Search Results: Titles starting with D from Douglas Books

Lundae (Lund) Sweden: Typis Berlingianis, 1791. 1st ed. presumably . Grey Paper Wraps. VG-Fine for age & genre. 15 Cm x 19. Cm. 28 pp.; text virtually perfect, grey wrap clean but a little edge-chipped and creased. Apparently a Latin doctoral dissertation on the value of psychology in selecting candidates for the ministry. A very rare and early example of the psychology-religion relationship as a practical issue. Not having Latin I am slightly confused because after the title text t.p. continues 'Praeses, Mag. Carolus Ryden et Andreas Siolin , Smolandi, Publico Eruditorum Examini Subjiciunt in Lyceo Carolino die XIV, Decembris Anni MDCCXCI'. Most of this is fairly unproblematic but am unsure if I have read it correctly as meaning Siolin wrote this as a dissertation under 'Mag.' Ryden. Verso t.p.has what I take to be a dedicatory verse signed by Siolin. I also note that location of the public examination of the dissertation is not actually named after King Charles XIV of… Read More

Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press , 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering, pristione bar slight trivial bump to top fr. outer corner. x + 274; no obvious faults being clean, tight and unmarked. Unclipped jacket marred only by very small trivial nick centre back joint, now internally closed and barely perceptible externally, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Apparently very scarce. 15.5 cm x 23 cm

London: Martin Secker, 1930. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 12.5 Cm x 19 .5 Cm. 44 pp. (inc.prelims), top edge gilt small faint stamp 'Tamar Hotel Calstock Cornwall' top outer corner of pastedown, tiny black spot to same offset on endpaper, quite trivial, otherwise flawless in covers marred only by the faintest suggestion of spine region fading. A warm heartfelt tribute to Lawrence, who had died earlier in 1930, triggered by the poor, even hostile, tone of the main press obituaries which totally misrepresented him; a cross between an obituary, a mini-character study and and a eulogy. Very nice copy.

Newark, Delaware: Proscenium Press, 1975. 1st Ed . White blue-printed card. Good+. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. Issued as 'Society of Irish Playwrights No.1. 75 pp.; internally fine being clean, tight and unmarked, covers unworn and clean but marred by a brown strip down front fore-edge and hints of tanning to back toward spine.

Stockholm: Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, 1976. 1st Edition . Glossy col.boards. Good+. 19 Cms x 24 Cms. 156+(28)(Advertisements), ill.throughout inc.col.photos; top fr.free endpaper inscr: To the Department of History of Science and Technology, Imperial College'; internally otherwise unmarked & tight, incipient browning to edges, but very pale., covers clean but spoiled by extensive scrape along bottom fr.edge and outer 4 cms of top edge (+ smaller scrape near top joint), top outer corners rubbed/bumped. Annual report of the Tekniska Museum with 2 essays and 5 short notes on variety of topics inc. history of steam engine, 'Andrew Malcolm's Workshop in Norrkoping 1836-1838' (essay by K.A.Lundkvist) and 'X-Rays on the StockholmExhibition 1897' Contents are given in both Swedish and English but rest of text is in Swedish only.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. 16 Cms x 21 Cms. circular col.f/piece (reprod.detail of Renaissance painting of Madonna by Filippino Lippi)lxi+)+t.p. (bottom outer corner slightly creased)+ black & white plate misplaced from p.lviii+'Six musical airs' (title+musical notation+blank)+Part I t.p.+175, , 3 further col. plates ex-pagination, 4 further b/w plates also ex-pag.; Easter 1927 dated inscription by Warrack to Sir Henry Welford Davies, describing herself as 'a listener', a scatter of tiny black flecks to top of opening 116/blank recto plate facing p.117, faint surface marking to rear pastedown of little significance. Black printed blue cloth cover, generally clean and minimally worn but a small whitish mark to rear, +corner rubbing and hints of rubbing to spine. Much of the content is actually quite religious. Scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate… Read More

Forest Row, Sussex UK: The Firebird Press, 1977. 1st ed. . Cream Illustrated Boards. Fine. 21 Cms x 30.5 Cms. Felix Topolski. Sealed in 'glassene' type wrapper as issued; issued as a numbered limited edition of 180 but this copy unnumbered. Unpaginated on variously coloured papers with intermittent drawings by Topolski throughout in varying colours, pub.imprint verso back covers. Mixture of prose, dialogue and poetry. 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: Journal of the Institute for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Special Number December 1947. 1st ed. . Printed Issue Wrappers. Good+. 18 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 32 pp, 17 figs, 6 tables; internally clean and unmarked, outer corners slightly curled, covers generally clean but a number of minor marks and a thin brown stain along most of spine at front, small nick top spine now closed with transparent tear repait tape and barely visible. A classic study, First English translation of this ground-breaking study, first pub;lished in German in 1946.

