Search Results: Authors starting with D from Monkey House Books

New Delhi: Nirala Publications, 2012. 2nd Edition. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good. SIGNED and INSCRIBED in green ink on title page. Nirala Series of Contemporary Literature. Major collection from one of South Asia's most prominent poets. Sensual and sharp poems about the Annapurna Ridge region in the Himalayas. 101 pages.

Boston & London: Shambhala, 2007. Softcover. Fine. Dharma Communications Books series. 97 pages.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Systems engineering reference fully illustrated with figures. Prentice-Hall Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Series. 393 pages. Green boards.

Lebanon, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Medical School, 1997. Softcover magazine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. 200th anniversary, quarterly publication, Summer/Fall 1997. 104 pages. Magazine for Alumni & Friends of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Boston; Toronto: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book; Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Softcover. Good. Irish politics and history, 1800-1922, covers the Easter Rising 1916, Sinn Fein, the Irish Revolution. Ex-school library, spine label & stamps. 400 pages, index.

Philadelphia: ASTM, 1982. Green leather (?), light green-stamped cover and spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A conference sponsored by ASTM Committee D-30 on High Modulus Fibers and Their Composites, in Phoeniz, Arizona, 12-13 May 1981. ASTM Special Technical Publication 787. Collection of papers presented at the conference. Topics and sections include test methods, material characterization, fracture analysis,fatigue, non-destructive evaluation, dynamic response, environmental effects, testing of composite structures, and more. Owner's name penciled on ffep.

Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fair./Dust Jacket condition fair. . Biography of a colorful figure in American labor history, particularly in New York City's Lower East Side with the ILGWU. First Edition, so stated. 347 pages, preface by George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO. Moderate nibbling to boards, edges, and dust jacket. Textblock sound and clean. Several pages of b/w photos. Reading copy.

New York; London; Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1966. Brown cloth boards, gilt decoration. Good/No Dust Jacket. Second printing, November. 231 pages, index, b/w illustrations. Undergraduate text in ecology. Some wear & crinkling. Principles of wildlife biology & wildlife management.

Melbourne, Oakland, London, Paris: Lonely Planet Publications. 2nd Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 560 pages, handy size. Includes 60+ routes, planning tips & advice, descritions, short & long routes, variety of areas throughout England. Lonely Planet series. Slight curl to covers.

New York: Times Books, 1994. Trade paperback. Very Fine. Hamburg was President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Preface by Marian Wright Edelman. 376 pages, bibliography and index. Covers drug abuse, urban violence, illiteracy, and health care. 1 black slash on top edge.

Motorbooks International, 1990. Large format softcover. Fine/No Jacket. Modern Graphics, Design & Pinstriping, New Paint Systems & Spray Equipment. 152 pages, fully illustrated.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Maroon cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated, several by Charles Dana Gibson.. The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis. Introduction by Booth Tarkington. 331 pages, solid copy of a scarce edition of Davis' work. Ex-library with spine label, card pocket, stamps. Bookplate on ffep, frontispiece portrait. Davis, 1864-1916, was an American war correspondent and novelist whose elegance and personality made him the embodiment of the Mauve Decade of the 1890s. Van Bibber, a Robin Hood of the social set, is one of his more memorable characters.

Yenbooks, 1991. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. For American travelers, visitors, and businesspeople. Business and cultural etiquette, communications, management, employment, interpreters, mistakes, etc. 173 pages.

Lichtenberg Erfolgsausgaben - Verlag, 1964. Gray cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Text in German. 491 pages, clean & bright. Slight spine cock, light wear to covers. Blue inked inscription on ffep.

Paris: Editions Garnier Freres, 1966. Softcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Text etablis, avec un sommaire biographique, une etude sur Gerard de Nerval, des notices, des notes, un choix de variantes et une bibliographic par Henri Lemaitre. 984 pages, illustrated with 23 reproductions. Edition de H. Lemaitre. Tome Premier. Classiques Garnier. Moderate cover wear. Gerard Labrunie, 1808-1855, was a French writer, poet, and translator who wrote under the pen name Gerard de Nerval. He is best known for his collection Les Filles du feu, which included his novella Sylvie and his poem 'El Desdichado.'

Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 1964. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good. Text in French. 179 pages. Chronologie de la vie et de L'oeuvre. Moderate wear.

London: Phoenix Press, 2002 [1981]. Softcover, trade paperback. Fine. Definitive work on Catherine and her times. First full-scale history of the reign of Catherine II of Russia since 1883. 702 pages, maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, index. Ekaterina Alekseyevna, 1729-1796, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until her death, and her long reign was enormously significant for the Russian Empire. The author is a Fellow of the British Academy & Royal Historical Society and has written extensively on 18th century Russia.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1908. Light green cloth, blind-stamped cover decoration, gilt-stamped title and spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. New edition with an introduction by the author. Life of a typical Englishwoman. 354 pages. Wear and fraying to backstrip. Covers soiled, corners bumped, page edges dirty. Unhinged. Whole and complete text block, pages unmarked, covers and backstrip intact, hinges could be repaired. Fep has small label from F. Loeser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store. Owner's name inked on ffep.

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1996 [1992]. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Text in Italian/Italiano. Come Divertirsi Filosofando. 115 pages. De Crescenzo, 1928-2019, was a popular Italian writer who wrote 50 books between 1977 and 2019; he was also an engineer and film actor & director.

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1997. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Text in Italian/Italiano. Amo l'Ordine perche, in quanto esiste, mi permette di infrangerlo. 179 pages. De Crescenzo, 1928-2019, was a popular Italian writer who wrote 50 books between 1977 and 2019; he was also an engineer and film actor & director.