'The Society of Irish Playwrights No.2'. 86 pp., small sticker to front re:- distribution outside North America; very faint suggestion of tanning to spine region otherwise clean, tight and unmarked inside and out.

Washington (D.C.): NASA, 1964. 1st ed. . Light Green printed cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 21 Cms x 26.5 Cms. viii+465, num.figs & photos numbered by paper, sm.sig. fr.pastedown 'Elliot' (eminent astrophysicist H.Elliot) otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers have few sm.marks to fr., top fr. joint rubbed with v.sl.fraying, corners slightly bumped. Hardback copies v.scarce, esp. of private provenance and in UK. Issued as NASA SP-50, this reports proceeding of symposium held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland October 28-30 1963.

London: Hutchinson, 1963. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Good+/Good (+). 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. f/piece+256, numerous black/white photo-plates ex-pagination; internally quite excellent being clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean and virtually unworn but marred by large patches of light pigment loss of unclear origin; unclipped jacket clean but edge-rubbed, esp. to spine ends which are also a little chipped. The French Breuil, 1877-1961, was a major pioneering prehistorian and authority on cave art. 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/ London: Stein and Day/ Frederick Muller, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/VG for age. card motif to end-papers+137, numerous text figs' and diagrams illustrating card lay-outs etc; half black cloth and red boards binging with gilt lettering. Frederick Muller's imprint pasted over Stein & Day's at bottom of t.p. Jacketclean and almost unwoirn but marred by spine-end chips. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1930. 2nd, corrected, imp. (1st-1928) . Red Cloth. VG+/No Jacket. 13 Cm x 19.00 Cm. 116 pp.; prev.owner's small 1980-dated sig. and small gilt address label top front pastedown, otherwise internbally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean, bright and unworn. 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: Epworth Press, 1927. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG for age/VG+. 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. 127 pp.; 1931 dated sig.top front endpaper, browned strips to endpapers offset from jacket wraparounds, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; jacket has small square price-clip bottom front wrapaound, otherwise clean and unworn, bar slight top spine rubbing, in protective sleeve. Scarce 1st edition of this popular little book still being reprinted into the 1950s. 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.

Boston MA: Banner of Light Publishing Company, 1903. Assume 1st ed. . Hardcover. Very Good-Fine/No Jacket (assume none issued). Dark green cloth with gilt sp. lettering, virtually pristine. xiv + 15-86, 11 full page ills of palms; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Copyright date verso t.p. is 1900 but no indication this is a reprint or re-issue. Apparently rare. 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm

New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, 1959. 'Third Revised Edition' (1st-1948) . Stapled glossy pamphlet. VG(-) for genre. 15.5 Cms x 22.5 Cms. Issued in publisher's 'Freedom Pamphlets' series. 39+(1, series list); pre.owner's sig. top verso front cover, only other significant fault is incipient staple rusting but can replace these (2) if requested on order, covers clean and unworn but very slight fading to red title bar at lower front edge by spine. This work appears to be bibliogrpahically rather complex as other listed copies are significantly longer despite earlier publication dates. It originally served as a precursor or perhaps 'taster' for Allport's 1954 'The Nature of Prejudice'. Not having copies to hand I wonder if this is a shortened version to fit the Freedom Pamphlet series, but there is no indication of this anywhere in text. Apparently this imprint of the work is quite scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated… Read More

London: Royal Society of London, 1955. Pamphlet. Good/very Good. reprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol.11(2) 145-158, 4 plates (ex-pagination). Grey card covers unworn and good bar a few minor marks. 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: University of London Press, 1954. 3rd imp. year of publication. . Green Cloth. VG/Good+. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. f/piece+x+229, 22 further photo-plates on 12 pp. ex-pagination, unfolding chart after p.218 of items on Griffiths Mental Development Scale (Appendix II); 1966-dated sig.to front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers, browned strip to rear endpaper off-set from jacket wraparound; unclipped jacket generally sound but a few surface marks and, slight edge-rubbing and edge nick at bottom (will seal in protective plastic wrapper 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.