London and New York: Allison & Busby, 1980. Revised edition (1st-1967) . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. 95 pp.; immaculate copy inside and out in similar unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). A brief and expert critique of the assumption that music originated in primate rhtythmic activity, offering an alternative account. 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: George Allen & Unwin, 1936. 1st Ed . Black Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 18.5 Cm. f/piece+206; internally excellent being clean, tight and unmarked; covers are generally clean and unworn bar a few small hints of edge rubbing but they are rather dull and perhaps a tad faded. Now apparently scarce, an interesting discussion of various social and political issues such as war, politics, General Elections, education and crime etc. from a psychoanalytic perspective, based on a series of B.B.C. talks (there is an interesting Preface on 'Science and Broadcasting' which also sets the talks in their contemporary context). Dean Inge is his usual bumptious reactionary self! 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: Archibald Constable, 1898. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket (assume none issued). 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xii+310+(2, pub.notices)+16 (1898 pub.list), uncut fore-edge; outer sides of endpapers browning, faint early sig. centre front endpaper, otehrwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers virtually unworn but both boards have slight convex bowing, spine a little sun-faded, main flaw is three small patches of tiny black spotting to front, two associated with very slight pigment lightening. Includes much coverage of contemporary philosophy and theology. A very acceptable copy of this learned exposition. 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: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good-Very Good. J. Sullivan. Orange cloth with black illustration centre fr. and black sp. lettering. 224 pp., numerous text illustrations; a virtually pristine copy. Illustrated jacket not price clipped but clipped top fr. wraparound, generally clean but top sp. region a little rubbed with a very small chip with short tear now internally closed with tear-repair tape, will add protective sleeve when added. A childrens or young persons novel by noted Irish childrens author. 13 cm x 19 cm

London: Calder & Boyars (Signature Series 1), 1969. 1st ed. . Light Grey Textured Boards. VG-Fine/VG(-). 13 Cm x 20 Cm. 60+(1, series list); trace of brown strip to outer sides of endpapers offset from jacket wrapaounds, very faint small darker patch to front cover, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked and unworn inside and out; unclipped jacket unworn and generally clean but spine and edges (faintly) beginning to brown. A very acceptable copy. 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 etc.: J.M.Dent, 1979. 1st ed. . Red cl.spine+yellow boards. Fine- for age/VG. 14 Cms x 22 .5 Cms. full opening t.p. with Darwin and Blyth photos on facing pages, xii+278, 14 photos on 6 leaves ex-pagination; virtually pristine but shallow crease, c.6cms, extending down from top edge on about 8 pp., this clearly a production fault and of little significance, but reduces from unqualified Fine rating, clipped jacket in rotective sleeve as acquired appears to be otherwise clean and unworn. The 'Mr. X.' was the forgotten early 19th century naturalist Edward Blyth. Wallace and Lyell also discussed. 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: Chatto & Windus, 1959. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG/Good-. 15.5 Cms x 22 Cms. f/piece (Darwin, drawn portrait by Marian Collier)+ix+422, unfolding map of Beagle journey; outer sides of endpapers have fairly heavily tanned strips offset from jacket wraparounds plus further spotting, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers with just faint hints of fading to spine tips, faint tiny flecking to text-block top; unclipped jacket in protectyive sleeve as acquired has 3 cm deep (max) x c.10 cm.wide across top spine extending to neighbouring top edges, with further chips to top back outer corner and bottom spine, dust-marking of some kind to front, especially along fore-edge and further spots to back. A very acceptable working/reference copy of this still highly esteemed classic of Darwin scholarship which opened up numrous subsequent lines of further inquiry and interpretation. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be… Read More

London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray, 1967. 1st Ed . Green Cloth. Fine-/VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xii+251, 8 plates ex-pagination, one text fig., unfolding map after p.236, facs. letter ms. on endpapers. Only very slight flaw is a few very tiny brown spots to top edge; jacket, in protective sleeve as acquired, is clean and uncliped, almost unworn but slight spine end rubbing. The author/ ediitor was Darwin's grand-daughter. Bright spot on image is a reflection.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 19 Cm. unpag. prelims+101; top half-title has inscription 'G.G.A. Murray/from D.G.R./ March 1889', a few small traces of old pencil pricing etc.to endpapers & pastedowns of little significance otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean almost unworn bevelled edge covers, top back edge partly faded as is spine margin, repaired cloth split across centre spine just visible. 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.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. 1st Ed . Paperback. Fine-. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. f/piece (Darwin photo)+ix+210; 1987-dated sig.top half-title (no endpapers issued), otherwise a near pristine copy. An important collection of seven essays inc. the editor on 'Darwinism and Divinity: A century of Debate', Jim Moore on Herbert Spencer's support among North American Protestants, Vernon Reynolds & Ralph Tanner on effects of religion on human biology, Mary Midgley on'The Religion of Evolution', and Eileen Barker on 20th century Creationism plus two others. Apparently extremely scarce in the UK. 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: Watts Forum Series, 1928. 1st ed. . Paperback. VG. 12 Cms x 18 Cms. vii+56, lists inside covers and back cover; prev.owner's small label top half-title (not separate endpapers issued), otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers clean and unworn but spine region a little darkened. Contains two 'supplementary essays' : Concerning the Nature of Man's Brain, Modern Critics of Evolution.

New York and London: Putnam's, 1899. 1st ed. . Blue-green cloth. VG. 13 Cm X 19 Cm. x+226+(2, Science Series list); internally clean, tight & unmarked bar a bookseller's sm.stamp bottom inner corner fr.pastedown, paper cracking to fr.gutter but this minimally opened and not affecting tightness; covers unworn and clean bar three tiny flecks of pigment loss to sp. A remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this scarce work.