New York: The Century Co. for the Institute of Research in the Social Sciences University of Virginia, 1932. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG(-)/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xiv+114; 3 lib.marks of Hill Library St.Paul: perforated stamp bottom t.p., small mauve stamp end text and thin fragment of some kind of loan sheet (?) top rear endpaper, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean, bright, unworn and unmarked, patch of sl.fading to lower spine, not very visible. 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: Methuen, 1926. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good-VG. 12.5 Cm x 19 .5 Cm. ix+147+8 (pub.list), 9 figs inc. 2 col.plates; outer sides of endpapers browned, small square lib.stamp bottom front endpoaper, faint oval lib.stamp of Anstey College, Staffordshire County Council Education Committee to t.p., otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean, virtually unmarked, minimally worn, no lib.markings at all, very slight ridging to spine. Hazlitt was a promising colleague of Beatrice Edgell at Bedford College, London, who died prematurely in strange circumstances suggesting spontaneous combustion. 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.: Henry Frowde. Apparently all 1st eds. . Green Cloth. 2 VG, 1 Good+/No Jacket. 10 cms x 15 .5 Cms. Ability to Converse: xv+323+(4, pub.puffs for other 2); Desire for Qualities:xi+322+(2, puff for 3rd title); Direction of Desire: xii+360. All have the engraved heraldic crest plate of Charles R. Buckley (stag's head above motto 'Nec Timide, Nec Temere') to front pastedown, endpapers browning except for 'Direction of Desire', 'Desire for Qualities' marred by vertical crease from front endpaper onwards fading out by p.v. 'Direction of Desire' was clearly the first published and this copy may be a 2nd impression. All covers clean and virtually unworn with gilt spine lettering and top edges. An attractive little uniform set. Cover almost all aspects of psychology rom personality to social psychology and communication from a self-improvement angle. Seems to be fairly well on top of contemporary literature. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for… Read More

New York etc: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. 5th or later Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket (as issued). Glossy ill. boards with 'Wiley International Edition' logo top front. DSM-IV-TR classifications across end-papers, vii + 565 +20 (Glossary) + 76 (References) + (2, Credits) + (2, photo credits) + (14, Name index) + 11 (Subject index), tables and ills (moslty col.) throughout numbered by chapter, yellow backrounds or strips used for Chapter openings etc.; no obvious faults. This is 8th edition, but as 4th printing with 13 digit ISBN issued on or after 2007. Pristine copy.Weighs 1.6 jg unpacked so may incur additional postage for non-UK sales. 22 cm x 26 cm

1936. Journal reprint . green wrappers. G-VG. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. internally clean, tight & unmarked, v.slight cornercurling, covers unworn also with outer corner curling, generally clean but a few small brown marks. Quite scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Washington (D.C.): Smithsonian Institution Press, 1963. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. Smithsonian Publication 4517. vi+148, 2 unf.tables+ 16 charts/tables in rear pocket collated all present, sm.Foyles sticker fr. pastedown, v.faint browning along end-gutters, possibly from underlying adhesive, v.faint pencil traces top fr.free endpaper, otehrwise clean, tight & unmarred in clean almost unworn covers, gilt sp.lettering a little faint but appears to be a poor design choice of colouring! Uncommon in UK.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 'A New Edition' (1st-1883) . Illustrated blue cloth. VG-/No Jacket (none Issued?). 15.5 Cms x 20 Cms. Thomas Macquoid. pub.list verso half-title, f/piece+357+colophon, 67 illustrations according to t.p., these unnumbered and some are plates ex-pagination, t.p. has central illustration, fore-edge uncut; browning to outer sides of endpapers, otherwise no obvious internal faults being clean, tight & unmarked; covers minimally worn, 5 small long black ink marks to back (3 very small), but these not too bad against dark blue cloth. Two yellow & black ills to front, another two spine, black borders to front. 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 etc.: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st ed. . Paperback. Fine. 14 Cms x 21 Cms. f/p (Lincoln portrait photo)+xiii+239, map across opening pp.102-103, occ. unlisted text ills; no obvious faults inside or out. Highly acclaimed work by Harvard History Professor.

Folkestone UK: Dawsons, 1977. 1st ed. . Dark Grey Cloth. Fine/G-VG. 13.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Issued as Pall Mall Bibliographies No.5. series blurb+f/piece Cowley portrait by Lely+130, 93 t.p.'s on microfiche inside envelope slipped into card pocket on rear pastedown; no obvious faults to book but jacket, though quite clean bar three small light brown spots top front, has slight but extensive rubbing and nicking to back top edge plus small nick and chip to bottom spine, will add protective sleeve when ordered. A very acceptable copy despie jacket faults. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.